Li did not waste any more words on Zeref. Instead, he raised both hands and began forming hand seals. As his hands moved, the two enormous lightning hands made of energy moved as well, truly mirroring Li's own hands as they formed the same seals.
When the seals were complete, a black glow spread from Li's hands, while hazy black radiance began to emerge across the massive lightning hands.
Looking closely, every tiny speck of light seemed to conceal something. Those things looked extremely simple on the surface, yet also seemed immensely intricate.
Li took another breath, then suddenly brought his hands together. The enormous lightning hands likewise seized the black long-hair-like protective barrier surrounding Zeref. This collision unexpectedly produced a strange metallic scraping sound, as though these were not hands of lightning but a pair of iron hands, and the protective layer was not made of energy, but steel.
At this moment, the lightning hands desperately squeezed and pounded the protective layer, but the effect appeared minimal.
The azure energy on the lightning hands created by Li flashed, and within seconds, the pair of giant hands doubled in size out of thin air. In an instant, the two enormous lightning hands enclosed Zeref along with the black protective barrier shielding him, then began to close continuously.
As the hands tightened, an ear-splitting sound of twisting metal finally began to emerge from within them. What kind of sound was that? It was as though, in an instant, this had become a contest of iron and blood.
Changes also occurred in the space around the lightning hands. First, inexplicable cracks appeared. These cracks did not come from anywhere else; they originated directly from the space itself. The harder the lightning hands squeezed the protective barrier in their grasp, the more black