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

Chapter 222 Natsu: I didn't mean to cause trouble

"It's okay, Xia Lulu." Wendy said with a tearful tone, "Mr. Rhodes has magic to help me recover my magic power, so it's okay."

Xia Lulu was surprised and asked: "You can recover your magic power? Why last time..."

"I was so exhausted last time." Rhodes said helplessly, "Let's not talk about this for now. Have you found anything?"

Xia Lulu said: "It looks like just an ordinary town, nothing special."

"Love! Xia Lulu is right. But..." Happy hesitated a little.

Erza asked, "But what?"

Habib looked at Xia Lulu and said, "We seem to see some strange light."

Xia Lulu put her hands in her pockets and said, "I've already said it, what does a light so far away have to do with this place?"

Since there were no other clues, Roddoo asked, "What kind of light is it, and in which direction?"

"It was the light that lit up the mountain. Sometimes it was purple, sometimes it was gold, sometimes it was blue, and it kept changing."

Habib tried to recall for a while, pointed to the north and said, "It's over there."

Rhodes and Erza looked at each other. Isn't that the direction of the altar of the Black Magic Cult?
Rhodes waved his hand: "Summon, Canyon Swift Crab!"

Erza followed him and jumped onto the crab's back: "Charlu, you and Wendy go back to the hotel and rest first! Happy, where's Natsu?"

"Natsu said he smelled something that deserved a beating and ran out of town. The direction... Eh~~~!!!"

Happy squeezed his face with both hands, looking shocked, "It seems to be in that direction too! Why? Did Natsu burn down the mountain?"

"It might be more troublesome than burning the mountain." Rhode said, "Anyway, let's go take a look first. Wendy, Xia Lulu, remember, if there is anything unusual, don't wait for us to leave immediately."

At Rhodes's command, the river crab immediately started running.

The harpy spread his wings and chased after him: "Wait, we want to go too!"

Thinking that Natsu might have gone to a dangerous place, Habibi couldn't even care about Xia Lulu.

"Hey, what's going on over there?" Xia Lulu said dissatisfiedly, "Really, they are just a bunch of people talking to themselves."

Xia Lulu had some bad guesses. Could the black magic cult, demons, and the like mentioned before be over there?

Wendy watched them leave, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Xia Lulu, let's go back. I have something I want to verify."

"Even Wendy is like this..." Xia Lulu felt that Wendy had learned bad things from Fairy Tail. "Let me make it clear first. If there is any danger, I will take you away immediately."

……

Where the mountains and the sea meet on the north coast, among the mountains less than ten kilometers to the southeast.

Originally there was an altar here, but it was first destroyed by Erza's Evil-Breaking Spear, and then sealed with a magic circle by a wizard invited by the Council.

Later, an earth magician was invited to cast magic here to change the terrain, filling the valley into a small hill.

There are also illusion wizards who set up magic arrays that ordinary people cannot get close to.

In addition, people are regularly sent to patrol the surrounding mountains to check for suspicious persons. With multiple safeguards in place, the possibility of the devil's resurrection is repeatedly reduced.

In fact, the permanent solution is to summon the demon and defeat it completely, but various sources indicate that to summon this man-eating demon, the body and soul of a child must be sacrificed.

The Council could not do such a thing as harming a child, nor was it willing to perform such black magic, so it could only settle for the next best thing. And now, a reckless guy was running rampant outside the illusion array.

"So annoying! Why are we back to where we were before?!"

Natsu scratched his hair and banged on the big rock next to him twice to vent his anger.

He clearly smelled someone who deserved a fight nearby and wanted to go over and fight, but he always found himself back where he started.

So angry.

Natsu bumped his fists together, and fire burst out from between them: "In that case, how about…"

"Natsu!"

The familiar voice made Natsu's body stiffen, and cold sweat ran down his face:

“Ahhh… Erza? I-I didn’t mean to cause any trouble! Ahahaha, ahahahahaha…”

Rhodes burst out laughing, this was just a confession.

"Natsu, are you okay?" Happy flew to Natsu's shoulder, "We thought you were going to burn the mountain down."

Natsu said guiltily: "How could I do something like that, hahahaha!"

Erza did not pursue Natsu's reckless thoughts and asked, "You suddenly came here, did you find anything?"

Natsu became a little more serious, "I always feel a strange smell, and it was glowing inside before. Could the devil you are talking about be in there?"

"There was only an altar here before, and it was smashed by Erza. The Council sent people to deal with it, so there shouldn't be any strange smell, right? And why is it glowing for no reason?"

Rhodes tried to receive the Shadow Wolf on the road, but didn't smell any special smell at all.

And how could such a far place be related to Liz's illness?
Is there magic that can curse and kill a target from a long distance?
Happy hid behind Natsu in fear: "Aiyi... Is the devil coming out of hell?"

Erza groaned and said, "It is possible that the seal may be loosened and the devil may be resurrected. We need to see it with our own eyes."

"But there's no way to get through!" Natsu got a little irritable again, "If we go forward a short distance, we'll end up back here!"

"There is an illusion magic circle set up nearby, which can affect people's sense of direction without them noticing. This method..." Erza evaluated it, "maybe only slightly worse than Mistgang's."

Natsu put his hands on his head, messing up his cherry-colored hair. "Is Mistgun stronger than the one who made this? How do we defeat him?"

Natsu isn't afraid of a fight, but how can he fight if he can't even touch the edge of his opponent's clothes?
If he doesn't defeat Mistgang, how can he become an S-class wizard?

Erza asked: "Rod, if it were you, what would you do?"

"No matter what kind of magic circle it is, it requires magic power to maintain. Generally, it can be dispelled by defeating the caster."

"But now this kind of illusion array obviously needs to be maintained for a long time. Compared with the formal sealing array, it is unlikely that the caster will always bear the magic power. So it should be powered by magic crystals, or use living connection magic to transfer the magic power burden to a key member of the Council."

"As for the illusion magic circle, the first possibility is more likely. In order to keep it running, it should use magic crystals that can collect surrounding magic power to 'recharge' themselves."

"The simplest way is to bombard them indiscriminately and smash all the mountains, trees, and rocks into pieces. Sooner or later, you will be able to break the magic crystal and dispel the illusion."

Isn't it time to sabotage? Natsu suddenly became excited: "Leave this to me!"

Rhode stopped him and said, "Don't make trouble. We are just here to take a look, not to destroy it. That kind of magic crystal is very expensive."

(End of this chapter)