There was little worth mentioning about the next match: Lucy against Raven Tail's Freya. Although Lucy had only just received four new Zodiac keys from Achill, she handled them without the slightest hesitation, blessed as she was by the Celestial Spirits!
Together with her original six Zodiac keys, all ten Celestial Spirit Keys danced through her hands! Constantly summoning two spirits in different combinations and using Celestial Spirit fusion magic, Lucy kept Freya of Raven Tail completely pinned down from start to finish—
Of course, Freya tried to turn the tables with a clever trick, secretly slipping her magically extended hair into Fairy Tail's spectator section in the hope of taking a hostage and forcing Lucy to lose.
It was a fine idea, but as the old saying went, reality was always terrifying. Uh, that didn't sound quite right, did it?
In any case, her hair had barely entered Fairy Tail's section before Achill casually blasted it with a Cero, leaving not even a scrap behind—
Terrified by the sight, Freya no longer dared try anything underhanded! All she could do was struggle desperately under Lucy's relentless assault...
Not only that, but when Lucy attempted to cast the awe-inspiring Super Magic Urano Metria with Gemini's assistance to settle the match, Raven Tail's Obra—the black wildcat Achill had nearly killed on the night of the preliminaries—saw Freya struggling helplessly and tried to secretly steal Lucy's magic power to prevent the Super Magic from activating! Unfortunately, none of this could escape Achill's detection, since his sensory network had been covering the entire Grand Magic Games venue all along—
The instant Obra prepared to steal her magic power, Achill's gaze landed squarely on him! Under the crushing, targeted pressure of Achill's presence, which seemed powerful enough to freeze the very air, Obra couldn't