Ben decides to end his battle against Mard Geer because there's no challenge at all in this fight. He stops evading Mard Geer's attacks and flashes toward the Etherious Demon. Ben evades all Mard Geer's thorny vines and flesh-like things that come out of the cube.
"Time to end this game, Zeref's little Demon," says Ben before sending a punch at Mard Geer's face.
Mard Geer crashes onto the castle walls and breaks through them until he crashes onto the cube's wall which is located quite far from the castle. His nose breaks with that one punch and blood come out of it. He is still conscious, but his vision is b lurry and his ears are buzzing.
"You are fine, aren't you? If you get defeated by this level of attack, then you will never reach Zeref forever. But well, both Zeref & E.N.D are weak and easy to deal with though. So maybe even this puny you can kill them if you try," says Ben with a mocking tone.
Mard Geer knows Ben is mocking his power and it already pisses him off. But he gets even pisser when Ben mocks Zeref & E.N.D too. This guy is arrogant and believes in his power, but he has more belief in Zeref & E.N.D than himself.
So Ben's little mockery angers Mard Geer who immediately feels refreshed again. Mard Geer's body suddenly glows bright and he releases a lot of magic power. Ben gets a little excited seeing this attack because it might be able to entertain him a little.
"HUMAN, YOU WILL BE PUNISHED FOR YOUR BLASPHEMY. MEMENTO MORI!" shouts Mard Geer as numerous dark spirits come out of his body.
The dark spirits move toward Ben and surround him completely. They envelop him completely, but he doesn't make any move. Then the dark spirits explode, creating a massive greenish spirit beam that shoots up to the sky.
When the explosion stops and disappears, Mard Geer looks at where Ben stood. He grins when he sees Ben's body has become black as if he was burnt into charcoal. Mard Geer is sure that Ben has been erased from this world. That attack doesn't kill someone, it simply erases the target's existence.
"That was a dangerous Curse, goddammit," says Ben who is supposed to get erased.
Mard Geer widens his eyes as the black color starts to disappear. The black layer is actually Ben's Devil Slayer mark that covered his whole body. It gets smaller and smaller until it becomes a black Cait Shelter mark on Ben's left chest.
"Well, it seems that power is useless against Devil Slayers. My mark got activated on its own to resist that attack, after all," says Ben while rubbing his chin with a look of interest.
Mard Geer widens his eyes because that attack was created to destroy Zeref. But it doesn't have any effect on a Devil Slayer like Ben.
"It seems you don't have anything else to be used against me. None of your attacks so far reached me, so this must be as far as you can go. Let's end this here then," says Ben while pointing his right hand at Mard Geer.
6 red magic circles suddenly appear around Mard Geer. 1 below him, 1 above him, and 4 on the sides.
Ben then chants, "Sun Devil's Judgment: Flame Execution!"
The magic circles glow and Mard Geer's body suddenly burns. He screams in pain as fire covers his body and burns him. The heat from that fire is burning Mard Geer inside out. He tries to resist it, but he can't, no matter what he does.
It doesn't take long for the flame to kill Mard Geer and turns him into ash. Ben doesn't play around and he used a strong spell to finish Mard Geer with one spell. Still, it wasn't even one of his best Sun Devil Slayer Magic spells, but it was enough to kill a demon at Mard Geer's level.
"Heh, you really didn't come out and try to save him, Zeref," says Ben while peeking behind him.
Zeref suddenly appears out of a black orb and looks at Ben very seriously.
"You look very weak right now, but your magic power says otherwise. Such a ridiculous amount of magic power for a human to have," says Zeref.
"Ridiculous? This is still not enough to get back on that monster," says Ben seriously.
"Acnologia, is it? Are you sure you won't be like him when you have the power to defeat him?" asks Zeref with an intimidating look.
"Shouldn't you ask that question to yourself? A man who talked about annihilating humans and creating Demons that kept killing humans is worried about someone else who might have the power to match a world destroyer. What a joke. Stop talking as if you are the one who's right about everything, Zeref. I don't care about what you've witnessed in your 400 years of life or if it's the effect of Ankhseram's curse. You wanted to kill yourself by creating those Demons, but instead, you were killing people through them. I will destroy you before you cause harm to my loved ones," says Ben.
Both of them stop talking and just stare at each other for a moment. Ben really wants to kill Zeref right now, but he needs to wait until he rewrites the book of E.N.D before killing Zeref. He won't sacrifice one of his friends even if it's for the sake of the world.
Ben's world revolves around him, after all. His family and friends are his life. He will even destroy the world if it's for his family and friends. Ben doesn't want the same thing that happened in his past life to happen again in this life, and that's why he is hungry for power.
"It seems we will never get on the same side," says Zeref.
"Hah, you wish," says Ben.
"That's good then. I hope you'll never experience the things that I've gone through. Then, the next time we meet, it will be the last because one of us will die," says Zeref.
"Yeah, you better prepare yourself," says Ben.
"I am always ready, but are you?" asks Zeref for the last time before disappearing again.
Ben can feel that Zeref has really left the cube now. But Ben still thinks that Zeref must still be close to the cube to see what will happen next. He doesn't care though because now he just needs to end everything here.
But he still needs to wait for the other battles to end first. He senses that there are still 2 battles going on right now. It means Mira and Erza haven't finished their battles yet. And he also senses that the rest of his guildmates are assisting Erza right now, so he will go to Mira's place.
Ben arrives at her battle location in a short time without breaking the walls right now. He just watches from the side though without revealing his presence because he doesn't want to disturb her battle. He also wants to see her progress because he hasn't seen her in a real battle for a rather long time.
Her opponent is very tough right now because her attacks don't do much damage to Seilah. But Seilah's attacks also don't give her much damage. Both of them have high resistance to each other's attacks, so this is really a tough battle for both of them.
"Isn't this interesting? An ability that controls others' or oneself's bodies. Mira's resistance seems to come from that ability that was injected into her body before. Or maybe it's something else?" ponders Ben while watching.
Seilah has an eye on each of her palms that radiate strong magic energy. She is making strong attacks that revolve around those 2 eyes. Seilah can make a massive blast after gathering her power around the palm eyes.
However, even her strong blast isn't enough to be used against Mira who is in her Sitri form now. Mira can counter that blast using her fire or darkness blasts. Their attacks have similar power including their physical attacks.
But then Ben ponders, "When will Mira use her full power?"
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