Ssszzzt-!!
Before Hades's utterly horrified eyes!
His demon heart, formed from the purest dark magic power, was forcibly stripped out of the airship beneath the purifying pillar of light, like ice and snow scorched by the blazing sun!
Then, before Hades's despairing eyes, Ye Chuan instantly appeared before the extracted "demon heart."
Beneath the gaze of his eerie blue Mystic Eyes, which could look directly upon death, the Black Blade Shusui in his hand slashed down at the most central [Death Line] on that heart!
"Pfft-!!!"
Hades violently coughed up a mouthful of blood!
He could clearly feel every connection between himself and the "demon heart" being completely severed at that moment!
The immense magic power within him receded like the tide!
His body, kept in peak condition by dark magic, rapidly aged at that moment, reverting to that of a decrepit old man with one foot in the grave.
The former Second Master of Fairy Tail seemed to have been drained of all vitality, no longer posing the slightest threat.
Ye Chuan calmly sheathed his blade, preparing to return to Robin's side.
Yet the instant he turned, a young figure in black robes, with equally black short hair, appeared out of thin air atop the airship's wreckage without warning.
His appearance caused no fluctuations in magic power, nor any ripples in space.
But with his arrival, the surrounding air seemed to freeze.
Everything, from the drifting dust to the flowing wind, fell still at that moment.
An absolute silence born of death itself began spreading soundlessly outward.
Life withered in silence.
It was none other than Zeref, the man who existed only in legends, hailed as the strongest dark wizard in history!
"Lord Zeref..."
When Hades, already at the end of his life, saw that familiar figure he revered