Chapter 481: A Transaction from the Gods?

【Hum...】

【The moment the Dancer finished speaking, her massive magic power surged forth like a sudden, heaven-shaking tidal wave.】

【The pure magic power gathered together, even forming a visible vortex of magic.】

【With Black Natsu as the center, the immense magic power completely engulfed a radius of several thousand meters in a magical storm.】

【Extreme magic power! Like an exploding gale! Like an enraged ocean.】

【At the center of that terrifying storm, even the Dancer could not help but knit her brows.】

【The hair on her forehead fluttered continuously in the wind.】

【"So! May I take this as a declaration of battle?"】

【The magical storm was so intense that it caused the surrounding space to twist visibly to the naked eye.】

【And in the center of this distortion, Black Natsu slowly raised his head.】

【His brilliant golden pupils stared straight at the Dancer.】

【Behind him, watching the magic power running wild all around, Mirajane was already stunned into silence.】

【"This... is this a joke? This level of magic power? Has he reached this point already??"】

【It was as if she were truly seeing Black Natsu for the first time.】

【The magic power, dense to the extreme all around, was something Mirajane had never witnessed before.】

【She had never imagined that the person she had been with day and night... actually harbored such a massive amount of magic power within his body!】

【This was simply... a walking sea of magic power!】

【Erza and Seilah, standing to the side, were no better off.】

【For Erza, this was the first time... she had seen Black Natsu at full power.】

【That roaring magic power alone was enough to strike fear into most people in this world!】

【Seilah felt the same; a hundred years ago, during that war between humans and dragons, she had seen Black Natsu's magic power.】

【But she could clearly feel that the gap between his magic power then and now was not just a little bit.】

【If one were to calculate it, the magic power Black Natsu possessed now was almost equal to the sum of ten Black Natsus from a hundred years ago!】

【This was an extremely exaggerated matter.】

【One must know... for Black Natsu, the time he had experienced was merely a few years.】

【Boom, boom, boom!!!】

【The magic power roared continuously, and the resulting thunderous sound even gave the Dancer, a god, the illusion of tinnitus.】

【"This guy... is he really human?"】

【It had been unknown how many years, but in the Dancer's memory, it seemed no one had ever possessed such powerful magic.】

【This was no longer just a question of whether he was powerful or not.】

【It was... as a human, or rather, even as a demon... such an amount of magic power, by all logic, should not be something a single life form could possess.】

【This was a level of magic power that completely surpassed human physiological limits.】

【In other words, even if the Dancer believed that the one standing before her now was a god-in-waiting with the stature of a deity, she could believe it.】

【It was simply... too exaggerated!】

【Hoo...】

【The Dancer slowly let out a breath.】

【Looking at Black Natsu, who was causing spatial distortion within the magic storm.】

【She suddenly curled her lips: "What a boring human. It was just a joke, no need to be so serious, right?"】

【"Facing a god, I dare not let my guard down!"】

【"Even if... this god only has a soul remaining!"】

【Black Natsu's voice rang out at this moment.】

【"A soul?" Erza and the others behind him were stunned.】

【They looked at each other.】

【"Could it be... that we are facing a ghost?" Erza said.】

【"A god's soul? Meaning an incomplete god, right?" Seilah whispered to herself.】

【"Something similar to a thought-form?" Mirajane stared fixedly at the Dancer ahead.】

【The Dancer's eyes narrowed slightly: "You actually figured it out?"】

【As if thinking of something interesting, her smile became even more excited.】

【"I am truly curious, what kind of monster are you?"】

【"Honestly, your existence even surpasses the cognition of gods. What exactly are you?"】

【"Such questions are meaningless, aren't they?" Black Natsu responded coldly.】

【"That is true." The Dancer laughed indifferently.】

【"Since you figured it out, you should know that what I said just now was truly just a joke. Even if I wanted to keep you here now, for the current me, I couldn't do it."】

【She shrugged nonchalantly.】

【That indifferent tone sounded as if she were describing something completely unrelated.】

【Her beautiful eyes looked at Black Natsu: "So, you don't have to be like this. If you keep outputting such a massive amount of magic power for a while longer, those little guys of mine here might lose control."】

【"So what? I can wipe out those corpses in an instant!"】

【Hearing Black Natsu's words, a hint of helplessness flashed in the Dancer's tone.】

【"That is, after all, the only means of attack in my Moon God Domain. If you wipe them all out for me, I'll have to collect them for a long time. No need to be so ruthless, right?"】

【"You should know, you were the ones who trespassed into my territory first."】

【In the storm, the golden pupils in the darkness flickered continuously, as if thinking, or perhaps observing something.】

【Until a long while later, as if certain that no more danger was approaching.】

【The massive magic power finally began to recede.】

【Accompanied by the crisp sound of countless stones lifted by the magic power crashing onto the ground.】

【The surroundings gradually returned to calm.】

【"What a little brother who is vigilant to the extreme."】