"Acnologia's roar, huh—"
Unlike the people in the distance, whose terrified faces had drained of nearly all color, Erza and Mira merely grew more solemn as they stood on either side of Achill. Achill himself remained motionless, seemingly utterly unconcerned, letting the fierce wind from above whip his long white coat.
"Will this be a problem, Achill?" Erza and Mira kept their eyes fixed on Zeref opposite them while sensing the increasingly terrifying fluctuations of magic overhead.
Their bodies tensed, and they gritted their teeth, refusing to retreat under the pressure. Their faces paled slightly. Even knowing that the magic above would utterly destroy them both if it fell, they stubbornly stood their ground! All because they believed—
They believed in Achill! They believed he could resolve all of this—
Countless past experiences had given them that answer!
"Relax." And sure enough.
His black hair streamed behind him, his expression neither sorrowful nor joyful. At their words, the only discernible change was the naked contempt that surfaced in his eyes—
"That's probably all he amounts to!" Raising his left hand, palm upward, Achill lifted it high overhead. "Acnologia—"
"If this is all you can do..."
The instant his words fell, dazzling light flooded the earth! Erza and Mira instinctively narrowed their eyes as a terrifying blue-black pillar of magic plunged from tens of thousands of meters above, crashing down like an enormous, raging meteor!!
At the same time, his fair-skinned left hand rose calmly to meet it—
BOOOOOM—
His palm met the magic bearing down from the sky. With just one hand, Achill casually pressed against that immense descending mass of magic...
He had actually stopped Acnologia's strongest roar with a single hand!!!
Acnologia's eyes widened in terror, but before he could speak—
"Then there's no need for me to