Fantasy in the world of crossover anime

"A duel?" Gildarts scratched his head and waved his hand dismissively.

"Sorry, sorry, let's talk about it another time."

"Alright!" Natsu shouted, but he had already started moving his body, preparing to rush towards Gildarts.

"Fool!"

Gray and Elfman pounced on Natsu, pinning him down and causing him to struggle and scream.

"Let me go! Let me go! I want to fight Gildarts!"

“You bastard…” Gildarts was exasperated.

"So impulsive, is this really what young people are like?"

"Isn't this better?" Erza, who had been scrutinizing Gildarts with a critical gaze, smiled sternly.

"Since Natsu is so motivated, wouldn't it be good for you to keep him company?"

"No, no, I just got back not long ago, I haven't even had enough rest yet." Gildarts waved his hand dismissively.

"There's no benefit in fighting someone like Natsu who only knows how to be straightforward, so let's just forget about it."

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.

Gildarts' strength is unfathomable. To challenge such a being, one must be at a severe disadvantage in strength and use roundabout tactics and strategies to fight, with only a pitiful chance of winning.

A character like Natsu, who only knows how to charge forward, is just a pushover no matter how hard he charges, reducing the already pitiful chance of defeating Gildarts to zero.

Therefore, everyone could understand the meaning behind Gildarts' words.

However, what happened next was beyond everyone's comprehension.

“Then…” Li Xiaoxi raised her head, looked at Gildarts, and gave a provocative smile.

"How about I fight you?"

"Xiao hope?!" Everyone was taken aback.

Gildarts was also stunned. Looking at Li Xiaoxi, the lazy and slovenly expression on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by the same composed smile as when he first returned to the guild.

"Then I'll keep you company for a bit!"

"Huh?" Everyone was stunned for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise at the same time.

"well----?!"

"It's getting late. Let's meet at the beach tomorrow." Li Xiaoxi noticed that it was getting late, and besides, she had just learned some new knowledge today and needed to combine it with practice.

"See you tomorrow then," Gildarts replied to Li Xiaoxi readily, then left the guild with a smile.

After Gildarts left the guild, the atmosphere within the guild was completely ignited.

However, both protagonists of the story left the guild one after the other.

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The next day, the coast of Magnolia Town was filled with people from the entire Fairy Tail. Unlike the usual cheers and joy, the atmosphere was somewhat oppressive, due to the terrifying magic emanating from Li Xiaoxi and the terrifying aura emanating from Gildarts.

Who would have thought that a seemingly harmless middle-aged man could exude such terrifying pressure?

"Is this Xiaoxi's magic? It's incredibly powerful!"

"I've always heard the president say that Nozomi's magic is incredibly strong, but I never imagined it was this strong. She can rival Gildarts in terms of sheer power just by using magic alone."

"Whether it's Hikari or Gildarts, I will defeat them."

Natsu, holding the unhatched dragon egg, looked at Li Xiaoxi and Gildarts, who were facing off, and said confidently.

"Forget about it! You stinky brat!"

"What did you say! You exhibitionist!"

The argument between the two was extinguished before it even began by the increased magic and aura of Li Xiaoxi and Gildarts.

Erza did not offer her opinion, but she gripped the sword even tighter.

"Go, Xiaoxi! If you lose, I'll never talk to you again. No, if you lose, I'll... I'll..." Mirajane thought for a long time but couldn't come up with anything she would do if Li Xiaoxi lost.

After sensing Li Xiaoxi's magic, Makarov couldn't help but exclaim, "That kid hasn't wasted his time studying these past few days; he's gotten even stronger. Gildarts, don't underestimate this child. If you do, you'll suffer a great loss."

In fact, Gildarts never underestimated Li Xiaoxi from the beginning. When faced with the pressure of Li Xiaoxi's magic, Gildarts put aside his underestimation and then began to fight back with the momentum he had cultivated over the years.

However, Gildarts discovered that no matter how much he increased his aura, Li Xiaoxi could always catch up in terms of magic power, and for every unit of aura Gildarts increased, Li Xiaoxi could increase her magic power by two units.

"Is this kid a freak? This magic is just too unfair!" Gildarts couldn't help but comment after witnessing Li Xiaoxi's magic. "However, this competition isn't about who has the strongest magic, whoever wins!"

Just as Gildarts was about to launch an attack, Li Xiaoxi canceled the suppression of magic.

"Gildarts, you're finally going to make your move! I thought you were just going to keep fighting like this forever!" Before Gildarts and everyone in Fairy Tail's eyes, a pair of pure white wings suddenly appeared on Li Xiaoxi's back, and she slowly flew into the sky. "I know my combat experience isn't as rich as yours, but don't underestimate my magic; they represent the power of an entire world."

“I’d like to see how many surprises you can give me, since you can fly up to the sky!” Gildarts said with great interest.

"Alright, since everyone's here, I'll introduce my magic to you all!" Li Xiaoxi took out her magic book and said to it, "Come out, everyone!"

