After Alakitasia collapsed, the Black Dragon and Zeref were left playing in the dirt together, and August and Irene joined Fairy Tail, Jovian began putting his grand plans into action.
His first move was to send August against Tartaros.
On that day, the skies above Tartaros darkened and the earth trembled.
Mard Geer Tartaros, the acting Guild Master of Tartaros, and his Nine Demon Gates were utterly helpless before August.
Under August's overwhelming assault, the entire dark guild fell in an instant.
"I'll be taking this book."
August slowly approached Mard Geer and took the Book of E.N.D. from his hands, despite the Demon treating it as his most precious treasure.
"Who are you?!" Mard Geer asked in terror.
He swore he had never encountered such a terrifying Mage in his entire life. The man before him had surpassed the limits of humanity and reached an incomprehensible level, perhaps even approaching the power of their creator, the Black Wizard Zeref.
Most frightening of all was the monstrous Magic Power inside August.
It was neither dark nor light. It existed somewhere between the two, an unknown and overwhelmingly powerful form of magic.
"I am..."
August fell silent as he looked at Mard Geer.
He knew these creations still dreamed of one day returning to their creator's side. Unfortunately, no matter how desperately they struggled throughout their lives, that wish would never be fulfilled.
"Zeref's son."
After considering his answer for a long time, August finally responded, granting Mard Geer one final truth.
"Zeref's son?!"
"Our creator has a child..."
"Hahahahaha!"
"Incredible! Our creator actually has a child!"
Mard Geer stopped resisting and burst into laughter.
Zeref, a man supposedly incapable of creating true life, had fathered a child. That meant their great creator had finally overcome his curse and defeated the all-powerful Ankhseram.
It was something worth celebrating.
Mard Geer laughed as he welcomed his death.
"Disappear, Demons created by Zeref. You have fulfilled your purpose well enough."
August spoke softly as white light radiated from both his hands.
The next second, an enormous magic circle spread across the entirety of Tartaros, engulfing everything within the guild, including Plutogrim.
A blinding light followed, destroying everything.
"Ultimate Magic: Holy Demon Extermination!"
Sacred radiance flooded the area, and every Demon vanished from the world.
"It's over..."
After completing his mission, August stared silently at the Book of E.N.D. in his hands.
The true body connected to this book was E.N.D., the ultimate Demon created by his father, Zeref.
Technically, that made E.N.D. his uncle.
"Natsu Dragneel..."
August fell into thoughtful silence.
Natsu Dragneel carried the same family name as his father. His father's full name was Zeref Dragneel, which meant August's own true name should have been August Dragneel.
"Forget it."
After reflecting on it for a while, August teleported away.
In the blink of an eye, he returned to the Fairy Tail guild hall.
The members around him nodded respectfully and addressed him as Guild Master.
August might have lost his father, but he had inherited everything his mother left behind.
Now, carrying on his mother's will, he had taken responsibility for Fairy Tail, the guild that had endured for a century.
Following his mother's wishes, he would transform Fairy Tail into the strongest guild in the Kingdom of Fiore.
No, it would become the strongest guild in all of Ishgar.
His ultimate objective was to make Fairy Tail the greatest guild in the world.
Two years later, following the disappearance of Fairy Tail's strongest members, Ultear adopted the alias Tia. After destroying one hundred dark guilds, she was finally appointed as one of the Ten Wizard Saints.
Before that, the Wizard King August had already been appointed as a Wizard Saint by the Magic Council for single-handedly destroying Tartaros.
The Magic Council subsequently released an updated list of the current Ten Wizard Saints.
The active members were God Serena, Draculos Hyberion, Wolfheim, Warrod Sequen, Jura Neekis, Jovian, Ultear, and August.
These eight were the active Ten Wizard Saints.
Jose Porla and Jellal Fernandes had been stripped of their titles, while Makarov's fate remained unknown, leaving two positions vacant. No suitable replacements had been found.
