Chapter 20: The Hunted Oración Seis
The cat that had just walked in was, of course, the Exceed who had come to this world from another world along with Happy—Carla.
Although both cats belonged to the Exceed race, in reality, the Exceeds weren't as strong as one might imagine.
As everyone knew, in the parallel world of Fairy Tail, Edolas, the humans lacked innate magical power and couldn't use magic directly, forced to rely on magical items to cast spells. However, because Carla and Happy's race possessed magical power within their bodies and could use magic naturally, they were called the Exceed race. For that reason, they held an absolute, supreme position above all else in Edolas.
But if you wanted to talk about how strong they actually were? It wasn't really to that extent.
One had to know that Carla was considered a princess among the Exceeds, yet any experienced wizard with actual combat background could defeat her. From this, it was obvious that the Exceed race wasn't powerful at all. The reason they held such a supreme position in Edolas relied entirely on acting like gods to intimidate the humans. It had to be said that the leader of the Exceed race truly possessed a knack for manipulation.
Ah, the conversation had strayed too far.
Yumesaki pulled back his wandering thoughts and looked toward Carla.
Faced with Happy's attempts to please her and his close approach, the white cat's first reaction was to completely ignore him. Although she also felt that Happy looked very much like her, the incredibly dense aura of a loser radiating from him made her step back, avoiding Happy as he closed in. She directly bypassed him and walked toward Wendy.
Happy instantly turned to stone.
There was nothing more sorrowful than this. With great effort, he had finally met a girl who made his heart flutter, only to be completely ignored by her. Ah, this...
"Hahahahaha! Happy, you're too pathetic, seriously too pathetic!"
Right as Happy was drowning in his sorrow, Natsu burst out into an unprecedented roar of laughter, mocking Happy to his heart's content.
This naturally made Happy furious. "You're terrible, Natsu! Take this!"
The two of them instantly fell into a scuffle, making a loud racket as they fought.
Carla looked at the two idiots making a scene with a face full of disgust. People like this actually wanted to go on an expedition to subjugate the Oración Seis? Was there really no problem here?
At the same time, seeing that everyone had gathered, Erza clapped her hands, calling everyone over to hold a meeting.
Yumesaki looked around, searching for traces of the enemy.
In the original timeline, when Fairy Tail, Lamia Scale, Blue Pegasus, and Cait Shelter gathered to discuss how to defeat the Oración Seis, Jura was the first to take an unexpected hit. Then, everyone was caught off guard by the Oración Seis, falling into complete disarray and suffering heavy losses. Fortunately, everyone remained resilient and refused to give up, quickly launching a counterattack and ultimately defeating the Oración Seis.
Therefore, Yumesaki had planned to scout out the Oración Seis beforehand. But after using his Clairvoyance magic to patrol the area for several rounds, he didn't find a single trace of them. It was as if this group of people had absolutely no idea they were about to be subjugated.
Could it be that the plot had changed?
While Yumesaki was pondering this question with curiosity, Erza finished assigning all the tasks. Everyone nodded one by one.
Ichiya even spoke in a highly gentlemanly style, "Rest assured, Erza. For your sake, I am willing to go through boiling water and walk through fire. A small matter like this is absolutely no problem."
The three from Blue Pegasus said with faces full of admiration, "As expected of Master Ichiya."
Natsu and Gray instantly felt an overwhelming wave of goosebumps. Lucy even had a look of complete speechlessness. If these words were spoken by an incredibly handsome man, they would surely be touching lines of love. But coming from Ichiya, it just made people shudder.
Conversely, Erza remained entirely expressionless, which only earned her more of Lucy's awe. As expected of Erza; she could face even this with absolute composure. She still had a lot to learn.
Afterward, everyone boarded Blue Pegasus's magical bomber ship, the Christina, heading toward the Oración Seis's base.
The so-called magical bomber ship was actually an airship capable of flight. It could be considered a unique transport vehicle belonging to Blue Pegasus. The Fairy Tail guild didn't possess such nice things.
Under the control of the Blue Pegasus members, the magical bomber sped forward, arriving at the Oración Seis's base in no time.
A loud rumble echoed across the sky.
When everyone arrived, they unexpectedly discovered that the sound of battle was already ringing out below. Massive explosions thundered continuously in their ears.
Yumesaki looked down, seeing nothing but chunks and statues of ice wildly tearing apart the surrounding environment. At this moment, Yumesaki finally understood why the Oración Seis hadn't gone out to ambush Natsu's group.
It was because they had been intercepted by someone. Or rather, they were currently being hunted.
The person hunting them was none other than Ur, whom Yumesaki had resurrected.
One had to remember that the leader of the Oración Seis, Brain, was the exact same Brain who had deceived Ur all those years ago, making her misunderstand that her daughter had died. He was also the main culprit behind the lifelong tragedies of both Ur and Ultear. Now that Ur was alive again, how could she possibly let Brain go?
"What happened?"
At the same time, everyone aboard the magical bomber ship still didn't understand the situation.
"It looks like someone is already fighting the Oración Seis?"
