"I told you."
Ye Chuan's voice sounded calmly beside her ear.
"This sort of childish, make-believe self-sacrifice..."
"I've seen enough of it."
As his words fell, he slowly walked up to the enormous, out-of-control magic circle.
His deep blue Mystic Eyes, capable of looking directly at "death," opened once more!
In his vision, he clearly saw a [Concept Death Line] belonging to the most fundamental magical formula, running through the entire "R-System" and sustaining its existence!
He slowly raised Black Blade Shusui in his hand and slashed down at that empty space!
Shing-!!
The next instant, before everyone's horrified, disbelieving eyes!
The enormous magic circle, filled with an aura of destruction and ill omen, instantly dimmed!
The rampaging magic power, enough to destroy everything, also came to an abrupt halt!
At that moment, it was as though the entire world had been paused.
Erza and the others stood as though petrified, staring open-mouthed at the miraculous scene before them, beyond imagination and even entirely outside their understanding of the very concept of "magic."
"What just happened?"
Lucy's voice trembled violently with utter shock.
"That black slash?"
For the first time, no flames of fighting spirit burned in Natsu's eyes; instead, they were filled with bewilderment.
Gray even instinctively formed a layer of ice armor over himself, as though only that could give him the slightest shred of security.
Erza, meanwhile, stared blankly at the black-haired man's back as he slowly sheathed his blade.
Ye Chuan paid no attention to the Fairy Tail members behind him, whose expressions looked as though they had seen a ghost.
He simply walked slowly up to Jellal Fernandes, who had remained collapsed on the ground throughout and had likewise been so shaken by the scene before him that he had completely lost all ability to