When the carriage came to a stop and everyone entered the villa, several male hosts in matching uniforms emerged to the rhythm of a synchronized chant and approached Erza's group.
"All right! Now that everyone is here, the ladies may stay, while the men can leave!"
"What the hell did you just say?!" Natsu immediately exploded with rage.
"Miss Erza, right this way."
"And you two beautiful young ladies, the lovely blonde and the gorgeous woman with black hair, have nothing to fear. As long as we are here, no one will ever harm you."
The Blue Pegasus hosts completely ignored Natsu as they continued showering Erza, Lucy, and Ultear with attention.
"Hey, you worthless small fries need to shut up."
"Stop bothering me."
Laxus had not taken any of them seriously before, but even he was beginning to lose his patience with the men from Blue Pegasus. An enormous wave of magic power erupted from his body and pressed down upon them.
"Uh..."
Every Blue Pegasus host instantly felt his body go numb. They could sense an immense amount of lightning magic gathering around Laxus. There was no denying it, Laxus was a genuine monster.
"That's enough!"
"Don't get too full of yourselves!"
"Now you understand there is always someone stronger, don't you?"
Just as the Blue Pegasus hosts feared they were about to be destroyed, a deep, magnetic voice rang through the villa, and the one person Erza feared more than any of them appeared.
He was a short, heavyset man wearing a yellow suit, a veteran Blue Pegasus Mage and the guild's ace S-Class Mage.
"Boss!"
The Blue Pegasus hosts immediately bent forward and bowed.
"Well, well..."
"I never expected Fairy Tail's Guild Master, Makarov, to send even you. He must take this operation against the Oración Seis very seriously. You are Makarov's grandson and one of Fairy Tail's five S-Class Mages, Laxus Dreyar!"
The short man in the suit immediately revealed Laxus's identity.
"What, do you want to fight?" Laxus asked coldly.
He would not mind treating this guy as an appetizer before the battle against the Oración Seis.
"Of course not."
"We are not arrogant enough to challenge the power running through your blood."
"Besides, our purpose here is simple. We came to defeat the Oración Seis!"
The short man thrust out his hips and shouted dramatically.
"He's absolutely right!"
The Blue Pegasus hosts nodded excitedly in agreement.
"What the hell is wrong with these people?" Gray asked, the corner of his eye twitching.
No matter how hard he looked, he simply could not see these men as Mages.
"I hope you can prove useful in the coming battle."
"Because if you can't, I won't hold back. I'll wipe you out along with the enemy, Blue Pegasus," Laxus warned coldly.
"Of course."
The short man in the suit nodded as though that went without saying.
While the two groups were confronting each other, the Mages from the other guilds finally arrived.
"You are..." Laxus stared curiously at a bald man among the newcomers.
"Makarov's grandson. I never expected to meet you here."
The bald man clearly knew Laxus as well. He pressed his palms together, looking more like a monk than a Mage.
"Who is that guy?"
"Is he famous or something?" Natsu asked, curious about the man standing before Laxus.
"That man is Jura Neekis. He is one of the Ten Wizard Saints, alongside our Guild Master and Jovian. I've heard he is an incredibly powerful monster," Erza explained.
"One of the Ten Wizard Saints?!" Natsu exclaimed in astonishment.
"You really can't judge someone by his appearance," Lucy added, equally surprised.
"Please, there is no need for such praise."
"Although we all bear the title of Wizard Saint, the difference between our strength is immense. Compared to Jovian or Makarov, I am embarrassingly weak," Jura said humbly.
He possessed confidence in his abilities, but he could not bring himself to boast in front of a colossal guild like Fairy Tail.
"Hmph. Your strength isn't bad."
"At the very least, you're far stronger than most of the others. You barely qualify to fight beside me," Laxus said with a cold snort, apparently acknowledging Jura's power.
"We were all summoned here for the same purpose, so that makes us comrades," Jura replied modestly.
He was careful with every word, afraid that a careless remark might reflect badly on his guild.
"Heh."
Laxus said nothing else, but his laugh conveyed more than enough mockery.
Time slowly passed.
