As the Clock Illusion spun wildly without stopping, the ice crystals before them gradually dispersed.
In an instant, the frigid solid transformed into a torrent of magic power so dense it was almost tangible.
Then the torrent rapidly gathered to one side, taking the shape of a softly glowing human figure.
The light faded from the figure, revealing a mature woman with a gentle air.
She stood rooted to the spot, her eyes filled with bewilderment and disbelief.
Trembling slightly, she held out her hands and examined them, then lowered her head to look at her intact body. Even the right leg she should have been missing was whole again.
Silence fell over the scene.
Ever since the eruption of magic power, everyone had stared fixedly at the scene, not daring to blink. Now, faced with a woman who had turned from ice back into flesh and blood, they were all stunned.
Lyon's followers murmured in disbelief:
"He turned back time on the ice and made it human again!? Something like that is actually possible?"
"She really turned back!"
"That's incredible!"
"What unbelievable magic power. Just the tiny amount spilling out is almost suffocating me!"
Lucy stared at the miracle before her, so shocked that she couldn't speak.
She had thought she was gradually coming to understand Blanc's strength, but every time he acted, he mercilessly shattered her understanding of the world all over again.
Natsu and Happy, on the other hand, took it in stride-to them, nothing Blanc did was surprising.
Happy had even put on a serious little face as his imagination ran wild. If I take the dried fish I've already eaten to Blanc and ask him to turn back time on them, wouldn't I have an endless supply of dried fish?! The more he thought about