Starting with Hyuga, traversing countless heavens

"Natsu, what do you know?"

"I don't get dizzy as long as I ride Hoshino's transportation."

"So, you still don't understand."

Gray covered his face, indicating that he didn't know Natsu and was completely clueless.

"Hiss, it's so cold."

Lucy's teeth chattered from the cold, while Hinata Hoshino shrugged, completely unprepared.

"Give!"

Hinata Hoshino took off his robe and draped it over Lucy, saying, "It's so warm."

"Of course it's warm. The magic circle keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer, and the mane of a two-legged dragon is definitely warm. The key is that it's ridiculously expensive."

Lucy felt the cloak on her body had a familiar feel to it, and the next moment she heard Hinata Hoshino's comment.

"It seems there's some sucker named Jude Heartfilia who ordered three of them a few years ago. Two million J each, and he hasn't even haggled over the price. Lucy, what's wrong? You don't look too good."

Lucy's lips twitched, completely oblivious to Hinata Hoshino's wicked sense of humor. She remembered that when she was little, she seemed to have had a similar outfit.

What is the cost price of this garment?

"Almost none. Wyverns are easy to shave, and magic stability is also quite easy."

"hiss!"

Lucy gasped, silently labeling Hinata Hoshino as a heartless businessman.

How do I find Macaoo now?

"Lucy, it's all up to you now."

"I?"

Lucy was puzzled. How could she rely on her?

"Lend me some blood."

"Oh oh oh."

Lucy painfully cut her finger and handed a drop of blood to Hyuga Hoshino. Hyuga Hoshino took the blood, wiped it on Lucy's wound, and the wound immediately healed.

Hinata Hoshino took out a bottle of magic potion, dripped blood into it, and an aura began to spread.

As they approached, three figures rushed toward the direction where the group was.

"Oh, oh, oh, woman!"

"It's a woman!"

"Hoshino, what are these?"

"They are Vulcans, lustful gorilla yeti, but there seem to be a few of them."

"Natsu, Gray, you two go! One each, and I'll take the last one."

"Oh! I'm ablaze, the Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon."

"Idiot, keep your voice down, this is a snow mountain, Ice-Make: Big Hammer Soldier."

Looking at the Ice and Fire Kid who was completely oblivious to the volume of his voice, Hinata Hoshino shook his head helplessly.

"Hoshino, I also want to do my part."

"Lucy, there's no need. This is Macao."

"Eh?"

"Call the gods to protect you."

A silver-white Kirin appeared and collided head-on with Vulcan, knocking Macao out of Macao's body.

"Macao?" *2

Seeing the two shocked people, Hinata Hoshino asked with a subtle expression, "You...don't know?"

"what do you know?"

"All I know is that if I defeat all the monsters, I can find Macao."

"Vulcan possesses an ability similar to receiving magic, allowing them to possess other people's bodies."

Macao coughed a few times, speaking with a mix of pride, exhaustion, and helplessness.

"Hoshino, compared to you guys, I'm really inferior! I only defeated 19 Vulcans, but I was defeated by the twentieth Vulcan."

“Macao, you have done your best. Romeo will be proud of you.”

"Really? I'm relieved."

A healing spell was cast on Macao, and Macao immediately recovered to the point where he could barely walk.

"Natsu, Macao, and Lucy, please take them back to the guild."

Chapter 266 Ice God-Slaying Magic

"Okay, Hoshino, is there something between you and Gray?"

"It's a small matter, but it might help Gray improve his strength further. Natsu shouldn't hold him back."

"Really? Special training, special training, I'm fired up again!"

Hinata Hoshino closed his eyes and began to sense the aura of the gods in the vast snowfield. The aura he had sensed before, in addition to the divine power, also contained an elemental force different from the natural elements, which should be the aura of the God-Slaying Magic.

The ice was pitch black. Hinata Hoshino stopped, and Gray stopped in his tracks, looking at Hinata Hoshino with a puzzled expression.

