Finally, on the day of the decisive battle.
The Legendary battle between the strongest sorcerer in history vs the strongest sorcerer of the present began.
[A.N: I'mma skip this part, the battle is best to look in manga/anime.]
And Gojo Satoru, the strongest sorcerer died fighting against Ryomen Sukuna.
Next, it's the turn of Hajime Kashimo.
Meanwhile, Lucy, Yuta, and Takaba are teleported to Kenjaku's place where the battle took place.
First, it was Takaba who fought with Kenjaku, who had a reality-bending death match.
Lucy seeing this thought 'How tempting, warping reality? I'm sure, it can at least damage the system even if it cannot get rid of it. Too bad, it's an uncontrolled power. But, I still gained a lot from this encounter even if I cannot get reality warping'
Lucy stared at Kenjaku like she would devour him any minute.
When Kenjaku was caught off guard, Yuta ambushed him and sliced off his head from his body.
"I lost? Very well, Kogane, add a new rule, transfer the merger authority to Megumi Fushigoro."
Kogane immediately announced the new rule.
The cursed spirits devoured by Geto Suguru's body are released as soon as he dies.
"Lucy! Stop the curses! Rika! Block them!"
Yuta screamed as he went to deal with Kenjaku's head being revived by a huge cursed spirit.
"Marionnese Secondth: Harm puppet"
A huge three-headed puppet with a glowing ball of strings appeared on the battlefield where thousands of cursed spirits were beginning to rampage.
Countless Strings were drilled into the thousands of cursed spirits turning them into stationary wooden puppets.
The cursed spirit connected to Kenjaku's head is a cursed spirit with Tengen in its womb like structure. At this moment even it turned into a complete wooden puppet.
"Another anomaly? Not bad, you all are going to have a lot of fun"
With those words, Kenjaku's life came to an end, and Yuta landed a death blow to Kenjaku ending him for good.
"Yuta, you go and join the battlefield. I will clean up these cursed spirits. Every second is important, don't worry I remember to bring back the body of this Suguru geto"
Yuta just nodded and called Ui Ui to teleport him and Takaba. Meanwhile, the puppets began to clash with each other under the giant puppet.
Once Yuta teleported with Rika and Takaba.
All the cursed spirits that began to fight each other paused mid-air.
'Kenjaku is such a treasure trove. I got 1000 years worth of sorcery knowledge, now I can even have all of his cursed techniques'
Looking at Tengen's cursed spirit and Kenjaku's head which has cursed spirit manipulation. A smile appeared across Lucy's lips.
'At least, now I'm sure I can live for at least 500 years'
A black tentacle with suction cups elongated from Lucy's back and they crawled up to Kenjaku's head Finally Lucy gained cursed techniques of cursed spirit manipulation, anti-gravity technique, and finally the treasured technique of Brain transplant cursed technique.
'This guy... He's doing what I'm doing but the means are just different. Still, the actual treasure is not the technique but his knowledge of mental imprints of various techniques and everything related to cursed energy. The knowledge of creating half-cursed spirits and half humans, cursed tools and barriers is also not a bad thing. He even had the technique of that woman, 'Cursed womb' innate technique. What an evil guy'
Although Lucy thought that, she still shamelessly absorbed all the previous cursed techniques of kenjaku through the scars left behind on his brain and mental implants memories she gained before.
Lucy gained many odd cursed techniques but she discarded them all after trying them once.
Finally, she gave herself the cursed spirit manipulation.
"Marionnese Liberation"
She released the cursed spirit that had
Tengen in his womb.
Even though the cursed spirit that has tengen in its womb is released from Kenjaku's control. It is immediately absorbed by Lucy again through Lucy's cursed spirit manipulation.
When Lucy devoured the Spirit ball, it didn't enter her stomach but mixed with her cursed energy.
"Not bad for an appetizer~, Now for the full meal"
Lucy's figure enlarged into a three-meter Giant with countless fat elongated Balck tentacles extending from below her waist instead of legs, Soon the tentacles crawled into wooden cursed spirits.
