Fairy Tail: All Magic Converges in One Body

It was a withered wooden flute carved with a three-eyed skull, which gave off a very evil feeling.

"What does your boss want to do with this?"

Faced with Hope's question, Kageyama seemed a little hesitant, but thinking that he had already said so much, there was no harm in revealing a little more.

"This flute is called 'Lalabai,' and it's a 'Spellcasting Demon' created by a black mage."

"Although it is currently sealed, it can be used as a magical tool to unleash large-scale curses and killing spells. Anyone who hears the flute will die."

"Lord Eligoll intends to use the power of Lalabai to wipe out all the regular guild leaders attending this routine meeting."

As Kageyama revealed the conspiracy behind it all, Kana breathed a sigh of relief.

According to Kageyama, Eligoro and the mages of the Iron Forest met him at Oshibana Railway Station, the stop before Clover Castle, the venue for their regular meeting.

Fortunately, Kageyama walked right into the line of fire with her and Hope, otherwise "Lalabai" might already be in the hands of Eric.

"Hope, what do we do next?" Kana looked at Hope with a complicated expression. After what had just happened, this new colleague suddenly seemed somewhat mysterious to her.

Hope weighed Lalabai in his mind and looked in the direction the railway extended. "The original plan remains unchanged. We'll go to Clover City to find the chairman, but now we need to expedite it. Who knows if Iron Forest has any other assassination plans?"

Kana nodded, then looked at the railway ahead with some distress. "But the problem is... we destroyed the train. Are we just going to walk across?"

The carriage they had been in had been dismantled by Kageyama, and there was no other means of transportation to be found in this desolate place.

If she can't catch the train ahead, Kana estimates she'll have to wait five or six hours for the next one.

"What are you thinking? Of course, I flew over there." Hope snapped her fingers, and a blue magic circle instantly appeared behind her, quickly transforming into a pair of pure white wings.

Kana shook her head. "It's not that I'm underestimating you, but with your magic power, Hope, you simply won't be able to fly from here to Clover City by then."

After saying that, Kana noticed Hope staring at her like she was an idiot. She inexplicably recalled being carried away in a princess carry by him earlier, and her face flushed. "Why are you staring at me? Did I say something wrong?"

"Of course not."

Hope shrugged. "Who said I wanted to fly straight to Shamrock City? I'll fly you to the next station, and then we can transfer to a train or some other mode of transportation, and that'll be fine, right?"

Kana covered her face, feeling ashamed of her own stupidity for the first time, but still stubbornly tried to save face, saying, "It's all that Kageyama's fault! It must be his magic that made my sluggish brain unable to work!"

Kageyama: Shadow magic doesn't have that function...

After discussing it, Hope and Kana spent ten minutes moving the scattered pieces of the carriages off the tracks to prevent any accidents to the following trains.

After doing all this, Hope carried Kana and soared into the sky.

Watching the adulterous couple fly away, Kageyama, left hanging on the pole beside the track and feeding on mosquitoes, was on the verge of tears.

Half an hour later, Kageyama, covered in mosquito bites, saw a magical four-wheeled vehicle speeding along the track. He tried to shout for help, but his mouth was gagged.

They could only watch helplessly as the magical four-wheeled vehicle sped away.

Just when Kageyama thought he would have to feed mosquitoes for several more hours, the magical four-wheeled vehicle came back again.

Four people and a cat got out of the car, one of whom was Natsu, whom he had fought before.

Seeing Kageyama's disheveled state, Natsu excitedly told Erza, "It's him! I found that dangerous wooden flute on him when I was fighting him!"

"Well done, Natsu."

Erza nodded slightly and looked at Kageyama hanging on the pole. "Gray, get him down."

Gray responded and a blade of ice flashed past, causing Kageyama to land with a thud. He then went forward and searched the other person's body, but found nothing.

Seeing this, Erza drew her longsword without hesitation and pressed it against Kageyama's forehead. "Tell me quickly, where is Lalabai?"

"Hmph, you won't talk then... Natsu, Gray, you two go!"

Lucy, holding Happy, watched with a tense expression as the Ice and Fire duo beat up Kageyama. "Um... is it possible that he doesn't not want to talk, but his mouth is just gagged and he can't speak...?"

Lucy's voice wasn't loud, but it was loud enough for Erza and the other two to hear clearly.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

Gray awkwardly pulled the tattered rag out of Kageyama's mouth. Kageyama, who was itchy and in pain all over, was so aggrieved that he almost cried.

"What kind of people are you Fairy Tail?!"

"First, there was that card-wielding female mage and the bartender who pretended to be weak, and now I've run into you three oddballs. Why is my life so miserable..."

Listening to Kageyama's complaints, the group instantly realized that he had seen Kana and Hope before.

Without any questioning, Kageyama, whose mentality had collapsed, voluntarily repeated the information he had previously given to Hope.

Hearing that the dangerous wooden flute had been taken away by her companions, Erza relaxed a little. She had come precisely to destroy "Lalabai," otherwise she wouldn't have needed to team up to deal with a mere Iron Forest.

After a moment's thought, Erza said to Natsu and Gray, "Hang this guy back, and then we'll go to Oshibana Station to destroy 'Iron Forest'."

Hanging back from the pole, Kageyama watched the group drive away without looking back. "Brothers and sisters, you could at least have taken me with you..."

Chapter 11 accelerates again

Kageyama's mournful voice echoed across the wilderness, but was quickly drowned out by the engine of the magic four-wheeled vehicle.

