I AM EXTRA IN A SHONEN MANGA

Chapter 285 - 279 – Eclipse Vanguard (5)

Bakuza came in first no restraint, no finesse.He exploded forward.

Crimson fire wrapped in Shade detonated beneath his feet as he activated Hollow Amplification, chaos emotion surging through his veins. Every step burned the ground into glass.

BOOM

His fist crashed into Gorou's raised palm.

The impact didn't knock Gorou back.

Instead

The earth behind Gorou rose.

A mountain wall surged upward, absorbing the force like a breathing organism.

Gorou's Stone Affinity wasn't just durability, it was resolve given form.

Stone Affinity – Emotion: Resolve

Shinrei shaped not by aggression, but unyielding will.

The stronger the conviction, the denser the manifestation.

Bakuza snarled.

"You didn't move."

Gorou exhaled.

"A mountain does not step aside for fire."

Miraku appeared behind Gorou instantaneously.

No sound.

No warning.

Void rippled as Miraku's hand plunged forward, fingers distorting like broken glass.

Void Art – Hollow Grasp

A technique that didn't attack the body

It attacked the connection between Shinrei and soul.

But Gorou's eyes flicked sideways.

Stone sigils flared beneath his feet.

"Amitābha."

The ground twisted.

Miraku's hand plunged into stone that shouldn't have been there—his arm embedded up to the elbow.

"Ehehe—!" Miraku giggled.

"You moved the ground instead of yourself! That's cheating~!"

Bakuza roared and brought both fists down.

Echo Art – Infernal Cataclysm

Fire and shadow merged into a collapsing sphere raw destruction meant to erase everything beneath it.

Gorou stepped forward.

The stone around him layered—one… two… seven… twelve strata of condensed Shinrei.

Eclipse Art – Bodhisattva Bastion

A defensive art that didn't block

It endured.

The explosion swallowed Gorou whole.

For three seconds

Nothing existed but flame and shadow.

Then

The fire split.

Gorou emerged, robes torn, skin cracked like ancient rock

But standing.

Bakuza's grin faltered.

"…You're insane."

Gorou met his gaze.

"No."

His foot stamped the ground.

"I am patient."

….

ZEKE vs MEDUZA

Zeke didn't wait.

Magma Flame roared to life around his arms, molten cracks spreading across his skin like glowing veins.

"You picked the wrong damn place," Zeke growled.

He lunged.

Eclipse Art – Eruption Fang

A spiraling punch that combined concussive force with explosive heat.

Meduza didn't dodge.

She smiled.

Her eyes shimmered emerald.

Void Art – Serpent's Reverie

Fear Shinrei seeped into the air, invisible and insidious.

Zeke's punch slowed.

Not physically

Mentally.

For a fraction of a second, his mind conjured an image—

Himself, burned hollow.

Falling.

Failing.

Zeke bit down hard enough to draw blood.

"Nice try."

His Shinrei flared brighter.

Magma Flame burned fear itself.

He twisted mid-punch, converting momentum into a backhand wave of molten force.

Meduza leapt back gracefully, heels barely touching stone.

"Mm~ brute force and discipline."

"You're cute."

She flicked her wrist.

Serpent-shaped Shade constructs burst from the ground, fangs dripping corrupted Shinrei.

Zeke slammed his fist down.

Eclipse Art – Pyroclast Dominion

The ground erupted.

Lava pillars incinerated the serpents mid-air.

But Meduza was already behind him.

A dagger kissed his shoulder.

Cold.

Poisonous.

Void art — Paralytic Fear

Zeke hissed, muscles locking for half a heartbeat.

Meduza leaned close.

"Fear doesn't need time."

Zeke roared.

Magma Flame surged outward violently, burning the venom away at the cost of raw stamina.

He spun, fist blazing.

Meduza retreated but her eyes lingered.

Studying.

Measuring.

…

KAITO vs KERO

The wind didn't move.

It waited.

Kaito felt it before he saw it Vein Sense reacting as a blade whispered toward his throat.

He raised a hand.

Eclipse Art – Stillwater Barrier

A translucent wall of flowing Shinrei formed just in time.

KRRSH

Kero's blade scraped across it, leaving behind

A scar in the air.

The cut didn't disappear.

It hung there.

A persistent wind scar, an invisible guillotine.

Kaito stepped back carefully.

"…So that's your trick."

Kero finally spoke, voice low and distant.

"Everything I cut… remembers."

Three more slashes.

Four.

Seven.

The battlefield filled with unseen lines of death.

Kaito closed his eyes.

Breathing slowed.

Wave Affinity answered calm with clarity.

Eclipse Art – Tidal Mapping

He extended his Shinrei outward, sensing every distortion, every pressure change.

The wind scars revealed themselves not visually, but conceptually.

Paths of danger.

Kero vanished.

Reappeared above.

Blade descending.

Kaito spun.

Eclipse Art – Counterflow Spiral

The barrier twisted, redirecting Kero's momentum sideways.

Kero landed lightly.

Unfazed.

"Good."

Wind surged.

The scars moved.

They collapsed inward.

A cage of slicing pressure converged on Kaito.

Kaito's eyes snapped open.

"Then let's raise the tide."

BACK TO GOROU

Miraku tore his arm free from the stone, flesh regenerating unnaturally as void filled the gap.

"Okay, okay~!"

"No more holding back!"

Void Shinrei screamed.

Miraku's mask cracked.

Something ancient looked out through the fractures.

Bakuza planted his feet beside him.

Crimson veins burned brighter.

"We hit him together."

Gorou's stance widened.

Stone Shinrei flowed deeper into the seal behind him.

The ground trembled.

"You may try."

Miraku raised both hands.

Void Art – Hollow Carnival

Reality warped.

Multiple Mirakus appeared—laughing, dancing, attacking from impossible angles.

At the same time

Bakuza launched himself skyward.

Eclipse Art – Meteor Ruin

He descended like a falling star.

Gorou inhaled deeply.

For the first time

He opened another gate.

Vein Gate — Third: Stabilization

Stone Shinrei surged inward and outward simultaneously.

Eclipse Art – Mandala of the Earthbound Soul

A massive circular formation erupted beneath Gorou, layered with ancient sigils.

Every Miraku clone shattered on contact.

Bakuza's meteor punch slammed down

And stopped.

Gorou caught it.

Bare-handed.

Stone cracked.

Blood dripped.

But Gorou did not bend.

He looked up at Bakuza.

"Your chaos lacks center."

He pushed.

The shockwave blasted Bakuza across the valley, crashing him through three stone ridges.

Miraku froze mid-laugh.

"…That hurt him."

Gorou turned.

Stone Shinrei coiled around his arm like a continent awakening.

"Leave."

Miraku tilted his head.

Then

The seal behind Gorou pulsed violently.

A different presence stirred.

Ancient.

Heavy.

Hungry.

Gorou's eyes widened a fraction.

"…No."

Deep beneath the stone

Something answered.

And far away

Khael felt his heart scream.

The seal of Kaom had begun to react.

The ground split.

A voice echoed from nowhere and everywhere

"Who… calls my name?"

The battlefield froze.

The giants' heartbeat returned.

And the war for the shard truly began

To be continue