Acnologia

The King of All Dragonkind

The Dragon King

The Death Dragon That Devours All Magic

The Black Dragon

The Arcane Dragon

Doctor

Doctor (formerly)

Magic

Dragon slaying abilities

Shapeshifting

Regeneration

Chronokinesis (after consuming the Time Lapse)

### Goals

Destroy everything (failed).Kill all dragons in revenge for murdering his family and Sonya (succeeded).

Kill all of the Dragon Slayers (failed).

### Crimes

GenocideAttempted omnicide

“ It doesn't matter where you stand, I'll still destroy you, just like I'll destroy them and the ENTIRE WORLD! „ ~ Acnologia

“ I recognize you as my enemy, Dragon. And I shall slay you. „ ~ Acnologia to Igneel.

**Acnologia**, also known and fearfully reputed as the **Black Dragon of the Apocalypse** is the overarching antagonist of the anime/manga series *Fairy Tail*.

He is an incredibly powerful Dragon Slayer who can take on the form of a Dragon and is the self-proclaimed **Dragon King**. He succeeded in killing nearly all Dragons and is now hellbent on killing all remaining Dragon Slayers. After Zeref's demise, he becomes the final villain of the series. Posthumously, he has been frequently mentioned in the follow-up manga, *Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest*.

In the anime, he was voiced by Kōsuke Toriumi in the Japanese version, and J. Michael Tatum in the English dubbed version.

## Appearance

“ He continued to destroy Dragons and bathe in their blood. Presently, his skin turned to scales, his teeth to fangs. He transformed into a Dragon himself. A Dragon with pitch-black wings unlike any other Dragon. „ ~ Zirconis explaining Acnologia's Transformation.

Acnologia is a gargantuan Dragon whose entire upper body is covered in black round scales which in turn are decorated by spiraling blue markings. Its lower body, specifically its belly, inner tail and legs are gray in color and seem to be rather smooth. It possesses a blunt, rounded head with four large and elongated plates extending backwards, and has white beady eyes. Its mouth is full of sharp teeth, and below it is an elongated protrusion pointing downwards. Acnologia’s gargantuan, multilayered wings are composed of the very same plates covering its whole body, which take on a formation reminiscent of a bird’s feathers. Its massive tail splits in two at its end where the black plates disappear and takes on a double stinger-like appearance.

In his human form, despite being over 400 years old has the appearance of a muscular young man with long dark blue colored hair. His youthful appearance is most likely due to mastering his Dragon Form and losing the ability to age. His eyes have black circles around them and he bears the same light blue markings as he does in his Dragon form. For attire, he dons a high collared black cloak and has a necklace of red dragon claws around his neck and a sash around his waist. He wears a gold ring on his left arm and baggy pants that are decorated the same as the former article of clothing.

After his battle with Igneel, his right arm was taken, in his human form, it is still missing resulting in him having to hide it beneath his cloak.

400 years ago, Acnologia had a slightly slimmer built to him and had shorter hair. He also wore a white lab coat, due to his previous occupation as a medical doctor.

## Personality

“ He refuses to speak to them which means he views them as nothing more than insects, Men don't engage vermin in conversation this is no different, and men certainly don't battle pests the same as actual threats. „ ~ Zeref Dragneel during Acnologia's rampage.

While a few other Dragons appear somewhat cooperative, harmonious and amicable to humans, Acnologia is extremely inimical, dangerous, malevolent and temperamental towards them so he respectively scrutinizes them as infinitesimal. According to Zeref's words about Acnologia, "he [saw] them as nothing more than insects pestering him" despite originally being a human himself and preferring his original human form in a casual instance. It was shown that even while he had yet to transform into a Dragon, Acnologia had no mercy towards his fellow humans if they got in the way of his Dragon slaying and even killed an entire village because they offered their own as food to the dragons, though in a way Acnologia could be said to have had moral standards back then as he openly expressed disgust over the selfishness of the villagers and he did feel guilty over witnessing Sonya's death, apologizing over being unable to save her.

400 years ago, Acnologia was a compassionate and kind man who wanted to protect his people, but felt he did not have the strength to pull off such a feat, and used his healing magic to treat the injured. Following the destruction of his hometown, at the hands of the very dragon who once protected it, the trauma and hatred he felt towards the original Acnologia drove him to a dark path, becoming an extremely aggressive, bloodthirsty, detrimental and treacherous person who, upon acquiring the power needed to avenge his people, coldly slaughtered all Dragons he came into, including his own allies, even those who did not antagonize humanity. Seeing them kill a little girl made him more furious and revenge-driven to the point where he vowed to exterminate all dragons. Acnologia's hatred for dragons extended to the point that he desired to kill all Dragon Slayers in existence (even those who earned this form of Lost Magic through the use of Lacrimas), showing an immensely profound hatred for Dragonkind that extended not only to Dragons themselves but also to those who had their power. While part of it was to make him the supreme ruler of all Dragons, his main reason was solely out of vengeance.