Everyone in Fairy Tail, starting with Guild Master Makarov, stared wide-eyed after Li Xiaoxi announced she would demonstrate her magical power, especially Makarov. Makarov had already witnessed several different types of magic from Li Xiaoxi, and more importantly, she controlled them all exceptionally well, which piqued his curiosity. However, Li Xiaoxi hadn't revealed them, so Makarov hadn't asked. But today, Li Xiaoxi was going to announce her magic herself, which made Makarov extremely happy.

Chapter 239 Two Perverts

The Fairy Tail members standing on the shore were all clueless, except for Mirajane, who knew what Li Xiaoxi's magic was.

After Li Xiaoxi finished speaking, fifty-three playing cards flew out of the magic book and quickly transformed into fifty-three different kinds of spirits. Some were human, some were swords, and some were invisible, like a wisp of mist...

"Is this Xiaoxi's magic?"

"I guess so, but what kind of magic is Xiaoxi's?"

Even the guild master Makarov of Fairy Tail didn't know what kind of magic Li Xiaoxi was displaying.

"This is called the Little hope card. As for its specific abilities, you'll find out soon enough. Fire, begin!" Li Xiaoxi smiled at Gildarts, who was on the ground.

After receiving Li Xiaoxi's command, the Fire Card quickly merged into Li Xiaoxi's body from its spirit form. Facing Gildarts, Fairy Tail's strongest S-class mage, Li Xiaoxi did not use her full strength to fight him.

After the fire card merged into Li Xiaoxi's body, Li Xiaoxi launched the first attack.

"Kildarts, watch out!"

After Li Xiaoxi finished speaking, the entire sky immediately turned red, and the entire town of Magnolia became scorching hot. The sky seemed to have been dyed red, fiery red.

"This is Xiaoxi's magic? It's terrifying!"

"This flame seems to have a very delicious smell. After the competition, I must ask Xiaoxi for some to try." As a Fire Dragon Slayer, Natsu loves anything related to fire. For a Fire Dragon Slayer, flame is the best food.

Flying in the sky, Li Xiaoxi took advantage of the terrain and used the simplest and most direct attack, sending fireballs radiating high temperatures rapidly toward Gildarts, who was standing on the ground.

"Xiao hope, don't forget that my magic can pulverize anything, including your magic."

Gildarts showed no sign of nervousness in the face of the several scorching fireballs in the sky. Just as Gildarts was about to use his magic to shatter the fireballs that were about to come towards him, a huge magic circle appeared in the sky.

"Hey, this is way too unfair!" Gildarts said speechlessly, looking at the huge magic circle facing Li Xiaoxi.

"Just as you said, your shattering magic can shatter my magic. But I'd like to see how much you can shatter, and how much magic power you can shatter."

Makarov looked at the huge magic circle in the sky and nodded with satisfaction. It seemed Li Xiaoxi had made quite a bit of progress these past two days. Makarov found something familiar on Li Xiaoxi's magic circle—something from the library. It seemed this kid Li Xiaoxi had a good grasp of things.

After Gildarts annihilated Li Xiaoxi's first attack, Li Xiaoxi's magic was ready. Countless fireballs and arrows were aimed at Gildarts, striking him from all directions.

Gildarts abandoned his playful mood. Initially, he was just teasing Li Xiaoxi and hadn't used much of his power. After all, this was just a small contest with fellow Fairy Tail members, requiring very little magic. But the current situation was unexpected. If Gildarts didn't take it seriously, he might be defeated by Li Xiaoxi.

Gildarts used all his magic power, pushing his pulverizing magic to its limit, but even this couldn't completely pulverize Li Xiaoxi's countless magical attacks. "When did the guild get such a freak?!" Gildarts was now in agony. Although he had pulverized Li Xiaoxi's magical attacks, there were simply too many fire magic attacks. Even after pulverizing them, the shattered fire magic still maintained a certain temperature. The more magic Gildarts pulverized, the higher the temperature became; Gildarts now felt as if he were standing in the sun. His clothes were soaked with sweat several times, but the surrounding high temperature was drying them again.

In Gildarts' eyes, Li Xiaoxi was a freak, but in Li Xiaoxi's eyes, Gildarts was also a freak. To remain so steadfast under such attacks—just how much strength does that require?

However, in the eyes of everyone in Fairy Tail, Li Xiaoxi and Gildarts were both freaks. One's attacks could instill despair, and the other remained completely unharmed by those despairing attacks.

Makarov couldn't withstand Li Xiaoxi's attack, but Gildarts did, and did so perfectly. Seeing Li Xiaoxi's strength, Makarov thought to himself that he'd struck gold.

Ten minutes passed, and the scene remained the same. Twenty minutes passed, and the scene remained the same. Thirty minutes later, the scene remained unchanged.

"President, is Xiaoxi's magic really that..." Gray asked, swallowing hard as he looked at the huge red magic circle in the sky, which was still the same as before, but with even stronger magic power than the previous attacks.

“I didn’t expect that kid Xi’s magic power could reach this level. If it were anyone else, they would have stopped by now. But he seems to be unaffected, and it seems that the magic power of his attacks is even increasing. If this continues, Gildarts might really lose!” Makarov stroked his chin, watching the two who were actually fighting.

Li Xiaoxi was not annoyed when she could not break through after a long time.

