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Noah had initially thought that someone like Anna would put up a struggle for a while before becoming cooperative, but it turned out to be the complete opposite. Anna caved so quickly it almost threw Noah off balance.
What does it mean to be a wise person who knows when to yield?
Noah snapped his fingers, and the Magnetic Field Power suppressing Anna immediately dissipated. He didn't forget to tease, "Smart people are indeed smart."
Anna sat down as if nothing had happened. "I can't help it. I'm just a fragile Celestial Spirit Mage—I don't have a strong physique like you."
A Celestial Spirit Mage's own body is their biggest weakness. Even a powerful Mage like Anna couldn't avoid it. If she couldn't summon a Celestial Spirit, her combat power was quite ordinary.
Fortunately, Lucy was influenced by Fairy Tail and assimilated into a Mage who cultivated both magic and physical combat, avoiding the weakness of her ancestors.
Anna didn't yet know that her family's descendant had become a Mage warrior. She took a sip of tea and then looked at Noah seriously. "Your strength is beyond my expectation. You are truly a formidable young man. It would be excellent if you could join our plan."
Finally, they were getting to the point. Noah put on an attentive expression. He was immensely curious about this mysterious plan that spanned four hundred years.
As Anna narrated, a plan involving the cooperation of humans and Dragons slowly unfolded before Noah's eyes.
More than four hundred years ago, a large portion of Dragons held malice towards humans. They wantonly toyed with humans, viewing them as food.
To survive, humans rose up in resistance.
Thus, a tragic war between humans and Dragons began.
Initially, humans suffered heavy casualties against the powerful and influential evil Dragons. Fortunately, a small faction of Dragons, led by the Fire Dragon King, stood on the side of humanity, preventing humans from being completely crushed by the evil Dragons.
Although they had the help of a peerless expert like the Fire Dragon King, the evil Dragon side also had the Earth Dragon King, one of the "Three Dragon Kings," who could contend with him.
Humans still struggled to resist the evil Dragons.
It wasn't until the queen of a certain country, with the help of a Dragon, created Dragon Slayer Magic that humans finally had the means to fight back against the evil Dragons.
Mages from all walks of life began to learn Dragon Slayer Magic, but it still wasn't enough to repel the evil Dragons in a short time.
And the evil Dragons wouldn't give humans more time to develop. They planned to launch a full-scale assault on humans after the "Dragon King Festival" ceremony.
The "Dragon King Festival" was a festival where Dragons decided their king. The victor would receive the allegiance of all Dragons. To prevent the Earth Dragon King from leading the entire Dragon race through the Dragon King Festival, the Fire Dragon King had no choice but to go to the Dragon King Festival.
However, at this moment, a variable appeared.
A human Dragon Slayer Mage single-handedly stormed into the "Dragon King Festival" ceremony. Facing the watchful eyes of thousands of Dragons, that Dragon Slayer Mage, with an irresistible and astonishing power, defeated the "Three Dragon Kings."
The Fire Dragon King was repelled.
The Lightning Dragon King was severely wounded.
The Earth Dragon King was skinned and disemboweled.
With the defeat of the three strongest Dragons, an unprecedented slaughter began. Just as the evil Dragons had once toyed with humans, this time they were hunted down and exterminated by a single human.
All the Dragons present at the Dragon King Festival, except for the Fire Dragon King and the Lightning Dragon King who escaped, perished regardless of whether they were good or evil.
From then on, the Dragon race existed in name only.
Ironically, though the Dragon race was gone, humans still couldn't escape their fear of the evil Dragons. This war ended without any clear victor.
That "Dragon Slayer Hero" who annihilated the Dragon race underwent a great transformation. He became a giant Black Dragon, constantly hunting down the remaining Dragons and Dragon Slayers who could use Dragon Force.
The Dragon Slayer ultimately became an evil Dragon.
The Black Dragon's strength was so immense that there was no one in the entire world who could stand against him for even a single blow. Both Dragons and humans could only be torn to shreds by him.
Since no one in that era could confront the Black Dragon, some who wished to eliminate him placed their hopes on the future.
The legendary Celestial Spirit Mage Anna, who had contracted with the twelve Golden Keys, the progenitor of Black Magic Zeref, and the Fire Dragon King Igneel, collaborated to draw up a blueprint for the plan to eliminate the Black Dragon.
Because only the power of a Dragon could defeat a Dragon.
So, Igneel and the four other Dragons he saved each adopted a human child and personally taught them Dragon Slayer Magic.
At the same time, the Black Wizard, with his astonishing wisdom, created a Black Magic that could traverse time—the Eclipse Gate. However, this magic required twelve Golden Celestial Spirit Keys to activate.
Zeref calculated that four hundred years later, the world's Magic Power would reach a peak. This wouldn't significantly boost the power of the already ceiling-level Black Dragon, but it would be a tremendous aid to the Fire Dragon King, who could fight him.
With the assistance of the other four Dragons, Zeref, and Anna, the Fire Dragon King was one hundred percent confident that in four hundred years, he could sacrifice his life to take half of the Black Dragon's life.
And by then, the Black Dragon, already severely weakened, facing the five Dragon Slayers taught as their own by the five Dragons, along with the two human powerhouses Zeref and Anna, his fate would be sealed.
The plan was set.
Five human children lived with the Dragons in the deep mountains, learning Dragon Slayer Magic. Afterward, they were sent by their "Dragon Daddies and Mamas" to Anna for a period, where Anna taught the children to adapt to human ways of life.
Then, the five Dragons, using the Dragon race's secret technique, the Soul Dragon Technique, secretly resided within the five children's bodies. They would use this to cultivate their power and simultaneously protect the children from Draconification due to Dragon Slayer Magic.
When everything was ready, Anna left a message for her clan to receive her four hundred years later, then used the twelve Golden Keys to open the Eclipse Gate, taking the five children and traveling to four hundred years later.
Because there were some minor complications during the crossing, Anna and the children were separated when they arrived in the world four hundred years later. The five children also forgot their experience of traveling through time, even completely forgetting Anna, their life teacher.
After quietly confirming that the children were not in danger, Anna went off alone to research another potential method to defeat the Black Dragon.
She discovered a spatial rift.
Perhaps she could use it to banish the Black Dragon into the seam between time and space.
Thus, in the six years since Anna's arrival, she had been tirelessly researching spatial magic. It was Noah's use of Anima, with its unique spatial fluctuations, that prompted her to reveal herself.
After listening to Anna's narration, Noah took a deep breath.
If nothing unexpected happened, the Black Dragon that Anna, Zeref, and Igneel were trying to deal with was the former child of the world who had turned evil in Earthland.
Although the plan was detailed, Noah didn't think it would succeed.
Because as long as it was in Earthland, luck would always be on the side of the child of the world. Any scheme against the Black Dragon could potentially be nullified or fail to have its intended effect.
For example, what if some unexpected event occurred, forcing the Fire Dragon King and the others to prematurely release the Soul Dragon Technique? Wouldn't the power they had cultivated be greatly diminished then?
Or what if Zeref fell into reclusion again and couldn't join the battlefield?
Or what if the Black Dragon had a breakthrough on the eve of battle, greatly increasing his strength?
In short, dealing with a child of the world would be very troublesome, unless... it was another child of the world.
But how could the "protagonists" of the new era, Fairy Tail, possibly contend with the Black Dragon, a terrifying entity capable of destroying a city with a single Dragon's Breath?
Is the world's will relying on cheats?