Chapter 5: Breaking point

-Tower of heaven-

Something was different today, Broly could feel it.

The number of guards around him had doubled, there were little to no slaves working in the mines, and he hadn't seen Erza and Jellal around since the morning.

He didn't worry about them, he could feel their presence and energy in a random location deep inside the mine. Maybe Erza was practising with her 'magic', which he still understands the concept behind.

It sounded like Ki but much weaker and more diverse than what he was familiar with.

Never had his father used Ki to heal or create materials, he only used it as a weapon to battle and so did he.

"Broly." Someone called him, and it was none other than old man Rob and Simon, both sporting worried expressions on their faces. This made the bad feeling in his heart increase dramatically–he was getting unsettled. "Have you seen Erza and Jellal? Since this morning they both disappeared and neither Wally, Sho or Millianna know where they ran off to." Simone asked.

"Hnn." He understood their worry, so he concentrated once more on his Ki and let a small part of it expand outwards. But due to his amateur skill level with fine Ki manipulation, a large dust storm and a slight earthquake occurred when he did that.

He felt their energy signature, Erza seemed to be slightly tired but was calm and happy. Jellal thought it was a bit turbulent and wasn't in any danger. "They are fine," Broly assured them.

Rob released a sigh of relief, and so did Simon. They weren't blind to the happenings of the tower, something was off–like a terrible omen hanging upon them.

Many of the leaves were nowhere in sight, what used to be a mine filled with hundreds of miners was now only showing a few dozens of people, all of them frightened over the change as well.

"Something doesn't feel right…" Simon commented. "The guards are looking hostile today… they… seem more confident?"

Broly glanced behind him and saw their faces sporting a mocking grin and a crazed glint in their eyes. He narrowed his eyes and readied himself for a battle that he wished he could avoid. He had not yet fully grasped his inner rage, the chances of him losing control were still very high.

Just stopping himself from entering his Great Ape state would be tremendously difficult and the other form that he had heard Freiza talk about–Super Saiyan. That form would endanger the planet itself, and he would do everything in his power to never lose himself, once again.

"Go back," Broly said to Rob and Simon, his instincts telling him that something dangerous was about to happen.

"Wa-wait Broly! Don't cause unnecessary trouble! Especially when they are acting so strangely, we need to wait come back!" Rob tried to reason with the Saiyan, but it didn't dissuade him in the least.

As Broly was about to reach the patrolling guards to demand some answers, a sudden loud alarm sounded off in the entire tower!

The loud noise made the stationary guards move and circle the group of slaves, their weapons were drawn out–ready to attack at any moment.

"-!?"

"What is going on!?" A random slave shouted out in fear.

"We-we didn't do anything!" Another one shouted.

"Please don't kill us!" One by one, everyone started to beg and cry in desperation. Broly meanwhile just concentrated on Erza's aura and noticed the sudden turbulence, as well as the hundreds of n approaching guards in her direction.

'They are in trouble!' He thought.

Not wasting a single moment he immediately rushed with great speed to Erza and Jellal, the ground beneath his feet crumbling into pieces, from the force.

"Stop him from escaping!" One of the guards shouted out. They all readied their spear and magical staff and began bombarding the rushing Saiyan. "Hahaha! This will show you to never mess with us freaks! We're going to strip all of your flesh from your body!"

"Shit! He's not injured!?" Said one of the attackers.

"What!?"

From the smoke emerged a perfectly fine Broly, the only damage he had sustained was the ruined slave garb they gave him.

Boom!

He soon bashed directly against the line of guards all holding out their spears. The blades couldn't even pierce his skin, as they broke on contact.

"Aaaaargh!" With a mighty roar, he threw away everyone standing in front of him like ragdolls.

Many got punched so hard that their heads immediately got pulverised in a bloody mess.

"Monster!" They all screamed in fear as they saw the man take out an entire group of armed guards with a single swipe of his arms. It was impossible to tell just how fast such a juggernaut moved, he was both nimble and brutal.

With every strike, a guard would lose an arm, a leg, have their spines crushed into dust–nothing could stop him. The tower vibrated with each of his clashes, rendering the past bravado the guards had mustered up, to vanish into thin air. "Where is that dark guild mage!?"

"He's nearly done! Keep him busy, his magical enhancement state won't last long!"

What they didn't realize was that Broly hadn't even used an iota of his Ki, only displaying nothing but pure raw physical power. He rushed forward, his body colliding against rows and rows of guards all using shields or magic, but in the end, they all got crushed or thrown away.

And then he saw it.

Erza and Jellal are both pinned on the ground, with the captain pushing the dagger against her neck. Broly's eyes widened considerably out of the sheer anger that was threatening to overtake him. His eyes flickering green, and reverting back to their natural black colour.

Slam!

Before he could even reach her, he slammed into a translucent barrier made of moving runes. Said runes moved in the air and encompassed him in a dome. Clenching his teeth, he tried to break the barrier, only to have it reflect on him.

