Chapter 52

Everyone present felt everything around them trembling.

The weapons in their hands trembled, their own bodies trembled, and even the entire heavens and earth seemed to tremble.

At this moment, everyone present felt their thoughts had completely frozen, unable to speak a word.

Even if they wanted to move even slightly, due to the stillness of their thoughts, they could only stare helplessly as the scene unfolded before them.

"Damn it, Time Arc, repair it!"

"Everyone else, use every means possible to stabilize the magic ship!"

Urteia, as the leader of the Seven Kin of the Inferno, managed to stir her thoughts at the critical moment.

In the instant the magic ship was about to collapse, she expended the last sliver of her magic power to restore the ship to its original state.

"Tree Arc!"

Simultaneously, another of the Seven Kin of the Inferno, Azuma, who possessed the same Lost Magic as Urteia, snapped back to awareness and immediately used her magic to reinforce the outer surface of the magic ship, forming layer upon layer of Tree Armor.

"Damn it, who the hell is this guy?!"

Rusilos, who possessed the Manifestation Arc, regained his senses and stared in disbelief at the terrifying, apocalyptic scene before him: "Could he really be matching the President at this level?!"

"The President must be going all out now, hey."

As he spoke, Rusilos's hands moved just as swiftly.

He rapidly manifested layer upon layer of defensive spells atop Azuma's Tree Armor.

Mavis Viviamillio, the founding president of Fairy Tail, and the object of both past and present Hades' affection.

Her magic was illusion magic; during her early adventures with Hades, she used her masterful illusion magic to terrify and confuse countless magic users from dark guilds.

The founding president of Phantom Lord was one such person who fell out with Mavis.

Back then, Hades had thought that if Mavis's magic weren't merely illusions, but could truly manifest tangible objects, perhaps the outcome would have been entirely different.

After Mavis entered a state of false death, Hades developed an advanced form of illusion magic: the Manifestation Arc.

It could manifest anything the user imagined—even life itself—making it quite monstrous.

Unfortunately, this monstrous magic fell into the hands of a useless fool.

In the original story, Rusilos's use of the Manifestation Arc always remained at a crude stage.

In short, under the combined efforts of Urteia, Azuma, and Rusilos, the magic ship, which had nearly been reduced to ash in an instant, was stabilized once more.

But this was only temporary.

In every instant, vast quantities of defensive spells and Tree Armor were torn apart.

In every instant, Azuma and Rusilos had to replenish massive amounts of magic power to repair the torn sections.

At this point, Urteia had no strength left, and Azuma and Rusilos's magic power paled in comparison to Urteia's; even together, they could not hold out much longer.

And all this desperate effort from the three was caused merely by the residual shockwaves from Hades' and Tian Dao Pei'en's attacks.

"Not bad."

"Tian Dao Pei'en's performance is somewhat beyond expectations."

Meanwhile, Lin Cheng, watching from his puppet's perspective, was also taken aback by the scene before him.

Tian Dao Pei'en's performance was stronger than Lin Cheng had imagined.

But upon reflection, Tian Dao Pei'en's current display was somewhat expected.

Or rather, no surprise—he was the two-star Tian Dao Pei'en, upgraded alongside the one Lin Cheng spent a million emotional points to elevate.

In the original story, because Xuanwozhang Sect himself was always in an extremely strained state, he used his chakra with extreme caution when controlling Tian Dao Pei'en.

The true Shinra Tensei, perhaps, was only ever unleashed once—when he destroyed the entire Leaf Village.

Only that single time was Xuanwozhang Sect's full power, and even then, it might not have been his absolute limit.

Now, the A-rank, two-star Xuanwozhang Sect was truly revealing his terrifying strength.

The true power of a Xuanwozhang Sect at his peak, with no hidden injuries and no exhaustion.

Of course, Lin Cheng did not believe that Tian Dao Pei'en alone—the strongest auxiliary puppet of Xuanwozhang Sect—could defeat Hades; if Hades were defeated so easily, that would be absurd.

Without any surprise, Tian Dao Pei'en was being suppressed.

Facing Hades' Dark Wave, Tian Dao Pei'en's second Shinra Tensei was swiftly neutralized.

Tian Dao Pei'en unleashed a third Shinra Tensei, then a fourth.

"Shinra Tensei."

"Shinra Tensei."

Tian Dao Pei'en's utterly indifferent voice echoed.

Two more Shinra Tensei, brimming with immense repulsive force.

By this point, Tian Dao Pei'en had used three and a half Shinra Tensei to finally neutralize Hades' attack.

After the attack was neutralized, neither Tian Dao Pei'en nor Hades moved again; they simply stared silently at each other.