Starting with Hyuga, traversing countless heavens

Elfman and Abba Greene team up

Kana and Lucy team up

Seven teams were selecting S-class mages. On the ship heading to Tenrou Island, Wendy looked around and noticed that Hinata Hoshino was not there.

"Grandpa Makarov, where's Hoshino-nii?"

"Wendy, Hoshino has already gone to Tenrou Island; he's also part of the assessment."

The group tensed up instantly. As everyone knows, the final test for becoming an S-class mage in Fairy Tail is always a real-world combat test.

Makarov chuckled. "Not the examiner for the final round, but for the second round. And this time, all the challenges were designed by Hoshino."

The group's expressions tightened again. They knew better than anyone that Hyuga Hoshino loved to play, so the upcoming challenges might be quite grueling.

The ship sailed steadily to Sirius Island, and the group disembarked. Makarov cleared his throat and began to announce the rules.

"Alright, alright, I'm going to announce the rules now. See those seven platforms ahead? They have teleportation magic circles engraved on them. You will be randomly teleported to a cave."

The seven caves are inscribed with the characters for "war," "fight," and "stillness," with four "war" characters, two "fight" characters, and one "stillness" character.

In the Battle Cave, two players battle against each other, and only the winner can unlock the next passage, which is the selection process of advancing from four to two.

To pass through the Douzi Cave, you must defeat the gatekeeper.

The Silent Cave can be cleared directly without combat. Alright, let's begin.

The seven team members entered the teleportation platform, the teleportation array was activated, and the group was sent into the cave.

Levy and Wendy were extremely lucky. As soon as they appeared in the cave, the word above their heads was "Silence," which meant they could clear the level without fighting.

Gray and Gajeel looked up and saw the character for "war," and suddenly an opening appeared opposite them. They discovered Juvia and Lisanna there.

"It's you, Juvia and Lisanna."

"Hello, Gray and Gajeel. As guildmates, we haven't fought each other yet."

Gray and Lisanna hadn't even fought yet when they started their pre-battle routine, exchanging harsh words, though the words sounded more like a reminiscing session.

"Lisanna, leave Gajeel to me."

“Alright Juvia, then Gray, please receive the magic, Kirin.”

Lisanna received the magic and appeared in her Qilin form, unleashing the spell, "Elemental Control: Flame Vortex".

"Ice-Make: Ice Prison"

The clash between flames and the icy cage caused the temperature of the entire cave to rise.

"Impressive, Lisanna!"

"Of course, this is Hoshino's power."

"The Ice God's Arrow!"

Large swaths of black ice arrows rained down from the sky. Lisanna opened her mouth, gathering magic, and unleashed a four-elemental breath!

The four elements of earth, fire, water, and wind coalesced into a magic circle, which, with Lisanna's breath, destroyed the ice arrows and continued its charge towards Gray.

"To paraphrase Natsu, it's truly ignited! The Roar of the Ice God."

Gray also unleashed a breath attack, and the roar of the Ice God clashed with the breaths of the four elements. Perhaps due to the special nature of the Ice God-Slaying Magic, they were temporarily locked in a stalemate.

However, as time went on, Gray's magic power became somewhat insufficient, while Lisanna's power came from Hyuga Hoshino, so her magic power consumption was lower.

So Gray was the first to give up. However, Gray gritted his teeth and silently used his Ice Stand to take his place.

"boom!"

Without Gray's magical energy supply, the Roar of the Ice God lost its power and was suppressed by the four elemental breaths, pushing it towards Gray's Ice Stand.

The Ice Stand was blasted to pieces by the four elemental breaths. However, Lisanna's inherited power contained some of Hyuga Hoshino's eye technique ability. Although it only enhanced her vision, she was still able to see that the shattered Gray was just the Ice Stand.

“Ice-Make: Ice Floor, Ice-Make: Ice Bird, Ice-Make: Ice Hammer, Ice-Make: Lancer.”

Facing a disadvantageous position in a direct confrontation, Gray opted for a piecemeal approach, simultaneously searching for an opening. Ice condensed on the ground, and ice blades formed beneath Gray's feet as he began to move at high speed.

However, Gray overlooked one thing: Lisanna inherited the power of the Kirin, so her sense of smell and dynamic vision are relatively good.

In Lisanna's eyes, Gray's speed was a bit slow, "Four Elemental Storm".

Lisanna used her magic to unleash a storm of the four elements, accurately striking the fast-moving Gray. Gray took a solid hit and was immediately rendered unable to move.

On the other hand, Juvia's fight with Gajeel was not as clean and decisive as Lisanna's. Their magic power and magic level were similar, so they immediately fell into a tug-of-war.

