The Escape Underway
Within the Alvarez Empire, swirling yellow sand and torn clouds danced across the sky as Laxus and his companions frantically fled for their lives.
Just minutes earlier, the negotiations on the palace terrace had completely broken down, and Makarov was nearly killed on the spot by Zeref.
At the critical moment, Mest teleported to save Makarov and escaped back to the Christina.
The entire airship pushed its magical power reactor to its limits, and the blue-green propulsion tail flames left long plumes of air in mid-air as the Christina rushed toward the border.
However, the empire reacted faster than expected.
Three of the Spriggan 12 were dispatched from behind, attempting to stop the group.
A raging surge of magical power rose from three different directions, creating a suffocating and unsettling atmosphere.
Rumble--
The earth trembled violently, and the vast sea of sand below seemed to come alive, churning and rising wildly.
Ajeel unleashed a massive wave that blocked the Christina's path.
A sandstorm hundreds of meters high blotted out the sky, resembling a yellow city wall rising from the ground. Sand and gravel rained down, crackling and popping against the outer armor plating of the airship.
Laxus's eyes narrowed, and he stomped heavily on the edge of the deck. Golden lightning crackled across his hands, violent arcs of electricity crackling and coiling around his entire arm, instantly condensing into a large halberd.
A blinding golden light illuminated the dim sky, and lightning tore through the surrounding gale, emitting a deafening shriek.
[Lightning Dragon's Halberd]
Laxus strained his waist and hips, his muscles taut like iron, and hurled his lightning halberd with his right hand!
Sizzle--
The golden lightning-formed halberd crashed directly into the towering wave, exploding instantly. The violent lightning energy blasted a vacuum into the thick, viscous sand sea, tearing a hole in the sand wave.
Taking advantage of this gap, they narrowly passed through the sand walls that were flying off both sides.
Ajeel, standing in the raging wind, raised an eyebrow.
The young-looking Desert King crossed his arms, his golden earrings swaying in the wind, and a sneer of arrogance and mockery playing on his lips.
"Tsk tsk tsk, very strong, but that's not enough."
Before the words were even finished, a bright light appeared high on the imperial city wall thousands of meters away.
Blinding white light rapidly converged on the metal city wall, and the violent collapse of magical energy even caused the surrounding space to begin to distort and deform.
Wahl clasped his hands together, the surfaces of his hands cracking open, and his mechanical skeleton and gears frantically flipped and meshed, reassembling into a gigantic sniper cannon with a sickening metallic scraping sound.
The heavy, dark, and cold cannon barrel was several meters thick, with complex arrays of runes spreading outwards from the muzzle in layers.
"Fairy Tail, huh? Try the Magic Restraint Cannon, ten times stronger than Jupiter's!"
Boom--
As soon as he finished speaking, a thick beam of magical energy shot towards the Christina. The violent torrent of energy was like a divine punishment beam descending from the sky, and the entire empire could feel the tremor the moment it shot out.
The earth cracked open a bottomless chasm beneath the beam of light, the air instantly evaporated by the intense heat, leaving behind a vacuum trail.
Just as it was about to hit the Christina, the magic beam was frozen.
The massive energy column was completely enveloped from head to toe by ice crystals of Absolute Zero, transforming into a giant ice pillar that stretched across the sky. Losing its kinetic energy, it crashed to the ground.
With a deafening roar, the massive ice pillar crashed heavily into the depths of the desert, sending up clouds of ice shards and dust.
Two figures stood side by side at the forefront of the airship deck.
The chill emanating from Ur slowly dissipated, and his black hair fluttered slightly in the cold wind.
She flicked her slender fingers, which were slightly frosted, and let out a long sigh.
"Although I love flowers, I don't like being blown up like fireworks."
Yin, standing beside her, nodded, a hint of solemnity on his cold face, and the magical power emanating from him subsided.
"That was close! I didn't expect the Spriggan 12 to be so powerful, capable of unleashing such a terrifying attack."
If that attack had landed head-on, it would have vaporized into nothingness in an instant.
"Hey, hey, why are there two dead bodies here?"
A flippant, mocking voice suddenly rang out from above.
The air distorted slightly, and a man with pigtails and a cross-shaped scar across his nose appeared on the deck.
He wore a magnificent exotic robe, his toes lightly touching the foremast of the airship, looking down at the crowd.
The Fairy Tail members all looked shocked when they saw the man who had suddenly appeared.
Makarov's eyes widened, his beard trembled, as he stared intently at the familiar face.
"God Serena?! You really Alvarez Empire."
Makarov stared at God Serena in front of him.
As the leader of the Ten Ishgar Ten Wizard Saints and a man crowned with the title of "God," Ishgar is known to everyone.
During his time in the empire, he had only vaguely heard rumors, never imagining they would actually be true.
God Serena picked at his ear.
He casually flicked the dust off his fingernails, a haughty smile on his face.
