"Bang! Crash…"
"You bastard! Give it back to me!"
"I think you don't know what's good for you…"
Inside the Fairy Tail Guild, it was still a chaotic mess.
Amidst the rough language, various dazzling spells flew through the air.
"Tsk…"
At the Mage guild's entrance, Chrollo, who was about to say a few more words to the adorable, crimson-haired little ball that was Erza in front of him, finally couldn't take it anymore after hearing the constant noise coming from inside.
He first looked at Erza beside him, trying to show a kind smile, and said, "Just a moment, I'll be right back."
Then, with a "bang".
Chrollo kicked open the Mage guild's front door and rushed inside.
When Erza saw the door violently kicked open by Chrollo, she finally understood why the Mage guild's door was always new.
"Hey! You brats…"
"Are you planning to tear down the Mage guild like this?!"
"Why don't you stop it already?!"
Chrollo faced the noisy crowd inside the Mage guild and shouted angrily.
"Watch my Ice-Make…"
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!!"
"Smoke Magic!!"
"Picture Magic!"
Unfortunately, at this moment, all the Mages in the Fairy Tail Guild were clearly fired up, each of them seemed to be in a frenzy, as if they hadn't heard Chrollo's roar at all, and continued to unleash endless magic without stopping their actions.
"All of you… stop it!"
Seeing this, Chrollo's eye twitched slightly, then he raised his left hand.
As Chrollo raised his hand, a huge purple magic circle formed above the Mage guild…
The next second.
Everyone who was brawling in the Fairy Tail Guild suddenly felt their shoulders sink. Before they could think much, immense Gravity Magic poured down from the magic circle above, firmly pressing each of them onto the floor.
"Ugh…"
"So heavy! I can't move my body."
"Is this Gravity Magic?!"
"In that case, Chrollo is back…"
When these frenzied Mages of the Fairy Tail Guild were firmly pinned down by Chrollo's signature Gravity Magic and intimately rubbed against the ground, they finally calmed down and put away their respective magic circles.
"Sigh…"
In response, Chrollo let out a long sigh and withdrew his magic.
"Chrollo, how was your job?"
After Chrollo withdrew his magic, the logistician who usually handled miscellaneous tasks for the Mage guild and was also the Mage guild's poster girl, walked up to Chrollo with a smile and asked about his work.
"The job went quite smoothly."
"Although a few people escaped, it's harmless…"
Chrollo paused here and asked, "Is the Master not here? He's letting these guys destroy the Mage guild."
"The Master went to attend the annual…"
"Mage Guild Master's meeting under the Magic Council."
The girl immediately replied.
"I see."
Chrollo rubbed his temples, thinking to himself that no wonder the Mage guild was in such a mess with no one in charge.
With the Master at the meeting and Gildarts on a long-term mission, whereabouts unknown, it was like a holiday for these kids in the Mage guild, allowing them to do as they pleased.
"Chrollo, let's fight!"
Just as Chrollo was about to say something else, Natsu, with a dragon-scale-like scarf around his neck and short cherry-pink hair, somehow put down Gray, whom he had been grappling with, and rushed in front of Chrollo, shouting.
"Not today, I'm very tired. Next time!"
Chrollo looked at Natsu in front of him, speaking without interest.
Honestly, sometimes Chrollo truly envied that kid Natsu; he was always so energetic.
"Oh! Natsu is challenging Chrollo again?"
"I wonder how long Natsu can last against Chrollo this time?"
Inside the Mage guild, after being forcibly stopped from fighting by Chrollo, the members instantly dropped their previous grudges. One second they were "fighting to the death," and the next they were acting as if nothing had happened, resuming their drinking. Seeing Natsu's incredibly determined figure blocking Chrollo's way, they all laughed.
"Chrollo, here I come…"
The next second, Natsu, as if he didn't understand what Chrollo said, let out a loud shout, bursting into fierce flames. He swung his childish fist directly at Chrollo, roaring loudly, "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"
"When the strength of your punch is half as loud as your roar, then come challenge me!"
Seeing this, Chrollo easily blocked Natsu's flaming fist with one hand.
Then, the arm holding Natsu's fist suddenly lifted towards the sky.
