"…"
Under Erza's icy gaze, the cosplay-loving Mage eventually fainted just like that.
"Talk! Otherwise, I'll drive this blade into your body right now!"
Erza continued threatening the Dark Guild Mage. As far as Erza was concerned, she absolutely did not want to attack him if she could avoid it, but there was no helping it. In order to save more people, certain necessary methods still had to be used in an emergency.
"Erza, calm down. This Dark Guild Mage already passed out…"
Lucy looked at the unconscious Dark Mage and forced a smile as she tried to persuade Erza.
"Erza is scary…"
Happy stared at Erza's icy eyes, his body trembling nonstop.
"He fainted? Useless."
When Erza heard that, she realized the Dark Mage in her hand really had passed out. Her elegant brows furrowed, and she casually tossed the Dark Guild Mage aside like garbage.
"They're probably just planning to use Lullaby to kill someone they couldn't kill before…"
"I originally planned to catch their guild master and ask him where this Dark Guild's superior guild, Oración Seis, one of the three great Dark Guilds, is hiding."
"But since he's unconscious now, there's nothing we can do about it…"
Jovian looked at the unconscious knockoff Shikamaru and spoke helplessly.
"Oración Seis? You mean that Oración Seis, one of the three great Dark Guilds?"
Lucy froze after hearing Jovian's words. Even she had heard of Oración Seis's fearsome reputation.
"Yes…"
"I've been chasing them for about half a year, but I still haven't found an opportunity. I have to admit, those guys are very careful with how they operate. Every time I find a key clue, they always throw out some kind of distraction…"
Jovian nodded. Every time he was about to catch Oración Seis, he would run into some easy, simple job. Then, by the time he finished those jobs, Oración Seis would have disappeared again.
"You've been hunting Oración Seis alone?"
Lucy, who had not spoken for a while, froze after hearing Jovian's words. Then realization suddenly struck her, and her eyes filled with shock. Hunting one of the three great Dark Guilds alone, what level of strength did someone need to dare do something like that? The Mages in Fairy Tail really were all monsters.
"Of course…"
Jovian nodded, indicating that he was, of course, acting alone.
"Hiss…"
After receiving Jovian's confirmation, Lucy drew in a cold breath. At the same time, she felt that she really had joined the right guild. Fairy Tail really was full of absurdly powerful people.
"Now that the lead is gone, how should we proceed with the mission?"
Erza was not surprised by Jovian's words. During her years outside, she had heard a lot about Jovian's reputation. Many Dark Guilds he had single-handedly destroyed had seemed extremely troublesome even to her. Erza estimated that Jovian's strength might already be on par with Gildarts. If he had Gildarts's level of power, then defeating Oración Seis by himself did not seem like anything particularly shocking.
"Let me think…"
"Why don't we let him go?"
"We'll follow behind him and see where he goes. I think he'll eventually return to his Dark Guild…"
After thinking for a while, Jovian came up with a plan.
"Let him go?"
"That works…"
Erza paused briefly when she heard Jovian's words, then nodded.
"Give this back to him too."
Jovian placed Zeref's curse back into the Dark Mage's arms. Then he took the unconscious Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Erza, and disappeared from the train.
Time passed minute by minute. Half an hour later, the frightened Dark Mage opened his eyes.
"Don't kill me!"
The Dark Mage shouted, only to discover that he was actually inside the train car. Around him was a group of passengers who had been startled by his voice.
"Hah…"
"Looks like I fell asleep…"
"Damn it, what a nightmare…"
The Dark Mage slowly let out a breath. Then he searched inside his clothes, and when he saw Lullaby in his hand, he completely relaxed.
"You stupid Legal Guild masters! Go die!"
The nameless Dark Mage cosplayer laughed loudly. Holding Lullaby, he jumped off the train and headed toward his guild.
High in the sky, standing on a rather inconspicuous sheet of metal, were Jovian, Erza, Gray, Lucy, the unconscious Natsu, and Happy, who was flying in the air.
"He's moving. Now we just need to follow him…"
Jovian seemed very experienced. He stood on the sheet of metal with his arms crossed before his chest, coldly watching below.
