The alarm clock on the table went "beep-beep-beep." Hope reached out to turn it off and looked at Kurnugi with interest. "Your mother is quite career-oriented; no wonder she hasn't gone home to see her child in decades."
Kurnugi: Waiting online, asking what to do when you have a mother who doesn't care about home...
Melkobia's eyes showed no emotion; he only remained silent for a moment before slowly speaking, "Even a destruction maniac like Ignia never thought of dealing with all the dragons. That Selene... I really didn't expect her ambition to be so great."
The others' focus was not on the Moon God Dragon at all.
"There's actually another parallel world!"
Natsu almost rushed into Faris's face. "What are our counterparts in Erientia like?"
Faris hadn't recovered from Natsu's enthusiasm when Happy leaned in too. "Do the Exceeds in Erientia love eating fish as much as we do?"
"You two, don't suddenly get so close to a girl!" Lucy worked hard to pull her two teammates away.
Faris cast a grateful look at Lucy. Being questioned face-to-face by a person and a cat just now, she really hadn't known what to do.
"Sorry, I haven't seen your counterparts in Erientia. As for Exceeds..." Faris thought for a moment. "According to the records in my family, Exceeds seem to be magical creatures from another parallel world."
"You said before that you took over an Exceed's body. What was that about?" Carla stared at Faris with an unfriendly gaze.
Lilly also looked over. No matter what, he was also a member of the Exceeds. Since it concerned the safety of a fellow kind, he naturally had to pay attention.
Faris hesitated for a moment, then, under everyone's surprised gazes, transformed into a silver-furred cat wearing a small dress.
Faris's voice came from the cat's mouth. "This Exceed is named Toka. Her 'Wing Magic: Wings of Water' is very special and can perform spatial Teleportation. To come to this world, I forcibly took over her body..."
"So you mean the two of you are temporarily merged into one now?" Cana leaned in and teased the cat's face.
Faris turned her face away shyly. "You're right. Toka's consciousness is in a deep sleep, and I currently have no way to separate us."
"Then that's simple! Ta-da!"
Mirajane picked up Wendy like she was showing off a treasure and held her high. "Wendy, now is the time for you to show your great power. Quickly use your 'Enchantment' to separate them."
Wendy looked embarrassed and said in a low voice, "Um... my Enchantment hasn't been practiced to the point where I can safely use 'Attachment: Separation'..."
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at the other person present who knew 'Enchantment'.
"Hehe, since everyone admires, looks up to, and needs me so much," Hope said with a smug face, "then I won't let everyone down."
Everyone: What is this guy talking about...
Erza stepped forward and dragged Hope over. "Stop acting crazy. Just say whether you can separate Faris and Toka."
Hope looked at Faris, who occupied the cat's body. In fact, he had seen through it long ago, but he hadn't exposed it for the sake of some fun.
Now that the fun was over, he would fulfill everyone's wish and separate them.
Faris cooperated by closing her eyes. Hope pressed one hand with a small magic circle over the cat's head and used 'Attachment: Separation' with the other hand, giving Toka's body a gentle push.
In the next second, a figure was pushed out of its body—it was Faris.
Faris stumbled back two steps and looked at Toka in front of her in disbelief. He actually separated them so easily without any harm. To what level had this person's 'Enchantment' been cultivated...
With Faris's exit, Toka's consciousness regained control of the body. Not yet clear about what had happened, she slowly opened her eyes, only to see a large blue cat face in front of her.
"Aye! My name is Happy!"
"Are you hungry? I'll treat you to some fish."
Seeing Happy's fawning expression toward Toka, everyone instantly fell silent. It turned out that this guy's previous simping for Carla wasn't because of some love at first sight, but simply because he was a lecher.
Bah! Perverted cat!
As the saying goes, eating is the most important thing. After the small interlude, the banquet continued. However, everyone stopped chatting about random things and instead continued discussing the Moon God Dragon and Erientia.
According to Faris's account, about a hundred years ago, the magic power in the world of Erientia gradually began to increase. At first, people were very Happy because magic power is a good thing for the development of the world.
But as time passed, more and more magic power filled Erientia until it puffed the world up like an over-inflated balloon, liable to explode at any moment.
"The Moon God Dragon, Selene, is a Space Dragon who masters the power of space. In theory, she can freely come and go between different worlds."
Hope picked up some vegetables personally grown by the Moon God Dragon with his chopsticks and continued, "Do you think there's a possibility that Erientia's magic expansion crisis was actually self-directed and staged by the Moon God Dragon?"
"The reason?" Kurnugi frowned. Although the Moon God Dragon had abandoned him, her son, to wander around, he still believed she was a good mother.
Hope looked disdainfully at the Sword Saint Dragon, who still hadn't broken his mother complex. "Of course, it's for the 'White-Out Power'."
The magic of Faris's clan, 'White-Out Power', has both the mechanics and the stats. It can even seize control of a Mage's magic power and adjust its magnitude.
In Hope's view, as long as it's used properly, it would be easy to raise a powerful army of Mages through 'White-Out Power', and one might even be able to control a dragon or two.
He suspected that the Moon God Dragon caused the crisis in the world of Erientia just to make Faris's clan work for her and deal with the other God Dragons.
Listening to Hope's analysis, Faris's face turned pale.
She had never thought of this possibility.
The promise Selene gave her was too tempting; saving her hometown was her only obsession.
As for how the magic anomaly in Erientia came about... having lived in a high-pressure magic environment since birth, she had long since become accustomed to it, so she hadn't thought about it in that direction at all.
But now that Hope had pointed it out, she realized where the problem lay.
Faris clenched her fists. Regardless of whether the crisis in her hometown was caused by the Moon God Dragon, she had already decided not to work for her anymore.
But Faris's family wasn't just her who knew 'White-Out Power'; she was just the one in the current generation for whom the magic was strongest. The Moon God Dragon could easily trick another clansman into continuing to work for her.
Faris was worried that if the Moon God Dragon became enraged by her betrayal and directly attacked Erientia... At the thought of this, she could no longer sit still. She stood up abruptly, instantly attracting everyone's attention.
Faris bowed deeply to everyone.
"Please! Please help me!"
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