"Marionnese Liberation"
As soon as she chanted the spell, the summon disappeared as the cursed spirits returned to their spirit forms. Only to be devoured by Lucy through cursed spirit manipulation.
She gave herself a construction-cursed technique and created two objects.
A ring and a short staff.
Next, she enchanted the ring and short staff that looked like a simple rod with a black rock on one end.
Even though, she cannot create cursed tools with 'construction', Kenjaku has knowledge of how to create cursed tools with normal objects.
"Maximum Uzumaki"
All the cursed spirits she devoured immediately turned into a large spiral of flesh but it vanished from the spot. The short staff with black rock on its head began to emit a black light before vanishing.
Lucy's bizarre form transformed into an even more bizarre form, This time, her form is just a tornado of fat black tentacles with a brain in the middle like a starfish abomination.
Lucy began applying every innate cursed technique to her brain. Normally, the cursed spirits that are used up in Uzumaki are lost forever but, the user can use the innate cursed technique of the cursed spirits once.
Since there is a limit to the human brain to carry only four cursed techniques maximum. Someone like Kenjaku who already has 3 slots filled can only have one More cursed technique gained from Uzumaki devouring Semi-grade 1 and above cursed spirit innate techniques. And he will lose the technique forever after one use.
But, Lucy on the other hand used her shapeshifting to memorise every cursed technique carefully and began to apply them to herself. She doesn't have the limit of 4 and can morph her brain to implant the hundreds of cursed techniques in her brain without the worry of 1 one-time use limit.
After applying all the techniques and using them.
'Found it'
Lucy locked down the 'immortality' cursed technique.
The ring she created before floated above Lucy's Horrific body and began glowing red before it silently fell into the flesh tentacles.
The darkness vanished and Lucy staggered out of the forest with a ring on her right finger.
'Finally, Longevity'
Lucy fondly looked at the ring she enchanted with Tengen's 'Immortality' cursed technique.
'This is the ultimate prize. Those cursed techniques and cursed energy are useless to me. The Uzumaki Staff is a sweet bonus'
Lucy's vision is far ahead and everything in this world will be meaningless once she's Level 2.
So, the only thing she really cared for was Tengen's immortality. Although, a limited version of it. It's more than enough for her.
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In the battlefield, Sukuna is fighting with Yuta, Yuji, Maki, Kusakabe, Choso, and Hana.
At this moment, Lucy fell from the sky.
As soon as she landed, her hands burned with tremendous cursed energy. Not giving time to Sukuna, Lucy faced the King of curses, who felt evil to her senses, and she was surprised.
The king of curses' evilness somehow felt... underwhelming. Despite knowing, she had never seen anything so evil in her life.
Humans just see Sukuna's physical body. But, sorcerers sense Sukuna's evilness as their senses catch more than physical aspects through cursed energy.
However, now's not the time to ask questions that are beyond common sense.
Lucy's figure flashed as she uttered
"Black flash"
Black lightning flashed through her fist as Lucy put all her cursed energy into her punch that hit Sukuna's abdomen.
Sukuna flew all the way back as his four arms and legs shattered like pieces of glass. While a hole is punched through his abdomen.
By the time, everyone came to their senses seeing the bloody body of the king of curses.
A spark of hope ignited but soon vanished when Sukuna's limbs regenerated in an instant.
But, his abdomen has clear broken teeth as blood poured down from it. There is a nasty bruise on his puffed-up lips on abdomen.
Lucy didn't give time even though she's surprised 'he survived even that?'
Even though she managed to seriously hit Sukuna that should have killed him, he managed to survive that.
Lucy reading his mind realised he had made a binding vow, to transfer all the impact to his limbs and reinforced his body. In return, he'll permanently sacrifice some cursed energy. That's just how severe her attack is.
'I knew it! Even though, Cursed energy is low-level energy. It has unlimited potential through Geas. The cursed techniques are merely byproducts of the power. The true infinite potential of cursed energy comes from its ability to warp reality through Geas.'
Lucy launched continuous attacks on Sukuna. Landing heavy blows, even when he's blocking, Sukuna feels heavy blows.