In his human form, Acnologia has a stoic personality even after slicing God Serena's abdomen open he is still composed after announcing his goal of hunting down and killing the remaining Dragon Slayers. He seems to prefer to get straight to the problem should he agree to meet with humans he deems significant enough to attract his presence as he immediately asked Zeref what he wanted in their meeting. Despite being the most destructively powerful being alive, Acnologia oddly does not try to conquer the world despite easily having the power to do so, implying that while he holds overwhelming power Acnologia simply does not hunger for dominance even over humans despite hating them and simply desires to be isolated from them. This is also shown when he scarcely appears as he has never been known to appear until the events concerning Tenrou Island and Tartaros. As both instances contained Dragons or Dragon Slayers his true goals seemed to only be the erasure of every trace of Dragonkind from existence and he apparently wanted nothing more than that or at least considered it to be his purpose for living. However, he still possessed a love for battle as shown when he fought against Irene Belserion and he seemed to be impressed by her power, even giving her praise for entertaining him. Igneel said that Acnologia had a fear of Zeref's most powerful Demon named E.N.D. which he rebuked, but it remains unknown whether or not this statement was true.

As Acnologia dies, it is shown that for all of Acnologia's ruthlessness, he is truly a man who had been completely broken by the loss of everything that he cherished to the cruelty of dragons and thus resorted to taking everything from everyone else through destruction and violence to make himself feel whole. In fact, as Natsu states after dealing the fatal blow, Acnologia was so broken that deep down he wanted to die but could never bring himself to commit suicide. As Natsu reminds him of what he used to have and shows sympathy towards him, Acnologia accepts his death with dignity and even gives Natsu a gentle smile as he acknowledges that Natsu was worthy of being the Dragon King.

As a Dragon Slayer, he suffers from motion sickness due to the incompatible sensory hybridization of human and Dragon physiques.

## History

### Past

Acnologia was born more than 400 years ago, in the Hidden Land, Montes Secreta, where he trained as a doctor and grew up to be a peace-loving person who repudiated the idea of ​​war against dragons, before becoming one of the first Dragon Slayer to appear, entering the Dragon King Festival with the purpose of taking revenge on the dragons that betrayed him and tore apart the Hidden Land. Acnologia devoted himself body and soul to the slaughter of the dragons, but also to the death of the humans who helped them, regardless of the circumstances. All the dragons ended up fearing him and he adopted the name of the dragon that betrayed him so that they would never forget whom to hate (his death lust was such that he even forgot his own name). He also witnessed how a group of dragons, including Zirconis and Animus, tortured and killed a small Sonya. Angered, Acnologia slaughtered them and swore to Sonya (who was alive, but dying) that he would exterminate the dragons, realizing that he was feeling more and more thirsty. Due to the excessive use of his magic, Acnologia's physique and mind eventually became those of a dragon, and he proclaimed himself the Dragon King. This event was forever recorded in history as the Festival of the Dragon King.

For 400 years, Acnologia only roamed Earth Land, presumably hunting down all the dragons left alive after the Festival. According to history, he is reputed as a fearsome dragon, and was credited with destroying an entire country. It is known that when Gildarts Clive agreed to go on the "100-year mission", he met Acnologia in the third year, on the mountain of Zonia. In an instant, the Black Dragon seized Gildarts' left arm, his left leg, and an organ, leaving him almost dead before flying off to an unknown destination.

### **Tenrou Island Arc**

Acnologia is named by Zeref when he awakens, mentioning that the actions of Grimoire Heart and Fairy Tail had attracted him to that place. After the Magnolia guild defeats its enemies, Acnologia makes his appearance in the skies of Tenrou Island, becoming able to deafen most of those who were there alone with his roar and sweep an entire forest, apart from causing a small earthquake just by landing on the island. The dragon begins to attack the members of Fairy Tail left and right, causing so much devastation that Makarov is forced to keep it at bay so that the Fairy Tail wizards can escape. In the fight between the two, Makarov in his Giant form can not contain the fury of the dragon so he ends up being defeated by it, Acnologia throws him to the ground by nailing his claws.

About to kill Makarov, all the members of Fairy Tail return and begin to attack the dragon. Acnologia after a brief fight where he receives several attacks from the magicians then flies in the air to launch a Dragon Roar that destroys the entire Tenrou Island, with the members of Fairy Tail, or that was believed to have happened, since they were saved thanks to the Fairy Sphere. After these events, Acnologia flies up to the sky and disappears from sight again.

### Tartaros Arc

Acnologia reappears to everyone's surprise, according to Mard, that was going better than he expected but he did not know if he was in search of Zeref, or in search of that "Great Demon". The dragon approaches at a destructive pace leaving a great trail of desolation, to the surprise of the Fairy Tail wizards, but in reality, Acnologia was looking for E.N.D. to destroy him before he was reborn, or at least that's what Mard thought. Acnologia prepares to attack with his dragon breath, but at that moment, Igneel appears on the battlefield and rammed him.

The fight begins in the air, both dragons fight incessantly with their claws, to the spectacle of all present, but at one point, Acnologia tries to bite Igneel but he hits him with his tail, and throws his Roar of the Dragon of Fire that sends him to crash several meters through the ground causing a large explosion, but this does not affect Acnologia, who rejoins as if nothing. The combat between the two dragons continues, and then Acnologia is wounded by receiving an Iron Fist from the Fire Dragon from his opponent.

