The blade wasn't the cold glint of metal, but a deep, dark red, somewhere between molten lava and dark blood!
The ancient, dark golden dragon patterns etched on the blade now seemed to come alive, twisting and flowing wildly, emitting an icy, sharp aura that suppressed the molten rock!
This chill formed an eerie contrast with the surrounding intense heat, making the air groan under the strain!
With the blade tip pointed directly at Natsu, Tutu Maru's aura completely transformed!
He was no longer a lazy samurai, but a peerless, deadly weapon drawn for blood!
All that remained was pure, cold, overwhelming killing intent, eager to tear the person before him into a thousand pieces!
He forcefully suppressed the seven-colored demonic flames, no longer letting them loose, but instead poured all his power and all his rage into this inherited ancient blade!
"Divine Path Style Secret Art: Seven Luminaries Abyss Slash!!!"
He held nothing back!
His arm muscles bulged, veins coiling like enraged dragons!
All his strength, all his fury, all the humiliation and madness accumulated from being suppressed until now, poured like a breaking dam into the blade in his hand!
The red hell longsword was raised high above his head, and the seven-colored demonic flames on the blade were wildly infused, compressed, and fused with unprecedented ferocity!
The red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple demonic lights were no longer distinct but were forcefully blended and collapsed, finally condensing into an extremely refined, immensely vast, dark-red giant blade aura, intertwined with seven eerie, dim, dark light bands that seemed capable of devouring light!
Before the blade aura even struck, the space was compressed, emitting a suffocating shriek!
The terrifying pressure, like a physical heavy hammer, slammed down hard on the ravaged forest floor below!
Screech—!!!
The charred soil and withered branches and leaves were forcibly split by the invisible pressure, creating a massive, dozens-of-meters-long, bottomless trench!
It revealed the damp, black soil beneath!
This single strike contained his life's cultivation and rage, fused with the ultimate destructive power of the seven-colored demonic flames, and carried his utterly trampled dignity!
He swore to cleave Natsu, along with this forest, into the bottomless abyss!
The blade aura hit!
The icy touch of death, like the chilling wind of the Nine Netherworlds, instantly froze Natsu's blood!
His skin even felt the stinging pain of being cut by an invisible blade!
The surrounding air seemed to solidify, and even the flickering of flames became sluggish!
However, Natsu's face showed no fear; instead, because of this extreme sense of crisis, he grinned a nearly insane, excitedly twisted smile that burned brightly!
In that smile was the absolute exhilaration that came from his very bones when facing a challenge!
"Ha! Now this is more like it—!!!"
Amidst his roar, the Dragon Slayer magic within Natsu's body erupted like the core of an exploding star, boiling and bursting forth without reservation!
Happy's infused light magic and life energy also burned to their utmost at this moment, transforming into the purest power, flowing into Natsu's limbs and bones!
The red Dragon Flame around him instantly retracted, its color deepening like congealed blood, and all its heat and destructive power were compressed into his arms!
"Dragon Slayer Secret Art: Crimson Lotus Exploding Blade!!!"
Natsu's arms crossed sharply in front of his chest!
No longer was it an external release of energy blades, but the Dragon Slayer Fire, compressed to its maximum within his body, condensed onto his arms in its most ferocious form!
His arms seemed to transform into two burning lava dragons!
As he crossed and swung them, two extremely condensed, crimson-edged, dazzlingly white-cored intersecting fire blades erupted with fierce power!
Pure!
Ultimate!
High temperature that incinerates all things!
Wherever the fire blades passed, the air was scorched, leaving charred marks and emitting a "sizzling" wail, as if space itself was melting and collapsing under the high temperature!
There were no fancy light effects, only the essence of destruction!
Whoosh—Screech!!!!
There was no earth-shattering explosion!
Only a teeth-grinding, ear-piercing sharp sound, as if the hardest alloy was instantly melted by a super-high-temperature laser!
The dark-red Seven Luminaries Blade Aura, that ultimate killing blow which condensed Tutu Maru's life's cultivation and rage, at the moment of contact with the two crimson lava fire blades, its front end melted, vaporized, and evaporated silently, like an ice cube thrown into the sun's core!
The seven dark light bands entwined around it, like fragile black threads, shattered and annihilated piece by piece without even a hint of resistance!
The terrifying energy contained within the blade aura didn't even have time to erupt and unleash before it was completely erased from the plane of existence by that pure, ultimate "incinerating" power!
Clang—Crack, crack, crack...!!!
Following closely was the red hell demonic blade's desperate wail, piercing to the depths of the soul!
This demonic blade, which had accompanied Tutu Maru for half his life, had undergone countless refinements in the seven-colored demonic flames, and was long connected to his heart and mind, its dark-red blade shattered, disintegrated, and turned into countless dark-red metal fragments, like thin ice under the scorching sun, starting from the tip of the blade, at the moment it touched the crimson lava fire blades!
The fragments didn't even have time to scatter before they instantly vaporized and evaporated in the extreme high temperature!
Only a charred, twisted, still smoking half-handle remained, clutched tightly in Tutu Maru's right hand, whose knuckles were white from excessive force, and whose tiger's mouth was completely torn and bleeding profusely!
Pfft—!!!
The terrifying backlash from the destruction of his demonic blade was like thousands of red-hot steel needles piercing fiercely into Tutu Maru's soul!
In addition, the residual destructive energy of the crimson lava fire blades, like a torrent of lava, slammed heavily into his chest!
Tutu Maru's eyes bulged suddenly, bloodshot instantly filling his eyeballs!
He couldn't even let out a scream; his body, as if hit head-on by a giant beast charging at full speed, flew backward with even greater speed than he had approached, like a tattered sack!
Boom!
Bang! Bang! Bang—!!!
His body tumbled and crashed for over a dozen rounds across the charred forest floor, broken wood, and shattered rocks, before slumping like mud into a mess of ashes and decaying leaves.
His mystic black haori had long turned into tattered rags, barely covering his body.
His exposed skin was covered with charred cracks deep enough to reveal bone and hideous burns, half his cheek was scorched beyond recognition, black as pitch.
Blood gushed like a stream from his mouth, nose, and all his wounds, instantly evaporating on the scorching ground, leaving dark red marks.
His aura was at its lowest point, like a candle in the wind, each weak breath carrying blood foam and burning pain, as if it could extinguish at any moment.
He struggled to prop himself up, but even lifting a single finger was incredibly difficult.
The crimson flame embers slowly dissipated, and the air was filled with a strong smell of charring, blood, and burning wood.
Happy's figure separated from behind Natsu, as if all his strength had been drained, and he softly fell to the ground, his tiny body almost completely transparent, his breathing so faint as to be barely perceptible, clearly having exhausted all his magic to support that world-destroying strike just now.
Natsu also gasped violently, like a broken bellows.
The several deep, long wounds on his body, previously grazed by the blade aura, tore open again due to the Release of the fusion state and the intense consumption of power, and blood mixed with sweat flowed in winding paths across his crimson skin.
Waves of intense weakness washed over him, but he still forcefully straightened his back, his dragon eyes, though tired, still burned with fighting spirit, like a hawk locking onto its prey, staring intently at the slightly twitching, life-or-death figure in the distant ruins.
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