Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga

is the most powerful shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique. Throughout its entire history, no user of the Ten Shadows Technique has been able to tame it. 
== Description ==
Mahoraga is conjured by the user using an incantation that recites before invoking the Divine General's name. Rather than form a shadow puppet with their hands to manifest the shikigami, the user simply extends both arms forward at a slight upward angle with their fists closed. 
 
The shikigami itself is a towering, muscular humanoid figure with four wings protruding from its eye sockets and a tail-like appendage extending from the back of its head. Hovering just above this is a large eight-handled wheel that rotates as Mahoraga responds to new stimuli. Furu's Incantation of the Ten Sacred Treasures and this wheel represent a complete cycle and harmony. Mahoraga also sports black hakama bottoms and a white sash around its waist to cover most of its lower body. 
Mahoraga has the strength to shatter concrete or to hit someone through multiple buildings with a single blow. It also wields the Sword of Extermination, a blade attached to its forearm that is enveloped in positive energy, making it especially effective against cursed spirits.
Most notably, the Divine General possesses the ability to adapt to any and all phenomena. If it is injured by a particular attack, the eight-handled wheel will turn, allowing it to adapt. If its adversary uses that same technique again, Mahoraga will counter it. This works offensively as well, with Mahoraga adapting its attacks to efficiently break through its opponent's defenses. 
Mahoraga's adaptation process begins analyzing an attack upon initially receiving it, with its progress being indicated by the number of times the eight-handled wheel spins. After a certain amount of time, the adaptation is completed. During this time, if Mahoraga is hit by the same attack additional times, the process is sped up each time. Even after its adaptation is complete, Mahoraga can continue its analysis and develop different ways to counter the phenomenon.
== Usage ==
Mahoraga is the most uncontrollable shikigami in the history of the Ten Shadows Technique. It has never been tamed or commanded like other familiars in the history of the entire Zenin Clan. However, users of the Ten Shadows Technique can summon it via an exorcism ritual in an attempt to exorcise it at any time. 
Other people can be included in the ritual, but defeating the respective shikigami will not allow the Ten Shadows Technique user to use them. Generally, this would be considered an impractical summoning. Nevertheless, Megumi believes this is an ace in the hole, his last resort in the most threatening situation. By summoning Mahoraga and forcing his opponent to participate in the ritual, Megumi can take his adversary down with him. 
Megumi Fushiguro twice reconsidered summoning Mahoraga before ultimately doing so after being severely injured by Haruta Shigemo in Shibuya. They would have been quickly killed if Sukuna had not shown up. Megumi was already injured, so a single strike from the shikigami was able to put him in a state of suspended death until the ritual ended. 
 
