The Attack on Jiang Bai

With Jura's withdrawal, the magic scoreboard of the entire royal capital was completely fixed.

All members of the Lamia Scale are eliminated.

On the ruins of the entire city of Crocus, only Fairy Tail and Sabertooth remain as the remaining teams.

However, Sabertooth did not disperse to hunt down Natsu, Gajeel, and Juvia, as Mavis had predicted.

Five figures quickly converged at the edge of the main road ruins and sprinted towards the ruins plaza at full speed.

In Minerva's calculations, even if the whole team spent a lot of time and effort to find and eliminate Natsu and his two companions, they would only gain a mere six points at most.

With 68 points plus 6 points, the total is only 74 points.

Given Fairy Tail's current total score of 75, even gaining just one more point would mean defeat.

In the end, he still had to face Jiang Bai.

If the team's magic reserves are depleted during the search, their chances of winning will be even lower when they face Jiang Bai later.

It would be better to make Jiang Bai the primary target for assassination.

If the five of them work together to eliminate Jiang Bai, they will not only eliminate the opponent's captain and core player, but also instantly win the grand prize and overtake the champion.

It can only be said that Minerva's tactical planning completely proves the truth that ignorance is bliss.

A dilapidated circular ruin plaza.

Five footsteps slowly entered the gravel area from four different directions.

Sting, Rogue, Rufus, Orga each blocked a dead end at a street corner, completely cutting off all evacuation routes from the square.

Although for Jiang Bai, a spatial ability user, this was just a formality.

Minerva, wearing wooden clogs and gently waving a folding fan in her right hand, gracefully stepped out from the shadow of the broken wall directly in front of her.

Jiang Bai stood in the center of the square, his hands still in his coat pockets, surrounded by five people.

Minerva half-covered the lower half of her face with her folding fan and let out a light laugh.

"I wonder how much magic power Lord Jiang Bai has left after his battle with Mermaid Heel Kagura?"

In Minerva's view, Kagura's strength was undeniable.

Even if Jiang Bai were incredibly strong, he couldn't withstand that level of swordsmanship in a direct confrontation, especially since only a very short time had passed since the fight ended.

Although the black-haired youth in front of him appeared unharmed and composed, his magical power was probably already on the verge of severe depletion.

The current leisurely lifestyle is nothing but a bluff.

Jiang Bai stood in the center of the encirclement, truly amused by the self-righteous cleverness of this weakling.

Jiang Bai pulled a hand out of his pocket, scratched his forehead, and couldn't help but shake his head.

"So this is all the trump card and plan you've been scheming for all this time?"

Jiang Bai spread out his right hand, his face full of sympathy.

"What a pathetic and pitiful judgment."

Minerva's eyes turned cold. She closed the folding fan in her hand and tapped it heavily against her palm.

"Stubborn to the point of death, there's no point in continuing to be defiant at this moment."

In order to completely eliminate the possibility of Jiang Bai using conversation to buy time to recover his magic, Minerva did not give him any chance to breathe.

"Do it!"

Before she finished speaking, the spatial magic within Minerva's body surged suddenly.

Minerva stepped back with her right foot, preparing to immediately merge into the imaginary space and use the absolutely concealed space to stealthily launch a blind attack on Jiang Bai.

However, the next moment...

The surrounding air remained completely still.

The ability to traverse space, which was originally as easy as using one's own arm, seemed to have crashed into an invisible, indestructible steel wall, unable to pry open even a crack.

Minerva suddenly looked up, her eyes widening, her previously composed expression instantly crumbling.

"How is that possible?!"

Minerva gripped the ends of the folding fan tightly with both hands, trying to forcefully unleash her magic to tear through the void, but the magical light in her palms remained motionless, as if frozen deep within ice.

"You... you actually managed to forcibly restrict my Space Magic?!"

Minerva was not unaware that Jiang Bai was skilled at manipulating space.

However, Minerva blindly believed that her magic originated from high-level Space Magic, placing her above regular mages in rank.

Overestimating oneself only earns one the cruelest slap in the face from reality.

Jiang Bai put his hands back into his coat pockets and took a step forward with a cold expression.

There are always some people in this world who have an inexplicable overconfidence in their own abilities.

Jiang Bai's tone was calm and even, without the slightest ripple.

"Do you really think my title of 'strongest' was earned through newspaper hype?"

Minerva's heart sank, and a sense of unease spread wildly through her.

The battle situation was completely out of control.

Minerva, disregarding her ladylike demeanor, loudly urged the four people around her to hurry up.

"What are you all standing there for! Get to work!"

Rufus reacted the fastest, his fingers brushing against the wide-brimmed hat on his head, causing the memory magic book in front of him to shine brightly.

"Hellfire That Burns the Earth!"

A blazing crimson wave erupted from beneath Rufus's feet, sweeping towards Jiang Bai's face like a raging fire python.

In Rufus's view, the reason he was publicly humiliated by Jiang Bai in the opening battle on the first day was simply because he knew nothing about Jiang Bai's magical abilities.

Now that all five main members of the guild are gathered together, and they have already prepared for Jiang Bai's tactics, they are absolutely certain to win this battle!

The raging waves of fire instantly engulfed a large area of rubble in the ruins plaza.

However, to put it bluntly, this level of karmic fire was nothing more than a snack for Natsu to swallow casually, and using it to deal with Jiang Bai would be utterly ridiculous.

Faced with Jiang Bai's "Infinity" power, the outcome was already predetermined.

If an attack method doesn't possess spatial attributes, it wouldn't even qualify to break through Infinity defenses.

Alright! Even if you truly possess rare spatial attributes, in front of Jiang Bai, whose spatial mastery is at its peak, you will be completely deprived of even the chance to cast a spell.

As for trying to shatter the limit of Infinity with pure power, the total magic power of this group combined is not even a fraction of what Jiang Bai casually squanders.

The crimson flames crashed against an invisible barrier, slid off to the sides, and extinguished on the scorched ground.

Jiang Bai's clothes weren't even blackened by the smoke; he stood in the center of the dissipating sparks, his hands in his coat pockets.

"It seems that just having you dance on stage on the opening day didn't really teach you a lesson."