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Moments before Fulmer sent him crashing into the ground, Oberon was excitedly chasing the man through the sky. As blurs of gold and red, they battle above everyone. Oberon struggles to keep up at first, but is quickly gaining ground against the man, and Fulmer grows more concerned with each passing second.
He glances back to see a wave of light bullets racing toward him, turning at a sharp angle and slashing a dozen times with his blade. He releases slashes of Magic Energy, smashing apart most of the bullets before avoiding the others.
They pelt the hillside as Oberon raises his hand and punches forward, this time releasing one beam of light, as wide as his arm. Fulmer keeps flying backward but slashes out at it, and his ranged slash is shattered on impact.
The beam continues chasing him, and much to his horror, it twists and turns before suddenly making sharp turns to track him. 'This is his first attack that tracks targets, strange for someone using Light Magic,' Fulmer thinks as he puts more energy into making distance between them.
His gaze shifts from Oberon to the light beam, then to the boy's hand, which is still connected. 'He's staying connected, actively adjusting its path. Can he not sense me?' Fulmer disregards that thought due to the absurdity of it, and instead rears back his arm and throws his sword at Oberon.
Oberon cancels his spell in time to raise his arms as the sword arrives in front of him. He increases gravity around it as it bounces off his shield, and when Fulmer teleports to it, he's immediately weighed down.
His strike misses, and Oberon takes the chance to kick the man in the chest, sending a quake of pain through him as he's pulled to the earth. But Fulmer throws his blade downward, diagonally, and a moment later teleports out of the gravity zone and continues the game of cat and mouse.
He holds his aching chest, feeling a crack in his breastplate. 'He's getting stronger by the second, and his Magic Energy doesn't seem to be running low. Not to mention that shield around his body, it's getting harder to pierce…'
Behind him, Oberon continues to speed up, closing the distance and launching many more Light Magic attacks at his opponent, all while boasting a broad smile. Ever since joining Fairy Tail, he's been exposed to many incredible things and people.
All of those experiences and his innate talent led him to grow faster than any of his peers. Now he is alone in a strange place, too powerful for Macao, Wakaba, and Laxus, but not yet strong enough for Gildarts and Master Makarov to truly dance with him.
But Fulmer, he's the perfect partner. And Oberon's power finally gets to expand, filling the space made by his months of training with each passing moment. Fulmer understands this when he looks back and sees Oberon smiling.
Not the smile of a person who enjoys hurting others, or a predator before it feasts. But the smile of a child who finally has someone who can play with him. And it deeply unsettles the man, as he, a prodigy of the Pergrande Kingdom, is fighting with everything he has against a child.
"The prodigy. The boy beloved by Magic. Fairy Tail's golden boy. King of the Fairies," Fulmer announces while flowing more Magic Energy into his blade. "You earned all these titles, but what do they really mean?"
"How am I supposed to know that? I didn't name myself!" Oberon says as Fulmer suddenly stops in the air and spins around.
Oberon halts his moment instantly, but Fulmer closes the short distance and thrusts downward with his sword, aiming at Oberon's head.
The boy's eyes widen as he raises his left hand, but Fulmer's blade pierces it, surprising him. The blade splits his hand from the wrist up to between his middle and ring fingers, but Oberon reaches up with his left hand and grabs it.
Fulmer instantly feels Oberon's Magic Energy flow into the blade, breaking it apart with the strange properties it carries. The man grits his teeth and activates his Overdrive Magic, the secret Magic of the Pergrande Kingdom, abandoning the blade as it shatters and using his sword hand to punch Oberon square in the face.
His armor glows red as Overdrive sacrifices the health of his body in exchange for amplified Magic Energy, giving him a great combat boost in exchange for months of recovery time and rehabilitation.
But the boost is so massive that Oberon's nose shatters as the fist connects, and his Gravity Magic is overpowered, sending him careening into the ground below.
He crashes into the midst of the main battlefield, drawing the attention of everyone, but from within his impact crater, he only looks up to see Fulmer descending feet first toward him. He weakly raises his hand, forming a Gravity Barrier at the last moment to soften the impact, but the man lands on him like a ton of bricks, pushing him deeper into the earth.
Fulmer's breaths are fast, erratic, but he presses his foot into Oberon's face, even as the boy glares daggers up at him. "Is this all it takes to earn that title, King of the Fairies?"
Oberon uses his left hand, his one good hand, to grab the man's ankle, trying to push him away, but Fulmer uses his enhanced Magic Energy to push down with flight Magic, even as gravity in the crater is reversed.
