Bony Boy goes to JJK World
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With that being said, I feel like we're reaching the midpoint of the plot and I don't want to create something too long. The average word count in a novel is around 70k to 120k and I think that's a good range to end the story. I'll probably burn out and quit if I try and a personally don't enjoy it when the story goes on and on forever. Some of you might enjoy longer stories especially since some great authors do Overlord fanfictions that span many different storylines with a lot of interesting things going on. It's almost like a complete spinoff at that point XD.
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Thank all the warriors who braved my poor writing all the way here. I hope you guys have a great day. Enjoy the chapter.
-Lots of spoilers on JJK read at your own risk.-
Yuta immediately rushed into the barrier. He jumped in a straight line with his sword in his hands only to be repealed by the veil the moment his sword touched it. In a microsecond, Yuta's muscles contracted as he placed his katana over his head and brought it down faster than the eye could see.
While the barrier was left without a scratch Yuta noticed how the flow of cursed energy became unstable for a second.
"This is bad. It's going to take too long to break in." He said as he tried his second idea Reversed Cursed Energy.
Yuta placed his sword back on the scabbard and focus on both of his hands. He pictured the flow of his cursed energy creating two points of Reversed Cursed Energy, one on each hand and pressed both of them into the veil. The barrier lost some of its integrity allowing the energy to flow in but recovered too fast for Yuta to do anything else.
"Damn it." He said before he saw some ripples on the veil walls. Yuta turned his eyes downward and saw that the other jujutsu sorcerers not only were entering the barrier but were also doing it without any problems. The veil showed no resistance to them.
Yuta saw all of the first-grade and semi-first-grade walk past the barrier making him stop attacking the veil and think about his next move.
'The barrier repels only special grades? The curses are becoming more and more sophisticated. ' Yuta thought as he decided to inform the others about his findings.
Yuta pressed on the veil's wall and used the repelling force to move toward the others. He quickly fell near to where the group was running to.
"I can't get in the veil. You'll have to go first." Yuta screamed loudly making everyone focus on him. The special grade quickly jumped back toward the veil and continued his assault.
"Secure the students and buy enough time until-" Utahime stopped talking when she felt Gojo's cursed energy slamming against the wall.
Gojo quickly changed tactics when he saw his power bouncing away from the veil and threw a Hollow Purple, but the attack simply went through it without interacting with the barrier.
'Ha ha ha ha. Ainz you bastard.' Gojo thought as he chuckled a bit as he placed his hand over his chin. 'This barrier only stops cursed energy that is within a customized range. That means. ' Gojo closed his eyes and focused on suppressing his cursed energy.
He tried to enter the barrier, but the veil quickly rejected him. 'It can recognize when someone is faking it too. Very good Ainz. ' Gojo thought as he started beating the veil again.
Utahime turned her sight back to the barrier as she saw felt two cursed spirits appearing in front of the group. She saw wraiths flying outside the barrier, but they were quickly dealt with by Yuta who once again started attacking the barrier.
'How can that barrier withstand so much? ' Utahime thought as she ran inside.
To her surprise, the veil had an orange hue illuminating everything. Utahime quickly assessed the presence of a Special Grade Curse as she felt a powerful wave of cursed energy underground.
The ground suddenly started shaking forcing her to crouch while everyone else grabbed onto something to remain standing. Utahime's attention narrowed to the strange cursed energy a few meters away from her.
"I knew letting those idiots pass would make things more fun. That curse is going hard. I love it. " A bald man wearing a butcher apron said as he used a tree to keep himself from falling over. 'Now where is Gojo?! I want that hanger rack! ' The man screamed.
"A curse user?! " She asked herself as she saw ghoul-looking curses surrounding her.
Utahime called upon her cursed energy and prepared to attack as soon as they got closer. Thanks to the unstable ground neither she nor the ghouls could attack, but before she could come up with a strategy a bunch of crows descended on them forcing the undeads to back off.
"These are...Distractions? I hate fighting fodder. " Mei Mei said right after walking into the veil. The moving ground beneath her feet seemingly made no difference for her as she simply walked ahead while swinging her axe over her head.
