They remained silent as they walked to the girls' dormitory building.
"Huh? Why are the lights still on at Erza's house?"
Hope, who was about to leave, turned back because Erza discovered her and looked in the direction of Lucy's dormitory. Sure enough, she saw that the dormitory window was still lit and she could vaguely see figures moving around.
Erza nudged Hope with her elbow. "Why don't we skip tomorrow and go talk to Lucy now? After all, your plan involves using Lucy as a catalyst."
Hope thought for a moment, since Lucy wasn't asleep anyway, it wouldn't hurt to disturb her.
Two minutes later, Erza knocked on Lucy's dorm room door.
The door was quickly opened a crack, and Lucy, looking somewhat helpless, immediately became surprised when she saw the two people outside. "Erza? And Hope? What brings you here so late?"
"Let's go inside and talk."
Erza pushed the door open and entered. Lucy was no match for her strength. But the moment the door opened, Erza's face darkened.
There was a boy with pink hair and a blue cat playing with pillows in Lucy's house.
Erza immediately understood the reason for Lucy's helpless expression earlier.
“Natsu, Happy…”
"You two have dared to barge into the girls' room again!"
"It's Erza! We're doomed!"
"Lucy! Help me!"
"..."
Hearing Natsu and Happy's pleas for mercy coming quickly, Hope, who had just entered the room, silently shook his head, closed the door, and casually added a "sound isolation" effect to the walls of the room.
Chapter 66 The Prelude to the Counterattack
"what?!"
"Hand Lucy over to the Phantom Lord?!"
"No! I don't agree!"
After listening to Hope's plan to deal with the Phantom Lord, Natsu was extremely unwilling to let Lucy willingly put herself in danger; he simply couldn't bring himself to do it.
As soon as Natsu finished speaking, Lucy's voice rang out, "I agree."
“Lucy! How could you…” Natsu turned his head, his eyes wide, hardly believing that these words of agreement would come from the mouth of the somewhat timid Lucy.
The determination in Lucy's eyes seemed genuine.
When Lucy learned that her father had entrusted the Phantom Lord to bring her back, she realized that she had dragged the guild down with her.
For the Mage Guild, using force against another guild to complete a quest is excessive, but it's still somewhat justifiable.
After all, the Mage Guild survives by completing quests.
Her father provided the very excuse the Phantom Lord wanted; otherwise, the Phantom Lord would have had no suitable reason to attack Fairy Tail.
The thought of the Phantom Lord destroying the guild, even attacking Levy who had promised to write the novel with her, and also D'Arleil, Sarusuk...
Lucy is a kind person, and she feels very guilty.
So when Lucy learned that Hope intended to retaliate in kind, she agreed without hesitation.
Hand her over to Phantom Lord, and then, using the pretext that Phantom Lord kidnapped members of Fairy Tail, launch a preemptive war against Phantom Lord.
Using Spectre's methods to counter Spectre, Hope's move was undeniably brilliant.
Lucy had one question: "Given the irreconcilable conflict between our guild and the Spectres, who should I hand over to the Spectres so they won't become suspicious?"
"I will carry it out."
Hope, who was petting the cat, stroked Happy's soft fur. "As for why it was me, that's not convenient to explain to you right now."
Hope's identity as a council agent, a nested doll within a nested doll, is indeed not something that can be directly stated. He will explain everything after dealing with Mester, who has become an undercover agent.
Seeing that Natsu still looked a little worried, Erza said, "Don't worry, Hope is capable of ensuring Lucy's safety. He's very strong."
Upon hearing this, Natsu's eyes lit up.
Since that's the case, he naturally no longer needs to worry about Lucy's safety after she goes to Phantom Forest, and even Erza acknowledges Hope's strength...
"I'm fired up!"
"Hope! Let's have a fight!"
Seeing Natsu clench his fist, flames erupting from his arm, looking eager to try, Hope nodded and raised his right hand. "Then let's go."
Lucy was shocked that Hope, who seemed so reliable, accepted Natsu's challenge without even considering it—this was her dorm room, after all...
"Hey! Don't fight at Lucy's house!"
Erza didn't expect Hope to agree to Natsu's request, but it was too late to stop her. Hope's fist had already collided with Natsu's flaming fist.
However, what happened next was completely unexpected.
Hope turned her fist into a palm and grabbed Natsu's fist. Immediately afterward, a blue-green magic circle appeared under Natsu's feet, and the blue-green light instantly engulfed him.
"Wooden Design Baby Walker"
Before he could even react, Natsu fell into an oversized baby walker. His motion sickness debuff immediately took effect, and he went limp, collapsing weakly onto the edge of the vehicle.
Erza, Lucy, and Happy were completely dumbfounded as they watched the fight end in an instant.
Using a vehicle to fight against a Dragon Slayer Mage seems a bit too cheap... Lucy and Happy thought to themselves.
