Killing Jiemma, Master of Sabertooth

The flaming spear, its sharpness fully revealed, shot mercilessly towards Hughes's body, much to the delight of Jiemma's expression.

"Clang!"

Shockingly, when the flaming spear pierced Hughes, it produced a metallic clang, and the spearhead shattered, scattering sparks everywhere.

The joy on Jiemma's face instantly turned to astonishment!

Hughes reached out and grabbed the two flaming spears, applying slight force with his wrist.

"Bang!"

The spear Crush into flames, which then dissipated.

Hughes glanced at the spatial shield that had trapped him and shook his head.

I overestimated him; I overestimated Jiemma's abilities.

Confinement Space —this technique confines the target within a space created by oneself. Jiemma just used this method to seal his Elementalization.

But if Hughes remembers correctly, the Confinement Space that Minerva would use later would have more than just this function.

It can also absorb the magic power of enemies trapped in Confinement Space, and further restrict any actions of the enemies.

As for the Confinement Space that Jiemma had created, Hughes could sense that its only function was sealing.

It seems that Jiemma's talent in the magic of "Absolute Territory" is far inferior to that of Minerva.

Under Jiemma's shocked gaze, Hughes, having finished his internal monologue, twisted his waist, lightly stomped his feet on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared at the edge of the circular Confinement Space.

The fist struck out suddenly, like a dragon emerging from the sea, with a fierce momentum. As the fist roared, cracks appeared Confinement Space.

"Snap!"

"Snap!"

The vibrant, Confinement Space shattered instantly, turning into scattered stardust.

The scene was beautiful, but Jiemma was tense all over, his eyes, filled with the whites of his eyes, widening slightly.

"Can't find me?" Hughes asked, suddenly appearing behind Jiemma.

Jiemma's hair stood on end in horror. Before he could do anything to retaliate, an indescribable force came from behind him.

"Bang!"

A shooting star streaked across the night sky, passing over the heads of the belated Sabertooth guild members.

"All of you, stay here quietly. Anyone who dares to run, I'll kill him!" Hughes said calmly, glancing at them as he slowly lowered his right leg.

Moments later, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Hughes vanished without a trace, like a ghost.

The members of the Sabertooth guild were so frightened that they swallowed hard, looked at each other in disbelief, and finally stood frozen in place, too afraid to move.

Meanwhile, Jiemma, who had been kicked into the woods behind the town by Hughes, raised his head and was about to catch his breath.

Hughes, who had rushed over, stomped on his head again, pushing him back into the deep pit in the ground.

"It seems you're not as strong as I thought!" Hughes sighed.

He thought that Jiemma could block his kick, or at the very least, dissipate the force before landing.

Unexpectedly, Jiemma was unable to do anything and instead smashed a deep crater in the forest floor, landing in this manner.

At this point, Hughes was certain that Jiemma was definitely a show-off.

That makes sense, though. If Jiemma were really as strong as Minerva and Pluton boasted, given his personality and philosophy, the Sabertooth guild wouldn't be so obscure in the early stages.

It seems that Sabertooth Guild's ability to become the number one guild in the Kingdom of Fiore when Fairy Tail's main force is absent is due to the Five Tigers, and has little to do with Guild Master Jiemma!

After venting his frustrations, Hughes lifted his foot and stomped down heavily.

"Bang!"

The pit where the two were located sank another half meter, and Jiemma coughed up several mouthfuls of blood.

"You, with your strength, where did you get the audacity to provoke me?"

"Besides you, who else is secretly badmouthing Jose by talking about me?"

Faced with Hughes's questioning, Jiemma pretended to be silent. Where Hughes couldn't see, Jiemma's right palm was already quietly aimed at Hughes, his five fingers curled up.

Suddenly, the space behind Hughes seemed to be stripped away, leaving him independent of the world!

As Hughes trampled him underfoot, Jiemma clenched his fists, causing the special space to inexplicably distort and compress into a terrifying shockwave that shot straight to the back of Hughes's head.

"Boom!"

Hughes didn't even glance at it, casually reaching his left hand behind his head to catch the shockwave that was powerful enough to shatter the entire village.

He didn't even use the Tekkai!

Having completed the task assigned to Frosch and received the reward of a significant boost to his physical abilities, Hughes is now unsure just how strong his physique is.

Hughes believed that if he could not defeat the old man, a draw should be no problem, and let him have another physical confrontation with Makarov, who used Giant Magic.

Catching Jiemma's spatial shockwave with his bare hands was effortless; Hughes's body didn't even sway until the light of the shockwave dissipated.

"You..."

Jiemma was speechless with shock. He knew that Hughes was very powerful, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to make Jose, one of the "Ten Wizard Saints," suffer twice.

But he never expected that Hughes's power would far exceed his imagination.

That wasn't an ordinary magical shockwave; it was a shockwave formed by the compression of space itself. And he blocked it so easily?

Hughes shook his left hand, seemingly somewhat disgusted; no, he really was disgusted. When Minerva fought Erza later, she knew to use both hands to unleash this spatial shockwave, but Jiemma used only one hand!

Is this a sign of disrespect?

"Bang!"

"!"

Hughes stomped his foot a few times, then kicked Jiemma out of the pit.

"Don't waste my time. I'll give you a chance. Show me your best magic, and then you're on your way!" Hughes said to Jiemma, who was panting heavily on the ground.

Yes, Hughes wanted to kill Jiemma.

Jiemma is a vengeful person; if he gets the chance, he'll definitely take advantage of me.

Hughes had no doubt about this, after all, that's exactly how the demonized Jiemma treated Sting and Rogue!

A person who is evil to the core will not change unless they undergo a Nirvana transformation to completely change their personality.

It's better to kill them sooner rather than later, to avoid future trouble!

As for whether killing a legitimate guild leader would cause a stir in the magical world?

Uh... the old man himself promised to handle the trouble.

At this moment, Jiemma, who had caught his breath slightly, slowly stood up. "It was wrong of me to use you to kick Jose when he was down, but I did it for the sake of the guild's development, and I wasn't the only one doing it."

I can compensate you; money, magical items, magical manuals, even Lost Magic!

Hughes shook his head. Fairy Tail's warehouse had plenty of magical items; he could just tell the old man if he wanted to take something.

As for magic manuals, which Fairy Tail member would lack those? The guild library even lets anyone freely look at Super Magic.

Besides, he doesn't have a source of magic, so why would he need a magic manual?

"Alright, show me your Eighteen Battle Gods of Calamity Demons, let me feel it!" Hughes said impatiently.

As he spoke, Hughes pulled out Recording Magic Crystal with his left hand and a chilling crimson flame emerged from his right.

Hughes aimed the Recording Magic Crystal at Jiemma, while throwing a ball of crimson flame into the sky with his right hand.

If it weren't for wanting to witness this magic related to God, Hughes wouldn't have bothered with all this nonsense with Jiemma; he would have just blasted him to death.