Chapter 347: Why haven’t Phantom’s reinforcements arrived yet?
Virgo's warning came just a little too late. Maybe even she hadn't expected Jose to be so ruthless, to bring down his own guild just to trap Fairy Tail.
By unleashing that last attack, he had slammed the final straw onto an already crumbling tower.
The Phantom Lord guild collapsed like a house of cards.
Not only did the ground give way beneath Jose, but the entire floor beneath Rhodes and the others disappeared out from under their feet.
They didn't dare fly.
They were only on the second floor, after all, and falling from here was safer than risking an upward blast that might launch them into the collapsing structure itself.
Virgo, who had popped halfway out of a wall just moments ago, plummeted with the shattered debris. But before she hit the ground, her body shimmered with golden light and vanished—returning to the Celestial Spirit World.
"Whaaat?!" Natsu shouted as he fell. "The gorilla maid bailed on us! That's betrayal!"
Happy tumbled like a startled kitten. "Aye! I'm gonna get crushed! This is the end!"
Gray briefly considered forming an ice dome*, —either to cushion the blow or freeze whatever might land on his head.
Erza and Mira had already mapped out a counterstrike plan in their minds. They'd either blast the debris above or smash it into dust after landing, but the issue was the battlefield below. If too much rubble rained down, it could harm their allies outside.