Chapter 430

Terrifying waves of energy kept radiating outward, battering the four directions.

Clouds of dust and smoke rose, spreading outward.

At this moment, the footsteps charging toward Natsu, Erza, and the others had already gradually slowed, until… they stopped completely.

"Natsu…"

The shockwave was still flowing, but at this moment Lucy's heart had already sunk to the lowest depths.

Eyes with not a trace of life, a face blank with confusion, staring at the world before her, at a loss.

"Why… why… why…"

"Why did you kill him."

Step—

"Because he got in my way."

Walking ahead of Lucy, Aizen said lightly.

"For my goal I will stop at nothing, let alone a mere nobody."

…………

"Aizen!"

At this moment, she clenched both fists and stood up once more.

If the earlier deception, concealment, robbery, and threats against Lucy had left Erza and the others shocked by Aizen—

Then at the moment Aizen killed Natsu, the shock in their eyes toward Aizen was gone; what remained was nothing but hatred—nothing but endless hatred!

"You deserve to die!"

Whether it was Erza, or Gray, or the other Fairy Tail members, at this moment they had already been completely swallowed by hatred.

Roar—!

However, just as everyone was about to act, a sudden dragon cry came from ahead.

That's right!

A dragon cry!

A dragon cry that shook the entire otherworld suddenly rang out from within the smoke, accompanied by a terrifying crimson flame that seemed as if it would set the whole world ablaze.

As the crimson flame erupted, the smoke dispersed, and a colossal dragon resembling a mountain peak, flames radiating from every part of its body, was revealed before the eyes of the world.

Roar—!

It spread its blazing wings, and violent waves of searing heat battered the entire world.

At this moment, everyone who had been fighting stopped, shifting their gazes over here.

"This is… a dragon!"

"How could it be… a dragon—it's actually a dragon!"

"Didn't the dragon race disappear four hundred years ago!"

"What on earth is going on!"

…………

Countless people were utterly dumbfounded at this moment.

No one had expected that after all this, a colossal dragon would still appear.

"Finally, you've come out?"

Gazing at the fire dragon in the sky, Aizen said lightly, not a ripple in his eyes.

"The Fire Long Wang hidden within the demon's body."

All along, constrained by insufficient strength, or by the circumstances of timing and place, Lin Cheng had never disturbed this king of the fire dragon race.

And now, the moment had arrived.

The world had already entered a new era; both the Black Wizard ancestor Zeref and the Black Long Wang Acnologia had already appeared.

As powerful beings of the same era, the five dragons who had crossed through the Eclipse Gate should, in fact, be revealing themselves about now.

Ishgar Continent · Alvarez Empire

Kirtyna · the Five God Dragons, and the Diabolo · Dragon Slayer Mage Guild.

The appearance of the dragon was undoubtedly a tremendous shock to the above forces; only with the dragon's appearance could the other two continents be mobilized.

Especially the few living colossal dragons on Kirtyna, as well as the Dragon Slayers who existed for the sake of slaying dragons.

It could be said that once this was over, what followed would be the storyline entering the other two continents.

Precisely because of this, Lin Cheng had decided to force the Fire Long Wang out of Natsu's body.

At the same time, Lin Cheng was also very clear that ordinary threats to life would not force the Fire Long Wang out.

So long as Natsu still had a single breath left, the Fire Long Wang could fully help him recover and heal within his body, so Lin Cheng had not hesitated in the slightest with that strike just now.

And the result was exactly as Lin Cheng had expected: at the moment of facing death, the Fire Long Wang could no longer remain hidden.