The dust slowly dispersed.
Inside the shattered Nirvana core control room, everything was in ruins.
The heavily scarred Ezreal was firmly protected behind the gold sand lion's head, Max stood like a rock atop the lion's head, his emerald eyes burning with cold killing intent.
Ikaruga half-crouched, her hand on the sword hilt, maintaining the starting stance for a drawing slash.
Erza's greatsword pointed directly at Zero, with twelve magic swords slowly rotating behind her.
Natsu hovered beside Ezreal, fanning his white wings.
Gray breathed deeply, exhaling white frost, as the ice-blue cold air in his hands slowly shaped into an ice sword.
Cana supported Ezreal to stand steady with one hand, while clutching a handful of golden fairy cards in the other.
Gajeel chewed on a steel bar he'd found somewhere, emitting large amounts of steam as an iron-Gray metallic sheen spread across his body.
Lucy and Yukino rode their Canis Lyra Celestial Spirit, standing slightly nervously on the side of the battlefield.
All the Fairy Tail members participating in this battle, though each bore the fatigue and scars of a great war, their clothes tattered, and their magic power fluctuating, their eyes were like tempered steel, sharp, firm, and burning with an unquenchable fighting spirit!
From all directions, like a net cast from heaven to earth, they tightly surrounded Zero, who had just unleashed a terrifying ultimate move and whose aura was slightly chaotic, in the center!
A tragic, resolute, and immense aura, as if to crush all obstacles, rose like an invisible storm from these scarred yet still standing individuals, fiercely impacting Zero's twisted and tyrannical mind!
Zero stood in place, his crimson eyes slowly scanning each figure that heavily surrounded him.
Every single one carried power capable of threatening him!
In every single pair of eyes, the will to utterly destroy him burned!
They stood together, scarred, yet like an insurmountable human wall!
An extremely tragic yet indestructible will, like an invisible heavy hammer, fiercely struck Zero's heart, which had just gained freedom and was filled with destructive desires!
The ferocity and madness on Zero's face, for the first time... froze.
Deep within those crimson pupils, a faint, almost imperceptible shadow... named 'dread', quietly emerged.
This desolate space, which had just experienced the ultimate collision, was left only with heavy breathing and the silent yet even more intense clash of wills!
The air seemed to solidify into heavy lead, suffocatingly oppressive.
Zero's crimson eyes swept over the Fairy Tail members who had him heavily surrounded, the ferocity and madness on his twisted face had not receded; instead, like hot oil poured on a fire, it burned even more intensely!
Zero had been somewhat nervous at first sight, after all, there were many people, but after careful observation, he found that almost everyone present was injured, their magic power was not at its peak, and they could even be considered at the end of their tether.
As a result, Zero, who had originally intended to retreat, instead calmed down.
"Ho ho ho... Hahaha..." A low, hoarse laugh squeezed from his throat, carrying an unnerving excitement, "Everyone's here... Good! Saves me the trouble of finding you one by one! Let your despair and wails celebrate my rebirth!"
Before his words finished, Zero's figure suddenly vanished from his spot!
Not a teleport, but a burst of speed to the extreme!
Only a circle of exploding black air current was left behind!
"Watch out!" Erza shouted, her Heavens Wheel Armor instantly switching to the more defensive Adamantine Armor, her greatsword, as wide as a door, held horizontally in front of her!
"Up there!" Gray sensed the energy fluctuations through the free water molecules in the air!
Boom—!!!
Zero's figure appeared like a ghost above everyone's heads!
He spread his hands, palms down, and an endless torrent of dark magic power poured down like a waterfall!
"Everdark · Eternal Descent!"
A viscous, ink-like dark torrent, carrying the despairing aura of devouring all light, instantly enveloped the entire battlefield!
Within the torrent, countless distorted vengeful spirit faces struggled and roared, emitting soul-piercing shrieks!
"Heavens Wheel: Blumenblatt!" Erza advanced instead of retreating!
The Adamantine Armor instantly disintegrated, and the Heavens Wheel Armor, surrounded by twelve magic swords, completed its attachment!
She held her sword with both hands, the blade radiating dazzling holy light, and the twelve magic swords, as if alive, rotated and combined rapidly around her, forming an impenetrable storm of blades that surged upwards, fiercely colliding with the dark torrent!
Clang clang clang—!!!!
Piercing metallic clashes sounded like heavy rain on a tin roof!
Holy light and darkness fiercely clashed, sparks flying everywhere!
Erza's blade storm, like a meat grinder, frantically cut through the vengeful spirits and energy within the dark torrent, but the dark torrent was endless, and its immense impact pressure caused the rocks beneath her feet to crack inch by inch!
"Wu Yue Style · Bai Zhan (Moonless Style · Hundred Slash)!" Ikaruga's figure seemed to melt into the shadows, instantly appearing on Zero's flank!
The moment her long sword was unsheathed, the blade's light transformed into a blurred afterimage!
Hundreds of extremely condensed, lightning-fast white sword qi, like a pear blossom storm, tore through the air, precisely striking Zero's magic nodes and vital joints!
Each slash carried a soul-freezing chill!
Zero snorted, and his free left hand's five fingers bloomed like a lotus!
"Everdark · Black Lotus Barrier!" A giant black lotus instantly bloomed and closed beside him!
Ding ding ding ding—!!!
Blade qi, dense as rain, struck the Black Lotus, erupting in dazzling sparks and ice shards!
The Black Lotus trembled violently, fine cracks appearing on its petals, but it stubbornly blocked the fatal slashes!
"fairy card · Elemental Storm!" Cana's voice was filled with determination!
She fiercely threw a large handful of golden cards into the air with both hands!
The card faces shone with patterns of flames, frost, lightning, hurricane, and holy light!
The cards formed a complex magic array in the air, and violent elemental energy was instantly unleashed!
Fire tornadoes, frost storms, lightning grids, tearing hurricanes, purifying holy light... Five distinctly different yet equally violent elemental energies, like wild horses, intertwined, collided, and merged, forming a world-destroying elemental torrent that fiercely crashed into Zero's Black Lotus Barrier from the side!
Rumble rumble rumble—!!!
The elemental storm and the Black Lotus Barrier violently collided!
Ice and fire intertwined, wind and thunder roared, holy light purified!
The Black Lotus groaned under the strain, cracks rapidly spreading!
Zero's left hand, maintaining the barrier, trembled slightly!
"gold sand Ultimate Art · Sandstorm Grand Burial!" Max stood atop the gold sand lion's head, his hands suddenly clasped together!
Golden light burst from his emerald eyes!
The massive gold sand lion's head beneath him disintegrated with a roar, transforming into a sky full of golden dust!
These sand particles were not scattered; instead, as if controlled by an invisible will, they instantly formed a terrifying golden sandstorm, over a hundred meters in diameter, connecting heaven and earth!
Inside the sandstorm, every grain of gold sand rotated at high speed, carrying terrifying cutting power and a heavy sense of oppression, like a golden millstone, fiercely engulfing Zero along with the dark torrent around him!
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