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

Chapter 429: Fairy Tail's Strongest Battle?
"Hey, it turned into stone, what is that?"

"it's wired."

“Is it part of the show?”

The audience was talking about it, but they didn't realize at first that it was a sudden change.

Fairy Tail has always done things in a messy way, turning themselves or their companions into stone or something, and they might even put it on a show.

But as the host, Marcus knew that this was Alba Green's magic, and from the look on her face, it seemed she was not joking.

There will probably be a big fight in the guild soon! Marcus had this intuition, so he shouted to the audience immediately: "Everyone, please evacuate immediately!"

He even used sand magic to create a guiding arrow to warn everyone to leave quickly.

The ordinary people among the audience saw how serious he was and began to flee in panic.

Although I don't know what's going on, it seems very dangerous. That woman might be here to carry out a terrorist attack.

There was a commotion under the stage. Makarov could no longer sit still. He jumped up and shouted towards the stage: "Alba Green, what are you going to do? Do you want to ruin the festival?"

"Just think of it as a sideshow for the festival."

Alba Green closed the folding fan in her hand with a swish, and with a slight flick of her right hand, the curtain behind her burst into flames.

As the curtain quickly burned out, five stone statues appeared in front of everyone: Cana, Juvia, Levy, Bisca, and... Erza.

Everyone had just seen the whole process of Lucy being turned into a stone statue, so they immediately realized that these stone statues were themselves.

All the Miss Fairy Tail contestants, except Mira who jumped off the stage early, were turned into stone statues by Alba Green.

Mira covered her mouth: "How could it be..."

Rhode was also shocked. Even Erza couldn't withstand the petrification magic?
"What are you doing? Restore them to their original state immediately!" Makarov's tone was very stern, which was probably beyond the scope of ordinary joking.

A golden lightning fell in the center of the stage with a roar.

Fried and Bigusro appeared next to Alba Green, while Laxus, wearing a windbreaker and with his arms folded, stood in front of the three.

"Hey, Fairy Tail guys, the festival has just begun!" Laxus greeted everyone in a frivolous tone.

Everyone's faces were filled with surprise and confusion:
Could it be that Laxus led the Thunder Gods to sneak into the backstage of the guild, attacked the contestants who were resting, and turned them into stone statues?

The current scene looks like this, and everyone finds it difficult to digest this information for a while.

In everyone's opinion, although Laxus was a little rebellious and foul-mouthed, he was still a member of the guild after all and the grandson of the president. He would never do anything to harm his companions.

what is the problem?

Laxus admired everyone's expressions, forced a triumphant smile, and said to Makarov: "Let's play a game, old man!"

"Stop messing around, Laxus!" Makarov shouted angrily, "Even if it's just a joke, it's too much. Return them to their original state immediately!"

A golden bolt of lightning brushed past the body of the stone statue of Lucy and fell, breaking a piece of the stage floor amid the anxious expressions of the crowd.

"I'm not kidding, old man!" Laxus put his hand on the shoulder of the statue of Lucy.

"These women are all my hostages now. If anyone breaks the rules of the game, I will smash them all!"

With the speed of lightning magic, no one can stop Laxus from smashing any stone statue at such a close distance unless one anticipates when and who he will attack.

Makarov scowled: "What do you want to do?"

Laxus opened his arms, "It's simple. Let's decide who is the strongest in Fairy Tail. From now on, I will launch the Fairy Tail's Strongest Battle. The one who remains till the end will be the winner!"

"Just what I want!" Before anyone else could react, Natsu was the first to jump out and respond to Laxus' declaration of war.

He took a big step and rushed directly towards Laxus: "Watch out, the iron fist of the fire dragon!"

"I appreciate your eagerness to try..." Laxus easily caught Natsu's fist, "but I don't like your unpretentious personality."

He threw Natsu away and released powerful lightning from his hands, covering Natsu's entire body.

"Wow..." No matter how Natsu rushed over, he flew back and fell face down on the ground with black smoke coming out of his body.

"Natsu!" Happy rushed over to check out of concern.

Fortunately, it looked like he was just beaten normally and nothing serious happened.

"An impatient fellow," said Alba Green, smiling.

"In short, if you want to restore these girls to their original state, you have to defeat us. The time limit is three hours. If you can't do it, they... will turn into dust."

Everyone couldn't believe it: "What did you say?!"

