Selene, who had opened a spatial passage earlier and had been silently watching everything unfold without saying a word, nodded with great satisfaction.
"I have witnessed human bonds, friendship, and family affection. I am very satisfied. Perhaps only humans would go this far."
After saying that, she also stepped into the spatial passage and left the meeting room.
Lucy, who had originally fainted, suddenly coughed and woke up.
The reason was that her heart had suddenly clenched just now, perhaps for less than half a second.
Levy asked anxiously, "Are you okay, Lu-chan?"
Lucy lowered her head and felt her condition for a moment before shaking her head.
"I'm fine."
"That's good."
Everyone let out a breath of relief.
"Let me heal you a little more, Lucy-san."
Without giving Lucy a chance to refuse, Wendy once again cast healing Magic on her.
Levy wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes, her voice somewhat choked.
"Devil Slayer Magic, healing, and Enchant: Separation... If something still went wrong after all that, I really wouldn't know what to do."
"Look!"
The Book of E.N.D. on the table suddenly began to change, and Natsu, who had been lying on the floor, slowly opened his eyes.
Just now, while Lucy was rewriting the book, the Demon Seed and Dragon Seed inside Natsu had collided, then slowly dispersed.
The Book of E.N.D. on the table glowed with green light and also began slowly fading away.
After being rewritten by Lucy, and with the Demon Seed disappearing, the Book of E.N.D. had already lost its function.
The Organic Link Magic had lost its connection to Natsu.
In other words, from now on, Natsu was neither dragon nor demon.
He was human.
"Thanks... everyone."
Sitting on the floor, Natsu raised his hand and smiled with narrowed eyes.
Lucy had written what had just happened into the book, so those memories had also appeared in Natsu's mind.
"Natsu!!!"
Happy threw himself straight into Natsu's arms.
"Thanks."
Natsu held Happy with one hand, looked around at the members who had gathered in the meeting room, and thanked them again.
"And thank you too, Lucy."
Finally, Natsu's gaze stopped on Lucy.
"Mm!"
Raizel knocked on the table, interrupting them.
"Save the thanks and touching words for later. For now, everyone, move out!"
"Yes!"
Natsu, after resolving the hidden danger of the Book of E.N.D. and the Demon Seed inside his body, was sent by Raizel to the southern side where Laxus and the others were stationed.
He would guard the uninhabited area between Lamia Scale and Hargeon Port.
Gray, as Juvia had wished, joined the Mount Hakobe group.
The joint forces of the Magic Council and the Kingdom of Fiore also gathered extremely quickly, each arriving at their assigned locations.
There were no civilians near Mount Hakobe in the north who needed to be evacuated.
Hyberion, the second-ranked God of Ishgar, arrived the fastest and immediately began directing the army's defensive deployment.
...
Western continent, Alvarez Empire—
After Zeref made his high-profile return to the western continent, the empire sharpened its weapons and gathered its forces.
After nearly five years, the Alvarez Empire once again mobilized a great army.
This time was different from several members of the Spriggan 12 acting on their own.
This time, Emperor Spriggan himself would personally lead the expedition, and the Spriggan 12 would move together.
Zeref concealed the news that Irene had left the western continent.
He publicly announced that Ishgar's strongest Mage had joined the Alvarez Empire, and he also revealed Emperor Spriggan's true identity—the legendary Black Wizard Zeref, recorded in the Apocalypse as the most violent, strongest, and most evil founder of Black Magic in the history of the Magic world!
For the already confident Alvarez army, this was undoubtedly another enhancement and a powerful shot of morale.
After all, this was a super empire formed by more than seven hundred and thirty Mage guilds.
And their opponent, Fairy Tail?
What kind of strange name was that?
Nothing but a bunch of weaklings!
Taking Fairy Tail would be as easy as reaching into a bag.
That was what the imperial soldiers all thought.
After Zeref delivered an important speech, and morale throughout the empire reached its highest point, the Alvarez Empire began rapidly assembling its army.
With August slacking off, Invel drafted the plan instead.
The Spriggan 12 would be divided into four groups.
Three groups would lead armies, while one group would carry out a surprise attack plan.
In addition, with more than seven hundred and thirty super guilds, it was not as if they could not gather powerful Mages aside from the Spriggan 12.
There were also powerhouse below the level of the shields, and Invel assigned them to the three armies accordingly.
After Zeref nodded, Invel gave the order and the army marched.
...
Five days after the defensive deployment—
The west was the first to encounter the advance force's attack.
The enemy consisted of Desert King Ajeel, God Serena, Winter General Invel, and countless powerful Mages.
"Confirmed. One hundred large magic cruisers."
Because Irene had left, and because some of the other Spriggan 12 were assigned to the surprise attack operation, the armies under several shields had been redistributed under the command of others.
"Just the vanguard alone has this many?!" Warrod Sequen tightened his grip on his cane.
"Open fire!"
At Raizel's command, the first thing that greeted Ajeel, who led the vanguard army, was the first round of fire from the newest Magic Convergent Cannon—Uranus.
A total of twelve Uranus cannons, eighteen Jupiter cannons, and over a hundred ordinary Magic Cannons that only needed explosive charges had been deployed on the western side.
Below them, the Sakura Knights led by Arcadios and the Council's First Assault Unit led by Richard waited in strict formation.
The Hungry Wolf Knights and Cross Knights had gone to the south and north respectively.
Jupiter and Uranus each required fifteen minutes to reload after firing.
They had already been loaded in advance and would be fired in stages to prevent gaps in firepower.
Before Ajeel could even start acting arrogant, he suffered a direct blow.
More than ten of the one hundred large magic cruisers he led were destroyed in an instant.
However, most of the Alvarez Empire's soldiers were Mages, so some survived even after falling to the ground.
Among them were Karim and Bakel from Ajeel's unit, as well as several other powerful Mages.
"Go help Richard and Arcadios clean them up."
"Yes!"
Five female Mages with short black hair, spears on their backs, and soft armor nodded in response.
The ones Raizel commanded were not Kurnugi, but five Mages created by Wendy using Personality Enchant.
As for their names, Raizel truly could not be bothered to come up with any.
Even after opening her Second Origin, Wendy's Magic Power was still far from Irene's.
Because of that, the people she enchanted could not reach the guild's S-Class level, but they were already quite good.
If she wanted to strengthen them later, she would have to wait until her own strength improved.
This was not something Raizel had asked for.
Rather, Wendy had secretly completed the enchantment before bringing them to Raizel.
Wendy felt that Raizel had assigned all the strongest people to the south and north, so she was worried that Raizel would not have enough manpower on his side.
Five was Wendy's current limit.
Otherwise, she would have wanted to enchant a few more.
Irene was the one who stopped her.
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