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

Without trying to persuade him to stay, Dao Hua stood up and helped Zigg straighten his slightly messy collar with a smile: "Come back early, and try to come back for lunch."

"I'll try my best - Miss Brunhilde, teleport."

【Yes】

The light of transmission comes on.

Sieg's figure disappeared from the room in an instant.

Seeing that he was alone in the room again, Dao Hua lay down on the bed again, staring at the ceiling in a trance.

Not long after--

【Sister Daohua! Sister Daohua! 】

Stella's somewhat hurried voice suddenly rang in her ears.

(What's wrong, Stella?)

[You confessed to that guy Sieg?! ]

(Yeah, after all, he asked, so I just answered it and helped you out at the same time. What's wrong?)

[What happened?... What about his reaction?! ]

(As always, I can’t say he had no reaction at all, but he didn’t have much of a reaction either, as if he had finally learned an insignificant secret—I think he might have been more excited by the appearance of a dragon than by the fact that we liked him.)

That is required.

If a dragon really appeared in front of Sieg, he would definitely throw Griffith's words out of the window, pick up Sirius and go to kill the dragon with excitement!

[Tsk...Looks like if we want to take him down, we have to implement that plan.]

Stella whispered.

(That plan? Which plan?)

[Yesterday, Em and Griffith said they were planning to hit Sieg with a club, or give him some drugs, knock him out, and lock him in a room with us, and then...]

(ah?)

Dao Hua was stunned.

(Is this plan... a little too wild?)

After all, they are adults, so Daohua naturally guessed what Stella wanted to do after locking up Sieg.

But to do this, Sieg had to be drugged or even hit in the back...

(No, regardless of whether the drug would work on Qi Ge, it is definitely impossible to knock him out with just one stick, right?)

[This is not the point, it’s just a description - the point is that if we don’t take some extraordinary measures, we will really be single women in our 30s and 40s who are not wanted by anyone! Sister Daohua! ]

[Teacher Ning Yin and Sister Aide’s present is our tomorrow! 】

Although Xijing Ningyin was full of flowers at first, she was actually a virgin who could only talk big but had no practical experience at all.

Not to mention Edwards.

[After that, I will discuss the details with Em and Griffith, and see if I can get Teacher Ningyin and the others to come over and form a united front with us.]

(No...Stella, wait a moment.)

Daohua couldn't quite keep up with Stella's thoughts.

(Are you planning to...lock up Sieg for a few days?)

[Uh... Anyway, just lock me up until I'm satisfied, right? ]

(...Be careful or Sieg will take revenge on you.)

[Then I will turn Em and Griffith in. After all, they were the ones who suggested this. They are the main culprits, and I am at most an accomplice. Or do you really intend to maintain the status quo until we die of old age, Sister Daohua? I don’t want to!]

(...After the Great Demon Fighting Performance is over, I will go back and we can discuss this matter properly.)

【it is good! 】

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At the same time, Sieg, who had been transported to the royal city via the Crimsheed—

"Ah!"

Sneezing hard, Ziggy rubbed his nose.

(Who is talking about me?)

64. Eclipse Gate

The royal city of the Kingdom of Fiore, the Palace of the Lantern—also known as [Melukelias].

This building, located in the central lake area of ​​Crocas, occupies about one-tenth of the entire Crocas. As the castle where the royal family of Fiore lives, it is also the most luxurious building in Fiore and the most heavily guarded place.

Unfortunately it was useless to Zigg.

"The people in this world really don't have the slightest bit of guard."

Walking in a dim passage in the Huadeng Palace, Sieg sighed, "For such a large place, there isn't even a warning barrier. Do they really think those guards in the royal city who can't use magic can be of any use?"

Although a wizard would certainly not have an advantage against the well-trained royal city guards without using magic, and a single wizard could not single-handedly defeat the hundreds of soldiers in the royal city.

But this amount, even if one or two zeros were added to the end, was nothing to Zigg.

After all, the royal city of a permanently neutral country doesn’t even have a magic circle to protect it. How can this be called strict security?

[It’s not that we don’t use it, but that we can’t use it]

Griffith's voice sounded in Sieg's mind.

[Do you remember what I told you? The Great Demon Fighting Performance is not easy]

"Yeah, but you stopped talking halfway through your sentence. Setsuna called us to have lunch, and I didn't ask later."

[Then let’s talk about it as we go along—or let’s start with the Eclipse Gate. ]

[The Eclipse Gate is a magic item created by the black magician Zeref 400 years ago. In his original idea, this gate could allow him to go back to the past, but activating the Eclipse Gate requires a considerable amount of magic power, and it can only connect to the past at certain times, so it was considered a failure by Zeref.]

[After that, as time passed, the Eclipse Gate eventually fell into the hands of the Fiore royal family and became a royal secret treasure passed down from generation to generation. Around the Eclipse Gate, some people in the Fiore court proposed a plan - the Eclipse Plan.]

