Chapter 48 The Final Winner
Chapter 48 The Final Winner
"Wait, wait a minute, weren't we supposed to be aiming for the final blow? Why are we going all out right from the start?!"
"The way you're acting makes me feel like we're the ones acting more like brutal demons..."
Staring at the demon's body shrouded in intense flames and smoke, Lucy stood frozen in place, silently mourning for the poor creature for a second.
As they were speaking, four figures swept past them at lightning speed, creating gusts of wind as they rushed straight toward Lalabai.
Chess, Erza, Natsu, and Gray each unleashed their full magical power without giving an inch.
The light from the magic circle flickered all over Lalabai's body, each appearance unleashing tremendous power, with shockwaves that were chaotic and violent.
"Of course, it's because first come, first served!"
A pink streak of light hovered beside Lucy. The Dark Magician Girl, sitting on her wand, playfully flashed a peace sign. "Hey Lucy, aren't you going to come along?"
"...Ah, aha, there aren't any usable Celestials left today." Lucy chuckled and scratched her head.
"Okay, then I'll be going now. I can't hold my master back."
As soon as she finished speaking, the dark magic girl rushed out, flying towards Lalabai's head with magic.
The next second, a loud "boom" was heard, followed by an explosion.
"Dark Magician Girl, she really is a monster..." Lucy couldn't help but exclaim.
As fellow blonde girls, this simple comparison made newbie Lucy feel incredibly ashamed.
"Hey Lucy, you look really excited. You definitely want to join them too."
Happy reached into the bag behind him and pulled out a small fish, tempting him, "If you don't have magic, I can give you this to eat!"
Lucy took the grilled fish with a smile, paused for a few seconds, and then slammed it onto Happy's head.
"Join my ass!"
She pointed ahead at the continuous explosions and cursed at Harpy, "If you want me to die, just say so! No need for beating around the bush!"
"Also, I've never heard of grilled fish replenishing magic power!!"
"Oh, how strange. Lucy has suddenly become so smart. I thought you would definitely be stupid enough to take a bite."
Happy scratched his head and said with a cheeky grin, "I even secretly added some weird hot sauce to it."
"...You damn cat!"
Just as the flustered Lucy picked up the grilled fish, ready to let Happy enjoy her masterpiece, a blinding purple light suddenly appeared before her eyes.
Looking up, they saw that Lalabai, who had been brutally beaten up right from the start, was now completely enraged. After rousing himself and Chess and the others, he raised his head and let out a fierce roar.
Its cry seemed to carry an invisible poison, causing vegetation to wither and yellow leaves to flutter in its wake.
"Oh no! Cover your ears! That guy is about to cast a curse that harvests souls!" Goldman, the guild leader of the four-headed hounds, warned sharply.
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately covered their ears tightly.
Lucy and Happy, who were standing at the front of the group, were the first to be hit. The sharp, piercing noise pierced their palms and made their eardrums hurt.
The aura of death instantly swept across the entire venue!
"Hehehe! Whether it's a few annoying flies or the guild leader, they'll all turn to dust under my flute music!"
Lalabai let out an extremely arrogant and strange laugh, raised his two thick arms, and made a flute-playing gesture with them to his mouth.
then……
"Puff, puff puff puff, puff puff."
A constipated sound echoed throughout the forest.
Nothing happened.
"What happened? Where is my prized curse voice?!"
Lalabai stared wide-eyed in disbelief as sound leaked from the holes all over his body, emanating notes like diarrhea.
"Look, the holes in that guy's clothes!"
"I see. Since the body that was supposed to activate the flute sound was destroyed by the magic just now, it naturally couldn't activate the curse."
The sharp-eyed presidents immediately spotted the problem.
"Huh? So you made the atmosphere so tense, and after all that, you're showing us this?"
Lucy spread her hands, seizing the opportunity to deliver a scathing critique.
"Lucy, I'm hungry. When are we going back for dinner...?"
Habi's words were even more venomous, piercing Lalabai's heart like a sharp sword.
"Aaaaaah!! Damn it, damn it!!!"
Lalabai froze for two and a half seconds, and the moment he came to his senses, his face flushed red with anger. He kicked the surrounding hills away one after another.
"Not only are they huge, but they also have terrible tempers! Are all the demons in Zeref's books like this?"
