Drake clenched his fists, looking at Jiemma with an unkind expression and said, "You had your fun, now it's my turn!"
Jiemma first took a step back, then, ashamed of his own cowardice, he roared, "Don't think that just because you've recovered, you can do anything! I'm stronger than you now!"
Drake naturally wouldn't argue with him, who was stronger would be proven by the facts.
Like a teleport, Drake appeared in front of Jiemma and landed an uppercut between Jiemma's chest and abdomen.
A ring of air pressure spread out from Jiemma's back, then Jiemma's eyes bulged and his cheeks puffed out as he spat out a mouthful of blood. If Drake hadn't dodged quickly, he would have been covered in it.
Jiemma swung his arm, trying to force Drake back, but the current Drake had no need to dodge at all, and reached out to grab Jiemma's wrist.
Turning his body, Drake directly pulled Jiemma towards himself.
To compete in strength with Drake who had recovered his power, Jiemma didn't have that ability, even if he had become a demon.
In the original story, the actual guild master of Tartaros, Mard Geer, had once said that Jiemma's strength after becoming a demon was above the Nine Demon Gates, but the facts proved that this was just to scare people.
Jiemma was directly pulled towards Drake, and Drake unceremoniously swung his fist.
"Flame Dragon King's Crushing Fist!"
A pillar of fire spiraled towards the sky, burning a large hole in the clouds above, and the pillar of fire was released from Drake's fist, piercing through Jiemma's body before flying out.
Jiemma flew out like a kite with a broken string, crashing through the frozen houses before falling to the ground.
Jiemma propped himself up with his hands, his face bleeding from all seven orifices, looking like a demon.
Drake said, "The demon transformation curse is actually very easy to break. It's based on the negative emotions in people's hearts as its core.
But looking at you, there's no way you can get rid of the demon curse on your own, so let me help you break free!"
Drake stepped forward and walked past Jiemma, and Jiemma directly turned into a ball of fire. In the firelight, the demon marks on his body began to disappear, but then his body also turned to ashes.
On the other side, Erza equipped the Black Wing Armor, and swung her long sword to slash out a curtain of swords, splitting all the paper dolls in half.
Natsu jumped up high, and a Fire Dragon's Wing Attack fanned out a large amount of flames to attack Ivan.
More paper dolls drilled out from under Ivan's cloak. Those paper dolls actually opened their mouths and devoured all of Natsu's flames, and then the paper dolls turned scarlet red.
In Natsu's surprised expression, all the paper dolls spat the flames back. Dragon Slayers couldn't devour their own flames, and Natsu was directly blown away by the flames.
Erza equipped the Flame Empress Armor, and fearlessly approached while withstanding the flames, destroying all the flame-spewing paper dolls.
Lucy summoned the Celestial Spirit Scorpio, and directly released a sandstorm at Ivan, and Wendy also used the Sky Dragon's Roar at the same time.
The sandstorm and the tornado merged together in flight, directly tearing apart a large number of paper dolls that Ivan had arranged in front of him, clearing a path.
And they naturally weren't doing useless work. Natsu had successfully approached Ivan because of this.
"You made the guild master sad, and you're also harming the guild, so go fly far away!"
Natsu's fist, wrapped in flames, deformed Ivan's face with the punch, and then he flew out of everyone's sight as Natsu had said.
After the battle ended, Gray, who had a lot of wounds on his body, came back.
Drake couldn't help but show a gratified expression. From the moment he had seen the frozen giants, Drake could feel that Gray's emotions were off.
He thought that the Devil Slayer Magic, whose essence in the ice was demonic power, plus the frozen giants, had reminded him of Deliora.
But the current Gray exuded a relaxed feeling from the inside out. He had truly broken free from the shackles of his childhood trauma.
Natsu immediately said, "Droopy Eyes is really useless. You only came back after everything was over here!"
Gray glanced at Natsu, who was also battered, and mocked, "You struggled in a bitter fight against that level of opponent. Slanty Eyes is really getting more and more useless!"
"What did you say! Do you want to fight!"
"Would I be afraid of you!"
...
