Erza slowly stepped into Pandemonium.
Looking over the arena—which was even larger than she had imagined—she raised her sword and shouted in a clear voice.
"Fairy Tail Team A. Challenge quota: one hundred monsters."
All across the stadium, the audience held their breath as they stared at the screen, waiting in absolute anticipation to see Erza, alone, face the tide of monsters surging toward her.
Lucy could not help feeling worried.
"With that many… can Erza really do this?"
"Of course she can. Erza's the real monster here," Natsu said, placing complete trust in the woman who had beaten him black and blue since childhood.
Wendy smiled. "Natsu-san looks really excited."
"Well, compared to the chariot race, this suits him way more…" Laxus said, leaning against the railing as he watched the screen from the side.
Then he smirked. "Ankh probably got beaten to the punch."
Mirajane touched her cheek and laughed softly. "That really does sound like the kind of decision those siblings would make."
Laxus clearly did not think much of the so-called absurd number of one hundred.
Stretching lazily, he said,
"Let's see, then… just how much Erza's improved over these last three months."
...
"BOOM—!"
Inside the great hall, armored monsters of every rank and color flooded forward like a raging sea.
A golden flash ran across Erza's body as she Requipped in an instant.
Countless swords descended from the sky in a dense rain of destruction.
"Heaven's Wheel: Circle Sword!"
Now clad in Heaven's Wheel Armor, Erza stood in gleaming silver atop the high ground.
Behind her, the storm of blades blood like a deadly iron flower, harvesting the monsters below wave after wave.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
"Amazing! With that opening attack, Contestant Erza has already wiped out most of the D-Class monsters! As expected of Titania!" Chapati shouted, his voice heating up the crowd.
Makarov folded his arms and analyzed the battle seriously. "She's trying to cut down the enemy numbers all at once?"
"No," Mavis said, her gaze deep and sharp as she imdiately saw through Erza's strategy. "She's using a wide-area attack first to test how monsters of each rank react to her attacks, as well as their defensive capabilities."
Inside the hall, Erza swiftly avoided the monsters' savage attacks, weaving through them with fluid precision.
Another golden flash flickered across her body, and black armor wrapped itself around her.
Now wearing Black Wing Armor, Erza leapt into the air with a dark blade in hand and cut down the few stragglers who had survived the earlier barrage.
"At the sa ti," Mavis said with a sigh of admiration, "she's calculating in the middle of battle which Requip is best suited for each monster, and selecting attacks that waste not even a trace of extra Magic Power. Incredible… That kind of battle instinct and combat intelligence is not sothing you can replicate with long hours of planning before a fight."
Erza's fierce, overwhelming assault seed to enrage the monsters.
The red C-Class monsters all lifted their heads and spewed blazing fire, while the blue ones exhaled high-pressure torrents of water.
In the next instant, a massive bombardnt crashed down on Erza all at once.
Erza took a deep breath.
Her movents imdiately rose to another level, becoming so swift she looked almost ghostlike as she plunged straight into the horde.
And what everyone in the arena witnessed next beca, from that day onward, one of the most dazzling battles in the entire kingdom—one forever associated with the na of the Fairy Queen.
A high-speed Requip battle.
Charging directly into the monsters' encirclent without dodging, Erza entered the inferno and flood head-on—and Requipped in an instant.
Clad in Fla Empress Armor, she wielded the Fla Empress Blade, the sword moving like a commander's baton as it tore apart the ring of fire surrounding her in a single stroke.
In her other hand, she swung a blade wrapped in flowing water, instantly evaporating a large number of C-Class monsters.
When the blue monsters lunged at her, her armor flashed and changed again.
A sea-green armor, shimring like the scales of a beautiful rmaid, wrapped elegantly around her perfect form.
In Sea Empress Armor, she ignored the monsters' water-elent attacks entirely.
Gripping a lightning spear in both hands, Erza unleashed a storm of thrusts, and chain lightning instantly dropped a huge number of B-Class monsters.
"BANG!"
The monsters kept pouring in without end.
Spotting an opening, Erza changed again—this ti into a light beast-hide armor built for speed.
At the sa ti, the weapon in her hand beca the serrated greatsword of Purgatory Armor.
Combining superior speed with overwhelming destructive power, she launched a vicious offensive, broke through the encirclent, and in turn annihilated the monsters around her.
Before long, Erza had crushed more than half the monsters.
But as the remaining ones continued to rush at her, even Erza—who had been carefully conserving her Magic Power from the start—began breathing a little harder.
Even so, she did not hesitate.
Her speed-focused armor made her move like a dragon weaving through waves, with a lightning spear in one hand and the Fla Empress Blade in the other.
Fire and lightning tore through the monster horde as she broke in and out of their ranks again and again.
Explosions rang out nonstop, and monsters fell one after another.
"BOOM—!"
Caught off guard for a split second, Erza was blasted away by a monster's punch.
Narrowing her eyes as she looked at the giant-like creature in front of her, she muttered,
"An S-Class?"
"No… too weak. So it isn't."
As if it had heard her, the A-Class monster roared and smashed a fist downward.
But Erza instantly reacted and turned its imnse strength against it.
She Requipped into Giant Armor, which enhanced her arm strength.
One hand held a demon-breaking spear, while the other bore the shield of Adamantine Armor, the strongest defensive gear in her arsenal.
The monster's fist crashed into the shield—only for the shockwave to blow its entire arm to dust.
Seizing the mont, Erza hurled her spear, piercing through dozens more monsters both large and small in a single line.
With her armor changing at high frequency, the great hall was soon reduced to a wreck by the clashing elents. Before long, Erza had forced the battle all the way outside.
Like a fairy dancing across the world, Erza turned even this brutal, high-intensity fight into a performance entirely her own.
Armor after armor, weapon after weapon—
An endless variety of attacks cut down the monsters with ruthless efficiency, until at last their numbers had fallen into the single digits.
At the critical mont, Erza chose to conserve Magic Power.
She completely abandoned defense, taking up the cursed blade Benizakura and a light combat garnt, then launched herself into clean, decisive offense—cutting down the last few monsters in swift succession.
At that mont, only the final S-Class monster remained in Pandemonium.
The cheers in the arena rose higher and higher, wave after wave.
Every spectator had been utterly conquered by that incomparably dazzling display of combat.
The entire stadium was shouting Erza's na at the top of their lungs.
Minerva frowned as she stared at the figure standing high above the ruined temple and muttered darkly under her breath.
"Erza… Titania…"
With only the S-Class monster left, Erza was forcibly drawn into the duel arena.
The round, unimpressive little creature that had remained inconspicuous until now rapidly began to expand, transforming into a towering monster radiating terrifying pressure.
Erza raised the cursed blade Benizakura before her chest and adjusted her breathing.
With each breath, a faint crimson glow spread from her body onto the blade.
"Crimson Sakura: Blizzard."
It was as if space itself twisted.
That beautiful yet unyielding figure rushed forward, blade in hand, toward her final enemy.
Sword-light poured forth like a crashing waterfall turned upside down, while scarlet Magic Power spread like a drop of cinnabar ink bleeding across a painting.
Within the arena now dyed crimson, only one figure stood with blade raised toward the sky.
Erza stood proudly atop the fallen S-Class monster, one eye closed, her body covered in wounds, the cursed blade Benizakura lifted high in her hand.
She looked like a crimson flower blooming proudly in the bitter wind.
The S-Class monster had been slain.
And with that, all one hundred monsters were completely annihilated.
The one who remained standing at the very end was, without question—Erza Scarlet.
The Titania has arrived!
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