Chaos Mountains!
Crushed rocks rained down from the city's edge.
The entire colossal rock city—now enveloped at its center by those polarizing pillars of light—had actually, with the help of its six sky-piercing, colossal rock pillars, steadily risen!
It had become a massive mobile fortress, crawling across the land!
"What... what in the world is that?!" Natsu was stunned by the apocalyptic sight, even the flames on his body temporarily receding.
"A... moving mountain?!" Lucy covered her mouth, her eyes filled with incredulous fear.
Erza's gaze was extremely solemn, her sharp eyes catching the huge runes on the surface of the giant city that glowed faintly even in the darkness: "Is this... some kind of massive magical device?"
Everyone, including the usually calm Ikaruga, the steady Cana, the volatile Gajeel, and even Marcus and Yukino, were deeply shaken by this enormous, defying-all-logic entity.
Only Ezreal's white pupils, upon witnessing the entire stone city rise from the ground and become enveloped by those polarizing light pillars, sharply contracted!
"Nirvana..." A deep, solemn voice escaped his lips, carrying a rare, almost reverent confirmation, "The 'final legacy' left by the ancient Nebbit people who perished four hundred years ago, their last capital... and the true body of Nirvana!"
"Nirvana?" Natsu pointed at the massive rock city in shock.
Gray also looked at the giant city with hesitation, somewhat in disbelief, "That whole city is its true body?"
"That's right..." Ezreal's gaze was fixed on the awakened mobile city, "The Nebbit people were an extremely powerful race four hundred years ago. To resolve the continuous wars on the continent at that time and achieve eternal peace, 'Nirvana' was their ultimate creation."
Ezreal's words exploded in everyone's ears. They had never heard this history before, and now they held their breath, listening intently.
"But their philosophy... was to attempt to forcibly convert 'light' and 'darkness' through magic!" Ezreal's voice carried the coldness of one who understood the core truth.
"They believed that evil stemmed from the darkness in one's heart, and goodness from the light. Thus, Nirvana's core principle was to perform this conversion on a massive, compulsory scale! Forcibly twisting the dark side into the light side, and vice versa!"
"Turning bad people into good people? Isn't that a good thing?" Happy tilted his head, puzzled.
"Naive!" Gajeel also sensed something was wrong.
"The key to the problem is the human heart," Ezreal said calmly.
Cana's expression was grave: "The human heart... is a complex chaos! It's a grey area, neither black nor white!"
"Exactly!" Ezreal stated emphatically, "Nirvana's designers overlooked the inherent complexity of the human heart!"
"No one is purely good or absolutely evil! When it activates, a forced, indiscriminate, polar reversal sweeps across the entire city..."
"A person who is usually kind but has strong jealousy might instantly be reversed into a pure villain!"
"A person who commits evil only to protect their family might have their protective beliefs twisted into a source of hatred! Guess what the result was?"
His voice echoed with the weight of history, "The moment Nirvana first activated, the Nebbit people's internal structure instantly plunged into complete, irreversible madness and self-destruction!"
"In just one night, a glorious civilization was wiped out! Nirvana, after spiraling out of control and being destroyed, was sealed and buried deep underground at a tremendous cost..."
"And now, it has been unleashed by those Ten Demon Generals!"
Erza's fists clenched, cracking: "These guys..."
Ezreal's white eyes shone brightly, "Those covered by its vast magical energy field, their inner foundations will be violently inverted..."
"You've got to be kidding!" Natsu roared, his anger flaring, "Turning Gray's mischievous pranks into evil?! I'm going to smash it to smithereens!"
Gray eyed him, "I think you want to get beaten up first!"
"Wait, so aren't we in danger of being affected by it at any moment?!" Lucy looked in horror at the polarizing pillars of light enveloping the giant city.
"Not for now! Its central conversion field needs time to spread, and it's still far from us. As long as we don't enter its core domain, the peripheral magical fluctuations are not enough to forcibly convert Mages with strong wills like us!" Ezreal quickly assessed, his gaze sweeping like a hawk over the six massive rock pillar-legs supporting the entire city, "But it cannot be left! It must be destroyed immediately!"
"How do we do it?!" Erza immediately pressed, everyone's spirits lifting, their gazes converging on Ezreal!
Ezreal pointed to the six colossal rock legs, like pillars of the world, each over a hundred meters tall, like the Atlas giants supporting heaven and earth in myths:
"Do you see the streams of energy flowing within those giant legs? Deep within them are buried the gigantic Magic Crystal matrices left by the Nebbit people!"
"They are like the core of a pump, continuously and frantically absorbing and extracting the Earth Vein Magic from this mountain range!"
"As long as we destroy the giant Magic Crystals storing magic in those six legs, 'Nirvana' will instantly lose its energy supply, completely paralyze, and disintegrate!"
"Six legs? Do we need to split up?!" Gray instantly understood Ezreal's intention, and a cold battle intent spread.
"Exactly! This is the fastest and most effective way!" Ezreal's eyes were sharp, and he quickly gave orders, "Listen to the teams! The goal is to destroy the Magic Crystal cores at the base of the giant legs! Each group attacks one point, destroying them simultaneously! Prepare!"
His gaze swept over everyone, quickly calling out names:
"Leg 1 (East): Gajeel."
"Leg 2 (Northeast): Marcus!"
"Leg 3 (Northwest): Lucy, Yukino!"
"Leg 4 (Southwest): Gray!"
"Leg 5 (Southeast): Natsu, Happy."
"Leg 6 (West): Cana!"
"Erza, Ikaruga, and I!" Ezreal looked at the remaining two and himself, "We will go to the center of Nirvana to deal with any potential Ten Demon Generals and their vice-leaders!!"
"Understood!" Everyone responded in unison, their fighting spirit high!
"Remember! Destroying the Magic Crystal core is the only goal! Act quickly! Jose and his people are definitely in the city, be careful!" Ezreal finally warned, a chilling, murderous light burning in his golden pupils.
"Everyone—move out!!"
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!...!
Several figures, like arrows shot from a bowstring, carrying magical lights of different attributes, in the dim mountain backdrop and the terrifying shadows cast by the giant city, rushed fearlessly towards their respective targets—the six sky-supporting colossal legs of Nirvana, that evil creation representing the destruction of humanity!!!
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