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

The messenger knight ran so fast that his helmet was askew, and he leaned against the wall, panting and coughing, barely able to speak.

"Report! Report! His Excellency Riyao left the city with a civilian, heading... right towards the forest where the explosion was heard!"

Upon hearing this, Arcadios's eyebrows twitched slightly, and his cold, hard face showed no extra emotion as his knuckles gripped the hilt of the sword at his waist.

Leo and Emerald, who were following beside him, immediately became anxious and their fur stood on end. Leo paced back and forth, wishing he could rush out on the spot, and his sword sheath rattled loudly.

Emerald clutched the hem of her clothes, her face pale, and their voices trembled as they were combined.

"Arcadias, lead the team that way quickly! We absolutely cannot let anything happen to Sunrise!"

"Bang bang bang bang...!"

Nebu's two large, black, millstone-like hands, covered in stiff black bristles, pounded into the pit like a pile driver, each blow causing the ground to tremble.

The remaining colorful hair of the punk, charred wood chips, and toxic soil debris were scattered everywhere, and the crater was deep enough to bury two and a half Nebu people.

He was still howling with red eyes, looking like he wanted to smash Riyao into underground fertilizer.

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Just as he was smashing things most frantically, a bright light of mixed gold and green suddenly burst out of the deep pit, followed by a muffled "thud".

Nibu was slammed into the face by a powerful force, a tuft of hair was ripped off the back of his neck, and his buttocks slid across the scorched ground, creating a ditch more than ten meters deep.

Halfway there, it ran over half a pile of tattered rags left from a punk explosion, and finally crashed with a "bang" into the last remaining half of a dead tree stump, making it see stars and unable to get up for a long time.

Riyao slowly stood up from the pit, brushing the dust off his body. His clothes, which had been torn and exposed his waist, still had black marks from the charring, but the dense wounds that had covered him were now completely gone, without a single red mark left.

He even reached out and plucked a half-burnt leaf from his hair, looking at Nibu, who had just gotten up, with a grin that could drive anyone mad.

"What a pity, if it had been a few days earlier, I would have really been doomed here."

Just moments before, as Nibu's fingernails grazed his skull, he didn't even have time to recite his boastful lines. He raised his hand and began stacking magic around himself. Three silver magic circles "whooshed" and enveloped his entire body, while three additional spells rained down on him.

"Additional Magic - Purification, Additional Magic - Dispel, Additional Magic - Power."

The mysterious toxin that had been suppressed for half a day was completely cleared away on the spot, and a few wisps of black smoke were released from the pores. The healing ability that had been suppressed for half a day suddenly opened up in full force.

In just a few seconds, all his injuries were completely healed. The dozen or so blows Nibu had struck him with were like a free massage to loosen his muscles and bones.

He even stretched his shoulders and neck, cracking his bones, then looked up at Nibu, who was trembling with anger, and beckoned to him with a cheeky gesture.

"Why don't you continue? Those few hits on your right shoulder felt pretty good. Could you please shift to the left a bit? Come on, put some more force into it. Getting scared?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Nibu's already strained mind snapped completely in his rage, and he went into a frenzy, his flesh and blood churning wildly through his veins.

The mutation began again, the bones crackled and rearranged, the barely remaining human form completely collapsed, and in an instant it swelled to more than three meters tall, transforming into a giant beast even more ferocious and savage than an ordinary mountain gorilla.

Its dark brown bristles stood out like steel needles, its arched shoulders resembled a small mound, its prominent jawbone was pierced by two-inch-long, gleaming white fangs, its scarlet eyes were set in deep-set sockets, and even its breath carried a pungent, fishy stench.

Nibu let out a roar that made people's eardrums ache, and with a stomp of his limbs on the scorched ground, the entire behemoth moved with earth-shaking force.

It charged straight at Riyao. Riyao dropped the smug smile on his face, tensed his muscles, and charged forward to meet it.

Two figures, one large and one small, instantly became entangled in a fierce battle. There was no fancy magic exchange; it was all hard-hitting, flesh-on-flesh combat.

The three-meter-tall behemoth's every strike carried the heavy force of splitting mountains and shattering rocks. The petite Riyao's advantage lay in her agility and speed, always managing to dodge the deadly attacks at the last second, and even daring to head-on into the punches.

Each time flesh and blood collided with a muffled thud, a powerful gust of wind swept outwards from the point of impact, scattering scorched earth, debris, and tattered rags, making the already chaotic woodland even more unsightly.

Seeing this, Riyao not only did not back down, but instead grinned and showed a fierce smile. He raised his hand, cracked his knuckles, and made a series of crisp cracking sounds when he clenched his fist.

Two magic circles emerged from his palm one after the other. The originally rotating array patterns slowly moved towards the center and merged little by little along the array veins.

Finally, it solidified into one spot, and a dazzling golden halo spread out along the array patterns, even coating the scorched earth at his feet with a layer of light gold.

"Enchanted Magic: The Weight of Life"

With a deep shout, he planted his feet firmly on the churning, cracked earth, no longer dodging or weaving as before, but directly facing Nibu's fierce punches head-on, each punch landing solidly on the giant beast's body.

After unleashing a rapid barrage of over ten punches, he appeared perfectly normal, just like in their previous head-on clashes.

At first glance, it seems to be a head-on collision between evenly matched forces, but a closer look reveals something amiss.

Nibu's originally strong, dark brown mane, which was originally upright, began to turn gray and faded from the tips of his nails and the ends of his hair, gradually seeping into the roots.

In less than half a minute, it faded to a lifeless, pale white, and its life force was silently draining away through the wounds inflicted by the punches.

But this is neither the kind of trick that deprives people of their vitality, nor does it involve absorbing the lost vitality.

Really hurt~

Sunlight always kept the taboo in mind, fearing that improper operation would trigger the curse of the god Ankhseram, so he simply chose the safest and most direct method.

He simply condensed and solidified his own life force, steadily adding it to the force of each punch, and through the force of the head-on collision, forcefully blasted Nibu's own life force out of his body.

Meanwhile, on the way to the forest where the explosion occurred, Arcadios led the way, his dark cloak billowing in the wind.

Although his cold, hard face showed no extra emotion, his knuckles gripping the hilt of his sword at his waist remained taut and white, never relaxing for a moment since they set off.

Emerald and Leo, who were eager to set off earlier, were definitely not allowed to come along.