She was accompanied by Gakuganji who walked in right afterward. He quickly glared at the weak summons and the curse user as his mind started painting a picture of the situation inside.
"There's no need to entertain them. Just power through and get to the students." Gakuganji said as he threw down his case and pulled out his guitar.
He played a power chord progression unleashing a cursed energy wave aimed at the ghouls. The undead jumped up to avoid the attack, but Mei Mei still had her crows surrounding them. With a single explosion, she took care of everyone except the curse user.
"Where is Gojo?" He said as he finally got used to the moving floor. The curse user pulled out his axe and pressed his finger on the edge. "I just joined this to get a hanger rack. If you tell me where he is I will let you go."
"You're not-"
The ground trembled even more. A huge chunk was pushed up into the sky followed by a bunch of dust. Gakuganji quickly moved forwards and started playing a heavy metal solo destroying the debris that would have fallen on top of Utahime.
When the dust smoke finally started clearing they all saw what looked like bone plates in the form of a scorpion claw heading toward them.
"Special Grade! " They all said in unison before jumping out of the way.
After the veil was created.
It had been a few seconds after Ainz dropped his veil isolating the forest, but his undeads were already swarming the area and attacking everyone they could find.
Ainz knew that such weak undead was not gonna cause many problems for the jujutsu sorcerers much less clear the place. After all, one Death Knight could be beaten by a team of second-grade sorcerers.
They were good enough to complete the mission he was given and that's all that mattered. Buy enough time for Jogo to infiltrate jujutsu high and do whatever it is he went to do. Ainz wasn't aware of what the plan was in its entirety, but he knew that something was going wrong the moment the operation began.
His summoning spells didn't bring out full-powered versions of any undead. He tried ghouls, Death Knights, wraiths, and even regular zombies, but every cast brought out a version that was around half its normal strength forcing Ainz to invest even more time to summon than he liked.
The problems were not only limited to the other undead. From the tests, he performed and following Yuki's tips the veil technique should have cost much less mana than he just spent and required much less maintenance than he was using.
'Not only it took five times the amount I theorized but I'm also stuck here. ' Ainz thought as the moment he tried to focus on the battle only the veil began undoing itself. 'What trick are they using? My output is so much lower than before.'
Ainz was forced to stay in one location maintaining the barrier himself while sending weak undead to keep the students busy. 'I'll stabilize this barrier as fast as I can and then look for Sukuna. ' Ainz thought before entering a deep meditative state to focus his cursed energy on fortifying his veil.
"There's a curse here! "
Ainz heard someone scream followed by many different sets of footsteps. The undead was forced back into reality as he turned his head and saw 7 semi-first-grade and another 4 first-grade from the Zennin clan rushing towards him.
'Can't that idiot keep them away from me for at least a few minutes? ' Ainz thought as he started to consider the possibilities. Ainz didn't expect anyone with significant power to get to him so fast, so he sent all but one undead to the battlefield.
The invading group quickly made their way to Ainz. One of them pulled out their blades and attacked a random spot which made Ainz shake his head. 'There it goes. ' Ainz thought as the only undead he had to protect him got hit.
The invisible undead rouge Ainz had with him was destroyed by a simple slash from one of the semi-first grades before it could even do any damage. The group of jujutsu sorcerers was getting closer and closer forcing Ainz to make a move.
'My output is only around 40% of its usual power. I can't fight them all and keep the barrier up. ' Ainz's eyes flashed as his mind ran through a few simulations.
He imagined that the worst-case scenario would be where all of his undead would be destroyed and he would be left with nothing, but the veil to maintain as he is slowly and carefully hunted down by the jujutsu sorcerers. Ainz quickly turned to the veil and concluded.
'I need my summons to be able to focus on the veil, but I'll have to find a way to empower every undead or they won't stand for too long. Even if I use a spell to cover the area it would have a weak effect thanks to whatever is keeping me... I have an idea. ' Ainz opened his stance and looked at his opponents.
"There's 11 of you? A few more than I need for the sacrifice, but I don't think the Scorpion King will complain." Ainz said as he pulled out a summoning item from his inventory.
'Let's find out if my summons can achieve the greatest height of jujutsu.' Ainz thought as he turned his attention away from the barrier for one second.
