Fairy Tail: All Magic Converges in One Body

For example, if you put a cat in a closed box, the cat is in a state of being both alive and dead.

Once you see the cat in person, it becomes a fixed, living state.

Mirajane and the other two had their eyes darting around, but Athena immediately understood Hope's meaning: "You mean, we can use this 'Schrödinger's Cat' to defeat the Golden Dragon."

"No no no."

Hope laughed and said, "Whether Schrödinger's cat lives or dies is none of our business. What I mean is, use that box that holds the cat."

"Why not just seal the Golden Dragon and this building together? Why make it physical?"

Everyone: So what was the point of all that rambling just now...?

Chapter 351 The Golden Dragon Appears

Jin Shenlong's laughter came from all directions.

"Seal? You think such a low-level trick will work on me? I am the Dragon of Concepts! Seal a concept? Ridiculous!"

Ignoring the Golden Dragon's clamor, Hope turned around and unleashed a powerful Whale-Slaying Fist with the force of 120,000 horses at one of the building's walls.

Wherever the force of the punch goes, nothing can withstand its power.

The golden owl, which had been sealed off by the golden dragon and turned into a closed space, was suddenly blasted open with a huge gap.

The wall that had previously withstood Athena's most powerful blow only developed cracks was so easily destroyed by Hope's punch.

Hope led Erza and the others away openly and casually. After leaving the Golden Owl, he didn't lead them far away, but stopped in an open space in front of the building.

The residents of Philanthropic City had already scattered and fled under the evacuation of the Miners' Guild and other Alchemy Guilds. The surrounding streets were deserted, with only broken roads and collapsed streetlights telling the story of the aftermath of Hope's battle.

"You're leaving already?"

Jin Shenlong, controlling the fake Duke, chased after them out of the building, his tone almost overflowing with mockery, "Didn't you just say you were going to seal me away? What, you realized you couldn't do it, so you slunk away like a coward?"

Hope stopped and glanced back at him.

That look made Jin Shenlong inexplicably uncomfortable. There was no anger, no fear, but rather... the look of someone looking at prey.

"Who said I was going to run away?"

Hope turned around, her gaze passing over the fake Duke and landing on the enormous building, the golden owl, which was also an embodiment of the Golden Dragon's will.

He raised his hand, his five fingers spread, pointing at the building, his palm glowing with a tricolor light of gold, silver, and white. "Conceptual entities are indeed difficult to attack directly, but... who said I have to attack you?"

Hope smiled and said, "You're just like that idiot Earth Dragon, always creating a weakness for yourself."

Jin Shenlong frowned, not yet understanding the meaning of the words, when he felt a strange power enveloping the entire golden owl.

Magic patterns are spreading in all directions throughout the building.

That is the power of alchemy.

Jin Shenlong realized what Hope was about to do; he actually wanted to transmute the building. Did he not know that it was formed from his will and body?

"It seems you understand."

Hope smiled innocently, "Although it's a conceptual entity, your real body is inside the Golden Owl, so you really can't lock onto it, but the Golden Owl is in trouble."

"I don't care about Schrödinger's cat or any long theories, as long as I know the cat is in the box, I don't care if it's dead or alive."

"As for this fake that you've been keeping running around outside... let's not tarnish the name of the real Duke Barbaroa."

With that, Hope flicked his sword, and a crimson-gold light flashed, instantly splitting the fake Duke's body in two, shattering it into a pile of alchemical materials.

Jin Shenlong's voice rang out from the building, this time no longer mocking, but a low growl suppressing his anger.

"You think... you can trap this dragon so easily?"

The entire Golden Owl began to tremble violently, the cobblestones on the street cracked one by one, the surrounding buildings shook, and the atmosphere became heavy, as if some terrible being was about to emerge.

The next second, the sky darkened.

No, it's not that it's dark, but that something huge is blocking the sunlight.

Hope looked up and saw an enormous golden figure slowly rising from the golden owl. It was a dragon, a translucent golden dragon composed entirely of pure concepts.

To Hope's disappointment, the Golden Dragon's true form was actually a giant dragon similar to the Finscus, the only difference between it and the Sphinx being that its dragon head was pointed.

The Moon Dragon's true form looks more like a seven-tailed fox, the Wood Dragon's true form is a large mountain, and the Earth Dragon looks like a giant object made of piled-up earth blocks.

These people really don't look like dragons at all.

Aside from Melkkobia, the Water Dragon, his true form is a small-winged dragon, the most normal of all the dragons Hope has ever seen.

Among the dragons, each with their own cunning and resourcefulness, Melkkobia truly stands out as an oddity; no wonder no dragon wants to play with him.

Hope looked at the golden dragon, whose body was somewhere between "existence" and "non-existence".

You can see it, yet you feel it's not there; you can feel its oppressive presence, yet you can't pinpoint its location in any way.

