Chapter 55

"Acnologia..."

Shin's anger could be seen and felt through the manifestation of the Phoenix behind him.​​

Shin's magic power was unleashed and violently came into contact with Acnologia's who looked at him without fear but rather with anger.

When their magic power came into contact, Shin felt that there was a difference in power between the two.

'So it's as I thought...'

'State'

[Name: Acnologia

Race : Dragon

Total Power: AAA (high)]

[Name : Shin Ai

Race : Phoenix God

He's stronger than me but he won't be able to kill me' thought Shin.

Shin had the advantage of more experience, better weapon handling and better techniques that could fill the power gap.

"Look!"

"It's the king!"

"He's come to save us!"

In the city, the citizens despaired with renewed colour and hope upon seeing Shin.

Even the dragons had done so and roared with happiness but also with ferocity.

Seeing the king standing in front of Acnologia had given them a confidence boost.

This pride did not go unnoticed by Acnologia who looked at the dragons with contempt and hatred without giving any attention to the humans, they were just insects and collateral damage in her eyes.

"Wretched dragons" Acnologia spoke in a deep, gravelly voice giving off a macabre aural hatred.

*SWOOSH*

Shifting his gaze to the dragons, he swung his tail with force, slicing through the air and forming a blade of wind that cut through all the buildings in its path and even sliced through the ground, creating a ravine in its path.

The dragons paled at this simple attack but did not back down and all spat a breath at the wind blade but it had no effect.

Just as it was about to slice all the dragons in half, the wind blade was interrupted by the collision with another wind blade coming from the side.

The collision of the two made the two wind blades disappear.

Acnologia turned his gaze to Shin to see him with his hand in the air showing that he had swung his arm with force to produce a windblade.

"Don't take it out on them, I'm here for you," Shin declared in a cold voice.

"You... You must be that Phoenix" Acnologia replied in his deep voice.

"Don't get in my way and I will kill you..."

"Tell me about it".

Shin tucked in his wings, and as soon as he started to walk, he disappeared from his spot.

He came up behind Acnologia and swung his leg back covered in wind magic.

And when he was about to hit him, his cheeks puffed out and he let out a blast of fire.

*BAM*

*BOOM*

As a result of the kick, Acnologia was thrown, but in mid-air, he was ȧssaulted by a powerful blast of fire that threw him even harder against the high walls of the kingdom.

*BOOM*

Shin looked towards Acnologia and as the dust settled, he saw that where he had hit, Acnologia's scales seemed to have a slight crack with small burns around them.

Shin had used wind magic which was meant to break the scales with their more penetrating attribute and follow up the hit with flames to clean up a powerful blow in a more delicate area.

Seeing that Acnologia didn't seem to be moving, Shin took the opportunity to open his personal space and take out a potion.

With the potion in his hands, Shin turned to the citizens and concentrated on sensing their presence.

As he sensed them, he visualized a location and gathered the starry blue space element in his hand and projected it onto all the citizens who were immediately transported to the dėsɨrėd location.

"Whew, space magic really does take a lot of magical power," Shin breathed out, taking a deep breath.

"Good thing I had this potion," Shin said as he drank the potion in his hand.

It was a rather rare and expensive potion that not many people could afford, but it was very useful.

It was a potion that made you regain some of your magical power.

"Ahahahahahahah."

After finishing drinking it, Shin heard a sinister and crazy laugh.

Looking towards Acnologia, he could see him standing and his wound was now completely healed.

"What? How?" Shin was surprised and confused because of how he had healed his wound.

I'm sure he doesn't have a regenerative ability or something, otherwise he would have regenerated the arm he lost in the anime" Shin thought.

Then the only solution is that he did it with magic, but I don't remember it being healing magic...

Thinking about it, Shin finally widened his eyes.

'But of course, when he was human, he was called "Doctor" and he had healing magic that must have been enhanced a bit after his transformation.'

'But it's not powerful enough to regenerate a limb, so I won't have to give him time to heal.

Acnologia let out a roar as the magic was suċkėd into her mouth.

Having accumulated a huge amount of magic power, he unleashed his roar on Shin.

Shin immediately responded with a roar of fire.

*BOOM*

On the impact of his two attacks, the attacks spun off to the sides in rays of fire and magic that destroyed the entire kingdom.

Ravines were formed in the kingdom as the palace was cut in two.

As Shin maintained his roar, he swung his right arm up and his left arm down.

Underneath Acnologia, the earth distorted while in the sky, the clouds spiralled to meet at one point.

Acnologia watched his phenomena and flew up slightly, still holding his breath as both of Shin's hands closed into fists.

*CLAACK*

The earth formed into a giant spike that shot into the air towards Acnologia while in the middle of the cloud spiral, a bolt of lightning formed and roared to strike at high speed towards Acnologia.

As the two attacks rushed towards Acnologia from the sky and earth, Acnologia gave a surge of power for a moment in his roar so that his roar overwhelmed Shin's.

At this sight, Shin drew his spear and pointed it at the roar which collided with the tip of the spear and split in two as Shin struggled to hold on.

Meanwhile, Acnologia, no longer encumbered by its roar, opened its mouth again, but this time for a different reason.

When his mouth was opened, a suction came out and the lightning was suċkėd into his mouth and then converted back into magic so that Acnologia again used a roar from the lightning to the huge spike of earth formed under him.

*BOOM*

The huge spike was swept away by his roar and completely vaporised as a crater appeared in its place.

