Seeing this from a distance, Zeref and Natsu felt a slight sense of relief. Zeref supported Hopeless; after Chronos interrupted their teleportation magic, he dared not make any further moves and could only observe the situation first.
Natsu sniffed the air; he felt there was a faint, familiar aura about the mysterious man.
"Natsu, what's wrong?" Zeref asked in a low voice.
“It’s nothing…” Natsu frowned, “It’s just that that person feels a bit familiar, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.”
Just then, a deep, aged voice echoed in Natsu's mind: "It's Acnologia."
Upon hearing Old Man Dragon's voice, Natsu was startled: "That person is Black Dragon? But why is he wearing armor? We've seen him before."
“I didn’t say he was the Black Dragon. The armor of that black-armored man had the aura of the Black Dragon, although it was very faint and covered by other scents, but I wouldn’t mistake it.”
Natsu sniffed hard several times, but couldn't smell anything, which he could only attribute to his unfamiliarity with the black dragon.
In the center of the battlefield, Chronos looked at Ankhseram and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "This body is about to reach its limit in receiving my divine soul. It can only last for another half hour at most, so don't delay any longer. Kill everyone now."
Anksera nodded.
In fact, He was more anxious than Chronos. Although Chronos had restored Him to his full strength by reversing time, He was not confident that He could handle the situation alone if Chronos was forced into a deep sleep.
As long as Mystic holds Him back, He will be doomed, whether Hope or Hopeless recovers.
"Go all out," Ankhseram said in a low voice.
The two gods held nothing back and unleashed their full magical power.
Suddenly, the earth shook violently.
Under the immense pressure of the two gods' full-force magic, the sky was torn in two by terrifying magic, one half as black as ink and the other as golden as day.
Hope looked up at the overwhelming sight, his heart pounding. This was the greatest advantage of the gods: the magic of accumulating years of service.
In this state, the attacks from the two gods would be several times stronger than any previous attack.
Although his body had recovered to some extent, the magnetic field virus was still active in his body and could not withstand this level of attack at all.
"We can't wait any longer."
Hope gritted his teeth and gripped the 'Infinite Functions' tightly. The heart-shaped magical artifact pulsed in his palm, radiating a warm, pulsating light. Just as he was about to embed the artifact into his chest...
A deep, hoarse voice came from inside the black armor.
"No."
Hope was taken aback. The mysterious man's voice was clearly disguised; it was deep and hoarse, with an electronic tone that made it impossible to tell if it was male or female, but the tone carried an undeniable firmness.
"You recognize this?" Hope held up 'Infinite Functions'.
The man in black armor paused for a moment, then said, "When you were time-stopped just now, the God of Time had already tampered with it. Once you use..."
Hope's heart sank; an enemy who controlled time was just too troublesome.
"Who exactly are you?" Hope stared at the dark figure. "You know the function of my items, you wield the same divine golden sword as me, what exactly happened in the future?"
The mysterious man's identity as a visitor was revealed, but he did not turn around. He only left Hope with his back to him and went to meet Chronos and Ankhseram alone.
The black-armored figure transformed into a streak of light and shot into the sky, its sword blade igniting with crimson flames. The temperature of the flames was terrifyingly high, even distorting and deforming the surrounding air.
Hope recognized it immediately as Fire Dragon Slayer Magic.
But it is more refined, purer, and more violent than Natsu's flames.
Ankhseram scoffed dismissively: "Mere dragon-slaying magic..."
Before the words were even finished, the flaming sword light was already upon them.
Ankhseram raised his death scythe to parry, and at the moment the blade collided with the scythe, a terrifying force traveled along the scythe to his arm, making his hand go numb and his entire arm sink downwards.
A crimson arc tore through death, forcing Ankhseram to retreat repeatedly.
Chronos frowned, raised his hand, and shot a beam of time magic towards the black-armored man's back. The golden time magic struck accurately, but nothing happened.
The magic, powerful enough to instantly obliterate a living being, struck the black armor like water droplets falling on a stone, leaving not a trace.
"This is... magic immunity?!"
For the first time, Chronos showed a shocked expression. "You're Acnologia?!"
The mysterious man did not answer, but instead swung his sword at Chronos with a backhand. The fiery sword light swept across with a destructive force, its power even surpassing the breath of a true dragon.
Crimson flames raged across the battlefield, forcing the two gods, who were immune to magic, to switch from offense to defense and wait for an opportunity to exploit a weakness.
As an observer, Hope immediately noticed the mysterious man's weakness.
While the black armor granted immunity to magical damage, it couldn't completely negate the impact of magic. Each time Ankhseram and Chronos's attacks struck the armor, the mysterious man's body would stagger slightly backward.
Armor can block magic, but it cannot stop the transfer of kinetic energy.
Ankhseram and Chronos quickly discovered the problem and immediately used magic with high impact to slam into the mysterious man.
They, the gods, may not have much else, but they have an inexhaustible supply of magical power.
"That person's body is about to give out."