"Hahaha! You're nothing but a brute. No one can escape my [Dark Runes of Imprisonment]!" A tall and handsome man said, as he walked out of the shadows and revealed himself to Broly. The mage had green hair and black eyes. He was dressed in a black suit with the emblem of guild visible on the back of his hands. Holding a magical tome where hundreds of black runes spilled out of it and fused with the barrier around Broly. "Honestly, I was expecting something more, a bit more of a challenge. When I was first informed of your appearance, I thought you might have been a wandering powerful wizard–but unfortunately, you're not."

The man closed his book when the magic barrier was finished setting itself upon completion.

Broly punched the barrier, creating a small shockwave, but aside from shaking a bit–the barrier didn't break. "Nnnnaaaargg!" He didn't stop his assault, and smashed his fists continuously on the magical barrier. "Let me out!"

The dark mage merely scoffed at his prisoner's attempt, this tome was an ancient lost relic of an era far gone. Said to have the capability of trapping dragons themselves, the possibility of a human breaking it was impossible. "Do not underestimate my magic, fool. No matter how strong you may be, a dragon you are not. So just stay put and watch the show, I'm sure in her final moments the girl would like to see her desperate friend–unable to save her." The mage burst out laughing, mocking the Saiyan's efforts at escaping.

"-!"

Desperate and rageful, Broly held onto his head while a sharp pain assaulted his psyche. Like an invincible barbed hand taking hold of his mind, his vision became hazy with the hallucinations of dark malefic eyes surrounding him.

"Do you wish for power?"

"Aaargh!!!!" He began thrashing around even more fiercely, both trying to get out and keep his anger at bay. Miniscule particles of green motes of light came from his being, invisible to the others due to the small amount, its density began changing.

"I, Zeref, will grant you freedom! Power! Everything you ever desire will come true."

Unknown to the being controlling the dark hallucinations, the more it tried to dig further in Broly's head–the closer it headed towards the Great Ape's consciousness. A wrathful being of immense power, ready to lash out was but a few moments of being awake once more.

Crack!

Crack!

The ground began shaking, the small motes of green light turned denser and more abundant–transforming into a violent stream of green energy. The changes began to become more drastic, with his muscles bulging, making him grow taller and stronger by the second.

"Wha-what is going on!?" The dark mage felt the disturbance in his barrier. The sudden influx of this foreign raw power was beginning to push against his magic.

While the dark eyes foolishly thought of Broly's increasingly erratic behaviours as a moment to seize control and attempt its brainwashing magic.

"Worship me, and bring me back to life!"

With a final push, the dark energy broke inside the deepest corners of his mind. "Hehehe, you'll be a useful pupp-WHAT IS THIS!?"

The deed had been done, and the only thing that kept the monster at bay was broken.

What was supposed to be a mirror world, representing the memories and soul of the individual, where all their thoughts resided–ended up being a fiery hell of unbridled rage. The dark magical figure found itself surrounded in a sea of boundless green energy.

And like a flood, all of it surged towards the black figure, crushing it by its sheer weight and abundance.

"No nononono! What is this power!?"

…

-Grimoire Heart ship-

"What is this power!?" Ultear crawled away from her crystal ball as an abundant amount of green energy began spilling from it. The intensity became so strong that slight cracks began forming on the surface.

'It's gonna explode!?'

Hastily getting up and using her magic to teleport away, Ultear barely left the area before an enormous explosion destroyed her room along with a part of the ship.

Hades was caught off guard, the shockwave shook the entire shop itself and nearly broke his heart!

"Ultear!"

…

As this was happening, Broly continued to fight over control. His strength waned and his anger grew by the second. The clothes on himself had long disintegrated from his power and growing size. The earth crumbled beneath his feet and the power of the Great Ape was rampaging within his body!

Crack!

"How is this possible!?" The dark mage couldn't believe his eyes, as he saw the sigh of his prized barrier, told to have imprisoned fearsome dragons themselves–start crumbling apart.

The final thing Broly saw was the scene of the captain thrusting the dagger at Erza's eye.

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"AAAAAARGHH!!!!"

A tower of pure green Ki burst out of Broly, tearing the barrier like it was paper and pushing away everyone and everything near him.

"My magic!" The dark mage was pushed with so much force that his back collided with cave walls–nearly turning him into meat paste.

The guards and the captain all got blown away like ragdolls, including Erza and Jellal. "Jellal!" The redhead tried to maneuver in the air and used the telekinesis power to balance herself. She brought the unconscious body of Jellal near her and made sure that they didn't get hit by any rocks. "This power… this is Broly!"

She tried to make her towards him, to save him with whatever method she could think of. "Broly! It's me Erza!" No matter how loud she shouted, her voice was lost over the sound of his blasting Ki.

In the end, she couldn't muster more of her magic and got thrown out of the tower all by herself and fell into a lake. The waves pushed her further away from the tower, she couldn't even swim back and find the other. "Broly! Rob! Jellal! Sho! Wally! Simon! Milianna!" She cried out the names of her friends but couldn't find anything among the chaos.

"Erza, over here!" To her immense relief, she heard the voice of Rob and saw him stranded on a piece of broken wood, in the middle of the coasting waves. As she reached Rob, he held her tightly and made sure to hold on to the piece of wood. "Brace yourself!"