Shin in his case was still spear-pointed as the roar was split in two and the clouds were also cut in the same trajectory as the roar.

Shin had burn marks and bruises that healed right away and his clothes were a bit torn on the sides.

But he was most surprised by the fact that Acnologia was able to eat his elements.

Shin had come to the conclusion that he was manipulating the elements directly by converting the magical power.

Whereas those of this world could manipulate fire, water in different forms through a magic, an art.

A diagram: [ Shin : Magic power ---> Manipulation of elements

Other people: Magic power --> Magic/Art --> Manipulation of elements]

But Acnologia does not eat magic/art but magic power, which is why he does not use magic or elements.

Because Acnologia eats magic power and uses it to attack.

And Shin manipulated the elements by converting the magic power because it was the energy available in this world but Acnologia ate the magic power.

And in this case, Shin asked himself a question?

What if this ability did not only apply to magical power?

What if Acnologia had access to other energies in other worlds and could eat them too?

Shin thought that if Acnologia could go beyond the limits of this world and defeat more powerful enemies in other worlds, he might have the potential to become a god like him?

A god who could eat all types of energy?

A god like that would be pretty terrifying.

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Meanwhile, Irene was flying with her dragon wings while holding Erza in her arms.

*BOOM*

*ROARR*

*BOOM*

Suddenly, multiple explosions and roars sounded behind her.

The intensity of the battle could be felt for miles and Irene sped up to get Erza to safety and go help Shin because she couldn't bear to leave him there.

She felt Erza's sobs and tears in her arms as she tried to stay strong.

Irene held Erza tighter to try and reassure her as best she could but she felt sad and useless that she couldn't help her husband but the safety of their child was the most important thing.

After minutes of flying and hearing the explosions and tremors coming from the kingdom, they finally arrived at the meeting place.

Everyone was there, the dragons, the children, Zeref and a constellationist named Anna.

She was the one in charge of sending the children into the future and their teacher.

In front of them was the fruit of their research, the Eclipse Gate.

Irene landed on the ground and everyone looked to her.

She found their gaze strange, as if they felt guilt and sorrow for her.

But she took it to mean that she would have to say goodbye to her daughter.

"Irene... So this happened?" Zeref asked quietly but pained by the absence of his friend and the intensity of the fight they had all felt so far.

"Yes..." replied Irene.

*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*

The earth was beginning to shake from the fight at the kingdom.

"The fight is escalating..." commented Metalicanna in a deep voice.

"It's reaching its conclusion.." said Igneel as he looked up at the sky towards the kingdom.

Everyone broke out in a sweat, the fight at the kingdom was a fight between two superpowered creatures.

The damage and ferocity of this fight was unprecedented. Even Igneel and the others were surprised and respected the power shown by Shin.

"It's time, let's not waste the time given by Shin" said Zeref with a decisive voice.

Irene nodded with difficulty and moved towards the other children who were also just as lost.

She set Erza down and he clung to her arm as she climbed down from her mother's arms.

"Mwaman, what's wrong? Where are you going? When is Daddy coming back?"

Erza was mȧturė for her age but at that moment she was really acting her age and crying in a stutter.

Her daughter's condition was pinching Irene's heart very hard and the tears couldn't help but well up in her eyes.

"Look, sweetie, I know this is confusing but you have to be strong and brave. Your father and I love you very much."

Irene burst into tears and hugged her daughter as tightly as she could, while Erza did the same.

Then she turned her head slightly and nodded.

Zeref stepped forward and held out his hand as all the children, including Erza, fell into a deep sleep.

"It's your turn, are you ready?" Zeref turned to the dragons, leaving Irene with her daughter, to initiate the art of getting the dragons into the children's bodies.

At the same time, Zeref watched as Anna began to open the Eclipse gate on her own.

Anna summoned all her spirits who began to open it.

After a few minutes, the door began to open, giving way to a blinding white light.

At the same time, the bodies of the children, including Erza, began to float towards the door.

Irene watched in pain as her daughter left and the dragons' bodies became transparent and began to disappear.

And before they disappeared, Igneel looked at Irene with regret.

"I'm sorry for what we're about to do but don't blame Shin, it was hard for him to make this choice. And don't worry, I'm sure he'll be fine. Goodbye my friend."

As Igneel spoke the last words, the dragons body transformed into a small ball of light that rushed into the children's body.

"What do you want to say-"

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

Irene didn't even have time to finish her sentence when a sudden explosion and immense power struck the kingdom.

A huge column of power of many colours rose into the sky and pierced the clouds.

Zeref, Anna and Irene were taken by surprise as they felt the monstrous power of this attack.

"The power of this attack..." murmured Zeref with shock and sadness knowing the meaning behind such a powerful attack.

"Shin!!!" Irene shouted as she stood up to leave for the kingdom.

But she didn't have time to understand as she was fȯrċɨbŀƴ thrown backwards towards the door.

"What?" said Irene upset by what had just happened.

"I'm sorry Irene but Shin asked us to do this, I'm sorry but I also think it's necessary. Protect your daughter and one day we will all meet again. Goodbye Irene"

Irene could not answer or react as she was pushed through the door and fell into a heavy sleep.

As she was submerged in the light of the portal and her consciousness and eyes closed, she spoke one last word with tears in her eyes.

"Shin..."

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You may have noticed that the system was very little present. In fact, I don't want to depend on it and so it will only appear at a few moments, only at informative moments or other rare moments. The next chapter will be the fight! What do you think happened to Shin at the end of the chapter?

Is he dead? Is Acnologia dead?