A magic merchant infiltrating Fairy Tail

Chapter 341 The Thousand-Year Ice Prison

On the battlefield not far away, the cold wind howled and ice and water mingled.

With Icebird's cry of "Activate battle mode!", Keith and Cana ignited a new battle.

As soon as the sound ended, the temperature around them plummeted, and ice suddenly rose up. A colder blast of air, even colder than before, erupted from the ice bird, freezing the surrounding area for several feet into ice.

The chill continued to seep into the battlefield, even affecting Lucy's battle on the other side.

The demon soldiers, originally divided into two battlefields, were drawn by the powerful magic and rushed towards this side, but were quickly frozen into ice sculptures by the cold air and lost their fighting ability.

"Now you're the only one left!"

After dealing with the demon minions, Kana controlled the mechanical ice bird and unleashed a chilling aura at the newly formed Keith, instantly creating a layer of ice several centimeters thick on his body!

"Um?!"

Sensing something amiss, Keith quickly unleashed his magical power, shattering the ice clinging to his hands. The ice instantly turned into tiny ice particles that fell to the ground. Keith's body then dispersed again, instantly appearing behind Kana, ready to attack the summoner directly!

But as Kira's creation, how could Anivia's abilities be weak?

As Keith began to move, Cana controlled the ice bird to spread its snow-white wings and prepare for takeoff.

Since it is a mechanical creation, its wings do not fly by flapping, but are equipped with a magic engine, a flight device powered by magic stored in a miniature magic crystal. With such equipment, the ice bird's movement speed is naturally no slower than Keith's.

So when Keith came up behind Kana, Ice Bird had already glided over with a "whoosh" and blocked his way.

"So fast!" Keith was still in surprise when he suddenly saw the ice bird open its mouth.

Bang!

With a loud bang, the ice bird fired an ice cannon, which passed right through Keith and blasted the demonic ice sculpture on the ground to pieces!

"Don't underestimate me! You damned demon!"

Although her opponent was unharmed, Kana was not discouraged at all; instead, she was filled with confidence. She discovered that her mental strength had grown significantly since the guild tournament, and controlling the ice bird was effortless, even adept.

"What a foolish woman! She's already tried so many times, why does she still make such a useless attack?" Keith mocked Kana as he slowly gathered his scattered body together, preparing to launch another attack.

An unknown black substance, driven by willpower and fueled by the wind, expanded and enveloped Kana. The black substance then formed four sharp blades, launching simultaneous attacks from Kana's left, right, back, and above.

But Kana was one step ahead of her opponent! To be precise, she overtook her opponent after starting later!

As the opponent launched their attack, Kana's mental power controlled the ice bird to unleash four ice blades, which flew from its wings and struck the four sources of attack simultaneously.

puff puff puff...

With four whooshing sounds, the ice blades once again shattered Keith's body, but since it could elementalize, such attacks were completely ineffective.

Keith laughed loudly: "Useless! Useless! No matter how many times you try, your attacks are ineffective against me!"

"That's not necessarily true!!" Kana's eyes narrowed, and she burst forth with intense fighting spirit.

She rarely felt this way. She didn't even feel this way when fighting Gray in the guild tournament; she didn't feel this way when Kira stole her money for drinks to pay off his debt; she didn't feel this way even when she thought that she might be able to reunite with Gildarts after this battle.

This might be a fanatical fighting spirit that she had long forgotten, hidden deep within her bloodline!

At that moment, a thought suddenly popped into Cana's mind: What if I were someone from 'Fairy Tail'? What if I were Gildarts's daughter? I never imagined that I... that Cana Alperona was such a passionate woman?

In her mind, which Kana couldn't see, her mental power was growing explosively without her noticing. At the same time, the magic power within her body was also gradually increasing, as if the bloodline talent she inherited from Gildarts had finally awakened.

"You bastard!! Take this!!"

With a loud shout, Kana caused a chill to rise from the battlefield, and countless ice spears, ice cannons, and ice swords appeared out of thin air, sweeping towards the enemy under Kana's control!

At that moment, Cana felt as cool as Erza!

The icy weapon unleashed its power for a full minute, creating a deafening roar that could be clearly heard within a radius of dozens of feet, a truly magnificent display.

However, when the chilling mist dissipated, the enemy remained unharmed, calmly watching Kana as she began to pant.

"You do have talent, but unfortunately, you're destined to die here today!" Keith stared intently at Kana with his skeletal eyes and said coldly, "I've already mastered this mechanical beast's attack methods!"

Kana remained silent. Keith glanced at the ice weapon stuck beside him and continued, "It must be admitted that the ice magic you use with it is very powerful. It has a stable shape and high attack power, stronger than many mages. But unfortunately, it's useless against someone like me!"

As he spoke, as if deliberately showing off, he transformed into black matter again and drifted into the air: "At this point, you're pretty much out of tricks, aren't you? Then I'll end this battle!"

Keith spread his arms, the iron rings on his scepter jingling. At the same time, his magical power surged, and his body grew to two or three times its original size, gradually becoming transparent. Then, he roared in a deep voice, "City of Death!!"

The spell took effect immediately, producing several muffled thuds and several crisp cracks from the ground.

A muffled thud is the movement of a corpse; a sharp crack is the breaking of frozen ice by the demon's body.

This is a battlefield between demons and fairies. Kana's 'Fairy Radiance' took down hundreds of demons earlier, and she dealt with some more during the subsequent battle.

And now, they're all back!

The dead demon minions broke through the ice from underground, as if they had come back to life, and rejoined the battle.

