Fairy Tail: This Healing Mage's hits hurt so much!

Upon hearing their undisguised remarks about "hunting," Franmars trembled with anger.

"Stop looking down on demons!"

He roared, and his obese body suddenly swelled up, his back instantly splitting open. Several thick tentacles covered in barbs, like venomous snakes, grabbed at the three of them at an extremely fast speed.

"Be careful!"

Lucy backed away repeatedly, shouting a warning.

"If he catches you, he'll forcibly suck your soul away, leaving you powerless to resist!"

Before he could finish speaking...

Mirajane and Sunrise have already made their moves simultaneously.

The two were so fast that they made a sharp whistling sound as they cut through the air. The seemingly menacing tentacles couldn't even touch the hem of their clothes, only leaving a fleeting afterimage in mid-air.

Swish!

The two men appeared before Franmars in an instant, one in front and one behind, completely blocking all his escape routes.

Franmars's two bulging eyes widened instantly, their pupils reflecting the two handsome faces, their shock evident in their expressions.

"Wait...wait! I surrender! I surrender!" he pleaded desperately.

However, Mirajane and Sunshine didn't even blink, completely unmoved by their rhetoric.

The two worked in perfect unison, simultaneously bending their waists and pulling in their stomachs.

boom!boom!

Two powerful punches landed squarely on Franmars' stomach and back, one after the other.

"puff--"

Franmars spat out a mouthful of purple blood, the excruciating pain causing him to scream like a pig being slaughtered.

In an attempt to protect himself, his skin hardened instantly, followed by countless sharp black thorns bursting forth from his body, like a hedgehog with its fur standing on end, trying to force the two back.

Mirajane reacted extremely quickly, lightly touching the ground with her toes and gliding back several meters, avoiding the range of the spikes.

But Riyao did not retreat but advanced.

Those sharp spikes, enough to pierce through steel, pierced his body, but couldn't even break through his dragon scale defense, only producing a tooth-grinding metallic scraping sound.

Sunshine calmly stretched out his hands and grabbed the two thickest spikes on Franmars' body.

"I'm in a good mood today, so I'll show you how to open a sea urchin with your bare hands." He smiled kindly.

"don't want!"

Mirajane stood a short distance away, frowned in disgust, and spoke up to stop him from having such a disgusting thought.

"If you get covered in purple blood or something later, you're not allowed to come near me today."

Riyao's hand suddenly stopped moving.

"Okay."

He sighed with some regret.

"Then I'll smash him to eight-tenths dead."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sunshine suddenly exerted force with both arms, gripped the spikes tightly, and swung the massive Franmars like a sledgehammer, slamming it hard into the hard ground.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of deafening crashes shook the entire corridor violently.

A large section of the spikes on Franmars's body was smashed off, and the shattered bone spikes flew in all directions like bullets.

Several of the spikes flew straight towards Lucy, who was hiding in the corner.

"Aaaaaah, help!"

Lucy was terrified and frantically dodged left and right.

Several sharp thorns flew past her, grazing her.

The "thump, thump, thump" sounds were firmly embedded in the wall behind her, pinning her into an extremely comical "spread-eagle" position.

"Mira... help me..." Lucy struggled, on the verge of tears.

Mirajane looked at Lucy, who was stuck to the wall like a frog, and tried his best to suppress his laughter as he walked over, grabbed the thorn and pulled it off.

"Lucy, have you ever considered debuting as a comedian?"

Mirajane teased her as he brushed the dust off her clothes.

"I know some of the top agents in the capital; they can definitely make you a star."

"Stop laughing! Stop laughing! Why am I so unlucky every day?"

Lucy covered her flushed face with her hands, squatting on the ground and drawing circles on the verge of tears.

boom!!

Another earth-shattering bang broke Lucy's reverie.

"What is it now?!"

Lucy looked up, staring in horror.

All that could be seen was that Sunbeam's arm, covered in blue scales, had pierced right through Franmars's chest.

As Sunshine expressionlessly withdrew his hand, Franmars's purple blood, mixed with fragments of internal organs, splattered all over the ground.

Sunlight disgustedly shook the blood off his hands, then kicked the limp Franmars to Miraj's feet like he was kicking trash.

