While certain people were still two or three minutes behind her, running through the castle's twisted, winding corridors, Annie had already reached its very heart: the control center of Phantom Lord's giant castle, right before the guild master's throne.
Honestly, it didn't matter anymore whether Annie came to destroy the control center.
With Element 4 completely wiped out by her, the giant magic circle was on the verge of stopping and collapsing. Without Element 4's help, the spell called "Purgatory Shattering Wave," drawn by the giant's fingers and powerful enough to destroy all of Fairy Tail and the residents of Magnolia, could no longer continue.
But...
Annie knew that even though the magic circle had nearly stopped, there were still people who needed to be defeated. Otherwise, this whole thing wouldn't be over!
"Huh?"
Σ(°△°|||)︴
"This energy..."
(°ー°〃)
But the moment Annie stepped into the enormous, palace-like office, she froze. She sensed something strange in the energy fluctuations.
"Tsk, tsk!"
"Not bad! Not bad!"
"Little one..."
"You've surprised me. You actually defeated my Element 4 and stopped my magic in such a short time?"
A light round of applause soon snapped Annie out of it. She stopped dwelling on the dense, strange dark energy that filled the room and spread outward, and looked toward the man still seated on a throne-like chair.
He was a strange-looking man with an odd mustache, eyebrows and eyeliner that Annie disliked, and bizarre lip gloss smeared across his mouth.
"Ah!"
!(;?o?)o
"That's a Ten Wizard Saints badge... I get it! You're that nasty guild master, that bad guy called 'Bopola,' right?"
|???ω??)???
Annie didn't know Phantom Lord's guild master and had never met him, but she recognized the silver Ten Wizard Saints badge pinned to his collar like a big button, and she recognized