In the crowd, a guild leader, whose identity was unknown, made a comment.
Already enraged by being publicly humiliated, Lalabai immediately turned her gun on him, gathering magic in her mouth and mercilessly unleashing an extremely compressed beam of light towards the area where Lucy and the presidents were.
The attack came so suddenly that Lucy didn't even have time to react before the beam of light, carrying an aura of destruction, came hurtling towards her and filled her entire field of vision!
"not good!"
Gray was startled and was about to use his instantaneous transformation magic to block it when the dark magic girl next to him, who was striking a cute pose, called out to him.
"Don't worry, Gray, Master already planted a trap card there beforehand."
In the brief pause of their conversation, Lalabai's attack arrived, hurtling through the shattered ground like foam.
In that instant, a magic circle suddenly lit up the spot two body lengths in front of Lucy, where Chase had just been standing.
An enlarged version of a trap card slowly unfolds from the center of the magic circle.
The striking barrier card is revealed; it is the trap card [Divine Shield - Reflective Power]!
Amidst the stunned gazes of Lucy and the astonished eyes of the other presidents, a dazzling white light swept across the sky, instantly coalescing into an indestructible, holy barrier.
Boom!!!
Lalabai's magical beam cannon struck the barrier, instantly creating a fierce wind and causing the earth to tremble.
Countless pebbles were swept into the air and then crushed into powder by the terrifying energy storm!
Lucy's eyes widened involuntarily, and her breathing became rapid.
Despite the breathtaking scene before her, she, who was inside the barrier, felt absolutely no disturbance whatsoever!
This wasn't the end of it. As Lalabai's attacks gradually dissipated, increasingly intense ripples suddenly appeared on the surface of the sacred barrier.
After a brief pause, the ripples transformed into a sky full of white light, launching an unstoppable counterattack that rained down on Lalabai's massive body like a storm!
"What exactly is this...?"
Lucy was so shocked she was speechless.
"This is the true terror of Chescard Magic: Duelist's Soul."
Harpy stared calmly ahead, acting as the commentator, "Predict the enemy's moves in advance and plant cards. When the enemy launches a rash attack, you can activate the effect instantly and severely damage the enemy."
"Divine Shield - Reflection Power is a trap card that can completely reflect attacks, provided that it does not exceed Chess's mana limit."
"Wait, is this really card magic?!" Lucy exclaimed in surprise.
In her understanding, a card mage should be more like Cana.
Although there can be many types of cards, you can also set traps before the battle even begins...
Lucy instinctively imagined Chase as the enemy, and then immediately retreated: there was absolutely no chance of winning!
"So fighting against Chess is a real headache. Not only do you have to be wary of monster cards with different abilities and spell cards with varied effects, but the traps that can be activated at any time are also a major headache."
With that, Happy looked at Lucy with an extremely serious expression, "Lucy needs to pay special attention to this!"
"Why are you reminding me like this in such a serious tone?"
"Because I thought Lucy might need it when she challenges Chess in the future."
"Thank you so much. I never knew you thought of me as such an ambitious and courageous person..."
Lucy incredulously stretched out her pale finger and pointed to her useless self.
Just imagining it in her mind was already the limit of her courage, so why would she go and challenge the monster Chesgo?
What kind of international joke is this?!
On the other side, the guild leaders were equally shocked by the divine protective shield—the power of reflection—that they had just witnessed.
Watching Chess and Erza, who were completely suppressing the demons in Zeref's book, the crowd discussed among themselves, their words filled with envy and jealousy towards Fairy Tail.
Makarov felt a surge of secret pleasure upon hearing this and let out a smug, cackling laugh.
On the field.
As the billowing smoke dissipated, the true form of Lalabai, riddled with holes, was revealed.
After the initial magical bombardment, followed by various fire, ice, and sword attacks, it has now taken a full-force blast from itself.
At this moment, His breathing was disordered, He stood there swaying, and His condition looked quite bad.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! How dare they treat me like this, mere humans?!"
Overwhelmed by resentment and humiliation, Lalabai roared and raised his shattered giant fist high.
However, before He could launch an attack, a loud crash came from behind as something heavy fell to the ground.
The giant rock soldier, whose size was comparable to His, looked indifferent and slowly drew the greatsword hanging on his shoulder.