As Mard and Natsu's fight continues, that makes Igneel worry and careless for a moment, but he manages to dodge Acnologia's roar. Surprisingly, Acnologia speaks, and says that he did not imagine that dragons still lived, and that he was angry, Igneel says that he finally opened his mouth, and the enemy replies that he recognized him as his enemy, so he would kill him. The intense battle between both opponents continues, Igneel and him collide heads but then the fire dragon hits the Dragon King with its tail who is left behind and tells Igneel not to escape, but he stops several meters above the skies saying no he was escaping and that there they could fight at ease, Acnologia tells him that they would not fight, because he would be the one who would kill him.

Later, when Face is finally activated, Acnologia falls from the skies to the surprise of the Fairy Tail wizards, to then be stepped on by Igneel, who apparently had emerged victorious from his fight through the skies. However, Acnologia gets up to the surprise of his opponent, and Igneel goes to chase him, Acnologia mocks that he could not believe what the other dragons had done but Igneel replies that that in the end was his great fear and that he should leave the humans, but Acnologia replies that he would not because he was the king of dragons, and they resume their fight for the skies but Igneel tells him not to let Natsu and the others be like him but the black dragon responds that he only wanted the destruction of everything, only destruction.

The fight between dragons does not give respite and Acnologia has a great advantage giving a great beating to the Fire Dragon King but he tells him that he has been sleeping for a long time. Later both dragons collide, Igneel manages to tear off his left arm but the other manages to destroy half of his body. Natsu, speechless, observes that scene, then Acnologia prepares his attack and destroys Igneel with his Dragon Roar. Immediately afterwards, Acnologia leaves the place.

### The Reborn of Fairy Tail Arc

Later, a year after the events that occurred in Tartaros, an Acnologia in human form meets Zeref in a cave. Acnologia asks him why he had called him seriously, to which Zeref replies that he came to help him, because he believed that he had been waiting a lot for someone with whom he could fight with all his might, besides that with his strength he might be able to dominate the world but it seemed strange to him that he did not, to which Acnologia replied that he thought the same about him. Zeref tells him that he would love to give him a hand with that, to unleash the final battle between a dragon, an immortal, and the human race, which makes Acnologia smile.

### The Alvarez Empire Arc

Acnologia appears sitting in the place where he spoke to Zeref, saying that the arm that Igneel had torn off was itching, and he stands up while saying that he was going to destroy everything at the Dragon King Festival. He then proceeded to transform into a dragon while shouting that he was the only one worthy of the title of Dragon King, and that no one else would take him because he was precisely, Acnologia. Some time later, Acnologia arrives to the east of the Kingdom of Fiore where a battle was taking place between the Gods of Ishgar, Jura Neekis and God Serena since he mentions having sniffed a dragon (referring to Spriggan 12), when everyone saw him, August He recognizes immediately, and God Serena is excited because he will be able to fight against the dragon, he already mentions having been crossing the entire continent to obtain his head, however Acnologia crosses and destroys his abdomen before he says anything to later mention that there are only seven Dragon Slayer to eliminate before the look of astonishment and fear of all present.

After that, Acnologia is seen to adopt his dragon form again to fly towards Zonia, the Holy Mountain. Upon arriving at a site in ruins apparently in the vicinity of Zonia, Acnologia already in his human form again says that now there were six "Dragons" left, until these were annihilated, but is interrupted from the air by Irene Belserion who observes him floating asking him if that was his real goal. Irene goes down to the ground despite Acnologia telling her to leave because he had no business with her, but the magician ignores mentioning that he had a very frightening and intense strength. Acnologia asks him if he dared to block his path even knowing who he was, Irene answers him yes, and the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse answers that he hoped it would not bore him, to which Irene replied that he would not disappoint him.

She asks him if he should start and unexpectedly attacks the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse with immense flames, Acnologia concludes that it was an atmospheric spell and ends up undoing the attack creating a crater below him and great destruction behind. Acnologia mentions that she had great magic which was capable of assimilating any form that she desired, that excites him who begins to laugh madly while raising his arm and this generates a great explosion under Irene's feet, but she does a somersault ahead of time and dodge it. Acnologia mentions that she managed to capture his interest despite having learned this magic from Zeref, to which Irene replies that the power he had was magnificent, just as it was rumored, mentioning that he was beginning to understand why the Emperor feared him. Irene wonders what Zeref could do if he had the Fairy Heart in his hands, to which the Black Dragon tells him that if that happened, he would become someone of lower power than the Black Magician, Irene replies that it could be a possibility .