"Eh…"
Natsu was instantly pulled upwards by the force Chrollo applied, his body flying into the sky.
"Buzz!" Just as Natsu's body involuntarily flew into mid-air and gradually stopped, a purple magic circle suddenly appeared beside him.
"Boom…"
For a moment, everyone only heard a roar.
Natsu was then sent flying by the horizontally applied Gravity Magic released from the purple magic circle in the sky, smashing through the window glass on the second floor of the Mage guild and falling into the distant canal.
"Hahahahaha…"
"That Natsu, he got one-shotted again!"
"That's hilarious…"
"No choice, the power gap is too big. After all, Chrollo is one of only two active S-Class Mages in our Mage guild!"
"I'd say, that kid Natsu is a bit too overconfident…"
For a moment, the Fairy Tail Guild was filled with laughter and joy.
"Phew…"
After getting rid of the annoying Natsu, Chrollo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"A bottle of plain water."
Chrollo came to the Mage guild bar and asked for a glass of plain water.
"Alright…"
As the server finished speaking, a glass of plain water was placed in front of Chrollo.
"Gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp…"
"Finally, I can rest a bit."
Chrollo sat at the bar, chugging down a bottle of plain water. His mind seemed to have a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly remembered something…
"Oh, right, Erza is still there."
Chrollo quickly went outside the Mage guild's door and invited Erza, who had been obediently waiting outside the door as he had told her, inside the Mage guild.
"Chrollo, who is this person?!"
"She's quite cute!"
"Why is a girl wearing armor?"
The drunken members inside the Mage guild, seeing Chrollo invite a cute crimson-haired girl from outside, asked in confusion.
"This is Erza, our Mage guild's new member."
Chrollo truthfully answered everyone's questions and led Erza all the way to the bar. From the Master's casually placed box, he pulled out the Fairy Tail Guild's magic stamp.
Hmm, next to the magic stamp was half a bottle of whiskey left by the Master…
"He really should find someone to specifically manage the stamp."
Chrollo muttered softly, holding the stamp, he came in front of Erza and gently said, "Erza, stamp this, and you'll be a member of the Fairy Tail Guild."
"Mm."
Erza nodded with a smile upon hearing Chrollo's words.
She had been waiting for this day for a long time.
"Good."
Chrollo nodded gently at this.
As he spoke, Chrollo stamped the Fairy Tail Guild's emblem, resembling a fairy flying freely in the sky, onto Erza's fair, slender forearm.
From this moment, Erza Scarlet officially joined the Magician Guild Fairy Tail.
Meanwhile, on the West Continent, in the Alvarez Empire.
A woman who looked ninety percent like Erza…
If one had to describe her, she was an adult, mature, queen-version of Erza, currently lying on a sofa, holding a crystal ball in front of her, quietly watching Chrollo and the others in the image.
"I finally found you~"
"Heh heh, you really didn't die~"
"Once I eliminate all the obstacles that stand between us!"
"Our family can finally reunite…"
The woman's name was Irene Belserion.
She was the founder of Dragon Slayer Magic four hundred years ago, and also Erza's mother.
She was known as the Mother of Dragon Slayer Magic, the Dragon Queen, the Sage Dragon, the Scarlet Despair…
She was the only and strongest highest-ranking executive of the Alvarez Empire on the West Continent, an empire created by the legendary Black Wizard Zeref specifically to fulfill his dream, and a member of the Spriggan 12.
At the same time, she was also one of the Empire's strongest Twin Walls…
It could be said that even if the remaining ten Spriggan 12 members outside of the Twin Walls were combined, they would be no match for her.
Such a person, who could be said to stand at the pinnacle of the West Continent, and even the entire world, undeniably a top-tier combatant, with no more than ten people in this era who could rival or surpass her, an existence like a queen on the West Continent, was now looking at the crystal ball and letting out a soft chuckle.
"Irene-sama, what's wrong?"
"Shh, don't ask…"
"Those who talk too much die."
In Irene's bedchamber.
The two adorable maids, Heine Lunasi and Juliet Sun, who were specifically responsible for attending to Irene's daily needs, were now whispering with their heads down. Facing Irene, who was like a great demon lord, they dared not say anything, nor did they dare to ask anything.