Chapter 591: Time Afterimage
Gray doesn't care about gods or demons. All he wants now is to defeat the woman in front of him and win the title of S-class wizard this year.
"I'm on it!"
Without any extra words, Gray shouted to show his martial virtue, and then quickly rushed forward: "Ice-made Great Hammer Soldier!"
A huge ice hammer fell from the sky, and the wind was freezing.
"Time beam!"
The magic power gathered into a powerful golden beam, which instantly penetrated the ice hammer and disintegrated it, causing the ice crystals to shatter and scatter.
Although time stop no longer works on Gray and Urrutia with the help of the Arc of Time, it still works on objects. During the stopped time, Timaria used an invisible attack.
"Ice-made·Lance and Cavalry Dance!!"
With another light shout, hundreds of sword blades took shape instantly.
After three months of experience in the Western Continent, Gray has improved a lot since the Harvest Festival, and is almost on par with the Empire chapter of the original work.
"Time Blast Wave!!"
boom!!
The huge explosion engulfed the ice blade, and a thick white fog that obscured vision enveloped the battlefield, and no one could see what was happening inside. Then, a series of extremely fast clanging sounds came from it.
After a few breaths, two figures broke through the white mist. Gray held an ice sword and Dimalia held her dagger. The two fell to the ground and faced each other, looking at each other with full of fighting spirit.
"Lord Gray! Let Juvia lend you a hand!!" Juvia volunteered and stood beside Gray with her chest puffed out.
Seeing that his clothes were pierced through with two peaks, Gray blushed and turned his head quickly: "This is my battle, don't interfere!"
"I remember your opponent in this level should be Lucy, right? You'd better save your strength now, because Lucy is very strong now!"
"What?! Gray-sama actually praised Lucy like that?!!"
Juvia's face instantly turned pale, and two lines of tears flowed down her cheeks uncontrollably, "You actually got along so well with Gray-sama behind my back...Aaaaaah!! Love rival! Love rival!!!"
“No, it’s not…”
Gray was too tired to complain, and in panic he could only bite the bullet and explain, "I just don't want to see you being bullied by her like you just did and have no power to fight back..."
“Huh?!”
"What I mean is... if other people saw your body , I would feel uncomfortable... like this..." Gray scratched his face with his fingers shyly, and his face turned half black and half red.
This... this this this... Lord Gray is... caring about me?!
Juvia's not-so-smart brain began to calculate the formula: Gray-sama doesn't like others seeing my body = Gray-sama cares about me = Gray-sama likes me
Shui Lingling's eyes instantly turned into a beating red heart: "Mr. Gray~"
"Let go! Let go!! She's calling!"
"Ahh~ It's clearly an exciting fight between beautiful women, why is there an extra man?"
"That's right... It's such an eyesore, that naked pervert..."
Not far away, two men hiding behind the frozen grass looked at this scene with a slightly dissatisfied look on their faces, pointing fingers at the battle.
"But it's great to be young..."
"That's right! Gray has finally come to his senses. It seems that he was stimulated by the rapid development of Natsu and Lucy when It turns out that love is something that can only be forced!"
These few words immediately aroused Gildarts' curiosity, and he immediately pulled Kira to ask, "Nani, Nani? What happened to Natsu and Lucy in the Western Continent?"
"Hehehe...let me tell you slowly! This is how it is..."
"Ah~ I see! Natsu, that bastard brat has grown up. He has indeed reached the age to receive the nourishment of love. I used to think he was back with Lisanna... What?! Is there something about Levi in this?!"
Just then, another sweet shout interrupted their conversation.
"Tianlong's Namikaze!!"
"Ah, it looks like the battle over there is about to be decided!"
Gray was beating Timaria, and Wendy was naturally beating Urrutia.
In comparison, Wendy's magic is more sophisticated, with both offensive and defensive capabilities, and can also provide buffs, making her almost an all-rounder, while Urrutia has more magic power and an advantage in physical fitness.
