Fairy Tail: You said you were just acting, are you serious?

"If you're not going to tell me why you're here, why should I?"

Ron stood atop the giant bird, looking down at Urudia and rejecting him.

Ultear's brows furrowed even deeper, and a powerful surge of magical energy began to erupt from within her.

"That way, after I defeat you, I'll make you say it willingly!"

With a wave of her hands, she instantly conjured dozens of crystal balls in mid-air.

These crystal balls hurtled towards Ron with incredible speed, tearing through the sky.

Phew~!

Faced with the dense barrage of crystal balls, he maneuvered the giant bird beneath his feet, folding its wings to dodge the attacks in mid-air, drawing an arc as it did so.

During this time, Ron unfurled the scroll and began to sketch lines with his brush.

After dodging the attacks, he began casting magic once the bird had regained its flight posture.

Choo Choo Choo!

A dozen or so small, ink-wash-like birds burst forth from the scroll, flapping their wings and swooping down at lightning speed toward Ulutiya below.

Urudia stretched out her hands toward the ink-wash birds that flew by, locking her gaze on each of them.

"Turning to the future."

Invisible magical ripples spread through the air in an instant. The moment the ink-wash birds came into contact with the ripples, time was rapidly accelerated, and they evaporated in the air, about to disappear into the atmosphere.

However, the moment the bird evaporated, Urutia's pupils suddenly contracted.

Several dark objects continued to fly towards her at the same speed, and there were even several spheres hidden inside the birds!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The magical clay gave Ultear no time to react; several spheres exploded one after another the moment they approached her!

The explosion created a thick cloud of smoke, preventing Ron, high in the air, from checking on Urutia's condition.

Just then, more than a dozen crystal balls came flying towards Ron from the smoke, causing his pupils to shrink and him to quickly control the giant bird to dodge again.

Urudia escaped from the smoke, barely escaping the blast radius, but was still affected by the aftershocks, and the edges of her cloak were torn.

Her face still had some dust on it, making her look a bit disheveled.

So that's how it is. So this is that bastard's offensive magic?

Urudia smiled slightly, knowing from then on how to guard against her.

After dodging the attack, Ron sent out a dozen or so small birds to attack her again, but this time it was different.

With a wave of her hand, this time more than a dozen ink-wash birds and the magical clay hidden on their bodies evaporated and returned to sand.

Before they even got close to Urutia, they fell to the ground and turned into tiny black clumps and grains of sand.

Ron, dodging attacks high in the air, frowned as he looked at Urudia, who had only sustained minor injuries.

"Is the dosage still too low?"

He only intended to stun her, but he had overestimated himself.

Now that the initial encounter is over, it should be even harder to hurt her.

Now that Ultear has joined the Demon Heart, she has learned the Lost Magic: Arc of Time, a magical ability that has some troublesome properties.

This magic is ineffective against living beings, but it is very effective against non-living beings, and can neutralize their ranged attacks.

The giant bird beneath him would also be affected; if it were struck by her arc of time, it would instantly weather away and dissipate. Once he lost air superiority, things would become even more complicated.

Ron pondered for a moment, then finally controlled the giant bird to create a greater distance between himself and Urtia.

Seeing Ron's actions, Urtia felt much less worried.

It seems that this mage has run out of other means, which is why he decided to resort to a roundabout approach.

Just as Ron had predicted, he began to control the giant bird to circle around.

As he circled, Ron reached out and threw out several kunai with magical clay attached to their ends, attempting to attack again.

"The same method didn't work on me!"

Urudia deflected the kunai that was shot at her with one hand, and it dissipated into the air once again.

With her other hand, she continued to extend more crystal balls, attacking Ron.

At this time, a back-and-forth battle was taking place on the open ground, with one side attacking and dodging, and the other side attacking and neutralizing.

Just then, Ultear realized that Ron's magic power seemed to be running out, and he began to panic, his attacks becoming somewhat chaotic.

Most importantly, Ron didn't notice that the giant bird beneath his feet was getting closer and closer to Urtia.

Ultear's unfathomable magical power was naturally not something Ron would be afraid of depleting, and she was quietly waiting for an opportunity to defeat Ron instantly without him even realizing it.

During one of Ron's attacks, Urudia suddenly found an opportunity.

"Gotcha! Turn to the future!"

Seeing that the giant bird had come within her casting range, she quickly released a magical ripple towards it.

The enormous inkbird didn't even have time to utter a mournful cry before it instantly turned into dry, black fragments, which drifted away from Ron on the cold wind.

Ron's pupils contracted as he was pulled down from the bird, losing his footing and falling from the sky.

Urtia's face lit up with joy, and she quickly crossed her hands, unleashing a thunderous ice-blue magic circle at Ron's landing point.

"Ice Design: Prison!"

