"What the hell are those?!" Achill stared gravely up into the sky above the city. A ring of golden spheres crackling with lightning hovered a thousand meters above Magnolia!
Even from this far away, Achill could feel the astonishing waves of magic power radiating from them!
"This feeling... could they be Magic Crystals filled with powerful lightning magic?!" As he sensed the traces of magic emanating from the spheres, Achill's expression turned utterly grim. "With this many lightning Magic Crystals spread across the whole sky above Magnolia, if they all went off at once, then—"
"They would absolutely—" A terrifying surge of magic power rippled from his body. Flames of fury blazed in his eyes as Achill spat each word through clenched teeth. "Destroy the entire city in an instant!!!"
“What bastard was stupid enough to do this?!!” He stamped down hard, shattering a great swath of ground beneath his feet, and Sho shot a thousand meters into the sky! Appearing before one of the spheres in an instant, Achill raised his right hand and drove his fist into it without hesitation!
Boom! With a sharp explosion, Achill's punch shattered the spherical Magic Crystal into golden fragments that scattered through the air!
How could he not be furious?! Nearly everyone he cared about was in this town! If some other town were being destroyed, or if Erza and the others weren't here, that would have been fine. Let it be destroyed; he couldn't be bothered to meddle! But the problem was—
"Erza's magic still feels fairly active, so she should be all right! But—" Fury flashed in his eyes, and his magic power surged as Achill roared, "Le Qi's and Mira's magic have already hit rock bottom!! You bastard!!!"
Still roaring, he lashed out with a powerful sweeping kick in