Fairy Tail: All Magic Converges in One Body

Laxus, who had just stood up, was caught off guard and sealed inside the coffin.

Looking at the tightly sealed coffin, the Qilin revealed a slightly manic smile, "This time it's your turn to devour! Go and eat this guy and merge it back into one with your heart! Alexon!"

Thirty years ago, Qilin was just a child. After the Dragon Eater Guild leader, Jorg Lysen, killed the Thunder Dragon King, he made Qilin eat the Thunder Dragon King's flesh and blood and sold its heart to the southern continent.

Although he possessed immense power, the Qilin was plagued by nightmares every day; the spirit of the Thunder Dragon King came to demand his lost heart.

Give me back my heart...

This is a voice that Qilin has been unable to escape for decades.

And now, that moment has finally arrived.

Looking at the coffin bursting with golden lightning, Qilin laughed out loud. He could finally be freed from the endless "demands" of the Thunder Dragon King's soul.

However, the next second, a burst of electricity shattered the coffin into pieces.

To Qilin's astonishment, Laxus stood up, holding a crystal in his hand, his chest bleeding profusely as if it had been torn apart.

"you......"

"They actually forcibly took out the Dragon Slayer Crystal?!"

Qilin simply couldn't understand how a second-generation Dragon Slayer mage could dare to take out the Dragon Slayer Crystal embedded in his body, which was the source of his power.

"Didn't I say... I have no attachment to this thing whatsoever?" Laxus tossed the Dragon Slayer Crystal aside. "Since the Thunder Dragon King's soul is clamoring for its heart, I'll just give it to him."

The moment the Dragon Slayer Crystal hit the ground, a powerful surge of lightning magic erupted in the air, shattering the crystal into pieces—it contained the soul of the Thunder Dragon King.

Laxus seized the magic and put it in his mouth.

The Qilin exclaimed in disbelief, "You actually ate Alexon's soul?! How could you...?"

A thunderous burst of magical power surged from Laxus's body. "Qilin, the reason you're having nightmares is because you've developed feelings for the Thunder Dragon King."

"But it is a proud 'king,' and it only wanders the world as a spirit in order to pursue its own dignity and to take revenge on those who insulted its corpse."

Qilin's pupils contracted. "You mean... Alexon wants to kill me?"

"Yes, now it has met someone who can destroy you."

Laxus didn't say much. The lightning on his body grew stronger and more intense, and faint dragon scale patterns appeared on his skin. The blood-red lightning condensed into a spear in his palm.

The lightning spear was hurled, tearing through the air.

The exploding lightning plowed countless scorch marks into the surrounding ground.

Whether it was too fast to dodge or simply didn't want to escape, the Qilin made no counterattack and just let the blinding lightning explode on its body.

Looking at the fallen Kirin, Laxus swayed and forcibly pulled out the Dragon Slayer Crystal that had been integrated into his body for many years. It was no different from being disemboweled, and he was actually in a lot of pain.

"Wuhu, I just arrived and I've already seen such an exciting scene."

Accompanied by a familiar voice, a hand steadied the swaying Laxus.

Chapter 302 Ruthless Destruction of Flowers

"Hope..." Laxus glanced at the newcomer, his brow furrowing slightly. "What are you doing here?"

"This is a question I should be asking. Why are you in the Northern Continent?" Hope's gaze swept over the fallen Qilin and the messy streets around him, and he casually used 'Time Arc' to restore the buildings.

It was clearly an extremely rare time-based magic, yet he was using it as a means of dealing with destruction.

Laxus didn't answer, but just clutched his blood-soaked chest, his breathing slightly rapid. He had forcefully pried the Dragon Slayer Crystal out of his flesh, and now the aftereffects were kicking in.

Hope thought that Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel were already enough of those who liked to act recklessly in battle, but she didn't expect that Laxus would also hurt himself to create opportunities when he got carried away.

"Why go to such bloodshed to separate the Dragon Slayer Crystal? Just use 'Enchanting Technique' to separate it, and it's painless."

After saying that, Hope looked at Laxus's somewhat dark face and belatedly said, "Oh, I forgot you don't know any enchantments. No wonder it was so difficult to peel off a Dragon Slayer Crystal."

Laxus: So what if you know magic!

Hope: Sorry, magic really can do whatever it wants.

By the time Erza and the others arrived, Laxus's injuries had already healed under Hope's treatment. After learning the whole story, everyone gasped in shock at Laxus's audacity.

"Eat the soul of the Thunder Dragon King?!"

"real or fake......"

"Seriously, only Natsu could do something so absurd, right?"

"Ah! That's it!"

"Hmph, when it comes to eating random things, I'm no less skilled than a fire dragon!"

"So what are you so smug about...?"

"..."

Watching these guys smoothly change the subject, Hope couldn't help but admire their ability to dodge and weave. Suddenly, he felt a faint fluctuation of energy coming from behind him.

