"White Snake!"
An extrely pure mass of light-attribute energy gathered in Mard Geer's hand.
With a casual flick, the white beam of light shot out exactly as its na suggested, twisting and coiling like a snake as it rushed toward Raizel.
Raizel did not take it head-on. He sprang away instead.
But Mard Geer's real killing move ca right after.
"Prison Flower!"
Mard Geer used two Curses at the sa ti. A gigantic thorned man-eating flower suddenly burst out from beneath Raizel's feet.
Although Raizel looked down on the Underworld King's arrogance, he had never underestimated Mard Geer himself.
He had already been on guard against the man's Thorn Curse.
Magic gathered around the claws on his left hand, and he sliced the thorned flower apart from the roots in one clean strike.
But Mard Geer's attack was not over.
While Raizel was dealing with Prison Flower, the White Snake he had dodged earlier ca sweeping back toward him.
Mard Geer was controlling two different Curses at once, both as naturally as moving his own limbs.
Raizel reacted just as quickly.
The Omni Sword slashed upward from below, cutting the White Snake apart. The sword light from that rising slash continued forward, flying toward Mard Geer.
Mard Geer waved his hand and knocked the sword light aside, sending it crashing into a nearby boulder.
But by the ti that slash had been released, Raizel had already flapped his wings and accelerated around behind him.
The Omni Sword ca down toward Mard Geer's back.
Mard Geer seed to have expected it.
The instant Raizel struck, he had already left his original position and opened the distance between them.
Raizel and Mard Geer began a round of close-quarters combat.
More accurately, Raizel attacked while Mard Geer dodged.
Raizel had not used his true strength yet, and neither had Mard Geer. The man was still clutching the book of E.N.D. without letting go.
Only after Raizel tore three gashes across his body with his claws, then sent him flying with an uppercut to the chin, did Mard Geer flip backward in midair and land on the ground.
He wore an expression that seed to say he had already seen through everything.
"No wonder Kyouka enjoys playing with humans... I understand the feeling now. You cannot see the future in which you die, your actions are driven only by emotion, and you do not even understand where your own weakness lies. Such complete ignorance. When foolishness reaches this point, it becos almost endearing."
"???"
Raizel slowly produced three question marks in his head.
How the hell could this guy act so pretentious?
...
On the other side, Natsu had been blown away by Tempester and crashed straight into Gajeel.
"Quit getting in my way!"
"You're the one standing there like an idiot! That's what getting in the way ans!"
"Apologize right now, you damn fire dragon."
"You're the one who should apologize! Want to beat you flat?!"
The two imdiately started arguing like no one else was around, and in no ti, they were practically about to fight each other.
It was Torafuzar who finally separated them with one swing of his arm blade.
Tempester looked at Natsu and Gajeel and sighed. "To think you would start fighting each other in the middle of battle. Humans truly are unbelievable."
...
The Dark Bishop Keyes used a Necromancy Curse, a Curse capable of controlling the dead.
Its control ability surpassed Seilah's Macro, but the targets were limited to corpses.
On top of that, Keyes possessed the ability to nullify physical attacks.
For the mont, Ultear and Juvia had not found a good way to deal with him.
There was also another reason.
Juvia was sowhat distracted.
Ever since a little while ago, she had been feeling an ominous unease.
And on top of that, Keyes kept saying strange things.
'Could sothing have happened to Gray-sama?'
No one had co to help Gray.
The reason was simple: Raizel had specifically instructed them to let Gray face Silver on his own.
Ur had not understood it at first, but the mont she saw Silver, she imdiately did.
There was no helping it and they looked too alike.
In a few more years, Gray might very well look exactly like that.
...
And Gray's side was indeed not going well.
Looking at that face across from him, Gray did not want to admit it, but he truly could not bring himself to attack properly.
Yet no matter how he thought about it, it made no sense.
That man should have been dead.
"I'm asking you. Do you know ?"
Silver looked at Gray and grinned. "That's right. I know you very well."
Gray stared sharply into Silver's eyes, his expression grave.
"I know you too. That face, that voice—I rember them clearly. But you are absolutely not the sa person. Tell . Who the hell are you?"
Silver rely smiled without answering.
Gray pressed him angrily, "Answer ! Who are you?!"
Silver bared his teeth, and a faintly vicious look entered his eyes as he laughed.
"You should have guessed already, haven't you? I'm your... father."
Gray's voice rose in agitation.
"You're my father...? That's impossible. My father died a long ti ago! I saw him killed by Deliora with my own eyes!"
Even after all these years, the image of Deliora destroying his village and killing his parents remained burned into Gray's mind.
He had knelt before his father, whose head had been split open by falling stone, blood everywhere, and cried.
Silver answered calmly, "My na is Silver Fullbuster. I am your father."
"I don't believe you!"
Gray swung his hand, and dozens of ice swords shot toward Silver.
Faced with the barrage, Silver's expression did not change. He cut them down casually, almost carelessly.
Gray clenched his teeth hard, eyes fixed on Silver as he roared and charged forward.
A left hook.
A right hook.
A driving punch.
But Silver blocked Gray's straight punch with one casual palm, stopping it completely. Ice Magic surged from his hand.
In the next instant, he froze Gray's hand, then used an ice chain to fling him away.
Gray got back to his feet and smashed the ice off his arm. Staring at Silver, he roared furiously,
"My father can't still be alive!"
"Hahaha!!!"
Silver threw his head back and laughed, clutching his stomach.
Before Gray could even finish shaping his Ice-Make, Silver casually created ice of his own and interrupted it.
"That's it. That expression is perfect. Exactly what I imagined! Hahaha—!"
Silver laughed brightly, as if he had truly encountered sothing delightful.
"It is absolutely true that I am your father. But that and what I am are two separate things."
"What the hell does that an?"
"To you, I should be sothing far greater."
Silver loosely clenched his hand, and a thick layer of purple Magic Power covered his body.
That Magic Power gave Gray a faint sense of familiarity.
"Because you and I are destined to kill each other!"
"Where should I start...?"
After casually knocking Gray away again, Silver continued.
"How about this body? Let's begin there."
"This body is rely a vessel. A corpse I happened to find."
"All mbers of Tartaros are demons. As one of the Nine Demon Gates, I am no exception. My original form was not human."
"But appearing in demon form causes all sorts of inconvenience, so we usually disguise ourselves as humans."
"And when I was choosing a human appearance, there just so happened to be a rather suitable corpse nearby."
"So from that point on, I continued using this body."
"Though perhaps it was precisely because I happened to obtain this corpse that fate brought the two of us together..."
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