"What?!" Lissanna had just cleaved two man-eating plants with a powerful wind blade, intending to use his Godspeed to escape Sirius's lock again, when he heard Lucy's shout.
He caught a glimpse of a small bottle, shimmering with an eerie purple glow, flying towards him at high speed!
An instinctive sense of danger made his pupils constrict!
Potion?!
Given Lucy's previous plant-based abilities, this was definitely not a good thing!
He wanted to dodge!
"Awoo!"
But Sirius seemed to have been waiting for a long time!
The moment Lucy threw the potion bottle, the constellation magic mark on its forehead burst forth with dazzling starlight!
It opened its giant mouth, not in a roar, but in a silent vibration!
A visible ripple of silver space instantly spread out, forming a powerful spatial restraint field for a short duration and small range!
The surrounding air seemed to turn into a viscous liquid!
Lissanna's movements clearly felt a hint of sluggishness at that moment!
As if he had stepped into an invisible mire!
This extremely tiny effect, under normal circumstances, he could break free from in an instant, but at this critical moment between life and death, it became a fatal key!
Crack!
The crystal bottle accurately smashed onto the ground less than two meters from Lissanna! The clear purple bottle shattered!
The next moment—
Whoosh—!!
A pale purple mist, like a dream bubble, shimmering with a hazy glow, instantly spread out with explosive speed!
The mist permeated a wide area, carrying an extremely sweet, intoxicating scent that made one's mind unconsciously relax and yearn to be immersed in it!
Lissanna's heart sank to rock bottom!
He immediately held his breath!
But it was too late!
The speed at which the potion bottle exploded was beyond imagination, in the instant that small space was slowed by the power of Sirius's interference!
Moreover, this mist was pervasive!
Even with his lightning-fast reaction, a wisp of sweet, somewhat cloying fragrance still entered his body through his nasal cavity before he could hold his breath.
Just that one wisp!
Instantly, it was as if an invisible sledgehammer had struck deep into his soul!
"Buzz—!" Lissanna only felt an irresistible, extreme sense of fatigue from the depths of his soul, sweeping over him like a tsunami!
Everything in front of him began to spin, blur, and distort rapidly!
Sirius's cold beast eyes, the menacing pouncing plants, and even Lucy's figure, all turned into swaying, overlapping double images, like illusions in a dream!
Intense dizziness and an overwhelming urge to sleep instantly drowned his rationality!
His proud Godspeed magic power operation became incredibly sluggish, like rusty gears!
His mind was in chaos!
"No... I can't..." Lissanna desperately tried to stay conscious, his eyeballs bloodshot from resistance, attempting to activate his magic power to forcefully dispel the potion's effects!
But Jet's meticulously developed potion, designed to target powerful Mages, was far more potent than he imagined!
(The initial version was made by Granny Poluchka, who disliked Makarov always singing when drunk; it was a potion capable of making even the Ten Wizard Saints fall into a quiet sleep.)
That drowsiness was like a parasite, the more he resisted, the more he seemed to sink into quicksand, rapidly devouring his remaining willpower!
"Awoo—woo!!!"
Sirius did not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Its long-accumulated power erupted!
Its massive silver wolf body burst forth with dazzling starlight, like a supernova explosion!
The star power around its massive body suddenly collapsed and condensed within its open maw!
A thick, incomparably powerful silver energy torrent, composed of pure destructive stellar power, poured out like a galaxy, carrying the might to shatter vacuum, directly piercing Lissanna, who was in a daze, fighting the potion's effects, and whose movements were stiff!
"Uh ah ah ah ah ah—!!!"
Lissanna only managed to let out a short, shrill, and distorted scream!
The azure Godspeed magic power shield around him was instantly torn to shreds like paper!
That tyrannical stellar torrent fiercely struck his chest!
The dull thud of bones shattering was clearly audible!
Blood gushed out like a fountain from his mouth and the huge wound on his chest!
"Poof—!"
He was sent flying like a broken kite by this world-destroying force!
His body plowed a deep gully through the pale purple, dreamlike mist, trailing hot blood and fragments of internal organs, finally crashing like a broken sack into the base of a massive, magic-marked wooden pillar, hundreds of meters away, which supported the upper part of a huge platform!
Boom!
The giant wooden pillar shook violently from the impact, and cracks spread!
Lissanna's body was deeply embedded in the thick wood grain, all his bones shattered, his chest a bloody mess, like a broken doll.
Those eyes, which once shone with the cold brilliance of Godspeed, were now replaced by deep darkness and stillness, with only the last trace of completely shattered disbelief and unwillingness remaining.
He twitched weakly twice, tilted his head, and completely lost consciousness.
The purple, dreamlike mist, like a victor's stole, slowly enveloped him, dragging the defeated into the abyss of slumber.
Silence—
Lucy was breathing heavily, her face extremely pale from mental exhaustion, her sweat-soaked golden hair clinging to her cheeks.
The magic plants, too, withered and died after losing their continuous magic power supply, turning into dust and dissipating.
She looked at Lissanna's broken body, embedded in the wooden pillar and shrouded in purple mist in the distance, then turned to the giant silver wolf, still standing in the center of the battlefield, exuding ancient coldness.
Sirius's massive body rose and fell slightly, its silver-white fur gleaming with a cold luster under the starlight.
It lowered its huge head, its amber eyes, burning with silver fire, fixed on Lucy.
Its large nostrils quivered slightly, seemingly sniffing Lucy's weakened aura from her exhausted soul.
A low rumble, like a sound from deep within a glacier, emanated from its throat, carrying a hint of imperceptible worry.
Lucy could feel the emotion coming from the other end of the contract was mixed with concern for her master's condition!
"Sirius..." Lucy's voice was hoarse like sandpaper, weak from exhaustion, but she forced out a comforting smile, "I'm fine... Look there!"
She forced herself to raise her trembling hand, pointing to the base of Nirvana's third massive leg—there, precisely where Taurus had previously split open a huge crack with all his might!
Now, due to Taurus's last strike before he was severely wounded and dissipated, the impact of Lucy and Lissanna's fierce battle, and the aftershocks of Sirius's stellar breath, the area around that crack was already covered with spiderweb-like giant fissures, the wooden magic-marked structure twisted and deformed, emitting unstable magic power fluctuations, like a giant, collapsing scar!
Lucy's eyes sharpened, "Sirius! Tear it apart!"
Sirius's massive head sharply turned in the direction Lucy pointed.
Its beast eyes, burning with silver fire, instantly locked onto the huge "wound" at the base of the giant leg.
It seemed to sense the foul, dark energy flowing within the wooden structure, which instinctively disgusted it. A low, yet battle-filled roar came from deep within its throat!
Around its massive body, cold starlight once again gathered frantically!
The residual purple, dreamlike mist in the air was stirred by this power, freezing into sparkling starlight!
Its massive wolf maw opened again!
This time, the target was clear—destroy that dark pillar!
[Lucy's combat power increase will not be due to a silver key; this is just a small plot device given in the early stages. The Nirvana arc is everyone's highlight; I like ensemble casts. This world is rich and colorful, everyone is like a star in the sky, no one will stop you from shining, but you also cannot overshadow anyone else's light.]
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