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

74.【Winged Blood Clan】

Borrow the Star Key?

And it's borrowing the star key of the zodiac?

Lucy was a little confused by Sieg's sudden request: "Can I...can I ask why?"

"Well... I can tell you if you really want to, but I hope you can keep it a secret."

Sieg returned the Star Spirit Key to Lucy: "In fact, when I was training outside these two years, I accidentally found an ancient magical relic. There was a door there that I couldn't open. And according to my investigation, it seems that in order to open that door, you need the twelve Star Spirit Keys of the Zodiac."

"Among the people I know, you are the only one who is a Celestial Mage, so I wanted to ask you for help. I know space magic, so I can go back and forth very quickly. After I open the door, I will come back and return the key to you right away."

"That's it..."

Lucy breathed a sigh of relief. "It actually takes twelve keys to open this door? I didn't expect that there were such doors in ancient times~~~ But I only have ten keys, what should I do with the remaining two? And don't you know space magic? You can't even open the door?"

"Well, there's nothing I can do. My space magic isn't that powerful, and..."

"and?"

Sieg pursed his lips and said, "...It's actually very simple to completely break the door, but if the door is broken, it will really just be an ordinary door. So if possible, I hope to open the door in a normal way. Can you please do me this favor?"

"Yeah! Of course!"

Lucy agreed immediately: "We are all mates in the same guild, so of course I have to help you with this kind of small favor! But you don't know Celestial Magic, right? So instead of lending you the key, it would be better for me to go and open the door with you, right?"

"Together?"

"Yes, don't worry~~~ I won't tell anyone else!"

Lucy gave an ok sign.

Seeing her full of confidence, Sieg sighed slightly.

(Forget it, at worst I can just let Lucy open the door and let Stella and the others take Lucy away... I just hope Lucy won't be dragged into this by me.)

It is not clear yet who the people who went back 400 years are. If Sieg is the only one who went back to the past, then Sieg really doesn't want to involve others.

After all, 400 years ago was an era when dragons ruled the world. Although this may be a bit hurtful, in Sieg's opinion, the wizards of this era are probably completely unable to fight dragons. If they go back to 400 years ago, they would really be a burden.

"Thank you for your help, Lucy. I will pay you according to the commission."

"No need~~~~ Just consider this meal you treated me to as a reward!" Lucy smiled and waved her hand, "To be honest, I don't have many opportunities to make money. I haven't received any well-paid commissions recently, and those well-paid commissions are the kind that I can't complete based on the content... Alas~~~ It's not easy to be a magician."

"If you are not strong enough, just practice more." Sieg said, "If you put yourself in desperate situations where you might die again and again and try your best to struggle, you will definitely become stronger."

"This isn't called practice at all!?"

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Just as Sieg and Lucy were discussing opening the Eclipse Gate.

A hilltop outside of Krocas.

Sitting under a tree, quietly feeling the afternoon breeze in the forest, the most vicious dark wizard in the history of magic, Zeref, slowly opened his eyes and looked at the town in the distance.

After a while, as if sensing someone, Jellal looked around and said, "I didn't expect you to come to this continent in person across the ocean, Irene."

"Because it's just the right time."

In the forest not far away.

A woman with crimson hair and a large black hat and an ornate staff walked out of the woods. "I hope I didn't disturb your rest, Your Majesty."

"Haha~~~ There's no need for you and I to address each other like that. We are not superiors and subordinates, but cooperative allies."

Jeff smiled.

"I promise you that I will let you meet the Winged King again one day, and in exchange, you have to lend me your extraordinary magical power - he is down there now, why don't you go meet him?"

"It's not yet time."

The woman whom Zeref called Irene shook her head. "If I meet him now, I will be just a strange woman to him. I hope that my reunion with him will be more touching... At least, I hope that he can deeply understand how much dissatisfaction and resentment I have accumulated over the past 400 years."

"Also, although we didn't meet in person, I did talk to him. I didn't expect that the identity he gave me 400 years ago would still be usable today."