During the two years after the list was released, God Serena began a journey of self-improvement.
He traveled throughout Ishgar and challenged the other Mages who carried the title of Wizard Saint.
After defeating Draculos Hyberion, Wolfheim, and Warrod Sequen one after another, he turned his attention toward August.
God Serena had heard that August had single-handedly destroyed Tartaros.
The moment God Serena saw August, however, he was dumbfounded.
August's Magic Power was incomprehensibly vast.
They did not exist on remotely the same level.
"Why does a monster like you exist in this world?!"
"Hahahaha!"
"I knew I needed to leave home and see the world! If I had remained in one place, I never would have discovered a powerful opponent like you!"
"Good! God Serena challenges you!"
The flamboyant God Serena waved his arms dramatically before formally challenging August.
The result was a crushing defeat.
August needed only one attack to defeat the man who had believed himself the strongest Mage on the entire continent of Ishgar.
"Good! This strength is incredibly good!"
God Serena remained on his knees, his forehead covered in sweat. He gasped for breath while experiencing the fundamental difference between August's strength and his own.
"You have eight Dragon Lacrima inside your body. You're no ordinary man."
"Would you like to join Fairy Tail?" August asked, holding his staff.
"Hahaha!"
"Of course!"
God Serena laughed and announced that he was joining Fairy Tail.
Another three years passed.
Brandish μ and Dimaria Yesta traveled to Fairy Tail in search of August. Life in Alakitasia had become far too boring, so they decided it would be more entertaining to reunite with August and Irene.
August welcomed them and invited both women to join Fairy Tail.
Using his authority as Guild Master, he immediately promoted them to S-Class Mages.
Fairy Tail now possessed five S-Class Mages, Brandish, Dimaria, God Serena, Ultear, and Irene.
In terms of sheer numbers, the guild had already recovered the strength it possessed during its golden age.
In terms of quality, however, every one of them was at least as powerful as the number-one Wizard Saint.
That same year, August led his five-person team into the Grand Magic Games.
Fairy Tail achieved an overwhelming victory.
Throughout the entire competition, Fairy Tail only needed to send out God Serena.
He accomplished the extraordinary feat of defeating the other seven guilds single-handedly. One Dragon Slayer Roar was enough to eliminate every opponent.
Following the tournament, the officials formally granted God Serena the title of "God."
He was now a Mage officially recognized as a god.
The other guild members mocked him about the title for a very long time.
Time continued to pass.
At last, seven years went by.
Tenrou Island reappeared in the world, and Natsu and the others returned to the guild aboard a small boat.
The moment they stepped through the doors, they saw Jovian still sitting in his usual seat and drinking beer.
Jovian raised his mug toward them.
"Welcome home to Fairy Tail!"
"Yeah..."
With that soft reply, the guild that had remained quiet for seven years became lively once again.
Meanwhile, Mavis, after discovering that she had a son, became so embarrassed that she hid in the attic and refused to come out.
The guild members were shocked, but they also found the situation extremely amusing.
"Jovian, fight me!"
Natsu remained as eager as ever to challenge anyone strong enough to catch his attention.
"My mother..."
"I actually have a mother?!"
Erza stared at her biological mother, the Dragon Queen Irene Belserion, with utter disbelief.
"Everyone has a mother!" Happy remarked.
After visiting Edolas, Happy had already met both his mother and father, leaving him much more comfortable discussing the subject.
"The First Master has a son..."
"The First Master actually has a son?!"
Makarov continued muttering to himself with a look of disbelief.
He still had not recovered from learning that Mavis, Fairy Tail's First Guild Master, had given birth to a child.
He could hardly imagine the tiny and adorable Mavis having a son, much less one who appeared to be the same age as him.
Even more frightening was August's bottomless Magic Power.
Makarov fully supported Mavis's son becoming Fairy Tail's Fifth Guild Master.
