"Calm down, Laxus!!" Seeing Laxus still howling in terror, Achill reprimanded him with a grim expression. He did not even use Jiesè, his usual teasing nickname for Laxus. Clearly, he was deeply shaken too.
"Were the magic fluctuations I sensed really nothing more than lingering traces?" His gaze flickered as he stared into the Abyss before him, feeling the fluctuations of dark magical power still pouring out of it. His mind churned, unable to settle for a long time.
As mentioned earlier, he had rushed over the moment he sensed that magical power. Although he had noticed its presence gradually weakening along the way, it had barely diminished. That had led him to rule out fluctuations caused by someone casting Super Magic. Powerful though Super Magic was, its magical power only reached its peak at the instant of release. Once cast, that terrifying surge would quickly subside, and before long, it would disappear entirely.
It was precisely because of this basic knowledge that Achill had assumed the source of the magical power was a person or an object, rather than some form of Super Magic!
Yet the facts before his eyes told him, unmistakably, that this was not the case at all!! Which meant—
"This terrifying Abyss was caused by nothing more than a single spell!!!" Beads of cold sweat seeped out across Achill's forehead as he murmured, "What on earth could it have been?! What could release such terrifying Dark Magic in a single instant?! Unbelievable. Those terrifying magic fluctuations I suddenly sensed, this dark magical presence that lingered for so long... were they really just the residual energy of a spell something released in an instant?!!"
He took another deep breath, trying to steady his mind, which was trembling slightly from shock. He could not imagine what could