Once Wendy, the final participant, arrived, the operation against the Oración Seis officially began.
However, their mission to hunt down the Oración Seis quickly became an ambush in which the Oración Seis hunted the Allied Forces instead.
The dark guild had already filled the area with traps. The Allied Forces were scattered and overwhelmed by the enemy's surprise attack. Soon, only the members of Fairy Tail and Wendy from Cait Shelter remained standing. Everyone else had been taken down.
The members of the Oración Seis now stood atop a tall rock formation, laughing at the Fairy Tail Mages caught in their ambush below.
"Idiots."
Laxus had been prepared from the beginning. His body transformed into a bolt of lightning, allowing him to instantly escape the Oración Seis' encirclement.
"Lightning Dragon's Roar!"
The battle had barely begun when a dazzling blast of lightning erupted from his mouth. Racer, one of the Oración Seis, was struck head-on and immediately collapsed.
"What?!"
Not only were Laxus's allies stunned, but even the enemy was dumbfounded. He had reduced the mighty Oración Seis by one member in the opening exchange.
Makarov's grandson was every bit as powerful as the rumors claimed. He seemed to have inherited nearly all of Makarov's overwhelming strength.
"Don't panic!" Brain, the commander of the dark guild, shouted angrily.
His voice brought the remaining members of the Oración Seis back to their senses.
"We're going in too!" Natsu shouted to the others.
However, just as everyone prepared to attack, a terrifying wave of magic power erupted from Laxus's body.
"Raaaagh!"
Every muscle in Laxus's body tightened. His teeth sharpened into fangs, faint dragon scales appeared across his skin, and his immense magic power carried traces of a sacred aura.
"N-No way..." Gray muttered.
As he stared at Laxus's increasingly ferocious appearance and felt that painfully familiar magic power, he realized what Laxus intended to use.
"This is bad! Everyone, attack! Kill that man before he finishes!" Cobra shouted.
The snake-controlling Mage appeared to have realized something. Sweat poured down his forehead as he desperately warned the others.
"Right!"
The remaining members of the Oración Seis nodded and prepared to attack Laxus.
"I'll control the earth!"
Hoteye's eyes flashed with light. His Earth Magic allowed him to manipulate the ground itself.
"What are you trying to do?"
Before Hoteye could launch his spell, the ground before him suddenly returned to normal.
"What?!"
Hoteye stared in shock, unable to understand what had happened.
"It seems you still don't understand."
"Any magic that manipulates inorganic matter is useless against me."
A crystal orb floated beside Ultear as she rested one hand on her hip, proudly displaying her striking figure while addressing the Oración Seis.
"Then I'll handle this!"
Angel produced a Celestial Spirit Gate Key.
"Hmph."
Ultear gave Angel a contemptuous smile. With a casual wave of her hand, a gorgeous rose of ice instantly bloomed between them and knocked the key out of Angel's grasp.
"What?!"
Angel froze in astonishment. This was the first time she had encountered a Mage capable of knocking a key from her hand in the middle of a fight.
"Damn it! You think that was my only key?!"
Angel hurriedly reached into her bag for another.
"You won't get the chance."
Ultear possessed a completely different level of combat intelligence from the others. She had fought and defeated more Celestial Spirit Mages than she could count.
Before Angel could retrieve another key, she discovered that both of her hands had been frozen solid. A second later, a beautiful ice rose bloomed beneath her feet and hurled her through the air.
"Aaaagh!"
Angel left the battle with a miserable scream.
Ultear possessed combat power approaching, if not already equal to, that of a Wizard Saint. Angel never had a chance to fight back.
"And now, you."
After defeating Angel, the crystal orbs surrounding Ultear instantly flew around Hoteye. Unable to activate his magic, he was struck from every direction and sent flying.
Hoteye was not weak, but his magic manipulated inorganic matter, making it just as vulnerable to Ultear's Arc of Time as Ice-Make Magic.
"She's so strong!" Lucy exclaimed.
Until now, Lucy and the others had never possessed a clear understanding of Ultear's true strength. Watching her instantly defeat two members of the Oración Seis made their eyes tremble in disbelief.