Countless tiny icicles rose from the snow, opening their gaping maws towards Ron, quickly surrounding him and trapping him in an ice prison.

Urudia took a deep breath, smiled slightly at Lao Que Mu En, and prepared to properly mock this rude bastard.

She paused slightly when she looked at the trapped boy through the gaps in the icicles.

Lao Que Na Guan Ling H showed no panic whatsoever. Instead, he tilted his head slightly and gave her that fake smile again.

"What are you laughing at?!"

Urutia felt a sense of foreboding.

Bang!

Before he could finish speaking, the lying 'Ron' suddenly swelled up and exploded, turning into pitch-black ink!

The large blob of ink burst open, spraying out through the cracks in the icicle and splashing onto Urtia's face, who was standing nearby!

"what!"

The sudden ink blurred Urudia's vision and also stained her face black.

After her vision was taken away, she took a few steps back in a panic and subconsciously raised her hand to wipe her eyes.

"You bastard who only knows how to hide behind someone's back and throw things, come out here if you dare!"

The next second, a cold touch gently pressed against her neck, and a calm, youthful voice sounded behind her.

"You don't naively think that all I can do is remote resource consumption, do you?"

Before she knew it, the real Ron had silently appeared behind her, holding a strange blade to her neck.

Chapter 55 The Shocking Truth

Ron was holding a strangely shaped knife in his hand.

Its blade is bent at a right angle, giving it the appearance of a long, square blade with barbs.

[Weapon Transformation Magic: Zanpakuto Wabisuke]

Before Ultear could use time magic to retaliate, Ron had already swung his longsword.

Whoosh~ Whoosh~ Whoosh~

Instead of using the sharp inner blade, he used the back of the knife to quickly strike Urudia's limbs and back three times in succession.

"Well!"

Just as Urudia was about to retaliate, he suddenly felt a heavy force pressing down on him.

Thump!

Her feet couldn't bear the weight, and she fell backward, her back pressed against the snow. She thrashed about, trying to exert force, but she couldn't move.

"What, what did you do to me?!"

Urutia lay prone on the snow, his face filled with terror and anger.

"This is the ability of my magical weapon; every time it hits, the weight of the target doubles."

Ron's three consecutive strikes instantly increased Urudia's limbs and weight by eight times, enough to keep her unable to get up.

"This is impossible! My magic clearly hit the giant bird. When did you cast the spell?"

Urudia stared at Ron with disbelief in her eyes, which had now regained their sight.

Ron casually twirled his sword and hoisted Wabisuke onto his shoulder.

I won't tell you.

He can't reveal any more of his information, otherwise if Urudia tells others later, I'll...

No, I should have more trump cards by then, so there's nothing to be afraid of.

In fact, when Ron initially created distance, it was to prevent Ultear from discovering that he was using the Ink Clone technique.

Then, when throwing kunai, Ultear thought she had missed and didn't neutralize a few of them, letting them fly nearby. Little did she know that they were already marked with the Flying Thunder God's mark, allowing her to teleport at any time.

Finally, Ron deliberately lowered his flight altitude, and then Urtia pulled him off the bird.

As expected, Urudia fell into his trap, giving him the opportunity to get close and subdue her.

"However, you can answer my question."

Ron started sitting on the snow next to Urtia in case she couldn't hear him.

"Why did you come all the way to this northern continent?"

Surely they can't be here to visit relatives?

Urudia turned her head away, not wanting to pay any attention to Ron's question.

"Did you really come here for Uru?"

Upon hearing the keywords, Urudia instantly turned her head and glared at Ron with icy eyes.

"Shut up, I don't want to hear that woman's name."

Ron shrugged and continued.

"I really don't understand why a biological daughter can hate her own mother so much?"

“She abandoned me long ago, and then she took on other apprentices and lived happily with them.”

Urudia accused Ron through gritted teeth, her fists clenched tightly, her eyes filled with hatred.

"She is not my mother."

Ron turned his head away and continued calmly stating what he knew.

"I recently discovered some dirty secrets about the dark guild 'Heart of the Devil,' which seem to be related to you."

The head of the Magical Development Agency tricked a mother into believing her daughter was dead in order to provide a child with immense magical power for *The Devil's Heart*.

Upon hearing the truth, Urudia's pupils constricted, and her breath caught in her throat for a moment.

After experiencing this shocking fact, she instinctively began to reject this unbelievable information.

"No... she's the one who left me at the Magic Development Bureau."

Ron looked at her with sad eyes.

"Do you really think a mother who is seeking medical treatment everywhere to cure her young daughter would just abandon you like this?"

Urutia's eyes instantly filled with tears, which slid down her cheeks.

"That mastermind only wanted to study your magic and ultimately turn you into a tool driven by hatred."

Urutia did not refute further, her lips trembling slightly uncontrollably.