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

"You blocky bastard! Give Harpy back right now!!"

Gray rushed over with Natsu, followed by Juvia.

Simon's expression changed upon seeing this.

Gray immediately prepared to act.

"Natsu, Gray, wait a minute!"

Natsu and Gray then noticed that Mira, Erza, Lucy, and another unfamiliar guy were all there, whose handsome appearance was almost annoying.

"Who is he?!"

Qi Yan released his receiving posture and returned to his original appearance.

"Qi Yan?!!"

This unlocks a new character pose.

"How is this going?!"

"They were trying to kidnap Erza, so I beat them up."

Erza said, "Natsu, Gray, bring them here. I have something to ask them."

Natsu and Gray brought Woolley and Hugh here; both of them had just been attacked by Qi Yan and had sustained some injuries.

Erza said to Woolley, "Woolley, give Happy back to Natsu."

Although Wu Li was unwilling, he knew how terrifying Qi Yan was, and if he didn't return the money, he would definitely be dead.

So he opened his magical space and released Harpy.

Natsu immediately hugged Happy when he saw him. Happy was his most important partner and family member, and to him, Happy was even closer than a brother.

Gray asked Erza, "Erza, what's going on?!" The big guy had asked Erza where she was earlier, so he was obviously after her.

Lucy said, "These people are Erza's former companions."

Gray frowned. He had personally witnessed Erza join the guild; she had no companions.

Erza explained, "It was before I joined the Fairy Tail guild."

"Why are you all here?"

Xiu turned his head away, not wanting to talk.

Simon said, "It's Gerald. Gerald sent us to take you back to the Tower of Paradise."

Erza was shocked: "The Tower of Paradise? Could it be... that it's really finished?!"

Hugh said smugly, "That's right! The Tower of Paradise has been completed. It took us eight years to build it."

"The Tower of Paradise? What's that?"

Lucy asked, puzzled.

Erza explained, "The Tower of Paradise, also known as the R System, is a forbidden magic that uses a living person as a sacrifice to resurrect the dead, violating humanity!"

"what?!"

Lucy and the others were shocked to hear this. To use a living person as a forbidden object to resurrect a dead person—could such magic even exist in the world?

Hugh said with a disdainful look, "Magic has never been humane; all magic will erode humanity."

Erza said with a grim expression, "This is completely the ideology of dark magic. How are you any different from those people?"

"Of course it's different! Those guys just treat the R system as a regular resurrection spell, that is, a spell to bring the dead back to life, but Gerald is different. He will lead us to the paradise of the future."

At this point, Hugh's expression turned crazed: "That's right! Gerald wants to resurrect that person, and this world will be transformed. We will rule the entire world, against the remnants of those who once robbed us of our freedom, the companions who betrayed our sister, the ignorant masses living in this world who know nothing, and those incompetent members of the Council!!"

"We will bring them unprecedented fear and grief!! We will also strip them of all freedom in this world!! We are the rulers of this world, hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!"

BANG————!!

Erza grabbed Hugh's head with both hands and slammed his forehead against it.

"Ugh!!"

Hugh's eyes rolled back and he fainted.

"Huh?! Huh?! Huh?!"

The group was startled when they saw Erza looking so fierce.

Erza's face twisted in rage: "How could a perfectly normal person become so twisted? Jellal, is it all because of you...?"

Lucy asked, "Erza, what's going on? What's the Tower of Paradise all about? And who is Jellal?"

"...This is my private matter, and you don't need to get involved."

Erza's body trembled as she spoke, clearly indicating that she had something difficult to say.

Gray looked at Erza and said, "Erza, if you don't want to talk about it, that's fine. But you're wrong to say that we don't need to get involved. You're our comrade. Knowing that something is wrong with our comrade, are you just going to tell us to stand by and do nothing?"

Lucy nodded and said, "That's right!"

Natsu clenched his fist and said, "Did that guy bully you? I'm going to beat him up!"

Mira squeezed Erza's hand and said, "Yes, Erza! No matter what, we will always stand by Erza's side."

Qi Yan said to Erza, "This isn't like you, Miss Erza. Just say 'Stop nagging and come with me' as usual, and we'll help you."

Erza looked up at Qi Yan, Mira, Lucy, Natsu, and Gray. Their eyes all showed unconditional trust in her, which deeply moved Erza, and tears streamed down her face.

This was the first time the group had ever seen Erza so vulnerable.

However, this finally gave Erza the courage to reveal her unknown past: "Okay, I'll tell you. This story starts more than ten years ago. At that time, a magic cult that believed in black magic wanted to build the R system that could resurrect the dead. So they plundered people from all over the world and made the plundered slaves work. I was one of them when I was just a child."

"What……"

Apart from Qi Yan, who knew the plot, everyone else was shocked by Erza's words. More than ten years ago, Erza was just a child. Making a child a slave, those dark magic cults really deserved to die.

Chapter 136 Slaughter If You Deserve It

"We met Hugh and the others around that time. We relied on each other for survival, finding joy in hardship, and barely managed to stay alive."

"But there was no end to these days, and we didn't know when we would die. So someone suggested that we escape, and everyone agreed. But before we could even start, we were discovered by the Black Magic Order. In order to interrogate the mastermind, I was also arrested, and Gerald was also arrested in order to save me."

"For freedom, and to save Gerald, we chose to take up arms and fight back. All the imprisoned slaves had had enough of this life and fought together against the Magic Order. In the end, we defeated the Magic Order."

“When I went to rescue Jellal, he had completely changed and become someone I didn’t recognize. Not only could he use magic, but he also didn’t intend to leave with us. He planned to continue building the R system and resurrect Zeref.”

