Let's Make It a Big One!
"Soul..."
"I need... a soul!"
The colossal creature, composed of dead wood and skeletons, let out Roar that shook the mountains and forests.
Its creator, Erigor, was now slumped on the ground, his face filled with fear and despair.
He knew very well that the first thing the out-of-control demon would devour was himself, the one closest to it!
Just when he thought he was going to die, Jiang Bai's figure swayed and appeared in front of him.
"Hey, don't move around."
Jiang Bai didn't even glance at Erigor, he simply raised a finger casually.
Instantly, Erigor felt an invisible force envelop him once more, as if he were encased in transparent cement. Apart from his eyes being able to move, he couldn't even move a single finger.
He could only watch helplessly as the enormous demon and the man strolled leisurely as if he were in his own backyard.
Erigor's mind was instantly filled with a million questions.
'If that's the case... why did you let me go in the first place?! Were you playing me?!'
He wanted to curse, but he couldn't even open his mouth; he could only rage helplessly inside.
Meanwhile, inside the guild alliance's meeting hall, the atmosphere had become extremely tense.
Seeing the towering skeletal demon, dozens of meters tall, through the magic crystal ball, everyone except for a few seasoned members like Makarov and Bob, who could barely maintain their composure, turned pale with fright and broke out in a cold sweat.
"What... what is that?!"
"Is this the true face of the demon from the Book of Zeref... 'Lullaby'?!"
"It's terrifying... Just looking at it makes me feel like I'm suffocating!"
Just then, as if to highlight Jiang Bai's power, a new change occurred in the image displayed on the crystal ball.
Several beams of magical light streaked across the distant horizon, eventually hovering over another mountain not far from the Lullaby Demon.
It was a team of mages dressed in the standard battle suits of the Magic Council. The captain, who was leading the team, was very aggressive and started shouting from a distance.
"We are the Magic Council Fourth Magic Special Attack Squad! Dark mages in front, drop your weapons and surrender immediately! You are surrounded!"
Their voices were loud and clear, full of the authority and confidence of a regular army, clearly indicating that they were there to deal with the "Eisenwald" incident.
Inside the meeting hall, a member of the association breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing reinforcements, "Great! It's the Magic Council members! We're saved!"
"Yes! As expected of the Magic Council's elite force, they arrived very quickly!"
However, their relief didn't last three seconds.
In the mountains and forests, the enormous Lullaby demon seemed to be annoyed by the shouts of these uninvited guests.
It slowly turned its huge, wooden head, and its three hollow "eye sockets" locked onto the hilltop next to the procession.
"Noisy... bugs..."
The Lullaby Demon let out a deep Roar, opening its enormous skeletal maw, and a wave of extremely dense purplish-black energy shot out!
There were no elaborate magic circles, no complicated incantations, just the purest and most primal surge of magical power!
The energy wave was so fast that the confident expression on the captain of the Magic Council's special forces team instantly froze into horror!
"Quickly... quickly defend!"
He roared and used all his strength to create a defensive magic circle.
However, faced with the attack of the Lullaby, his proud defense was as fragile as a sheet of paper.
"Boom--!"
The deafening roar reached the venue half a second late.
Everyone watched in disbelief as the purplish-black energy wave swept through the entire mountain with unstoppable force!
As the smoke cleared, half of the hill next to the Magic Council's special forces team had vanished.
The entire mountain looks as if some invisible behemoth has gnawed a huge chunk out of it from the middle!
The surviving Magic Council members looked at the catastrophic scene before them, and then at the enormous, tireless demon in the distance.
Without saying a word, he turned and ran, more than ten times faster than he had come.
"Retreat... retreat! Requesting backup! The target is a demon, its level... immeasurable!"
The way they fled in such a disheveled state was a stark contrast to their triumphant arrival.
Inside the venue, the presidents who had just been celebrating were now completely speechless, their mouths agape as if an egg could fit inside.
"Are you... joking? The Magic Council's elite forces... just one move?"
"They were scared away?"
"That mountain... just like that, gone?"
"Tsk, so fragile."
Jiang Bai glanced at the group of Magic Council members who were running away in a panic and curled his lip.
Then, he turned his gaze to the enormous creature in front of him, a mischievous smile spreading across his face.
"Alright, warm-up's over, it's our turn. Everyone, are you ready to dance?"
The Lullaby Demon seemed to understand Jiang Bai's provocation. It Roar and its huge skeletal arm, accompanied by a whistling sound, slammed down towards Jiang Bai!
