Destruction? Sacrifice

Just as Laxus panted lightly, believing that Nether Strike · Thunder Roar, which had gathered all his strength, had thoroughly grievously wounded the terrifying three-headed beast, a sudden change erupted in the field!

The central head, charred black and shattered by the black lightning, seemingly devoid of life, began to emit thick gray smoke like blood from its wounds. Then, the two heads beside it, which had only been growling and roaring, seemed to answer some instinctive summons. Their scarlet eyes flew open, their pupils blazing with a frenzied, greedy light!

"Roar—!"

"Awoo—!"

Accompanied by two distinctly different yet equally terrifying roars, the head burning with ghostly green Netherflame on the left and the head wreathed in piercing frost on the right abruptly turned around, opened their bloodied maws, and viciously bit down on the severely injured, dying lightning head in the center!

"What?!" Laxus's pupils contracted sharply.

"W-What are they doing?!" Vermilion Bird's eyes brimmed with incredulous horror.

This scene of mutual slaughter was brutally savage! The crunching sounds of fangs tearing flesh and crushing bone made their teeth ache. Ghostly green Netherflame, icy blue frost, and purple lightning scattered amid the feeding. The central head let out one final helpless wail before it was swiftly devoured by its two companions!

This unnatural, almost demonic act sent even battle-hardened Wade shivering. "Damn it! What the hell is that thing?! It devoured its own companion, yet its aura hasn't weakened—it's... gotten stronger?!"

Just as he had cried out, once the feeding ended, the Three-headed Dog—or perhaps it should now be called a two-headed dog—shuddered violently. A surge of dark energy, far more berserk and vicious than before, erupted from its body like a volcanic explosion!

"Boom—!"

A tangible pressure swept outward as gray-black shockwaves. Its two remaining heads threw themselves