Fulmer turns to the people around them as the dust cloud settles, seeing many of his guildmates paralyzed with yellow lightning dancing across their bodies, Rune Knights and Fairy Tail Wizards in the midst of capturing them.
"My aim was to go help Avsala, then we'd go break up the Wizard Saint's battle together. But I'll deal with all of you firs—"
Before he could finish speaking, finish threatening Fairy Tail, he feels a surge of Magic Energy below him. Oberon reaches up from the ground with Cosmic, creating a gravitational attraction between Fulmer's head and his fist, pulling the man down into a punch that shakes the battlefield.
Everyone nearby floats a few inches off the ground as gravity in the area is weakened, and Fulmer is sent flying into the air. The man flips head over feet in the air before stabilizing himself, just in time to see Oberon rocket out of the crater and appear in front of him.
'Too fast!' Fulmer raises his arms, and Oberon's kick shatters the braces on his forearms, cracking the bones beneath. 'Heavy!'
"You can't hurt them!" Oberon yells as he flies after the man, punching him over and over, breaking apart his armor and rocking the flesh and bone beneath. "Not while I'm here!"
Fulmer feels pain wracking every part of his body as Oberon's punches dismantle him, but he pushes through to notice the subconscious pattern in the boys strikes. Avoiding one of them landing a chop to Oberon's throat, only for his fingers to break on impact.
'The shield got stronger!' he realizes and avoids the counter to reach up and clap Oberon's ears, hoping to daze the boy and make some distance between them.
But Oberon uses his now superior speed and strength to grab the man's wrists, breaking them with his vice grip before headbutting Fulmer, repaying him for the broken nose.
The man's head jerks back, brain bouncing around in his skull as he feels an ocean of Magic Energy engulf him. He blinks away the blurriness to see Oberon release a massive amount of Magic Energy, entrenched with the properties of Cosmic.
A pillar of Magic Energy emanates from Oberon, solid black with shimmering stars, the night sky made manifest. The energy instantly expands, engulfing the man, and it takes a moment for him to realize what's going on.
Within the boundless Cosmos, it's quiet. So quiet that the man could hear the blood from his nose drip down to his armor, and all around them is the night sky, as if floating in outer space.
Oberon releases his broken wrists, and the man instantly starts falling away, looking up at the boy as he finally realizes why his Magics aren't working.
"Are you, human?" Fulmer asks as realization dawns on him.
His senses were completely overwhelmed by the Magic Energy surrounding him. Oberon released enough Magic Energy to engulf them both, finally comfortable enough with Cosmic to utilize it in combat, thanks to Fulmer.
And this neutral application, The Boundless Cosmos, is simply a contest of raw Magic Energy. Oberon's Magic Energy pulls yours to it, no matter how perfect your control. After that, it's a matter of volume.
And in matters of Magic Energy, very few can compete with even the current Oberon Alkwan…
Fulmer feels the last of his Magic Energy torn away before Oberon retracts The Boundless Cosmos, once again closing his Magic Container, and the chaotic display of power in the sky returns.
Oberon reaches down and catches Fulmer with Gravity Magic as the man's consciousness fades.
"Thanks for teaching me that," he mutters while also descending to the ground outside the base, sitting on the floor beside the unconscious man. He takes slow, deep breaths, desperately trying to refill his Magic Energy, reserves dangerously low for himself.
"Oberon!" he hears a Rune Knight yell, and turns around to see them rushing over to him. "We're here, are you alright?!"
"I'll be fine. I have to recover Magic Energy before rejoining the fight."
"We'll report this to the others at once," one of the Rune Knights says as the others place Binding Magic cuffs on Fulmer and use their standard-issue capture staff to make a prison bubble around him, floating him beside them. "We'll take him away."
"Yeah, when I recover I'll—" Oberon's words are overpowered by a deafening explosion rocking the battlefield.
The entire coral fortress cracks apart before crumbling, and out from it rises a 500m -1500ft- tall Coral Golem, brimming with Magic Energy as it punches down into the fortress.
But a bright gold mote of glowing Magic Energy dodges the attack and soars upward, then rapidly expands.
"Wow…" almost everyone on the battlefield is left in awe as Makarov Dreyar grows to a size that's head and shoulders larger than the Coral Golem, glaring down at it as the building muscles of his shirtless form contract and flex, strengthening themselves as he raises his hand high above.
The Coral Golem punches forward, but before it can even hit him, his hand descends, releasing a blinding golden light across the battlefield…
CHAPTER END---
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