The Battle Begins

In the center of the island, a wide-open space surrounded by huge rocks was quickly chosen as the battlefield.

The sea breeze howled, stirring up sand and dust from the ground.

Jiang Bai stood alone in the middle of the open space, his hands in his pockets, tilting his head towards Erza and Mirajane, who were already in a fighting stance not far away.

"Ready? Then... let's begin."

The moment the words left his lips, the battle horn sounded!

"Requip - Heaven's Wheel Armor!"

Erza burst forth with a dazzling golden light, and a magnificent set of silver-white armor instantly covered her entire body. Several pairs of metal wings unfolded from her back like a peacock's tail, and hundreds of magical swords appeared out of thin air, their tips all pointing at Jiang Bai in the distance.

At the same time, Mirajane let out a sharp shriek, and surging dark magic shot into the sky.

Her figure rapidly changed in the distorted black light, her skin turned dark red, huge bat wings stretched out from her back, sharp horns grew from her forehead, and a ferocious tail lashed out behind her.

The Satan Soul, Full-Body Take Over!

Without the slightest hesitation, the two launched a wide-area suppression attack.

"Heavenly Wheel - The Blazing Sword!"

"Darkness Stream!"

A storm of steel formed by hundreds of sharp swords, along with a vast expanse of surging dark energy, formed a perfect crossfire from the left and right, blocking all possible escape routes for Jiang Bai and bombarding his location relentlessly!

This is a terrifying combined attack capable of leveling a small mountain.

Makarov, watching from a distance, wasn't worried. He simply watched calmly, even thinking that it would be better to have a drink at this moment.

However, faced with this devastating attack, Jiang Bai didn't even bother to move, and even yawned.

The rain of swords, powerful enough to tear steel apart, and the darkness that corroded everything, seemed to crash into an invisible, absolute wall the moment they approached Jiang Bai's body.

No, it's even more eerie than the walls.

Their speed began to decrease drastically at a rate visible to the naked eye, as if they had sunk into an Infinity thick swamp, and the distance they had traveled was completely imperceptible to the naked eye.

In the end, all the swords and dark energy hovered less than half a centimeter away from Jiang Bai's body, unable to advance even an inch further.

Erza and Mirajane's expressions froze completely.

They could clearly feel their magic power being consumed rapidly, but the attacks seemed to be frozen in time, suspended in mid-air, until their energy was exhausted and they turned into specks of light and dissipated.

"This is... 'Infinity'..."

Erza gritted her teeth, her crimson eyes filled with shock.

"Tch, that's an extremely foul-level ability."

Mirajane pursed his lips, but his eyes were more serious than ever before.

They instantly understood that any ranged attack against this man was nothing more than a futile waste of magic power.

The only way to win is to engage in close combat and deplete his magic!

"Requip: Black Wing Armor!"

Erza's armor changed again, donning a set of light armor as black as night. Her huge black wings flapped suddenly, and she transformed into a black lightning bolt, charging towards Jiang Bai at supersonic speed!

"Demon Lightning Fox!"

Mirajane's figure also blended into the darkness, transforming into streaks of black lightning, flanking Jiang Bai from behind from another tricky angle.

The two, one on the left and one on the right, one in front and one behind, attempted to break through the strange "slow space" with extreme speed and deliver their attack directly to Jiang Bai's body.

However, reality is cruel.

Even at their fastest speeds, the moment they stepped into the "Infinity" realm, their bodies still felt an irresistible resistance, their movements becoming sluggish and clumsy, as if they were throwing punches in water.

"Too slow."

Jiang Bai looked at the two girls struggling to "swim" around him and finally raised his right hand.

His index finger gently tapped downwards.

"Cursed Technique Reversal - He."

An invisible, gentle yet irresistible repulsive force suddenly pushed outwards from Jiang Bai's center.

There was no violent explosion; it was like a gentle breeze.

But this "wind" involuntarily pushed Erza and Mirajane, who were struggling to move forward, backward dozens of meters, causing them to land awkwardly on the ground, carving two deep furrows.

The two quickly regained their balance, looked up, and their faces were full of disbelief.

For a brief moment, they felt as if they had been repelled by the entire space, with no way to resist.

"It's not over yet!"

Erza a low growl, unwilling to give up.

"Requip: Giant Armor!"

Her body instantly swelled several times in size, transforming into a giant clad in heavy armor, wielding a massive spear. Each step she took left deep footprints in the ground, and with an aura of crushing everything in its path, she charged towards Jiang Bai once more!

Mirajane took a deep breath, and two enormous balls of dark energy condensed in his hands.

"Soul Extinction!"

This time, she didn't simply release the energy; instead, she hurled the two energy orbs, enough to destroy a mountain, at Jiang Bai's head like bombs!

Faced with Erza's earth-shattering charge and Mirajane's devastating attack from the sky.

Jiang Bai remained standing in the same spot, but this time, he raised his left hand.

He brought his index and middle fingers together and flicked them lightly at the ground in front of Erza's charging path.

"Cursed Technique Lapse - Azure."

A terrifying gravitational force erupted instantly on the ground.

The ground in that area collapsed downwards without warning, forming a huge gravitational vortex.

Erza, who was charging at full speed, had no time to react. Her huge body instantly lost its balance and was firmly sucked to the ground by that terrifying gravity, unable to move.

As for the two dark energy orbs that fell from the sky, Jiang Bai merely raised his eyelids.

Even after entering the "Infinity" range, the two energy spheres were still forcibly slowed down.

Jiang Bai even had the leisure to reach out and gently tap one of the balls against the other, like bouncing a ball.

"Boom!"

Two powerful energy spheres collided prematurely in mid-air, causing a violent explosion. The raging energy was perfectly isolated by the "Infinity" barrier, not even a single hair on Jiang Bai's head was disturbed.

Erza was bound to the ground by gravity, and Mirajane's full-force attack was easily neutralized.

The entire battlefield, from beginning to end, was just a performance by Jiang Bai alone.

He didn't even move an inch.

Erza and Mirajane stood there, panting, looking at the unharmed boy whose expression hadn't changed at all. For the first time, a feeling called "despair" welled up in their hearts.

This is not a fight at all; it's a one-sided toy.

As for the Hollow Technique "Zi" that combines gravity and repulsion, which even Gildarts had to fight with all his might, Jiang Bai didn't even have the thought of using it.

Because the two people in front of him didn't have the strength to make him use that move.