This time, they will not die, because they were already dead; this time, they will no longer fear pain, because the dead have no consciousness.

"My spell is to manipulate the dead. The more you kill, the larger my army becomes! The dead are not afraid of the cold, and you can never defeat me!"

Suddenly, Keith's voice stopped abruptly.

In an instant, its entire legion of the dead was frozen solid, the freezing effect penetrating from the fur to the flesh, bones, and tendons, leaving them with no remaining death energy to drive them and rendering them immobile.

Keith's face paled in horror, and he forcibly used his magical power to control the corpse: "What's going on?!"

Clang!

With a sudden, sharp crack, it exploded, then a second, a third...

A series of cracking sounds rang out, lasting for several tens of seconds before stopping. Accompanying this was a heavy thud as something fell to the ground, followed by the sound of the ice breaking again.

The more exhilarated they were just now, the more awkward they are now.

Keith muttered incredulously, "What... is going on?"

"Phew... Now I understand why Kira always says 'villains die from talking too much'! It's actually true!" Cana's voice came through, her tone tinged with schadenfreude. "Thanks for what you said earlier, it gave me enough time to prepare... this final, ultimate move!"

Card-summoned beasts have a "ultimate move". During the guild tournament, Kana's Fire Demon Ape used its "ultimate move - Flame Spiral" to fight against the newly upgraded Gray, and the two were evenly matched.

"How is that possible?" Keith was surprised, but he still comforted himself, "Even if there are still moves he hasn't made, that kind of attack couldn't possibly harm me!!"

"Have you forgotten what Ice Bird said before?"

The probability of victory is 50%, and the probability of sealing is 90%.

Keith murmured, "Seal..."

In that instant, Keith thought of many things, but the first thing that came to mind from the words "ice" and "seal" was an extremely terrifying magic—absolute freeze!

Kana's voice came again: "Calling it a seal isn't quite accurate; it should be called freezing magic!"

Keith ran away! Upon hearing the word "freeze," he turned and took off running without hesitation!

But he can't escape!

"Take this! You damned demon!"

The ice weapons scattered on the ground were not used for venting attacks, but rather as a means to increase the amount of ice and enhance the cold. They had now changed form, becoming an ice cage suspended in mid-air.

The cage appeared to be a cylinder made of countless icicles, with thirty-six icicles running through it from top to bottom and left to right, firmly holding Keith inside; eighteen ice chains hung down from the bottom of the cage, swaying gently in the wind and making a crisp sound, making it look majestic.

"A Thousand-Year-Old Ice Prison!!"

Chapter 342 Happy: Natsu, are we the only ones who haven't defeated the enemy yet?

"This is not... absolute freeze..."

Keith's voice grew softer and softer. He could feel that his special physique had lost its effect in this ice prison. The bone-chilling cold solidified his body and froze it into ice.

The frozen areas have completely lost sensation, and the pain is spreading from the limbs to the brain.

"The magic used before created solid ice to physically attack the target, which is external destruction; while this move uses a large amount of ice as the casting material to trap the target and freeze it into ice, which is internal destruction!"

"Damn it..."

Keith's consciousness gradually faded, and its demonic instincts told it that its life had come to an end.

"Once you are surrounded by the preceding ice magic, you will never be able to escape this thousand-year-old ice prison behind you! Even if you have a special constitution, it will only take a few seconds to freeze into ice."

"I won this battle!"

Looking at the demon frozen inside, no longer moving, Kana nodded in satisfaction. "However, you probably can't hear me now, can you?"

The ice prison crashed to the ground with a loud, crisp sound, simultaneously whipping up a strong wind and bringing a thin mist of ice.

After the cold wind and wisps of smoke dissipated, Kana couldn't resist her curiosity and went to take a look. She saw that there were no demons in the cracked ice prison anymore, only a shattered ice sculpture.

"No wonder those people love to explain their magic when they win; it really feels good!"

The battle ended, and Kana and Lucy reunited.

Having faced a demon from the 'Nine Demon Gate' alone, the two were utterly exhausted. Lucy had almost no magic left and was completely weak; while Cana had expended a great deal of mental energy and was only holding on by sheer willpower.

Just then, a roar descended from the sky: "LucyYYYY!!!"

Boom! !

With a loud bang, Natsu, carried away by Happy, crashed to the ground!

"It's Natsu and Happy?!"

As soon as Natsu landed, he looked around and shook Lucy, who was trembling, asking, "Lucy, are you alright? Where are the enemies?"

"Be gentle with your movements! I'm injured right now!!" Lucy snapped, swatting away Natsu's hand that was on her shoulder. "Why did you all come back here?"

“Because Rocky said you were in danger, so…”

On the other side of the battlefield, Natsu and Gray were originally fighting Silver, and Gajeel and Loki were fighting Ethel. However, Loki sensed that Lucy was in danger, so he teleported over through the Celestial Spirit World, leaving a message before leaving.

Upon hearing that Lucy was in danger, Natsu abandoned his fight with Silver and rushed over, leaving Gray behind, only to arrive too late.

"You're too late! The enemy has already been dealt with!"

"Huh?!!"

A minute later, after hearing Lucy's account, Natsu and Happy were so shocked their eyes popped out. "No way?! Lucy took down one of the 'Nine Demon Gates' so quickly?!?!"

Thinking of Silver's strength, the human and the cat couldn't help but sigh, "So amazing..."

Lucy said smugly, "Of course, I'm really strong now! Not only me, but Kana also defeated a 'Nine Demon Gate' all by herself!"