Drake sighed, and together with Erza, he knocked down the two who seemed to be fighting bulls.
Drake said, "Alright, we're on a job. Let's go complete the request first."
The two didn't dare to explode, and obediently followed along, walking towards the frozen Eternal Flame.
Before arriving at that small iceberg, everyone could clearly see that the icicles on it were all flame-shaped.
Natsu put his hand over his eyes and said, "That's the Eternal Flame! Drake, are you going to melt it?"
Drake shook his head and said to Gray, "That would be too much trouble. Molding Magic can change the shape of ice. So I'll leave it to you!"
Gray nodded, and stepped forward and pressed his hand on the iceberg.
Molding Magic was a kind of magic with a very high upper limit. Although it didn't have the power to freeze thousands of miles, it was unique in its control over ice.
Even the ice from Devil Slayer Magic could be controlled by Gray to change its form.
The iceberg instantly dispersed, but the altar that was revealed was empty.
Lucy said, "Could it be that the Eternal Flame was extinguished because it was frozen for too long! Then how are we going to unfreeze the others!"
Natsu, however, shook his head and said, "No, I can hear a sound. It's...?!?"
Drake continued, "That's right, the flame hasn't been completely extinguished!"
Wendy also said, "I can also sense the remaining will. It's still alive!"
Everyone indeed saw a small flame in the center of the simple altar, but they didn't understand what Wendy meant by alive.
Drake took a deep breath, and flames ignited in both hands.
"You've been sleeping long enough. It's time to wake up!"
Drake combined the flames in both hands, swelling them into a small sun, and with the movement of Drake's arm, it flew directly towards the flame in the center of the altar.
That flame quickly swelled up the moment it came into contact with the Flame Dragon's Brilliant Flame that Drake had released, and then the flames surged and formed a large face.
"The feeling of this flame... This is the flame of my dear friend Igneel!"
The body made of flames lowered, and looked directly at Drake, saying, "Who are you? How do you have Igneel's power!"
Drake raised the flames in his hand and said, "I'm the child raised by Igneel. This power is what he taught me!"
The flame phantom laughed loudly and said, "To think that I could see my old friend's flames again after four hundred years. This is truly the happiest thing!
My name is Atlas Flame, child of Igneel. Thank you for rescuing me from the ice.
However, Igneel should really be proud of you. You were actually able to use magic power to awaken me, who only had a trace of my soul left."
Natsu couldn't help but step forward and say, "Uncle, you're Igneel's friend, so do you know where Igneel went?"
The Hellfire Dragon replied, "I'm sorry, I died four hundred years ago, and now I only have a trace of my soul left. I really don't know where Igneel went."
Erza patted the disappointed Natsu, and stepped forward and said, "Then what happened here? How did it get frozen?"
The flames on the Hellfire Dragon's body fluctuated, and then said, "That man mistook me for a demon, and used his power to freeze the entire village.
The power he used was very special. It was magic to exorcise demons - Devil Slayer Magic!"
The Hellfire Dragon raised his head to look at the frozen village, and said slowly, "I created this village. The misfortune of my village is my pain, and the sorrow of my village is my tears!
I will use the last light of my soul, together with the flames of Igneel's child, to save this village."
Saying this, the Hellfire Dragon's body released light, and the heat that was released made Drake even feel like he was sweating.
The Hellfire Dragon began to burn the last of his soul, removing the ice magic power like a rising sun.
"I am the Flame Dragon Atlas Flame, the guardian dragon of this village!"
Hearing the Hellfire Dragon's declaration, Drake couldn't help but fall silent.
What was left of the Hellfire Dragon's soul couldn't even be called fragments, and plus it had been frozen by Ice Devil Slayer Magic, there was no possibility of saving it.
So Drake could only watch as he released his last light and heat.
The burning Hellfire Dragon looked at Drake and said, "Child of Igneel, be careful. Four hundred years ago, Igneel couldn't destroy E.N.D., the most evil demon from the Books of Zeref."
After saying these last words, the Hellfire Dragon's body began to extinguish, and finally dissipated in midair.
Drake raised his head and said, "Don't worry! Igneel... has completely sealed E.N.D.!"
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