Time flew by, and many major events happened.
After creating her cursed object, Lucy didn't reach out to Megumi immediately but stalked him from a distance.
In the meantime, Maki exorcised Naoya's cursed spirit. Hakari fought with Charles and then with Kashimo. Yuta fought with other sorcerers. Tengen is absorbed by Kenjaku.
Until this day, Megumi, Yuji, and Hana met with Tsumiki.
Tsumiki turned out to be a vessel of the Ancient sorceress Yorozu. She even created a new rule where anyone can enter and exit the borders of colonies.
Seeing the truth broke Megumi; at this time, Sukuna possessed Megumi, leaving Yuji's body.
Yorozu left after Megumi was possessed and challenged Sukuna. They decided to fight at a later date.
Sukuna, now possessing Megumi, attacked Yuji and Hana. He left with Uraume.
At this point, where Yorozu is going toward the appointed place of Challenge suddenly stopped.
'Am I paralyzed?'
Lucy held Yorozu in place as she appeared in front of her.
"Nice to meet you"
"Hmm? You are so weak. Where is your confidence coming from?"
Yorozu said as an insect-like armor appeared on her body.
Yorozu held the strings and pulled them back, launching Lucy towards her in an instant. Lucy, who was surprised, got punched by Yorozu.
Caught off guard by the sheer strength of Yorozu, Lucy wanted to block her attack but she's punched before she can even block.
Surprisingly, Yorozu is fast even in her slow-motion vision.
'It's that insect armor'
Lucy thought as the hole in the dent on her stomach was healed.
"Huh? Some kind of healing cursed technique that's not reversed cursed technique? Or is it the sub-technique of your puppeteering?"
Yorozu exclaimed, but she was also continuously attacking Lucy, who was defending but still getting wrecked.
'Damn! This is the first time facing a challenge in this world. There are powerhouses even among sorcerers, I underestimated them'
Lucy is trying to attach her strings but Yorozu is simply slicing them with levitating metal saws.
'My raw strength is almost equal to her'
Seeing that, this is going nowhere. Lucy enhanced herself with cursed energy.
This time, she's able to block and counter Yorozu.
Yorozu also noticed the sudden power shift. The hits from Lucy are the heaviest she ever felt. Previously, she felt she had the edge, but the situation changed suddenly.
Shallow Cracks appeared on her armor.
Yorozu jumped back to gain breathing room. At that instant, Yorozu was surprised as a cursed energy blast released from Lucy's eyes like a heat vision aimed at her heart and practically piercing through her body. A thin layer of armor still protecting her.
Yorozu punched the ground hard enough to send dust and soil flying around, creating a smoke screen-like effect.
To her surprise, Lucy's aim didn't change at all, but she stopped her heat vision-like ability.
'This output is better than most sorcerers but not high enough to imitate Ryu ishigori'
After all, Yorozu's armor is still mostly intact even after her attacks.
Lucy released cursed energy from her hands like canons trying to imitate Ryu Ishigori.
Cursed energy can affect reality as an invisible blunt force.
She increased the output to her maximum and pushed Yorozu into the ground, causing dust and smoke to rise.
"I wonder, can you feel electricity through that metal of yours?"
Lucy asked as a receipt burned in her hand.
Yorozu, who had just steadied herself after the attack, saw thunderbolts and lightning arks appear around her. She felt threatened not only due to instincts but also the memories of Tsumiki which described the science behind electricity and metals.
*tch*
Her metal insect armor immediately vanished as she flew high up in the sky with insect wings.
To her surprise, the lightning followed her for a while before it vanished.
'That's too short' Lucy thought. She can control her summons like a shikigami but only for a little while.
Yorozu saw Lucy burning another receipt.
She expected another wave of electricity and flew back.
But, surprisingly she saw a huge shadow on land. Yorozu instantly shifted to her Insect armor as a Huge 100-meter skyscraper came crashing down on her.
'Even I will die if such a weight with that speed crushed me' Lucy thought.
But to her surprise, Yorozu outsmarted her move as many liquid metal saws sliced through the skyscraper reducing the weight a lot, allowing her to lift the building and throw it away.
'Right, she has semi-automatic cursed energy manipulating the liquid metal'
Lucy remembered after seeing the ability with her own eyes.
"I have to say, you are not as weak as I thought of you before. "
Lucy rolled her eyes listening to Yorozu's praise. More than half of her cursed energy is with Estella. She currently only has less than a quarter of her prime cursed energy.
In a way, this reduced her physical strength a lot, and she couldn't even perform multiple domain expansions. It will be amazing to perform even a single domain expansion. And this is thanks to her higher level existence allowing great output better than most sorcerers, only inferior to Ryu Ishigori in this world.
Contrary to her, Yorozu has a lot of cursed energy and can use her inefficient cursed energy without worrying. Not to mention, she's a really good fighter. Lucy, on the other hand, is only good with guns due to the memory of Carter.
"What can I say. I'm just lucky. Marionesse Secondth: Harm puppet"
A huge hideous puppet with three heads is summoned. As multiple strings danced around trying to bind Yorozu.
'Come on, Even if the general spell didn't work. At least, the Secondth should work right?'
To Lucy's disappointment, A huge black sphere crushed the harm puppet into splinters of wood.
'Damn it!'
Understanding using Magic is useless against real powerhouses, Lucy was about to burn another receipt when Yorozu flashed before her with her insect wings and insect arms.
Lucy defended but then, she felt she was drowning.
The water flooded inside her body, drowning the receipts wet.
"Saving those talismans inside your flesh isn't a bad idea. But, how will you burn them now?"
Yorozu mocked, sending Lucy flying away from her spot. Although, Lucy stabilized herself quickly.
'Damn! These old sorcerers are really cunning and observant.'
Lucy suddenly laughed, which caused Yorozu to agitate.
"What's so funny?"
Lucy wiped a tear from her eyes, saying
"I'm just thinking. I'm really bad at confrontations. What I'm really good at is tricking and crushing my enemies with Overwhelming power"
Yorozu immediately felt a tremendous explosion behind her, sending her flying.
"Domain expansion: Temple of depravity"
Yorozu heard another unfamiliar voice.
However, it's too late as by the time she stabilized herself, she found herself on the land of flesh that appeared throughout the horizon.
There are legs, arms, torso, pelvis, eyes, ears, torso, hands, tongues, livers, hearts, and intestines filled with muscle flesh lying on the fleshy floor. Although these organs are messily lying around, there is a weird sense of beauty in their arrangement.
Surprisingly, she can still see the open sky and the surrounding buildings where the flesh organs are growing.
This is a domain expansion with no barriers.
In the middle of the endless flesh, tentacles formed a small platform where two women were sitting.
She was about to cast her own domain when Yorozu noticed her body being bounded by a flesh tentacle crawling through her body. That's not even the worst part, she can't control her body.
"This is a domain of flesh domination. The moment you entered the domain, your flesh became part of it. Now, I own your flesh"
Yorozu sighed, thinking, 'I didn't even marry Sukuna in this lifetime. '
As an ancient Sorcerer, life holds little value to her. She killed multiple people and even then, she didn't bat an eye. For her, death is just part of her life.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. I already got what I want " said Lucy.
Yorozu drowned and reappeared at the edge of the domain; she gave a thoughtful look at both women at the center of the domain. She regained the control of her body.
Yorozu left to prepare to fight against Sukuna.