Chapter 28

However, Makarov possessed one absolute advantage—having a magic that completely transcended the conventional, the Fairy Law.

Otherwise, Makarov really might not have been able to win.

A terrifying aura of death enveloped the entire field.

Except for a very few whose strength was formidable, everyone else collapsed to the ground before Joseph's surging magic power.

Even Erza, Natsu, and other relatively powerful Mages showed faint signs of wavering combat strength when facing Joseph at full power.

At this stage, the gap between Erza's group and the Ten Wizard Saints remained enormous.

"Hey hey, why suddenly get so angry?"

Looking at Joseph's somewhat twisted expression, Ace's face showed no obvious change; he smiled faintly and said, "I had originally thought that you, Mr. Joseph, were at least a fellow with some breeding."

"But looking at it now, sure enough, I was right."

"One look at Mr. Joseph and you can tell he'd get along splendidly with those fellows from the Monu Sect."

"Since Mr. Joseph is treating me so seriously—"

"Then I must naturally respond with the same attitude."

As Ace's words fell, an equally powerful and majestic aura rose from his body, and following it came rolling waves of heat more than ten times greater than before.

"Dai En Kai · Entei!"

In the sky, a black death-light symbolizing death descended from above.

Alongside it, a pillar of flame stood atop the cliff, its searing aura shooting straight into the heavens.

"BOOM!!!!"

The violent collision made the entire ground tremble fiercely.

In that instant, everyone present felt their vision completely filled with red and black light.

But the next second, something that shocked everyone present happened—before the red light, the black light held on for only a single instant before shattering.

The aura that had enveloped the entire field moments ago—Joseph's powerful, majestic, unmatched presence—shattered along with the breaking of the black light.

"How could this be?!"

"My Death Storm—how could you possibly break through my Death Storm?!"

Joseph stared at his Death Storm shattering in an instant and roared in disbelief.

Joseph could hardly believe that his proudest, strongest magic had been defeated so easily.

One must remember, this was the magic Joseph had researched day and night for nearly ten years, created solely to defeat Makarov!

But there was nothing to be done about it.

The flames Ace used were the power of the Mera Mera no Mi, not the conventional magic power of the Tail World.

Death Storm's ability to devour magic power was completely useless against Dai En Kai · Entei, and in terms of sheer strength, Joseph was at best comparable to a one-star Ace.

Now Ace had been elevated by Lin Cheng to two-star level, with all his attributes having grown enormously.

And so, the scene before everyone came to be.

In outsiders' eyes, Joseph Porla—one of the Ten Wizard Saints standing at the pinnacle of the continent, symbolizing the strongest combat power in the entire world—was utterly routed in an instant before Ace's attack.

Joseph didn't even have time to keep roaring; before the absolute flames, he was swiftly reduced to ash.

Flesh and blood were directly evaporated by the extreme heat, not even leaving behind the pungent smell of charring.

At this moment, heaven and earth fell utterly silent.

Everyone stared in disbelief at the scene before them—at Joseph being instantly one-shotted by Ace.

In that single instant, it was as if everything had frozen; even the eternally flowing river of time seemed to stop in that moment.

Meanwhile, on Lin Cheng's side, the status panel in Lin Cheng's mind once again welcomed a flood of system notifications harvesting emotion points.

However, because each person had a daily cap on emotion points, the earlier scene of Lin Cheng controlling Ace to block the Magic Convergent Cannon had already nearly squeezed out the daily emotion-point cap of everyone present, so Lin Cheng did not harvest too many emotion points.

It only stopped once the emotion points reached roughly five hundred thousand.

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