Acnologia tells her that she could save herself from leaving the humans alone, because she had no intention of listening, to which the magician replied that she had heard that he had also been human once, but that that was not the case now. Irene tells him that the last thing she wanted was for him to get in her way, since Zeref was still somewhere enjoying the war as if it were a game, she would have to put the cards in the matter in order to end the war earlier. Then, from Irene's cane, everything begins to become very bright and the ground white, Acnologia is surprised since it is a magic that she did not know and she mentions that it was a magic that had never existed, and that it was the magic of the new era. Acnologia asks her if she was enchanting the entire land, and she claims it, and that to be exact it was about the entire Kingdom of Fiore. Acnologia without words asks him who he was, and he answers that Irene, and mentions that he expected to meet him at some other time. Later act, Irene uses the magic Universe One altering the entire geography of the country completely. When this happens, Acnologia is sent to a random place on the map, according to the magician's later words this was sent to the sea far away from the location of all the others involved.

After the events that occurred after Universe One and after it disappeared as a result of Irene's death, Acnologia reappears falling from the skies right at the entrance to Fairy Hills in front of the eyes of Erza and Wendy, outlining an evil smile telling him to Zeref who was bored with that world. After that he gets up still with that smile, to then turn around and pass by the Fairy Tail mages to find the corpse of the recently deceased Irene. He tells her that she was like her mother due to being the creator of the Dragon Slayer magic and then tells her that it was her sin and immediately begins to brutally kick the body of the Alvarez magician while at the same time she begins to laugh like all crazy.

Acnologia's sadism ends when Erza asks him to stop mistreating the corpse, to which the dragon stops to observe her and tells her that she gave off the same smell as the body she was destroying. After that, he notices Wendy, impressed that a girl had the power of a Dragon Slayer, when the women realize that it was Acnologia, he smiles maliciously and prepares to attack them with one of his explosions but in the precise moment of the attack, this is blocked by Jellal who had just made a shield in front of them. Immediately afterwards, Acnologia is attacked by Jellal's Pleiades, dodging all their attacks and then receiving a direct attack from the Nine Lightning Stars, and finally a Grand Chariot. However, Acnologia is not harmed and begins to laugh and then begins to devour Jellal's magic.

All impressed wonder what element Acnologia possessed but this tells them that it did not have something like that since it was the last dragon, the one that had absorbed all the magic, known as the Dragon of Magic, while it began to transform into its dragon form . The Dragon King prepares to attack Wendy again but before doing anything, he is fiercely attacked by the Christina of Blue Pegasus, leaving him behind for a few moments. After that, Acnologia begins to chase the Blue Pegasus ship while they left the city, the magicians throw the Jupiter Magic Cannon at him that hits the dragon but it ends up eating the projectile. The enemy's attacks do not end so Acnologia begins to dodge magic bullets while wondering if they really believe that they are going to escape from him so he increases his speed.

After a while in which the chase went nowhere, the Christina quickly approaches the place where the Time Lapse was (Acnologia did not know about the Blue Pegasus plan with Anna), dodging it in time, and doing that the Dragon King is at the mercy of that hole that according to Anna transported to a place where absolutely nothing existed. However, Acnologia collides with the Time Lapse, but despite the fact that it casts an intense light after the shock, the dragon does not suffer any damage and ends up hooking on the Christina and begins to tear it apart little by little. Acnologia begins to destabilize the Blue Pegasus ship but it is fired because from the inside, Ichiya destroys the tear that prevented the Dragon Slayer from getting dizzy and that makes the dragon dizzy for a second releasing them. The dragon watches as the ship increases its speed, saying that it was something well thought out but that as long as they had a Dragon Slayer among them, he could hunt them. Acnologia attacks the ship saying that all the dragons would be annihilated since they were not needed in that world.

Moments later, Acnologia is attacked again by Jellal who had left the ship to buy some time by hitting the dragon using his Meteor. This attack does not do any damage to the Dragon King who begins to suck in and release one of his powerful roars causing the sea to split in two for a few moments due to the rift that his attack had caused. After that he is seen surprised by the visible appearance of the Time Lapse, wondering what that was as Jellal lunged towards it to push it into the vortex. Acnologia notices Jellal just in time when he begins to throw him, to which he says that he really wanted to die because it was the dragon that devoured all the magic, while he began to suck his magic power. However, Jellal increases his power by dragging the dragon even closer to the Time Lapse but at that moment he catches Jellal with one of his claws and begins to squeeze him while telling him that he would crush him. Acnologia continues to crush the magician but he is freed due to two shots from the Christina who was now being commanded by Anna and Ichiya, who end up crashing into the dragon and dragging it to the entire Time Lapse. Acnologia begins to be absorbed wondering what was happening to his body until he finished being sucked next to Christina, so Anna and Ichiya end up being absorbed like him.

A while later, the sky begins to crack, this product of the Acnologia itself that ends up devouring the Time Lapse, taking all its power and returning to the earthly world. Acnologia mentions that he felt like that time when he mastered Dragon Slayer Magic and that now he had become more than just a king, as the whole world belonged to him. The Dragon of Apocalypse mentions that the power of the Time Magic he had eaten was so great that he could not bear it, and decides to launch a full-scale attack screaming that it would destroy all of humanity. The Eternal Flare of the dragon begins to destroy everything in its path, so that later it begins to absorb Wendy with a mysterious power saying that it was time for her to become the perfect dragon for extermination, concluding that it would destroy all the Dragon Slayers in your time. Acnologia transports all the dragon hunting magicians into the Time Lapse, and in front of a confused Natsu tells him that they were in his world. Acnologia is recognized by Natsu, to which he mentions that he was the last, teaching that all the other Dragon Slayer had been imprisoned in some species of pillars, explaining that being there within the Time Lapse he possessed the power of all things. and that because of that, he would end up destroying the world completely while inside there he would end the Dragon Slayers.

