The Black Robed Man stood in the center of the cabin, the shadows at his feet writhing like living things, gradually covering the entire deck.
Ezreal clenched his left fist, and a brilliant white light glowed on his metal gauntlet; the next second, he vanished from his original spot.
In front of the Black Robed Man, a fist shining with white light magnified before his eyes. He unhurriedly raised his gaunt arm and threw a punch, a dense black aura enveloping his fist from within his wide sleeve.
The two fists collided with a thunderous roar, like lightning striking.
Where Ezreal's white-light fist met the Black Robed Man's black-aura punch, the air warped into spiderweb-like cracks, and the deck planks were torn up into the sky by the shockwave, only to shatter into dust mid-air.
The two exchanged punches, neither taking a single step back.
At such close range, Ezreal first noticed a star tattoo on the man's wrist, and then clearly saw the Black Robed Man's face: a pale, ordinary middle-aged man's face with blood-red eyes, utterly unremarkable.
The Black Robed Man's lips stretched into a stiff smile, "Treating an old friend by resorting to violence without a word?"
Ezreal's expression was calm, his eyes burning with fierce white light: "You and your companion both love to talk nonsense."
Before his words finished, a pair of crimson wolf eyes lit up in Ezreal's shadow, accompanied by a sinister and violent wolf howl. A dense black smoke suddenly erupted from Ezreal as its center, transforming into a wolf shape in mid-air.
The fifteen-meter-long giant wolf bared its mouth, revealing arrow-like sharp white teeth, and lunged with a fishy wind at the Black Robed Man's head.
The black shadow beneath the Black Robed Man's feet surged like a wave for a moment, and then he sank into the shadows and disappeared.
"Is this... Shadow Walk?" Ezreal frowned, then glanced at the Evil Wolf.
The Evil Wolf immediately understood. Its massive body crouched low, and the already precarious damaged ship rapidly sank.
The Evil Wolf lifted its head and let out a deafening roar: "Roar—!"
The sound waves materialized into a black shockwave, instantly shattering everything around!
The half-wrecked ship instantly turned into a sky full of dust. Iron filings and wood dust mixed and exploded outwards, and the surrounding seawater churned into giant waves nearly ten meters high.
Ezreal glowed with a faint white light, floating on the sea, while the Evil Wolf flapped its wings, flying beside him.
In the smoke and dust, the Black Robed Man reappeared, looking disheveled, about twenty paces away from Ezreal.
The Black Robed Man emanated black aura, temporarily floating on the sea with the help of magic. Although he was forced out of the shadows by the Evil Wolf's sonic roar, he showed no obvious injuries.
The Black Robed Man stared at Ezreal, his blood-red eyes gradually brightening. His voice was hoarse and low, like sandpaper rubbing: "As expected of Fairy Tail's Punishment Knight, you truly are merciless."
"You really do love to talk nonsense!" Unbeknownst to him, Cana appeared silently behind the Black Robed Man, three cards foldered between her fingertips. The three cards flew out of her hand, transforming into three purple lightning snakes in mid-air.
The Black Robed Man's face changed slightly, "When did you—?"
As the lightning was about to strike, the Black Robed Man hastily raised his hand, and dozens of arm-thick black spikes erupted, creating a dazzling purple-black light.
The lightning snakes and black spikes intertwined, emitting a grating "zzzt" sound, and the energy aftermath evaporated the surrounding seawater into a white mist.
But the next second, a strong gust of wind suddenly came from above, and a strong sense of danger emerged in his heart.
The Black Robed Man subconsciously looked up. A green-haired youth was floating above him, stepping on a cloud of gold sand. With a single refer to, hundreds of head-sized gold sand spheres rained down from the sky: "Sandstorm!"
Marcus's gold sand spheres fell like meteors, each carrying immense force.
The black aura beneath the Black Robed Man's feet surged, and his body twisted strangely, allowing him to weave and dodge through the dense sand rain.
The gold sand spheres smashed into the sea, creating dozens of towering water columns, the waves shimmering with silver light under the moonlight.
"You love to hide!" Ezreal's left hand glowed fiercely with white light, and he threw a punch.
A giant white meteor flew from his hand.
The tracking Amaterasu Meteor almost instantly crossed a hundred meters to appear in front of the Black Robed Man.
The Black Robed Man felt a strong threat from the light sphere before him, and his body strangely exploded into a cloud of black smoke.
After the Amaterasu Meteor passed through the black smoke, the smoke re-condensed into the Black Robed Man's body.
The Black Robed Man had just let out a sigh of relief and was about to say something, when the next second, he felt a burst of heat from behind him. Before he could turn around, the Amaterasu Meteor, which had clearly flown far away, had actually changed direction and flown back, smashing heavily into his back.
Intense pain came from his back. The Black Robed Man spewed blood from his mouth and nose, his face full of disbelief, "Tracking magic?"
Without giving the Black Robed Man a chance to be surprised, a loud bang followed, and a strong white light erupted. High temperatures and energy shockwaves spread, giant waves rose on the sea, and high temperatures evaporated a large amount of water vapor.
At the same time, the Evil Wolf flapped its wings, its massive body flying into the sky like a black lightning bolt, its body obscuring the moonlight. Its blood-red mouth opened to its limit, and black energy light points in the air rapidly gathered into its mouth.
A highly condensed black energy sphere formed. The next second, accompanied by a sinister wolf howl, a black beam of light, piercing through heaven and earth, shot out from the Evil Wolf's mouth.
"Evil Wolf's Roar!"
Within the dense water mist, a giant black smoke sphere actually appeared, blocking the Evil Wolf's Roar at the last moment.
The two dark magic attacks, one offensive and one defensive, annihilated each other after a brief stalemate. Black energy waves spread in a ring, and giant waves once again rose on the sea.
However, just as the waves began to rise, an intense ice-blue cold aura suddenly erupted all around.
A human-sized ice-blue eyeball appeared above Cana's head at some point. The Frost Spirit's gaze fixed on the center of the waves, and an intense cold aura appeared out of thin air.
"Ice Coffin Burial!" A pleasant girl's voice sounded.
The crackling sound of ice forming constantly echoed. The ice-blue cold aura suddenly erupted from the center of the waves. The cold aura rapidly expanded, and a ten-meter-long and wide ice crystal cube formed. The extreme low temperature gradually froze the surrounding seawater.
Within the ice crystal cube, a figure was frozen. It was none other than the Black Robed Man, whose black robe was somewhat scorched and damaged.
Although the ten-meter ice coffin was hard, the Black Robed Man within it had not lost his ability to resist. His eyes still glowed brightly with blood-red light, and his body was enveloped in a layer of black aura with twisted spikes that was continuously expanding. Accompanied by the cracking sound of ice breaking, the ice coffin trembled violently.
Cana looked up and shouted, "Marcus, are you not ready yet?"
In mid-air, Marcus, stepping on a cloud of gold sand, had veins bulging on his forehead. He clasped his hands together and forcefully lifted them upwards, shouting in response, "I'm ready!"
"Sandstorm Grand Burial!"
Directly beneath the ice coffin, a massive gray magic array unfolded. The nearly hundred-meter-sized magic array spun wildly clockwise, and then a huge amount of gold sand surged out from the array.
The immense amount of gold sand almost instantly submerged the ice coffin. The fine gold sand quickly solidified into a pyramid a full hundred meters high.
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