El glanced at Tanjiro with a cold gaze, but did not have anything bad. "Sorry, I had to give Tokitou and Kotetsu a little help. But, Tanjiro, do you suck?" he said coldly. "I've trained you, how can it be swallowed?"
"Sorry, Uncle Adrian..." said Tanjiro with a guilty expression, "My left leg and left arm bones were broken from fighting those 4 demon clones for quite some time. But, are Kotetsu and Tokitou-kun doing well?"
"Just injured, don't worry." said El with a cold tone of voice, but trying to calm Tanjiro's worried feelings.
As he turned his gaze away, El saw Zohakuten who was staring at him while he was still in the air, slashing through several wooden dragon attacks and jumping from place to place.
At that moment, El and Hatengu's gazes met, watching each other coldly, creating an atmosphere that made the atmosphere around them seem frozen in tension.
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Soon, El's feet touched the ground in a safe place. Right at that moment, El immediately lowered Tanjiro to the ground. Grasping the sword with both hands, El again moved with blinding speed.
Shing!
In quick succession, El first saved Nezuko. With a swift movement, he slashed off the head of the wooden dragon biting Nezuko's hand, simultaneously saving him.
Without waiting for long, El continued her action by still maintaining speed, without losing momentum, El moved, slashing at the body of the dragon wrapped around Genya.
Shing!
In one skillful strike, El also managed to free Genya from his life-threatening shackles.
Thus, El managed to rescue Nezuko and Genya from the clutches of Zohakuten's hands, bringing them to the relative safety of Tanjiro's side in a tension-filled fight.
Zohakuten frowned with a hateful expression, as he was the manifestation of Hatengu's own hatred. "Turned out to be a Hashira huh?"
Suddenly, Zohakuten paused for a moment with an expression of hatred mixed with confusion, "Wait, shouldn't that Hashira have died at Akaza's hands? Why is it still alive?"
"Useless, but it doesn't matter," Zohakuten said with a face full of hatred, his voice filled with bitterness and boiling anger.
Without any prompting, Zohakuten beat the small drum on his back like battlefield music, commanding the wooden dragon that possessed the manifestation of power from Sekido and Urogi.
"Uncle Adrian!" Tanjiro shouted with a panicked and worried expression, he had just smelled the scent of bad intentions that the attack would be very dangerous.
The two dragons responded fiercely to the attack, spewing out deafening sound waves and reddish-blue electricity simultaneously.
By combining two different types of Demon Blood Art power, Zohakuten was able to maximize the destructive power of his attack, creating an even deadlier threat.
Ear-shattering sound waves mixed with blinding flashes of electricity, seared the air and struck mercilessly from all directions where El, Tanjiro, Nezuko, and Genya stood, encircling them in a storm of power.
El concentrated his power. "Enbu Yaekasumi," he said, unleashing eight slashes in rapid succession at an incredible speed all around her, splitting the space between the incoming deadly attacks.
As El's sword swung, a soft mist enveloped the surroundings, blending with the flames burning in the air, creating a visual scene that was both mesmerizing and terrifying.
In an instant, El's slash cut through flashes of lightning and waves of deafening sound with incredible speed.
At that moment, El combined the Second Move of Mist Breathing with the Opening Move of Sun Breathing.
This synergy produced a high-speed attack accompanied by deadly damage, cutting through all attacks that came his way with unparalleled power.
Zohakuten watched as El easily cut through his Demon Blood Art. His face was filled with deep hatred, and in his heart he said bitterly, "As expected... This Hashira, who is able to match Akaza, can actually pierce through my attacks."
Zohakuten returned to beating the small drum on his back faster than before and created a musical rhythm of the stomping of warriors' feet on a very bloody battlefield.
Every thumping sound of the drum emitted an aura of death, and the five giant wooden dragons immediately responded perfectly.
The dragons moved in perfect synchronization, attacking El from all directions. A bolt of lightning struck first, followed by a sharp spear that traveled at incredible speed.
El moved with a speed that seemed to distort space, cutting through the lightning flashes with great ease. Visual embers followed the direction her sword swung.
However, it didn't stop there, one of the dragons made a strong burst of wind sweep across the area, trying to destroy everything in its path of attack.
Without panic on El's face that was as calm as the water of a pond without ripples, El moved and darted towards the wooden dragon with a speed that seemed to distort time and space.
"Enbu," El said in an icy tone, then slashed at the wooden dragon's head.
Slash!
The smoldering flames combined with the ethereal mist around the blade, creating a spectacular visual as the blade swung, cutting off the wooden dragon's head as easily as cutting tofu.
However, the next attack soon followed. Zohakuten commanded another wooden dragon that advanced to directly in front of El to spew out a wave of deafening sound, shaking the air around it.
Not only that, four other wooden dragons began to surround El from all directions. Two of them, which had previously been destroyed by El, were already regenerating rapidly.
The five wooden dragons were already preparing to spew out more powerful waves of sound explosions that could make the air tremble.
Now, El was surrounded by five wooden dragons ready to spew out deadly sound waves. This devastating attack can turn a human body into mush in an instant.
However, El was no ordinary human. He was a Behonder and probably the strongest Hashira in the Demon Slayer world at the moment.
With an unwaveringly calm face, without a hint of panic, El leapt lightly into the air, his upper body rotating 360 degrees with incredible speed.
El exhaled, as if burning the air. "Heki-ra no Ten," he said in a cold tone of voice, and launched her attack in a deadly circular motion.
Shing!
With one sharp and precise sword movement, El slashed horizontally in all directions. His sword danced in the air, reflecting the cold glow of the moonlight that cut through the wooden dragon like lightning splitting the sky.
The ethereal mist surrounding the sword, when it was swung, had caught fire, instantly transforming into a blazing fire, burning the space around it.
In a split second, the darkness around was dispelled, the five wooden dragons disintegrated, their wooden bodies torn apart before they could spew out sound waves.
All shattered, appearing as if they were in a thunderstorm of El's own making. Gracefully, El landed back on the ground, while the fragments of the wooden dragons were blown into the air like dust.
"Barbaric bastard!" cried Zohakuten hatefully, as he beat all the drums on his back faster than the blink of an eye.
The sound of the war drums grew louder, more intense than before. It was as if the war had reached its hottest peak.
In an instant, five wooden dragons emerged from the ground, rising to the surface with fierce force, like wild animals awakening from their long sleep.
Two wooden dragons darted towards El with incredible speed, their jaws wide open, ready to pounce. Meanwhile, three other wooden dragons prepared to launch attacks from a distance.
One dragon was about to unleash a flash of lightning that shook the air. Another one was preparing to release deadly sound waves. And the last dragon opened its mouth, ready to spit out a sharp spear that could destroy anything in its path.