Chapter 349: Trust
"Everyone, prepare for defense! Sniper team, switch to armor-piercing rounds!"
Even though Rhodes relayed the order directly into everyone's minds using telepathy, it still came a second too late.
From the front of Jose, three towering waves of purple-black energy, each more than three meters high surged forward in succession like a demonic tide.
The shattered remains of the ruins were pushed aside instantly, and the waves carried a storm of stone and debris as they hurtled toward the members of Fairy Tail.
Acting swiftly, Rhodes transformed his hands into dragon claws and slammed them into the ground. A towering stone wall, five meters high and over a meter thick erupted from the earth, rising between the oncoming wave and the Fairy Tail formation.
"Gray! Laki! Tono!" he called.
The rubble crashed against the stone wall, breaking apart and scattering, but the first wave of magic slammed into it and cracked the wall with a deafening boom before it finally burst apart.
"Ice-Make: Shield!"
"Wood-Make: Guardian of Love!"
Gray and Laki followed up immediately, erecting an ice wall and a wooden barricade behind the now-crumbled stone wall.
Tono, a newer member who had only joined Fairy Tail earlier that year, hesitated slightly, half a beat behind the others but still managed to raise his spell in time.