It will be a lie, Zack felt nothing, when he ended another life.
And yet, he put those thoughts aside, and uses Drilling Force on both of his arms, only to let Zack to use Drilling Strike, or more like, Drilling Strikes on two more Spider Monsters, a Hopper and a Rocky Spider, ending their lives, when they sneakily tried to reach for Gray.
Who still hasn't woke up yet.
Five Spider Monsters has been stayed so far. And yet, from the number of auras he can sense all around him. their number still over 30, causing Zack to wonder, even Drilling Force, that uses a lot less Magic Power, when using Sky Shatter or Shattering.
Will it be enough to handle this many Monsters?
Even way, even if this is doubtful, Zack remains calm, like the calm sea, taking a long breath, before using Drilling Force yet again.
With a series of Drilling Strikes, Drilling Impacts, along with something else, Drilling Blade, that actually just using Drilling Force on a hand that formed into a karate chop, that is capable of forming both slashing and thrusting attacks with.
Zack managed to kill several more Spider Monsters. By smashing their body into pieces, with either Drilling Strike or Drilling Impact, or even ripping through them, like a spear, with Drilling Blade.
However, as he killed so many Rocky and Hopper Spiders. But each time when he tries to kill an Assassin Spider, he ends up failing, only to make Zack realised, that these bladed spiders are actually learning through the deaths of the other Spider Monsters.
Leaning how to keep up with his speed of the Drilling Force. And if that wasn't all, they no longer tried to sneak attack Zack from behind, nor they did any frontal attacks.
But hidden themselves among the other Monsters that attacked him when Zack is busy dealing with other Spider Monsters to strike.
Of course, Zack manages to block them in time, but sometimes he has no choice but to relies on both Haki and Iron Mass, due to his inexperience. When he failed to block their attacks in time.
Being both outnumbered and inexperience, made it harder and harder for Zack to handle this situation. And it didn't help with Gray behind him, he cannot use the true power of Quake-Quake Magic.
And yet, even if the favour are not at his odds, not once he shown any signs of wavering.
Even when not just the Stone Spider that hasn't been unharmed, but even the wounded one, rushed both sides of Zack to attack him.
Zack is of course startled by this, especially when these Spider Monsters most of the time, those massive spiders are normally by the Dark Wizard side.
That is why, at the moment Zack just managed to outsmart an Assassin Spider with the missing eyes, killing it with Drilling Blade, by slicing off its head.
Caused Zack no time to avoid or even counterattack.
When the two tank like Spider Monsters rammed into Zack, who has no choice to not hold back using his Haki, when he has to strengthen the whole of his body, along with Iron Mass, to defend against the ramming of two Spiders that known for their top tier strength even among other B-Class Monsters!
So, it was no wonder, when being attacked not by one, but two ramming spiders, was even too much for the two spells or techniques to handle together. Causing Zack to cough out blood from his lips, when he is smacked into the air!
Clashing into the ground, Zack slowly got back up, but when he got up, he cannot help to noticed all of his Haki or Spiritual Power has run out, causing both his attack power and defence capabilities to be cut more than half.
Of course, he still has Drilling Force from Quake-Quake Magic.
However… without Armament Haki, using Drilling Force will do more damage to himself, then to his enemies.
There two factors behind the power and capabilities of Drilling Force, one is the speed of the Drilling Force is going.
And the second?
That is himself, his raw physical strength itself.
His physical strength is only D-Class. The only reason he could even seriously wound B-Class Monsters like the Stone Spider from earlier, is due to Haki itself.
Even if Drilling Force can increase his attack speed and power, it doesn't increase the hardness of his flesh and bones, meaning any attack with Drilling Force will have a rebound effect, but with Armament Haki, that flaw do not exist.
Meaning, even if he has Drilling Force, without Haki, it is more self-harming than anything else, due to his physical limits.
Falling onto one knee, Zack felt every part of his body aching, even his head feels dizzy, showing Zack finally reached, no pass over the limits his body can handle.
So, it is no wonder, why Zack cannot get back up, with one knee in the ground. To be honest, he just wanted to fall sleep how tried he is.
However his will, his determination didn't let him fall asleep. Not to mention, how can he fall here, when the person who caused all of this, is staring at him, while clapping his hands.
"I must say, wild boy, you have one heck of a body. To be honest, if you were older, you might be more of my type, then the handsome boy is. Either way, it seems you have reached your limits, or I am wrong?"
Went the Dark Wizard, Lovely, who looked very delighted for some reason, when looking at Zack.
"..." Of course, Zack didn't say a word, even if he didn't understand why the Dark Wizard is delighted, it didn't matter to the clueless young teenager, who even in his weaken state. Shown no unwillingness within those green eyes of his.