Irene touched her neck gently.

There was a special mark there - it was the mark given to her by the Dragon King named [Wing King] 400 years ago, and it was a symbol of her being a subject of the [Wing King].

Zeref stood up and said, "Then, our cooperation will only end when you meet him again... It seems I need to use your power as soon as possible before that. By the way, did you watch today's game? Erza Shukaletto, although the last name is different, she should be your..."

"...This can be considered a kind of fate. I never thought that the child I abandoned back then would become famous in this continent."

Irene looked towards Krocus in the distance.

She could clearly feel the two magical powers in the royal capital - one came from Sieg, and the other came from the girl who was connected to her by blood.

"But I don't have any feelings for her."

"That's really a pity, Irene."

Jellal stood up and said, "Let's go back. Since our cooperation is running out of time, let's start the plan in advance. I wonder how everyone is doing after not going back for so many years."

"Don't worry, with Auguste and I here, everything is fine in the country, Your Majesty."

"Hehe, I told you not to call me that, Irene."

Jeref glanced at Erin.

"I have never considered you as my subordinate, and you have always been just a subject of the [King of Wings], right?"

"——【Winged Blood Clan】【Second Tier】"

"——【Scarlet Wise Dragon】"

75. After the martial arts performance ends and before the door opens

In the next few days, Sieg was completely idle.

After all, there is nothing else he needs to do at this stage.

The last day of the Great Demon Fighting Exercise was a melee in which Toudou Daohua participated. Although he was not as strong as the others on the Krenshid, that was only compared to monsters like Sieg and Stella. If compared with the people on this planet, Daohua's strength was actually stronger than Jura.

Therefore, when Jura, one of the Ten Holy Wizards, was exchanged for Sieg, and when only one member of each guild was left, Daohua, who made the final appearance, showed his overwhelming strength. With his 19-hit combo of [Raikiri] at lightning speed, he eliminated all the wizards except himself with incredible precision within a minute!

Daohua's [weakness] is, after all, only a [weakness] limited to the Crainhild.

Even on the Clinhild, no one thought Daohua was weak.

After Touka won an overwhelming victory on the fifth day, the first Grand Magic Games came to an end. In the end, Fairy Tail won the title of "Fiore's Strongest Guild" with an exaggerated record of four "first places" and one "third place".

Although Fairy Tail has always been regarded as the strongest guild, that is more of a popular opinion and has never been officially recognized. Even in the eyes of the Magic Council, Fairy Tail, which often causes big trouble, is a problematic guild that must be abolished and disbanded.

But after dominating the first Grand Magic Games, even the Magic Council could no longer say anything to Fairy Tail.

After all, the Human Guild won first place at a major festival in the Kingdom of Fiore under the watchful eyes of countless eyes. Even if they really want to say something about Fairy Tail, they have to at least wait until it declines, but to be on the safe side, that would be a matter of more than ten years later.

What is certain is that after this great magic battle, there will be many wizards who want to join Fairy Tail, right?

Of course, this has nothing to do with Sieg.

After the Great Demon Fighting Show ended and after a day of rest, the guild members in the hotel received an invitation letter from King Fiore.

[In order to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Great Demon Fighting Exercise, and to celebrate your guild becoming the strongest guild in our country, a dinner has been prepared in the Huadeng Palace tonight. You are all sincerely invited to come.]

——That’s basically what I mean.

So now—

......

"Delicious, delicious! This is delicious!"

"I never thought that we would be invited to the royal city one day~~~~This life is worth it!"

"Bring me a drink!"

Inside the Huadeng Palace, in a super large banquet hall specially used to entertain distinguished guests.

Wizards from 20 guilds are now all gathered here, all dressed up in their best, enjoying delicious food or tasting fine wine in the banquet hall.

For wizards, a place like the royal palace is a place they will never have a chance to visit in their lifetime. No matter how famous they are outside, wizards are just commoners after all and it is impossible for them to enter the royal palace.

