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

Chapter 430 Internal strife, fire and iron that cannot leave the house

Gray and Elfman tried to step out of the door and walked back in, completely unaffected.

The two men looked at each other and nodded, then grabbed the president's shoulders and arms respectively, one pushing from inside and the other pulling from outside, neither being polite to the president at all.

The old man was made to float in the air by two people, his whole body stuck to the barrier formed by the spell, but he couldn't even stretch out a finger.

"Stop! Stop!" Makarov told the two unreliable kids to let him go. "This is a spell. Even I can't break it from the inside."

The two men let go of the president and put him back on the ground.

Elfman complained, "Is this Freed's magic? Even the old man can't do anything about it. Is he that strong?"

"Because the rules of the spell are absolute, as a trap, it is an excellent magic in itself." Makarov thought for a moment.
"But the difficulty of learning ritual magic itself is very high. Fried can actually write a dual ritual with material restrictions and age restrictions. It is far beyond the level of most ritual mages!"

Fried rarely appears in the guild. The last time he came back was half a year ago. As a result, no one in the guild knows enough about him. Even Makarov is not very clear about his strength.

I didn't expect it to be this strong.

In order to crack the spell, only someone who also uses this kind of magic can rewrite it.

But the president also said that it is a very difficult type of magic to get started with, and it is even more difficult to master it to the point where you can rewrite Fried's spell.

If Levi hadn't been petrified, there might still be hope, but no one else present had any knowledge of that kind of thing.

"In this way, the old man won't be able to participate in the war, and the statue can't be delivered to Grandma Polyusica." Gray looked at the remaining people in the guild.

Seeing Rod, Mira, Elfman, and Natsu who just got up, he felt a little relieved. Not to mention the many companions outside, the remaining people in the guild alone still had the strength to fight.

"Damned Laxus, don't even think about escaping!" Natsu jumped up and immediately became lively again, clamoring to go out and settle the score with Laxus.

Gray raised an arm and said, "Calm down, Natsu. It's chaotic enough outside! Listen to what the president and Rod have to say first."

"Oh." Natsu actually stopped obediently.

But as soon as Gray put his arm down, he immediately revealed a smug smile and instantly started running towards the door: "Ahahahaha... I'm going to defeat Laxus right now. I must be the strongest in the guild... Wooah!"

With a bang, Natsu actually hit the invisible wall just like the president.

Words flashed in the air, the same rule as before: "No statues or people over 80 years old allowed in or out."

"Why?!" Natsu tried hard to squeeze forward, flattening his cheeks, but he could not move forward.

Everyone in the guild was shocked. Are there any other restrictions? But that was the only rule that came to mind.

Gray had a headache and asked, "What are you playing at this time?"

"How should I know?!" Natsu clenched his fists and smashed the wall, but could only produce some mysterious words.

Happy flew over and said in shock, "Natsu, are you over 80 years old?"

"How is that possible!" Natsu retorted loudly, but he looked at the other condition and said in shock, "Am I a stone statue?"

Elfman denied it: "Although the statue is very manly, it is obviously impossible."

"Jihehe... Fire Dragon is so useless." Gajeel threw the remaining spoon handle into his mouth, supported the table with one hand, and landed on the table in a cool manner. "Since Fire Dragon is useless, then leave it to me."

This guy has always disliked Natsu and tries to put him down with every word he says.

"Asshole, who are you calling useless?" Natsu wanted to fight him on the spot.

Gray hooked his arm around Natsu's neck to stop him from doing anything, and Elfman advised him, "You should calm down first."

Elfman thought he should listen to his brother-in-law.

"Hee..." Gajeel glanced back at Rhodes, "Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to help, so I won't listen to the orders of any 'military advisor'. I just happen to have a grudge against that yellow-haired boy."

"It's in the guild's rules to beat him now, right? It's a good chance to settle the score from last time." Gajeel said as he walked forward, "All you have to do is watch carefully... Pfft!"

However, like Natsu, he ran into an invisible wall and was unable to take a single step out of the guild.

Everyone was surprised again: "Huh?"

"why?"

"Gajeel is like this too?"

Only Natsu burst into laughter: "Ahahaha! You still can't get out! Useless guy!"

The words he just said were thrown back at him, and Gajeel's face turned red.

He pounded on the 'wall' in frustration: "What the hell is going on?"

Seeing this, Wallian, Laqi, Lidas and others also tried it. Whether they went out or came back, they did not encounter any obstacles.

Rhodes was originally worried about how to calculate his age, but after trying it, there was no problem.

