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"Noah!"
Seeing that the battle was about to begin, Lisanna, who was the most worried about Noah, could not help crying out.
"Be careful!"
Noah nodded slightly, turning his gaze toward the relaxed-looking Gildarts opposite him. His foot slowly lifted, then came crashing down.
"Bang!"
A loud stomp rang out beneath Noah's foot, and his body turned into a black shadow as he charged furiously toward Gildarts.
"Not bad speed!" Gildarts praised. He clenched one hand into a fist, then raised it barehanded before himself. A faint dark gleam flickered over his arm.
"Clang—!"
The black shadow charging before Gildarts abruptly halted. The Knight Sword in Noah's hand slashed down fiercely and mercilessly at Gildarts' hand, only to produce a sound like steel striking steel.
"Your strength isn't bad either!" Having blocked Noah's slash barehanded, Gildarts' body trembled slightly. He gave Noah, who had retreated more than a step, a surprised smile. Yet rather than attack, he simply shook his arm.
"No way?" Among the crowd, Mira, Lisanna, Erza, and the others were all dumbfounded.
"He actually blocked Noah's attack barehanded?"
Noah, too, stared fixedly at Gildarts' shaking hand. His senses, far beyond those of ordinary people, allowed him to detect the magic power covering it.
To be honest, the magic power covering Gildarts' arm was not particularly overwhelming. At most, it was enough to reinforce the hardness of his body.
If it had been anyone else, using the same amount of magic power to reinforce their body and