"Minerva?" Rhode thought for a moment, "I remember leaving her at the original place, and afterwards I never saw her again."
"Is that so..." Stinger looked a bit despondent.
Mira suggested, "Why not contact the organizers? I remember there were monitoring Magic Crystals all over the Royal Capital for broadcasting the final battle."
"Yes! There are monitoring Magic Crystals!" Stinger suddenly realized, "Thanks for the reminder! Then I will first..."
"Wait a minute," Rhode called out to the turning Stinger, and asked, "Haven't seen President Jerman these days, is there something urgent?"
"Well..." Stinger was somewhat troubled, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "President Jerman is already, already dead."
"Dead?" Rhode was shocked and instinctively doubted that mysterious person from the future, "Who did it?"
Stinger lowered his head: "It was me."
Mira was surprised, "How could it be?"
Murder is a serious crime, let alone killing the president of a legitimate guild.
"That day, President Jerman fiercely scolded the young lady for losing the match, and also cursed all of us contestants.
"Then, because Rekete spoke for me, the president... he tried to kill Rekete. I thought Rekete had already been killed by him, so in anger I struck..."
Rhode furrowed his brows, this Jerman is more volatile than he imagined, losing a match and resorting to murder?
Moreover, Stinger is quite brave, his relationship with Rekete seems to be similar to that of Natsu and Hapi?
Stinger recounted the events of that night, after he killed Jerman, no one in the guild blamed him.
Including Minerva, Jerman's biological daughter.
Minerva even performed "father's death, daughter's smile," appearing content and directly nominated Stinger as the next president of Sabertooth, preparing him to take office after the tournament.
"Unbelievable..." Mira found it hard to believe.
Does Minerva have no feelings for her father at all? Otherwise, she wouldn't have acted this way.
Furthermore, at that time Rekete was unharmed, concealed by Minerva's magic... it was as if she deliberately wanted Stinger to act.
Rhode also realized this.
And during Minerva and Kana's match that day, she seemed to hold back, was it to purposely provoke Jerman?
If that's the case, then this woman's scheming is quite frightening.
Seeing the expressions of the two, Stinger directly said, "If you want to report me..."
Rhode quickly waved his hand, "I'm not interested in doing such things, it's your guild's business."
Jerman's end is probably related to his long-standing oppressive policies.
Guild members all feared his authority, but due to the reputation of Sabertooth as the "First Guild" for years, no one dared say he was wrong.
After all, his policies indeed led Sabertooth to the top.
But this year, they should be waking up to reality.
The Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts is a festival-like competition, major guilds in the past may not have gone all out.
Like them, taking pride in winning an exhibition match's championship.
Exiting the tavern, Stinger breathed a sigh of relief.
Looks like not only companions from his guild, but even others from different guilds can understand his actions.
Then, the next goal is to find the young mistress and build Sabertooth into a guild that values companions more!
...
After sending off Stinger, it wasn't long before Mebius came over, "Rhode, come with me."
"Alright." Rhode nodded and glanced at Mira.
Mira smiled, "I'll watch over them here, otherwise they might tear the tavern down."
I think you actually want to see them tear the tavern down. Rhode mentally commented about his wife before leaving with the First Generation.
Then Mebius took him to find Lucy and Laxus.
The group went upstairs together, entering a room specially rented by the guild.
In the room, four small round tables were arranged in a square shape, surrounded by chairs.
Makarov and Future Lucy were already waiting inside, and sitting opposite them was another person.
Once they closed the door, this person took off his hood, revealing white hair, white beard, and an eye patch.
Laxus showed a look of surprise, "The Second Generation President?"
Rhode was somewhat surprised, but somewhat anticipated the reason for the person's presence here.
"Who?" Lucy didn't recognize Precht, exclaiming, "Our Second Generation isn't Demon Heart's... huh? Is this old man the Hades? Why..."
"Hahaha, nice to see you again, little brats." Precht laughed heartily, "An old fellow also said I've changed a lot over the years."
Makarov lightly shook his head, "This is your true appearance, isn't it?"
Mebius smiled and said, "You can begin."
The current Precht couldn't see or hear Mebius, so Makarov relayed her words.
Precht nodded, took out a small booklet, and said to Rhode and Laxus, "Your plan is feasible, the magic named Eclipse can send this girl back."
The girl referred to Future Lucy.
Rhode and Laxus had researched Eclipse Magic and several guild books on the theory of Space-Time Magic, finally formulating a plan for reverse usage of Eclipse.
Worried that it wasn't perfect enough, Rhode submitted the plan to the two presidents for review.
Unexpectedly, today he met the Third President, who directly gave affirmation.
President Precht, Master of Magic, mainly focused on researching Zeref's Black Magic in recent decades.
The approval from him is truly authoritative.
"But I've made some modifications," Precht added, "The Eclipse Gate that sent her back is damaged, and the magic power isn't sufficient.
"Our gate is intact, and if the magic is used timely, it can ensure relatively sufficient remaining magic power.
"Thus, theoretically, not only can she be sent back to her original timeline, but also return to an earlier time to allow those there to prepare better."
"Can this really be done?" Lucy held Future Lucy's hand, "We currently don't have any means to confront ten thousand dragons."
"No problem. As long as we can confirm tonight that the ten thousand dragons emerge from the Eclipse Gate, then return and ask companions to help prevent the gate from opening," Future Lucy declared, looking into Lucy's eyes with determination, "Even if we can't confirm it, I should stand together with my companions."
How could Lucy not understand what 'herself' was thinking? Whenever, always rely well on one's companions.
And Future Lucy's companions, on the other side.
Lucy nodded firmly, "Mhm! There will surely be a way."
"Don't be so pessimistic." Rhode said, "Even if we fail to confirm the origin of the dragons, you've mastered the usage of the Eclipse Gate.
"Once you're over there, you can entirely use the opportunity of opening the gate again on July 7th, go to the earlier past to prepare, or to a slightly later future investigate and find solutions."
"!" Future Lucy froze, it seemed this was indeed the case, once mastering the Eclipse Gate, there were more options.
Lucy found a blind spot, "Huh? Then aren't we on this side also completely unafraid of failure? Because there could be many chances."
Mebius, however, said, "No, that's a last resort, unless absolutely necessary, it's best not to do that."
Precht also said, "Time Magic is not a magic that can be abused casually, tampering with time and space may bring uncontrollable risks.
"For example, causing time and space rifts, inducing time and space disorders, the practitioner also has to endure considerable risks."
Everyone nodded seriously, formally beginning to discuss the details of tonight's actions.
Of course, also attentively teaching Future Lucy, luckily her learning capability is quite excellent.
Even though the magic could rival Super Magic with its complexity, she understood it as soon as she heard it.
Much later, everyone left the room.
Just as they went downstairs, Mira came to find Rhode, "The Royal Palace has sent someone to invite you over to discuss tonight's special activity."