Then it can only be that something is wrong with Natsu and Gajeel.

Those two guys don't look like people over 80 years old, let alone stone statues.

Their most prominent feature is the dragon slayer wizard. Did Fried secretly impose restrictions in this area?

But there is no time to think about these things now, because new words appear in the air at the guild gate.

"Arzak vs. Sarusuk vs. Troy."

"The winner is Arzak."

"Sarusuk and Troy are no longer able to fight."

"Fairy Tail remaining number of people: 82."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, thinking about who Sarusuk was for a few seconds, and finally realized that it seemed to be Jet's original name.

I have always called him by his nickname and almost forgot his real name.

Makarov frowned. "Is this a battle briefing? Why are the three of them fighting?"

"Joey vs. the King."

"The winner is the king."

"Here we go again, why does Joey want to fight the king?" Mira was very confused.

The relationship between Joey and Wang Qiangji is somewhat similar to that of Maka Owakaba. Although they sometimes fight, they spend more time drinking together.

Especially at such a critical moment, there should be no internal strife.

"Krov vs Nicky."

"Both sides lost their ability to fight at the same time."

"Fairy Tail remaining number of people: 79."

In Rod's impression, Krov and Nicky were two people who had a pretty good relationship, and they even tried to play a prank on him together.

A guy with buck teeth and a mushroom head, Rhodes holds no grudges at all.

People who usually have a good relationship suddenly start fighting at this critical moment, and some even fight to the point where both sides are injured. This is definitely not their intention.

"I'm afraid there's some reason why they have to fight... No, maybe it's because they have a good relationship that they're fighting."

Rhodes looked at the spells floating in front of the door and remembered what he saw with Fried in the morning: "In the worst case, Fried may have already set up many spells in Magnolia.

It is precisely because of their good relationship that they act together and step into the same ritual.

The rules of the ritual may be 'only the winner can walk out', or more strictly, 'only one party can walk out if the other party loses consciousness'."

An impatient person might attack his companion directly, a soft-hearted person might sacrifice himself and let his friend go, a calmer person...

There was no one who was calm, and those who could keep a little calm were still in the guild. This made sense, why Laxus dared to lead three people to fight against the entire guild, and why he told Rhode that it didn't matter how many people he brought to find him.

This guy's goal is to use Freed's technique to screen out those who are strong enough. Maybe they will have to go through a second round of screening by the Thunder Gods before they are "qualified" to fight him.

The large number of techniques that Fried had arranged in advance gave him the confidence to do so.

Others cannot detect the existence of the spell before stepping into the trap, but they know the location of the trap very well and can use the spell to reap the benefits, or simply use some strange traps to fight.

Under such rules, the number of people naturally has no meaning to Laxus.

"Stop, stop it now, you stupid little brats!" Makarov stamped his feet anxiously. This was not an ordinary fight, but a self-mutilation forced upon him in order to save his companions who had turned into stone statues.

In this situation, neither the person who is hurt by his companions nor the person who has to hurt his companions will feel good.

But the person who felt the most uncomfortable was of course Makarov, who had to watch the children killing each other and Laxus doing whatever he wanted, but was unable to stop them.

His body swelled up, and his fist grew bigger and slammed against the wall next to the door.

The wall shattered with a loud bang, but the huge fist could not go beyond the wall at all.

Freed's technique naturally surrounded the entire guild.

"Volian, use your magic to tell the people outside about Laxus's intentions. Tell them to beware of traps and not to gather together. Disperse..."

Rhodes suddenly stopped talking halfway. What would happen if they dispersed?

Perhaps it can reduce some internal strife, but after they are dispersed, let alone Laxus, there will probably be few people who can rival the Thunder Gods.

"Anyway, let's stop the internal fighting first."

"Okay!" Wallian did as he was told, but an uncomfortable expression soon appeared on his face. This group of people were arguing on the public channel again, and few of them could listen to what others were saying.

"Makao vs. Wakaba."

"Both sides lost their ability to fight at the same time."

"Fairy Tail remaining number of people: 77."

Natsu was anxious and angry: "Damn it, let me out now, I want to participate too!"

Gray cursed, "Idiot, this is all Laxus's plan, why do you want to participate?"

"Of course it's a battle of the strongest. I want to defeat Laxus!"

Gray grabbed Natsu by the collar and pointed at the stone statue on the stage: "That guy is forcing us to fight each other with the lives of Erza and Lucy. How can this be called the strongest battle? If we don't solve it in three hours, they will..."

