"Scatter, Senbonzakura..."
The words slipped slowly from his lips, aloof and regal. As the blade dissolved, a thousand beautiful pink cherry blossom petals sprayed into the air, then drifted gently and gracefully down...
With pink petals falling around him and an utterly impassive expression on his face, Achill seemed like a god descending to earth, noble, elegant, and filled with boundless majesty...
For a moment, everyone present, Gerard included, was stunned by the sight Achill had created! Erza and the other women looked positively entranced, their hearts clearly captivated by Senbonzakura's magnificent, regal release.
"Hahahaha! You really have gone backward with age, Brother Nameless!" Drawn in for only an instant, Gerard immediately recovered and sneered. "You think something this flashy and useless can do anything to me?! You underestimate me, Brother Nameless! Do you think you were the only one improving over these eight years? I'm far stronger now than I was eight years ago!!!" With that, he casually flicked a round badge engraved with a cross, sending it shooting like a bullet toward Achill's position in the sky—
Clink— With a faint, crisp ring, the round badge, infused with powerful magic and wrapped in dazzling golden light, was sliced cleanly in half by a single pink petal drifting slowly down from the sky!!
The cut was as smooth as a mirror, as though a laser had passed through it!
"This is..." Gerard's pupils abruptly contracted. He stared fixedly at the falling petals, the contempt and mockery on his face slowly giving way to solemnity! Seeing a pink petal effortlessly slice through his honorary Ten Wizard Saints badge, he could distinctly sense the enormous threat posed by every single petal!
It was a threat that struck at a living being's very instincts! Gerard could almost see what would happen if