Chapter 288: The Fire God Clears the Way
"Thunderclap Explosion!"
Directly flying above Laxus, George released an explosion spell downward.
Seeing a red light descending from above, Laxus didn't dare to take it head-on. He immediately dodged to the side and unleashed his ultimate move:
"Thunder Pressure Surge!"
Thunderclouds instantly formed above the small island, and countless lightning bolts struck downward.
His goal wasn't to defeat George with these lightning bolts, because he knew that they couldn't truly harm George, who could also control lightning. His purpose was to force George to reveal himself.
Sure enough, under the interference of the lightning, George's illusion spell was broken, and his cat form appeared mid-air.
"Now's the time!"
With a powerful stomp of his feet, he transformed into a flash of lightning, intending to fly into the air and strike George down.
However, at that moment, the red magical beam he had previously dodged struck the ground and triggered a violent explosion. The powerful shockwave interrupted his action and blasted him away.
Fortunately, his body was wrapped in lightning, and the dragon scales strengthened by Dragon Force protected him. Otherwise, he would have been seriously injured.
"Blazing Fire!"
With a wave of his wand, a massive blue Blazing Fire Dragon formed in the sky, roaring towards Laxus below.
George had become extremely proficient with the Blazing Fire spell, able to condense it into a fire dragon form and imbue it with a certain level of combat intelligence for battle.
Caught off guard, Laxus was bitten by the Blazing Fire Dragon and immediately felt a force of flame, carrying a deep chill, start to erode his body.
He didn't understand why the scorching flames gave off such an icy coldness.
Fortunately, he wasn't an ordinary wizard, but a Dragon Slayer who had awakened Dragon Force, making his defense extraordinary.
"Rampaging Volt!"
Violent lightning erupted directly from within him, forcibly blasting the Blazing Fire Dragon away. Then, he gathered a golden magic circle in front of his mouth.
"Thunder Dragon's Roar!"
The roar, at least ten times stronger than before, directly pierced through the Blazing Fire Dragon, blasting it into pieces on the spot.
"Don't underestimate me!"
Having been suppressed all along, Laxus became enraged. His dragonification deepened, and his size expanded by one-third.
"Lightning Bomb."
Densely packed lightning spheres formed in front of Laxus and rapidly shot towards George.
Facing the incoming lightning spheres, George's body was wrapped in electric light. He swung his arms to the left and right, causing the lightning spheres to scatter and shoot behind him.
"You should know that such attacks are useless against me."
As the lightning spheres dispersed, Laxus's figure reappeared, now holding a halberd formed entirely of lightning.
"Then try this move."
Laxus forcefully hurled the halberd formed of near-solid lightning at George.
"Thunder Dragon Halberd!"
"This move is quite interesting."
Seeing the lightning halberd shooting towards him, George showed an intrigued expression. This time, he found that even with his psychic powers, he couldn't deflect the halberd made of lightning.
It was simply because the lightning energy within the halberd was too strong, exceeding his control limit. Unless he advanced to a level-five psychic, he might not be able to influence it.
"Armor Protection."
A magical defensive barrier appeared in front of him, blocking the lightning halberd outside.
However, at that moment, a roar sounded again.
"Thunder Dragon's Jaw!"
But this time, the sound came not from below, but from above George.
It turned out that the dense lightning spheres earlier weren't meant for attack, but to temporarily block George's line of sight.
In that instant, Laxus had left behind a thought body with half of his magic power at the original location to cast the Thunder Dragon Halberd, while his real body, in elemental form, circled above George and struck downward with clasped hands.
When George turned his head upward to look at Laxus, the Laxus below also leapt up to attack him.
"Thunder Dragon's Crushing Fist!"
"Looks like a pincer attack from above and below."
However, George merely smiled slightly at this.
Because in fact, he had long since noticed Laxus's real body. As a psychic, he could easily sense the presence of a hostile person above him.
He just chose not to dodge or defend in advance, but to counteract the strategy.
"Then let's eliminate your thought body first!"
George's psychic powers activated, and just as the thought body was about to pounce on him, an iron spear burst out from the ground, piercing the thought body from behind and causing it to dissipate into smoke.
At the beginning of the battle, he had already used his psychic powers to condense hundreds of iron spears beneath the arena, ready to burst out for ambush at any moment.
Now was a perfect opportunity.
By eliminating Laxus's thought body, it was equivalent to cutting his magic power in half.
Coupled with the previous ultimate moves he had used, Laxus had very little magic power left.
"I've been tricked!"
At this moment, Laxus finally realized that he had been outwitted. But since the thought body was already lost, and he had finally gotten close, he couldn't give up. Thus, he unleashed all the lightning power within him, continuing his assault towards George.
As long as he could land a hit, losing half his magic power would have been worth it.
Unfortunately, he miscalculated again.
Just as his fists were about to strike George, George's figure suddenly flickered and disappeared from his original spot.
When George noticed Laxus above attempting a sneak attack, he had not only controlled the iron spears with his psychic power but also simultaneously cast Phantom Shift.
Now he had just completed the Phantom Shift and instantly vanished.
However, he didn't teleport elsewhere, but instead teleported right above Laxus.
"Let's have you taste Dumbledore's ultimate magic!"
Waving his wand:
"Fiendfyre!"
Flames erupted overwhelmingly, dyeing the entire sky above Magnolia red.
Fiendfyre was one of the most powerful fire magic spells in the Harry Potter world.
Moreover, George, possessing the bloodline of a fire dragon, had a special boost for fire magic, and his wand, with a core of phoenix feather, also enhanced fire spells.
Thus, the Fiendfyre he cast now was even more powerful than the one cast by Dumbledore himself by over tenfold.
Twisting his wand, the flames immediately condensed into a ferocious fire tornado, violently crashing onto Laxus's back.
Laxus was slammed from the sky into the ground by the flames.
"Fiendfyre!"
Dragon Slayer wizards had extremely high magic resistance. To prevent any accidents, right after casting the first Fiendfyre, before Laxus could recover, George immediately cast a second, third, fourth, and fifth one in succession.
Only when he sensed that Laxus seemed to be truly about to collapse did he stop.
His magic power was limitless, so despite Fiendfyre being highly magic-consuming, casting more than a dozen in one go wasn't a problem. After a few seconds' rest, he could continue casting until his body couldn't bear it anymore.
(End of Chapter)