Fairy Tail: I'm invincible when I receive anime characters!

If you were to ask Erza what she's most interested in, besides armor, it would be marriage. In fact, in her magical space set, there's a wedding dress she carefully selected, which she plans to wear when she gets married. Apart from secretly wearing it in her dormitory, she has never let anyone else see this wedding dress.

Erza waved her hands frantically, "I...I...I was just kidding. Besides, don't you...don't you like Mira?"

"I like Mira, but that doesn't mean I don't like you!"

Qi Yan sighed, feigning sadness: "Sigh! I thought my spring had finally arrived, but I never expected to be deceived in love."

Erza felt a pang of guilt upon seeing Qi Yan like this.

Qi Yan couldn't help but laugh when he saw Erza's appearance: "Haha! Just kidding!"

Erza was a little angry when she heard Qi Yan say that. Although she was the one who joked first, she was still unhappy.

"But jokes aside, if I could really marry a woman as wonderful as Erza, I'd be laughing in my sleep."

When Qi Yan said this, he had his hands behind his head and a relaxed smile on his face, but his words were exceptionally sincere and earnest, making people feel that he was speaking from the bottom of his heart.

Erza's heart began to race, and her face slowly flushed red.

Lucy and Happy, who were eavesdropping not far away, looked like they had just heard some juicy gossip, and they tried their best to keep quiet.

I never expected to hear such a stimulating conversation.

Lucy even imagined a love story between Qi Yan, Mira, and Erza, which provided great inspiration for her novel.

Just when the two thought they were about to hear something even more exciting...

Qi Yan's voice rang out: "Hey! Haven't you two heard enough?!"

Lucy and Happy were stunned for a moment, then looked up and saw Qi Yan's face.

"Eeya-ya-ya!!!"

The two of them couldn't help but scream in fright.

"Oh! Qi Yan, what a coincidence! You're out working too!"

Lucy awkwardly raised her hand to greet him.

"What a coincidence! You've been following me suspiciously since the train station. What a coincidence!"

"Discovered?!"

Lucy and Happy stared at each other.

"You don't really think you've hidden it well, do you?"

Qi Yan noticed several people as soon as he entered the train station. He didn't know if it was because of the multiple roles he had taken on or his breathing technique, but his five senses and magical perception had greatly improved. He noticed these people's gazes on his back immediately, but he didn't make a sound and wanted to see what they were up to.

As it turned out, these two guys were quite bold, blatantly approaching him, and he could even hear their exclamations clearly.

“Happy…you…um, you were in Fairy Tail yesterday too, weren’t you…”

Erza also got up and saw the two of them. When she returned to the guild yesterday, she also saw Lucy. After all, there were only so many people in the guild, and Erza had seen almost everyone. However, she still remembered a young girl like Lucy who was unfamiliar yet beautiful.

Lucy immediately bowed and said, "I'm a newcomer named Lucy. Please take good care of me."

"I'm Erza, nice to meet you. So you're the girl the guildmates were talking about. You defeated the mercenary gorilla and all that, you're really reliable."

Erza also heard many people talking about Lucy because she had hit a powerful person, which had caused quite a stir and spread widely.

"That was... Natsu who defeated him, which doesn't quite match the facts..."

Lucy spent all day yesterday explaining, but she still doesn't understand why Natsu's good deed is being attributed to her.

"By the way, where's Natsu?"

Lucy wasn't familiar with them, but she knew that Happy and Natsu were practically inseparable.

"Oh, right, Natsu!"

Lucy then remembered Natsu and quickly went over to help the motion-sick Natsu.

"Haa~! Haa~! Ugh~~!"

Natsu looked distressed.

"Hey—! Don't you dare throw up on me?!"

Soon, the group sat down face to face.

"So... tell me, what brings you here?"

Erza reverted to her usual aloof and mature self, as if the person who had just made those jokes with Qi Yan was not her at all.

This startled Lucy and the others.

"It's Natsu! Natsu was curious about what you invited Qi Yan to do, so he dragged me and Happy over here."

Based on the principle of "better to die than to die myself," Lucy and Happy didn't hesitate to sell Natsu out.

"Ugh! Ugh! I gag!"

Upon hearing this, Natsu immediately covered his mouth and shook his head repeatedly, while glaring at Lucy and Happy. He had made the suggestion, but weren't you two very interested? You can't let him take the blame, you two traitors.

"I see."

Erza nodded.

"Aren't you...aren't you angry?"

Lucy saw that Erza scolded almost the entire guild when she returned yesterday, and everyone in the guild was afraid of Erza. She thought Erza had a bad temper.

“Angry? Why should I be angry? Actually, if Qi Yan wasn’t here this time, I would have invited Natsu and Gray to do this mission with me. Since Qi Yan is here, there’s no need for the two of them.”

"Then why don't you just invite Natsu and Gray?"

Qi Yan felt somewhat helpless. He still wanted to do S-rank missions and work with Erza, but no matter how difficult it was, the system wouldn't give him any rewards.

"Of course it's because you're more reliable!"

"Don't think that I'll be happy just because you say some nice things. Tell me, what exactly do you need my help with?"

"Yes! For someone as powerful as Miss Erza to need to rely on the strength of others must be a very troublesome matter."

After Erza left yesterday, Lucy also learned from Mira that Erza is actually the strongest female mage in Fairy Tail guild and is also known as the 'Fairy Queen'.

She didn't know the name Erza, but she knew the 'Fairy Queen,' a famous mage in the magic world. She just didn't expect it to be such a beautiful woman as Erza.