Natsu is furious with this but Acnologia tells him that he too would be locked in one of those pillars for all eternity. Meanwhile, in the outside world, it is revealed that Acnologia due to his new and uncontrollable power has split his body and soul into two entities: his dragon form that is in the outside world and his soul that was within the Time Lapse. The body of Acnologia goes to Magnolia to end everything, while his soul is limited to observing how Natsu begins to be trapped by those pillars, mentioning that harmony and destruction were quite funny things. After making fun of how Natsu tried to free himself while cursing himself for not being able to use his flames due to his exhausting fight against Zeref, he is surprised to see how the other Dragon Slayer escape from their prisons for having heard the voices of all his companions and friends. , for the last shouting that they would go to hunt him. Acnologia then smiles mentioning that it was time to teach them why they knew him as the Dragon King.

Moments later the battle begins, Acnologia is attacked by Gajeel with his Iron Dragon Sword but he is not affected and before he was attacked together by Sting and Rogue, he is in charge of sending the three Dragon Slayers flying with a simple movement of his arm, to then do the same with Laxus and Erik, ending with attacking Natsu with a large explosion that the latter manages to block. Acnologia mentions that that is why they called him the Dragon King, since all of them together possessed the strength of a single finger of his, to later urge them to continue with the battle. As Acnologia's body reaches the outskirts of Magnolia destroying everything in its path, his soul recognizes that it was funny that his body was destroying the world completely, Natsu asks him what he was trying to do to what the Dragon King He answers that he was only looking for destruction as the stories said, that the only thing that gave him pleasure was annihilation and then ended up laughing out loud in front of his opponents, although Natsu tells him that the world was not so weak as to be destroyed by him.

At the end it is observed how the body of Acnologia finally reaches Magnolia where there is a group of magicians led by Minerva to attack it, they begin to launch their attacks but the dragon is limited to absorb them and then launch a powerful roar that destroys much of it. of the city and the guild of Fairy Tail. On the other hand, in the Time Lapse, the other Acnologia is fighting against the seven Dragon Slayers that cannot do any kind of damage to him despite their numerical superiority. After hitting Sting, Rogue, Natsu, Erik, Gajeel and Wendy, he is about to be hit from behind by Laxus, but the Dragon King perceives him and hits him fiercely, stamping him on the floor, telling him that the magic did not affect him to then give Erik a big kick. On earth, the body of the dragon begins to follow the magicians who were intentionally leading it towards Hargeon due to their strategy, while the spirit that fought against the children of the dragons receives reprimands from them and how they told him that it was the last He threatens, to which he replies that he was not the one who started things but finished them and then laughed vilely. The body of Acnologia arrives at Hargeon and prepares his Eternal Flare again, destructively attacking the port of the city killing all the ships in the port area that the magicians planned to use against him, and then ending up laughing when he saw the degree of destruction that had caused.

After having finished with the ships in the harbor, Acnologia prepares to continue his hunt for magicians within the city, as they begin their strategy of using the Fairy Sphere to seal the dragon. Within the Time Lapse, Acnologia mocks the Dragon Slayers for not being able to defeat him, saying that he would not leave a single one alive since he only lived to kill dragons, to which Natsu laughs, replying that it was a good joke since he was a dragon but that they were only humans who had inherited the magic of true dragons. Natsu mentions to him that the true dragons were powerful, noble and gentle, to which Acnologia when hearing it gets angry, saying that how could he think that dragons were gentle if they had finished with everything that was his, with his family, they had burned cities whole and murdered even small children. Acnologia explodes with fury at having heard that comment saying that there was no gentleness in those dragons and that everything was trash, subsequently creating a large explosion in the place.

However, he is stunned to see how the attack has no effect on the Dragon Slayer of Fire who, after giving his point of view again, the dragons tells him that he would be one of the dragons that had to be defeated, to which The Dragon King is surprised and even more so when he notices how his opponent had received all the magic power of the other dragons, making him someone capable of mastering all the elements of the dragon-hunting magicians. While, the body of Acnologia is attracted by the magicians towards his trap, the dragon follows Erza who invokes a thousand swords on it to push him to the ground and later leave him dizzy by placing him on an ice ship that had been created by Gray. and Lyon, who was being powered by the Juvia water. The body of Acnologia falls perfectly into the trap of the magicians and is at the mercy of these, who begin to activate the Fairy Sphere.