But now, just because you participated in the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts Performance, you can be invited to enter the royal city and attend the banquet to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts Performance...

"The king is really generous~~~ I didn't expect that he would really invite such a group of rude wizards to the castle."

"What a gorgeous world~~~We feel like we don't fit in."

This is almost the inner thought of every wizard.

Outside the banquet hall, on the open-air balcony facing the banquet hall.

Compared to the bustling banquet hall, the balcony seemed much quieter even though it was only separated by a window.

Sieg, who had walked out of the banquet hall, leaned on the railing and let out a sigh of relief.

"I really shouldn't have come... I really don't like or am not used to this kind of occasion."

“I think this is a bit nostalgic~~~”

Next to Sieg, Dao Hua, who was wearing a yellow dress and a necklace, smiled and said, "It reminds me of the Seven Stars Sword Festival when representatives from various schools would gather together for dinner on the eve of the preliminary round."

"How many years ago was that?"

Sieg also remembered this incident, but unlike Daohua who seemed to remember it very clearly, he really only remembered a little bit of it and could not remember the details at all.

After all, it was not something worth remembering for him.

Looking up at the stars in the night sky, Dao Hua sighed slightly: "Yes, so many years have passed in a flash... Back then, I should have never imagined that I would be like this today, right? I can only say that no one can predict the future."

"Why are you suddenly feeling nostalgic about the future?" Sieg smiled. "But you are right. I never thought that the person who said he would try his best to lighten my burden and didn't want me to shoulder it all by myself would actually take advantage of me sleeping the day before yesterday-"

"Don't talk about this anymore!"

Dao Hua interrupted Qi Ge with a blushing face: "At that time, I was also influenced by the atmosphere, and I was also instigated by Teacher Ning Yin..."

"Yeah, I'll take that as it is."

Zieg smiled and touched Daohua's head: "If you hadn't bitten me so hard before, I would have believed it. Whether it's you or Stella, every time you bite me, I feel like I'm going to be bitten to death by you."

"Well----!"

The blush on Dao Hua's face became more intense.

And it was at this time that Sieg put away his smile and looked towards the garden below: "Well, it's almost time, I should leave too."

"...Yes, tonight."

Realizing what Sieg was talking about, Daohua also looked towards the garden below: "The Eclipse Gate... I didn't expect that the magic item that can travel through time is right below this royal city - so, what are you going to do? Just leave the banquet hall and sneak into the vicinity of that door? But the key to the Zodiac is not with you, right?"

"Well, she's not here, but it doesn't matter. I'll take Lucy there later. I'll trouble you to pick up Lucy later. Remember to delete her memory."

"...Well, if that's your choice."

Dao Hua stepped forward and helped Zig straighten his collar: "You too, remember to come back early. Unlike before, if you don't come back for too long this time, we won't let you go easily when you come back~~~"

"Uh...I'll try my best."

Looking at the inexplicably aggressive expression on Dao Hua's face, Zigg suddenly felt his legs go weak.

They didn't really want him to be unable to get out of bed afterwards, did they?

76. The Magic of Five Million Servings

The banquet lasted until after midnight.

After all, there were as many as 20 guilds present, and the guild leaders all knew each other, so it was a rare opportunity for them to get together. So even though the Grand Magic Battle was over, the magicians started a new round of competition under the instigation and encouragement of the guild leaders.

Of course, because it was in the royal city, the content of the competition was not a magic contest, but a drinking contest and a big eater contest.

In the end, everyone kept playing until after midnight before they all calmed down. Some of them drank too much and fell asleep in the banquet hall.

The result was that the magnificent banquet hall was now almost a morgue, the difference being that the room was now filled with the smell of alcohol.

As the only person who did not drink throughout the whole process, after sending the drunk Daohua back to the Krinshid, Sieg is now walking on the road leading to the location of the Eclipse Gate, which he had walked once before.