"Indeed, it's celestial magic!"
George looked at the massive meteorite that fell from the sky, his lips twitching slightly.
"Come over here."
"Surely such a large meteorite can't be stopped by their combined efforts."
Since they cannot be shielded, the only choice is to dodge it.
Hearing George's mental voice, everyone, including Lucy and the others, gathered around him.
"Natsu, use Illusionary Fire!"
"Melding the flames of your left hand with the flames of your right, Dragon Slayer's Illusionary Fire!"
Combining his own flames with the absorbed inferno, a massive wave of Illusionary Fire ascended from below to confront the meteorite.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, George reached out and pointed at the ice surface below.
"Mirror World!"
The hard ice surface immediately rippled, and everyone simultaneously fell into the mirrored world that was the opposite of reality.
"What's going on?"
Looking out, watching the meteorite shatter the Illusionary Fire and continue to plummet towards them, not affected at all by the massive tsunami that followed, Lucy and the others all wore bewildered expressions.
"This is my mirror magic. It allows us to temporarily hide in another mirrored world, where we are immune to outside influences."
George opened his mouth to explain.
Xiu on the other side said:
"It's a spatial magic, similar to mine."
Xiu's magic can set up a space within a deck of cards, then trap enemies within the space of the cards.
The space in the playing cards is very similar to the mirror world, except it is not as large.
"Jeral is skilled in all kinds of magic and is also very sensitive to space. He will find this place soon."
Ximon looked at the still-unsettled tsunami outside.
"Let's leave here first. We are not Jeral's match."
"No, if Jeral resurrects Zeref, it will be a huge disaster for the entire world."
Aelita looked at George:
"George, send them away first. I will stay behind, looking for an opportunity to sneak attack and see if we can kill Jeral."
"I won't go."
"I won't go either."
"Gray, don't leave. I won't either."
Natsu and Gray, along with the others, obviously did not want Aelita to stay behind and take the risk. They decided to stay and continue fighting Jeral to the end.
George thought for a moment and rearranged the battle plan.
"The magic just now used up quite a bit of his magic power."
"I have a powerful magic that might be able to defeat him, but it requires preparation."
He's also not willing to give up such a large piece of magical crystal.
"How long does it take?"
Aelita asked.
"It will take at least seven minutes."
George calculated for a moment.
His ultimate move is, of course, the ancient magic that takes a long time to execute.
With the enhancement of this world's staff, the thunderstorm he conjures is much, much stronger than what he could summon in Marvel's Asgard.
Of course, just the thunderstorm magic isn't enough to defeat Jeral. So, he has a new idea.
If successful, the odds are high that they will win.
If it fails, he won't be greedy for the magical crystal either. He'll just take everyone with him and use the Invisibility Cloak to run away, prioritizing their lives.
"Don't worry, we will definitely help you secure enough time."
Aelita changed back into her buster bandages, holding two magic swords, and made up her mind to stall for at least seven minutes, even if it meant sacrificing her life.
"Let's go to the small island over there. There's a magical crystal there that he'll be wary of."
George led the others to fly quickly towards the small island in the mirror world.
Fighting on that small island, Jeral will not be able to release magic of the level of Star Burst, otherwise he will destroy the magical crystal along with it.
Outside, on the celestial magic array, Jeral stood and watched as the aftermath of the tsunami settled, and the magical energies of everyone who had disappeared vanished, involuntarily furrowing his brow.
"It shouldn't have been all of them."
His celestial magic was indeed powerful. He could understand that most of the weaker fish were simply purified into air.
But someone like Aelita, who is an S-class and has the extremely defensive Golem armor, could only be seriously wounded and on the brink of death.
As one of the members of the Council, he has all the information about the guild battle that occurred in Fairy Tail recently and is well aware of the strength of those people below. It's not possible for them to be killed so easily.
"I guess they've hidden. Let me see where you've gone."
Two magical arrays glowed in his eyes as Jeral began to scan the surrounding space.
His magic teacher, Brian, was an early developer in the Magic Development Agency and was skilled in many types of magic.
He was a natural magic talent, able to master most magic he learned effortlessly.
So, besides the powerful celestial magic, he had also learned many auxiliary spells with various effects.
This type of investigation magic is one of them.
"I found them. They've hidden in another space."
In less than two minutes, Jeral had found the flaw in the mirror world magic's space and raised his hand to cast a spatial magic, forcibly opening a space point that connected to the mirror world and plunged into it.
In the mirror world, he quickly felt the presence of Aelita and the others and flew towards the small island.
"That guy really came in."
On the small island, feeling Jeral's presence intrude into the mirror world, George led everyone back to the real world through the magical crystal's mirror.
Just then, Ximon said that Jeral could enter the mirror world, and George was not particularly surprised by it.
Although they are different world's magic, the essence of magic is similar.
The pigeon can use a sword to cut open space and attack Aelita, who is locked in the card space. And Aelita can also cut open space to escape from the card's seal. This shows that in this world, spatial magic is not unbreakable.
With his great power and proficiency in many kinds of magic, Jeral being able to recognize the intrusion into the mirror world is not surprising at all.
The mirror space type of magic is best suited for dealing with brute force mages like Natsu, but it's easily cracked by mages who enjoy studying various types of magic.
"Where do you think you'll run now!"
Shortly after George led everyone out of the mirror world, Jeral also returned to the real world from the mirror world.
"Jeral, I'll end this."
Aelita, wielding two magic swords, went in to fight, and Natsu, Gray, Juvia, Lucy, and the somewhat recovered Simon, Xiu, Wolle, and Milliana joined in the group attack.
George, on the other hand, quietly retreated and continued to recite the long incantation of the ancient magic.
Jeral's strength was still formidable, and even without using large-scale magic, he could easily dominate everyone.
Fortunately, Aelita and the others were also quite resilient, holding on with determination.
"Thunderstorm coming! Golem of Thunder!"
As everyone was on the brink of collapsing, George's incantation finally came to an end.
In the moment when George completed the incantation, he also activated his super ability, condensing the iron sand and rocks on the small island into a towering Thunder Giant.
His plan was to see if he could somehow let the Thunder Giant absorb the lightning from the thunderstorm magic and further strengthen itself.
I've finished handling the family affairs today, and from tomorrow on, I'll start with massive daily updates!
