Interested

After staying beside Maka's dead body for a while Damian placed decided to leave but stopped and touched Maka's head.

Passing his magic power through the dragon Damian felt the remaining bit of magic in the dragon's body. Moving towards the spot where it was gathered Damian stood inside the Dragon's mouth and found a lacrima present under the dragon's tongue.

Pulling it out of the dragon's body Damian apologized to the corpse and then got out of the dragon's mouth.

"Rest well Maka-jii." said Damian once again as he bowed in front of the dragon and then moved away to look around the battlefield to search for any other dragons who might be alive.

After looking around and being unable to find any dragons or dragon slayers still alive. Damian sighed as he took the half transformed dragon slayers to be his test subjects.

"Let's check the other battlefields." muttered Damian as he transformed into Jetray and flew away to the other battle fields.

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After checking out most of the battlefield Damian was left shocked seeing that all the battlefields were now a graveyard for the dragons from both the sides.

No battle was currently going on as either the dragons were dead or the remaining ones just decided to leave the battlefield seeing the it was pointless to continue the war.

And even though these things troubled Damian a lot. There was still one thing that made him even more worried.

"Seeing the condition of the corpses I can concur that the war was over quite a while ago....but then where the funds and resources that were still being sent were going?" question Damian as he started thinking about the new problem that just arose in his mind.

"!!!"

All of a sudden a shiver went down Damian's spine as he started looking around.

'What is this awful magic power.....it seems familiar for some reason.' thought Damian as he saw a wave of black coloured magic power spreading around and coming towards him.

Immediately forming the strongest barrier that he possibly could Damian narrowed his eyes as he felt a bit nauseous of the incoming magic power.

"What the-!!!" exclaimed Damian as he noticed some small plants that somehow were able to survive the war between the dragons dying as soon as the black magic passed over them.

Being a bit more wary of the incoming magic Damian enhanced his magic resistance to the maximum and started releasing his own magic power to wrap his body with it.

The black magic energy finally collided with Damian's barrier and soon cracks started appearing on the barrier.

Seeing that Damian started strengthening the barrier as it continued cracking up.

Unable to being able to keep up with the power of the magic the barrier shattered as the black ethernano started surrounding Damian.

Seeing that the Barrier shatter Damian was ready to to take the damage but noticed that the black magic energy was not moving towards him, or rather it was being pushed away from Damian.

Surprised by the turn of events Damian gave a sigh of relief and started looking around.

"It's killing whatever is coming in its path." said Damian as he saw all the plants and animals that came to eat up the remains of dragons getting killed by the black magic.

After a few minutes the black magic power disappeared making Damian sigh in relief as he stopped using magic and then started moving towards the person whom he felt the familiar magic energy from.

"...Zeref?" said Damian as he saw the familiar black haired man kneeling down on the ground while taking deep breaths.

Moving closer to the man while being wary of him Damian noticed Zeref looking towards him and widening his eyes.

"D-Damian?" said Zeref as he saw the familiar man coming towards him.

"Was that you who used that black magic that killed everything?" asked Damian.

Hearing his question Zeref got even more shocked and thought, 'D-Did he survive that curse?'

"Was it you who killed all these dragons?" asked Damian.

But Zeref didn't respond as he was still a bit surprised and was thinking about various theories in his mind.

"...Answer me!" said Damian with anger as he got annoyed on being ignored by the mage in front of him.

"Hmm? Ah! No it wasn't me who killed the dragons. I just came here to search for something....though that magic was unfortunately my cause." said Zeref.

Staring at Zeref for a while Damian asked, "Why did you used that magic earlier?"

"...I don't have any control over it..." said Zeref with a sad tone.

"What were you searching for?"

"... something, or rather someone." said Zeref.

"Playing mysterious bare we...fine, it's doesn't matter to me, anyway. Let me just ask you about one final thing. Do you know about Acnologia?" asked Damian as he stared intently at Zeref.

Zeref smiled and said, "Who doesn't know about him in this era?"

"Yeah....you see I am search him for...reasons and I have a feeling that someone as mysterious/creepy as you might have a link to get to that person."

"Wow, that was the first time someone called me creepy...Hehe" said Zeref as he chuckled.

"See, like I said creepy."

Zeref chuckled for a bit before he stood up and took a deep breath.

"Can I ask you a question as well? Did you get hit by that curse....black magic power and survived?"

"As you can see I am still alive....and judging by how you phrased that, the black magic was most certainly a killing magic, right?"

"Hmm...it's just as you have guessed Damian." said Zeref with a smile.

He then stared at Damian for a while and said, "You certainly are interesting Damian....always surprising me with new things...It's making me interested in you."

Zeref smiled as Damian took a few steps away from him took out his sword.

"I don't swing that way and I already have a wife and I am going to be a father soon as well." said Damian.

"So? That doesn't lower my interest in you in the slightest..." said Zeref with a confused look on his face.

"..."

"...Wai- Wait a minute I didn't mean anything along the lines of being interested in you along-"

"Stop don't say anything further. I don't want to hear it. You deeply asshole." said Damian as he frowned hearing the words coming out of Zeref's mouth.

"*sigh* Anyways you were asking about Acnologia, right? I am searching for him as well. Infact I came here to find him, since this is the place I last felt his magic energy from." said Zeref.

Hearing that Damian got serious and asked, "Why are you searching for him?"

"No reason....or there might be some but I am not aware of them...What about you? Why are you searching for him?" asked Zeref feeling a bit interested in Damian's reason.

Damian sighed and with a cold look on his face said, "I want to kill him."

Zeref widend his eyes in surprise after hearing Damian's response but soon a small grin appeared on his face.

"Is that so....." said Zeref and started walking away while gesturing Damian to follow him.