"No way! Even an irritating guy like Laxus wouldn't do this. He must be trying to scare us! Right, old man?"

Makarov looked at Natsu in surprise. He didn't expect that even after things got to this point, Natsu still believed that Laxus would not really take his companions' lives.

Others may not be as optimistic as Naz.

Rhode didn't dare to bet whether the immature young man Laxus would really let Alba Green smash the statue remotely on impulse.

"Mickey vs Sally vs Izzy."

"The winner is Miki."

"Fairy Tail remaining number of people: 75."

"Marcus vs. Tono."

"The battle is ongoing..."

……

Battle briefings flashed up one after another. It was obvious that many people had already stepped into the trap when Volian notified them, or were simply in the middle of a fierce battle and unable to stop.

Makarov's body returned to its original size. He covered his chest with a painful expression on his face.

Each briefing made him feel as if he saw the children falling down one by one, and his heart was broken.

"President?"

"President!"

Rhodes quickly supported Makarov: "Mira, hurry, under the counter!"

"I know!" Mira quickly ran to the counter, took out a medicine bottle, poured out three pills and put them into the president's mouth.

Ever since he learned that the president had a bad heart, Rhodes shamelessly begged Granny Polyusica to prescribe a few more bottles of pills.

There was one bottle in the infirmary, one bottle on the counter, and one bottle in the room on the second floor where the president wrote his self-criticism.

Of course, a bottle was also given to the president himself, but he seemed to have left it at home and did not carry it with him at all.

After taking three pills, Makarov's complexion looked better.

Rhode gently patted the president's back. "Don't worry, don't worry. It's just a fight. At most, we can use some heavy hands. It won't be dangerous. Don't worry. We can handle it. We can handle it right away! Take a deep breath, breathe slowly..."

"Hu...Hu..." Makarov's lips turned pale, but at least there was no more pain on his expression.

"Mira, take the president to rest first."

"it is good."

After Mira picked up the president and left, Rhodes immediately asked, "Wolian, can you confirm their location?"

"Yes, they are not hiding on purpose. Laxus is in the cathedral, and the other three are constantly moving. Their current direction is..."

"Okay, now we have two most urgent tasks. The first is to remove the petrification and get them out of danger. The second is to remove the spell and get everyone to stop fighting.

I have no interest in playing a strongest battle with Laxus, but I don't mind breaking his legs after doing these two things and dragging him back for everyone to deal with."

Rhodes spoke very quickly, and there was naturally anger in his words.

Everyone present looked serious, as what Rhodes said was what they wanted to do.

"Start moving now. Lidas, Bijida, one of you goes southeast, and the other goes northeast. Take a detour to the eastern forest to ask for help from Grandma Polyusica. Remember to keep a distance from others, and be careful of Fried. If you cannot leave the city, notify Wallian immediately."

Fried said that the battle range is the entire city. He is a person who always talks about rules and doesn't talk nonsense, so it is very likely that he has written a spell like "No entry or exit for wizards" on the edge of the city.

But you have to give it a try.

Although Volian's telepathic magic can cover the entire city, Polyusicaa's tree house is too far away.

"We understand." Lidas and Bigida set off immediately. In order to avoid falling into the battle trap, they went out one after the other.

"Gray, Elfman, the two of you also split up, one to find Freed, the other to find Alba Green, and also be careful to keep a distance from others. Mira and I will follow you later and deal with them as quickly as possible."

Whether it's to cancel a spell or to remove petrification, defeating the caster is always a method worth trying.

Gray said, "Leave Friede and Alba Green to me and Elfman, and you and Mira can deal with Bigusro and Laxus."

Rhode shook his head: "I told you not to be led by Laxus. There is no point in rushing to deal with them. Fried and Alba Green are the key.

Once the spell and petrification issues are resolved, they will have to face the entire Fairy Tail... Fairy Tail is now in disarray. If we are slow, there may not be even half of it left."

The top priority now is to ensure the safety of the girls who have been turned into stone statues and resolve the internal strife.

Picking up problem children is a secondary issue.

And once Erza, Juvia, Cana and the others are resurrected, and Natsu and Gajeel walk out of the guild, the secondary issues will soon cease to be a problem.

Gajeel next to him felt awkward. This man's thinking was too clear and he was almost unaffected by the enemy's actions.

Is this how Phantom was killed by this guy and his companions?
He now suspected that if those guys who had run out of the guild earlier had listened to others more and been less impulsive, this farce might have ended from the beginning.

(End of this chapter)