"Water flow".

"Iron Dragon Staff".

The water flow in Juvia was blocked by Gajeel using his Iron Dragon Staff to form a defense.

"Hard vortex water blade".

Gajeel sensed the danger posed by Professor Hyuga Hoshino's ninjutsu variant and decisively activated the Dragon Slayer Secret Technique.

"Karmic Demon - Iron God Sword".

"I'll sneak attack!"

Lisanna dealt with Gray, then turned her attention to Gajeel. Gajeel only saw a hand covered in scales fall before plunging into darkness.

"yeah!"

Lisanna and Juvia high-five to celebrate passing the first level. Gray and Gajeel, as the losers, are teleported back to the starting point.

"Get me these socks right now!"

"Bang Bang Bang..."

Mavis's heels slammed wildly onto Hyuga Hoshino's shoulder, but Hyuga Hoshino didn't care. He had never thought of taking off those black stockings from the day he put them on Mavis.

"It's so beautiful, don't you like this color?"

"Do we need you to change the color?"

With a flick of her foot, Mavis's black stockings turned white; with another flick, the white stockings turned gray...

"Good, continue."

"Continue! You dare mention continuing?!"

“You are no match for me, nor is Zeref. If I want to do something, you cannot stop me. That is the privilege of the strong, isn’t it?”

"call!"

Mavis was a little angry. "You're still a member of my guild, you should respect the guild leader!"

"You're already dead! Well, it's practically the same as being dead. Don't worry about your clothes, they're not important."

Hinata Hoshino snapped his fingers, and Mavis activated her transformation magic, transforming into a bunny girl, gothic lolita, high school girl, business attire, leather jacket...

Mavis felt her face burning red. How could there be such a shameless junior!

Instead of confronting Gray and his group head-on, Cana and Lucy decided to set some traps.

"Double doors, Scorpio Scapio, Libra Libra. Scapio is hidden underground, Libra is ready to set up five times gravity against any enemy that may appear at any time."

"Yes."*2

Kana caressed the ring on her hand, setting a trigger-type trap that would trigger elemental or illusionary attacks simply by passing by it.

Biguslow decided to control the puppet to charge straight in, but Fried disagreed, believing that they should use the rules to set up the spell and elegantly defeat the enemy.

"Elegant my foot! If you don't like it, let's fight!"

"You reckless fool, what if the opponent also sets a trap? Are you planning to walk right into it?"

"Don't forget, Laxus hates underhanded tactics and prefers to defeat his opponents fair and square."

For the first time in his life, Fried felt that it was a rather terrifying thing for a brute to reason with someone.

Fried adjusted his state, ready to complete the enhancement at any time, while Bigusro was prepared to charge in, but decided to let the doll scout ahead first.

Lucy and Cana watched as the five dolls flew into the cave where they were. Cana used her ring to become invisible, and the dolls obediently returned to their original positions.

Biguslow and Fried cautiously entered the cave. "Why is no one here?"

The next moment, Fried stepped into the trap set by Kana, and all his curses came to an end.

The magic within the two of them was instantly rendered unusable, and Lucy had Libra cast a gravity spell.

Thus, the two who had just lost the right to use magic also lost the right to stand freely. Under five times the gravity, the two lay on the ground, unable to move.

"Reaching the farthest reaches of the heavens, countless stars shine forth. Reveal my true form, all are at my command. I am the Lord of the stars, commanding you to open the gates of the wilderness. All 88 stars of the sky, shine forth, the annals of star charts!"

"Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind—the swords of the four elements."

After two powerful attacks, Biggleslow and Fried are dead!

"Yay, Kana!"

"Yes, Lucy!"

A new passage opened before them, and Biguslow and Fried were teleported back to the starting point.

Elfman and Abrams vs. Mira

Elfman and Abbagrien appeared in the cave, and looking up, they saw the character "斗" (dou, meaning battle). They were about to face the gatekeeper.

"Elfman!"

To Elfman and Abba Grin, Mira's sweet smile was almost like the angel of death sounding the horn of destruction.

"Sister, sister, what are you doing here?"

Elfman was nervous and his speech became a little slurred. Abba Grin pinched Elfman's waist suddenly, and Elfman's loose body instantly straightened up.

Mira's smile turned into a doting aunt's smile; did her silly little brother have someone he liked?

"Elfman".

"Yes!"

"Even though you are my brother, I won't show any mercy. Be prepared!"

"Stand up straight! Elfman, I'm here to help you!"

Abagarin removed her eyes, activating her petrifying eye. Mira had already received the magic, Satan's Soul, and with the increased magical power, Abagarin's magic became ineffective.