Jelf had somehow moved to Hope's side, his gaze also fixed on the battlefield. "Have you noticed? Although that armor is immune to magic, it seems to drain the wearer's life force."
Bloodsucking armor, huh...?
Hope frowned. The two gods had discovered the mysterious man's weakness; this was not good.
Chapter 485 The Man Who Risked His Life
However, Hope's concerns seemed somewhat unnecessary thanks to Anxelam's handling of the situation.
"Kronos, teleport! Throw her into the rift!"
When Ankhseram was being hunted by the black dragon, he used magic to banish the space where the black dragon was located to a spatial rift outside the world, and now he wants to do the same thing again.
Chronos immediately understood.
Although spatial magic can never return to its peak, in the realm of spatial magic, if Chronos dares to claim second place, no one can claim first.
"Ha! A time-space fault!"
Chronos clasped his hands together, and golden magic condensed in his palms into a rotating halo. "Get out of here and slowly be obliterated in the rift!"
A pitch-black rift continued to widen, revealing the chaotic and empty space behind it, where the temporal turbulence was so intense that even the Black Dragon couldn't withstand it for long.
The mysterious man forced Ankhseram back with a single sword strike, then turned to face the forming rift. Instead of retreating, he charged towards Chronos.
Gripping the divine golden sword in reverse, a demonic soul seemed to merge into the mysterious woman's body from behind. Dark flames erupted from the sword, transforming into a massive fiery sword aura that slashed out horizontally.
With a flash of sword light, Kuronos immediately let out a scream.
A severed hand twirled several times in the air before falling to the ground with a thud.
Natsu watched in stunned silence, his mouth agape, unable to utter a word for a long time. Was that really Fire Dragon Slayer Magic? How could it be so much stronger than his own flames?
“Don’t doubt yourself, Natsu.” Zeref saw through the clue. “The mysterious man must have used Receiving Magic to receive a powerful soul, and then used Dragon Slayer Magic to sever the arm of the God of Time.”
As time magic flowed, the severed arm returned to his body intact, but Chronos's expression had become extremely ugly.
He never expected that a mere human could achieve such a feat.
Anxelam shook his head. "You can't even handle this? He's never been so fragile, even when Hope beat him up in all sorts of ways."
"Don't get too close to her!"
Ankhseram said, "Use shock magic to wear her down. This guy's body isn't like Hope's, which is abnormal. He definitely won't last long!"
The two gods immediately distanced themselves, and the Death Domain and Time Magic bombarded the mysterious man in alternating waves, unleashing a continuous barrage of impactful magic.
Although magic itself cannot penetrate the armor, the enormous impact slowed the black-armored man's movements, and blood dripped from the gaps in the armor.
Hope took a step forward.
"Don't come any closer," came the mysterious man's resolute voice from ahead.
“You’ll die,” Hope said. “If my girlfriend knew I was just watching while my teammates were fighting, she’d be furious.”
The man in black armor trembled slightly and chuckled softly.
"No, she won't blame you."
The voice was so soft that Hope didn't hear it clearly. He wanted to ask more, but another wave of attacks from Ankhseram and Chronos had already arrived.
The mysterious woman sheathed her sword, realizing that with her weaknesses exposed, it was no longer realistic for her to fight against two gods, so...
She slammed a wand with dark red patterns wrapped around its surface into the ground, the crystal at the tip of the wand emitting a dazzling light.
The magic "Dragon's Cry" is activated.
The next second, the sky cracked open.
Four enormous figures descended from the sky, crashing onto the battlefield like four moving mountains.
Melkkobia the Water God, Selene the Moon God, Ignia the Fire God, and Elevseria the Magic Dragon... The four missing dragons reappeared at the same time.
Behind them, an even larger black shadow slowly emerged. The figure blotted out most of the sky, and the gale whipped up by its black dragon wings caused the entire sky to tremble.
Ankhseram's eyes widened instantly, his face turning grim, and he exclaimed in surprise:
"Acnologia!!"
The newcomer was a terrifying being that even the gods found extremely troublesome.
Black Dragon Acnologia!
Hope finally understood why he had been unable to contact the Black Dragon all this time: the Black Dragon had been controlled by a mysterious person using the Dragon's Cry Wand.
But how is that possible? The black dragon possesses a body completely immune to magic, so how could "Dragon's Cry" control him?
Under the control of the mysterious figure, the black dragon and the four-headed dragons targeted Ankhseram.
The Water Dragon's Water Cannon, the Moon Dragon's Moonbeam Ray, the Flame Dragon's Blazing Breath, and the Magic Dragon's Magic Torrent all simultaneously bombarded Ankhseram.
These attacks, taken individually, were nothing more than a tickle to the God of Life and Death; what truly troubled him was the dragon that struck last.
Acnologia spread its wings, and endless rays of light covered the sky like shooting stars—the black dragon's most powerful magic.
Immortality Ray!
Seeing Acnologia being held back, Chronos activated both time and space magic simultaneously, attempting to restrain the controlled dragons.
But in that instant when he was distracted, a flash of sword light arrived.
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