At the same time, Natsu, Gray, and Erza attacked from three directions.
Their bodies pulsated with magical energy, neither giving way to the other, each brewing their most powerful spells.
Lalabai is already severely injured, so the next blow will determine who will be the final winner of this temporary duel!
"No matter what, we can't lose to Chase!" x3
If Lalabai knew what these people were really thinking, he'd probably be kicking himself: "Why didn't you just stay quietly in the flute? Why did you have to come out and act all high and mighty?"
Boom!
Amidst Lalabai's desperate roar, the four attacks collided and shoved each other as they fell, exploding with a deafening roar!
As the flames and smoke gradually dissipated, the demon's enormous body had vanished, leaving only a bottomless crater in its wake.
"Aha, ahaha, just as I expected..."
Lucy stared blankly at the giant crater before her. After regaining her senses, she murmured, "So, in this situation, who should be considered the winner?"
Just as he was muttering to himself, he suddenly heard a slight rubbing sound at his feet.
Lalabai was forcibly forced back into flute form!
Hearing the noise, Lucy looked down and met the three eyes at the end of the cursed flute, which were still glowing with scarlet light.
"Aaaaaah! He's not dead yet! Lucy's Flying Kick!!"
Lucy felt a chill run down her spine from being stared at, and almost instinctively, she kicked out.
Click.
The cursed flute, already at its limit, shattered into several pieces. The red light in its eyes flickered twice before going out completely.
In an instant, the entire venue fell into a deathly silence.
"Damn it! Lucy stole it from me!"
Natsu, who rushed over, pounded the ground with his fists, his face filled with resentment.
"I should have used lancers and frozen her and her flute together..."
Gray let out a dejected sigh, and his offhand remark sent a shiver down Lucy's spine.
"I miscalculated. I focused all my attention on Chase and the others and completely neglected Lucy. This is a lesson I will never forget."
Erza rested her chin on her hand, earnestly summarizing her "failure".
"Huh? Huh?"
Lucy was completely bewildered and still hadn't realized what had happened.
huh~
A pink streak of light flew in from afar, and the dark magician girl put away her magic wand and landed smoothly.
"It's pretty obvious now, you were the one who delivered the final blow to that big guy."
She smiled and said to Lucy, "Although it's very unfair, Lucy is the ultimate winner!"
"What?! The winner?! What?!" Lucy's eyes widened.
"Lucy's heart is really dark. She says she doesn't want to join, but she's actually secretly waiting for an opportunity to steal the spotlight," Happy muttered sinisterly.
Lucy retorted indignantly, "You damn cat, don't portray me as such a bad person! I have absolutely no interest in winners or anything like that!"
That cunning cat is definitely getting revenge for me hitting it on the head with a grilled fish!
"Hey Happy, stop teasing Lucy."
Chase raised his hand and patted the dust off his clothes, chuckling, "Lucy was just incredibly lucky to be able to deliver the final blow to Lalabai under those circumstances."
Speaking of which, Lucy's name, Lucy, was inspired by the word "lucky" in "Love & Lucky," the name of the business guild where the two first met. It itself represents good fortune.
This good fortune was also shown many times in the original work.
Although in most cases, Lucy is usually the one who suffers the most.
Chase thought to himself.
"Waaaaah, Chesgo..."
Hearing this rare, understanding explanation, Lucy was instantly moved to tears.
Chess is so gentle!
"I see, luck is also part of strength." Erza nodded emphatically, suddenly realizing.
Lucy: No, you actually believed Happy's nonsense just now!
"So Lucy, how about we find a chance to practice sometime?" Chase suddenly changed the subject.
He stood there, moving his knuckles, his expression so serious it didn't seem like he was joking at all.
Based on the analysis of luck just now, perhaps Lucy will be able to get some unexpected good cards.
hehehe~
"Chesco, your eyes are terrifying..."
Lucy was so frightened by the terrifying aura that she retreated repeatedly, instantly retracting her earlier assessment of "super gentle".
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The group was playing and laughing, creating a relaxed and joyful atmosphere.
Over there, Makarov stared at the meeting house, which had been blasted to smithereens, and two streams of hot tears uncontrollably flowed from the corners of his aged eyes.
They finally stood up for themselves, and now they're all ruined again!
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