### Chapter 65: Ultear
"?!"
Ultear's expression turned slightly ugly.
"I said your Magic is boring. You can manipulate the time of objects, but what can manipulating the time of objects do? Aside from some patchwork repairs, like restoring a shattered crystal ball?"
"So what if the crystal ball is restored? Even if restored, it's just a crystal ball. Even if you add Magic Power to the crystal ball to give it some attack power, it's still just a crystal ball."
"If you could control real time, stopping the enemy's time, that would be something. But just repairing a few crystal balls... you've really lowered the prestige of time."
Hearing Riku's words, Ultear was furious. She had spent a huge price to learn this Magic, yet Riku, this bastard, called it worthless.
Of course, she wanted to stop time like Riku said, but she couldn't do it! If she could, she would definitely stop this bastard's time and then gouge out his eyeballs.
"Hehe, since you look down on my Magic, then taste the power of my crystal balls!!"
"Flash Forward!!"
Swish swish swish!!!
In an instant, hundreds of crystal balls appeared around Riku in all 360 degrees, completely surrounding him.
"Disappear!!!"
Shoo shoo shoo!!!
All the crystal balls shot towards Riku at once.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
The crystal balls exploded like bombs continuously at Riku's location.
After a while, the explosions ended.
"Haha... hahaha! Thunder God! You're nothing special!! Didn't you fall into my hands!! Hahahaha!!"
Suddenly!
A plain voice came from the explosion smoke: "Boring!"
"?!"
Ultear's laughter stopped abruptly, and she looked towards Riku's location.
Bang!
A shockwave dispersed the smoke. Riku stood there, surrounded by bolts of lightning like a suit of armor. The lightning roamed outside Riku's body, and those crystal balls were shattered and blocked by this lightning.
"...Impossible?!"
Ultear widened her eyes in disbelief. She didn't expect the opponent to take her attack head-on and remain unscathed.
Zzzzt!
Riku's figure turned into lightning and disappeared, instantly teleporting in front of Ultear the next moment.
"Not good!"
Ultear immediately wanted to activate Magic to escape, but it was too late. Her Magic could accelerate the decay and aging of buildings, but it also required a certain amount of reaction time.
If it were an ordinary Magic attack, she could freeze the Magic and then accelerate time to make the Magic disappear.
But the speed of lightning was simply too fast, so fast she couldn't react in time.
Pa!
Riku grabbed Ultear by the neck. Ultear immediately prepared to counterattack, but before she could lift her leg...
Crackle———!!
"Ughaaaaah!!"
High-voltage current flowed from Riku's hand into Ultear's body. Ultear let out a painful scream.
Her transformation Magic disguise disappeared because of this, revealing her true appearance.
Long black hair, neat bangs, a beautiful face, dressed in white clothes and a short skirt, perfectly displaying her proud figure.
Riku's expression remained unchanged. He had known long ago that the opponent was Ultear; after all, Arc of Time was Ultear's signature Magic.
Aside from Fairy Tail guild members, Ultear was the female villain who left the deepest impression on him.
This guy was also a pitiful person. Born with incredibly powerful Magic Power that her body couldn't withstand, she was later used as a test subject for Magic research, and then joined Grimoire Heart.
In the end, although she turned over a new leaf, even sacrificing her life to rewind the entire world by 1 minute, thereby saving many lives.
Watching a beautiful girl in the prime of her youth suddenly turn into an old woman in her twilight years—that shock was still fresh in Riku's memory.
However, pitiful people often have hateful qualities. Regardless of whether Ultear turned over a new leaf in the end, she had indeed killed an unknown number of innocent people, committing heinous crimes.
But Riku didn't care about these. What he needed to consider was whether killing Ultear would be beneficial or harmful to Fairy Tail.
Ultear quickly woke up. Seeing the undisguised killing intent in Riku's eyes, her body couldn't help but tremble.
"Stop! Stop it! I am a Councilor of the Magic Council, Ultear!!"
Ultear hurriedly revealed her identity, afraid that if she was a moment too late, she would be killed.
The killing intent in Riku's eyes slowly faded. In the anime, Ultear posed no threat to Fairy Tail. From beginning to end, she was only looking for Zeref, and she didn't harm the lives of Fairy Tail members during the process.
She even helped Fairy Tail a lot after turning over a new leaf. Keeping this guy seemed more beneficial to Fairy Tail.
Riku slowly let go of his hand: "So it's Lord Councilor. Lord Councilor isn't staying properly at the Magic Council but doing what in this wilderness? Moon gazing?"
"Cough cough!"
Ultear coughed twice, feeling her throat much more comfortable. Just now, she felt like she almost died.
"I heard someone wanted to resurrect the demon of disaster, Deliora, so I came to investigate."
"Hmm? That's not right! Didn't I see you together with the other party, planning to resurrect Deliora?"
"That is true, but I didn't really intend to resurrect it. Deliora is an incredibly dangerous demon. It even killed my mother, Ur. Later, I heard someone wanted to resurrect Deliora. I originally thought it was a cult worshiping demons, but after understanding, I learned he also lost family to Deliora. Unsealing Deliora is only to kill it completely. I also hate Deliora for killing my mother, so I planned to help him kill Deliora together."
"Because it's inconvenient with my status as a Magic Councilor, and doing such a thing is against the rules, I disguised myself as Zalty to do this."
"If you don't believe me, you can call Gray over. As long as Gray sees me, you'll understand."
Ultear spoke half-truths. If Riku didn't know the plot, he really might have been deceived by Ultear.
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