Man is infinite, and his ambition is to slay the dragon

"This is us [Fairy Tail]."

These words were ostensibly spoken to the two of them, but in fact, they were all spoken to Sieg.

Sieg nodded slightly: "I know. Thank you, Mr. Makarov - then I will leave first, please say hello to everyone for me."

After saying that, Sieg turned and walked over to Urutia and Melty, who were again silenced by him, and a teleportation light lit up under the feet of the three of them.

By the way, Sieg had originally intended to let Makarov deal with the two remnants of the Devil's Heart, Urrutia and Melty, since they were planning to attack the guild, but in the end Makarov gave the power of disposal back to Sieg.

[After all, this is your captured enemy. How to deal with him should be decided by you.]

That's what Makarov said.

So after returning this time, before learning space magic from Griffith, Sieg had to decide first how to deal with these two burdens - killing them directly would of course be the simplest and most brutal, but at this point, it seemed that there was no point in killing them or not. Sieg also worried that their blood would dirty the floor of the Crest.

"Buzz~~~~!"

In the teleporting light, the figures of Sieg and the other two disappeared from the spot in an instant.

Watching him leave, Makarov sighed: "Ah~~~ This S-level exam is really exhausting~~~"

"Just worry about it, President. I'm leaving now."

"You guys really don't plan on returning to the guild, do you? You heartless brats!"

46. ​​Two years later——

Kingdom of Fiore, North.

The top of the sacred peak Zhuoani.

Logically speaking, there should be no one living here, but now a wooden house has been built, and with the wooden house as the center, for some reason, the snow that has not melted all year round has all melted away, making the wooden house and its surroundings present a completely different scene from the surrounding areas.

Even when walking into that area, the environment of Lingfeng Zhuoani, which should be extremely cold, will become as warm as spring.

Of course, this is not a natural phenomenon, but the result of someone's deliberate action.

"Well, it turned out well."

In the open space outside the wooden house.

Wearing a tattered cloak, Griffith stretched out his hand and tapped on a virtual keyboard made of magic in mid-air, and words appeared in the air.

This is one of the manifestations of [Space Magic].

Although Griffith could have skipped this step long ago with his proficiency in space magic, someone who had just started learning space magic could not do this.

There is no problem with ordinary changes in the form of [space], but for more advanced operations, such as giving [space] certain characteristics, or completely transforming a certain space, if no specific settings are made, the final result will only be a mess.

"Like I said before, [Space Magic] simply lets us be the draftsmen. We plan out a blueprint ourselves, and then transform the space into what the blueprint shows."

"After two years, you are almost familiar with this operation. Not bad."

In front of Griffith.

Sieg, who was also operating a keyboard, looked at him and said, "Don't praise me. I'm far behind you. It took me half a year to modify the properties of a spherical area with a radius of 100 meters from the original to the current state. It only took you a moment, right?"

"Well, my attainments in time magic and space magic are stronger than Scarlet in her prime, but my time magic is not as good as that of Miss Carula." Griffith said with a smile, "I can stop time for more than 30 minutes in one breath, and continue to stop time for the same amount of time after taking a breath. When my magic power is full, I can even use world-wide time reversal twice in a row."

The feeling of time stopping is similar to holding your breath.

Whether it is Griffith or Scarlet, the maximum stopping time is about three minutes, and after that there must be a cooldown of about ten seconds before time can be stopped again. If used continuously, the maximum time it can stop is only ten seconds.

In comparison, Carula's level of time magic is simply out of the ordinary, even though she is also the King of Wings.

"But I have some clues about her abnormality."

"Crimson and I are using time magic and space magic at the same time. While increasing the diversity of magic, the power and effect of a single magic will inevitably decrease. I believe you are aware of this."

"So it's understandable that we are not as good as her in single-time magic - and you are the same, actually."

Hearing her say this, Sieg stopped operating the keyboard: "Are you saying that I can far surpass you and Scarlet in single space magic?"

