Castlevania of the Pigeons from Fairy Tail

Chapter 71 Four Hundred Years of Scarlet Despair

The "Scarlet Despair" sat upright on a soft sofa, with the wide black hat on her head hanging on a wooden rack on the side, revealing her enviably thick scarlet braids.

Holding a deer antler wand, she asked as calmly as possible: "How much do you know about Erza from the Fairy Tail Sirius Group?"

Irene said as she beckoned Endymion to sit down again.

Endymion sat across from her.

"Don't know much."

He said so, but he then went on to recount Erza's experience of becoming a "slave of the Tower of Paradise" and later becoming the "Fairy Queen", which was quite a lot of content.

As Irene listened, she lowered her head and stared at the table in front of her. Only when Endymion finished his story did she look at him and nod.

"Thank you for clearing up my confusion."

Endymion deliberately asked, "Then, Irene, can you explain this to me? Why are you so concerned about this girl?"

Irene also asked herself, why am I paying so much attention to that girl?

Since I chose to give up in the first place, even if all ties have been severed, why should I feel troubled by her now?
"Don't you all have the answer?" After a while, she chuckled, leaning on her antler wand, stood up from the sofa, and walked to the bright window sill. "She and I are so similar, the clue is already obvious."

Irene was right. Everyone present that day either vaguely guessed the truth from the beginning, or slowly came to their senses after leaving the ruling palace.

The main reason is that Irene and Erza are too similar, and Irene never talked about Erza at the time, which was also a very strange behavior. Everyone's speculation is basically close to the fact.

Endymion half-jokingly said, "Dimaria told me privately that you are probably in a similar situation to us, twin sisters."

Irene couldn't help but smile again, but she didn't want to expose her inner scars in front of Endymion, so she said, "Let's just leave it at that."

Endymion actually knew the whole story, and some details might even be clearer to him than Irene herself. After all, he had observed Irene's past from a God's perspective.

In fact, Irene and Jellal are from the same era, that is, she also lived more than 400 years ago, but has lived until now.

However, her experience was different from that of Zeref, who was cursed by the god Anxelram.

More than 400 years ago, an unprecedented war broke out - the "Dragon King Festival", between humans and dragons.

The war situation was one-sided. The dragons launched a bloody massacre against humans with their powerful destructive power, terrifying defense and air mobility.

However, two factions soon emerged within the dragon camp.

The evil faction advocates continuing to slaughter humans and completely dominate the world, while the friendly faction advocates coexistence and peaceful coexistence with humans.

As the queen of the Kingdom of Dragunov, Irene formed an alliance with the friendly "Holy Dragon" Belserion and other dragons to fight against the evil dragons.

However, the evil faction's power grew stronger, and friendly factions such as the "Holy Dragon" Belserion gradually became unable to cope.

It was during this period that Irene was inspired by her "additional magic" and thought of "adding" the power of the friendly dragons to humans, so as to gain the ability to fight against the dragons.

In this way, she could fight alongside the Holy Dragon Belserion. Thus, Dragon Slayer Magic was born from Additional Magic.

Therefore, Irene is also known as the "Mother of Dragon Slayers."

The "Dragon Slaying Magic" she created, on the one hand, accelerated the end of the "Dragon King Festival War", but on the other hand, it gave birth to an extremely terrifying "Black Dragon" Acnologia.

Acnologia was originally a human, but after mastering the "Dragon Slayer Magic", he lost himself in the constant killing and destruction, and eventually completely transformed into a dragon, becoming the later "Black Dragon".

After transforming into a dragon, he almost single-handedly killed most of the dragons in the world, regardless of their factions, and at the same time indiscriminately killed all the humans present.

Acnologia thus became the ultimate winner of the "Dragon King Festival".

Both humans and dragons were defeated, and both sides paid a heavy price. Fortunately, Acnologia was not interested in ruling or destroying the world for the time being, otherwise the situation would be even worse.

The final result was that the dragon clan completely withdrew from the stage of history, and humans gradually took over the world's dominance, which has continued to this day.

The Black Dragon Acnologia vanished from sight, occasionally appearing somewhere, destroying a city or an island with a single roar, killing countless...

Irene's comrade, the "Holy Dragon" Belserion, died in the brutal "Dragon King Festival War", and she and her husband were able to return to the kingdom safely.

Irene, who originally thought that her life would become peaceful and stable and was already pregnant, suddenly found that she was showing signs of "transforming into a dragon".

She tried her best to cover it up, but when dragon scales appeared on her face, her husband had already noticed this terrible trend.

This timid husband immediately thought of the terrifying "Black Dragon" Acnologia, who had also "transformed into a dragon".

He was afraid that Irene would become the second Akunologia, so he ignored the fetus in Irene's belly and united the soldiers of the Kingdom to capture Irene, put her in jail, and tortured her in various ways.

In order to protect the fetus, Irene endured all the torture, pain and humiliation. She begged her husband again, but was beaten even more fiercely by her husband in return. In the end, he even wanted to publicly execute her.

So, at that moment, Irene finally couldn't control her "dragonization" and completely let go of her ferocious nature. She turned into a ferocious dragon, killed her husband, destroyed the palace, and flew away.

She was extremely disappointed and disgusted with the Kingdom of Dolagunov and was unwilling to go back. There was no one or anything there worth her staying.

From then on, Irene hid in the mountains and forests, living as a dragon for hundreds of years. Strangely, there was no sign of the fetus in her belly being born.

She could only conclude that perhaps this was related to her transformation into a dragon.

One day after that, she finally met the man who changed her life - Jellal.

While traveling, Jellal accidentally saw Irene who was hiding, and was amazed that there was a strange dragon in this era that he didn't know about.

He easily transformed Irene from a dragon into a human form, but he also pointed out that Irene had not yet released the "dragon transformation". She only looked like a human now, but in essence she was already a dragon.

After parting with her benefactor Jellal, Irene quickly understood what Jellal meant and felt the various disadvantages of "dragonization".

She lost her sense of taste and could not taste the flavor of delicious food. She could not sleep or rest. The curse of "dragonization" was still haunting her.

(End of this chapter)