[Skill: Soul Trap]
[Widen Magic: Cry of the Banshee]
A mana circle surrounding both Ainz and the jujutsu sorcerers appeared right before a powerful shriek forced the sorcerers to cover their ears and stand still. They tried focusing their cursed energy to protect themselves, but it was over before it began. All of them their bodys fell to the ground.
Ainz eyes flashed as the spell activated. All of the jujutsu sorcerers fell to the ground leaving their cursed energy and their souls trapped within Ainz's skills. The undead quickly moved to part two of his plan.
To summon a unique NPC.
A few moments before that.
"This again?! " Panda screamed.
He had just beaten Mechamaru a few minutes ago Ainz used the veil and released the undead. Panda was caught off guard and had to fight for his life against a random Death Knight that was able to find him.
Panda dropped down to the floor and dodged a sword slash from the undead who roared in frustration. The jujutsu sorcerer was only at about 20% when the fighting began and he had done nothing but dodge.
The Death Knight used a shield bash sending the jujutsu sorcerer a few meters back. It was the first hit he was able to land, but it was devastating for the sorcerer. Panda was unable to prepare himself for the impact and his knees failed him. The sorcerer fell to the ground and without any other option, he started to crawl away as he tried to recover.
'It's that curse again. ' Panda thought as he took a step back. The Death Knight understood his opponent's state and rushed closer to Panda who was still able to roll away from the undead's sword. Panda was barely able to get up and grab the tower shield before the undead attacked again.
Panda pulled the Death Knight trying to defend himself from the sword in a similar way he used to defeat the undead back in the cemetery, but the undead had a firm stance and was not affected.
As soon as Panda's grip weakened the Death Knight took a few steps to its right while moving the shield to the left. Panda was left exposed to the undead's blade that quickly pierced his left shoulder forcing the jujutsu sorcerer to stumble back a bit. 'That Mechamara tired me out. I'm not sure I...' Panda thought as he heard another noise coming from the 9 o clock. The undead didn't rush immediately allowing panda to roll backward away from the undead, however...
A shockwave of cursed energy coming from his back pushed Panda back in the Death Knight's direction. The undead quickly moved his blade and pierced the sorcerer and then pulled the sword outwards with a vicious slice ripping a chunk of Panda's body with it.
Panda's body went limp and was about to hit the ground before he saw another undead appear from the attack came from. 'That's the other curse me and Maki fought that day! They are both... here ' Panda thought as he saw a Lich float toward him. The creature growled toward the trees calling the skeleton mages it had summoned. Panda was now surrounded by 5 undead.
'So that's what distracted me...' Panda thought as he started to reminisce about his life. After having fought against both Death Knight and the Lich in the past he understood that there was no way he could do anything in his condition. The Death Knight had already risen his sword when Panda heard a sudden bang noise.
The Lich suddenly stopped moving before collapsing on the floor and the skeleton mages dissipated in the air right afterward. The Death Knight stopped its blade and started looking around.
With her teeth clenched and her fingers gripping the sword with all her might, Maki jumped to the Death Knight from its blind spot. The undead quickly felt the incoming threat and moved its shield successfully blocking the initial strike. The undead roared as it stumbled backward from the strength of Maki's strike.
'Maki?!' Panda thought as he saw her landing by his side. Maki quickly followed with a horizontal slash forcing the undead to back off even further.
Bang
Once again the loud bang echoed, and the Death Knight moved his head backward while lowering his shield. It got hit with a headshot and now the undead was having difficulties controlling its massive body. 'Now. ' Maki thought as her eyes widened with focus, she placed her sword inside an imaginary scabbard and slowly exhaled.
The Death Knight wiggled its arm trying to counter the incoming attack, but Maki easily jumped over the sword. She spun in the air while forcing her lungs to inhale as much air as she could and with a single exhale she unleashed a vertical slash.
Maki's fingers became white thanks to the amount of pressure she was applying to the handle. The sword sliced through the air making a whoosh similar to a whip until it reached the undead's skull.
With a fast motion, Maki spun in the air once more before landing on the ground. As she landed the undead's body crashed on the floor with its head in two different pieces.
