She took a step forward, her longsword pointed directly at Jose, and golden magic power rose like burning flames: "Jose Porla! Your opponent is me!"
"Fairy Tail brats!" Jose roared in fury, his withered finger pointing sharply at Erza. "None of you will pass!"
He suddenly raised both hands!
Centered on him, the space within a hundred-meter radius was instantly enveloped by dark magic power, thick as a physical substance!
Countless pale skeletal arms reached out from the ground, rotting Undead phantoms wailed and circled in the air, and a dense aura of death seemed to completely strip away all vitality!
A massive, purplish-black magic circle, formed from countless wailing vengeful spirits, spun open beneath his feet!
Just as Jose's Undead Sky Curtain fully unfurled, about to draw the two into that boundless wall of bones and torrent of vengeful spirits!
Ezreal's golden pupils, sharp as an eagle's, were not misled by the Undead frenzy before him.
His gaze, like the most precise probe, pierced through the churning death magic and the flying bone fragments, locking firmly onto the core of the black and white light pillar behind Jose—a core that, though rapidly shrinking due to the six broken legs, stubbornly persisted!
Although the light of the pillar was dim and murky, the faint yet exceptionally resilient magical fluctuation at its core, carrying an ancient evil aura, was clearly imprinted in his perception like a will-o'-the-wisp flickering in the night!
"Brain... is indeed inside!" Ezreal instantly understood, and a strong sense of urgency coursed through his body like an electric current!
Jose's full interception precisely proved Brain's current vulnerability!
He was forcibly maintaining Nirvana's core with his own magic power and could not afford to be distracted!
This was a once-in-a-thousand-years, sole opportunity to destroy Nirvana!
"Erza!" Ezreal's voice, like the clash of metal, clearly reached Erza's ears amidst the wailing of the Undead and the booming collapse of bones, "Stop him! The core is mine!"
Before he finished speaking, Ezreal's body, starting from his fingertips, instantly "melted" like ice thrown into the scorching sun!
He transformed into countless pure light particles, billions of times smaller than dust, yet emitting dazzling white light!
These light particles did not dissipate chaotically; instead, they were forcibly constrained and shaped by an unbelievably powerful will!
They instantly converged into an intensely condensed, scorching white beam, less than a foot in diameter, flowing like liquid platinum!
"Arcane Shift!"
Ezreal's voice rang out.
Whoosh—!!!
That condensed, scorching white beam ignored the obstruction of physical space, ignored the ubiquitous corrosive death magic within Jose's Undead Sky Curtain, and ignored the grasping giant hands of vengeful spirits and the blocking wall of bones!
At a speed that surpassed the limits of thought, almost equivalent to "light" itself, it instantly traversed hundreds of meters along an absolutely straight, shortest path—from where Ezreal had originally stood to the core entrance of the black and white light pillar behind Jose!
Fast!
Extremely fast!
So fast that Jose's keen perception as a Ten Wizard Saints only managed to catch an extremely faint, illusory ripple of spatial fluctuation!
So fast that the inescapable net formed by his Undead Magic didn't even touch the edge of this light beam!
The ferocious grin on Jose's face hadn't even fully formed before it instantly froze and twisted!
He abruptly turned his head, and incredibly horrified light burst from his sunken eye sockets!
What did he see?!
Less than three meters behind him, that condensed, scorching white beam, like a sharp arrow piercing water, smoothly and precisely shot into the constantly swaying, shrinking black and white light pillar!
The moment the beam entered the pillar, countless tiny light particles, like a swarm of bees returning to their nest, rapidly converged and reassembled at the pillar's entrance!
Light and shadow twisted, collapsed, and expanded!
In just a thousandth of a second!
Ezreal's tall and slender figure had already appeared, completely unharmed and whole, within the core entrance of the black and white light pillar!
He stood with his back to Jose, his golden hair gently fluttering in the turbulent energy flow inside the light pillar, surrounded by a soft yet inviolable white halo, like a sculpture of light descending upon a defiled land.
He didn't even turn to look at Jose behind him, whose face was twisted by shock and fury.
He merely turned his face slightly, giving Erza, who was battling the Undead frenzy outside the light pillar, a glance from the corner of his eye.
That gaze was as calm as water, yet it contained absolute trust and an unspoken entrustment.
Then, he took a step, and his figure completely disappeared into the depths of the light pillar, which churned with chaotic black and white energy, vanishing from sight.
The entire process, from decomposition to reassembly, from shifting to disappearance, was as quick as lightning, as natural as breathing!
"B-bastard!!!" Jose's roar, like the shriek of a wounded beast, instantly echoed through the sky!
"Damn Fairy Tail! Damn teleportation magic!!!" Jose's eyes instantly became bloodshot, his haggard face twisted and deformed by extreme rage, and the Undead Magic churning around him erupted violently like an out-of-control volcano, corroding the surrounding air with a sizzling sound!
He abruptly turned, unleashing all his fury, all his killing intent, like tangible venom, onto the red-haired figure outside the light pillar!
"Erza Scarlet!!! I will make sure you die without a burial place!!!"
Accompanying this hysterical roar, Jose completely fell into a frenzy!
He held nothing back, his withered hands frantically clenched into fists, and even more terrifying, more sinister Undead Magic poured out towards Erza like a bursting dam!
The wall of bones instantly surged, transforming into a bone mountain that covered the sky!
Jose intended to wash away the humiliation Ezreal had inflicted upon him with Erza's blood and suffering!
And Erza, facing this suddenly escalated, doomsday-like Undead frenzy, showed no fear in her eyes, only an even more fervent fighting spirit!
She knew that EZ had successfully breached the core! Her mission was to hold back this enraged Undead beast and buy EZ that precious time!
"Come on, Jose!" Erza gripped her longsword tightly, her golden light surging again as she met the overwhelming storm of death. "Your opponent is me!"
"Requip! Heavens Wheel: Blumenblatt!"
Erza let out a clear cry, and the golden magic circle beneath her feet shone brightly! Dazzling golden light instantly enveloped her entire body!
When the light dissipated, a magnificent armor, interwoven with silver and pale gold, with sleek lines and a sacred feel, now covered her entire body!
Most striking were the twelve giant swords of various designs, shimmering with different elemental magic lights, suspended and arranged behind her like unfurled wings, forming a majestic sword wheel!
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