But Erza knew that this was the second time tonight that Hope had used the weaknesses of Dragon Slayer Mages to defeat her opponent.
The thought of now possessing Dragon Slayer Magic made Erza wary as she looked at Hope. She wondered if he'd pull the same trick on her later...
Hope had no idea what the two people and the cat beside him were thinking; he was in a wonderful mood.
【ding~】
[The host has come into contact with extraordinary power—the lost magic 'Fire Dragon Slayer']
[Analysis in progress—]
Analysis complete. Estimated time required to break the "Fire Dragon Slayer" is 40 days.
A system pop-up appeared in my mind; this was the second time the system had recorded magic tonight.
The first time was during Hope's battle with Gajeel, when the system successfully recorded the opponent's magic—the "Iron Dragon Slayer" magic, which also required 40 days to decipher.
After agreeing on a time to carry out their plan with Erza and Lucy, Hope dispelled the transformation magic under Natsu and left.
One minute later, he returned to the guild using "Divine Speed".
However, upon seeing the dilapidated guild hall pierced by several iron pillars, Hope slapped his forehead, realizing he had completely forgotten about it.
Now that Hope possesses the "Arc of Time," repairing a damaged guild would be a piece of cake, if not a piece of cake.
However, until the plan to counter Phantom Lord is completed, the building must remain in its current dilapidated state to give Fairy Tail a stronger reason to retaliate against Phantom Lord.
Hope took 80 magic crystals from the room and went to the empty guild backyard.
Under the moonlight, the 80 magic crystals instantly dimmed, while Hope, through the addition of the system, successfully obtained the "Fire Dragon Slayer" and the "Iron Dragon Slayer".
Feeling the magic he had just acquired, Hope channeled his magic power, and his left hand immediately burst into flames. In addition to the general functions of dragon slaying magic, "Fire Dragon Slayer" also had the ability to control fire.
The Dragon Slayer Flame can be controlled in both temperature and shape.
Hope said that Natsu used magic during the guild fights but never burned his companions, which was probably because he lowered the temperature of the flames.
Doesn't this mean that Natsu has never used his full strength when fighting his companions?
After playing with Dragon Slayer Flame for a while, Hope tried Iron Dragon Slayer, and only then did she realize that this magic was different from other Dragon Slayer magic.
"Iron Dragon Slayer" allows the user's skin to transform into hard iron scales, and the body can also be transformed into various iron objects and melee weapons, possessing powerful physical defense and physical output.
However, the downside is that there are too few pure magic-based output methods.
When encountering enemies with strong defenses, especially physical defenses, "Iron Dragon Slayer" struggles to deal effective damage.
But that's a flaw that Gajeel has to face; what does it have to do with Hope?
Chapter 67 Fusion Magic - Dragon King
After familiarizing himself with the two newly acquired Dragon Slayer spells, Hope decided to try out the system's latest feature—"Self-Analysis"—and the target of the analysis was the three Dragon Slayer spells: "Holy," "Fire," and "Iron."
"Let's see what kind of magic you can fuse for me in the end... System." Hope thought to himself, activating the system's newest and last unlocked function for the first time.
[Ding~ Command received]
The self-analysis function requires the host to act as the carrier.
[Please enter a meditative state.]
"It's not that the system just gives it to me after the fusion is complete...?" Hope was a little surprised, but she still sat cross-legged on the ground, closed her eyes, and quickly emptied her mind to enter a meditative state.
[Analysis begins]
[Analysis of the three types of dragon-slaying magic—Holy, Fire, and Iron—completed; merging to begin—]
As the system notification faded, Hope felt his consciousness being pulled away, sinking into boundless darkness. Then, three beams of light appeared "before his eyes."
On the left is the heavy, somber gray light of 'iron', solid and cold.
On the right is a blazing, leaping red light of 'fire,' wild and violent.
Suspended in the center is a pure and flawless white light of 'holy', giving people a warm and peaceful feeling.
Three energies with vastly different attributes began to slowly approach each other, drawn by the invisible power of the system. The instant they made contact, the holy radiance, the blazing flames, and the icy torrent of steel transformed into three colossal dragons that clashed violently.
The excruciating pain of a tearing consciousness was accompanied by waves of warm currents mixed with the magical powers of "holy," "fire," and "iron," violently coursing through the entire body.
Hope gritted his teeth, beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
Fortunately, the collision in their consciousness ended quickly, and the three magical forces revolved around each other, their light intertwining.
Hope held his breath, witnessing the rotating ball of light go from being clearly defined at first, to gradually blurring its boundaries, and finally transforming into a ball of white radiance flowing with deep black and dark red patterns.
It exudes the purity and warmth of the "sacred" attribute, contains the heat and wildness of the "fire" attribute, and carries the weight and indestructibility of the "iron" attribute.
Merger Completed
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