While approaching the border patrol ships that finally can be seen, Alex forms a massive Tailed Beast Bomb on his mouth. It's formed right above the water as he swims at a very high speed and the others are defending against Acnologia's attacks.
They use their best attacks, but they can only barely redirect Acnologia's rain of attacks even though each one of these attacks are much weaker than Acnologia's Dragon Roar, which makes them understand how strong Acnologia can be and that shouldn't even be his strongest attack yet.
"HOLD ON TIGHTLY!"
Alex shouts when they finally get quite close to Alvarez's border ships. He turns around very quickly like a drift car and shoots the massive Tailed Beast Bomb on his mouth.
It flies very quickly toward Acnologia, repelling the small attacks Acnologia sent. Alex is glad seeing his full-powered 3 Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb is strong enough to brush off these attacks of Acnologia.
Acnologia is obviously surprised that his attacks can't stop the Tailed Beast Bomb. They aren't his best attacks, but they can easily level a mountain. So this massive dark-red ball that flies toward him is surely dangerous.
But he is still very confident in his immunity toward almost all magic except for Dragon Slayer Magic. So he doesn't panic when the massive Tailed Beast Bomb is about to hit him. He even tries to block it with his hands and obviously, it explodes.
*BOOM!*
The sound of that explosion is very loud. It creates a very powerful shockwave that pushes the seawater below Acnologia who gets engulfed by that massive explosion in the sky. The explosion forms something like a small sun in the sky that also pushes away all the clouds.
It's not just the water and the clouds that are pushed away. Even the patrol ships or fisherman ships are pushed away. Some even get flipped by the raging waves caused by the shockwave.
However, Alex doesn't seem so happy at all even though his attack shows such a powerful effect. He looks at the disappearing explosion seriously while everyone on his back who almost got thrown away by the shockwave is looking at the explosion in awe.
Their awe quickly turns into disbelief when the explosion completely disappears. They all see Acnologia coming out of the explosion. He is clearly angry because he seems to receive some damage.
Blood comes out of some wounds on Acnologia's hands. His front body also seems a little charred and some of his scales are broken. But his wings are fine because they are on his back and he blocked Alex's Tailed Beast Bomb with his hands.
The damage he receives doesn't seem significant, which really shocks everyone because that attack was very strong. But Alex is actually happy with this because it means his attack actually works on Acnologia even though he's not a Dragon Slayer.
He already had some speculations before about his magic being able to damage Dragons like Dragon Slayer Magic would and now he can confirm it. The Tailed Beasts' "magic" and abilities are unique in this world, so even a Dragon like Acnologia won't have the immunity for their abilities.
Besides, there's no way the Gods who gave him his power because they wanted to see how he'll affect this world's fate would give him magic that won't even affect Dragons. After all, most of this world's stories revolve around Dragons and it might even drag this world's "Gods", so they should give Alex power that has the potential to rival those creatures.
Now he has confirmed that his power can affect Acnologia like Dragon Slayer Magic would. The only problem now is his power that can't match Acnologia yet. Even using that attack had already taken a quarter of his full magic power, so he can only use 4 of such attacks at most and it surely won't be enough to kill Acnologia.
Well, realistically, he can only use it 3 times because transforming into a full-sized Tailed Beasts still requires a lot of magic power. That's why he almost never did it unless he really needs to.
Acnologia roars furiously, causing the whole region to shake. Even the port town far away from here is shaking too. They have met Alvarez's patrol ships, but they are still far enough from the port town, so civilians haven't realized that a Dragon is getting near their place.
However, the Empire's army has heard about it because the soldiers on the patrol ships have reported it directly to their leaders. They have sent an emergency signal to the Spriggan who's stationed to protect their sea border now.
Alex can already sense a powerful presence coming from the land. He doesn't know who it is but that person is even stronger than the current Gildarts who should be already strong enough to rival the Wizard Saints because even now he's already stronger than Makarov.
Yet the person who comes here feels stronger than Gildarts. At the very least, he has more magic power than Gildarts. He even has more magic power than Alex who has considerably more magic power than Gildarts after raising its quantity with his absorption skill.
"I guess it's time to escape for real."
Right when Alex says that, a massive black hole suddenly appears beneath him and he falls into it along with everyone on his back. He disappears in an instant along with the hole, leaving the furious Acnologia who's surprised by his sudden disappearance.
Alex is moving into another dimension, his own personal dimension. Even Alex didn't know about this ability in the past. But not too long ago, Isobu told Alex that he has a space-time ability, although it's only limited to entering his own dimension.
(A.n: It's Isobu's canon ability. I don't make this up. Search for it in the fandom if you want.)
It's kind of similar to Obito's dimension, except that Isobu's dimension only has water and it's very dark here. In a sense, this is similar to Alex's Soul Realm where the Tailed Beasts are staying in his body.
"Where is this?" Erza immediately gets on edge, as she should be because they suddenly enter an unknown place.
"Don't worry, this is Isobu's dimension. It's his ability. We'll be safe here. Even that Dragon won't be able to find us here." Alex quickly explains to them to calm them.
"I see. So we will get out once the Dragon leaves." Elfman nods understandably.
"But how will we know if he has left? We can't see what happens there." Freed finds the problem, but of course, Alex already had the solution.
He also had the same question when Isobu taught him this ability. If this dimension is mostly used for hiding, then how will he know when to get out? How will he know if the situation is already safe for him to return?
"Well, there are 2 answers for that question. First, because this is another dimension, it only connects to our original dimension, but it isn't attached to any specific place."
"Huh?" Most of them are confused, but Lucy seems to understand.
"I see. So it's connected to the whole Earthland, not just the place where we entered this dimension from. It's like the connection between the Celestial Spirit World and Earthland." Lucy nods in understanding while most of them are still confused.
"Exactly. The Spirit Keys are the tools that can open the connections, creating doors for the Spirits to cross here. That's why they can go anywhere on Earthland or even other universes as long as their Keys are used even though they only chill in their home in the Celestial Spirit World."
"Does that mean you can connect this dimension to another place?" Freed asks.
"Yeah, but it is limited to places I've ever visited. It also consumes more magic power to go to a different place than the one I used to enter. Depending on the distance, the magic power consumed will get higher the further I go."
"It basically is a teleportation, just not direct like the Teleportation Magic. That magic also has a limit of places the users have ever visited or at least a distance they can see. After all, we can't know the true locations of the places we've never seen directly at least once. So we can't find it in our mind when we use Teleportation Magic."
Makarov explains calmly because Teleportation Magic itself isn't that rare actually. Though having a personal dimension is still very incredible. So even Makarov is actually in awe of this ability that Alex gets from Isobu.
"With the 1st method, we don't need to know whether they've finished fighting or not and can just leave. Then, if we still want to know, I can just do this."
Alex's left eye that constantly opens suddenly glows and lights come out of it. He is making a projector screen from his eye and on that screen is the situation on Alvarez's sea. Right now, many ships are facing Acnologia, and an old man is standing on the most front ship.
Even though Alex never saw him with his own eyes, he knows who that old man is. "So it's him."
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