Boom—!!!!
The moment the battle-axe struck the ground, it was as if the Earth's core lava had been ignited!
Centered on her, a furious crimson flame roared upwards like an enraged dragon!
Immediately after, countless scorching pillars of fire erupted wildly from the ground around her, like a cluster of erupting volcanoes!
The flames did not spread chaotically; instead, as if alive, they transformed into a fiery storm, dozens of meters in diameter, continuously spinning and expanding!
The edges of the storm were high-speed, rotating blades of fire that cut through everything, while the interior was a core of lava that incinerated all!
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!
Boom!!!
The vanguard of the undead tide was instantly swept into the fiery storm, like moths drawn to a flame!
Skeletons turned to ash in the high heat, ghouls were ignited into torches, and gigantic bone beasts were dismembered by the fiery blades and consumed by the lava core!
The pungent smell of charring and the sound of cracking bones mingled together!
The fiery storm was like a massive meat grinder, frantically devouring the surging undead!
Erza, at the center of the storm, was like a queen controlling fire; each swing of her battle-axe unleashed even more violent waves of fire!
"Damn it!" Jose's face was ashen, the flames' suppression of the undead enraging him.
He no longer held back, forming complex and eerie hand seals with both hands, chanting ancient and evil incantations!
The Undead Sky violently churned, and a more chilling, more condensed dark magic, as if capable of freezing the very essence of the soul, frantically gathered above his head!
Innumerable twisted and suffering specter phantoms struggled and wailed within it, ultimately being forcibly compressed and merged!
"Specter Impact · Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Heart!"
Woooooah—!!!!
A shriek, powerful enough to tear through the barrier between reality and the underworld, a culmination of the extreme suffering of ten thousand specters, suddenly erupted!
From within the Undead Sky, a gigantic torrent of specters, over three meters in diameter, formed from countless contorted, hideous ghost faces, shot towards Erza at the center of the flames at a terrifying speed exceeding that of sound, ignoring the raging fiery storm, like a spear of vengeance from hell, carrying a malicious curse capable of penetrating all physical defenses and striking deep into the soul!
This was Jose's trump card soul attack magic!
"Ugh!" The moment the specter torrent appeared, Erza's soul felt as if it were pierced by countless ice picks!
The intense pain made her vision blur, and her movements instantly slowed!
The flames of the Purgatory Armor could burn physical entities, but they could not completely block this purely spiritual impact!
She felt as if her consciousness was about to be completely submerged and torn apart by that endless malevolence and suffering!
"Heart of Guardianship · Fairy Wall!" At the brink of life and death, Erza unleashed willpower beyond her limits!
She fiercely plunged her burning battle-axe deep into the ground, gripping the axe handle tightly with both hands, her entire magical power erupting without reservation!
A thick, incomparably pale golden rhomboid shield, composed of pure guardian will, faith in her companions, and the shining light of the Fairy Tail Guild emblem, instantly materialized before her!
On the shield's surface, the Fairy Tail emblem glowed brilliantly!
Boom—!!!!
The specter torrent slammed violently into the golden shield!
There was no physical impact sound, only a terrifying roar on the soul level!
The shield violently trembled, its surface instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks!
The shrieks and curses of countless specters, like tangible sound waves, frantically assaulted Erza's soul!
She felt as if her brain was being torn apart, and tiny trickles of blood seeped from her seven orifices!
But she gritted her teeth, biting so hard that her gums bled!
Her gaze was as firm as a rock!
Though the shield was on the verge of collapse, it steadfastly withstood this world-destroying soul impact!
"It's not over yet! Die for me! Death Finger · Annihilation!" A hint of madness and disbelief flashed in Jose's eyes!
He hadn't expected Erza to be able to withstand his Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Heart!
His withered right arm suddenly lifted, his index finger becoming dark and shiny like a red-hot branding iron!
At the fingertip, a point of pitch-black energy, so profound it seemed to devour even light, containing the rule of absolute death, instantly condensed to its extreme!
Space around that point slightly collapsed!
Whoosh—!!!!
A pitch-black ray, incomparably condensed and impossibly fast, silently yet with the terrifying power to annihilate everything, instantly pierced through the still-unsettled aftermath of the soul impact, shooting with pinpoint accuracy towards Erza's heart, which was left wide open due to her full-force defense!
This was Jose's ultimate attack, condensed from his lifelong magical power and imbued with the laws of death! It was enough to instantly obliterate any existence below the Ten Wizard Saints!
A fatal sense of crisis washed over her like ice water!
Erza's pupils constricted!
She didn't even have time to think!
Her body's instinct and fear of death made her want to dodge, but the intense pain in her soul and the massive consumption of magical power slowed her movements by half a beat!
The tip of the death ray, that point of all-consuming darkness, rapidly magnified in her eyes!
Just at this critical, life-or-death moment!
In Erza's mind, countless images flashed by like a revolving lantern:
The darkness and despair of the Tower of Paradise in her youth... the moment she was led into the Fairy Tail Guild by Makarov's warm, large hand... the bits and pieces of laughing, brawling, and fighting side-by-side with Natsu, Gray, Mira, and Cana... the warm lights of the Guild hall, the trusting gazes of her companions... the Master's kind smile: "The Guild is your home..."
"No! I cannot fall here!" A power, stronger than the fear of death, erupted from the deepest part of her soul!
That was the will to protect!
It was the bond of companionship!
It was the never-extinguishing flame of Fairy Tail!
"For Fairy Tail—!!!!" Erza let out a soul-shaking cry!
That voice seemed to pierce through time and space, carrying the belief of all Fairy Tail members!
"Requip! Fairy Armor!!!"
Buzz—!!!!!!
An unprecedented golden light, more dazzling than the sun, erupted from Erza!
The light was sacred, vast, and filled with an ancient and majestic fairy aura!
It instantly dispelled the surrounding Undead Sky!
Even Jose's death ray was forced to pause slightly by this sudden sacred radiance!
Within the light, Erza's figure underwent a radical transformation!
An armor, whose beauty and majesty were beyond words, covered her entire body!
The main body was a brilliant golden, like flowing liquid sunlight, inlaid with gems that sparkled like stars!
Every line on the armor plates seemed to contain ancient fairy runes, flowing with an unending power!
Behind her, a pair of gigantic light wings, with a wingspan exceeding five meters, formed from pure light magic, suddenly unfurled!
The scattered radiance was like sacred dew, purifying the surrounding filth!
The weapon tightly held in her hand was no longer a battle-axe, but a massive holy sword, seemingly forged from the core of stars!
The sword blade was entwined with leaping golden lightning, exuding supreme power to cut down evil and judge darkness!
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