But when Yamaji heard that they planned to bolster their forces in the dungeon out of concern over enemy reinforcements, he nearly laughed.
Facing everyone's anxious questions, Yamaji calmly turned to look at them.
"Don't panic. As for why..."
Just then-
A violent tremor rose beneath their feet.
Then cracks began spreading across the Council Chamber's floor, and a terrifying surge of magic power that sent shivers through everyone instantly enveloped the entire Magic Council!
"This is..."
Yamaji's composed expression froze, his pupils shrinking sharply.
Oh no! I'd been so busy celebrating finding a way out of this crisis that I'd forgotten-Gildarts was a man so reckless that an entire town had to be remodeled just for him.
The next instant.
A beam of pure white light shot up from deep underground!
BOOM!!!
An enormous pillar of pale light, dozens of meters in diameter, erupted from the very center of the Magic Council headquarters! It smashed through floor after floor with unstoppable force, shooting into the sky with an aura of destruction!
Everything in its path shattered into uniformly sized cubes in an instant, then crumbled to dust.
A massive hole had been blasted straight through the sprawling Magic Council headquarters.
The edge of the pillar just grazed the Council Chamber's doors. The rebel soldiers stationed outside had no time even to scream before the shock wave hurled them away, leaving them sprawled all over the ground.
The barrier the Council Members had regarded as their last line of defense shattered along with the wall around the doors, breaking like glass with a snap into countless motes of light.
Everyone in the Council Chamber stood openmouthed, utterly dumbstruck. There was nothing left in front of them; they could see straight through to the curtains fluttering in an office on the