"You're very practiced at this…"
Erza looked at Jovian and spoke.
"I used to follow people from the sky like this all the time…"
"After a while, I got used to it…"
Jovian answered honestly.
He had discovered that aside from his basic abilities, this body also had telekinesis, which was worth praising. A lot of his clones did not even have all of their basic abilities.
"As expected of the Dark Mage Killer…"
Erza praised him. Erza's praise was usually sincere praise. She rarely bothered with pointless twists and turns. It was boring.
Meanwhile, Gray was introducing Lucy to his magic, constantly creating all sorts of beautiful patterns in the air. Looking at those exquisite patterns, Lucy could not help giving Gray a thumbs-up. As for Natsu, he was still lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth. When it came to transportation, Natsu had an extremely serious aversion.
Time passed minute by minute.
At noon, the Mage from the Dark Guild finally arrived at his own guild, Eisenwald.
"Boys, get ready to move out!"
No one knew what fake Shikamaru said to the people in his guild, but the Mages of Eisenwald all seemed pumped full of adrenaline as they walked out of the guild and shouted.
"Move."
Jovian stood high in the sky, looked down at the Dark Mages below, and spoke coldly.
Immediately, several Mages standing on the sheet of metal rushed downward.
"Hm?"
When Gray and Erza leaped down from the sky, Jovian froze as he looked at Lucy and Natsu, who still had not gone down.
"How much longer are you two planning to stay here?"
Jovian asked Lucy and Natsu.
"Huh? I have to go down too?"
Lucy's expression changed. She seemed very resistant to the idea of jumping down to fight.
"What do you think? Down you go."
Jovian glared at Lucy, then raised his foot and kicked both Lucy and Natsu down from the sky.
"Ah!"
Accompanied by screams, Lucy and Natsu fell toward the crowd of Dark Mages.
"Don't be scared, Lucy! I'm here!"
At that critical moment, Happy spread the wings on his back and grabbed Lucy by the shoulders.
"I'm saved…"
Only then did Lucy slowly let out a breath. She had nearly been scared senseless.
"Lucy, you should lose weight. You're so heavy…"
Happy pulled Lucy along and weakly complained.
"Get lost…"
Lucy huffed angrily and spoke coldly to Happy.
"Okay!"
After hearing Lucy's words, Happy directly released his grip on her shoulders and let Lucy fall.
"You rotten cat!"
Lucy cursed Happy angrily, but no matter how much she cursed, it could not change the fact that she was about to land in the treetops.
Rustle.
With the sound of leaves, Lucy fell into the trees and vanished from sight.
At the same time, Erza, Gray, and the revived Natsu had already begun facing off against the Dark Mages.
"We finally get to fight! I'm alive again…"
Natsu looked at the Dark Guild Mages in front of him, flames continuously rising from his body as he itched for battle.
"Hey! What's going on?"
"Why are there Legal Guild Mages here?"
"Could there be a traitor among us?"
The Dark Mages all turned their gazes toward fake Shikamaru.
"No, it wasn't me…"
Fake Shikamaru waved his hands nonstop, indicating that this had nothing to do with him.
"Brothers! There's no point shifting blame right now!"
"Capture these Legal Guild Mages, and we'll naturally figure out what happened!"
A man holding a scythe, with short white hair, looked at Natsu and the others and spoke with a vicious grin.
"If you want to fight, then fight!"
Although Natsu's side only had three people, their momentum was even stronger than the entire crowd of Dark Guild Mages across from them. After all, they had all received excellent training. In terms of strength, they were not on the same level as the enemies before them.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"
While the Dark Guild Mages were still looking for staffs and other magical tools, fierce flames ignited around Natsu's fist, and he charged straight at them.
With just one punch, he sent several Mages flying into the sky.
"That's all?"
Natsu smiled slightly as he looked at the Mages he had sent flying. In an instant, the other parts of his body also began burning with flames.
"He can release flames all around his body? And that salmon-pink hair, that dragon-scale scarf?"
"Oh no, he's that Fire Dragon from Fairy Tail!"
