A crystal tower, like a giant tree, stood tall above the sea.
This crystal tower was naturally the R-System that Jellal had spent eight years building.
Suddenly, a terrifyingly loud noise echoed through the air.
A black shadow shot down from the top of the crystal tower, instantly piercing through the entire structure.
Immediately after, the massive crystal tower collapsed with a thunderous crash.
A large amount of shattered magical crystal, like rocks, fell downwards.
And Natsu, Gray, and the group, who had been at the tower top, also fell downwards along with the shattered magical crystal.
"Ah~ We're falling! Happy!"
Natsu, whose body was continuously falling, called out to Happy.
Hearing Natsu, Happy, who had already spread his wings, immediately flew over.
But before Happy could catch Natsu, Sho used his Card Seal Magic to seal away Natsu, Gray, Erza, and the group into card spaces.
And Happy carried Sho with him, flying outwards from the collapsing crystal tower.
"Saved!"
Once Happy placed Sho on the ice surface Kenichi had created earlier, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he released Natsu, Gray, and the group from the card spaces.
"To destroy this tower with just one strike... such terrifying power!"
Gray, having emerged from the card space, looked at the collapsed crystal tower before him. His expression kept changing as he spoke with lingering fear.
"That's right… Kenichi!"
Erza scanned the surroundings and, upon noticing Kenichi hadn't come out with them, her pretty face changed immediately, and her gaze fixed on the collapsed crystal tower.
"Could it be that Kenichi is still inside that tower?"
Hearing Erza's words, Natsu looked at the crystal tower turned ruins, held his head, and exclaimed in astonishment.
"Kenichi has been in the sky since just now, you know!"
"Look, over there!"
Happy pointed towards the sky above where the crystal tower had been and said to everyone.
Following Happy's pointing finger, they saw a cluster of crimson flames hovering high in the sky.
The distance was too great, so they couldn't see Kenichi clearly within the crimson flames.
But upon seeing these crimson flames, Erza and the group breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, under everyone's watchful eyes, the cluster of crimson flames, like a meteor, flew towards them at an astonishing speed.
"This is..."
Seeing the crimson flames streak across the sky like a meteor, Gray's face changed immediately, and he exchanged a look with Natsu.
"Jellal's Heavenly Body Magic!"
That's right. The reason Kenichi could float in the sky was that he was using Jellal's Heavenly Body Magic, Meteor.
When Natsu and Gray were fighting Jellal, the system had already dropped Jellal's Heavenly Body Magic attribute.
Now was the perfect time to use it.
Kenichi, using [Meteor], flew even faster than Jellal himself.
In just the blink of an eye, Kenichi flew from high in the sky to in front of Erza, Natsu, and the others, finally landing gently on the ice surface.
After landing, the crimson flames and the steel-like dragon scales on Kenichi's body faded at a visible rate.
Soon, Kenichi returned to his normal state.
"Kenichi, the magic you used just now was Jellal's Heavenly Body Magic, right?"
Watching Kenichi approach, Gray asked with a puzzled expression.
Kenichi didn't hide it and directly answered Gray's question: "That's right!"
"Ice Magic, Spatial Magic, Fire Dragon Slayer Magic, and now Jellal's Heavenly Body Magic... How can you use so many different magics?"
Gray looked at Kenichi, his face full of suspicion.
How can he use so many magics?
Naturally, by collecting them through the Pick-Up Attributes System.
But the system was Kenichi's deepest secret, so he wouldn't tell anyone about it.
Just as Kenichi was pondering how to answer Gray's question, Erza over there, who had been pondering with her chin in her hand, suddenly looked up and stared seriously at Kenichi, then asked: "Could it be... Kenichi, are you a magic prodigy?"
'Huh?'
'Magic prodigy? What kind of reasoning is that?'
"I've heard of some magic prodigies who are proficient in hundreds or even thousands of magics. For ordinary magic, they can learn just by looking at it once, and they can even create their own magic!"
As soon as Erza said this, Natsu looked at Kenichi with shining eyes and exclaimed in admiration: "That's really amazing! To learn someone else's magic just by looking at it! No wonder you can use Jellal's magic, and even my Dragon Slayer Magic!"
"Back then, I spent several years learning Dragon Slayer Magic from Igneel before mastering it. You learned it in an instant!"
Lucy also chimed in: "So that's it! A magic prodigy! No wonder you can use so many different magics!"
Hearing this conversation between Erza, Lucy, and Natsu, Kenichi felt utterly speechless.
For a moment, he didn't know how to refute it.
"Kenichi, have you ever created your own..."
But just as Natsu was about to ask if Kenichi had created any of his own magic, a terrifying magical power fluctuation suddenly came from the crystal tower ruins.
Under the pressure of this terrifying magical power, the faces of Natsu, Erza, Gray, and the group all changed, and they immediately looked towards the crystal tower ruins.
"Could it be that Zeref has been revived?"
Milliana, feeling this terrifying magical power fluctuation, spoke with fear.
'Zeref revived? Impossible.'
'Zeref never died in the first place.'
Kenichi immediately dismissed Milliana's speculation in his heart.
"It's just the Etherion power contained within the magical crystal dispersing!"
After observing for a moment, Kenichi spoke.
Before Milliana and the others could even breathe a sigh of relief, Erza said with a grave expression:
"We should leave this place quickly."
"Such a vast amount of magical power being released all at once in a short time will likely cause an explosion!"
Following Erza's suggestion, everyone immediately boarded the ship and left.
Sure enough, before they had gone far-
The place where the crystal tower had been instantly produced a terrifyingly loud explosion.
Boom-
A pillar of fire shot up into the sky.
Then, the powerful blast wave created waves several meters high on the sea surface, spreading out in all directions.
The ship carrying Kenichi and the others was like a small leaf in those huge waves, in danger of being engulfed at any moment.