"Even if we want to have the strongest battle, we don't have to go to this extent, right?"

"Are you serious?!"

No one answered. Fried just stepped forward and continued to add rules: "The battle range is the entire city. As long as you can find us, you can start fighting immediately."

Bigusro stuck out his tongue and laughed strangely: "There are only four of us, and you have nearly 4. The situation is not favorable for us. Ahahahaha!"

"unfavorable!"

"unfavorable!"

The five barrel-shaped puppets floating around him chirped and repeated his last note.

At this time, the black Fairy Tail emblem on Bigusro's tongue seemed a little dazzling.

After the three members of the Thunder God Clan had said what they needed to say, they retreated behind Laxus and left from the back of the guild.

"What a joke!" Makarov wanted to transform into a giant to stop them.

But Laxus placed his hand with lightning on Lucy's neck: "Don't be impatient, old man, I haven't finished what I want to say."

In fact, not only Makarov wanted to take action, but Alzak's gun was already pointed at Laxus, and many people were ready to cast magic at any time.

But everyone was afraid of hurting the girls who had turned into stone statues on the stage, so they didn't dare to act rashly.

Rhodes' brows were furrowed almost into knots. He couldn't understand what Laxus was going to do.

If you want to hold the strongest battle, just say it directly. As long as you bring it up, there are so many warmongers in the guild, and there will definitely be many people who respond.

If he really wanted to be the strongest guild title, then he could just fight with the S-class guys, or challenge the guild president directly.

What's the point of going to all this trouble to capture hostages and play a battle royale game?
Are you worried that someone won't give his best and won't be able to show how strong he is?

Rhodes stared into Laxus' eyes, trying to see whether this man really no longer cared about his companions' lives, or was just using this as a threat and would not care even if no one could defeat him.

But no matter which one it is, things have come to this point and everyone is outraged. In the end it is definitely not something that can be explained away by just saying 'I was wrong' or 'I was joking'.

With what happened with Leibi a few days ago and what happened today, he was almost forcing the president to expel him from the guild.

Rhodes really couldn't figure out what logic Laxus had in doing this, and what benefit it would bring to him.

At this time, Laxus also stared at him.

Ever since the last confrontation at the construction site, Laxus had taken this man to heart, believing that he was the one who had inherited the old man's will and way of doing things.

Not only that, he also inherited the title of the first president, the fairy strategist, and led a group of "rabble" to defeat the ten great magicians of the Holy Land.

In addition, according to Freed's investigation, this person has been reading non-stop since joining the guild, and has been studying all kinds of knowledge tirelessly, as if he wanted to inherit the profound knowledge of the second-generation president. —— Freed originally thought that Rhode was a good person and wanted to bring him into the Thunder God Clan, so he did some research.

The name and strategy of the first generation, the knowledge of the second generation, the will of the third generation...

Laxus believed that if there was anyone in the guild who could become the next president, it would have to be this person.

The only thing Rhodes lacks may be qualifications and strength.

Therefore, this person will be the biggest obstacle for him to become the guild leader, and he must be defeated completely!

Laxus stared at Rhodes. From his rough perception, Rhodes' magic power was not strong. It could only barely meet the minimum standard of S-level. Such a person...

"Fairy strategist, right? In the next game, use your wisdom and command your 'soldiers' to defeat me! I will let you know how weak your power is in front of me!"

He glanced at the indignant people and said sarcastically, "But I have to warn you in advance that even if there are 100 or 1000 pieces of trash like that, it will be useless!"

"Laxus bastard!"

"Who are you calling trash?"

"Let them go, I'll show you how powerful I am now!"

Laxus ignored their shouting. Suddenly, a strong light came out from his hand, as if he had thrown a flash bomb.

The entire guild was filled with dazzling white light. At this time, the light was shooting out from the doors and windows. Everyone present could not open their eyes at all and subconsciously put their hands in front of their faces.

Laxus' figure turned into lightning and disappeared, leaving only one sentence: "Fairy Tail's strongest battle begins!"

When everyone opened their eyes, Laxus was no longer on the stage. Only six stone statues with different expressions remained.

There was a brief silence in the guild, and then a passionate voice broke out:
"How dare you look down on us!"

"Want to play hide and seek? Coward!"

"Damn it! Beat him down right now!"

