Swift Battle 1

As the soldiers of the Alvarez Empire arrived at the Foire Kingdom, the war started. They directly attacked the Fiore Kingdom from various directions as they were led by

being led by one of the members of the Spriggan 12.

Wall Ehto, whose body had been destroyed, was quite furious and wanted to search for Luffy for revenge. With his real body, he felt that there was no way for him to be defeated by Luffy again. Still, he had never expected Luffy to suddenly appear in front of him. He grinned and asked, "Ha? You come to die?"

If Luffy didn't have a robot and a pervert as his crew, then he might get Wall Ehto as his pirate crew. Unfortunately, that position had been held by someone, so...

"Gear 2nd!"

Luffy lifted his arm to the side, and suddenly there was a smoke appeared out of nowhere, swirling around his arm. His blood was pumping, and his body turned reddened.

Wall Ehto was dumbfounded by the sudden change in Haru and quickly used his magic.

"Analyze!"

Wall Ehto's magic was known as "Weakness."

Weakness is magic that utilizes alchemic principles as its basic function. It allows its user to create devastating machinery, such as soldiers that specialize in magic (or recreate an attribute) that the user's opponent is ineffective in combat against.

"Analyze" was one of his magic that allowed him to see inside of his opponent's body to search for the weakness before he created a suitable weapon to defeat his enemy, but before he could do all of that... Luffy suddenly appeared in front of him!

"Gomu Gomu no...."

Luffy's arm turned into a black luster color, and it ignited a stream of flame.

"Red Hawk!"

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

The loud sound of the explosion was heard when Luffy delivered the devastating punch into the Wall Ehto's body!

Haru, who appeared out of nowhere, used the combination of "Snatch" and "Graceful Robber" to steal Wall Ehto's magic before he disappeared again to do the mission that he was tasked with.

As for Wall Ehto, he was utterly destroyed and became a scrap directly.

Still, Luffy scratched his hair while looking at the damage that was caused by his attack. He felt a bit awkward when the 100-meter area around his surroundings had turned into a ruin, and the earth was even burning, which made everyone who saw his attack become speechless and helpless.

"I wonder whether Haru can fix all of this."

Slowly, Luffy became smarter.

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In the south of the Fiore Kingdom, Wendy Marvell and Sherria Blendy fought on the battlefield that was led by Dimaria Yesta.

Dimaria Yesta, who was known as one of the members of the Spriggan 12, was a powerful enemy, without a doubt, especially since she mastered "Age Seal" magic.

Age Seal is Time Magic that is taught to Dimaria from the God of Time himself, giving her the ability to freeze the time around her (apparently activated by clicking her teeth together), allowing her, and only her, to freely move in its area of effect.

As Dimaria appeared on the battlefield, she used this magic directly and stopped everyone from moving, including Wendy and Sherria. In this place, at this time, she was the only one who could move.

"If I want to, I can kill everyone in this place."

Dimaria snickered as she looked down on everyone. With how powerful her magic was, she didn't think that it was necessary for her to end her enemy swiftly, and it was better to play around first since it was more enjoyable.

As a cliche villain, Dimaria started her monologue alone, talking happily, and explaining about her ability, not that they could hear it since they were all frozen because of her time-stop magic. She looked at Wendy, Sherria, and Carla, wondering who she should kill first, but suddenly...

*Crack!* *Crack!*

"What happens?!"

Dimaria was dumbfounded by the sudden cracks that appeared in her magic. Her magic affected the area of effect, and even though she could stop the time, it didn't mean that she could stop the time of the entire world. Only some areas that she chose were affected by her magic, and as long as it was affected, there was no way for someone able to break her magic, which was why her expression was dumbfounded, and she showed a frightened expression since the bloodlust that she felt almost made her pass out.

Not only Dimaria but everyone also felt a shudder before they felt that they might be frozen to death.

"This... Invel?"

Dimaria thought about Invel Yura, who was a magician that was also a member of the Springgan 12 since his magic was also frozen magic, but this time, it was different. It gave her a scare that made her body tremble.

Wendy, Sherria, and Carla were also frightened until they saw a beautiful woman in a white military uniform, walking relaxedly on the top of the ground that was frozen.

"Es - Esdeath-san!!" 3x

Wendy, Sherria, and Carla cheered out loud when they saw Esdeath since they knew that Esdeath was the strongest magician in the Infinite Guild. Luckily, they knew Esdeath since if they didn't know her, then they would think of her as an enemy, and if she was an enemy, then they thought that they would die directly without being able to fight back, showing how powerful Esdeath was.

Ultear Makovich, who wanted to help, Wendy and her group were also dumbfounded when she saw Esdeath destroying Dimaria's magic directly. Still, she was excited to see Esdeath since that meant...

'So he's here!'

Dimaria's teeth chattered, and she tried to calm herself. She decided to use her magic again to stop the time, but her magic was destroyed again by Esdeath's energy.

Esdeath released her energy forcefully, destroying the area of effect of the "Age Seal" so the time would continue. She snapped her fingers, then all the soldiers of the Alvarez Empire directly, including 10 km meters of the area, were frozen by ice directly.

"......." Dimaria, Ultear, Wendy, Sherria, and Charla.

Esdeath looked at Dimaria and chuckled. "What an interesting magic." She looked at Dimaria and thought that she should grab Dimaria's magic by asking Haru later.

Dimaria shuddered and felt as if she was about to die and directly used her strongest magic.

"God Soul: Chro ---"

Before Dimaria finished her words, her entire body was frozen by ice. As she was frozen, she showed frightened and seemed to want to run away, but even so, her effort was futile in front of Esdeath.

Esdeath didn't say anything and grabbed Dimaria directly, then looked at Wendy and her group. "Hey, you."

"Ye - Yes!" 3x

Wendy, Sherria, and Carla answered at the same time with a salute.

"Don't gawk over. There's a lot of places that you need to go to end this war," Esdeath said.

"Ah, yes!" 3x

They answered at the same time with a salute.

Esdeath nodded with a smile while looking at the three girls, thinking that it might be good to put them into her armies. She then thought to go back, but someone suddenly stopped her.

"Es - Esdeath-san!"

Esdeath stopped and stared at Ultear.

Ultear felt as if she was stared at by the apex predator.

"Yes?" Esdeath asked while staring at Ultear.

"I..." Ultear gritted her teeth before she asked, "Can... Can I follow you?"

Esdeath stared at Ultear for a moment before she shook her head. "No." She then didn't waste her time and disappeared directly while snorting at Ultear, thinking that this woman was really shameless. She knew what Ultear was planning, so there was no way that she would help her.

"...." Ultear.

Wendy, Sherria, and Carla looked at each other before they patted Ultear's shoulders.

Ultear turned her head and looked at Wendy, Sherria, and Carla with a strange expression.

"Don't mind." 3x

"..." Ultear.

Ultear sighed and thought that it started to get cold, or rather, she might freeze and get Hypothermia if she stayed here any longer. "How about we go now?"

"Um." 3x

They answered at the same time, thinking that Esdeath was really strong!