When she's sure He's away from others.
She signalled everyone.
A key flew from her into the air, it stopped mid-air, and vanished. A door opened itself facing the ground.
A cursed energy spike was felt by everyone.
"Temple or depravity"
A large open domain so vast it is like a sea filled with organs, appendages, and flesh spread throughout the battlefield appeared.
In the middle, four plain tentacles rose through the ground forming a square, and in the middle, there is an empty altar.
Sukuna's body is on the altar. Like a sacrifice being prepared.
Everyone whether friend or foe froze on the ground.. The range of the domain is so vast, even Rika who is housing other sorcerers watching the match was caught in it.
Even the foreign sorcerer Miguel and Geto's former colleagues like Laurel who are hiding far away are caught away by it.
They couldn't even control their breath, that's how strongly they are paralyzed.
Then, the domain started shrinking quickly, the kilometers radius reduced to the size of a few meters, just holding Sukuna.
In Lucy's hand, a short staff engraved with a black rock.
"Release"
With the command, a large beam of cursed energy is launched towards the paralyzed king of curses from the black staff. His flesh began to erode under the pure bombardment of a huge concentrated Cursed energy attack.
It continued until only his skull and bones remained with few organs like the stomach surviving.
The small staff broke into pieces.
The door closed, and the domain vanished.
Just when everyone thought it was over. Flesh grew around Sukuna as large amounts of cursed energy spiked
appeared from the skeleton.
Lucy felt her flesh get disconnected from the middle. As a shapeshifting entity, she could freely control her physical body. She tried to join the flesh, but cuts began to appear again and again.
Sensing that it's the cursed energy that is being used as the medium to cut her. Lucy used the reverse technique and tried to rapidly heal herself, finally, the cut disappeared.
At the same time, Others continued their assault, Ui Ui teleported her back to Rika where Shoko began to heal her properly as she had just finished treating Higuruma.
Since Lucy is already healing with the reverse cursed technique. It was quite easy to put her back together.
Lucy and Shoko returned and watched the fight.
'It seems my instinct is right. It was good to use the door in the middle to weaken Sukuna. But why did my instinct give me only this way? I could have used this domain to kill Sukuna but then again, he's so hard to kill. All the moves I used on him were killer moves but my instinct tells me I can't kill him yet, so I'm not surprised he survived'
This weakened Sukuna further after Higuruma took away Sukuna's cursed tool.
Now, Lucy reduced his cursed energy a lot, further weakening him.
Then, Shukuna opened his furnace. Killing Choso in the process.
At that moment, something clicked in Lucy's mind.
'I could have influenced Sukuna to paralyze him. That's not right, I could have influenced every person here regardless of their strength. Why didn't I remember it when fighting Sukuna? No one is a threat to me in this world with that ability. And there's the shapeshifting ability, even with limited cursed techniques I gathered, Sukuna isn't a match for me, I didn't use my abilities to my full potential at all'
At that moment, she realised Reggie, Hazenoki had still died. Originally Megumi should have killed them but she killed them. Later Yorozu died, now Gojo died and Choso died too.
Only when Choso died, a fog clear up in Lucy's head.
Their deaths are meant to happen, even when she appeared, a person with the ability to stop all this and know the future, couldn't stop it because she conveniently forgot about her true power that could have been helpful.
She just watched Gojo and Choso die, especially Gojo who is an integral part of the plan for her ascension mission.
An answer came to Lucy's mind.
'Fate. This world has fate. Once your fate is fixed, it doesn't matter. Only Toji is an exception to this. So, Cursed energy is the medium of control for fate? Sorcerers who have tonnes of it are even strictly controlled? That's not right, there is balance in this world, so the fate is the tendency of cursed energy to balance itself. Even if I stand with humans when I'm powerful, since I'm outside of the world, it won't make sense to make things difficult for humans, instead, it's best to control me directly '
She felt a chill down her back.
'I am supposed to be the one who pulls strings to ascend but, someone else is already been pulling my strings for a long time. I just watched everything from the side and even got integrated into the script'