Everyone was yelling and wanted to run out of the guild, but Rhode jumped onto the stage and shouted, "Everyone, stay still. Calm down and listen to me!"

"Rod? What else is there to say at this time!"

"That's right, let's find them and beat them up first."

"It's just four people, there's no need for your tactics!"

The surging crowd stopped for a moment for him, but voices of rebuttal continued one after another.

Rhode said loudly, "The more this happens, the more we need to stay calm. If we get angry now, we will just be led by Laxus and the others!

Now the president is here, Mira is here, and Mistgang may appear at any time. Laxus and the others are not fools, how could they directly confront the entire guild without any preparation?

There will definitely be unexpected traps outside, calm down and think carefully! "

"It doesn't matter! I want to save Bisca now!"

"Lebi is waiting for us to rescue her too!"

"Don't talk so lightly, if Mira also turned into a stone statue, would you still be so calm?"

"You guy, don't really think of us as your soldiers!"

As the saying goes, worry leads to confusion. The more you care about the safety of the girls on the stage, the more you cannot think calmly.

If Laxus's goal was to anger the members of the guild, then his plan was successful. Many people could no longer listen to what Rhodes was saying.

Rhodes asked himself, if Mira really turned into a stone statue now, she might be broken into pieces or turned into dust at any time, and he was not sure what would happen to him now.

And the words that Laxus said before he left were also very powerful. I don't know whether he really wanted Rhodes to lead people to fight in a group, or he was intentionally using words to divide them.

Anyway, these guys who are full of passion and anger can't care about so many things.

The ones who reacted most violently were naturally Alzac, Jet, and Troy. The three of them casually replied with a few words and rushed out of the guild gate without looking back.

Then most people rushed out of the guild and scattered in search of the Thunder Gods and Laxus.

Whether they were concerned about the girls' safety or couldn't stand Laxus's ridicule, they acted as usual based on their first thoughts.

The only ones left in the guild were the president, Mira, Elfman, Gray, Wallian, Laqi, and a dozen others who were either calm enough or trusted Rhodes enough.

Besides, Natsu had just been knocked down by Laxus and hadn't gotten up yet, so Happy was looking after him.

Gajeel was crunching the iron cutlery again, looking as if it had nothing to do with him.

Rhodes checked the condition of the girls on the stage. The six of them were as cold as stone and didn't look like living people at all.

He asked, "President, is there no way to remove the petrification magic?"

"I can't do anything about it. I'm afraid that Albaglin herself is the only one in the guild who can remove it... and maybe Polyusica has medicine to remove the petrification."

Mira bit her lip and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, if I was also backstage at that time..."

"If you were also in the background, I'm afraid there would be an extra stone statue here."

Rhode indicated that she didn't need to feel guilty about it, "Even Erza got hit, you may not be immune.

Alba Green probably took advantage of their lack of vigilance against their companions to launch a successful sneak attack. You can tell by the surprised expressions on their faces."

Mira remained silent. She would not deliberately be on guard against Alba Green, even though she knew that her eyes could use petrification magic.

Taking advantage of the trust between companions...

I don't know whether to say that the person who came up with this plan is despicable or that he knows Fairy Tail too well.

Anyway, it should never be forgiven easily.

"That's right, this is certainly not your responsibility, Mira, but my responsibility!" Makarov walked towards the door angrily, regretting that he did not catch up with Laxus to punish him last time.

"You guys go out of the city and ask Polyusica for medicine to remove the petrification. I will go and teach Laxus a lesson now. This time I will give him the heaviest punishment and will not let him off easily!"

The old man strode forward with great strides. His serious expression, the magic that came from his anger, and his slightly fluttering coat made him look so imposing.

His majesty as one of the Ten Holy Mages was fully revealed.

However, the handsome scene came to an abrupt end when he reached the door.

Because he hit an invisible wall with a bang, as if his whole body was pressed against a glass wall, and his cheeks were flattened.

"What's going on?" Makarov supported the invisible wall in front of him with both hands, but he couldn't move it even a little bit despite his strength.

The people who stayed in the guild showed surprised expressions: "President? What's wrong with you?"

"Something is blocking me!" Makarov tried again, but was unable to move forward.

"Are you kidding? Didn't everyone just run out casually just now?"

Suddenly, lines of dark purple words with strange patterns appeared in the air: "The statue and people over 80 years old are prohibited from entering."

"Ritual?!"

(End of this chapter)