"You look like shit Panda. " Maki said as she gave a cheeky smile to the other jujutsu sorcerer. Panda took a deep breath before smiling back.
"This was not my first battle today. I'm spent already. " Panda said as he sat down on the floor in a more comfortable position.
Panda had a significant part of his body missing, but nothing that some cursed energy and time couldn't handle. He quickly shrunk a bit to give his body some extra humpf and heal enough damage to allow him to walk.
"Still I didn't expect you to beat them so fast. I was struggling hard you know." Panda said as he pointed at the Death Knight's body which was starting to disappear.
"This one is weaker. If it was the one from back then this cursed tool wouldn't have killed it in one hit." Maki said as she showed the cursed blade to Panda.
"That's true. That sword is much weaker. " Panda said after glancing at it. "What happened to your weapon?" He asked while tilting his head to the side.
"I broke it. " Maki responded as she turned her head away from Panda.
Panda was about to ask more questions about it when he was interrupted by someone else walking up to them.
"The one from before? Is this the same curse from the cemetery a week ago?" Mai asked. She was reloading a revolver and keeping an eye out for others while the two Tokyo students talked.
"You look pretty beat up, Mai. Did one of the curses get you?" Panda asked.
Mai had bruises and scratches all over her body as well as a bloody nose.
"We were fighting until the veil was created. " Maki explains. "I won, by the way." She added with a hit of pride and joy.
"I see. " Panda said as he lifted and turned back to Maki.
"The important thing now is what we are going to do now. " Mai said while glaring at her sister. "It's obvious we should evacuate as soon as possible, but with your body like that. " She pointed at the missing chunk of Panda's torso.
"We should find the others while moving toward the exit. " Panda responded. "These curses are weak, but-."
An explosion came from a hundred meters from where they were. They all turned to see a huge cloud of dust and a big chunk of dirt being flung into the skies.
After a few moments, they saw a huge claw-looking thing followed by a bizarre monster exiting the dust cloud. The creature was at least 15 meters tall, and it had two huge scorpion claws and a massive tail. Its body was made mostly of thick bone plates forming its scorpion part with a humanoid skeleton forming the other.
The creature roared toward the ground and started attacking it. It used its huge arms to grab a bunch of dirt and stones from the floor causing huge amounts of debris to shower down onto the forest.
"That's a Special Grade! " Maki screamed as she grabbed both Panda and Mai right as the creature started throwing random debris around the veil trying to crush anyone weak enough to be caught by it.
"Is it targeting the weaker people? " Mai asked as she pulled her gun and shoot a few of the debris before they made an impact with the group. Once the bullets bade contact the stones blew up allowing Maki to tank the impact.
Maki jumped around avoiding whatever she could until the creature suddenly decided to stop. She quickly looked at the veil to find the fastest way to escape.
"Yes, Master. As you wish. " The undead said making both Mai and Panda feel a shiver down their spine. The creature curled its tail and moved its left arm in front of its face. After that, it positioned the right arm under its left elbow, and the creature opened both its claws as wide as it could before shouting.
Domain Expansion :
The area started changing. Dense cursed energy in the form of a liquid started gushing out of the floor like geysers flooding the whole interior of the veil.
"NO WAY! " The group screamed simultaneously. They knew what was about to happen.
From a good distance, Ainz watched as the group tried their best not to get caught, but the undead knew there was no way they could leave in time.
Ainz decided to start flying to a higher altitude as he saw the very space change into a lake of cursed energy. A primordial soap from where his summon would imprint its will and create a Domain.
'Good. Very good.' Ainz thought as he immediately felt that his veil was much easier to control and maintain. He still had to focus a lot, but he could at least move around now.
Necrotic Resurgence
The ground turned into dry cracked soil full of a dark red powder underneath the frail thin layer of stones. The trees rotted the moment the Domain was complete and their trunks fell apart leaving a waste necrotic wasteland that dealt continuous Necrotic damage to all living creatures.
Random skeletons sporting different outfits started breaking coming out of the ground. Some wore normal kimonos or war armor with actual weapons, and some were even wearing jujutsu high outfits. A few of them were able to wield cursed energy while others had to rely on the energy that the Domain forced into their tools and weapons.
