Fairy Tail: I don't want to be the president

Chapter 123: Cultivation and Incidents

After careful reconnaissance through the perspective of river crabs, more than 20 people were found nearby.

Rhodes led everyone to hide in a valley he had chosen in advance, and marked the targets' locations and directions on the map for Capeting.

After thanking him, Capeting asked Rod and Gray to stay where they were, and then immediately began to make arrangements, as if he wanted to surround the other party and capture them all in one fell swoop.

Rhodes simply placed two river crabs to patrol and guard the area, waiting for the mission to be completed and the reward to be collected.

"Is this forced detention unit strong?"

Gray said, "They are not strong in fighting, but they have special methods to deal with wizards. If you are targeted by them, it will be difficult to escape."

"Special method?" Rhode thought for a moment, "Magic Sealing Stone?"

Gray said, "The magic seal stone is just used as handcuffs. Arrest operations like today usually use magic spells."

"Ritual?" Rhodes seemed to have seen this magic before. It was somewhat related to text magic, but very different.

"I remember it was called the 'Arresting Technique', and it was specially improved for the Council by a wizard who was proficient in the technique.

As long as you know the location of the target, or the route they must take, and quietly place this spell around them, you can immediately make the target lose their ability to resist."

The technique is absolute.

Many wizards who use spells like to say this.

This is a very special kind of magic. People who are in the process of performing the magic must abide by the rules set by the magic.

For example, write "Magicians are not allowed to leave" with special words around the target.

Then, once the target area is surrounded and the spell is activated, the wizards inside will be trapped.

To go even further, you can even write "People inside the ritual cannot use magic", and wait for the opponent to fall into the trap, then you can easily defeat him with long-range magic from outside.

The charm of the spell is that even if an ordinary wizard performs it, it can trap the Ten Holy Wizards.

Of course, such a powerful magic also has its limitations. The most obvious one is that it takes a long time to activate, which far exceeds the chanting time of other magic.

Therefore, this kind of magic is suitable as a trap, but it is difficult to use in battle.

Rules like "anyone who enters will die immediately" don't seem to be effective, and overly complex rules also have various limitations.

Also, a certain amount of magic power is required to maintain the existence of the ritual.

In short, this is not magic that an ordinary wizard can use well.

However, when the Council team uses their intelligence advantage and numbers in conjunction with specially modified techniques, they can achieve quite a strong effect.

This is also one of the reasons why they are looking for trouble with the dark guilds everywhere.

"Wait a minute." Rhode suddenly asked, "You know it so clearly, have you ever been dealt with by the Council's magic?"

"How is that possible? I haven't reached that level yet." Gray looked sympathetic. "I just learned about it by chance."

"Oh~prepare for a rainy day?"

"You, have you corrected the common language?"

Gray found it difficult to tell whether this person had used the wrong word or was hinting that he would sooner or later be dealt with by the Council using magic.

Rhodes frowned and said, "We seem to be under guard. They left someone nearby to watch us."

Gray said: "It's annoying, but it's a classified mission. I'm a little curious about what they are trying to hide."

Rhodes said: "I am curious too, but I don't want to cause trouble."

He used his vision to stare at the two team members on guard to prevent them from being trapped in the technique quietly.

The two chatted idly, and after a while, magical lights suddenly appeared in two places on the mountain.

Rows of strange words appeared out of thin air, forming two circular barriers.

Those two places are where the members of Naked Bandage Men gather.

Gray looked at the two barriers and gradually felt something was wrong: "Aren't there three?"

Boom!

The sound of an explosion rang out where the barrier was supposed to be, followed by the light of magic bullets and the shouts of battle. "Something happened." Rhode patted his butt and stood up, secretly complaining that these people couldn't even perform a sneak attack.

"Maybe we were discovered by the other party when we were setting up the spell, or we were disturbed by the people who just rushed over." Gray stood up and prepared to help.

Rhode stopped him and said, "Go find the two guards first."

The two soldiers in white robes were not worried about the sound of the battle. Instead, they saw Rhodes and Gray coming over and tightened their staffs:

"Do not interfere with the Council's enforcement actions, Fairy Tail wizards."

Gray asked, "Is there an accident over there? Are you sure you don't need help?"

A soldier said stiffly: "Captain Keptim can handle it. Don't forget your additional terms."

"Well, since he doesn't appreciate it, just take a rest." Rod pulled the worried Gray aside and waited.

The noise of battle continued for a while, and a red flash bomb rose in the sky.

The two soldiers' faces suddenly turned ugly.

Gray asked, "Hey, whose signal is that?"

"It's... it's the captain's urgent request for help." A soldier gritted his teeth, "Please come with us to support the captain!"

"Hey, you're crazy, they can't be part of the arrest!"

"But this is a red signal, requiring the mobilization of as many combat forces as possible!"

So the two commands are stuck with a bug, right?
Such an important order didn't even have a priority level. Rhodes felt that this broken Council would be finished sooner or later.

Rhodes urged: "Please make a decision quickly, there are dozens of people on the other side.

Normally, ordinary mages like us would avoid a large number of mages from the Dark Guild as soon as possible."

"Rod!" Gray obviously didn't want to just leave it alone.

His concern for the safety of those people prevented him from hearing such an obvious subtext.

This kid still gets hot-blooded sometimes.

The two soldiers hesitated and said, "Please lend us a hand! We will take the responsibility!"

——The captain usually takes good care of them, and a little more help would be best at a time like this.

Rhodes summoned two river crabs and carried four people, rushing towards the direction of the flare.

When they arrived, the wizards of the Naked Bandage Man had disappeared, and more than thirty soldiers in white robes were lying on the ground.

"team leader!"

"What happened!?"

Two soldiers jumped off the river crab and helped Capetine sit up.

"We were exposed. Zat suddenly attacked and knocked down two people. The spell failed to take effect..."

Keptim briefly explained the situation, then struggled to stand up, leaning on his staff and ready to leave, "Quick! Go support Depdi and the others, the Zat brothers are very strong, they will suffer!"

Gray flexed his wrists and said, "You guys go and help the wounded first, let us go over there."

Captine was stunned: "Fairy Tail wizard, why..."

"Captain, we invited them here without permission." These two soldiers were quite trustworthy.

Captim made a quick decision: "Please, please help my subordinates!"

"Leave it to us." Gray flexed his wrist. "What do you think, Rod?"

"Now that you've said that, ah~" Rhode sighed and urged Hexie to set off, complaining halfway, "Don't take on such troublesome things so casually."

"But doesn't your plan also include a scenario where the two of us face off against the entire guild?"

"That's the worst-case scenario... Let me be clear, if I can't win, I'll run away."

(End of this chapter)