That level of combat power unquestionably placed her among the strongest S-Class Mages.
Elsewhere, Erik wanted to help his allies, but Natsu and Gray had already trapped him between them.
Neither Natsu nor Gray was an opponent he could defeat easily.
"What a pain..." Erik muttered.
As the Poison Dragon Slayer faced the two Fairy Tail Mages, his expression darkened with irritation.
Midnight remained nearby with his eyes closed, but Erza watched him constantly. She did not make any reckless moves because the sleeping man gave her an extremely dangerous feeling.
Meanwhile, Ultear went directly after Brain, the leader of the Oración Seis.
"You are... Ur's daughter?! But I sent you away..." Brain's expression changed dramatically when he recognized her.
Ultear had once been one of the children in whom he had taken a special interest. Unfortunately, her power had been far too immense. She was so powerful that even Brain had been unable to control her completely, forcing him to eventually abandon her.
"So that's it. You were behind everything!"
Ultear had no interest in wasting words with Brain.
Now she understood why Jovian had insisted that she come on this mission. After seeing Brain's face, witnessing his fear, and combining it with everything she had uncovered over the years, the entire truth reconstructed itself inside her mind.
"Fool! I merely sent you where you were supposed to go!" Brain argued.
"You can repent in Hell!"
Ultear swept out one hand, sending countless crystal orbs rushing at Brain from every direction.
Boom!
A violent explosion shook the area. Blood sprayed from Brain's mouth as he collapsed to the ground.
"Midnight... You must never disappear..." Brain muttered repeatedly.
One chain after another vanished from his body.
"Damn it..."
"Are there seriously only two of us left already?!" Erik, also known as Cobra, muttered in disbelief as he looked at his fallen comrades.
Before he could devise a plan for continuing the battle under such unfavorable conditions, Erza unleashed her full strength.
No matter how many times she attacked, she had been unable to touch Midnight. Erza therefore gambled all her remaining magic power on a single move and equipped the armor she reserved as her ultimate trump card.
"Requip! Nakagami Armor!"
Erza's magic power surged until it nearly reached the level of the lower-ranked Ten Wizard Saints. For one second, she gained the ability to wield the Nakagami Armor's full power.
"What is this...?"
Midnight, who had been pretending to sleep, felt the crushing pressure radiating from the Nakagami Armor and instinctively opened his eyes.
He understood that if he did not wake up now, he would never wake up again.
The instant Midnight opened his eyes, he unleashed an illusion upon everyone around him. His human form vanished, replaced by the image of a grotesque and horrifying monster.
"Nakagami Starlight!"
It did not matter what form the enemy took. Nothing could stop Erza from swinging the weapon in her hands.
Her attack tore through space itself.
Midnight's illusions, his distortions, and his true body were all cut down at once. He collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness.
"Damn it..."
"I'm the only one left?!"
Cobra stared in disbelief. He had hoped that he and Midnight could devise a way out of this situation together, but in the blink of an eye, he was completely alone.
"I need to run."
After considering his options, Cobra decided to escape. However, the instant he attempted to flee through the air, countless crystal orbs appeared in the sky and blocked his path.
"Damn you..."
Cobra glared furiously at Ultear.
"Dragon Slayer Secret Art: Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!"
"Ice-Make: Excalibur!"
Sweat covered Cobra's face as he heard two voices behind him. He could not evade them because every possible escape route had already been sealed.
Boom!
Natsu and Gray's combined attack struck Cobra, knocking him unconscious.
With all six seals broken, the true Guild Master of the Oración Seis, Zero, awakened.
"Hahahaha!"
"Now let me destroy everything!"
Brain's appearance transformed as Zero took control. He laughed wildly at the assembled Mages, and the magic power surging from his body reached the level of a Ten Wizard Saint.
Boom!
Before Zero could celebrate, golden light erupted from the ground. The enormous emblem of the Fairy Tail guild appeared across the sky.
"This is..."
Zero's expression changed dramatically.
He seemed to realize what was happening.
"Fairy Law, activate!"
Before Zero could do anything, endless golden light engulfed his entire body.
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