"Of course I disagreed, but he defeated me with magic. I don't know if he still had some kindness left, but he didn't choose to kill me. Instead, he let me go, but he forbade me to tell anyone about it or to get close to him again. Otherwise, he would kill everyone in the Tower of Paradise to destroy the evidence, including Hugh and Woolley, my former companions."

At this moment, Hugh staggered to his feet: "What was with all that talk? Were you trying to gain your companions' sympathy with those lies?! Don't be ridiculous!! That's not true at all!"

"Eight years ago, sister, you planted a bomb on our ship and then ran away alone, didn't you?! If Gerald hadn't realized your betrayal, we would all have been blown up on the spot!!"

“Gerald told us that this is what happens to people who don’t learn magic the right way. My sister is so obsessed with the power of magic that she wants to discard everything related to the past and our memories.”

"Is that right, Woolley? Miriam? Simon?"

Woolley and Miriam were also a bit confused at this point, unsure of whom to believe, while Simon, on the other hand, was completely unfazed.

"Say something!!"

Seeing that none of them spoke, Xiu shouted at them loudly.

Gray looked calmly at Hugh: "Did Geralt tell you this?"

Lucy also asked, "Is the Erza you know the kind of person who would do that kind of thing?"

Although she had been with Fairy Tail the shortest, she knew that Erza was definitely not that kind of person.

Hugh was sweating profusely from the questioning. Of course he knew that Erza wasn't that kind of person, but what about all his persistence over the past eight years?

“You know absolutely nothing about us!! It was Gerald’s words that kept me alive until today!! We spent eight years building the Tower of Paradise, all for Gerald!!”

"And now you're saying it was all a lie? What a joke!! Are you saying that the older sister was right and Gerald was wrong?!"

a voice sounded.

"Simon?!"

The group looked at the speaker, who was none other than Simon, who had come with Hugh and the others to capture Erza.

"You guy!!"

Gray was immediately angered when he saw this guy; it was this guy who had attacked them earlier.

“Wait a minute, Lord Gray, he just used dark magic. He must have seen the ice avatar Lord Gray was using, but he still attacked.”

"As expected of the legendary Four Elements, I didn't intend to kill anyone. In order to deceive Hugh and the others, when I discovered that the person in front of me was a fake made of ice, I attacked without hesitation to make the effect more realistic."

"To...to deceive us?!"

Hugh didn't quite understand what Simon meant.

"Hugh, Woolley, and Miliana, you've all been fooled by Jellal. It's actually quite easy to tell who's right and who's wrong. If Erza had truly betrayed us, she wouldn't have stopped Qi Yan just now. How could we be standing here unscathed? Qi Yan is a super strongman who can even defeat the Ten Wizard Saints. You've all experienced his strength firsthand just now."

The three fell silent upon hearing this. Their battle with Qi Yan just now—no, it couldn't even be called a battle; it was a one-sided crushing defeat. Their magic was useless against Qi Yan. If he wanted to kill them, it might not even take a second.

If Erza hadn't stopped them, they might have all been killed.

"Damn it!!"

"What is the truth?! Who should I believe?!"

Believing Gerald's words, upon closer examination, reveals that many things don't make sense.

But if we trust Erza, then what about all the sacrifices they've made over the years?

Erza knelt down and looked at the three of them, saying, "It must be very difficult for you to accept all of this now, but I want to tell you that I have never forgotten you in these eight years. I have been too weak to do anything for you. I am sorry."

Simon said, "But things are different now. I've been waiting for this moment for a long time, waiting for powerful mages to gather, fight Jellal, and then defeat him."

"Geralt...yes! Geralt! I must kill him!!"

When Hugh heard Gerald's name, his expression turned ferocious. For eight whole years, that bastard had played them for fools, making them build the Tower of Paradise for him. He was determined to kill that bastard.

"That's right! It's all his fault!"

"He's been lying to us for so long, we absolutely can't let him get away with this!"

Miriam and Woolley then realized that Gerald was the one who had deceived them.

"Alright! For Simon and the others, and for the sake of this world, we absolutely cannot let Zeref be resurrected! We must defeat that guy!"

Erza did not hesitate at all this time. The years that Hugh and the others had been deceived, and the pain she had suffered because of it, all of these were things that Gerald had to repay.

“Geralt…”

He was a pitiful person who was also deceived, a representative of the saying that every pitiful person has something hateful about them. Later, he suddenly realized his mistake and became a kind and upright person again.

He was quite a fan of the Erza and Jellal pairing back then.

That's the downside of shonen manga sometimes; there are very few truly evil characters, and many villains eventually get redeemed, which makes it less enjoyable for Qi Yan to fight.

But no matter how unhappy he was, he wouldn't show any mercy because of it.

After all, they were enemies from the moment the battle began. If you show mercy, the other side will not. Mercy to the enemy is cruelty to yourself.

If it needs to be slaughtered, then slaughter it.

Chapter 137 Crushing the Past

Magic Council ERA

"What?! The R system still has remnants! How is that possible?!"

O'G slammed his fist on the conference table in shock and anger. He had just been called to the meeting, but he never expected it to be such a major event.

Eight years ago, a cult that believed in black magic invested a lot of money in an attempt to rebuild the R system.

"Are those the seven towers? Weren't they destroyed by the council? They should be completely gone by now."

"There is also an eighth tower located near the coast of Karllum."

"Could it be... already completed?"

Eight years is indeed a long time; that's enough time to build a tower.

"Unfortunately, the on-site investigation team would never joke about this."