abnabooks Chapter 590 590
Chapter 590 590
The explosions roaring overhead were like a blazing sun bursting into existence, like a terrifying orb of light too bright to look at directly.
Even with the Black Dragon inside it, the crowd could not help but start wondering whether he could really withstand it.
At the very least, even if everyone present joined forces and unleashed all their power together, they definitely would not be able to stop Marco's attack.
In fact, it felt as though even Tenrou Island itself might be destroyed by that one strike.
ROAR!!!
And yet the Black Dragon was still the Black Dragon.
His ragged roar came from within.
It sounded agonized, almost like a howl of pain, but it was loud and full of force.
Clearly, the Black Dragon had not suffered any truly serious injury.
Clang clang clang!!!
The twelve golden weapons, still coated in stellar magic, continued to circle the Black Dragon and attack him, but after that first violent collision, the magic covering them had already weakened.
Their impact on the Black Dragon was now much smaller.
The Black Dragon recovered from his injuries while swatting those golden weapons aside with extreme irritation, as though batting away flies.
A good number of the scales on his body had just been blasted away, and the Black Dragon had to admit that Marco truly was a powerful opponent.
To be able to hurt him through sheer brute force and overwhelming magical output—that was practically unbelievable.
It even went against common sense.
'So human magic was not truly incapable of harming dragons after all.'
The people of the past had simply failed because their magic had been too weak.
Only he—the Black Dragon—could withstand this sort of attack.
Had it been any other dragon, one of the weaker dragons he had slain before, they might not have survived that round of bombardment at all.
And even if they had lived through the first wave, they still might not have survived being besieged by those twelve golden weapons afterward.
Which meant that this Marco truly possessed the ability to kill dragons with his own magic.
For Acnologia, that was undoubtedly a world-shattering fact.
With extremely complicated feelings, the Black Dragon Acnologia looked toward Marco—and saw that the guy was striking a strange pose, with two golden light-emitting armors beside him mirroring that same pose.
Huff!
Marco exhaled and raised his momentum to its peak.
He drove his Cosmo madly, extracting everything from it with reckless abandon.
"Athena… Exclamation!!!"
This was never a power that a Sixth Sense Cosmo should have been able to activate, yet under the effect of the Saint System, it was successfully unleashed.
Three Gold Cloths shone with dazzling radiance, together driving Marco's still-fledgling Cosmo forward.
And it was not just three.
The Aries Gold Cloth, Gemini Gold Cloth, Capricorn Gold Cloth, Libra Gold Cloth, Leo Gold Cloth, and Pisces Gold Cloth all appeared beside Marco, joining him in that same stance.
The will to protect caused the Gold Cloths to resonate, drawing out powerful force from them and allowing a Sixth Sense Cosmo to accomplish something that could only be called miraculous.
The might of this attack was still far inferior to a true Athena Exclamation.
No matter how much the Gold Cloths helped, they still could not make up for the lack of three Seventh Sense Cosmos.
But even this forcibly unleashed Athena Exclamation, driven by the Sixth Sense, was more than terrifying enough in this world.
"Burn, my Cosmo!"
A sphere of light filled with destructive power condensed in Marco's hands, and with a roar, he thrust it toward the Black Dragon Acnologia.
Acnologia, still being entangled and pinned down by the golden weapons, had only just broken free of the explosions.
Whoosh—
The twelve golden weapons dissolved into motes of light and vanished.
Marco no longer had the strength to keep controlling them.
But their role had already been fulfilled.
Marco had poured out all his magic. Although he still had not managed to heavily wound the Black Dragon Acnologia, he had successfully delayed him.
And that brief delay had created the opening for Marco's true killing move.
Bzzzz!
The sphere of light of Athena Exclamation rushed forward at incredible speed.
The Black Dragon Acnologia could not avoid it. He could only take it head-on!
Danger danger danger!
Warnings screamed through his mind.
Alarms blared in his head.
Faced with that seemingly unremarkable attack, the Black Dragon Acnologia felt as if he were facing real danger.
He opened his jaws wide and began drawing up his terrifying magic power.
BOOM!!!
Driven by that sense of crisis, the Black Dragon spat out a terrifying breath attack.
This was the first time he had used magic offensively.
It looked simple and unadorned, yet the power it displayed was unimaginably horrifying.
The Black Dragon truly lived up to his name.
His strength completely matched all the legends surrounding him. Just that single breath alone was enough to easily destroy an island or a city.
That terrifying dragon breath engulfed all of Tenrou Island, like divine punishment descending from beyond the heavens. The faces of those on the island instantly turned hopeless.
Compared to that, Marco's attack looked utterly inconspicuous; at first glance, it truly did not seem to carry much overwhelming force.
Bzzzzz!!!
BOOM!!!
In the blink of an eye, many things happened at once.
The Black Dragon's breath and Athena Exclamation collided, unleashing terrifying power.
The entire sea region was caught in the aftermath of their clash.
Even the approaching members of Fairy Tail saw it, and the expressions on the ship changed drastically.
"That is—"
Lying over the bow and staring at the scene ahead, Natsu's mouth fell open.
He was too shocked to say anything more.
He did not even know how to describe what he was seeing. That distant stretch of sea and sky looked as though some god had gouged a huge hole out of the world itself—as though some monster had taken a bite out of reality.
"It's Marco and the Black Dragon!"
Mirajane blurted it out without thinking.
There was no need to even consider other possibilities.
It could only be Marco and the Black Dragon.
One side's magic power was terrifying and bizarre, while the other had no magical signature at all.
Those two unique auras could belong only to those two unique beings.
"Faster! Juvia! Aquarius! Faster!"
Erza's face was full of urgency as she pressed Juvia and Aquarius on.
At that moment, all of Fairy Tail's people were aboard this ship, being carried at full speed by Juvia and Aquarius.
"We're already going all out!"
Veins stood out on Juvia's face.
This girl, who usually dressed like a northern princess and carried herself with elegant grace, had completely stopped caring about any of that now.
She was pushing herself with everything she had.
Aquarius glanced at Lucy, worry in her face.
When she used magic in this world, the one being drained was Lucy, her contractor, and Aquarius was afraid of hurting her.
But Lucy did not hesitate in the slightest.
"Aquarius! Please!" Lucy spoke seriously.
She, too, was pushing herself to the limit.
In truth, among all of them, the ones who were most anxious were Marco's own disciples—the direct inheritors who had learned Marco's "magic" from him personally—because they could all sense Marco's actions.
They could feel Marco's call to the stars.