The unconscious Qilin twitched its fingers, showing signs of waking up.

Hope raised an eyebrow, a hint of surprise in her eyes.

He had seen it clearly when he was watching from the sidelines; the final blow Laxus unleashed using the power of the Thunder Dragon King was quite powerful.

The magical power that erupted at that moment was not even inferior to that of the Second of the Ten Saints, Hyberion, and was barely enough to go toe-to-toe with Gildarts when he got serious.

This guy named Qilin managed to take Laxus's attack and still wake up so quickly; he must have some skill.

Laksa turned to look at the Qilin lying on the ground. "Hey, you're not dead yet, are you?"

Qilin struggled to open its eyes and looked at Laxus.

"Can you still hear the Thunder Dragon King's voice now?"

A bitter look flashed in Qilin's eyes, and his voice was hoarse and weak, "Alexon's voice... has disappeared."

Laxus turned around. "What I told you before about Alexon was all made up. I didn't expect you to actually believe it."

"You mean, Alexon didn't intend to kill me?"

The Qilin paused for a moment, then let out a long breath.

He realized that his previous attitude toward the Thunder Dragon King's soul had been noticed by Laxus and had become a weakness that broke through his psychological defenses.

Just as Laxus said, Kirin has grown from a child to the middle-aged man he is now. He has spent too much time with the soul of the Thunder Dragon King, and over time he subconsciously regarded Alexstrasza as a friend.

Qilin had been enduring the Thunder Dragon King's delirious murmurs demanding his heart, but if Laxus could devour the Thunder Dragon King's soul, how could he, as a Dragon Eater, not do the same?

Ultimately, it was because the Qilin had developed genuine feelings for the Thunder Dragon King Alexon that it preferred to continue being mentally tormented rather than consume the soul of what it considered a "friend."

Now that Alexon has found its heart, its obsession can finally be resolved, and it can finally let go.

Hope looked at the look of satisfaction on Qilin's face, then at Laxus's back, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Laxus did lie to Kirin.

But was the lie from the battle, or from what was said just now?

Hope didn't want to guess.

However, there was one thing he could confirm: Laxus, who usually wore his "I'm so arrogant" expression on his face, now showed a human side.

Hehe, all that training he did with those rocking horse rides back then really paid off!

To celebrate, Hope plans to release some embarrassing photos of Laxus within a small circle of the guild after the centennial mission ends. He took plenty of photos during the Harvest Festival civil war, so it's time for everyone to have some fun.

Seeing Hope's expression turn lewd again, Mirajane couldn't help but poke his forehead with her finger. "What naughty thing are you thinking about now?"

"Huh? Is it that obvious?"

Kana hissed, "What do you think?"

"Hehehe..." Hope scratched his head.

Under Erza's command, Natsu and the others captured the other three Dragon Slayers who had been defeated by Laxus and tied them together with Kirin.

Erza was unsure how to deal with the group, since Diablos was, after all, a local guild on this continent.

"Hope, what do you think?" Erza simply threw the question at her man, to save him from having any more bad ideas.

"How do I see it? Of course it's..."

Hope made a throat-slitting gesture. "I beat their chairman, George Leisen, half to death and threw him somewhere."

"If their fate is unknown, then they are dead."

"Plus, with Laxus having consumed the dragon soul of the Kirin, we should now be mortal enemies with the Dragon Eater Guild."

Everyone couldn't help but raise a question mark. How could there be such a conversion? However, Hope's nonsense seemed to have a tiny bit of truth to it.

Qilin and the others: Where's the logic in this...?

Hope cleared his throat. "Since no one has any objections, I hereby announce a ruthless punishment for these four men's egregious acts of vandalism and bullying of the residents."

"Objection!" Qilin immediately objected. "I wasn't involved in those things, so why should I be punished too! And isn't the phrase 'ruthlessly destroying flowers' inappropriate?"

The other three Dragon Eaters: !!

What should I do if my own team captain betrayed me? I'm asking online, it's urgent.

Hope pulled out a red card from somewhere and slapped it on Kirin's face. "Objection overruled. Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel, you guys go and buy ten pounds of the spiciest chili peppers or chili powder in town, preferably insanely spicy ones."

"Today, I'm going to treat these four fifth-generation Dragon Slayer Mages to a good spicy meal."

The sight of the Qilin caused the pupils of the group to widen in shock.

So the flower that was so cruelly destroyed was a chrysanthemum...

Chapter 303: Another one of our own?

In the end, Qilin and the others managed to save Chrysanthemum.

The main reason Hope let them go was because he suddenly remembered that there was no specialized proctology department in this world; it definitely wasn't because he saw Erza's disapproving look...

Now that Laxus was safe and sound, everyone happily went to the underwater park, while Hope took the four members of Kirin to meet Melkkobia.

"Dragon Eater..."

After learning the identities of Qilin and the others, Melkkobia sighed. He had mixed feelings about humans who ate their own kind.