"Project Eclipse? What exactly?"

[The Eclipse Gate is a door that can link to any era. To open it normally, you must accumulate enough magic power and have a Celestial Wizard who can use all twelve Zodiac Celestial Keys to open the door.]

[Under normal circumstances, after opening the door, you can go to any era except the past.]

[However, at that specific time - it should be July 7th, or more precisely the night of July 7th - if the gate is opened at that time, the Eclipse Gate will only connect to the era 7 years ago, to the era when the world was still ruled by the dragons.]

[That was also the time when Zeref had not yet become the most vicious black wizard in the history of magic]

[The Eclipse Project is a plan to use the power of the Eclipse Gate to go back 400 years, kill Jellal, and rewrite history.]

"...Jeref?"

Sieg thought of the boy he had met on Tianlang Island: "Do you know him?"

[Know, but not familiar]

[He came to me before to see if I could kill him, but it turned out that although I could seal him up permanently, I really couldn’t kill him.]

Griffith said.

[After Acnologia's attack, I only heard that he had a battle with Acnologia in the Western Continent, and I never heard of him again after that.]

[Also, this is not something you need to worry about right now - let's get back to the topic]

[The reason why this royal city does not have a protective magic circle is not because it has not thought about doing so, but because it cannot be done. After all, the Eclipse Gate is located underground in the royal city. As I said just now, it requires a huge amount of magic power to activate it, and the act of "absorbing magic power" is completely an automatic function of the Eclipse Gate.]

[Before absorbing enough magic power to activate itself, the Eclipse Gate will continue to automatically absorb magic power. The range is roughly the entire royal city, and the closer the distance is, the more it absorbs. When the distance is about ten meters, even with our total magic power, it will be sucked dry within thirty seconds.]

[So, take out the Sirius now, and then just go up and smash it when the time comes]

Da da da~~~

After tapping the keyboard a few times, a slender space door suddenly appeared next to Sieg's hand, and the hilt of Sirius' sword extended from it.

Sieg pulled it out and shook it a few times, then raised his hand and pushed open the door that was already in front of him.

"Crunch~~~~"

The door that looked like a treasure house that had been sealed for a long time was pushed open by Sieg.

Along with a dull sound, the dim space gradually unfolded completely before Sieg's eyes.

There was an unusually empty space at the door, and the overall feeling was that it was the same as the corridor just now, but it was taller, wider, and deeper.

And at its end—

"Is that the Eclipse Gate?"

A majestic and tall door, with a height of more than ten meters, engraved with the sun, moon and stars, as if it was written with the truth of magic, was quietly sitting there.

Griffith, who remained on the Crimsonside, nodded slightly through the vision he shared with Sieg.

[Yes, that is the Eclipse Gate - I will never forget this gate]

[For me, 23 years ago, because this door was opened, dragons appeared in the world, bringing the first destruction to my world]

[I spent a year to kill or seal all the dragons, but just when I dealt with the last dragon, Acnologia descended and brought a second destruction to my world]

[I don't want that to happen in your world, so destroy it now and completely eliminate the possibility of the eclipse gate being opened.]

"Ah."

Sieg looked up at the Eclipse Gate, and came to the gate and raised the Sirius.

But just as it was about to swing its sword towards the Eclipse Gate—

"I advise you not to swing your sword."

A voice that was unclear whether it was male or female suddenly sounded behind Sieg.

Is there someone behind you?

(How is it possible? It actually evaded the detection of the Crimsheed and the dragon-killing system?)

Sieg turned around abruptly.

However, there was no one behind him.

"...No one?"

"You don't need to look for it, because I'm not next to you now. I'm quite far away from you, observing your every move. After all, if you are too close to that place, magic will be completely useless."

"...reading?"

Zigg frowned: "No, it's not talking, it's..."

"You don't need to care about how I contacted you, but I just want to tell you that it is not time for you to destroy the Eclipse Gate yet."

The voice continued, "It has not yet accumulated enough magic power. Judging from the current situation, it will take at least five years to meet the minimum magic power required to activate it. Before then, it cannot be opened. You don't have to rush to destroy it."

"Moreover, if you destroy it here, your future will be completely gone."

"Is this okay for you?"

65. Block the spring water 400 years ago!

Will the future that belongs to Zig disappear?

Hearing these words that were transmitted to him across space, Sieg frowned.

(Griffith, you didn't say this happened to you.)

[Because I really haven't encountered it. From the time point of view, I am not here at this time, but I am busy dealing with various matters of the guild in Magnolia.]

Griffith was also a little surprised.

Zigg's experience was obviously different.

In his experience, his first encounter with Acnologia was 8 years after he came to this planet, after he dealt with dragons, but Sieg had already fought Acnologia two and a half years ago.