"Is all the Wizards from your guild like this? Like it mattered, stronger one will be, more enjoyable it will be to break. Never mind that, gave up, wild boy, you should understand by now. There is no way out of this." Lovely told this, as he looked at Zack.
"I don't know many things… even I knew, I rather die, when surrender to my enemy. While I have no clue why you doing this to us… but you see, a Fairy doesn't knew the meaning of surrender, nor they will back down on a fight, even if they knew all the odds are against them…"
When Zack said that, recalling the words someone said to him in the guild. Zack took a long breath, not a normal breath, but the kind to intake the Spiria within the atmosphere.
Only to refill his Spiritual Power, so he can also recovery the lost Haki inside him.
"Hmm, no wonder why you guys are called the strongest in Fiore, maybe I should call you guys the most stubborn, as well? But you see wild boy, it is no shame, or dishonour, surrendering to a force, when you knew you are out of your hand to do anything to them." Lovely went, advising Zack at the same time.
It is nothing but foolish to do anything else, in this unstopping situation about to unfold.
And yet, even with the advice, Zack looked unaffected, like it is someone else is trapped by the Dark Wizard and his charmed Monsters.
"You are right… this is nothing but foolish, however, is it wrong for Fairy Tail to be fools?" When Zack said that with a grin, caused Lovely to feel something is not right, narrowing his eyes behind his love hearted sunglasses.
And that feeling is proven right, before Lovely the Dark Wizard could question it. Zack, who might reach the limits in terms of physical.
Hasn't reach the limits in terms of Magic Power. Even if he cannot use Drilling Force in this state.
But that didn't matter, since it not Drilling Force that Zack wanted to use, but one of his strongest spells so far, Sky Shatter.
Zack tightly held his right fist, only to send a punch forward towards the empty air before him. However, instead of hitting the thin air, like any idiot will do, trying to fight air itself.
The atmosphere itself before Zack's fist cracked with blue lines, along with the sound of glass breaking, no, it wasn't the sound of glass shattering, but the rattling of the atmosphere being cracked before a vibrant force.
Lovely saw the actual air itself, shattered if it made of glass, and behind the blue cracking, was an intense force, a force that forces everything around the blue cracking to shake, like the roars of the earth.
This is why the earth and the air itself begin to violently tremble.
And before Lovely could understand what just going on. The blue cracking before Zack's fist, blasted forward, spreading into a sheet of broken glass, heading towards him and the other Monsters in its path!!
Lovely uses Earth Wall from his Earth Magic, when this incoming attack came, along the two Stone Spiders, rushed to their master's side, to shield Lovely.
But that was their end.
As the wave of blue like lightning cracks spread out, like a wave, everything before it was shattered, ripped into countless pieces, and those very pieces also shattered into more smaller pieces.
It was the kind of violence, that didn't care what was before it. A kind of unstoppable force, that crashed anything that dared to face this wave of pure complete annihilation.
That is why, along with any of the other Spider Monsters in its way, were crushed like being swatted by a flyswatter.
And that also applies the same, even if their flesh and bones are harder then steel. What it is to the Magic that has been altered by a force of nature, that could even crush worlds and beyond?
That is why, even if they managed to survive for a mere second, this mere second was nothing but hell. As the blue cracking force, destroyed them from the inside, before their outside was crushed as well.
Meaning they were dead even before their bodies were crushed from the inside. Of course, Lovely didn't knew this, as he watches in horror, as two B-Class Monsters were swatted to death, and his Earth Wall also shattered into pieces, if it was made of sand itself.
Seeing the earthen wall of his Magic was nothing in face of unbiased destruction.
Fear begins to dwelled in Lovely, who panicky created several more Earth Walls, however, they too were nothing but mere blocks of built up sand, in the face of a force, that didn't care what is before it.
But lady luck is on the side of Lucky, as two of the remaining Assassin Spider is fast enough to outrun the wave of the blue cracks of annihilation. And grabbed held of Lovely, before he too is swatted like a bug.
What kind of Magic is this!?
Is what Lovely wanted to shouted, but his eyes soon widen in shock, when the moment of the blue cracks slowly disappear on their end, is the moment when Zack used some of his remaining strength he has left in his body, and throws Gray in the air!
One might question why he did this, but that answer is very soon told. As Zack, slammed his right hand into the ground, causing a massive earthquake all around them!
With the earth under them began to go wild, every Monster last their balance, while Zack himself, who oddly unaffected by the quaking earth, caught the falling Gray, before he begins to move like a fish, in this sea of quaking earth.
Even if Zack is not as fast when he is when he is using Shave. He still faster compared to before, even faster than most Spider Monsters, that still hasn't found their balance in the shaking earth.
That is why, like he swimming, Zack moved passes the Spider Monsters, along with Gray, while pretending about the fact his body is in so much pain, due to overstraining his muscles.