"I've lost all patience for wasting any more time on a damned insect like you!!" Heart-stopping magic, deep as ink, surged and coiled around Hades's entire body, and every strand of his hair stood on end like a sharp needle! His hands formed a bizarre magical gesture as he tilted his head back, fixing his crimson right eye directly on Achill in the sky. He roared in a low voice, every word booming, and the surging force of his Abyss Magic carried his voice into every corner of Wolf Island and every person's ears!!!
"Die beneath this forbidden spell!!! Book of Zeref, the Black Wizard—chapter four, passage twelve! Forbidden magic!!" Spreading his hands and raising them high at his sides, Hades threw back his head and roared, "Punisher of the Hall—"
"Punishment!!!!!"
Terrifying dark-purple magic poured madly from his body in wave after wave with his words, engulfing the vast stretch of ground for nearly ten thousand meters around him in an instant! It was as though the entire expanse had suddenly been dyed into an eerie dark-purple lake, every inch emitting a chilling glow that set hearts trembling. Yet the magic vanished as quickly as it had come. Before long, all the deep magic that had poured from Hades's body sank into the earth and disappeared. Even the magic surging and coiling around Hades himself faded away at the same time!
Watching from afar, Natsu, Laxus, and Gildarts were confused by the sight, but none of them asked a single question! Sweat beaded on their foreheads as they stared tensely at the battlefield, hardly daring to breathe! They had all sensed it. Though they could not understand Hades's magical gesture, and though all the tremendous magic he had unleashed seemed to have disappeared, they knew perfectly well—the atmosphere now