Fairy Tail: The Fourth Master - Volume 1 Chapter 50

Suddenly, the water around Liem began to boil, he ignored it and was about to take the trident when,

“LIIIEEEMMM!!”

Then a powerful hit his body and was ‘thrown’ away, he can feel his skin getting burned and the water of the sea is making it worse.

“TITANIC DRAGON’S ERUPTING FIST!” Liem was hit by a powerful force that made him lose focus and lose control of his magic for a moment.

But it was enough to cause the water pressure to crush his body, his ears, nose, and eyes began to bleed but quickly stop once he covered himself with magic.

“That is enough for you, Liem. I won’t allow you take the trident away.”

Liem glared at the transformed Natsu with hatred, “Sa..lama..nder..I will..kill you!”

“Not if I beat you first! Meteoric Burst!”

Natsu was covered by a reddish gold aura as he dashed towards Liem in incredible speed.

“Asura Manifestation!” Liem announced as a large orange figure with two horns, sharp teeth and eight arms manifested on his back.

The figure behind him moved four of its arms and blocked Natsu’s attack, then it used another four to capture him.

“Guh-!? Let go of me!” Natsu struggled but no matter what, he couldn’t get free from the grip of the ‘Asura’.

“Stay there for a moment,” Liem said as she swim towards the trident.

“I, said, let, me, go! TITANIC DRAGON VOLCANIC ROAR!” A wave of reddish-gold magma bursts from Natsu’s mouth and ‘burned’ the Asura away.

Liem noticed that his spell was destroyed and he increased his speed, swimming much faster with dozens of arms helping him.

“Get back here!” Natsu covered with his flames and boiled a large area of the sea, he ‘flew’ towards Liem and tackled him.

However, just before he could reach Liem, dozens of large orange palms block his way, he ignore it and decided to push through, but was rebounded.

“What the-!?” Natsu stared at the palms in shock, but then he saw Liem grabbing the trident and he quickly ‘flew’ towards him.

Just like the last time, the palms blocked him, but this time, he wasn’t pushed back.

“TITANIC DRAGON’S ERUPTING FIST!”

With his fist covered by a powerful flames that even vaporized the water and boil the water around them, he punched the dozens of palms, but was met with resistance.

Though it only lasted for a few seconds before it crumbles.

“STOP!”

Liem was already putting a nail-sized crystal on the trident, and was about to put the last one.

Natsu saw this and even increased his speed, however, just when he was about to reach him, Liem already finish putting the last crystal, amd Natsu was blown away by hundreds of meters by the powerful wave released by the trident.

The other saints also felt the wave and they were blown away, Fiana stared at the pyramid with eyes wide open in disbelief,

“It couldn’t be..Natsu failed?”

Julius was also looking at the pyramid in disbelief, “Goddammit! How could this be?!”

“We’re doomed. Titans are enough to raze Fiore with its might, but now…” Kylla did not dare to finish her words.

“Natsu-dono..” Jura stared at the pyramid in worry.

On the pyramid, Liem was laughing in joy, he suddenly felt the water pressure disappearing so he dispelled his magic that was covering him.

“Finally! The damn pressure is gone! Its so annoying that I couldn’t fight properly!” Liem said to himself while grinning.

Suddenly, he felt the water beginning to boil once again, he turned his head and saw Natsu heading towards, he smirked.

“Haha~ so you’re delivering yourself to me? Instead of running away, you’re coming to me?” Liem glance at Natsu in amus.e.m.e.nt.

He gotta admit, Natsu is strong, much stronger than him in that form of his, but they are underwater, and his flames were less effective, so he was pretty confident.

“I don’t have enough magic power to awaken the Leviathans, but its enough to awaken the king.”

Then, the trident shines as the water began to shake.

Natsu, who was ‘flying’ towards Liem suddenly felt an extreme danger, so he increased his speed.

“Damn it.”

Suddenly, a large serpent-like head emerged from the pyramid causing it to crumble down.

The creature stared at the trident for a few seconds before it roars, causing a very powerful wave, creating tsunamis and shaking the land.

Natsu stopped moving, he wanted to move but his body won’t listen to him, it feels like he will die if he move closer to the creature.

‘Its stronger than the titan.’

…

On an inhibited island, a man with dark-skin tone, long dark blue hair and blue marks on his face can be seen eating a raw meat.

Suddenly, the air shook as the man narrowed his eyes, he dropped the bloody meat he was eating and stood up.

He glance at the direction of Fiore,

“The Leviathan Emperor, he’s awake? Someone is actually stupid enough to awaken it?”

He then turned his head back and saw a handsome man with black hair wearing a black robe, sitting under a tree while looking at the sky with a smile on his face.

“Zeref.”

The man, Zeref, looks at him with a smile on his face, “Glad to see you again so soon, Acnologia.”

Acnologia clicked his tongue and sat down, devouring the raw meat in front of him like a certain salmon haired titan-dragon-god slayer.

“What are you doing here? You want to die? I can’t give you that, you’re the only one left here that can give me a good fight.”

Zeref smiled and shook his head, “How about that ‘White Mage’ girl? She’s as strong as me, and those Dragon Gods too, and now, the Titan Emperor has been revived, though he’s weaker than he used to be, but the Leviathan Emperor surely can satisfy your l.u.s.t for battle.”

Acnologia gave an annoyed grunt and lay down on the ground and closed his eyes, “The white mage is hiding, don’t know where she is, those dragon gods are just cowards, having a high magic reserves but don’t know how to use ’em.”

“As for the Titan Emperor, forget it, he’s too weak to fight me now, as for Leviathan Emperor…” speaking up to this, Acnologia opened his eyes and stood up as he began to walk away.

“Forget that guy, he’s the only one strong enough to confront that ‘beast’, i don’t want to weaken him so soon.”

“So you already know?” Zeref asked as Acnologia stopped moving and stared at the sky.

“Of course I know, that ‘old man’ is dead, his disciple is too weak, and the seal is weakening every day, it won’t be long before ‘they’ appear once again.”

“So, will you side with us this time?” Zeref asked as his eyes turned fierce while glaring at Acnologia, “400 years ago, we could’ve won the ‘war’ if you haven’t annihilated the entire dragon race.”

Acnologia did bot answer and but jumped to the sky, as he transformed into an enormous black dragon and fly away, but not before leaving a sentence..

“I only hate dragons.”

Hearing this, Zeref smiled and stared at the direction of Fiore,

“Natsu,”