"Hoshino, why did you stop?"

"Grey, have you ever seen black ice?"

"Black ice? Are you kidding me?"

"Ancient magic can be roughly divided into three categories: lost magic, dragon-slaying magic, and god-slaying magic. Among them, god-slaying magic is characterized by the presence of black elemental magic, which is an elemental power that dragon-slaying magic cannot absorb."

"So, Hoshino, you sensed the aura of the God-Slaying Magic?"

“That’s right, come with me.”

Gray stared wide-eyed at the temple in the snow valley, its entire body black and exuding an aura of ice.

Gray stepped forward, his hand approaching the temple, but he felt an extreme chill and withdrew his hand.

Gray began to recall the absolute ice of Uru. Was its temperature lower than that of the temple before him?

Gray's thoughts drifted away. "Hoshino, where am I?"

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the temple of the Ice God. The black ice is the ice used for the magic that destroys gods."

"God-slaying magic?"

"Let's go in and have a look."

Hyuga Hoshino easily entered the temple, but Gray was stopped. There seemed to be an invisible barrier at the entrance of the temple. Gray punched the invisible barrier, but the barrier only rippled and was completely undamaged.

"Hoshino, it seems I've been rejected."

How do you know this isn't a test?

"Uh, that's right."

"Don't you crave power? Don't you wish to be strong?"

"I……"

Gray wanted to say that he didn't care about power, but when he thought of his helplessness in the face of Deliora and his powerlessness in the face of his master Ul's sacrifice, Gray found himself unable to say it.

"It's hard to refuse."

"I'll go scout ahead first, and keep going myself."

"Okay, I'm fired up! Ice-Make..."

In the center of the temple stands a statue of a middle-aged man, exuding an aura of authority. Hyuga Hoshino chuckles lightly, thinking, "He really loves putting on airs."

Sensing that the temple had existed for at least several thousand years, all that remained besides a Dragon Slayer Crystal from an Ice Dragon were gold coins.

Other props or treasures have long since vanished; it's been too long to preserve them.

Putting away the Dragon Slayer Magic Crystal, Hyuga Hoshino raised his hand and took out a fragment of divine essence from the Ice God statue. Unexpectedly, He was researching how to ignite the divine fire and forge a divine kingdom, which was why He perished before the gods.

After taking the divine spark, Gray discovered that the invisible barrier in front of him had disappeared; it was the Wailing Wall that he had been unable to break through no matter what he had tried.

Gray stepped into the temple, feeling somewhat unreal. Had he really passed the test just like that?

"Grey, hey bro!"

"Ah! Oh."

"Look, this is the Ice God, the god who represents ice. It's a pity he's dead, otherwise we could have had a chat."

"Let's discuss the matter of world consciousness," Hinata Hoshino didn't say the second half of his sentence; it was meaningless.

Through the fragments of divine power, Hyuga Hoshino saw that there was indeed a legacy of the God-Slaying Magic here, but it was the entire temple.

Absorbing the entire temple's ice of the God-Slaying Magic allowed one to learn the God-Slaying Magic—a rather hasty approach, but also an easy method to preserve and pass on the legacy.

"So, Hoshino, what's here?"

“One inheritance, the entire temple is the inheritance. Gray, go, sit in front of the Ice God statue, and absorb the Ice God-Slaying Magic Crystal of the entire temple.”

"Ok!"

Gray begins absorbing the God-Slaying Magic Crystal, while Hinata Hoshino begins viewing fragments of memories within the Godhood fragments.

Chronos, the god of time, is the coordinate of Mildian, the ancient city of time.

The origin of the descendants of gods is similar to the ability to receive magic and borrow power from the gods.

Seeing Gray absorbing the God-Slaying Magic Crystal, he casually slapped it into his memory—a simple act.

The more I learn, the more disappointed I become with these gods—they seem weak and unambitious.

However, the method of using the power of the world to condense divine status is not bad; it's an alternative, simplified version of the Investiture of the Gods.