Jiang Bai neither dodged nor evaded; he simply touched the ground lightly with his toes, and his entire body glided backward dozens of meters as if it were a weightless feather, just barely avoiding the thunderous blow.
"Boom!"
The giant fist landed, cracking the earth and sending up clouds of dust.
"You're moving too slowly," Jiang Bai's voice drifted from the smoke and dust.
The Lullaby Demon became even more enraged, and its other arm swept out, the force of which even uprooted the surrounding trees!
Jiang Bai's figure made an incredible turn in mid-air, easily stepping onto the huge arm that swept across, and walking upwards along the arm as if strolling on flat ground.
"He's quite strong, but unfortunately, it's meaningless if he can't hit anyone."
He ran all the way to Lullaby's shoulder, and even had the leisure to stretch out his foot and kick the demon's withered head, making a "bang bang" sound.
"Hey, is your head solid or hollow?"
The association presidents inside the venue were completely dumbfounded.
Faced with that terrifying demon that could flatten half a mountain with a single blow, Jiang Bai showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, he acted as if he were toying with a clumsy pet, handling the situation with ease and grace to the extreme!
"Is... is this really a battle?"
"Why do I feel like... Lord 'Infinity' is dancing?"
"Too powerful... so powerful it feels unreal..."
Makarov stared at the image in the crystal ball, his small body ramrod straight, his chin practically pointing to the sky, his face beaming with pride, as if to say, "See? This is my child."
Jiang Bai played around for a while, then felt it was about time.
He could imagine the old man bragging to the other presidents right now, and to satisfy the old man's desire for face, it was time to go all out.
"Okay, I'm not playing with you anymore."
Jiang Bai leaped off Lullaby's shoulder and landed lightly a hundred meters away.
He slowly raised both hands, left hand forward, palm up, right hand backward, palm down.
Two completely different, yet equally terrifying, magical powers began to converge in his hands.
The left hand represents the Infinity gravitational force that gathers all things—"Azure"!
The right hand is an unleashing, boundless repulsive force—"Hah!"
"What... what is that?!"
Inside the venue, for the first time, a look of genuine horror appeared on President Bob's alluring face!
"Two completely opposite magical forces! What is he trying to do?! Make them collide?! Has he gone mad?!"
Makarov's pupils also contracted sharply.
Oh no! I don't even know if I can afford to compensate for the damage caused by this move.
In the mountains and forests, Jiang Bai slowly brought his hands together.
The moment the two forces of "Azure" and "Radiant" converged, the whole world seemed to fall silent for a second.
An energy sphere, emitting an eerie purple light and constantly twisting and expanding, formed in his palm.
"Hollow Technique-- "
Jiang Bai's voice was calm yet filled with undeniable authority.
""Water chestnut"."
He gently pushed the purple energy ball in his hand towards the direction of the Lullaby Demon.
There was no sound.
There was no light.
Wherever that purple energy passed, space, matter, light, sound... everything was completely "deleted".
The enormous Lullaby demon didn't even react; its body was erased silently from the center by the purple energy, disappearing completely, just like a pencil drawing wiped clean by an eraser.
The trajectory of the virtual "" did not stop there.
It continued forward, precisely grazing the head of Erigor, who was imprisoned on the ground, and finally striking the towering mountain behind the Lullaby Demon...
Still, there was no sound or trace.
The mountain, several times taller than the one that had just been half-bombed, vanished into thin air.
It left behind a huge, smooth, mirror-like gap that stretched from heaven to earth.
The sky is still the same sky.
But beneath the sky, the distant view that should have been obscured by the mountains was now clearly presented before everyone's eyes.
A long time.
Inside the venue, a deafening roar of amazement and praise erupted.
"My God! What am I seeing?!"
"One strike... and that mountain... was gone?!"
"This is 'Infinity'... Is this the power of 'Infinity'?! This is already godlike!"
"Makarov! What kind of monster has Fairy Tail raised?!"
Hearing the heartfelt praises around him, Makarov felt like he was floating on air. He had never felt so proud in his entire life!
However, when his eyes fell on the crystal ball screen again, the huge gap left by the mountain erased by the virtual "", the smile on his face suddenly solidified.
Etc...
That mountain... seems to be a famous scenic spot in Clover Town... a natural heritage site protected by the Magic Council... the restoration costs... seem to be astronomical...
The next second, Makarov's flushed face turned deathly pale.
He roared at the crystal ball with a heart-wrenching rage:
"You brat!! I told you to show your strength, not your destructive power!!"