"Gildas, I really admire you now. You actually managed to withstand such an attack," Li Xiaoxi said earnestly, looking at Gildas on the ground.

"If you admire me, then cancel that thing in the sky. Just how much magic do you have?" Gildarts maintained his magical power, speechless at Li Xiaoxi's words.

"Cancellation is impossible, but you said I have a lot of magic power. I see you have quite a bit too. But you'd better watch out, I'm about to unleash my ultimate move," Li Xiaoxi kindly reminded her.

"Do you have another ultimate move? Isn't this your ultimate move?" Gildarts stared intently at Li Xiaoxi and said.

"No, that's just a simple area-of-effect spell, I just improved and amplified it." Li Xiaoxi seemed to be saying something extremely simple, saying something that left Gildarts and everyone in Fairy Tail speechless.

That spell in the sky was just a simple area-of-effect attack. Are you kidding us? Do you really think we don't know anything about magic?

Chapter 240 Little Sun

However, Makarov didn't think Li Xiaoxi was joking. At Li Xiaoxi's prompting, Makarov re-examined the magic circle she had placed in the sky, which was actually unleashing countless fireballs or fiery arrows. After observing for a while, Makarov said seriously, "Xiaoxi is right. This is indeed a simple area-of-effect spell, but it's been modified somewhat."

"President, you're not serious, are you?" Gray asked incredulously.

Do you think I need to joke with you?

"So, Xiao hope..."

Li Xiaoxi maintained the magic power of that area-of-effect attack spell, while also preparing the ultimate move he had mentioned.

Slowly, a small sun appeared above Li Xiaoxi's head. That small sun emitted intense heat, a temperature that even Natsu, a fire dragon slayer mage, found extremely hot, let alone Gray, an ice-type mage who was extremely averse to fire.

Fortunately, Makarov noticed something was wrong and immediately deployed a sorcerer to prevent the temperature of Li Xiaoxi's sun from affecting the onlookers.

As the target of that sun's attack, Gildarts felt the extreme heat. His clothes couldn't withstand the heat and slowly began to burn. Gildarts immediately pulverized the burning clothes.

"This won't do. If this continues, we won't even be able to win the competition, and we'll lose our lives here." Gildarts looked at Li Xiaoxi's small sun and knew very well that things couldn't go on like this.

Gildarts looked around and noticed that the ocean was not far away. Gildarts immediately had an idea.

However, Gildarts is still some distance from the ocean, and there is also a huge magic circle that has locked him in place, so carrying out the Gildarts Plan is not so simple.

But there was no other way.

"Let's give it our all!"

After making his decision, Gildarts used all his remaining magic power, quickly creating a vacuum around him. Li Xiaoxi's area-of-effect magic couldn't penetrate further in that vacuum, but she didn't care too much. She continued to maintain her original magic output, diligently keeping the small sun above her head active. Once that small sun was complete, Li Xiaoxi believed victory would be hers.

Once Gildarts reached the sea, Li Xiaoxi's magic was complete.

"Gildas, you'd better watch out, this is my biggest attack right now," Li Xiaoxi said, and the little sun above her head immediately began to fall rapidly towards Gildas.

Standing next to Gray, Cana's worry was obvious as she saw the miniature sun and headed towards Gildarts. However, no one in Fairy Tail was paying attention to Cana's miniature sun.

"I've been waiting for your attack." As the sun drew near, Gildarts immediately dove into the sea. The miniature sun followed him.

In that instant when the sun was close to the sea, a scorching fog enveloped the entire sandy beach. This fog quickly covered the whole town of Magnolia.

"What is this? Why is there such hot fog all of a sudden?"

"It's probably a duel between mages from Fairy Tail!"

Gray, Natsu, Erza, Mirajane, and Makarov were all blinded by the extremely hot fog and could not know what happened after the sun turned into a sea.

Gildarts, having submerged in the ocean, felt the intense heat emanating from behind and, without daring to look back, continued into deeper waters. Once he reached a certain depth, Gildarts suddenly vanished into the ocean, reappearing right behind Li Xiaoxi.

"Looks like I've lost," Li Xiaoxi said quite naturally after sensing someone behind her.

“You’re the first person to have pushed me to this point,” Gildarts said, his voice serious rather than beaming with triumph. “I can defeat you only because you lack practical experience. In terms of magic alone, you’ve already surpassed me.”

"Can I take this as a compliment?" Li Xiaoxi said with a smile.

“That is indeed a compliment,” Gildarts replied with a smile.

"Then I'll accept it, Gildarts-senpai."

"By the way, could you cancel that?" Gildarts pointed to the huge magic circle under Li Xiaoxi's feet. Now, Gildarts was a little scared just looking at it.

Li Xiaoxi didn't speak, but she severed the magical energy transmission to the magic circle. The massive magic circle quickly disappeared after Li Xiaoxi cut off the magical energy.

Gildarts finally felt relieved after the magic circle that had caused him so much trouble disappeared.

Gildarts felt that this battle was more arduous than even 100 century-long missions.

"Xiao hope, Xiao hope, Gildarts!" Guild members called out from below after Li Xiao Xi canceled the magic circle.