A magic merchant infiltrating Fairy Tail

Looking at the buildings he had destroyed in the distance, Brian snorted coldly, not in a good mood, because he didn't feel like he had hit his target.

"You dodged it?"

Just then, Brian felt the world blur before his eyes, and then he was forced back several steps by the force!

"What?!"

Brian was stunned, because his Dark Guardian had disappeared in an instant, and he hadn't seen who did it at all!

Upon closer inspection, he realized that the force that pushed him back was composed of dozens of weaker thrusts combined. Looking down out of the corner of his eye, he saw that his body was covered in dense golden dye, the marks left after he was shot.

In an instant, Brian's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief, and the image of Timalia flashed through his mind.

"It's that woman?!"

Chapter 686 Kira's Dimensional Reduction Attack: Pausing the User of Pausing Time

In the audience, all the mages, spectators, and judges were puzzled by the changes before their eyes.

"What just happened?!"

"Why did Brian suddenly get shot?!"

"Where is it? Where is my Timalia-chan hiding??"

The audience looked around, searching diligently for Timalia's figure through the virtual screen in mid-air, but to no avail.

"That is Timalia's Seal of Time..."

Aside from the members of 'The Emperor's Shield' and 'Sin of the Witch', only the members of 'Fairy Tail' could tell what had just happened.

"The magic that can stop time is such a huge advantage in this kind of competition!"

Mavis frowned, her snow-white feet twisting and turning as if she were nervous about the situation in the competition. "In just a moment, Timaria can shoot a number of hits that no ordinary person can catch up with. Kira is in trouble this time!"

Upon hearing her words, the Fairy Tail members immediately had a feeling that 'Kira might crash and burn in this competition'.

"Hiss—! Could it be that Kira is going to lose this time??"

Natsu and the others exchanged bewildered glances, and one of them blurted out, "This is just too much..."

They swallowed back the words, "Isn't this something to look forward to?" because no one knew if these guys around them would tattle on Kira later!

It seems that in their memory, Kira has never lost a single competition or fight that requires the use of magic since childhood!

Because he has so many tricks up his sleeve and so much magic power, he could take on ten Laxus by himself without even breaking a sweat. It would be so interesting to see him get a taste of defeat.

At that moment, they even forgot that Kira was fighting for the guild.

High in the air, Kira was furious that Timalia had succeeded in her attack due to his momentary carelessness.

"That Timaria... she actually stole my kills?! And dozens of them at once?! This... this... she's forcing me to take action!!"

With a helpless sigh, Kira's expression immediately changed: "There's no other way. Since you've chosen to compete with magic, then I won't hold back!"

If Timalia had only fired one shot at Brian, or one shot at each of them, Kira could have turned a blind eye and let her do nothing. But this woman fired dozens of shots.

That's absolutely shameless!

If she keeps stopping time and firing like this, firing a hundred or so shots at a time, how are the other players supposed to play?

"For the sake of fairness in the game, I have no choice but to seal the 'Sealed Time'! However..."

However, I'll seal it again when she uses it next time.

Kira wasn't the only one furious; Brian was too.

These guys...why have they only attacked me the whole time?! Fine! Very well! I'm going to destroy you all anyway, so what's one more time?!

Tread...  

Timalia stepped out from the side and faced Brian directly.

There was only one woman in today's competition, Timalia, so she was feeling somewhat bored. Fortunately, Brian in front of her seemed to be quite strong, which gave her a twisted desire to toy with the strong.

"Finally you've come out? You wretched woman!!"

At this point, Brian was still unaware of the gap between himself and Timalia.

He could sense that the other person's magic was no weaker than his own, but influenced by the strong destructive desires of his inner personality, and having been beaten since the beginning, Brian was now only a little bit away from losing his mind.

Looking at Timalia before him, Brian's expression hardened again, then he threw his head back and laughed wildly, "You managed to make me look so pathetic, you're really worth destroying!!"

Timalia: "..."

Is this person crazy?

"Everlasting Dreams!!"

Brian roared and unleashed a spiraling black beam of light, the extreme dark power radiating immense destructive and penetrating force.

At that very moment, the Seal of Time was activated!

The violent magic, Brian's movements, the audience's gasps... all stopped flowing at this moment; the entire physical movement of the venue paused for a split second!

"Tsk tsk tsk... How pitiful!"

Timaria strolled slowly, bypassing Brian's magic, and walked up to him, preparing to fire her gun again, her mouth still full of sarcasm: "Your strength is not bad, it's just a pity you ran into me! You probably never dreamed that such an outrageous magic as 'Sealing of Time' existed in this world, did you?"