He had already grown tired of carrying the responsibility himself, so this was the perfect opportunity to retire.
Still, suddenly gaining another man his own age within the guild left him with complicated feelings.
"Hey! Are you a Dragon Slayer too?!" Laxus asked as he approached God Serena.
He had heard that God Serena was a Dragon Slayer with eight Dragon Lacrima implanted inside his body.
"I am the man blessed by the Dragon Gods!"
"I am the strongest Dragon Slayer on the entire continent, God Serena!"
God Serena introduced himself with his usual exaggerated theatrics. He made a particular point of emphasizing his divine title.
"Heh."
Irene smiled without saying anything.
God Serena was claiming to be the strongest Dragon Slayer on the continent while the Mother of Dragon Slayers was standing right there.
No matter how one looked at it, the title of strongest did not belong to him.
"Gray, your name is Gray, correct?" August asked as he approached Gray.
"What is it, Guild... Guild Master?"
Gray was still not accustomed to addressing anyone other than Makarov as Guild Master, even when that person was the First Guild Master's son.
"Your father, Silver, left something for me to give you."
August transferred the Magic Power entrusted to him by Silver, Ice Devil Slayer Magic, into Gray.
"What?!"
Gray stared in shock as he felt the enormous power entering his body.
"I'll explain the exact circumstances in detail."
"The story begins several years ago, when I went to destroy the dark guild Tartaros."
"I never expected to find a human inside Tartaros who had been resurrected and controlled by a Necromancer, much less one who wielded Devil Slayer Magic."
The Wizard King began telling Gray the story behind his new power.
Several more years passed.
When the Fire Dragon God Ignia eventually attacked, Igneel emerged from inside Natsu and gave his rebellious son a brutal beating.
As for Acnologia, who was still guarding Zeref, Jovian reassigned the Black Dragon to Guiltina and ordered him to handle the 100 Years Quest.
The dragons who had escaped Acnologia's attacks four hundred years earlier once again experienced the overwhelming power of the Black Dragon.
With that, Fairy Tail's story came to a close.
Everything continued moving toward a better future.
Elsewhere, in the island nation of Japan, a man suddenly awakened inside a military base flying the flag of the United States.
"What world is this...?"
The man wore a military uniform with three shining stars displayed upon it.
"So I've become Lieutenant General Jovian Grayson, the commanding officer of a U.S. military base in Japan?!"
The man was naturally Jovian.
By the time he fully regained consciousness, he discovered that he had become the highest-ranking officer at the base.
"The original body really has no standards when creating avatars. I never expected to receive such a strange identity."
Still wearing his military uniform, Jovian walked out of the room.
American soldiers stationed along the hall saluted and greeted him as he passed.
"First, I need to determine what world this is."
Jovian began gathering intelligence.
Because the world appeared close to modern society, he could not immediately identify it. Far too many fictional worlds used contemporary settings.
He finally found his answer after opening a web browser and discovering a school called Cassell College.
"The world of Dragon Raja? Or perhaps a world similar to Dragon Raja?"
Cassell College immediately made Jovian suspect that he had been transported into the world of Dragon Raja.
"Now, let's check the date."
The calendar displayed the year 2010.
Jovian immediately understood his position in the timeline.
The events of Dragon Raja III: Black Moon Tide began in 2011, which meant the world was probably somewhere around the events of Dragon Raja II: The Mourner's Eyes.
"In that case, this is going to be very interesting."
Jovian spoke to himself.
He had entered the world of Dragon Raja before many of its major events had occurred, leaving him with plenty of opportunities to entertain himself.
For example...
"Inform the Hydras that Lieutenant General Grayson, commanding officer of the U.S. military base in Japan, will be paying them a visit today."
"Tell them to prepare themselves."
Jovian clasped his hands behind his back as he issued the order to his subordinates.
"Yes, sir!"
Upon hearing Jovian's command, the soldiers straightened their backs and shouted in unison.
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