Deliora Is Already Dead!
Gray dragged his exhausted body, panting as he walked back to Jiang Bai and the others.
"I didn't expect you to be so decisive, Gray."
Jiang Bai crossed his arms and joked.
"I thought you would go easy on your senior brother."
"That guy always stayed by himself and never joined a guild, and as a result, his personality became increasingly extreme."
Gray looked at Lyon, who lay unconscious on the ground, his expression complex.
"I want to wake Ur up completely."
"So what should we do with him now?" Natsu asked, leaning closer.
Gray thought for a moment and said, "Let him stay with you for now. I'll keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't do anything stupid again."
Jiang Bai snapped his fingers, and an invisible Telekinesis lifted Lyon up, making him float in mid-air.
Just then, Sherry, Yuka, Toby, who had just been defeated by Natsu and Lucy, reappeared before everyone, supporting each other.
When they saw Lyon unconscious, Sherry instantly flew into a rage.
What have you done to Zero Emperor?!
She screamed hysterically.
"If anything happens to Zero Emperor, Sherry will make you all pay with your lives!"
As she shouted, she prepared to activate her Doll Magic.
But in the next instant, all her movements froze, her body seemed to be frozen, and she dared not move at all.
Because Jiang Bai was looking at her with an extremely cold and emotionless gaze.
That look in his eyes was like looking at an insect that he could crush at any moment.
At his fingertips, a small ball of red energy, exuding an aura of destruction, was slowly gathering.
Sherry could clearly sense that the energy contained power sufficient to instantly annihilate her.
The moment that man has a thought, she will vanish from this world completely.
"Oh? To be buried with them?"
Jiang Bai's voice was as cold as ten thousand years of ice.
I'm so scared.
Yuka and Toby were terrified by the murderous aura emanating from them, and almost simultaneously cried out, "No!"
Jiang Bai has never been a saint, nor does she have any psychological barrier preventing her from killing.
He would show no mercy to anyone who dared to threaten his life or that of his guildmates.
Thankfully, Gray's voice broke the deathly silence in time.
"Lyon is fine, he just fainted."
Upon hearing this, Sherry relaxed completely and collapsed to the ground.
She knew that no matter how much she guarded herself or struggled, it was all just a matter of a single thought in front of this man.
Seeing this, Jiang Bai also dispelled the "He" from his fingertips.
Sherry was panting heavily, her whole body drenched in cold sweat.
That feeling of your life potentially ending at any moment is anything but "loving".
"I know what you're going to do."
Jiang Bai glanced at them and said calmly,
"I can't believe there are still fools in this era who would want to unseal a demon."
"The worst part is, none of you are even capable fighters. If you had just gone and called Jura from Lamia Scale over, I wouldn't have called you stupid."
"Considering you were only accomplices, I'll let this matter slide this time. But if it happens again, I won't show any mercy to Obaba from your guild."
"No way! Absolutely not!" Sherry and the other two shook their heads vigorously.
So the group returned to the underground temple, the place where Deliora was sealed away.
Ultear, who had been defeated by Jiang Bai, had disappeared without a trace.
Have you made a decision?
Jiang Bai looked at Gray.
"Shall we melt this ice?"
Gray's eyes flickered with struggle, but ultimately hardened. "Melting. Lyon won't give up until he sees the result with his own eyes."
Looking at the mountain-like block of ice before her and the hideous demonic figure within it, Lucy still asked somewhat uneasily, "Hey, Jiang Bai, can you really... defeat Deliora?"
"I just said I wanted to melt the ice,"
Jiang Bai glanced at her.
"When did you say you wanted to eliminate it?"
"Huh?"
Lucy was even more confused.
"Then why release it? To keep it for the New Year?"
"Hey-hey,"
Natsu, rubbing his hands together excitedly, said...
"Then let me burn it to ashes!"
No one doubted that Jiang Bai didn't take action himself because he couldn't win.
Didn't I say that?
Jiang Bai said with an air of matter-of-fact composure.
"Deliora is dead."
Gray had just been wondering if Jiang Bai's reluctance to act was a way of giving him the opportunity as a test.
Hearing this, he was completely stunned. "Is this true, Jiang Bai?"
"Yes, 'Iced Shell' is not just a seal, it's also continuously eroding Deliora's life force."
Jiang Bai explained,
Ten years have passed, and now it's just an empty shell.
Just then, Lyon, who had been suspended in mid-air by Telekinesis, slowly awoke.
He happened to hear Jiang Bai's last words, and he became completely distraught.
I don't believe it!
He struggled and shouted,
"You must be lying to me! How could Deliora be dead!"
Just then, a thick beam of purple light pierced through the rock strata above the temple's dome and shone precisely on the ice block that sealed Deliora.
The ritual of "Moon Drops " was unexpectedly initiated at this moment.
The surface of the ice began to melt at a visible rate, and the dripping water droplets gathered into streams on the ground.
What happened?
Gray was shocked.
"How did the ceremony start by itself?"
Lucy immediately thought of the masked men who had been taken down by Jiang Bai with a single glance, "It must be those who just fainted! After they woke up, they ran back to continue the ritual!"
"Happy! Let's go!"
Natsu instantly ignited,
"Go and wipe them all out!"
However, Lyon, who had just woken up, showed a sense of responsibility.
"No need to go."
He stopped Natsu.
"They all came here because of me. If you want revenge, then wait until I personally deal with Deliora, and then you can do whatever you want with him."
Clearly, Lyon still didn't believe, or rather, he was unwilling to believe, that the goal he had strived for for ten years had long since become a meaningless empty shell.