"Huh? Could the Magic Council have sent someone else to help us?" Natsu asked, completely out of the loop.
"I don't know," Hibiki shook his head, steering the airship closer to get a look at the woman fighting the Oración Seis.
Gray and Lyon instantly looked as if they had been struck by electricity.
"N-No way..."
"Ur... How is this possible?"
Both of them recognized that the woman fighting the Oración Seis was none other than their master, the Ice Wizard, Ur.
But Ur was supposed to be dead.
Lyon seemed to realize something, quickly turning his gaze to Yumesaki and Erza. "Was it you guys?"
Back when he intended to release the seal on Deliora, Yumesaki and Erza had rushed over to teach him a lesson. After breaking the seal, the two had simply left. At that time, Lyon felt incredibly confused, completely unable to comprehend what those two had actually come to do. But seeing Ur now, Lyon immediately put the pieces together.
The problem was, how could such a thing even be possible? They had actually managed to resurrect Ur? The idea of the dead returning to life was completely absurd.
Hearing his senior disciple direct accusations at Yumesaki and Erza, Gray, who didn't understand the situation, asked, "What is really going on here?"
Yumesaki interrupted the two with a cryptic smile. "Do you want to figure out the reason right here, or do you plan to head down and help your master?"
Lyon's heart instantly grew alert. That was true; now was not the time to argue about this. They had to go help their master. He quickly asked Hibiki to open the airship's hatch and leaped out.
"Ice-Make: Flying Bird!"
A massive bird was successfully manifested. It gripped Lyon's collar, flying down toward Ur and the Oración Seis.
Seeing this, Gray refused to be outdone and leaped down as well.
"Ice-Make: Slide!"
A slide made entirely of ice stretched from beneath Gray's feet all the way to the ground.
Watching this scene, Natsu slammed his fists together. "I'm getting fired up! Happy, let's charge in too!"
Happy responded with a shout, flying over to grab Natsu's collar. With a sharp whoosh, they flew straight out, heading toward the battlefield. Although Happy lacked combat power, he was highly skilled in Max Speed, capable of carrying a person through the air. Even if he could only carry one.
Seeing that everyone had begun to move one by one, Erza smiled slightly and said to Yumesaki, "Let's head out as well."
"Sure."
Yumesaki nodded. Suddenly, Lucy rushed over and grabbed onto him. "Take me with you!"
Yumesaki smiled, grabbed Lucy, and performed a single teleportation, vanishing from the airship. In the next second, the two of them appeared on the ground.
"Among the Oración Seis, there's a woman named Angel. Just like you, she's a Celestial Spirit Wizard. She'll be handed over to you. That shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"Huh? Handed over to me?" Lucy pointed at herself, her face completely bewildered. Even though she and the woman named Angel were both Celestial Spirit Wizards, they weren't even on the same level.
"Don't worry, with me here, nothing will go wrong." Yumesaki patted Lucy's shoulder, adding a layer of protective Barrier over her. The barrier clung tightly around Lucy's body, radiating a faint light. "This barrier can protect you. As long as it isn't an explosion on the level of the heavens collapsing and the earth splitting, it won't be able to hurt you in the slightest. Step forward with confidence."
Looking at the barrier surrounding her entire body, the fear Lucy had initially felt instantly vanished, replaced by an exploding wave of confidence. After all, Yumesaki was the strongest wizard in Fairy Tail. The barrier he provided had to be incredibly powerful.
"Just leave it to me with peace of mind!" Lucy patted her full chest and charged toward Angel.
At the same time, Erza had already locked her sights on Midnight from the Oración Seis.
This person, just like Erza, was actually a slave from the Tower of Heaven. It was only because he possessed powerful magical power that he was taken away by Brain. In reality, aside from their leader Brain, most of the members in the Oración Seis were former slaves from the Tower of Heaven. All of them had been taken away by Brain to be trained due to their immense magical power.
It was also fortunate that Erza hadn't shown such powerful magical strength back then. Otherwise, she might have been taken away by Brain to be trained as well, becoming a member of the Oración Seis.
However, facing a child who shared the same origins from the Tower of Heaven, Erza showed no mercy whatsoever. Lethal moves were unleashed repeatedly.
In the original timeline, Midnight had been defeated by Erza. Furthermore, the current Erza had been enhanced by Yumesaki using a Devil Fruit, making her strength far greater than it was in the original story. Defeating Midnight wouldn't require much effort at all.
Of course, Midnight wasn't weak by any means. This guy was proficient in Reflector magic, which was a type of spatial magic. It could distort and reflect any light or objects. While it couldn't distort living things and could only warp one space at a time, those drawbacks didn't take away from its brilliance.
After all, time and space were inherently extremely advanced and extraordinary magics. Any magic related to such concepts was never simple.
Like Midnight's Reflector magic, it couldn't just distort space to reflect any of his opponent's attacks; he could even warp the clothing or armor on an opponent's body to twist and torment them. He could also cause powerful spatial tearing and compression to torture his foes, distort the light within a space to create illusions, and even warp space to perform teleportation.
Attacking, defending, and evading—his arsenal was incredibly complete.
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