The mont that gaze descended...
Inside the extra dinsion of the R-System, the wildly surging ocean of magic seed to have its pause button pressed.
Ron, who had been frantically devouring magic power, instantly froze in his tracks.
That feeling... was like an ant happily eating, suddenly being watched by a dragon.
There was no pressure, no killing intent.
There was only absolute crushing power originating from a higher level of existence!
Even though it was just a passing glance, Ron's soul felt frozen, and he couldn't move a single finger.
"Ugh..."
Ron gritted his teeth and used all his strength to laboriously raise his head.
His gaze seed to cross this magical space, seeing a black vortex hanging in the sky.
At its center, a supre being was looking at him as if examining an ant.
Two gazes collided silently in the void.
"Ankhseram?!"
The corners of Ron's mouth twitched violently, pulling into a bitter smile.
"Is this really necessary... big boss?"
"I'll let the Galuna Island incident slide, but you actually ca here too?!"
Although he had expected this—
After all, Zeref was cursed by this big boss precisely because he developed the R-System and the Eclipse Gate.
But when it actually happened... it was still terrifying!
"I'm just using the R-System for an equivalent exchange... at most, it's matter conversion."
"Restoring soone who turned into ice and is in a state between life and death isn't exactly resurrecting the dead!"
"Is it worth hunting down for?"
"Are you usually this bored?!"
Despite his incessant complaining, the light in Ron's heterochromatic eyes grew increasingly bright and brilliant.
He could clearly feel it.
An ominous, contradictory cursed aura was condensing within that black vortex.
It was the Curse of Contradiction belonging to the God Ankhseram—the Death Predation!!!
The more one respects life, the more they release energy that scatters death; and vice versa.
Zeref had been tortured for hundreds of years in this way.
"You've got to be kidding ..."
Thinking about not being able to go near Fairy Tail, staying away from his companions, and even going against his true feelings.
A ruthless look flashed in Ron's eyes, and veins popped on his forehead.
"I have no intention of becoming like Zeref!"
Boom—!
As his will erupted, Ron's heterochromatic pupils began to spin wildly.
In the depths of his pupils, countless ancient, mysterious, and extrely obscure runes spun and flashed like a storm.
Drip!
Two lines of crimson bloody tears slid down from the corners of his eyes, dripping into the ocean of magic below and rging with it.
Under the overload of his talent and abilities.
"Get... UP!!!"
Ron roared.
He finally moved the static ocean of magic, constructing layer after layer of extrely complex defensive barriers around himself.
The curse descended by Ankhseram wouldn't take a life; it would even grant immortality, and he could try to analyze and break it... but what if!
Once tainted by this thing, one's life would be ruined!
A curse descended by a god cannot be sealed away!!!
"I wonder... can I block it?"
"If I can't block it, then I'll just have to..."
Madness and cunning flashed in Ron's eyes.
He then suddenly looked up, his blood-stained eyes clashing with that cold gaze without showing any weakness!
Ti seed to completely freeze at this mont.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Every instant felt as long as a century.
Just as the magic power in Ron's body reached its limit and he was prepared to fight to the death to face the curse.
Buzz—
A thunderclap seed to explode in his mind.
Those eyes that could freeze one's soul were suddenly imprinted deep in his consciousness!
An ancient and obscure will swept over him gently.
It was like an inspection, or like confirming sothing.
The next mont.
Without any warning.
The black vortex hanging in the sky, emitting infinite pressure, dissipated silently like clouds blown away by the wind.
The dark clouds dispersed, and the darkness covering the sky faded away.
The bright moonlight and brilliant stars once again fell upon the sea around the Tower of Heaven.
That gaze... had left.
"Huff... huff..."
The pressure suddenly vanished, and Ron gasped for air, cold sweat having long since soaked his clothes.
"It... it's gone?"
He slumped in the void, feeling weak, his heart still pounding violently in his chest.
He wiped the bloody tears from his face and looked up not far away.
There, the original hard ice had long since lted.
A figure with short, neat hair and a gentle yet determined face was quietly floating in the light, her chest rising and falling slightly, having already regained her life force.
Seeing this, a smile of survival after a disaster appeared on Ron's face.
Then, confusion arose in his heart.
"Could it be that, just as I said, Ur wasn't truly dead, so he let go?"
"Or was it a routine check after so chanism was triggered?"
"It couldn't be that he was bored at ho, ca out for a stroll, and just happened to pass by..."
Ron scratched his head in frustration.
He couldn't figure it out.
He couldn't figure it out at all.
How could a mortal understand the thoughts of a god?
"Forget it, it's a good thing no curse was descended."
Ron smiled freely and shook those stray thoughts out of his head.
This was his philosophy of life.
Instead of obsessing over things he couldn't understand or things that didn't happen, it was better to focus on what he could do right now.
Just now, he was thinking that if he really couldn't block it,
He would use the bloodline connection between Natsu and Zeref to transfer the curse to the latter.
Zeref, who already bore one curse, probably wouldn't mind bearing another.
After all, one more debt wouldn't weigh him down!
"Now it's fine. This immature plan doesn't need to be used. Zeref escaped a calamity and doesn't have to take the fall for ."
The greatest crisis had now been resolved.
Next, it was ti to enjoy the fruits of victory.
Ron took a deep breath and quickly adjusted his state.
The remaining massive amount of magic power was compressed and purified by him, then sealed within his own body layer by layer through a bright red magic circle.
While he was doing this...
Ur's eyelashes fluttered slightly, as if she were about to wake up... Outside, at the top of the Tower of Heaven.
After the suffocating divine pressure vanished, everyone stumbled.
"Wh-what was that just now?"
Natsu supported himself with his hands on his knees, dripping with sweat, his eyes full of terror.
"So scary... a hundred tis scarier than Igneel!!"
Erza and Jellal were also pale, their hands holding their weapons trembling slightly.
That was an absolute gap in level.
It made one unable to even think of resisting, leaving only deep despair.
Just then.
Crack—!
A crisp cracking sound rang out, sounding exceptionally clear in the silence.
The three were instantly drawn to the sound and looked over in unison.
They saw at the core of the R-System, the Lacrima that Ron had walked into was now covered in dense cracks.
Then.
Bang—!!!
The Lacrima shattered without warning, turning into glittering fragnts.
Amidst the crystal dust flying everywhere, two figures slowly erged.
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