Late at night, in Hargeon.
Moonlight spread across the boundless sea like a silver veil, only to be utterly torn apart by an oppressive aura.
On one side, hovering above the sea, was a creature with a visually estimated length of over fifty ters.
Its entire body was covered in a tallic shell, and a sharp, crescent-shaped blade grew from its forehead.
It naturally exuded the regal aura of a king who reigned over the deep sea and looked down upon all living things.
This formless pressure, a mixture of tallic coldness and the vastness of the ocean, was enough to strike terror into the very souls of beings on a lower tier of existence, causing them to flee at the re sight of it, unable to muster the slightest will to resist.
It swayed its body with a subtle elegance, at tis half-subrged in the sea, at others briefly taking to the air, displaying an agility that belied its massive size.
On the other side, standing proudly on the shore before talSeadramon, was the Dragon Slayer—Natsu.
Flas and a boiling battle lust burned almost tangibly in his eyes.
Faced with the pressure of a ga-level being, he felt no fear.
Instead, he grew even more excited, his magical power surging like a volcano on the verge of eruption.
"Haha! Bring it on! You big iron dragon! Let see just how tough that tal hide of yours is!"
Natsu slamd his fists together, sending scorching sparks flying.
A crimson Magic Circle instantly materialized between his fists and expanded.
"Fire Dragon's—Iron Fist!"
He roared, his right fist wreathed in explosive flas as he brazenly punched forward.
The mont he threw the punch, the phantom image of a majestic, roaring fire dragon appeared in the void behind him.
Perfectly synchronized with his movents, it opened its massive maw and spewed forth an even more violent torrent of fire, tearing through the night sky as it hurtled toward talSeadramon in the air.
Faced with this heavy blow talSeadramon's eyes flickered slightly.
It adjusted the angle of the cannon on its snout, and a devastating energy gathered and compressed at an unprecedented speed, emitting a terrifying fluctuation that seed to warp space itself.
"Ultimate Stream!"
With the explosive boom of an energy blast, a beam of azure energy over two ters in diater, condensed to the extre and seemingly swirling with liquid energy within, shot out from the cannon's muzzle at a terrifying speed exceeding that of sound.
Everywhere the beam passed, the air was instantly evacuated and ionized, leaving a vacuum trail that lingered for a long ti.
Even the moonlight was eclipsed by its brilliance.
Almost at the very instant Natsu's fiery teor left his hand, the "Ultimate Stream" had already closed the distance, striking the core of the fiery teor with pinpoint accuracy.
BOOM!!!
Azure and crimson collided violently in mid-air.
The deafening roar seed to tear the sky asunder.
A terrifying storm of energy exploded in a sphere, forcibly pressing the sea's surface down to form a huge crater, which was then imdiately filled by the monstrous waves it stirred up.
Searing steam and turbulent energy raged wildly.
Under the overwhelming energy density and impact of the "Ultimate Stream," the fiery teor lasted for less than a second before it violently disintegrated, turning into a shower of sparks.
The azure beam, though diminished by nearly half, was still lethal.
Its montum only slightly reduced, it continued to blast toward Natsu's original position.
"Tch!" Natsu reacted with extre speed.
The mont the energies collided, he used the force of the impact to leap sideways in mid-air, narrowly avoiding a direct hit from the beam.
Even so, the terrifying energy turbulence and high temperature from the beam grazing past him still left his skin with a searing pain, the edges of his clothes charred and curled.
"S-So strong..."
In the distance, Lucy, protected by a gentle shield of digital energy cast by Ace and standing on the wreckage of a larger ship, watched the battle in utter astonishnt.
It far exceeded her imagination.
A casual attack from that tal dragon was as powerful as a full-force blast of high-level magic!
And Natsu actually dared to fight such a monster head on?
Suddenly, she recalled the na Bora's n had shouted in panic on the ship earlier.
Connecting that with how Natsu and Happy addressed Ace, an unbelievable thought flashed through her mind.
'Ace... could he really be the legendary "Digital Summoner," the S-Class Mage of Fairy Tail, that Ace?!'
Lucy's heart pounded in her chest as she secretly glanced at the black-haired youth standing beside her with his hands behind his back, calmly observing the battle.
His handso face flickered in the light of the distant explosions, as if everything was under his control.
'We're both summoning mages... It's just that he summons these incredible beasts...'
Lucy clutched the Canis Minor key in her hand, her heart filled with both shock and a strong sense of yearning, along with a subtle feeling of kinship.
'He seed to have invited to join Fairy Tail.'
'Maybe... I can ask him a lot of questions...'
Just as Lucy's mind was wandering, the battle on the sea changed again.
Perhaps feeling that a long-range duel wasn't "fulfilling" enough, or wanting to end the fight quickly, talSeadramon swung its massive body after forcing Natsu back.
Its long tail, covered in thick tal scales, rose high into the air, the tip glowing with a dazzling blue light, and then slamd down hard onto the sea's surface.
"River of Power!"
The giant tail, imbued with terrifying force, struck the sea, producing a sound so deep it was almost silent.
A terrifying centripetal pressure was generated with the point of impact as its center.
At the sa ti, countless highly compressed, blue-glowing, high-pressure water tornadoes, as if they had a life of their own, converged on Natsu from all directions, seeking to crush and shred him.
"Bring it on! Fire Dragon's—Roar!"
Faced with this inescapable ocean prison, a fierce light flashed in Natsu's eyes, and he stopped dodging.
He took a deep breath, his chest swelling high as the surrounding air temperature skyrocketed.
Then, facing the encroaching water tornadoes, he unleashed all the air and magic in his lungs as a torrent of fla that could incinerate all things.
"ROAR!"
A thicker, more condensed torrent of crimson fla, like the true breath of a fire dragon, slamd violently into the converging blue water tornadoes.
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