"I'll use you guys as my first battle after joining the Empire."
Boom!
Before he finished speaking, the magic power on his body suddenly transformed into a visible, violent aura, with completely different dragon attributes surging wildly around him.
[The Storm Dragon's Wind and Moon Recital]
He clapped his hands together, and a white tornado suddenly exploded between his palms, the terrifying storm making the Christina teeter on the brink of collapse.
The airship's wooden hull groaned under the strain, and the entire vessel tilted violently at nearly sixty degrees in mid-air.
Immediately afterwards, God Serena laughed wildly, raising his right arm high. Dark clouds filled the sky, thunder roared, and countless bolts of lightning as thick as bowls fell towards the Christina.
[Thunderbolt Dragon's Five Thunderbolts]
Faced with the raging lightning crashing down from the sky, Laxus on the deck did not retreat. Instead, he stepped forward and head held high to meet the thunder!
Laxus opened his mouth, and a violent suction force erupted from it, absorbing all the lightning like a bottomless abyss, emitting astonishing magical fluctuations. Every cell in his body resonated wildly amidst the thunder.
Crackling and popping--
His arm muscles bulged, and the lightning on his body gradually changed from gold to crimson and blue.
The violent lightning, tinged with blue and red, left trails of afterimages in the air, and the deck on the ground was scorched black by the overflowing energy.
[Azure and Crimson Dragon Mode]
Laxus's veins bulged, and his eyes shone with a terrifying light.
He went all out, his main objective this time was to take Makarov away, he didn't want a prolonged battle, and besides, the person standing in front of him was Ishgar's strongest fighter on the surface.
The violent magic was compressed to its limit deep in his throat.
[The Azure and Crimson Dragon's Roar]
A pillar of destructive lightning, interwoven with blue and red, erupted from Laxus's mouth, hurtling straight towards God Serena!
God Serena was not angry but delighted, grinning as he opened his mouth wide, and scorching crimson lava coalesced and took shape inside.
[The Purgatory Dragon's Scorching Hell]
Boom--
The two dragon-slaying magical forces collided, and the extremely hot lava and the violent Azure Thunder clashed and tore at each other wildly in the air above the deck. The violent shockwave from the explosion instantly snapped the airship's mast in two, and sparks and splinters of wood flew everywhere!
I spent the whole night in the driver's seat, heartbroken.
"Ah! My Christina! Beautiful Christina is wailing! Man~"
He clung tightly to the turbulent rudder all night, tears streaming down his face, desperately trying to maintain the course.
Just as the Laxus and God Serena were locked in a stalemate, a sudden blizzard erupted on both sides of the deck.
Ur and Yin also made their move, rushing in from both sides, unleashing waves of icy air.
Two beams of Absolute Zero freezing air, one on the left and one on the right, transformed into a roaring frost storm, instantly sealing off both sides of the deck in an attempt to freeze God Serena in place.
God Serena's eyes narrowed slightly. He stepped on the broken wood and leaped up like a weightless bird, dodging the two attackers.
Taking advantage of God Serena's retreat, Ultear rushed forward from behind, placed her hand on the deck, and magical light rippled from her palm like water, quickly restoring the parts of the Christina that had just been damaged in the battle.
The broken keel was rapidly pieced back together, and the shattered armor flowed back to its original, intact state.
Hold on tight!
Ultear shouted a warning, slamming both hands down on the core power crystal.
[Arc of Time - Acceleration]
Boom!
The flow of time around the entire airship was forcibly distorted and accelerated. The Christina accelerated instantly, bursting out of the storm like a silver streak of light.
On the distant city wall, Wahl's mechanical body transformed and reassembled once more, with larger and denser energy circuits lighting up layer by layer, and a magical beam of light even more terrifying than before struck.
God Serena grinned as he stood in mid-air.
Watching the fleeing airship, the bloodlust and arrogance in his eyes reached their peak.
"Let me add some more, hahaha..."
[The Storm Dragon's Wind and Moon Recital]
[The Purgatory Dragon's Scorching Hell]
[Sea King Dragon's Water Formation]
The white, red, and blue spirals intertwined violently, completely enveloping and fusing the Destruction Restraint Cannon fired by Wahl, transforming into a world-destroying chaotic pillar of light that stretched across the heavens and earth, carrying the power to destroy everything as it headed straight for the airship!
Everyone stared wide-eyed as the terrifying attack approached.
The blinding light turned everyone's faces deathly pale, and the entire space groaned under the terrifying pressure.
Ur and Gin attacked again, squeezing their magic power to the limit, and the Absolute Zero cold air collided with the magic beam.
The surging frost attempted to freeze the pillar of light again, but this time it failed to do so as before.
The chaotic energy, fused with triple Dragon Slayer Magic, was far too violent. The newly formed frost was instantly torn apart by the storm, evaporated by the flames, and crushed into dust by immense force!