Chapter 39

An air wave no less than the collision between Ace and Wolfheim earlier swept out in all directions with the collision point as the origin.

What followed was the rolling sound wave brought by Jellal’s terrifying speed.

"Interesting."

"This world is much more interesting than I imagined."

Jellal looked at Aizen Sosuke, who blocked his attack understatedly, and laughed angrily, "One after another, one after another jumping out to block in front of me, hindering me."

"Heavenly Body Magic: Nine Stars!"

Heavenly Body Magic: Meteor, it looks very powerful, but it is just a basic must-learn magic in the Heavenly Body Magic series. The blessing of Meteor is not just speed.

It is all-round speed.

All magic of Heavenly Body Magic requires a certain amount of charging, but after using Heavenly Body Magic: Meteor, Jellal’s casting speed is also greatly blessed.

Almost all Heavenly Body Magic can be cast instantly.

As Jellal’s voice fell, nine stars with terrifying aura appeared instantly, crashing toward Aizen Sosuke’s direction with a speed comparable to Jellal himself.

Way of Binding #73, Inverse Mountain Crystal!

Facing Jellal’s attack, Aizen Sosuke tapped his finger lightly, the spiritual energy in his body surged, and with himself as the origin, a translucent inverted triangular cone-shaped defensive array appeared.

In the next second, the nine stars summoned by Jellal swarmed over.

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Boom!

Boom, boom, boom!

The sounds of collision were continuous, and the entire high tower began to tremble violently.

Not far away, after seeing this scene, Konan frowned slightly.

With a wave of her hand, a large number of paper charms inscribed with defensive arts appeared and stuck tightly to every corner of the high tower.

After having energy blocks to replenish her energy bar, Konan's abilities had been greatly enhanced due to her "infinite mana bar." Originally, for Konan to complete this project, it would have required at least eighty percent of her mana bar.

Now, with the energy blocks, even after covering the Tower of Heaven with paper charms, her mana bar remained at one hundred percent.

Following Konan's actions, the previously swaying Tower of Heaven became stable once again.

Soon, Jellal's attack ended.

Sosuke Aizen still stood in place with a calm and indifferent expression, having not moved from start to finish.

However, only Lin Cheng knew exactly how much mana Sosuke Aizen had consumed during those two passive defenses just now.

The first time he blocked Jellal's normal attack was fine; Sosuke Aizen had consumed about three percent of his spiritual power. This second time, however, was the big one.

To show off, Lin Cheng had let Sosuke Aizen stand still and take Jellal's ultimate move head-on.

It directly consumed twenty-five percent of his spiritual power.

At this very moment, the battle between Sosuke Aizen and Jellal could be called quite unfair, because for the sake of future plot considerations and some "showing off" factors, Lin Cheng did not allow Sosuke Aizen to use Kyoka Suigetsu.

He could only use Kido and Bakudo to fight Jellal.

This was equivalent to Sosuke Aizen tying his own hands; after all, the reason Sosuke Aizen could be directly rated as an S-rank puppet was largely due to Kyoka Suigetsu and his super-high intelligence.

Now that both Kyoka Suigetsu and his intelligence were temporarily restricted by Lin Cheng, and he was just charging in blindly, it was naturally equivalent to tying his own left and right hands before fighting Jellal.

And Jellal, having recovered his peak strength, could almost be considered at the level of the top four of the Ten Wizard Saints, the Four Heavenly Kings of Ishgar. Even Ace, an A-rank two-star, might not be able to secure a win even if he exploded with full power.

In other words, when considering energy consumption, even though Sosuke Aizen was an S-rank puppet, he had already fallen into a disadvantage in terms of Kido, Bakudo, and the cultivation of spiritual power and spiritual pressure, despite being peerless among his peers.

Sosuke Aizen was a genius, but so was Jellal.

However, Lin Cheng had just harvested a high-concentration energy block made from Magic Council etherion!

The spiritual power Sosuke Aizen consumed was replenished by Lin Cheng in the next instant.

However, by this time, the "showing off" was basically done. Continuing to stand in place and take ultimate moves was truly a bit much. Watching Jellal rush toward him again, Sosuke Aizen moved once more.

Way of Destruction No. 4, White Lightning.

Spiritual power surged at Sosuke Aizen's fingertips, and a beam of light composed of lightning rushed toward Jellal.

"Bang!"

Facing the lightning that also rushed to his face in an instant, Jellal let out a cold snort. His massive magic power surged within him, and under the acceleration of Meteor, he instantly released a celestial body to block the lightning.

"Celestial Magic: Grand Chariot!"

Looking at Sosuke Aizen, cold light flickered in Jellal's eyes, and he waved both hands directly.

Seven magic circles appeared in the dim sky, forming a frame like the Big Dipper.

Immediately following this, an endless rain of light carrying the aura of death fell continuously toward Sosuke Aizen's position.

"Way of Binding No. 39, Arc Shield."

A translucent shield appeared in front of Sosuke Aizen again, blocking all of the endless rain of light.

"Very good, very good indeed."

"The strength of you bastard is indeed not bad."

Jellal looked at Sosuke Aizen, who had remained unmoved from start to finish. The expression on his face became completely ferocious and twisted. He struck a specific pose and said, "True Celestial Magic: Altairis!"

As Jellal's voice fell, the sky, which was only slightly gloomy, plunged completely into darkness.

This was Jellal's strongest magic.

His body tilted, his left hand touched the ground, and his right hand tilted upward, releasing a giant meteorite from the sky to cause massive area damage.

"Oh?"

"Are you going to get serious now?"

Sosuke Aizen looked at Jellal, who had entered a charging state, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

Facing Jellal's strongest magic, if he wanted to take it head-on, Sosuke Aizen would still need to get serious.

Originally, according to Sosuke Aizen's normal fighting style, Jellal wouldn't even be able to touch him in today's battle, but because Sosuke Aizen's Kyoka Suigetsu could not be revealed for the time being...

...and for the sake of a little visual effect, so Lin Cheng could report on it.

Well, Lin Cheng had already arranged for a few puppets working at the newspaper office to come to the front line to take photos.

For the sake of visual effect and to make it easier to harvest more emotional value later, Lin Cheng was prepared to let Sosuke Aizen and Jellal go head-to-head and allow Jellal to unleash his ultimate move.

Otherwise, in front of Sosuke Aizen, Jellal wouldn't even be able to release any moves that required charging.