Fairy Tail: All Magic Converges in One Body

Chapter 37 Truth and Sudden Change

"Of course it's Gray!"

Natsu answered without hesitation. Although they were mortal enemies, he always believed in his guildmates and in Gray.

Lucy also believes Gray can win, but the question is how?

It's worth noting that Leo had been in the lead throughout the previous battle, and if Hope hadn't suddenly intervened and interrupted the fight, Gray might have already lost.

"It's a spellcasting posture."

Erza spoke up, "Did you notice that Gray always casts spells with both hands, while Leo uses only one hand?"

"What's the difference?"

Lucy still didn't understand. After all, she was just a rookie mage, and a holding-type mage at that, so she didn't have much in-depth knowledge of spellcasting techniques.

Erza didn't explain, but looked at Hope, "You can also use shapeshifting magic, so why don't you explain it to Lucy?"

Hope shrugged. "For shape magic, one-handed casting is faster, while two-handed casting creates more stable objects."

Lucy immediately understood what he meant.

While shaping magic cast with one hand is quick to create, it is not as stable as creations cast with two hands, and may fail at crucial moments.

Especially during prolonged battles, the drawbacks of one-handed spellcasting become more apparent as mana is depleted.

Seeing that Lucy's analysis was so logical, Hope couldn't help but nod. As expected of the female lead, she understood immediately.

While the group was chatting, the battle on the other side had reached its final, intense stage. Gray and Leo, having reached their limits, were giving it their all in a final, desperate fight.

Gray clasped his fists together, and ice rapidly condensed between his palms into a massive two-handed greatsword, which slashed towards Leo with a whooshing sound.

"It's no use, Gray!"

"My one-handed spellcasting is stronger than yours, even stronger than Ullu's!"

With a wave of his hand, Leo conjured a gigantic ice tiger, which pounced on Gray with a chilling aura. "Defeat me, Gray!"

Leo, who was completely focused on Gray, did not notice that the final details of his appearance were quite rough.

In contrast, while Gray's hand gestures were slightly slower, each gesture remained stable and sturdy, without any flaws.

"You're the one in the wrong!"

With a roar, Gray cleaved the flawed white tiger with a single sword strike, and to Leo's disbelief, punched him hard in the face.

Leon staggered back a few steps, then fell to the ground, his dazed expression tinged with a sense of dejection and resentment. "I... I actually lost?"

"Having forgotten what Ulu taught you, isn't it only natural that you lost to me?" Gray plopped down in front of Leo. At this moment, both of them were covered in wounds, large and small cuts staining most of their exposed bodies red.

Leo gave a self-deprecating laugh.

Yes, casting spells with both hands was something Ulu taught them.

To deny one's teacher's teachings in order to prove that one has surpassed her is truly incredibly foolish.

"No matter what, I will not give up on unsealing Deliora." Even though he realized his mistakes in magic, Leo still wanted to release Deliora.

This infuriated Gray, and he was also somewhat puzzled.

"Why? Why did you do this!"

"That seal is the last thing Ulu left in the world!"

Grey's angry questioning echoed from the mountaintop, but Leo simply turned his face away.

"It's for revenge."

A man in a black robe stood up, pulled back his hood to reveal an ordinary face. "My family and friends were killed, and even my hometown was destroyed by that despicable demon."

"It would be too lenient for such a demon to be sealed away forever. But I am just an ordinary person and do not have the power to defeat a demon."

"Until one day, Lord Zero found me..."

"When he said he wanted to completely destroy Deliora, I finally saw hope, a hope that Deliora would die!"

As the man in black robes finished speaking, more men in black robes stepped forward, taking off their robes. At first glance, they were all ordinary people.

They were all victims of Deliola.

It was Leo who gave them a chance to take revenge on Deliora.

Gray fell silent. He suddenly understood why Leo wanted to release Deliora and then destroy it.

That wasn't just to prove that he had surpassed his master, Ullu.

What Leo really wants to do is to kill Deliora completely and avenge Ur!

"So, in order to get revenge, you choose to harm the inhabitants of this island?" Erza stepped forward and brought up the matter of the purple moon.

Leo's expression changed slightly. "Wait, that magic only condensed the moon's essence. How could it possibly disrupt the memories of those villagers?"

"By the way, it was Gerrit who set up the magic circle. I called him here to confront you."

Leo and the men in black robes looked around but couldn't find the short, masked man.

"No need to look anymore, he's already run away."

Hope's voice rang out as he slowly approached Leo while munching on some fruit. "That guy named Gerrit has a lot of problems. I've already fought him, and he's much stronger than you."