"nailed it."

Mirajane stepped forward and placed her hand on Franmars' head without hesitation.

hum-

A massive, dark purple magic circle suddenly unfolded beneath her feet.

With a final, desperate scream from Franmars, his entire body transformed into a ball of purplish-black light, which Mirajane absorbed completely.

"So...it's a success?"

Lucy watched in stunned silence, her eyes filled with undisguised envy.

This was a demon from the Nine Ghosts Sect! It was instantly killed in just a few moves, and then directly turned into his power?!

Sunlight walked over, bent his finger, and tapped Lucy on the head without any hesitation.

"What's there to envy?"

Riyao pointed to the key at her waist.

"Can't you transform into several different Celestial forms now? If you had a little more mana and didn't always collapse halfway through, you could solo Tartaros."

"I'm not a three-year-old, don't try to fool me with that kind of talk!"

Lucy clutched her head, which was throbbing from the blow, and dodged Riyao's hand like a cat with its fur standing on end, baring her teeth at him.

Meanwhile, Mirajah had already finished the receiving ceremony.

She did not absorb it immediately, but instead temporarily sealed the soul of Franmars within her body.

She would refine the soul slowly after the battle was completely over. After all, there were still many top-quality prey among the Netherworld Beasts, and she didn't want to miss out on the demon souls of the other Nine Ghost Sects while refining the soul.

When Lucy saw Mirajane approaching, she immediately hid behind her as if she had found a protector.

Mirajane gently ruffled Lucy's golden hair, comforting her as if she were a younger sister.

Lucy realized that these two were treating her like a child.

However... it does feel quite nice to be protected like this.

Sunlight watched Lucy grin and giggle, her expression constantly shifting, wondering what strange things she was imagining.

He walked over, grabbed Lucy by the back of her collar, and lifted her up.

"Let's go, let's go. Stop grinning like an idiot and hurry to the control room. We don't know what's going on over there yet."

After saying that, Sunrise and Mirajane, carrying Lucy, accelerated again and flew towards the control room.

When they arrived at the control room.

The sight before them made the three of them feel a sudden sinking feeling in their hearts.

The entire control room was an eerie dark red, and Kuang Hua was sitting cross-legged on the huge spherical control center.

Countless dark red nerve circuits extended from the control center, tightly connecting to Kuang Hua's body like blood vessels.

Above the control center, a row of scarlet countdown timers is rapidly ticking and decreasing at a frantic pace.

"Hahaha! You're late!"

Kuang Hua burst into maniacal laughter upon seeing the three who had barged in.

"Fez is about to activate! All magic in this world will vanish completely! The age of demons is about to begin!"

Just as Kuang Hua was laughing wildly.

Swish!Swish!

Two figures suddenly appeared in the control room.

It was Erza, who had just been unsealed, and Minerva, who was half-demon.

"Erza?!" Lucy exclaimed in surprise.

Riyao's gaze fell on the two people's hands, which were tightly clasped together.

He raised an eyebrow, his tone unabashedly sarcastic.

"Wow, you're holding hands really tightly, things are progressing so fast!"

Erza was taken aback by Sunrise's teasing, then followed his gaze to her and Minerva's clasped hands.

"what!"

She jerked her hand away from Minerva's as if she'd been electrocuted, and a blush crept involuntarily onto her usually serious face.

Minerva, who was shaken off, didn't seem to mind; instead, a playful smile curved her lips.

To cover her embarrassment, Erza coughed twice and immediately turned to look at Kyoka, who was sitting in the control center.

"How's the situation now? What's the countdown timer...?"

"What else can we do?"

Riyao shrugged, his tone as relaxed as if he were discussing what to eat that night.

"That demon has completely connected herself to the control center. She is using her own life force as a price to forcibly accelerate the countdown to the activation of Fies."

He spread his hands, seemingly not taking this crisis, which could destroy the entire magical world, seriously at all.

Mirajane stood to the side, his deep blue eyes fixed on Sunrise, trying to glean some clue from his calm and collected face.

Sunlight noticed Mirajane's gaze, turned his head, reached out and gently pinched her soft cheek, revealing a smile.