Fairy Tail: Magic is not such an inconvenient thing.

“Cultivation? Okay... I'm ready, but what about Erza? She and I agreed to come together today.”

"Miss Erza is in the young master's laboratory. The young master instructed me not to let Miss Lucy disturb his happy time, so he specially sent me to guide Miss Lucy's maid training."

Lucy: ? ? ?

What?! What does that mean?! I'm being rejected?!

Lucy got angry for a moment, but then she thought about it and realized it was actually a good thing.

I guess Abo didn't want me to feel too awkward, so he had the Protoss show me around first?

Lucy quickly found reasons to comfort herself and then became somewhat eager to try it out.

She had only served as Abbot's maid for half a day, and she hadn't had enough of the experience yet. Lucy, being a pampered young lady, simply loved experiencing the life of a servant.

"Okay! So what am I supposed to do next?! Do I need to clean? Leave it to me!"

"No, actually, most of the cleaning in this house is done by the Guga, so there's no need for maids."

Next, I'll show Miss Lucy around the house. Because there are many floors, and each floor has a different function, there are quite a few things to be aware of. Since this is Miss Lucy's first time here, let me give you a rundown.

"Okay! Thank you!"

So all this talk about being a maid was just being invited to Abbott's house to play? Seriously, little Abbott probably just wanted to be friends with me, that's why he made this request, right? He's so dishonest, Lucy thought to herself with amusement.

"The first and second floors are living rooms, used to receive general guests. In addition to indoor practice rooms, there are various entertainment and relaxation rooms. The third floor has a kitchen, ice storage, and dining room, which is always stocked with a variety of food and drinks."

Miss Cana often comes to steal drinks; this is something the maid should be wary of and needs to be noted. Also, the cooking duties are usually handled by me or Ellu, with Miss Mira occasionally helping out. Miss Lucy, can you cook?

"Uh, you know a little bit?"

"Then we won't assign you any kitchen work. Come on, let's continue upstairs..."

"The fourth floor is the library, which has a huge collection of books, all specially collected by Miss Levy and her young master. Her young master sometimes works and thinks here, and Miss Levy often comes here to relax..."

"Levy? Oh, I knew it! She told me she was going to read a book but couldn't find anyone in the guild..."

"The fifth and sixth floors are the young master's magical tool research laboratory. The sixth floor contains many of Miss Erza's armor and equipment. She insists on maintaining them herself and refuses the help of the maids. Make a note of this."

"Uh... I was wondering why Erza didn't seem to mind being a maid at all..."

"The seventh floor is the dressing room and also the young master's enchanting laboratory. Miss Juvia often comes to this floor. She has a private sewing room and refuses to let maids in. Make a note of that as well."

"All right..."

"The eighth floor is the [Information Room]. The young master does not allow guests to enter or leave at will. Although Miss Lucy is a maid, she does not have the authority to enter or leave, so she cannot enter either. Make a note of this."

"Uh...who can go in?"

"It's a place authorized by the young master, but very few people go there. Only Miss Mira and Miss Leqi frequent it."

"Oh..."

"The ninth floor is the master bedroom; Miss Kana also lives on this floor..."

"..."

"Floors ten through twelfth are all kinds of laboratories, and each room contains unfinished experiments. The young master and Miss Erza are currently on the eleventh floor..."

"..."

"This floor is [between ancient documents]..."

"..."

"This floor is..."

"..."

As Lucy listened, she felt more and more uneasy. Why was this supposed to be Albert's house, yet there were traces and rules left by other girls everywhere?

What does it mean that "because Miss Kana wanted to soak in a hot spring, the young master added a floor and converted it into a swimming pool and hot spring room"?

What does it mean that "because Miss Erza wanted a display room to store her casual clothes, the young master added a floor for experiments on clothing enchanting"?

What does it mean that "Miss Mira wanted to communicate with another world, so the young master added a layer for research on interdimensional communication"?

There are also a bunch of floors that were expanded because of the girls' various requests, and even little Wendy has her own teleportation room here.

Being a maid in the Abbott family is no easy task! There are just too many rules!

Lucy seemed to know why this "cake tower" kept getting taller and taller.

Moreover, from the maid's perspective, Lucy realized many serious issues...

Aibo has such good relationships with so many girls in the guild... Will he become a womanizer in the future?

Wait a minute, there are traces of other girls in Abo's house. Will he really be able to find a girlfriend in the future?

That doesn't seem right either. Too many girls like Abbott; he'll have to accept it whether he likes it or not. But what if they demand he remove all these "traces"? Wouldn't that cause a world war?!

But that's not necessarily true. If I want to move in, I can just add another floor.

No, no, no, what am I thinking?!

Lucy was a little confused.

Chapter 140 Erza's New Armor

Without mentioning Lucy's wonderful experience at Abbott's house.

Aibo is showing Erza the results of his research over the past few months—the [Warrior Armor]!

This was prepared by Ebo specifically to help Erza increase her strength and to deal with Jellal.

This is a full-body suit of armor. Unlike the medieval-style knight armor that Erza usually wears, this suit of armor designed by Ebo, inspired by Iron Man and Kamen Rider, is clearly more technologically advanced and ahead of its time.

Ebo is introducing his prized creation to Erza:

"This is the Crimson Armor!"

This armor doesn't have many flashy abilities. While providing a certain level of defense, it can enhance mobility, increase mana regeneration, and greatly improve your environmental awareness. Any extraneous information will be compiled into a panel projected onto your retina to help you analyze the battlefield situation...

