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Once every ten years, a great and powerful force stirred from the depths of the Kingdom of Kumaso, which only a ritualistic offering could curtail its wrath. Throughout the Kumaso empire, a daughter of every family in the land was taken to the capitol, where they were hand-picked by the warrior-king, Kumaso Takeru, to be offered as a sacrifice. Afterward, the people of Kumaso held a festival in celebration of their kingdom’s survival into another decade.
Among these days, the mighty god of Kumaso was offered a different kind of gift to quench its destructive tendencies. A fighter from the land of Yamato, Oto was chained with the gates wide open for the lava golem to do as it pleased. Inhaling deep, guttural breaths from its molten chest, Kumasogami prepared to take its offering. Yet this chance would be denied by a band of Yamato warriors, who had already dealt with the Kumaso warlord. Genbu tossed his spear at the gate's rope, closing the heavy wooden barrier before Kumasogami could get his prize. Infuriated, Kumasogami swiped through the holes in the wooden gate, with Seiryu taking the blow in place of Oto. As Yamato Takeru and Genbu freed Oto from her chains, the raging titan thrashed against the large timber post to slay everyone in its path.
 Melting its clawed arms, they transmogrified into a large bow and a set of arrows and began raining hell upon the group of intruders. Reloading for every time it fired, searing arrows either lodged into the nearby cliff face or exploded on impact. Oto used her magic flames against the terrible beast, but to little avail. She was saved when Takeru pushed her aside and took the brunt of an attack, feeling only a measly taste of Kumasogami’s fiery wrath.
Shifting gears, Kumasogami morphed its hands from a bow and arrows to that of a powerful sword to cut down the foreign invaders. It lunged at the heroic warrior, only for Takeru to strike it on the wrist of its blade-hand. Enraged from the pain delivered unto it, Kumasogami sprouted wing-like protrusions as an intimidation display, carrying on his battle against the puny mortal. It managed to knock Takeru to the ground, only to be saved through the intervention of Oto and her magical prowess. With violent, utmost intention, Kumasogami changed direction and trapped her in a corner, prepared to finish her off once and for all.
In the midst of all this, Takeru grabbed the small, curved jewel he wore around his neck and began to channel its chaotic power. He transformed into the wild man and staved off Kumasogami with a series of green energy lasers from his eyes. Pelted and bombarded, Kumasogami found itself overwhelmed by Yamato Takeru’s true power. Finally funneling more power into his eyes, Takeru brought an end to Kumasogami’s iron grip as the molten golem exploded into many large chunks, ending the threat posed by the land of Kumaso.
With the demon god defeated, glowing light rained from the sky and materialized into the lost White Bird Mirror, the First Light, a reward that proved Yamato Takeru’s worth as a warrior of the gods. |
