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

The Gates of Hades is now only occupied by Hades Maldo, the god of the underworld, all alone.

He stood quietly on a high, protruding boulder, his long hair fluttering slightly in the dusty wind.

The once mighty and powerful Hades faction is now reduced to just himself and the Book of End in his hand—his beloved superior.

His slender fingers gently stroked the hard cover of the book.

A blinding red light suddenly shone in the sky, illuminating the ruins below.

Maldo looked up, his gaze piercing through the thick smoke.

His beloved boss was engulfed in flames, hurtling straight down with a deafening roar that tore through the air.

Isn't this a two-way journey?

Natsu was engulfed in flames and crashed straight to the ground like a derailed meteorite.

With a deafening roar, Natsu slammed heavily onto the open ground in front of Mardo.

The ground instantly collapsed, creating a large crater. Ring-shaped cracks spread rapidly outwards, and the scorching heatwave blew away all the surrounding debris.

Everyone on the Hades Beast converged in this direction, following the direction of the eruption of fire.

Pluto Maldo is about to face the entire Fairy Tail crew.

Even Zeref, who was watching the spectacle from the shadows of the distant ruins, shook his head.

When everyone arrived, panting heavily as they trudged across the scorched earth, Natsu was already fighting with Hades Mardo.

Natsu stomped on a stone slab, smashing it, and swung his right fist, which was enveloped in flames, at Mardo's face.

The other person merely turned their head slightly, and the scorching wind from the punch grazed his cheek.

Natsu turned around and swept his left leg out with a burst of fire.

Maldo lightly touched the ground with both feet and gracefully floated back several meters.

He raised his right hand in mid-air and gently hooked his finger.

The ground suddenly bulged up, accompanied by the sound of earth breaking, and dozens of strange thorny vines suddenly pierced out from the ground.

These vines are covered with sharp barbs and grow extremely fast.

The remaining stone pillars were easily pierced the moment the vines touched them.

The vines ignored all physical defenses, forcefully piercing through the thick rocks, sending up large amounts of flying stone chips.

Natsu was forced to halt his attack, stomping his feet on the ground and performing a series of backflips to dodge the thorns that kept piercing from beneath his feet.

A gust of cold wind dispersed the surrounding black smoke.

Gray, Silver, and Uru arrived, stepping over the pile of rubble.

Their aim wasn't to kill Hades Maldo; every move they made was solely to destroy the Book of End that he held tightly in his hand.

The cold magic bombarded the open ground in front of Maldo relentlessly, forcing him to dodge to the side.

Natsu had just dodged the thorns and regained his footing when he caught a glimpse of the three men's attack trajectory out of the corner of his eye.

His eyes widened as he saw that all three of them were aiming for the Book of End, and he quickly straightened up and shouted.

"What are you doing? Don't break that book! Igniel told me to get that book."

Upon hearing the shout, Gray pressed his hands down sharply, dissipating the magic that was about to be released.

He turned his head, his brows furrowed tightly.

"Huh? That book must be destroyed. It contains the strongest demon, comparable to Igniel."

Natsu rushed to Gray, and the two, disagreeing, immediately started fighting.

Natsu grabbed Gray by the collar with both hands and pulled him forcefully toward him, the fabric of his clothes making a taut tearing sound.

Gray was equally determined, grabbing Natsu's wrists tightly with both hands and forcefully twisting them outwards.

Their foreheads were pressed tightly together, and the soles of their shoes rubbed deep grooves into the ground.

Yin stood aside and did not step forward to break up the fight.

He raised his right hand, scratched his head, and a few strands of white hair swayed.

His gaze passed over the two people who were fighting and landed on the quiet book in Maldo's hands.

Why did Igunir only steal the books instead of destroying them?

Is there something I don't know?

A hint of doubt flickered in Yin's eyes, and his gaze deepened.

He turned his gaze back to the two people still locked in a struggle.

"Grey, listen to him. Igniel definitely knows something. Let's get the book first and then consider whether to destroy it."

Gray shoved Natsu's shoulder away forcefully, turned around and shouted loudly at Silver.

"What? I don't want to listen to this idiot. What if he misunderstood?"

After shouting, Gray turned around again, grabbed Natsu's scarf, and they started pinching each other.

Natsu was pulled forward and staggered half a step, but immediately regained his footing and pointed a finger at Gray's nose.

"Who are you calling an idiot? You bastard! Dragons have very sensitive hearing; they wouldn't mishear!"