At this moment, Erza, dressed in a very form-fitting crimson armor, was savoring the novel experience:

"It's so light, like wearing ordinary clothes..."

"This is mithril alloy, already the lightest metal material of this era. Breakthroughs in materials science are extremely difficult, and even with my abilities, I can't do better in a short time..."

"No, Abbot is already very powerful, and the materials used in this armor must have been expensive, right?"

"It's quite expensive, almost 100 million J. This kind of armor can only be custom-made; mass production is out of the question."

"Looks like Abbott is going to become my sister's creditor? My sister can't come up with 100 million in a short time."

"No problem, I'm not short of money anyway!"

At this moment, Abbott's face was filled with the joy of "realizing his dream." He was happy that he had actually handcrafted a set of knight's armor, and he was as excited as a real child.

"Because Erza can't always summon her armor from space during battle, I used a special space compression technique to make this armor into the shape of a belt. I suggest that Erza wear this belt all the time, so it won't interfere with changing into other armors!"

The most important thing is that the transformation effect of this armor is super cool!

As long as you shout "Henshin!", the transformation will begin from your belt and spread out to your entire body, revealing a full-body crimson armor. Every frame of the special effects is a testament to Aibo's hard work!

Aibo spent over a month working on this transformation effect!

If he weren't still growing and his height and body shape weren't fully developed, Aibo would also like to make himself a set.

Erza deactivated her transformation, her armor shrinking into a belt, then changed into a cat-eared maid outfit, and laughed:

"Alright, I'll accept this precious gift. Today is your day to serve as my maid, Abbot, so I must do my duty. Abbot, please feel free to tell me what you need."

"It's okay, I'm happy as long as Erza-neechan is with me in her maid outfit~"

Aibo thought Erza in her maid outfit was adorable, and he felt a little tempted, but unfortunately... he couldn't lose his good boy persona, so he felt like he was neglecting one thing for the other.

"Isn't there anything in particular that Abbott wants to do for his sister?"

Hey! Don't say such suggestive things in such a serious tone!

Aibo blushed:

"Then... can I have a hug from my older sister?"

Erza patted Ebo, who was only half a head shorter than her, and smiled indulgently:

"What kind of request is that? Abbott is too easily satisfied. But Abbott has grown taller now, he's a big boy now..."

Abbo received a happy hug, thankfully he had his special equipment [Space Panties], otherwise it would have been quite embarrassing.

"Okay, okay, I have an important experiment to do today, I have to go now. Sister, you can relax and have fun at home..."

Abbot was a little distressed. He had miscalculated. He should have saved the "Maid Day" and used it in a few years. It was such a waste to use it now!

But there will be other opportunities in the future...

"Then I'll go get some snacks."

Erza didn't know what the maid was supposed to do, but she would do her best.

Abbott's House of Commons was getting a little too excited and needed to cool things down, so he decided to give the House of Lords something to do.

The demon Lalabai was imprisoned by Ebo in a specially made "black box," an "information gathering device" that reverse-engineered spell models using information magic.

Magic is not purely a matter of miracles; everything about it has a traceable basis.

If Guga is put in, it will export a complete "text magic program", but Lalabai has been in the "black box" by Abbot for a day, and the analyzed information "text" contains a lot of "garbled code" - those are Abbot's blind spots, and the magical knowledge he does not understand cannot be analyzed by this device.

In a scientific world, Abbot would probably be at a loss, but this is a magical world. Although Lalabai is a magical creation, he can talk, so Abbot decides to talk to him directly.

[Lalabai, are you dead or not? If you're not, say something.]

[You bastard! What have you done to me?! Let me leave here! It hurts so much! I'm in so much pain!! I'll do anything you want! Just let me go!]

Do souls feel pain? To be honest, Abbott doesn't know.

However, his black box magic is a variation of "talking magic," which constantly scans and disassembles the contents, obtaining information through exhaustive mechanical interaction.

If I had to describe it, it would be somewhat similar to thousands of monks chanting sutras to a demon, obtaining various fragmented answers from the demon's repentance, and then combining them into a confession.

Magic is a wondrous thing; there's nothing Abbot can do if he can't understand it.

Stop howling, answer a few questions and I can make things easier for you.

Ask away! Ask away!

Where is your true form?

It was only after getting his hands on it that Aibo realized that the flute was not Lalabai's original form; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to decipher so many "garbled" characters.

On the Isle of the Underworld, which is the headquarters of the Gates of Tartaros and also Zeref's bookshelf,

Oh, so you're this easy to talk to? So honest?

We don't have to be enemies! Feel free to ask me anything! I'll answer you!

This demon is so spineless? This surprised Abbot a bit. After all, what were these demons created for?

Aibo was curious and asked:

"So tell me, what is your purpose?"

[Destruction! Growth! Absorb more negative emotions, become powerful enough, and then—kill Zeref!]

【ha?】

Abbot was astonished, Abbot was puzzled:

What does this mean? Isn't Zeref your creator?

Yes, I am one of Zeref's early experimental creations. When he created me, he inscribed a purpose into my soul: to create beings capable of killing themselves. That's the truth; I have no reason to lie to you!

"..."

Aibo felt as if he had accidentally stumbled upon some incredible, earth-shattering scoop, and his interest was immediately piqued.

Where is Zeref's bookshelf? Why did Zeref want to commit suicide? What does it mean to absorb negative emotions? Tell me everything, in detail!

Chapter 141 Spells? The Magic of Emotions?

Aibo stumbled upon a juicy piece of gossip.

I never expected that the demon I casually captured would bring such an unexpected reward.