"That's possible, but before that you have to remember all the instructions I taught you." Griffith smiled, "It took me half a year just to remember the most basic ones. What are you going to do with the more advanced ones? I don't have many years left to live."

"But I see you've been quite active in the past two years, haven't you?"

Zig glanced at him.

"Don't worry. I will definitely learn everything you know before you die. I won't let you die in suspense."

"We are the same person, are you cursing yourself to death?"

"I'm sick!"

Turning his attention back to manipulating the surrounding space, Sieg ignored Griffith's existence.

Griffith smiled slightly as he looked at Sieg who was concentrating.

It was true that he was dying, but perhaps because he had received several full treatments on the Crainsheed, some of the hidden injuries that had troubled him for a long time were cured - you know, he had been able to live for 30 years with a half-dead body, and he had been injured countless times during that time, and there was not a single intact part of his body.

Although he cannot be said to have fully recovered and still looks half-dead, without any hidden injuries, he can live a little longer and will be more mobile.

Just as Griffith was about to continue to instruct Sieg——

“Squeak~~~~”

The door of the wooden house not far away was opened from the inside.

A graceful figure walked out from it.

"Senior, Mr. Griffith, lunch is ready, take a break."

Himeragi Setsuna, who had grown her hair longer and had grown a lot in height and figure, said to the two of them.

Time has passed, and Setsuna Himeragi, who was just a junior high school student back then, has now grown up. But this is also normal in terms of time. After all, it has been almost four years since she met Sieg. If it was on Genkami Island, Setsuna would have graduated from high school and entered university.

Hearing Xue Cai's voice, Zieg also stopped what he was doing: "Well, okay, we'll be there soon. You've worked hard to prepare three meals for us every day."

"It's not hard. It's my job to take care of you. Who made me the senior's supervisor?" Xue Cai smiled. "Besides, if I didn't come to take care of you, you would have been just perfunctory in your food, clothing, housing and transportation in the past two years, right? That won't do."

“No way.”

"No, Senior will definitely do it!"

Not taking Sieg's excuse seriously at all, Yukina hooked Sieg's collar and pulled him back to the cabin little by little: "Well, come over for lunch. Mr. Griffith, please come too."

"...Yes, I'll be right there."

Looking at Setsuna and Sieg walking into the house together, Griffith's expression couldn't help but be filled with a bit of nostalgia for the past.

If his wives were still alive, this kind of situation would be a daily occurrence on the Crainsheed. However, now, there was no way he would be called by such a person again.

(Treasure the people around you and respond to their feelings for you, my other self.)

Griffith glared at Sieg with a look of disappointment.

And at this moment——

"Huh? This is..."

As if sensing something, Griffith stretched out his hand and slid it in the space next to him - a letter suddenly fell out of the vortex that spanned the space and landed in his hand.

Griffith took a look at the red lacquer seal on the envelope, and the nostalgia in his eyes became even stronger. He then shook his head slightly and waved the letter in his hand to Zieg.

"Sieg, there's a letter for you."

"——From Fairy Tail."

47. The Great Demon Fighting Show

Two years have passed since Sieg began training with Griffith in order to fight Acnologia.

In the past two years, Sieg and he have frequently changed residences. After all, the magic power he left behind is likely to attract Acnologia. Although the Krinshid has already locked onto its whereabouts, it is still necessary to be prepared.

In order to allow other people who know him - mainly Fairy Tail - to have a channel to communicate with him, Sieg rented a house in Magnolia and asked Griffith to set up a space magic.

Any letter or gift sent there would be sensed by him at the first moment and then brought over from a distance.

[I will come back from time to time, but I can't tell when, so if you have anything to say, just leave a letter]

This is Sieg's explanation of the guild.

In the past two years, apart from regular occasions such as the end of the year and holidays, Sieg would occasionally receive some letters from the guild, and most of the senders were Lucy, Mira and Makarov. Even if there were letters from others, they were written by Lucy and Mira.

It was said that the writing skills of the others were so bad that they were afraid that Sieg would read it and misunderstand it - Lucy said so.

