(Heartfelt thanks to 'Pokémon', 'I am Gentleman hatin', 'Brilliant xingkong', 'hatin', 'Mo Yu Linshang', 'You Bi Ji Yue', and 'Lonely Lactic Acid Lord' for their rewards!)
"Bzzz—!"
A brilliantly radiant pillar of light shot skyward from the center of the forest sea, blasting into the heavens and vanishing into the clouds. It shook the air, stirred up waves of turbulence, and made the entire space tremble faintly.
"W-What is that?"
Led by Erza, Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Wendy, Hibiki, Ren, Ichiya, Lyon, Sherry, Jura, Happy, Charlulu, and the newly awakened Ichiya—all the Mages present stared at the soaring pillar of light, their faces filled with shock.
Angel likewise gazed at the pillar of light and murmured as if in a dream.
"Nirvana..."
Having clearly heard Angel's voice, Noah's eyes flickered.
So that is Nirvana?
In other words, Brain has undone Nirvana's seal?
"Rumble—!"
Just as everyone present stood stunned by the pillar of light shooting into the sky, the entire ground suddenly began to quake.
The intensity of the tremor rivaled an earthquake above magnitude ten.
"Wah—!"
Caught completely off guard, the Mages from the legal guilds were all thrown off their feet, nearly every one of them crashing to the ground.
Not only that, but the trembling of the ground grew increasingly violent. In the end, it seemed as though the entire forest sea was shaking, making countless trees groan before toppling amid a series of cracking sounds.
Struggling to steady himself, Noah suddenly sensed something at that moment.
Beneath the ground, something enormous seemed to be preparing to burst through the earth and emerge onto the surface.
"Boom—!"
The next instant, the ground within the forest sea exploded apart with a resounding roar, throwing up vast clouds of dust, sending sandstone flying, scattering countless rocks, and whipping up violent