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"The manipulation of magic!" Igneel said in a deep voice.
"If I'm not mistaken, this Haku Natsu... is probably compressing his magical power."
"Unlike before, when we unleashed massive amounts of magic to cause destruction."
"He seems to be trying something new, concentrating the magic power that should have been released into a single point, compressing it to the extreme, and then obtaining an attack power that increases exponentially."
“Compression…” Makarov pondered for a moment.
"Can one person do this?"
It should be noted that although Igneru's words were simple.
However, magic is inherently an unstable energy source, and compressing it requires an extremely high level of skill in manipulating magic.
If it's a two-person team, then it's somewhat acceptable.
After all, two people with a high degree of tacit understanding can help each other in terms of magic output compression.
However, it's a bit too far-fetched for a single person to compress magic to such an extreme degree.
At least, Makarov believed that with his decades, nearly a century, of mastery of magic manipulation, he simply couldn't do that.
Even Igniru couldn't help but shake his head at Makarov's question.
"I don't know. Didn't Henna say that this was his first time too?"
"If it really succeeds, it means that Honez's control over magic has reached a point that no one can understand."
Its gaze was fixed intently on the sky.
Waiting for the next result.
[In the scene depicting the sky.]
Gajeel, who had been blasted into the air, was horrified to discover that the surrounding darkness seemed to have been driven away by a crimson light.
And the source of the light...
It was precisely that red dot, less than a centimeter in size, on Black Natsu's fingertip.
[It's strange, it's just such a tiny red dot, yet it gave Gajeel an unprecedented sense of crisis.]
Every hair on my body stood on end.
Almost instinctively, the steel-colored dragon scales activated and automatically covered Gajeel's body.
This has never happened before.
[The magic activated automatically, without even requiring a conscious thought.]
However, this also proves that, subconsciously, Gajeel himself believed that he had reached a life-or-death moment!
[Buzz...]
The crimson light continued to bloom.
Finally, at this moment, we reached the summit.
The world seemed to be completely obscured by the crimson light at that moment.
【boom----!!】
【boom----!!!】
【boom----!!!】
The next moment, a terrifying explosion that shook the heavens and earth erupted.
[In these brief few seconds, starting from where Henna was standing.]
Violent explosions occurred within a radius of several kilometers ahead.
[A more direct indication of this is that the explosions started from where Henna was standing and continued all the way to the edge of the town.]
All the houses along the way were completely destroyed.
The impact extended to as much as one-fifth of a town.
[Keep in mind, the magical energy Henna has been channeling so far isn't even as much as a single breath attack he used to have.]
However, the result was that the power of the breath attack was many times greater than the original.
Suddenly, a terrifying ravine, hundreds of meters wide and stretching all the way to the town's border, appeared before Hanaz.
The earth has been scorched black.
The rubble of the house melted from the intense heat, and the air itself appeared distorted due to the lingering high temperatures.
At the edge of the ravine, Gajeel, shirtless and covered in wounds, stood at the boundary between the ravine and the scorched ground.
The dragon scales that once covered his body had all disappeared, half of his body was charred black, and blood was flowing uncontrollably from his mouth.
His chest was heaving violently.
My vision blurred, as if seeing double.
Gajeel survived.
But only he himself knew how he had survived.
[At that moment when that terrifying crimson light burst forth.]
He clearly saw the terrifying explosion that erupted not far from him.
He was on the verge of exploding.
He didn't know whether Honatsu had missed, or if he was just incredibly lucky to be on the verge of exploding.
Even so, the terrifying shockwave from the explosion shattered Gajeel's dragon scales instantly!
Yes, just like glass, the originally hard dragon scales shattered completely.
[The internal organs were all injured in that instant.]
In the raging storm of the explosion, his figure resembled a kite with a broken string.
The flames carried by the wind also inflicted unbearable pain on him.
The entire process lasted several seconds.
Normally, this would only take the blink of an eye, but at this moment, it felt as long as a snail's pace.
That was almost the most intense pain Gajeel had ever experienced in all his years.
What's even more despairing...
[This situation is so severe, even though I wasn't directly hit by the explosion, but only caught on the edge.]
If hit head-on, the result is predictable.
[You'll die!]
[You really can die!!]
[No joke, this is the first time Gajeel has come so close to death.]
The words I had spoken to Joseph's psychic form not long ago flashed through my mind like a revolving lantern.
[Honatsu... he'll be the one to take him down!]
These words were like a brutal slap in the face, landing squarely on his cheek.
[The kind where your face gets slapped until it's swollen.]
"A monster..."
"Why is the gap so huge?"
Gajeel lay on the ground, his eyes glazed over, muttering incoherently.
【call out!!!】
A whooshing sound came from in front of them.
Honez appeared in front of Gajeel.
[Gajeel glanced sideways at the ground, unable to stand any longer.]
Honatsu's tone remained calm.
"Go and tell Joseph that this matter is not over yet."
"Bring that guy his head to me."
"Otherwise... you can expect to collect the corpses of all the Phantom Lords."
[At this point, Black Natsu paused.]
[His face was grim!]
"I'm talking about... all of them, as long as they exist in the Kingdom of Fiore, and above Ishgar... all the Phantom Mages!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Black Natsu turned around and greeted him.
"Let's go, Happy."
"Which city is the next to have a Phantom Lord branch?"