Seeing how Natsu rushes against him with all his accumulated power, Acnologia does the same collecting their power saying that they would disappear with their power of destruction, at the same time that Acnologia's body is beginning to be surrounded by the Fairy Sphere sphere. , which makes the dragon try to escape by starting to break said magical prison. In the Time Lapse, Acnologia tells Natsu that the power he had gathered would not defeat the Dragon King, at the same time that the Fairy Sphere begins to collapse but thanks to Meredy with his Maguilty Sense, they can channel the magic power of all the wizards from the continent to give to Lucy so that she can end the spell. Acnologia is paralyzed due to so much magic and ends up imprisoned within the sphere, while the spirit of this begins to shout that everything would be destroyed, and that he wanted to bathe with more dragon blood, at the same time that he gave an evil laugh increasing his power. but at that precise moment, his body is paralyzed as well, because his body on the outside was being sealed by the magicians.

Acnologia realizes that he is about to be hit by Natsu who creates a powerful fire hand, so the Dragon King makes a gesture to protect himself but realizes that it was the arm that Igneel had torn from him in the past so that takes the hit squarely being blown back violently. Acnologia falls wondering about his destruction, about the tears of others and how he could not destroy everything his hands wanted, to which Natsu replies that he would never get everything he wanted because he would never have the most valuable, friends, that makes Acnologia smile as he begins to disappear telling him that he was worthy of being the king, only to vanish completely. On the other hand in Hargeon, the physical body of Acnologia also begins to disappear, until finally it only falls apart and then nothing remains of it.

## Powers and Abilities

“ Many years ago, Acnologia used his Dragon Slayer Magic to tear our souls from our bodies. „ ~ Grandeeney explaining how the souls of many Dragons were stolen

* **Dragon Slayer Magic**: As one of the first humans who entered the Dragon Civil War, Acnologia was also among the first Dragon Slayers brought into existence. Over time, however, as he slayed many Dragons until he himself was turned into a Dragon due to the extensive overuse of his Lost Magic. Acnologia doesn't have a specific Dragon Slayer Magic element, his Dragon Slayer Magic makes him immune to all types of Magic, as seen when he devoured Jellal's Heavenly Body Magic. His Dragon Slayer Magic also gives him the ability to reap the souls of Dragons leaving them in a half dead state. His Dragon Slayer Magic attacks emit either maleficent yellow light or purple light.
	+ **Dragon's Roar**: Like all Dragons and Dragon Slayers, Acnologia can perform a Dragon's Roar, incorporating his respective magic into a massive breath attack. This blast, while he was a Dragon, was powerful enough to "completely eradicate" the entirety of Tenrou Island and imprint a giant crater into the ocean. His roar is also powerful enough to split the ocean in half.
	+ **Mouth Blasts**: Acnologia releases from his mouth multiple explosive blasts capable of devastating the Time Rift's surroundings and downing the Dragon Slayers.
	+ **Finger Beam**: Acnologia can fire from a single finger a giant beam of energy that caused massive destruction and injured Natsu despite him guarding.
	+ **Eruption**: By gesturing upwards, Acnologia causes a powerful eruption of energy that even Irene Belserion could not block it, forcing her to dodge.
	+ **Eternal Flare**: A powerful spell that casts thousands of stars which rain down causing mass destruction upon the land.
	+ **Kinetic Blasts**: Acnologia was able to release telekinetic blasts with just a wave of his hand capable of casually trashing the Dragon Slayers.
	+ **Shockwaves**: Acnologia was able to release powerful shockwaves capable of easily repelling the Dragon Slayers and causing massive explosions and damage to the Time Rift's surroundings.
* **Time Magic**: After being trapped in the Time Lapse, Acnologia devoured the time magic inside and broke free of his seal with his newly absorbed magic. Acnologia's already his enhanced power was amplified as a result and he used it to launch destructive attacks all around before causing all dragon slayers to disappear. It is soon revealed by Anna (who was thrown out the ravines of time) that when Acnologia was trapped and devoured the time magic, the unstable magic split his body in two with his physical body rampaging through Magnolia as his spiritual body stayed in the ravines of time to maintain his power which he plans he to use the dragon to continue doing so.
* **Healing Magic**: Before becoming a Dragon Slayer, Acnologia knew healing magic which he used to treat sick and injured dragons.

### Dragon Form

Acnologia, contrary to the legends surrounding him, did not entirely became a Dragon and has retained the ability to enter and exit his extremely powerful Dragon Form at free will. As a result of this power, Acnologia has been granted extreme longevity and lacks the ability to age which is why he resembles a young man despite being over centuries of years old.