This is what makes conceptualization so tricky.

"Finally decided to come out?"

Hope shielded Erza and the others behind her, but her tone remained relaxed, "I thought you were going to stay in the house like a coward for the rest of your life."

"Ignorant humans."

Jin Shenlong's cold voice echoed directly in everyone's minds, "You can't even touch me, so what makes you think you can fight me? And where do you get the confidence to seal me away?"

He raised one of his front paws and pressed it down hard.

Since it has no physical form, the Golden Dragon's attack has no wind pressure or shockwave; only a golden magical light spreads out from its transparent dragon claw.

Wherever the light shines, everything changes.

The stone slabs on the ground turned into gold, the iron railings by the roadside turned into gold, and even the dust floating in the air turned into fine gold dust.

Hope and the others were immediately shocked. The Golden Dragon truly lived up to its name; its ability could turn anything it touched into gold.

What else could this be but a money printing machine!

Hope, who was about to shove the golden dragon back in, stopped. He had to be careful now, lest he damage the dragon.

However, Hope and the others' reactions misled the Golden Dragon, who mistakenly believed they were intimidated by his power. His voice was full of smugness: "Magic, alchemy, curses... no power can harm this dragon in the slightest."

"It's time for you to pay the price for your defiance!"

Golden light surged toward Hope and the others.

Erza immediately changed into the Heavenly Wheel Armor, and nearly a hundred longswords shot into the sky, but they dissipated the moment they touched the golden light, turning into a pile of golden fragments.

"Useless, useless, useless!"

The Golden Dragon laughed wildly, and an overwhelming golden light transformed into endless gold coins that swept over everything.

The barrage of gold coins, like a storm, was not only powerful and fast, but also had a wide attack range, which even Athena could not completely withstand.

Hope frowned slightly as he watched Erza, Mirajane, and Cana's skin turn gold after being hit by the coins.

Everyone likes gold, but you can't have your girlfriend turned into a little golden statuette.

So Hope made a move.

He didn't use magic, he didn't use alchemy, but instead... he punched the sky.

The purest attack, 180,000 horsepower! Whale Killing Fist!

The force of the punch tore through the air, forcefully shattering the golden light that could have turned everything yellow, passing through the Golden Dragon's non-existent body, and splitting the sky in two.

Chapter 352 Dragon Imprisoned in the Sword

Jin Shenlong's laughter stopped abruptly.

Then a wave of lingering fear washed over him. Although he had no physical form, he couldn't help but wipe away a cold sweat.

Because Hope's punch... had the power to kill him.

The Golden Dragon was now incredibly grateful that he was a conceptual entity; otherwise, he would probably have been blasted into a pile of mud the moment he appeared. He finally understood why the Wood Dragon and the Earth Dragon had died so thoroughly.

It's all because of that human named Hope.

What a monster! What's the point of being so strong when you're just a human?!

Don't we dragons have any pride?

After the initial shock, Jin Shenlong's clever mind returned to its high level. After all, he was a conceptual entity; who could kill him, who dared to kill him?

"Hahahaha—!"

The Golden Dragon's laughter echoed through the skies above Philanthropic City, its translucent golden body refracting a mesmerizing halo in the sunlight. It looked down at Hope and the others, its dragon eyes filled with mockery and smugness.

"I admit you're very powerful, but what use is your earth-shattering strength when you can't even handle me?"

"How are you going to defeat me? By continuing to punch the air with your ridiculous fists?"

"What's that saying you humans have again? 'Powerless'? Yes, that's it. Right now, you are powerless!"

Hope looked up at the triumphant concept dragon, her expression like that of someone watching a clown who was too engrossed in his performance on stage.

"Are you done talking?"

Jin Shenlong's laughter paused.

"Now that you've finished talking, get ready to take the challenge." Hope cracked her knuckles, her tone nonchalant. "Warm-up done, it's time to get down to business. Ready to say goodbye to your freedom?"

A sense of unease suddenly arose in Jin Shenlong's heart, but his sense of superiority as a conceptual being quickly suppressed it. He smiled coldly as he reformed his form, secretly and cautiously creating one invisible barrier after another around himself.

"You're just bluffing. You can't even sense my presence..."

"Can't sense it? Don't be ridiculous."

Hope interrupted him, a meaningful smile playing on her lips. "You don't actually believe there's no magic in this world that can affect conceptual entities, do you?"

After saying that, Hope slightly clenched the five fingers of her right hand.

An extremely subtle sense of unease began to spread in Jin Shenlong's heart. He looked down at his body, and his conceptualized body was intact. His existence was still between reality and illusion.

But why did he feel as if something was tightening up silently?

The next second, red patterns suddenly appeared around the Golden Dragon, transforming into a large crimson net that firmly bound the Golden Dragon's conceptual body.

Jin Shenlong's pupils contracted violently.