A pinkish-purple Magic Circle suddenly appeared beneath Acnologia's body, large enough to cover him.
After the Magic Circle took shape, Acnologia suddenly sensed a deadly threat. He tried to escape, but no matter how he fled, the Magic Circle remained beneath his body.
"Roar!!! No!!!"
As the Magic Circle suddenly began to shine, Acnologia finally realized that he was about to die here. Unwilling to accept it, he could not help roaring in fury.
The next second, the Magic Circle suddenly opened a spatial rift. Then, a pinkish-purple blade flash swiftly cut across the sky, slicing straight through Acnologia's body as easily as a knife through tofu.
Acnologia's body froze in midair for a moment before splitting neatly in two. No blood sprayed from the cut, and that unwilling expression remained on his face.
Watching Acnologia's body split in two and fall, Zeref finally breathed a sigh of relief before slowly descending to the ground.
Only after the adrenaline faded did Zeref feel the excruciating pain throughout his body. He looked at his now-empty left arm, which had been burned away by Acnologia's flames during their battle. After stopping the bleeding from the wound in his chest, Zeref leaned against a large tree and sat on the ground, staring at Acnologia's two halves ahead of him, lost in thought.
After a while, August and Irene arrived.
They were pleasantly surprised when they saw Acnologia's miserable state, but after seeing Zeref's condition, they both panicked and hurried over to ask, "Father, how are you feeling?"
Zeref, who had been deep in thought, snapped back to his senses when he heard August's voice. He then answered with a smile, "I'm fine. Acnologia is dead. Now, everything depends on Allen."
As he spoke, Zeref looked up at the sky. Although Allen's battle with