Erza turned to Selene and Irene for their opinion.
"Should we go help Raizel and Natsu now?"
Selene shook her head.
"No. We should evacuate the labyrinth first. Raizel and Natsu are more than enough to handle Dogramag."
Especially now that every Dogramag Core had been destroyed.
Natsu's Fire Dragon King's Demolition Fist slammed into the side of Dogramag's face like a cannonball, sending him staggering back more than ten meters.
"The Dogramag Cores have been destroyed?!"
Despite the injury, Dogramag burst into wild laughter, as though his fury had driven him mad.
"Hahahaha! Now this is interesting! If humans want to challenge a god, I suppose I need to give them a handicap first!"
Having taken the form of Omnimon X, Raizel teleported directly in front of him. The barrel of the Garuru Cannon extended as Magic Power gathered within it.
"Double Torrent!"
A violent torrent of energy pierced straight through Dogramag's body and blasted him into the labyrinth wall.
He struck hard enough to leave a massive crater before collapsing stone buried him beneath the rubble.
Raizel's voice remained perfectly calm.
"You're a dragon, not a god. Did humans calling you a Dragon God convince you that you actually were one?"
Dogramag's fists burst from the pile of rubble.
"I am the Earth Dragon God—the god of the earth itself!"
As he rose, the stone used to construct the Dogramag Labyrinth gathered around his arm, forming an enormous rocky fist.
It resembled Jura's Supreme King Rock-Crushing Fist, only several times larger.
"Earth Dragon God's Rock: Platinum!"
"Charging Grey Sword!"
Raizel extended the Grey Sword from his left arm and raised it overhead.
He launched himself into the air and began spinning at tremendous speed.
Like WarGreymon's Great Tornado, his entire body became a rotating blade that surged forward with unstoppable momentum and drilled straight through Dogramag's colossal stone fist.
"How is that possible?!"
Disbelief filled Dogramag's face.
Once infused with his Magic Power, that stone was supposed to be even harder than the bricks used to construct the labyrinth.
"Fire Dragon King's Demolition Fist!"
Natsu followed close behind Raizel and drove his flaming fist into Dogramag's chest, sending him flying backward again.
Raizel flashed behind the airborne Dragon God. The Garuru Cannon retracted, and he buried his right fist in Dogramag's waist.
"Fire Dragon King's Sword Horn!"
Flames engulfed Natsu's entire body and gradually took on Igneel's shape before he crashed headfirst into Dogramag's chest.
The Earth Dragon God was knocked back and forth between them like a ball.
Raizel launched him skyward with an uppercut, and Natsu leaped after him to hammer him back down with a flaming claw.
Then they struck from opposite sides with simultaneous uppercuts, sending Dogramag soaring into the air once more.
As he began to fall, Natsu planted his feet wide and drew a deep breath.
"Fire Dragon King's Roar!"
Flames hot enough to scorch the earth tore through the ground and surged toward Dogramag.
Standing on the opposite side, Raizel extended the Garuru Cannon.
"Omega Burst!"
A rapidly rotating sphere formed from interwoven fire and ice erupted from the barrel.
It plowed through the stone floor, sweeping fragments of rubble along with it as it shot toward Dogramag.
BOOOOOOM!!!
The Dogramag Labyrinth shook violently.
Even Erza, Mira, and the others who had already escaped could feel the tremendous impact.
They stood outside, staring at the labyrinth as they waited for news.
When the smoke finally cleared, Dogramag had returned to his true form.
One half of his body had been burned black. The other was not only scorched but covered in ice fragments and severe frostbite.
"You arrogant insects! Mere humans dare to defy a god!"
At the last possible moment, Dogramag had transformed back into a dragon and endured the combined attack with his true body.
He had been badly wounded, but at least he remained alive.
"Forgive me, Ignia. You told me not to kill Natsu, but this bastard has truly enraged me!"
After muttering under his breath, Dogramag threw back his head and roared.
His voice tore through countless layers of stone and echoed all the way to the surface.
"That's Dogramag's voice..."
Resting against a boulder after losing his heart, Elefseria murmured to himself.
"He turned back into a dragon!" Natsu shouted.
"I'll kill both of you!"
Dogramag raised one enormous foreleg and brought it down, intending to crush Raizel and Natsu beneath his claw.
"He's fast!"
Natsu had assumed a dragon of Dogramag's size would be slow and cumbersome, but his speed defied all expectations.
"Get behind me!"
The Brave Shield materialized as light across Omnimon's chest.
The instant Dogramag's foot slammed into it, Magic Power erupted violently around Raizel.
His body expanded higher and higher before he thrust upward with all his strength, flipping the enormous Earth Dragon God onto his back.
"Natsu!"
Natsu immediately understood.
He brought his fists together as flames engulfed his entire body.
"I'm all fired up!"
"Fire Dragon King's Purgatory!"
Blazing magma and flames erupted from beneath the labyrinth, bursting through the underground floor and swallowing Dogramag whole.
"Impossible! My body...!"
Dogramag roared in agony as his rocky form began crumbling apart within the flames.
"Omega Roar!"
The Garuru Cannon locked over the Grey Sword. Light-attribute Magic Power gathered between the two weapons before erupting all at once.
A massive pillar of light entered through Dogramag's mouth and blasted straight through his entire body, emerging from his tail.
Amid the billowing smoke, the Earth Dragon God's stone body continued to disintegrate.
His life was reaching its end for a second time.
His eyes and voice were filled with disbelief.
"How can this be...? Defeated by mere humans..."
Raizel released his Take Over and stared at him without emotion.
"Those 'mere humans' have now killed you twice."
Natsu met Dogramag's gaze.
"Someone as arrogant as you—someone who looks down on everyone else—could never understand."
"Whether they're human or dragon, every life is just as real. We can become friends... or even become family, like a father and son!"
"I see..."
Dogramag's voice weakened.
"But the 'seeds' have already been planted. Soon, the age of humanity will come to an end."
"The rest is up to you... Ignia!"
With the last of his strength, Dogramag shouted his final words.
Then the life slowly faded from his body.
'Seeds? What exactly are Dogramag and Ignia planning?'
Raizel had no time to dwell on the question.
Powerful tremors began rising from beneath the ground. Dust and broken stone rained from the ceiling.
The labyrinth was collapsing.
Raizel immediately used Super Archive Magic to scan the entire structure.
Everyone from Fairy Tail had already escaped, but he could still sense the Magic Power of two Diabolos members moving somewhere inside.
Outside the entrance, Lucy paced anxiously back and forth.
"It's an earthquake!!! Raizel and Natsu still haven't come out!"
Wendy also looked at Selene with worry.
"Are they really going to be all right?"
Selene nodded.
"Trust Raizel and Natsu. Wait patiently."
"That roar we just heard from Dogramag was not a battle cry."
"It was his death wail."
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