Natsu retorted loudly, and the two faces drew closer and closer, sparks flying when their eyes met.

Yin scratched his head again, his fingers running back and forth through his hair.

Looking at the irritable expression on Gray's face, he thought to himself, "It seems that the demonic factor has affected Gray's emotions. He's still too young and can't handle such powerful strength."

Uru also figured it out.

She pursed her lips, walked quickly behind Gray, raised her right hand high, and snapped her wrist downwards.

With a "thud," Gray received a very solid flick on the forehead.

Gray shuddered in pain, immediately loosened his grip on Natsu's scarf, clutched his head, and squatted down on the ground.

"Stop babbling. Just grab it when I tell you to. Why make such a fuss? If you keep dawdling, I'll expose all the embarrassing things you did when you were a kid."

Gray, who was squatting on the ground, immediately fell silent, not daring to lift his head, and could only cover his head and let out muffled gasps.

Natsu stood there, hands on his hips, mouth agape, and laughed loudly with schadenfreude.

"Stop talking, let's subdue this demon first."

Erza gripped the hilt of her sword tightly with both hands and shouted at the four of them.

She had just turned her head to speak, and in that moment of distraction, the gravel beneath her feet suddenly bulged violently upwards.

A thick, thorny vine pierced through her cheek.

Erza quickly dodged to the side, losing her balance and rolling on the ground before barely avoiding the fatal blow.

A few strands of red hair drifted slowly down from the air.

She knelt on one knee, supporting her body with the blade of her sword.

What she's most unhappy about right now is that she doesn't know where Riyao and Mirajane have gone.

His gaze swept quickly across the surrounding ruins, but he couldn't see any trace of the two people; there was only an empty expanse of wreckage.

"Those two bastards always mess up at crucial moments," Erza said through gritted teeth.

She pushed off with her feet, quickly stood up, and tried to get close to Maldo.

She swung the longsword forcefully, the metal blade striking the thorny vines hard, sending sparks flying. The recoil made her arm feel numb and tingly.

She made several consecutive advances, her feet constantly shifting among the rubble, but she was forced back by countless thorns and vines, and could only defend herself by swinging her sword in place, unable to get any closer.

Gajeel stood on the other side of the battlefield.

The muscles in his right arm were taut, and with a metallic scraping sound, the surface of the iron rod in his right hand was covered with a bluish sheen.

He spotted a vine that was hurtling towards him at lightning speed and swung the iron rod down hard.

The moment they made contact, the extremely hard iron rod was pierced through instantly without any resistance.

A hole was left in the iron rod, the cut was perfectly smooth, and the tip of the vine did not even pause for a moment.

Gajeel froze, his arm trembling slightly as he looked at the iron rod with a hole in it.

"These thorny vines are strange; they're impossible to defend against. If you touch them, you'll be pierced through."

He took several steps back, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down.

Natsu took a deep breath, his chest bulging, and the veins in his neck standing out.

The Roar of the Fire Dragon

Natsu opened his mouth and exhaled blazing flames.

The flames expanded rapidly the moment they left the body, forming a huge fireball that slammed down on Maldo with a scorching heat.

Maldo stood on the high ground, chuckled softly, and curled his finger.

Dozens of thorny vines suddenly sprouted from the ground.

The vines lashed wildly in mid-air, dozens of thorny vines lashing the huge fireball like wildly dancing steel whips.

With a series of muffled thuds, the huge fireball was actually shattered by the thorny vines.

Everyone stared wide-eyed at the scene, their faces filled with disbelief.

The blazing flames were actually dispersed by the plants?

Gray stood up from the ground, defiant and his unique demon-slaying power surged wildly.

The surrounding temperature plummeted, and the remaining sparks on the ground were instantly extinguished.

【The Ice Demon's Passion】

This cold front, a mix of icy blue and pink, swept across the ground with a chilling intensity, leaving behind a thick layer of white frost.

Maldo narrowed his eyes slightly and flicked his finger.

Dense thorny vines quickly sprouted from the ground, intertwining to form a thick wall that blocked the cold air.

The cold air crashed against the vines, making a soft, crackling sound as it froze.

White frost spread rapidly along the surface of the vines, freezing the thorny vines completely, forming a thick layer of ice on their surface, and leaving them stiffly suspended in mid-air.

"Why can your attack freeze those grasses? How come my flames were scattered?" Natsu opened his mouth wide and pointed at the ice wall in front of him.

"I added demon-slaying magic." Gray crossed his arms, a smug hum on his lips.