Wendy fights Irene by herself after ordering the others to stay back. They follow her order, but they are ready to move anytime to help her. For now, they use this chance to recover after getting damaged quite greatly.
Without the others around her, Wendy has more room to attack Irene. She can move more freely, but surely the damage dealt to Irene is lower now without their help. Also, the others helped her create openings to attack, while now she needs to make it herself.
But it's necessary to fight Irene herself until she figures out how to counter her abilities. Irene's enchantment magic is much more worrying than her Sage Dragon Slayer Magic. It has more function and they don't have enough information nor experience facing it.
They have fought and killed many Dragons, so they are used to deal with Dragon Magic. On the other hand, only Wendy is familiar with enchantment magic in this team. Even in the whole Dragon Hunter group, only she, Ben, and Elefseria have knowledge of enchantment magic, so it's more troublesome to face.
That's why she wants the others to observe Irene first and learn about her abilities. Meanwhile, she will keep fighting Irene in her Dragon Force form while Irene is using her human form. Wendy is a very fierce and powerful fighter, but Irene can keep up with her.
Irene attacks Wendy using a massive enchanted explosion. The Dragon Hunters jump back to avoid the explosion while Wendy is engulfed by it. But Wendy doesn't get hurt because she creates a rotating wind ball to cover herself.
After the explosion stop, Wendy's rotating wind ball releases a lot of sharp wind blades. They fly everywhere, but then they move toward Irene from different directions. Irene counters them using smaller explosions to destroy the wind blades.
While Irene counters the wind blades, Wendy flies at a very high speed toward her. She arrives in a second and then attacks Irene with her claws. Wendy engages Irene in close combat. Now that she has closed the distance, Irene can only fight her like this.
Irene is an enchantress, so Wendy chose to fight her at close range. It's because enchantment magic usually needs a longer preparation time. Although Irene can actually cast them very fast at her level. But Wendy still prefers close combat because she can predict Irene's movements & attacks better if she is closer.
As she thought, she can predict Irene's attacks better at this distance. But it doesn't mean her battle becomes easy at all. Irene is a powerful enchantress, so she can obviously enchant and make herself very powerful. Wendy has better close combat skills, but Irene matches her using power.
Their battle is very fierce and the Dragon Hunters can't see any chance to get involved. They are very surprised by this show of power, especially those from Alakitasia. They know how powerful Irene is, but Wendy, a young girl is standing equally to the Scarlet of Despair.
Meanwhile, Elefseria is having a hard time against his opponent. The Dragon he fights has the power of gravity. It's a very troublesome power to face, especially when it's owned by a Dragon of this level.
This Gravity Dragon is much more proficient with Gravity Magic than Ben. That's obvious because, unlike Ben, he focuses his power on gravity. Elefseria can't even stand when the Dragon increases the gravity around him.
But Elefseria is a very seasoned Mage with hundreds of years of experience. He can still attack the Gravity Dragon using his Law Dragon Slayer Magic. His magic is powerful enough to break the Dragon's Gravity Magic and even push back the Gravity Dragon.
They attack each other with their Dragon Roars and they seem to be equal. Both of them are using high-level spells to attack each other destroying everything around them. Their Gravity and Law Magic are high-level magic, so the clash of these 2 will surely cause great destruction.
On another place, Brandish is leading 7 of 5th generation Dragon Slayers and some Dragon Hunters against an Adamantine Dragon. It's a Dragon that uses Adamantine metal, which is one of the hardest metals in the world, so they will have a very hard time breaking through the Dragon's adamantine scales.
Though they can't just focus on the Adamantine Dragon's defense. Its attack power is also very high because it can shoot powerful Dragon Roar that can destroy a mountain, shoot sharp adamantine spears, etc. It's also very heavy, so it can jump on them and crush them if it falls on them.
But Brandish can lead the raid very well and gives the Dragon a hard time even though she isn't a Dragon Slayer. She enlarges herself using her magic to match the Dragon's size. With her size, Brandish can wrestle against the Dragon and make openings for the Dragon Slayers to attack.
Brandish tries to reduce the Dragon's size, but it is too powerful to get affected by her magic. So she can only fight it in its normal size while she enlarges herself. But then she changes her strategy after seeing the Dragon Slayers unable to break the Dragon's adamantine scales.
She returns to her normal size, but she enlarges the 7 of 5th Generation Dragon Slayers to be as big as the Dragon. Brandish will focus on maintaining their sizes and giving commands to them. The other Dragon Hunters will support the Dragon Slayers from below.
Brandish's team seems to be fine and so is Lucy's team. Lucy is calling 3 Celestial Spirits to help her team fight a Sound Dragon. This Dragon uses Sound Magic in various ways to attack including illusion. It can make illusions or even hypnotize its targets through sound.
To handle that, Lucy summons Aries and asks her to make ear covers using her wool. The covers will block the sound, so at least they won't hear the sound that creates illusion or hypnotize them. It has a big problem though, it makes them unable to communicate by talking.
But Lucy has thought about that, so she summons a spirit that can help her communicate with the others using telepathy. It's not one of the Zodiac spirits and it doesn't have fighting ability, but it has a very useful telepathy. The spirit links them to communicate with their mind.
The 3rd spirit that Lucy calls is Scorpio who can control sand. Scorpio's sand can be used to hold the Dragon's movements and Aries will also help him. Spirit magic is quite effective against Dragons although not as effective as Dragon Slayer Magic. But it's better than normal magic that doesn't even have any effect sometimes.
The Dragon Slayers attack while the spirits hold the Dragon's movements. They still need to watch for the Dragon's soundwave attacks though. Those attacks are very destructive, after all, and their ranges are very wide. But with illusions and hypnotizing being handled already, the Mages now have more confidence.
Meanwhile, the other teams who are led by young Dragon Slayers are still having a hard time. They have fought against many Dragons, but Dragon King levels are very different. These Dragons are very powerful, much more powerful than those normal injured Dragons they've defeated.
The only teams that do rather well are Ariel's & Gabriel's teams. Well, it's because Bella & Carla are helping them. Bella has a lot of experience because she has fought alongside Ben for years while Carla has future sight and she is very smart, so she can make good decisions.
The exceeds act like advisors to Ariel and Gabriel by giving advice throughout their battles. Ariel's team is facing a Dark Dragon that uses Darkness Magic. It's a very good match-up for Ariel who uses Shadow Dragon Slayer Magic because she can use its Darkness to her advantage.
But her attacks are still not powerful enough to give significant damage to the Dragons. Also, the Dark Dragon has high resistance toward Ariel's Shadow Magic. There are other Dragon Slayers too in her team, but they also face the problem. Their magic attacks aren't too effective against the Dragon.
Gabriel's team also faces the same problem against the Lightning Dragon King. It has very powerful attacks and defense. If not for Carla's future sight, they might've lost a lot of people and lost this battle already. This Dragon is the real Lightning Dragon King, after all, so he is very powerful, as powerful as Igneel.
The other teams are having a hard time too, but they managed to hold on. They have fought against many Dragons, after all, and Ben has trained them very hard before this war. So they won't get defeated so easily even against the Dragon King levels.
As for Ben himself, he still can't overwhelm Acnologia. Instead, it's him who gets overwhelmed by the black dragon. There are some bruises on his golden dragon body, while Acnologia's body still looks clean.
"This is a very big problem."
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