A tornado several meters high roared past, and the strong wind blew up the ice around it, turning it into wind blades and continuously cutting it into tiny ice particles, bringing bone-chilling cold to the enemy while attacking.
However, facing this move, Urrutia remained fearless and did not dodge or evade.
whoosh——!
Without any hindrance, the tornado passed straight through Urrutia's figure. When he looked closely again, there was no one where Urrutia had been standing.
"Got through?" Wendy looked doubtful.
"Time afterimage!"
Urrutia's voice slowly emerged from the air. "Use the arc of time to materialize the afterimage of the past or future where I stayed, just like the crystal ball that materialized different futures. And then..."
As she spoke, her figure suddenly split into two, then four. Each figure had the same type of magic power. Judging from the appearance alone, it was as if she had used the shadow clone technique and it was impossible to tell the real from the fake. The only thing that could distinguish them was the amount of magic power.
The four Urrutia surrounded Wendy from all sides and said at the same time, "The afterimages you create can also use the same magic as mine."
"!! So awesome?!"
Not only Wendy was stunned, but Kira and Gildarts who were watching the battle were also stunned.
"No, I didn't sense enough magic power to match the magic she mentioned. It should be a one-time attack, which means that the afterimage will disappear after only one attack."
After all, it was Gildarts who reacted immediately and quickly saw the flaw in the magic.
Although Kira could see it, he was not as fast as him. This was the difference in experience.
"I see... This magic should be more than that, right? Although it manifests a human, since the target is myself, the consumption is not as much as I thought."
Gildarts could see it, Kira could see it too, but Wendy definitely couldn't see it. She just felt admiration and difficulty at the same time, and her eyes were shining as she looked at Urrutia: "Urrutia-san is amazing!!"
At this moment, all the Urrutia took action, some took out crystal balls and injected magic power, some clasped their hands together to condense cold air. Four identical magic powers intertwined together, making it impossible to tell where the attack would come from.
In a trance, Wendy only felt that she saw Gray's figure in one of Urrutia's afterimages. It was like a female version of Gray, very handsome.
"No! Now is not the time to be in a daze!"
Wendy suddenly shuddered when she realized something was wrong, and then her body quickly responded. She spread her arms and cast a magical spell, "Crown of God!"
"Storm Mode!!"
With the defense buff coming, Wendy entered the attack mode at the same time. She skillfully controlled the strong wind and increased her magic power to a higher level. Then, with a step, the ice surface cracked and her petite figure rushed towards the afterimage closest to her at an astonishing speed.
"Are you attacking head-on? That's definitely Fairy Tail's style!"
The four Urrutia's magic had already been accumulated, but they were a little slow because Wendy was a child, and delayed it for a while. As for the time to release the magic...
"Now!"
With a light shout, both sides grasped the timing, direction and strength just right.
"The future flashes!"
"Ice-made Sakura Blizzard !!"
"Shining of Light!"
"Ice-made Maple Dance"
In a flash, Urrutia showed precise control of magic, and four magic spells attacked Wendy from the front, back, left and right directions respectively. Wendy also used her own unique skills to respond, using , and she was able to fight four alone without losing.
"Dragon Slayer Secret Technique: Illuminate the Sky and Pierce the Sky!!"
Five magic spells exploded with a loud bang, and wind, ice and light blended together, creating ice flowers all over the sky. The golden sunlight that penetrated the clouds was reflected in the ice and snow, which was so gorgeous and dazzling that Kira and Gildarts, two onlookers, were amazed.
“What a beautiful view!”
"What a beautiful woman!"
Kira: ? ?
There's something wrong with you!
Finally, the ice storm stopped, and the light reflected by the ice crystals gradually dissipated, leaving only a figure full of girlish aura on the battlefield.
"How's it going? Is it over? Who won?"
"It looks like..."
At this time, Wendy crossed her arms in front of her body to protect her disheveled head. Her clothes, skirt and stockings were all torn, and her body was covered with tiny ice particles; and Urrutia... there was no Urrutia!
The four people who just fought with Wendy were all time afterimages, and no one knew where the real people were hiding.
"Wendy is not doing well."