'First try and it worked perfectly.' Ainz thought as he landed on top of the Scorpion King feeling like his old self again. 'I can channel the undead graveyard skill from the summon into a Domain Expansion by granting it direct access to my mana pool. With a strong mental picture and plentiful cursed energy, making a Domain is easier than I expected. At this rate, I'll have a fully mastered one soon.'
"What the fuck is this? " Yuji screamed as he kicked an undead that was trying to pull him into the red sand below his feet. He felt a shiver down his spine as his body felt an annoying pain that resonated around his body.
Hanami, the disaster curse, quickly jumped at the opportunity and rushed Yuji. She attacked with a sidekick to his stomach making Yuji cough some blood.
"My brother!" Todo clapped his hand and changed position with Yuji. The sorcerer quickly punched Hanami but the cursed spirit just stood there. 'This power? I'm...'
After Hanami finally understood what happened she went for a punch, but Todo clapped his hand exchanging her for a zombie who just crawled out of the ground. "Focus on the enemy at hand. " Todo said as he punched the zombie's head off its shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Todo. But this is unexpected. First a veil and now a Domain?! " Yuji said as he cleaned the blood from his mouth.
"Listen, my brother. Things are going to shit by the second, but you should still focus on what's important now. " Todo said. His breathing started to become heavy as he felt his body burning up from the inside out.
'So this is the sure hit effect of the domain. 'Todo thought as he felt his body breaking down. He brought forth his simple domain which protected him from further Necrotic damage, but his body was already under its effect.
"That other gigantic curse is not something we can handle, but we can at least hold this tree curse here until Gojo breaks into here. It's just a matter of time and we'll be fine." Todo continued trying to hide the fact he was hurting from Yuji.
"Yes. Let's go. " Yuji said not understanding why Todo emphasized the time aspect of their fight.
'What is Ainz planning? That huge curse is going way beyond what we need to do h- ' Hanami was deep in thought when she felt a sharp pain inside her body. She had to force herself not to show it to her enemies, but the Necrotic damage was doing its trick. 'The Domain is affecting me too?! Damn, Ainz! '
Hanami was just standing there looking for an opening when Todo noticed a dark figure wearing armor jumping toward Yuji. "Brother!" Todo screamed before clapping his hands.
Both he and Yuji switched places allowing Todo to block the strike and deliver a counter straight to the enemy's face. The armored guy was thrown toward Hanami, but right before falling to the ground he spun in mid-air and fell on his feet.
"Should have guessed Ainz would send you, Junpei. " Hanami said as her breath became shorter. "What the hell is he doing?!"
"I suppose I should help out. " Junpei responded coldly. The curse user walked toward her and extended the simple domain he was using around his body to create a small area of effect.
"Junpei?!" Yuji asked.
"Hi there. Yuji. It's been such a short time, but I can see that you got a lot stronger. " Junpei said with a monotone.
"You know him, brother? " Todo asked. He knew about the simple domain surrounding Junpei's body the moment he touched him, but couldn't believe that someone with such little training could maintain one through his body like that.
"Yes. He's a curse user who is working with the curse that defeated Gojo. " Yuji said causing Todo's eyes to widen. "His cursed technique is a jellyfish shikigami that uses poison, but he also has cursed tools like a cape that can grab you. "
"Was he a first-year?" Todo asked.
Yuji tilted his head and looked at Todo with a confused face. "No, he never went to jujutsu high."
Todo nodded in acknowledgment. "So he practiced by himself. For how long has he practiced jujutsu?" Todo asked.
"Maybe a month or a month and a half. " Yuji responded.
Todo started chuckling a bit before slapping his own face. "From the way he took my punch, he should be around first grade, but with that growth speed he's bound to be stronger than me." Todo said with a huge smile "Fighting them both will be hard, but we'll have to pull through. Are you ready, my brother?"
"YES!" Yuji responded before turning to his friend. "Junpei! I'm gonna beat you up a little before taking you to jujutsu high."
Junpei slowly turned his head toward the jujutsu sorcerer. "Funny. I was about to say something similar. Let's do this, Hanami." Junpei said before extending his simple domain even further.