After circling Brian once, Timalia stopped behind him: "We just attacked the front, so let's attack the back this time..."

Suddenly, Timalia's voice stopped abruptly, and then she, as if she had stopped time, also stopped moving!

"Waaaaaah!!"

"This is what they call the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind!"

Just like Timaria before him, Kira arrogantly mocked her: "Timaria, you probably never dreamed that such an outrageous magic as 'Time-Stopping Seal' existed in this world!"

This isn't the first time the Time Seal has been broken. During the S-Class assessment, Ultear demonstrated her ability to 'move within paused time,' while Kira learned the ability to 'remove paused time.'

But what no one knew was that at that time, Kira also mastered the magic of 'stopping time', and at a higher priority than Timalia!

And so, naturally, Kira gained the ability to pause time when the user pauses time!

If the person currently frozen is on the first level, then Timalia is on the second level, and Kira is on the third level!

Without any hesitation, Kira raised his gun and fired at Timalia's body!

Da da da... Da da da...

In the third layer of time nesting, the concept of time had long since disappeared, so Kira didn't know how long he had been shooting. He only knew that Timalia was now covered in red paint, with not a single patch of good skin.

"I'll dye your hair, don't be shy!"

"Hey, your clothes are pretty red? Oh well, I don't mind!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, your skin is well-maintained, so white and tender, but now it's all my color from head to toe!"

After dealing with Timalia, Kira went to Brian's side and imitated him, but this time he didn't lay a hand on him. After all, they were both men and knew each other well.

Kira then dyed each of the people who had just crawled out from under the ruins, including Markbeth, Ichiya, Pakas, Toby, and others, with his own color; following his magical senses, he found the last person hiding, Desizhu, smeared him with red, and then took him to the previous battlefield.

Looking at the seven red figures before him, some standing and some lying down, Kira nodded with satisfaction. Then…

"Traces of Time: Exhaustion!"

With a soft shout, Kira used his long-forgotten Word of Power magic to replicate Timaria's Time Mark, simultaneously imbuing the seven people with the weariness they had felt in the past.

Combined with its own powerful magic, this move is enough to put a newly promoted Saint-level mage into a deep sleep.

"That way, when time resumes, they will simply fall asleep."

The next moment, time resumed!

The magic was lifted, and time resumed its course, but it wasn't instantaneous; rather, it unfolded layer by layer, like peeling an onion.

Timalia was the first to be able to move; she was the only one who was frozen on the second level.

"All right……"

As soon as Timalia finished speaking the last word of her previous sentence, the world around her blurred, and Brian in her sight turned into a red figure.

"Wait!! What's going on?!"

Before she could finish speaking, Timalia noticed two more anomalies: one was that she felt sticky all over and seemed to have become a red person herself; the other was that she could see several humanoid objects that were completely red in her peripheral vision.

Before she could even take a closer look, a familiar yet unprecedented weariness washed over her entire body, every muscle signaling a desire to rest.

Timalia's body could not withstand the sudden burst of exhaustion, and she fell backward, unable to maintain the 'Sealing of Time' magic any longer.

Snapped!

As if a mirage had been shattered, the surroundings resumed motion, and time began to flow again.

The second layer of the onion's skin has been peeled off.

Brian's sinister smile froze on his face. He had just cast his spell when he sensed something was wrong. His body was incredibly tired, as if he had been overworked and was extremely weak.

This weakness also greatly reduced the power of his "Dark Fantasy". It lost 90% of its power halfway through the flight, and when it hit the empty ground, it only made a muffled thud.

Thump! Thump! ...

Without the magic of Timalia and Brian, Markbeth and the others were no match for Kira's magic and collapsed one after another from exhaustion the moment time resumed.

"What... happened..."

Almost at the same time, Brian also lost his strength and fell to the ground. He fell forward, so his face hit the ground first. Before losing consciousness, he only had time to utter a weak question.

In contrast, Timalia was treated much better—she fell backward, but Kira caught her with quick reflexes.

Looking at Timaria in his arms, who was limp, weak, swaying, and with a dazed look in her eyes, Kira's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise: "As expected of a Shield-class fighter, she's still not unconscious?"

"Or is it because they are descendants of the God of Time, and therefore have an innate strong resistance to time-based magic?"

Upon hearing the sounds around her and feeling the discomfort in her body, Timalia knew she had lost the competition, but the crucial point was that she didn't even know how she had lost.

I'm so angry!

Amidst resentment, doubt, and anger, Timalia closed her eyes in Kira's arms and fell into a deep sleep.

Inside the venue, everyone was stunned, staring blankly at what was happening before them, unsure of what to say.

"Wha...what happened?! What just happened in that split second?!"