"We need to save Broly and the others!"

"We will, but first we need to survive and not drown. Don't lose hope Erza, I'm sure we'll find them soon enough!" Rob said.

"But… " She wanted to argue but couldn't as she saw Rob's weakened state, he was barely holding on to the piece of wood. "Alright… I promise to search for them, once this is over!"

"That's the spirit!"

They both got carried away from the tower, Erza cried in despair as she couldn't save the rest. And even so far away, she could hear Broly's pained scream of rage and sorrow–she wished to save him but couldn't do so.

The Ki grew in power, covering the entire lower caves and the tower itself before making its way towards the sky–parting away every cloud in a mile radius.

The now berserk Broly, had his gaze locked onto the retreating captain, his rage taking over his sanity and control. "Aaaa!!!" He broke the sound barrier with a single leap, closing the distance instantly.

"Me-mercy!" The captain seeing the behemoth of a monster upon him begged for forgiveness. "I was ordered to do it, I had no choi-Eurgh!" He couldn't finish his sentence as his throat got caught in a lariat move by Broly–crushing it to smithereens. The Saiyan didn't stop his attack and crashed the captain's now dead body through walls, blowing an entire crater. The entire east side of the tower got destroyed, with pieces of what was once a human's body sailing through the air.

He didn't stop with just the captain. One by one, he targeted every single guard in the tower who out of desperation kept attacking with their magical weapons, yet they couldn't even scratch his skin.

A dense amount of Ki gathered in a single point, a small green dot hovered on his palm. This dot shone with incredible power that just like Broly, kept increasing every second. "Haaaa!" Broly launched his [Eraser Cannon], the attack suddenly expanding in a large dome that reduced every single guard into dust.

The attack continued on its path destroying everything inside the tower and bursting through the walls. Even when it reached the outside and grew a hundred times its size, it didn't stop.

Booooom!

The [Eraser Cannon] soon collided with a mountain, detonating in a large explosion that leveled the terrain and uprooted the entire surrounding forest!

The dark mage in his broken state, saw the carnage and had his life flashed before him, when a pair of green eyes locked onto him. "Shit! Shitshitshit! I won't die today!" He retrieved a crystal from his robe, and crushed it. A magical circle formed beneath him teleporting away just before foot crushed the area he was on before.

"AAAAAAAARGH!!!!!" His fury continued to grow along with his power. Torrents of Ki escaped from his mouth, resembling a dragon's breath attack. It pulverised the entire upper tower and its surrounding. Though he hadn't turned into a Super Saiyan, the raw power from his being could already be felt all around the world.

Boom!

Within seconds, the tower exploded in a large dome of green Ki, the explosion covered the entire area and reduced everything to ashes.

The earth itself quacked for miles, the entire continent could feel the sake.

...

In a faraway land called Giltena, a red slumbering Dragon God was startled awake by the might of the power. His roar of anger, challenging said individual.

The roar was echoed once again by another dragon, far away in another location.

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In the Kingdom of Alvarez, many powerful magicians whose magical prowess were considered to surpass even the gods of ishgar felt the pulse of dense Ki. A beautiful woman who shared similar crimson hair to Erza, looked towards the sky–wary of this new unknown powerful individual.

"How peculiar…" She wanted to meet this person face to face.

...

On an island, a sleeping man garbed in black clothes awoke, the man had short black hair, dark eyes, and abnormally sharp canines. He also wore a pendant around his neck that he kept fiddling with.

His gaze, just like the invisible blonde girl near him, looked towards the direction of Ishgar. Though the man couldn't see the girl, he could sense her presence and when he reacted in fascination from sensing the boundless amount of energy…

…His lips stretched into a light smile with tears of happiness streaming down his face

"Is this my answer?" The man known as Zeref said with a twinge of relief buried deep within his voice.

{Break}

Where there was once was a beautiful forest, thriving with fauna and local wildlife–had changed drastically in the span of a few seconds.

The place was now an unimaginably large crater. There were no more lakes or trees anywhere nearby, there was no sign of life–a complete empty wasteland. The pure destructive nature of his attack had eradicated all living things miles on end, the fauna was completely destroyed–not even behind ashes.

In the middle of it all was a young teenage Broly, who had successfully regained control of his emotions after a long arduous battle with himself. But when he saw the destruction he caused, and his friends nowhere in sight… a part of him broke once again.

"Aaa…..aaaaa….AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Dropping on his knees, the Saiyan cried. Every one of his emotions, from sadness, grief and self hatred reflected in his desperate scream, ecchoing all across the land.

He lost everyone he cherished once more.

There is one thing Broly realised–he could never live with others. He was too dangerous to be around them, too deadly. At any point, he could lose control of himself and destroy everything around him. And until he finds a way to control his anger, he wouldn't search for civilization.

He decided to go as far away from here, no longer bother with people and stay in his own cave all alone.

Then no one would die…

With a push of his Ki, Broly blasted off in the sky, heading towards a random direction, where no one would ever find him.

All alone by himself.

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