* **Flight**: After mastering Dragon Slayer magic and transforming, Acnologia gained the ability to fly, using his large wings to travel great distances, maneuver high up in the air, and perform aerial assaults on those below him.
* **Enhanced Durability**: Acnologia, while a Dragon, is capable of shrugging off attacks from extremely powerful Mages like Erza Scarlet, Laxus Dreyar, and Mirajane Strauss, as well as from Natsu Dragneel, Gajeel Redfox, and Wendy Marvell, the latter three using their Dragon Slayer Magics, all their Magics having absolutely no effect on the Black Dragon. Later on, it is shown how even other Dragons of Igneel's caliber have high difficulty harming Acnologia in any noteworthy way, him taking the full force of Igneel's massive fire breath attack and emerging unscathed as if nothing happened. Likewise, he was quick to rebound from being briefly overpowered
* **Enhanced Strength**: Given his immense size, Acnologia, in Dragon form, is easily capable of reducing a substantially sized area to rubble by simply landing on top of it. Truly attesting to the form's immense brutish strength, Acnologia engaged in a head-on physical confrontation with Makarov in his Giant form and easily gained the upper hand. According to Gildarts Clive, despite the amazing physical feats Acnologia performed on Tenrou Island, the Dragon wasn't using the same level of strength as he was during their brief confrontation, that rather, the Black Dragon was toying around with every last one of them. Likewise, he could match Igneel blow-to-blow before breaking out of his hold after being briefly restrained and soon overpower him. Though the Fire Dragon King was weakened due to his long slumber, he himself admitted Acnologia's strength exceeded his expectations.
* **Enhanced Speed**: As a dragon, Acnologia is able to move at incredible speeds being able to catch up with the Christine which had boosted its speed. He is also capable of increasing his speed that it shocked the ship's crew who tried to escape only for him to latch his way on the ship in mere seconds.

### Human Form

Even in his human form, Acnologia displays terrifying levels of power, which made him among the very few Dragon Slayer actually capable of slaying dragons, leading to the extinction of dragons, and has been seen to easily outclass any opponent he came across in the final battle.

* **Immense Strength**: Acnologia holds tremendous raw strength even in his human form, as showcased when he slayed God Serena, the infamous strongest Mage of Ishgar himself, user of multiple forms of Dragon Slayer Magic, and a Shield of Spriggan, with a single bare hand alone, ripping right through his abdomen and killing him in one swipe almost instantly. During his fight with the seven dragon slayers, he was able to effortlessly repel with one hand Sting and Rogue's simultaneous blow and then stop Laxus, Cobra and Wendy's blow with just one hand and one leg and was also able to badly damage Natsu and Cobra with one attack, even damaging Cobra's innards with the attack and making Natsu bleed. In the past, he was shown to be able to physically tear through dragon skin with his bare hands.
* **Immense Speed and Agility**: While only in his human form, Acnologia can move at blinding speeds, striking down God Serena before he or his spectating fellow Shields of Spriggan, August and Jacob Lessio, even knew what had happened. When fighting the seven dragon slayers, Acnologia was able to effortlessly counter their attacks and punish them before they could react. Acnologia has also proven to be extremely agile, being able to effortlessly dodge all of Jellal's Jiu Leixing and Sting's Holy Ray with acrobatic jumps.
* **Enhanced Smell**: Acnologia has an incredible sense of smell, which he shares with other Dragon Slayers. He could instantly tell God Serena was a Dragon Slayer after smelling him from a distance and could tell there were seven other Dragon Slayers across the whole country Fiore, despite the incredible distance between all of them.
* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: With eons worth of experience, Acnologia is an extraordinary hand-to-hand combatant, able to effortlessly fight and overpower the seven dragon slayers by himself, countering each and every attack even with just one limb and swiftly trashing them aside even when they attacked him together.
* **Immense Durability**: Even in his human form, Acnologia was extraordinarily durable, as none of the dragon slayer attacks nor Jellal's spells that landed was able to even injure him at all and only a full-power blow from an enraged Natsu empowered by all the others was able to destroy him.
* **Telepathic Immunity**: According to Future Rogue, Acnologia is immune to Dragon Supremacy Magic. He is likewise impervious to Cobra's mind-reading powers.
* **Immense Magic Power**: Holding extraordinary levels of Magic Power even while only in his human form, Acnologia's Magic Power sheer presence could overwhelm even members of the Wizard Saints and Spriggan 12, even the strongest male, "Magic King" August himself, being awed and sweating at his enormous power and be felt through distances clearly. The strongest female member of the Spriggan 12 Irene Belserion even stated that he was more powerful than she initially thought. Both August and Zeref stated that the Black Wizard would only be able to face him with Fairy Heart's power and Zeref even stated he and Mavis combined would still be easily outclassed and turned into slaves by Acnologia. Much stronger than initially assumed to be, even after going toe-to-toe with and eventually overpowering Igneel, the "Fire Dragon King", in combat (although Igneel's power was quickly dwindling due to the years he was sealed), Acnologia is mentioned by Zeref to be still waiting for someone to truly challenge him, meaning he was holding back in his bout with the Fire Dragon King, and despite the Five Dragon Gods being said to rival Acnologia's power, one of those Dragons, Aldoron, lost to Acnologia, who defeated him so grievously that he had to rest for decades. Additionally, Zeref at one point has stated that Acnologia could rule the world with his power (which he was able to do in Future Rogue's timeline).

## Quotes

“ I will kill you! I will destroy everything in this world! Nothing will be left standing when I'm done! I NEED MORE BLOOD! I WANT TO BATHE MYSELF IN AN OCEAN OF DRAGON BLOOD!!! „ ~ Acnologia's villainous breakdown.