Leo's eyes widened; he couldn't believe that his loyal subordinate, who had helped him for three years, was actually stronger than him.

If that's true, then his submission to me must mean he has ulterior motives...

Leo couldn't believe it. The magic circle of the Moon Drop had always been under Gerrit's control. If he wanted to tamper with it and give it functions he didn't know about, it would be incredibly easy.

They actually started to waver.

Looking at the silent Leo, Hope's lips curled into a smile. He had only said it casually, but he didn't expect the other party to believe it so easily.

I don't know if it's just naiveté.

Or did you sense something was wrong all along but have been numbing yourself with false hope?

Hope thinks it should be the latter.

Just then, the entire mountain suddenly began to shake.

The Moon Drops magic circle, which was supposed to operate only at night, started working on its own, and the high concentration of moonlight that should only be collected at night appeared in the magic circle.

The magic circle containing the Moon Drop actually stored a large amount of lunar power.

This was clearly done by Geralt, who was in charge of the magic circle!

This way, he can control the progress of breaking the seal at will!

Everyone here is just a tool for Jelt to break the seal, and the other party's goal is probably to release Deliora!

Leo finally realized what was happening, but it was too late. The purple light, along with the unstoppable magic circle, instantly poured into the huge block of ice beneath the mountain.

In that instant, countless cracks appeared inside the eternally unchanging ice seal.

With its enormous crimson pupils lighting up, the great demon "Deliora," who had once destroyed countless lives and plunged countless people into despair, has awakened.

Chapter 38 In order to avoid losing again

“Ah——!”

The roar from the earth was like a thunderclap, as if it wanted to shatter the silence of the past ten years in one breath, making the entire mountain tremble.

A chilling, biting aura shot straight into the sky, and gloomy, evil shadows surged in the air, instantly turning the clear sky into a dense, overcast one.

Under this suffocating sense of oppression, the black-robed people, who were just ordinary people to begin with, turned pale and their bodies trembled uncontrollably.

Each of them had lost their closest friends and family to Deliora's clutches, and it was this deep-seated hatred that drove them to follow Leon.

The hope of witnessing the complete annihilation of the enemy is within reach.

Even though they were just ordinary people without any power, and even though their bodies were trembling with fear, not a single black-robed man would back down at this moment.

Even Gray's heart began to stir uncontrollably; the painful memories sealed away by time were breaking free of their seal like a surging tide.

That snowy night reappeared before my eyes: the towering silhouette of a demon ripped through the sky, desperate cries pierced the cold wind, villages crumbled in the frost, and the blood of loved ones stained the pure white snow dark red...

All the darkness that Ulu had sealed in his heart was now awakening along with the melting of the ice on the giant demon's body.

Ten years had made him mistakenly believe that he had long since emerged from the shadows. Only now did Gray realize with a start that those painful knots in his heart had never truly disappeared; they had simply been sealed away in the deepest recesses of his soul by Ulu's gentleness.

"All ordinary people, get down the mountain right now! Get as far away as you can!"

Erza's calm voice brought the black-robed men, who were eager to fight Deliora to the death, back to their senses. In the face of the great battle to come, they would only be a burden to the mages without power.

But there were also stubborn individuals who would retort, "Who do you think you are? What gives you the right to order me around..."

Before he could finish speaking, the man was so frightened by Erza's disapproving look that he stopped talking.

Leo also came to his senses at this moment. He looked at his companions who had persisted for the same goal for the past three years, his voice hoarse but filled with unprecedented determination.

"Everyone, hurry down the mountain! I will destroy Deliora!"

Despite saying that, Leo already knew he couldn't do it.

Ten years ago, he could only watch helplessly as his master, Ulu, died.

Ten years later, he trusted a "Zerut" he shouldn't have, causing Deliora, whom Ulu had sealed with her life, to awaken again.

In the end, despite years of hard training, he couldn't even defeat his junior brother Gray, who should have been lagging behind. How could he possibly kill the great demon that even Ullu couldn't destroy back then?

Failure seemed to permeate Leo's entire life.

So he made a fatal decision: to use "Absolute Freeze" to make up for his mistake, even if it cost him his life.

The people in black robes evacuated quickly, but Deliora broke the seal even faster.

"Damn humans!"

"I, Deliora, am back!"

Amidst the violent earthquake, a gigantic, ferocious figure tore through the earth and emerged from underground.

The powerful demon Deliora, who once ravaged the northern lands of Ishgar and could not be defeated even by Ul, the strongest mage in the north, and could only be sealed away, has finally reappeared in this world after ten years of being frozen.

“Ulu…”

Gray subconsciously murmured the name that had given him new life, his cold gaze fixed on the enormous demonic figure before him.