It's the same this time.

"It's a letter from Mira."

Before he even read the contents, just by glancing at the handwriting of the first two words, Sieg recognized who had written the letter.

After placing a few dishes she had just prepared on the dining table and serving a bowl of rice to Sieg, Xuecai sat down next to Sieg: "Last time it was Miss Lucy, right? What did the letter say this time?"

"Hmm... the Great Demon Fighting Enbu?"

After a quick glance at the content, Sieg roughly understood the meaning of Mira's letter.

It is said that starting this year, the Kingdom of Fiore plans to hold a magic festival regularly every year in which all regular wizard guilds across the country can participate. On the one hand, it is for national celebration, and on the other hand, it is also to determine which is the strongest wizard guild in the Kingdom of Fiore.

This year is the first year of the festival, and in order to liven up the atmosphere and prepare for the regularization of this festival in the future, most of the famous guilds in the country have received direct invitations from the royal family.

【Fairy Tail】 is one of them.

After a collective vote within the guild, the guild finally decided to participate, but some problems arose with the selection of candidates.

"Each guild can only send one team to the Grand Demon Fighting Performance, limited to five people...but many people in the guild are clamoring to participate, and the number of people is a bit insufficient - well, it is a guild after all, I can already imagine what the situation will be like."

It was probably because Natsu was clamoring to be a contestant, but Gray, Gajeel, and Elfman were all dissatisfied, and they planned to use force to decide the winner and the qualification for the competition, but in the end they were ruthlessly suppressed by Erza or Makarov... Although he had only been in the guild for two weeks, Sieg was very clear about the atmosphere of that guild.

And these are just the boys. If Erza, Mira and others are included, then the standard of "limited to five people" is indeed a bit too few for "Fairy Tail".

"The Great Demon Fighting Ensemble... It feels similar to the Seven Stars Sword Fighting Festival that you once participated in, which I read about in the database."

Xue Cai said.

Griffith also took a sip of soup. "It's somewhat similar to the [Star Martial Festival] that I once participated in in the Battle City. After all, this kind of celebration exists on every planet, but the name or form may not be the same. In addition to the Star Martial Festival, I have also participated in many other activities."

"The Seven Stars Swordsmanship Festival... Now that I think about it, it feels like it's been a few years since then."

Ziggy sighed.

I guess it’s been about 7 or 8 years? Time really flies.

"So, senior, are you planning to go back and participate?"

"Well......"

As for returning to the guild...Sieg hasn't been back once in the past two years.

The main reason was that he could go back anytime he wanted, and they occasionally exchanged letters, so he never felt there was any need to go back.

This time, Zieg had the same idea.

"I don't think it's necessary. If I participate, the outcome will be a foregone conclusion. Bullying is not a good thing."

Although Sieg had been focusing on the practice of space magic for more than two years, it did not mean that he had become weaker in other areas of magic. With his current level, even if there was a two-year window period, his strength would hardly change, not to mention that he would return to the Climbhide from time to time for actual combat training.

"So I won't go this time. At most, I'll find time to watch the game later. Besides, my magic might attract Acnologia."

That's the problem.

Although Sieg didn't think he would encounter an opponent who would require him to be serious at the Grand Magic Tournament, and Acnologia was always under the surveillance of the Crimson, it would be bad if it was lured here.

"I think it would be better if you attended."

However, Griffith suddenly said this.

Sieg and Setsuna looked at him who was eating liquid food.

"Why?" Sieg asked, "I don't think I need to participate in the Great Demon Fighting Exercise—"

"Because it's a big demon fighting performance, you have to go."

Griffith said seriously, "From your looks, you probably haven't read the experiences I uploaded to the database, right?"

"Where would I find the time? You have arranged a full schedule of training sessions for me."

"Yes, let's talk about it now. Two years ago, I said that eight years after I was taken in by the guild, which is six years from now, Acnologia destroyed everything. And a year before Acnologia destroyed everything, a rather troublesome incident actually happened."