“ I said I'd show you why I'm called Dragon King. Is the lesson beginning to sink in yet or will I have to start killing you? „ ~ Acnologia bragging after showing off his power.

“ Final? We haven't even begun to fight. But this will be your end. „ ~ Acnologia mocking the Dragon Slayers efforts to defeat him.

“ As we stand inside here, my flesh form is on a path of rampant destruction outside the time rift bringing about the end of the world. The hour of reckoning if now upon us. Civilizations reached it's demise. (Natsu: Why are you doing all of this?) It's simple, to bring destruction. (Natsu: Sounds like load of crap to me. This world ain't that weak you hear me and it sure is hell ain't yours to destroy.) „ ~ Acnologia explaining his lifetime goal to Natsu.

“ I'm overflowing with power. If feels like when I mastered the art of Dragon Slaying all those years ago. „ ~ Acnologia attaining the power of time magic.

“ I was a king before but, I've become a god. This world and everything in it is my dominion. „ ~ Acnologia boasting his new found power.

“ Oh yes, I wield the power of time itself. This immense magic energy cannot be controlled. I will erase all of humanity. „ ~ Acnologia before using his Eternal Flare spell.

“ You're a Dragon Slayer? A little thing like you has that kind of power. „ ~ Acnologia targeting Wendy.

“ I've had my fill of this world. I've got to find the Black Wizard and do what must be done. „ ~ Acnologia re-entering the Alvarez war.

“ I thought this day might never come. But now I'm looking at the one who gave humans the power to slay dragons. In that regard I suppose I should call you "mother". THE SOURCE OF MY SIN!!! „ ~ Acnologia defiling Irene's corpse.

“ To think that Dragons still live... I am displeased. „ ~ Acnologia to Igneel.

“ Brave words but empty. They come from the mouth of one soon to be dead. Do your worst. „ ~ Acnologia during his battle with Igneel.

“ Oh, come now. You don't really think I feared one of Zeref's pathetic Demons, do you? That's ridiculous. I am Acnologia, King of the Dragons! „ ~ Acnologia denying his fear of E.N.D..

“ Black Wizard, what is it you want? „ ~ Acnologia meeting with Zeref Dragneel.

“ My arm is aching. The same one that was devoured by the flame Dragon. This is my time. The Dragon King Festival will soon begin. „ ~ Acnologia preparing for war.

“ Behold and tremble before the true king of dragons. The ultimate life form on this planet, ACNOLOGIA!!! „ ~ Acnologia declaring war.

“ Element? I have no one kind. I am the ultimate dragon. The dragon of the apocalypse and the devourer of all sorcery. I AM THE ARCANE DRAGON ACNOLOGIA!!! „ ~ Acnologia to Wendy Marvell, Erza Scarlet and Jellal Fernandes.

“ I am Acnologia, slayer of dragons. And I come to this place to wipe your ugly kind off the face of the planet once and for all. „ ~ Acnologia during the Dragon Civil War “ I smell the putrid stench of a dragon. „ ~ Acnologia appearing before God Serena.

“ Only seven more dragons remaining. I will slay them all. „ ~ Acnologia after killing God Serena.

“ It would seem you fools need to learn a lesson. One I'll gladly teach you. Why I'm known as the Dragon King!!! „ ~ Acnologia to the seven Dragon Slayers.

“ Dragons? Kind hearted? The Dragons took everything from me have hearts devoid of kindness. They slaughtered my family, burned my village, not even children were safe from their wrath. So, how in the hell can you tell me those creatures are kindhearted and noble? THEY DESERVE TO DIE!!! „ ~ Acnologia telling Natsu Dragneel why he hated Dragons.

## Trivia

* Acnologia was perhaps the strongest and most powerful Wizard and antagonist in the series as a whole. God Serena was easily slain by him despite his own incredible power and Zeref himself even stated he had no hope of defeating the Dragon King without using the Lumen Histoire, or Fairy Heart. Though the sequel *Fairy Tail: The 100-Year Quest* added the extraordinarily powerful Five Dragon Gods, whose power were stated to be comparable to, if not, even greater than his own, one of those characters, Aldoron, was said to have lost his fight with Acnologia and suffered near-mortal wounds, indicating he may be stronger than a few of them.
* Acnologia used no specific element in his Dragon Slayer Magic, but it made him immune to all forms of Magic Power, even the very same Lost Magic he wielded; the Grandeeney explained that one of the reasons for the Dragons hiding themselves inside their children's bodies was to use the future's higher Ethernano concentrations to temporarily repair the damage Acnologia's Dragon Slayer Magic had done to their Souls after he used his Power to remove them.
* Acnologia was the first known Dragon Slayer to have actually slain a Dragon thus officially earning him the title. The second was Natsu when he killed Animus as E.N.D. in *Dragon Cry* and the third, fourth and fifth being the members of the Guild Diabolos in *The 100 Year Quest*.
* Acnologia was the only Dragon Slayer in the series not part of a Guild, group or other organization.
* In the anime, it is revealed that Acnologia is not actually his real name, but instead the name he took from the guardian that protected his homeland, as Acnologia's entire backstory did not occur in the manga.