A knowledgeable Dark Mage instantly recognized Natsu and shouted loudly at the surrounding Dark Guild Mages.
"What? That famous Fire Dragon from Fairy Tail? Damn it, how did Fairy Tail find us?"
After hearing the Fire Dragon's name, some Dark Mages already started thinking about retreating.
"Ice-Make: Lance!"
On the other side, Gray was not willing to fall behind either. His ice lances instantly pierced through the bodies of several Dark Mages. Gray was still elegant about it. After piercing through their bodies and making the Dark Mages lose the ability to fight, he kindly stopped their bleeding and helped control their injuries.
"That's the streaking maniac? The streaking maniac from Fairy Tail?"
Clearly, Gray was just as famous as Natsu. The two of them were both core members of Fairy Tail.
"What the hell is a streaking maniac? Explain that properly!"
Gray frowned. He looked at the people calling him a streaking maniac and roared angrily.
"Gray, your clothes…"
At some point, Happy arrived beside Gray and reminded him.
"Ah, crap!"
Gray froze when he heard that. He realized that at some point, without noticing it, he had already taken off all his clothes.
"Hmph! How could you possibly be my opponents?"
Erza wore her most ordinary knight armor, continuously swinging the knight sword in her hand. One Dark Mage after another was instantly cut down by her.
"Hahaha…"
"Little lady, want to have some fun with us? What's the point of swinging a sword all by yourself? There are so many of us. Why don't you play with us, and we'll spare you…"
The Dark Mages surrounded Erza. Looking at Erza's stunning beauty, they drooled as they laughed.
"Hmph!"
"Requip!"
Erza faced the Dark Guild Mages closing in around her and smiled coldly. Then countless sharp blades suddenly floated around her.
"Requip, Heaven's Wheel Armor!"
In just an instant, Erza completed her Requip. Wearing beautiful armor, she summoned the flying swords floating around her and controlled dozens of blades, shooting them toward the Dark Mages.
"Ah…"
The Dark Mages were instantly defeated before those sharp swords.
"I know who she is! She's one of the rare S-Class Mages in Fairy Tail, Erza, known as Titania, the Fairy Queen!"
The Dark Guild Mages were familiar with the titles of powerful Mages from Legal Guilds, because they needed to know which people they could afford to provoke and which people they absolutely could not. Clearly, Erza belonged to the latter category. She was someone they absolutely could not afford to provoke.
"Don't be afraid! The advantage is ours!"
Just as the Dark Guild Mages were feeling terrified, the Eisenwald guild master, a man with black markings wrapped around his body, short white hair, and strength said to rival an ordinary S-Class Mage, gripped his giant scythe and spoke coldly to his subordinates.
"That's right! The guild master is still here! Everyone, don't be afraid!"
After hearing their guild master's words, the Mages all became eager to fight again. After all, their side had the numbers.
"Damn it. They just keep coming…"
Gray looked at the endless stream of Dark Mages, a few drops of sweat appearing on his forehead as he felt somewhat troubled.
"Strange. Where did Lucy and Jovian go?"
Happy flapped his little wings. After all this time, he had not seen Lucy or Jovian, so he felt a little confused.
Just as Happy was feeling puzzled, a huge black shadow blotted out the sun and blocked everyone's vision.
"That is…"
Happy raised his head, stared at the huge shadow covering the sky, and froze.
"No way."
"You've got to be kidding me."
"How are we supposed to fight that?"
When countless Dark Guild Mages noticed the sky being blocked out, they all dropped the weapons in their hands and froze in place, because that enormous shadow came from an island.
"Disappear, trash."
In the sky, Jovian dragged an island with one hand and smiled faintly at the countless Dark Guild Mages below. Then he instantly threw the island in his hand downward.
Boom!
With a thunderous roar, the island instantly fell.
"So what do we do?"
Lucy, who had just climbed down from the tree, stared at the enormous island in the sky and froze in place, her face full of terror.
"Aye!"
Happy cooperated with Lucy and nodded.
"What do you mean, 'aye'?!"
Lucy looked at Happy helplessly. She was truly miserable.
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