Chapter 49

Powerful magic gathered within Ultear's body.

Ultear was born with extraordinarily powerful magic; even in the Tail World she would be counted among those exceedingly rare geniuses, and there were very few people who could compare to her.

As the magic gathered, the crystal orb that had been floating at Ultear's side began to flash with a dazzling blue-purple light, and then a blue-purple pillar of light shot toward Konan's direction.

"Boom!!!"

Under Ultear's somewhat stunned gaze, the pillar of light pierced straight through Konan and slammed into the hull of the ship behind her, erupting in a deafening roar.

Ultear had not held back.

Wherever the pillar of light passed, everything was torn apart and destroyed.

The entire hull of the magical airship trembled from Ultear's attack.

But in the next second, the magical airship Ultear had attacked was restored to pristine condition.

As if nothing had happened at all.

The same was true of Konan, as if nothing had happened to her either.

Under the astonished gazes of Ultear and Hades, sheet after sheet of white paper kept gathering toward the spot where Konan had just been pierced, and everything was perfectly intact.

"Very interesting magic."

"Did you avoid Ultear's attack by changing your own life-form in advance?"

Hades looked at Konan with some interest and said, "The idea is very interesting, and your mastery of magic is also very high. Miss, how about joining the Meiyouli Society?"

"I can let you go much further down the path of a mage."

Konan's paper clone had successfully drawn Hades's attention.

And as Hades spoke, Ultear's movements slowed a little as well—after all, if Konan were to join the Meiyouli Society, she would be one of their own.

There would be no question of whether or not to hide things.

At the same time, just this small emotional ripple of drawing Hades's attention had already pushed Lin Cheng's emotion-value income to ten thousand, on top of the emotion-value income from shaking the magical airship earlier.

In such a short time, Lin Cheng had already harvested nearly a hundred thousand emotion-value from the Meiyouli Society, and this was only the beginning.

"I'm very sorry, but I have no intention of joining any other faction."

Konan looked at Hades, who had extended the invitation to her, her expression still completely unchanged, and said, "This must be Miss Ultear, I presume. If it's convenient, might you tell me the location of the Tower of Heaven?"

As Konan's words fell, Ultear's expression instantly turned somewhat gloomy.

Hades's expression was equally gloomy.

The other party's Akatsuki organization knew far, far too much about their side's information.

The fact that Ultear had a connection with the Tower of Heaven was extremely secret—apart from Ultear herself, only Hades knew. And now it could be confirmed that neither Hades nor Ultear had any need to leak the information.

At this moment, the core members of the Meiyouli Society also hurried out one after another.

One of them, a young man who clearly paid great attention to his appearance, with a head of silver-gray hair, complained somewhat as he spoke: "What's going on?"

"I was just eating a moment ago, and then suddenly there was a huge jolt—my laundry is covered in oil stains now."

This was Luxus, who, like Ultear, was one of the Seven Kin of Purgatory, and who possessed the Lost Magic of the Arc of Embodiment.

He wore black-framed glasses, was very particular about his appearance, and had a slight chuunibyou tendency.

In the original work, he was a character with fairly decent strength.

"You seem to know quite a lot."

Hades ignored the core members who had come out from inside the ship, and looked at Konan, whose face had worn a casual expression from beginning to end, and laughed: "Since you won't choose to join, then I can only destroy you."

In an instant, the scene fell silent.

At this moment, everyone present who was a member of the Meiyouli Society knew that their BOSS was somewhat angry.

"Amaterasu: Twenty-Eight Form."

This was the magic Hades had used when fighting Makarov in the original work.

It was composed of a triple-layered curse magic circle, which had a binding effect on the enemy, and could ultimately produce a violent explosion.

As Hades's words fell, a triple-layered magic circle of dark-purple light appeared beneath Konan's feet, completely cutting off her escape route.

Konan was merely a B-rank puppet; facing a mid-stage BOSS like Hades was indeed asking too much of her.

"Boom!"

A roar far more than ten times more violent than the previous one rang out.

For a moment, within the line of sight of everyone present, everything was dark-purple light.

The magical airship kept emitting one unburdenable cracking sound after another.

If Ultear had not been continuously using the Arc of Time to repair the magical airship, this single strike alone would have been enough to destroy an entire magical airship.

And yet Hades, who had unleashed such a terrifying strike, wasn't even out of breath.

Soon, after the intense light faded, something happened that shocked everyone present except Hades—Konan was actually standing right where she had been, completely unharmed.

In front of Konan, a figure wearing the same black-based, red-cloud cloak had appeared.