"The Wooden Human got destroyed!" Gray came over too.
"Huh?! So what if it got destroyed? What's there to be upset about?"
Mira blinked in confusion and asked with concern:
"Then why were you spacing out?"
"Ah, that..." Blanc dodged the question with an awkward laugh.
Meanwhile, Jose saw something change within Fairy Tail. The light in Makarov's hands faded, and that brat who didn't know his place stepped forward again.
He couldn't resist mocking them again:
"Hahahaha! I thought you had some trump card, but you were only bluffing!"
"A brat who can only make wooden dolls... I just smashed your little wooden toy to splinters!"
"Your strongest move has already failed. Now be good and wait to die in despair!"
"My strongest move? Have you misunderstood something?" Blanc was utterly baffled as he listened to Jose ramble on.
As for his earlier daze, Blanc had simply realized that summoning the Wooden Human and then coloring it left a time lag.
In an emergency like the one just now, the Wooden Human had to act before he could change its color. It still wasn't perfect.
The main problem was that he had gotten used to clapping his hands together. Drawing a card afterward to cast magic was a separate motion, which made the sequence feel disjointed.
So he had merely been agonizing over how cool his moves looked and how smoothly they flowed.
But he couldn't exactly tell everyone that. If they learned he had been thinking about that while making them worry for nothing, they would probably all turn on him.
Looking at the mass of foot soldiers gathering ahead, Blanc pressed his palms together again without further ado.
"Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees."
The earth shook violently.
Countless massive trees burst out of the