Ben's battle against 1,364 mages still continued without any change in the situation. Ben still dominated the battle with physical strength. He is basically a dragon in human form considering his ridiculous physical stats.

[Name: Ben Cooper

MP: 4,206,001/4,206,973

STR: 1,837

AGI: 1,975

STA: 2,524

INT: 2,935]

Ben's physical stats have increased significantly after his long seclusion before the war with Tartaros and Acnologia. At that time, his training hadn't been completed, but he left because of the Tartaros incident. So his power hadn't grown to the maximum he could achieve with that training.

A year had passed since that incident and he had improved his power. He had perfected the Sun Devil/Dragon/God Slayer lacrima he made during his seclusion. So now his magic power and physical strength have increased exponentially.

His magic power had surpassed 4 million points without increasing it. That means he already has more magic power than average dragons and is almost equal to a dragon king like Igneel.

His basic magic power was still lower than Acnologia's though. Ben predicted that Force will match Acnologia. Unless Acnologia can increase his power somehow, Ben will have a chance to defeat the black dragon.

Ben was confident he could beat Acnologia after watching Igneel rip his left arm off. That ripped left arm was very useful for Ben because he could learn more about Acnologia's magic. It was difficult, but he was surprised when he uncovered the nature of Acnologia's magic.

That ripped off left arm also helped Ben increase his own magic power. One of Acnologia's severed limbs had enough power to complete his imperfect Sun Devil/Dragon/God lacrima. So Ben knew that Acnologia's raw power was immense and facing that will be very difficult.

Well, Ben had prepared a lot of things to face Acnologia. He trusts that he can win, he needed to do it for his family's safety and his children's future. Now, he needs to prepare the others for the upcoming danger through this event.

Ben will show them that they are still weak, too weak to protect their home. They are so weak he can defeat them without using his magic. Those with weak hearts will break, but those with strong hearts will grow from this and will keep growing in the future, that's what Ben is hoping for.

He attacks them with that hope, but he is also having fun. His eyes are moving around rapidly to look at his targets and scan his surroundings. Ben utilizes all his senses to face all these opponents who surround him from all sides and attack them without any rest.

Spells with different attributes are flying towards him from all directions. He handled them quite easily by merely dodging them. Some spells can't be dodged though, so he broke them with force. Spells that can't be dodged are mostly used to immobilize opponents and they normally aren't powerful, so he can break them.

Many mages are using fast spells that were activated almost instantly. But Ben can react to them quite easily and dodge them with his monstrous reflexes. Attacks came from every angle, but he can react to all of them.

Ben jumped away to avoid ground that would suck him up resembling an ant lion trap. But when he jumped back, 5 big magic shots composed of different elements fly toward him. There is a fire spell among those 5 that came from Natsu.

So Ben immediately plunged his right foot into the fire spell. Then he swung his right leg around to kick the other four attacks. Natsu's fire covered his right foot and helped him destroy the other spells. His foot is alright because the fire can't hurt him, it helped him instead.

After landing, Ben immediately ran to the closest opponent who waited for him with other mages. He grabbed the man's shirt and threw him into a woman behind him. Then Ben threw a strong punch at the man that was strong enough to injure the woman.

Both of them fly back at high speed and hit some more people. Ben then launched a high kick to the back. He hit a man's chin while avoiding a slash from a sword aimed at his neck. Then he put his hands on the ground and spread his legs before spinning his body like a top to kick everyone that had gotten too close to him.

His attacks keep flowing and he jumped towards a man that was stopped by the people that were kicked using his hands. Ben clamped the man's head with his legs and used the man to raise his body up. He flipped his body backward and pulled the man with him.

The man was pulled into the air as Ben flipped backward. Ben raised him quite high before throwing him into the ones behind him before landing. No one expected these acrobatic attacks from Ben, so they weren't ready for it and were hit by the man that was thrown.

But they're still not giving up because it just started. They attack Ben with their magic and fighting skills that have been polished in real battles. Their spirit made Ben grin in excitement as he rushed towards them again.

Ben slid across the ground to evade a lot of magic spells launched at him. Then he propelled himself to the left to avoid some metal spikes coming out of the ground. He landed on a man preparing a spell, disrupting the man's spell and used the man to jump to another side of the crowd.

His jumping power is high, so he shot the man away and instantly reached his targets. Ben grinned as he threw a punch at a man standing in his path. It's a fairly strong punch that only took the man out, but not the ones behind him.

A pair of buff men were waiting for him and they thrust their spears that were covered in Darkness and Wind Magic. They thought Ben would evade their attacks like he did before, but he didn't this time. Instead, he caught the handles of the spears and stopped them a few millimeters from his head.

The two men tried to move their spears, but they didn't budge. They knew it won't work, so they let go of their spears. Suddenly, Ben thrust their spears at them. They were hit by the bottoms of their spears, so they won't be pierced, even though there was enough of an impact to knock the air out of their lungs.

Ben flipped the spears and broke the spearheads off to turn them into blunt weapons. They are just sticks now, but they look more dangerous than any weapons in Ben's hands. Not a lot of people have seen Ben use weapons, even the other Fairy Tail mages.

So they don't know how good he'll be with weapons. But they all know that even if his skills are bad, his ridiculous physical strength will cover his lack of skill. Unfortunately for them, he could use weapons well. He just rarely had the chance to use them because his bare hands were more than enough most of the time.

Ben spun the wooden sticks in his hands and said, "Come on! Make me use my magic. Squeeze every drop of your magic power out!"

The mages grit their teeth and start attacking Ben again. Their strategy is still the same as before. They just attack him with whatever they have from any distance they are comfortable. There's no teamwork whatsoever, they just do what they want.

However, a strange thing happened in this 1 vs many battle. The eight teams, Wizard Saints and some renowned mages have not attacked Ben yet. They are still observing from the back and didn't make a move at all.

Ben grinned seeing them because he knew that they want to observe him first to come up with strategies. Besides, they can't coordinate their attacks with so many people. Against a force like Ben, some high-ranking mages are much better than hundreds or thousands of average mages.