Chapter 254

[Like a tornado full of flying knives, rushing toward the center where smoke filled.]

[Boom!!!]

[The next moment, a more terrifying explosion sounded.]

[Magic energy was constantly surging in mid-air.]

[Looking at his masterpiece, Gajeel couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.]

[Spit out a breath gently.]

[Spoke in disdain: "Is this the level?"]

["Looks like this so-called Fairy Tail strongest is still overrated."]

[He shook his hand: "In the end, it's just the flattery of a group of weaklings that pushed you to this height."]

[The smile bloomed on his face uncontrollably: "In the end... it's still up to me, Lord Gajeel, to tell the world what is powerful!"]

[He didn't linger, but turned his figure, intending to leave.]

["Where are you planning to go? I haven't agreed that you can leave!"]

[Just then, a shocking voice came from behind Gajeel again.]

[His footsteps paused.]

[Turned around and looked into the depths of the smoke.]

[His pupils shrank!]

[That figure was still standing in the center of the dust.]

[Following the crisp footsteps, that figure walked out slowly.]

[Still hands in pockets, still the same expression as before.]

[Even... didn't the jacket get stained with a speck of dust?]

["What's going on??"] [Gajeel couldn't help but frown.]

[Waved his hand, dispelling the wisps of smoke that drifted in front of him.]

["Simply put, this was a test."]

[Black Natsu stretched out his index finger and pointed at Gajeel.]

[Then shook his head: "After so many years, you guy still haven't made any progress."]

["Huh?"]

["This guy!!!"]

[Too late to think about what Black Natsu's words meant.]

[The sudden wind! Blew Gajeel's hedgehog long hair!]

[The next moment, even his brain hadn't reacted to what happened!]

[Boom!!!]

["Ugh~~~"]

[Gajeel couldn't help but scream, his abdomen seemed to have suffered a heavy blow!]

[That was unimaginable pain!]

[That was the most intense pain he had ever encountered so far.]

[That was... a punch that couldn't be understood!]

[Bloodshot eyes filled his eyes in an instant.]

[The whole figure was forced to take off in place.]

[His mouth bulged uncontrollably, his churning stomach poured out countless stomach acid, gathered in his mouth through his throat, and then sprayed out with the scream!]

[Blood! Drew a beautiful arc in mid-air!]

[Then sprayed straight toward Black Natsu.]

[But, unexpectedly, the sprayed blood, the moment it approached Black Natsu!]

[It was as if it touched the surface of the sun, directly vaporized.]

[Became wisps of steam floating up.]

["So fast..."]

[Gajeel, with his mouth wide open, had such words flash in his mind.]

["And... what's going on with this force? Pure strike??"]

["Even... didn't add magic power?"]

[Countless thoughts flashed through his mind like meteors.]

[Gajeel, who was punched into mid-air, began to retreat uncontrollably toward the back.]

[But, his figure hadn't even flown out two meters, Black Natsu bullied himself forward again!]

[Left hand, grabbed Gajeel's wrist that was swaying weakly in mid-air.]

[Right hand into a claw.]

[Black Natsu whispered: "Not over yet!"]

[The next moment, the right claw lunged out.]

[Boom boom boom!!!]

[Three heavy blows in a row slammed onto Gajeel's body like raindrops.]

[His chest exploded directly, and blood bloomed like a flower.]

[The indescribable pain constantly invaded Gajeel's consciousness.]

[Even the defense of the Iron Dragon couldn't withstand this terrifying heavy blow.]

[Don't know if it was because he controlled it well, under those three heavy blows, Gajeel was almost about to lose consciousness.]

[But, it was as if it was just a little bit short.]

[On the verge of dizziness, but couldn't faint, instead had to endure the unimaginable pain brought by the heavy blow.]

[Until this moment, Black Natsu finally let go of Gajeel's wrist.]

[Let him fly out.]

[Watching the figure carrying blood, constantly retreating toward the back.]

[Black Natsu slowly stretched out his right hand, index finger pointing to the sky.]

["Should I say you are lucky? Or unfortunate?"]

["The move I just thought of not long ago, the first one has to be used on you."]

[Hum!!! 733]

[Magic power driven.]

[A massive amount of flame appeared out of thin air.]

[Then, the flame seemed to be drawn, and began to gather toward Black Natsu's fingertips.]

[Gathered into a crimson fireball on the fingertip, and constantly rotated.]

[But, contrary to the norm, was the size of the fireball.]

[Obviously, there were flames gathering, but the fireball didn't expand, instead, it constantly shrank as it rotated!]

[Outside the screen.]

[In Fairy Tail.]

[Natsu was completely stunned when he saw this scene.]

[Blinking his eyes, he couldn't help but look at Igneel: "Eh? Igneel, is there this move in Dragon Slayer Magic?"]

["How come I don't know? You hid it?"]

[Igneel, who was asked, couldn't stop his mouth from twitching.]

[Igneel: "Are you an idiot? Didn't you hear Black Natsu in the screen say, it's a move he just thought of?"]

["I can clearly tell you!"]

["There is no such move in Dragon Slayer Magic."]

[Igneel's eyes stared fixedly at Black Natsu in the screen.]

[Frowned slightly: "However, I seem to be able to guess a little."]

[Metalicana couldn't help but look at Igneel: "Did you see it?"]

["Magic power control!"] [Igneel spoke in a low voice.]

["If I'm not mistaken, this Black Natsu... should be compressing his own magic power."]