"No need to be so polite, just call me Erza. Now it's time to get down to business. This is something I overheard on the way back..."

Chapter 64 Iron Forest

"On my way back from my last job, I stopped by a bar in Onibas that gathers mages, and there was a group of guys that caught my attention."

Erza begins to recount what happened at the tavern, where there are four somewhat irritable mages who seem to be trying to break a magical seal called Lala Bay, but they seem to be encountering obstacles in their efforts to break the seal.

"Lalabai? Is it some kind of sleeping magic?"

Lucy couldn't help but guess when she heard the name.

Erza shook her head and said, "I don't know, but since it's sealed away, I think it must be a very powerful magic."

Harby said, "I have absolutely no idea what they're talking about; maybe it's just their job."

There are many jobs in the Fairy Tail guild that involve breaking magical seals, so it's quite normal for members of other guilds to take on such tasks.

By then, the train had arrived at the station, and the group of people packed their luggage and got off the train.

Erza continued, "That's right, that's what I thought at first too, so I didn't take it to heart, until I remembered the name Erigor, and then I stopped thinking that way."

At this point, Erza's expression turned serious: "The ace of the Iron Forest Magic Guild, the Grim Reaper Erigor."

"Death...Death?!"

Lucy was startled; she couldn't believe someone actually had that title.

Erza explained, "He got his name from the fact that all the jobs he accepted were assassinations. Originally, the Magic Council strictly prohibited magic guilds from accepting assassination jobs, but Iron Forest disregarded the Council's rules and chose to prioritize money. As a result, six years ago, Iron Forest was expelled from the Magic Guild Alliance and is now classified as a dark guild."

"A dark guild?!"

Lucy was so scared that she broke out in a sweat.

She had just heard about the Dark Guild yesterday. It was said to be a group of lawless guys who would even do assassination missions. Only now did she realize how dangerous the Dark Guild was.

Happy said, "Lucy, you're so juicy!!"

"That's sweat!!"

"Wait a minute!! Expelled? Haven't they been punished?!"

Lucy suddenly remembered that Erza had mentioned expulsion, not imprisonment.

"Yes, the then-guild leader of Iron Forest was arrested, and the guild was ordered to disband. However, most dark guilds continued to operate despite the wizard's order to disband."

"I was too careless back then. If I had noticed the name Eligoll, I could have used them all for a blood sacrifice!"

“Those guys want to get Lalabai’s magic, they’re definitely planning to do something despicable. I can’t just stand by and do nothing, so we have to break into the Iron Forest.”

Erza revealed the main reason why she invited Qi Yan to come along.

"Breaking into the Iron Forest?!"

Lucy was somewhat stunned. She knew that when Qi Yan and Erza, two powerful mages, met, they were bound to do something extraordinary. She never expected that they would actually go and wipe out an entire dark guild.

"I think I should go back..."

Lucy turned to walk back; it was better for a newbie like her not to get involved in such a dangerous situation.

Harpy reminded them, "We're starting."

"So it was just to wipe out a dark guild! I thought it was something bigger."

Qi Yan has been a member of Fairy Tail for more than half a year, and has naturally encountered some members of dark guilds. However, most of the time they keep to themselves. But there are also some clueless guys who, seeing that Qi Yan is from a legitimate guild, take the initiative to cause trouble. In the end, those guys are the ones who suffer.

Lucy couldn't help but retort, "Isn't destroying a dark guild a big deal?!"

call----!!

A scorching flame rose up beside me.

"Destroy a Dark Guild?! That sounds really interesting! I'm fired up!"

When Natsu got off the train, he was still a little dizzy, but now he was fully recovered and very excited to hear that the Dark Guild was going to be destroyed.

Natsu looked at Erza and asked, "Erza, do you know where the Iron Forest is?"

He was now impatient; he didn't need any reason to deal with those rats from the Dark Guild.

"We'll find out by investigating this place."

The group quickly arrived at the mage tavern where Erza had previously stayed. In any city, the mage tavern is definitely the most well-informed place.

Soon, the group easily found out the location of the Iron Forest Guild's headquarters, which was in Kuruki Town, the next stop after Onibas.

Knowing the location made things much easier. Erza borrowed a magical four-wheeled vehicle and quickly drove several people to the Iron Forest Guild.

"Is this the Dark Guild Iron Forest? It looks rather scary!"

Lucy shuddered as she looked at the guild in front of her. The thought of possibly facing an entire dark guild in a moment filled her with fear.

She now deeply regrets it. Why didn't she just go to work honestly? Why was she so curious and followed along? Now it's too late to regret it.

boom----! !

Natsu's fist was wreathed in flames as he slammed it into the gate of the Iron Forest Guild, causing the gate to shatter.

Natsu, engulfed in flames, roared menacingly, "You bastards from the Iron Forest!! All of you, get out here!!!"

The scene that I had imagined—where the Iron Forest members were furious and rushed forward to fight—did not happen.

At this moment, the Iron Forest Guild was completely empty and quiet; there wasn't a single person there.

"What about people?!"

"Hey! Where are you?! Get out here right now!!"

Natsu shouted loudly, but no one answered.

Harpy spread his wings and flew around the guild, but didn't find a single person; the entire guild was empty.

"Nobody's here? Has this guild been abandoned? Maybe they all went on a picnic?"

As Lucy said this, she had a thoughtful expression on her face.

Everyone was speechless at Lucy's sudden train of thought.