Sukuna arrived and healed Megumi, deciding to save the young sorcerer for his own plans. The King of Curses admitted Mahoraga was quite strong, capable of adapting to his moves and counterattacking. Its initial attacks didn't work on Sukuna, and it suffered heavy damage from his Dismantle technique. Once the wheel on its head turned the first time, Mahoraga was able to send Sukuna crashing through numerous buildings using cursed energy rather than positive energy. It was also able to see and deflect Dismantle the next time Sukuna attempted to use it. 
Mahoraga's adaptability is not limited to specific moves but all related techniques. Sukuna believed Mahoraga could have adapted slashing attacks in general after just experiencing Dismantle. To counter Mahoraga's rapid regeneration, it must be defeated by a different attack than what has previously injured it. Sukuna won the fight by using Malevolent Shrine to relentlessly slash the shikigami before finishing it off with another method; a powerful flaming arrow that incinerated the Divine General.
After taking over Megumi's body through incarnation, the Ten Shadows Technique also came into Sukuna's possession. Having defeated the shikigami during their previous battle, Sukuna became the first Ten Shadows Technique user to tame Mahoraga, gaining the ability to manifest its eight-handled wheel above himself or others. Doing so allows the person with the wheel over them to shoulder Mahoraga's adaptation by taking damage from attacks in its stead.
During his battle with Yorozu, Sukuna manifested Mahoraga's wheel over himself while repeatedly taking hits from Yorozu while she is inside her Insect Armor, which allowed Mahoraga to adapt to her Construction innate technique. When Yorozu constructed her True Sphere and attempted to hit Sukuna with it while within her Domain Expansion: Threefold Affliction, Sukuna summoned Mahoraga, which was able to physically shatter her True Sphere despite its untouchable nature. The Divine General then lethally injured the incarnated sorcerer by slashing her across the chest, dispelling the domain as a result.
Sukuna greatly exploited Mahoraga and its adaptation ability during his battle with Satoru Gojo. While clashing his domain with Gojo's, Sukuna used the Ten Shadows Technique whenever he wasn't using Domain Amplification to have Megumi's soul bear the burden of adaptation to Unlimited Void. Since Unlimited Void targets everything within the domain, while Malevolent Shrine targets everything but Sukuna himself, this exempted Megumi's soul from the sure-hit effects' mutual negation and caused him to be subjected to Unlimited Void five times. As a result, when Sukuna summoned Mahoraga after being immobilized by the fifth Unlimited Void, it finished its adaptation and was able to immediately dispel the domain expansion by striking the barrier with its Sword of Extermination.
After dispelling Mahoraga, Sukuna manifested its eight-handled wheel over himself in order to shoulder the adaptation to Gojo's Infinity as he engaged in hand-to-hand combat with him. During their brawl, Gojo noticed that the wheel blackens whenever Sukuna used domain amplification, cluing him in on the fact that using domain amplification interrupts Mahoraga's adaptation. He also correctly guessed that due to the complicated nature of Limitless, the wheel needed to spin four times before Mahoraga could adapt to his Infinity.
When Sukuna was knocked unconscious by Gojo's Black Flash, Mahoraga completed its adaptation to Infinity and Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue on the fourth spin of its wheel and was summoned, slashing Gojo across the chest with its Sword of Extermination. Mahoraga's adaptation allowed it to neutralize and nullify Gojo's Infinity upon hitting him by transmuting its own cursed energy, which it used to create openings for Sukuna to damage Gojo. Sukuna then summoned Merged Beast Agito and battled Gojo along with his two shikigami.
While Mahoraga battled Gojo in tandem with Agito, its wheel turned again as the shikigami adapted even further to Infinity. This second adaptation allowed it to launch a slashing attack that targeted and cut into space, existence, and the world themselves. Using this attack, Mahoraga sliced off Gojo's right forearm from afar and left a deep gash in the building behind him. Despite his injuries, Gojo swiftly destroyed Agito with Maximum Output: Blue and tried to pull Mahoraga and Sukuna into the sphere of attraction. Having adapted to Blue, Mahoraga was unaffected by the gravitational pull and protected its master from it.
With his cursed energy output restored as a result of landing a second Black Flash on Agito earlier, Gojo regenerated his lost arm with reverse cursed technique and used it to land a third Black Flash on Mahoraga, pushing the large shikigami away from Sukuna. The two sorcerers then engaged in hand-to-hand combat before Gojo threw Sukuna at Mahoraga. Catching his master, Mahoraga then blocked another Black Flash from Gojo, sending it and Sukuna crashing into the building behind them.
After receiving orders from Sukuna to interrupt Gojo from casting Hollow Purple, Mahoraga leapt through the building and pursued the Blue left over after destroying Agito. Having adapted to Blue and gained the ability to nullify it, the Divine General was ordered to block its collision with Gojo's newly created Red. However, taking advantage of Blue's attraction that Mahoraga was unaffected by due to its indiscriminate adaptation, Gojo intercepted the shikigami before it could reach Blue and punched it away. With the successful casting of an unlimited Hollow Purple as Blue collided with Red, Mahoraga was seemingly destroyed as its eight-handled wheel was disintegrated by the imaginary mass.
==Battles & Events==
Shibuya Incident Arc 
*Shibuya Incident
**Sukuna vs. Mahoraga
Culling Game Arc 
*Culling Game
**Sukuna vs. Yorozu
Shinjuku Showdown Arc
*Satoru Gojo vs. Sukuna
==Trivia==
*The shikigami's name is based on the race of deities in Buddhism, described as having the appearance of an enormous serpent (other variants can describe it as having the body of a man with the head of a snake). 
**The term eight may also be inspired by the Eight Legions of divine races known as the , which the Mahoraga is one of.
**This translation is actually inaccurate, as the original Japanese name for Mahoraga is , referencing one of the Twelve Heavenly Generals , who are the protective deities of Bhaisajyaguru, the Buddha of healing.
*The wheel on the Divine General's back represents the Dharma, which the Mahoraga and the other deities defend from harm.
*The incantation to summon the Divine General is a term from the , a chant in Ancient Japan used to resurrect the deceased. has the kanji "fu" (布) for Fusen/Bujian (An ancient coin of curreny from China), as well as the kanji "ru" (瑠) for lapis or any gem, and the rendaku-afflicted particle "(h/b)e" (べ) indicating an action towards something. The two characters "" can combine to create an idiom for wealth/treasure. has the Man'yōgana phonetic characters of the mimetic term for "swaying, shaking or ringing".
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