["Different from every time in the past when he released a massive amount of magic power to cause destruction."]

["He seems to be trying something very new, gathering the magic power that should have been released at one point, compressing it to the extreme, and then getting attack power that increases geometrically."]

["Compression..."] [Makarov pondered for a moment.]

["Can one person do this?"]

[You know, although Igneel's words are simple.]

[But magic power is inherently an unstable energy body, wanting to compress it requires extremely high magic power control proficiency.]

[If two people cooperate, it can be justified.]

[After all, two people with a high degree of tacit understanding can help each other in magic power output compression.]

[But, for one person to compress magic power to a very extreme point is a bit too fantastic.]

[At least, Makarov thinks that his magic power control proficiency of playing for decades to nearly a hundred years can't do this.]

[Facing Makarov's doubt, even Igneel couldn't help but shake his head.]

["Not clear, didn't Black Natsu say, this is also his first time?"]

["If it really succeeds, it means that Black Natsu's magic power control has reached a level that no one can understand."]

[Its gaze stared fixedly at the screen.]

[Waiting for the next result.]

[In the screen.]

[Gajeel, who was blown into mid-air, was horrified to find that the night around him seemed to have been driven away by the crimson light.]

[And the source of the light...]

[It was exactly the red dot less than one centimeter on Black Natsu's fingertip.]

[Very strange, obviously just such a tiny red dot, but gave Gajeel unprecedented crisis.]

[The hair all over his body stood up at this moment.]

[Almost instinctively, the steel-colored dragon scales were activated, automatically covering the surface of Gajeel's body.]

[This is something that has never happened before.]

[Even without the instruction of his own brain, the magic was activated autonomously.]

[But, this also proves that in his subconscious, Gajeel himself thought that he had reached the moment of life and death!]

[Hum...]

[The crimson light constantly bloomed.]

[Finally, it reached its peak at this moment.]

[The world seemed to be completely shrouded by crimson light at this moment.]

[Boom————!!]

[Boom————!!!]

[Boom————!!!]

[The next moment, the terrifying explosion that echoed in the sky sounded.]

[In these few seconds, starting from the position where Black Natsu stood.]

[Violent explosions occurred within a range of thousands of meters ahead.]

[A more intuitive embodiment is that starting from the position where Black Natsu stood, the explosion continued to the edge of the town.]

[All the houses along the way were destroyed.]

[The range of the impact even included one-fifth of the town.]

[You know, the magic power Black Natsu input this time was not even as much as one breath in the past.]

[However, the result obtained was more than several times the power of the breath.]

[For a time, in front of Black Natsu, a terrifying gully appeared, one hundred meters wide, long, straight to the border of the town.]

[The earth had been burned black.]

[The fragments of the houses were also melted by high temperature, and the air appeared distorted due to the high temperature that had not yet dissipated nearby.]

[On the edge of the gully, Gajeel, who was shirtless and covered in scars, was lying at the junction of the gully and the scorched ground.]

[The dragon scales originally covered on his body had all disappeared, charred black covered half of his body, and the blood in his mouth flowed out uncontrollably.]

[His chest was heaving violently.]

[His vision also appeared blurred like double images.]

[Gajeel survived.]

[But, only he himself knew how he survived.]

[At the moment the terrifying crimson light bloomed.]

[He clearly saw the terrifying explosion that burst not far from him.]

[He was on the edge of the explosion.]

[He didn't know if this was Black Natsu missing, or if he was lucky enough to be on the edge of the explosion.]

[But, even so, at the moment of the explosion, the terrifying impact produced shattered Gajeel's dragon scales directly!]

[Yes, like glass, the originally hard dragon scales shattered directly.]

[His internal organs were injured at that moment.]

[In the wind of the explosion, his figure was like a kite with a broken string.]

[The flames mixed in the wind also gave him unbearable pain.]

[The whole process lasted for several seconds.]

[This is usually just a blink of an eye, but at this moment, it was as long as a snail.]

[That was almost the most intense pain Gajeel had encountered in so many years.]

[And even more desperate...]

[Is such a situation, even established on the fact that he was not hit head-on by the explosion, just being affected by the edge, it was so serious.]

[If hit head-on, the result can be imagined.]

[Will die!]

[Really will die!!]

[No joke, this is the first time Gajeel has come into contact with death so closely.]

[In his mind, like a revolving lantern, the words he said to Jose's thought body not long ago appeared.]

[Black Natsu... will be finished off by him!]

[This sentence was like a naked slap, slapped hard on his cheek.]

[The kind that slapped his face swollen.]

["Mon... monster..."]

["Gap... why is it so big?"]

[Gajeel, lying on the ground, had lost his focus, and muttered uncontrollably in his mouth.]

[Whoosh!!!]

[A sound of breaking the air came from in front of him.]

[Black Natsu's figure appeared in front of Gajeel.]

[Eyes glanced sideways at the ground, Gajeel who could no longer stand up.]

[Black Natsu's tone was still flat.]

["Go and bring a word to Jose, the matter is not over yet."]

["Let that guy bring his head to see me."]

["Otherwise... just wait to collect the bodies for all the members of Phantom Lord."]

[Speaking of this, Black Natsu paused.]

[His face was fierce!]

["I said... is all, as long as they exist in the Fiore Kingdom, exist on Ishgar... all Phantom Lord mages!"]

[As the words fell, Black Natsu turned around and greeted.]

["Let's go, Happy."]

["Which city is the next one with a Phantom Lord branch again?"]