"Stupid ox! Too slow!" Lissanna's body blurred, leaving an afterimage once more.
He effortlessly slipped through the gaps in the axe's attack, as if defying the laws of physics!
The next moment, he appeared beside Taurus's massive body.
"Godspeed: Consecutive Piercing Fingers!" Lissanna's figure seemed to split into several at the same instant, rotating rapidly around Taurus's colossal frame!
With every flicker, his index and middle fingers, wrapped in a stream of azure magic, stabbed out like lightning!
The wind blades condensed at his fingertips were like the sharpest carving knives!
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!..."
A dense, rain-like sound of piercing rang out!
Taurus's thick, oxhide-like body was instantly riddled with dozens of deep, bone-visible blood holes!
Blood spurted out from his back like a fountain!
The intense pain made Taurus let out an earth-shattering roar!
"Roar!!!!"
Lissanna's final finger strike landed with incredible precision on the weak joint at the base of Taurus's massive horn!
Crack!
A bone-chilling snapping sound echoed across the battlefield!
Taurus's huge right horn was actually broken by Lissanna's single finger strike!
The broken horn flew high into the air!
"Ugh ah—!!" Taurus let out a mournful roar; the intense pain and loss of power made his massive body unable to stand any longer, and he half-knelt on the ground with a thud.
"Taurus! Come back!" Lucy shouted, enduring the pain of the magic backlash.
A golden light flashed, and the heavily injured taurus transformed into starlight, returning to the Celestial Spirit World with a low growl of pain and unwillingness.
Only large patches of blood and the broken, massive ox horn remained on the ground, testifying to the brutality of what had just transpired.
In just a few breaths!
A Zodiac Celestial Spirit was defeated by Lissanna with overwhelming speed and skill!
Amidst the swirling dust, Lissanna leisurely brushed off non-existent dust from his sleeve, his gaze looking down disdainfully at the pale and tottering Lucy.
He slowly walked forward, each step like a stomp on Lucy's heartbeat.
"See, you trash. This is the gap," Lissanna's voice was cold and full of mockery, "I really don't understand what's inside the heads of you brats. 'Companions'? 'Family'? Ha! Have you been drugged by Fairy Tail's deceptive nonsense? Cheap and useless things like mere bonds of friendship are only fit to fool naive idiots like you!"
He stopped not far in front of Lucy, his eyes looking at her as if she were already dead.
"For such illusory nonsense, you dare to run to a place like this, not knowing your own limits? Dreaming of destroying Nirvana? Utterly foolish! Your mother Layla had some ability back then, but it's a pity she gave birth to such a stupid daughter with no self-awareness. Today, I'll make you thoroughly recognize reality, how ridiculous the game of the weak trying to cling to the strong is, and the price is—your life!"
Lissanna exuded a terrifying killing intent, and his azure magic surged like a tangible force, compressing the air until it shrieked!
He seemed not to be in a hurry to kill Lucy immediately, but rather to utterly destroy her will.
However, facing Lissanna's overwhelming mockery and blatant death threat, Lucy, unexpectedly, did not cry out in fear.
She took a deep breath, the Heartfilia family crest on her chest glowing faintly warm.
She slowly raised her head, her golden eyes showing no retreat, no panic, but rather a strange calmness, a determination forged and refined through countless trials.
"Family, companions... are they fake?" Lucy's voice was unexpectedly calm, even carrying a hint of faint mockery, "A twisted person like you, who only knows how to cling to distorted power and live in a distorted world, naturally cannot understand what true bonds are."
The mockery on Lissanna's face froze, his eyes instantly darkening: "Still talking tough when death is at your doorstep?"
Lucy ignored his threat and instead raised her hand, twirling a strangely shaped silver key between her fingers.
The key gleamed with a deep, silver-gray luster, like a distant galaxy.
The top of the key was a ferocious wolf's head with glaring eyes.
"You say my magic power is weak? Inferior to Yukino, and even more inferior to my mother?" Lucy stared at Lissanna, a faint smile slowly curving her lips, a smile that carried the accumulated heritage and pride of the Heartfilia family from four hundred years, "Lissanna, you are very right. In terms of magic power intensity alone, in Fairy Tail, or even in the world of Mages, I, Lucy Heartfilia, might indeed not rank high."
Lucy's voice clearly echoed across the battlefield, every word like a hammer blow to Lissanna's heart: "But! Do you think the Heartfilia family's four-hundred-year legacy has relied solely on magical talent?"
Lissanna's brows furrowed, and a sudden, inexplicable unease rose in his heart.
Lucy's behavior at this moment was too abnormal.
Lucy slowly raised the silver key in her hand, pointing it at the void in front of her.
The starlight on the key suddenly flared, and an unprecedented, massive magic circle, covered with complex ancient runes and shimmering with brilliant silver starlight, silently unfolded beneath her feet!
The magic circle's range was not particularly vast, but the purity of its light and the essence of the stellar power it contained far surpassed ordinary Celestial Spirit summons!
"The sea of stars is vast, connecting all realms. The power of the stars does not favor magic alone!" Lucy's voice became solemn and sacred, as if she were chanting an ancient spell, "By the name of Heartfilia! I call your true name!"
"Open! Gate of Canis Major!"
"Faithful Hound—Sirius!"
Howl Woooooooo—!!!
An deafening wolf's howl, full of ancient, wild aura, seemed to come from the deepest reaches of the primordial starry sky!
That howl contained a soul-shattering ferocity, and a cold, pure, ultimate stellar light!
The space in the center of the magic circle suddenly collapsed inward!
A majestic, vast torrent of energy, full of dignity and wildness, surged out from within!
The next instant, a figure that made Lissanna's pupils constrict sharply appeared in the center of the magic circle!
It was a giant wolf!
Its body was as large as a lion or tiger, covered in thick, smooth fur that seemed to flow like liquid silver.
Moonlit silver-white long fur swayed in the wind on its strong, powerful body, each strand seemingly containing specks of starlight.
The giant wolf's head was ferocious and majestic, and a pair of eyes as deep as cosmic black holes now burned with cold, violent silver flames!
Its limbs were thick, its claws massive and sharp, gleaming with a metallic chill, and with every landing, the surrounding ground trembled slightly.
Most conspicuously, above its forehead, a clear, massive Canis Major constellation magic 紋, carved like the purest crystal, emitted brilliant starlight bright enough to illuminate the darkness!
Canis Major Celestial Spirit · Sirius!
The loyal servant of the gods in legends, the hound recorded in ancient myths!
Merely by standing there, the immense, cold, violent, sacred, and majestic pressure originating from the starry sky instantly enveloped the entire battlefield!
The azure magic power permeating the air seemed to have met its nemesis, being silently pushed away and suppressed!
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