In the car, Lucy looked back with a hint of reluctance at the figure that was gradually turning into a small black dot. "Are we really sure it's okay to just leave him there like this?"

"Don't worry, Lucy."

"There are no innocent people among dark mages. Letting him be fed a few mosquitoes is too lenient. Once we deal with Iron Forest, we can have the council arrest him."

While answering Lucy, Gray was giving Natsu, who was carsick, a good fuss. Happy, however, completely ignored this and was happily munching on Lucy's dried fish.

Erza gripped the steering wheel and calmly analyzed, "Since Lalabai is in the hands of Kana and Hope, it means they also know about the Iron Forest's conspiracy, so he should be safe."

"We just need to eliminate the Iron Forest entrenched at Oshibana Station, and then... I'll take you to Clover City for a free meal; the food at the routine meetings is quite good."

Upon hearing that defeating the Dark Guild Iron Forest would grant them a chance to show their faces at the regular meeting, everyone was excited, and even Natsu, who was suffering from motion sickness, briefly regained his spirits.

Once her companions had calmed down enough about Hope, Erza changed the subject, "According to that dark mage named Kageyama, Hope is no ordinary person. He is not only a mage who has mastered flight magic, but his physical skills also seem to be quite good."

"But why would he hide the fact that he knows magic?"

Hearing Erza's somewhat doubtful tone, Happy raised her paw. "I know, it's because Hope lost her memory and forgot that she was a mage. She's slowly remembering now."

Gray also thought Erza was overthinking it: "In the first two days after that guy woke up, he couldn't remember the basic magical knowledge that ordinary people know. You can imagine how serious Hope's amnesia is."

"Erza, you've only met Hope once. You'll understand he's a good person once you spend more time with him."

After Gray and Happy tried to persuade her, Erza also felt it wasn't good to doubt her companions without reason, so she focused on driving and said, "Everyone, hold on tight, I'm going to speed up."

Upon hearing this, Natsu, Gray, and Happy's expressions changed drastically. "Wait...wait a minute, Erza! At least wait until we've secured our safety belts..."

However, their response was Erza flooring the accelerator and driving at lightning speed.

Lucy, who was initially confused, finally understood why Natsu and the others looked so panicked when they heard Erza was going to drive fast.

Amidst the screams of the boys and girls, the magical four-wheeled vehicle sped forward.

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Meanwhile, Hope and Kana have arrived in Oshibana, the city where their next station is located.

Outside the city, Hope landed smoothly, his white wings turning into specks of light and disappearing. After flying with people for nearly half an hour, he was already feeling a little tired.

The maximum magic power is the foundation of a mage's strength.

It's obvious that Hope's magical power limit isn't high, otherwise the original owner wouldn't have been an ordinary person.

Kana looked at Hope, who was leaning against the wall panting, and said, "You're not good either. You were so tough before, I thought you could last a long time, but well... hehe~"

Upon hearing this, Hope was immediately displeased. He could accept people saying he was bad, but he absolutely could not accept that he was not good at lasting; that was a matter of a man's dignity.

"There's nothing I can do, that's what happens when I fly with G-force."

Hope's counterattack came swiftly. Kana's lips twitched, and she grabbed Hope's collar fiercely. "You dare to subtly say I'm fat! Don't you see how great my figure is?!"

Hope glanced at Kana without leaving a trace.

It's not just good, it's absolutely amazing! Those two fat pads on her chest weigh at least as much as two grapefruits. Is this really what an 18-year-old girl should have...?

"Let's go into the city. The train station should have been taken over by the Iron Forest. Let's go straight to the car dealership and rent a magic car."

The little incident passed quickly. After asking a local old man for directions, the two headed straight for the car dealership in the south of the city.

However, when they arrived at their destination, they found a dilapidated building. The car dealership owner had already fled, and the wreckage of various magical vehicles was faintly visible in the ruins.

Hope learned that it was the work of the mages from the Iron Forest who had not only occupied the train station but also vandalized all the means of transportation in Oshibana City.

Kana frowned slightly. "It seems they want to create chaos, conceal their true intentions, and incidentally, suppress the news a little."

Hope nodded. If Kageyama hadn't delivered himself to their faces, Tetsunomori would probably have already arrived at the meeting place with Lalabai and was playing the flute.

As Hope pondered how to get to Clover City, she noticed a magic crystal shimmering faintly in the ruins beneath her feet.

His eyes lit up.

This rental company mainly rents magical vehicles, so they should keep some magic crystals on hand to replenish the vehicles' magic power.

Since that's the case.....

Hope immediately started searching through the ruins, and called Kana to join her.

Although Kana didn't understand why Hope cared so much about the magic crystal, she didn't refuse since it was her companion's request.

The two searched the ruins thoroughly.

Hope got nothing.

Kana casually dug out a whole box of unopened magic crystals from a corner. It seemed that the shop owner had just bought them and hadn't had time to put them in the magic cart yet.

"Sure enough, girls who love to drink are lucky." Kana gave Hope a smug look, a look of disdain from a lucky person towards an unlucky one.

Hope's eye twitched, and he turned around to count the crystals. There were a total of 30 brand new magic crystals.

Wow, you can even get magic crystals for free here!

While Kana went to the shop next door to buy wine, Hope placed his palm on the magic crystals and had an idea.

[Host has been detected to have come into contact with pure magic]

[Should we use pure magic to speed up the decryption process?]

After a brief consideration, Hope chose to add points to countering "Divine Speed," as escaping was his top priority.

The eight magically potent crystals instantly lost all their luster.