Jose's fury, like a tangible black storm, swept across the entire collapsed Nirvana Giant City ruins.
Under the shroud of the Undead Sky, the stench of decay and death was thick enough to be suffocating.
Facing Erza's direct challenge, the former Ten Wizard Saints's face was filled only with the savage rage and killing intent of someone provoked by an ant.
"You ignorant brat! Today, I'll use your blood to honor the undead!" Jose's withered hands suddenly spread wide, and the massive purple-black magic circle beneath his feet abruptly glowed with a dazzling, eerie light! "Undead Sky: Abyssal Summon!"
Rumble—!
The earth trembled violently!
Centered on Jose, the charred ground within a hundred-meter radius churned and cracked like boiling mud!
Countless pale, massive skeletal arms, entwined with black magic patterns, burst forth from the earth, each as thick as a battering ram!
They were not chaotic, but like a well-trained undead legion, instantly forming a ten-meter-high, impenetrable bone wall!
On the surface of the wall, countless wailing specter faces twisted into view, emitting a chilling aura that made one's soul tremble!
"Heavens Wheel: Blumenblatt!" Erza cried out, and a golden magic circle instantly bloomed beneath her feet!
In a dazzling golden light, twelve magic greatswords of various forms, shimmering with different elemental glows, clanged out of their sheaths behind Erza, floating in an orderly fashion like loyal guardians, forming a majestic sword wheel!
"Annihilate!" Erza pointed her sword at Jose!
The twelve Heavens Wheel: Blumenblatt transformed into twelve brilliant streams of light tearing through the darkness, accompanied by piercing shrieks, slashing fiercely at the bone wall from tricky angles!
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang—!!!
The dense clanging of metal, like a downpour, instantly erupted!
Sparks flew everywhere! The bone wall trembled violently, the specters on its surface let out shrill wails, and the massive bone arms were deeply cracked, with bone fragments flying!
However, Jose's magic power was as vast as the sea!
He sneered, pressing his hands against the ground: "Undead never cease! Bones regenerate!"
Buzz!
The purple-black magic circle's light intensified!
The severed and shattered bones, as if possessing life, surged with more and thicker bone arms from underground, regenerating and filling the gaps at a visible speed!
The twelve Heavens Wheel: Blumenblatt were like beasts trapped in a quagmire; though their offensive was fierce, they struggled to break through this endlessly regenerating undead wall for a time!
"Now you realize the absolute difference in power, don't you! Undead's Grasp!" A cold light flashed in Jose's eyes, and he suddenly clawed his withered fingers at Erza in the air!
Within the Undead Sky, countless giant black hands, formed from pure resentment, materialized out of thin air!
They were silent, yet carried a soul-freezing chill and an all-corroding defilement, like the tentacles of a predatory octopus, grasping at Erza from all directions—front, back, up, down, left, and right—leaving no blind spots!
Their speed was lightning-fast, and their angles were so tricky that they completely sealed off all evasion space!
"Requip! Black Wing Armor!" Erza's reaction was as swift as lightning!
A flash of golden light, and the sacred Heaven's Wheel Armor was instantly replaced by a set of light armor as black as ink, with sharp, flowing lines!
Behind her, a pair of massive wings, composed of countless black metal feathers, suddenly unfurled!
"Gale: Shadow Glide!" Erza whispered!
The extreme speed granted by the Black Wing Armor burst forth!
Her figure instantly blurred! Only a faint afterimage remained in her original spot!
Her true body had, as if merged with the night, become a phantom, weaving and turning at high speed among the myriad grasping hands of resentment!
Each beat of her black wings brought forth sharp wind blades that tore through the air!
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
A few giant hands of resentment that couldn't dodge in time were precisely severed by the wind blades, turning into black smoke and dissipating!
Erza danced on the edge of a knife, narrowly avoiding this deadly encirclement!
She even used a subtle feint, using a grasping giant hand as a springboard, to suddenly accelerate, transforming into a black lightning bolt, and charging straight towards Jose's head above the bone wall!
"Necrotic Poison Mist!" How could Jose allow her to get close?
He opened his mouth and exhaled!
A thick, almost liquid-like, purple-black poison mist, emitting a pungent stench and strong corrosiveness, spread instantly like erupting volcanic lava!
Wherever the poison mist passed, even hard rock made a "sizzle" of dissolution, rapidly softening and collapsing!
The air was polluted, with highly toxic particles infiltrating everywhere!
"Requip! Sea King Armor!" Erza remained undaunted in the face of danger!
Golden light flashed!
An armor composed of deep blue, crystal-like scales, outlining a perfect curve, instantly covered her entire body!
In her hand, a Zhanblue trident, as if condensed from deep-sea cold currents, appeared out of thin air!
"Tide of Purity: Sea God's Barrier!" Erza plunged the trident fiercely into the ground before her!
Buzz!
A huge, Zhanblue magic circle, composed of flowing seawater, unfurled beneath her feet!
A surging wave of purifying power poured forth!
A several-meter-high, incredibly thick, azure water wall instantly rose from the ground, like the most loyal dam, firmly blocking the surging, deadly poison mist!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!!!
The poison mist and the water wall violently collided and annihilated each other!
Pungent white smoke rose and spread!
The purifying water was constantly consumed by the potent poison, the water wall fluctuated violently, and its color rapidly deepened!
But Erza's magic power continuously poured in, and the water wall stubbornly stood firm, buying her precious time to catch her breath!
"People always pay the price for their foolishness!" Jose completely lost his patience, the veins on his withered face throbbing with rage, "How long can you hold out? Army of the Dead: Bone Swarm!"
He slammed his hands onto the ground!
The massive magic circle beneath his feet erupted with an unprecedented gloomy light!
The entire ruin seemed like an awakened undead graveyard!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Hair-raising sounds of bone friction echoed from all directions!
Countless pale skeletal warriors, shambling corpses dragging rotting organs, and deformed bone beasts pieced together from fragments, surged out like a tide from the cracks of hell, densely, endlessly, from every corner and every fissure of the ruins!
Their hollow eye sockets burned with eerie green ghost fire, silently roaring, converging into a pale ocean of death, charging madly towards Erza and the water wall before her with a terrifying momentum that crushed everything!
Their numbers were so vast that as far as the eye could see, there was only a teeming mass of white bones and decaying flesh!
"Requip! Purgatory Armor!" Facing this undead tsunami, Erza's eyes were as cold as ancient ice!
Golden light exploded!
A heavy armor, burning with raging flames and as ferocious as a hellfire demon, instantly covered her!
In her hand, she tightly gripped a greatsword burning with unquenchable fire!
More than a sword, it actually looked more like an oversized battle-axe!
The intense heat distorted the surrounding air!
"Purgatory Flame Domain: Heaven-Burning, Sea-Boiling!" Erza roared!
No longer passively defending!
She raised the burning battle-axe high with both hands, like a god of fire descended, and fiercely brought it down towards the ground!
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