Chapter 24: Preparing to Leave
Facts proved that Yumesaki's words were not wrong at all.
Convincing August was far easier than convincing Irene.
After meeting with August, Yumesaki only spoke three sentences, instantly making August believe him.
The first sentence: "I know you are the child of Zeref and Mavis."
The second sentence: "Even though Mavis is dead, her soul still wanders on Tenrou Island. Your father, Zeref, is also on Tenrou Island."
The third sentence: "Do you want to go meet them?"
August seemed to possess a type of magic that could discern lies. Seeing that Yumesaki was not lying, he voluntarily followed Yumesaki to Tenrou Island.
After bringing August into Tenrou Island, Yumesaki sure enough found Zeref, who was currently on Tenrou Island.
Then he brought Zeref to find Mavis's soul.
In front of those two people, while pointing toward August, he said, "Your child, your biological child."
Then, he turned around and left, leaving behind the two people who had turned to stone.
As for what kind of touching moment would be played out by those few people next, Yumesaki did not care about it.
Instead, he returned to the Alvarez Empire on the Alakitasia Continent, shifting his form, transforming himself into August.
Because Yumesaki used the power of a Devil Fruit, therefore, among the people in the Alvarez Empire, not a single one saw through Yumesaki's disguise.
Yumesaki used August's outward appearance, interacting with the members of the Spriggan 12 in this manner.
He copied their magic one time each.
There was only one person who was an exception. That person was... Larcade Dragneel.
It was necessary to know that Zeref's full name was precisely called Zeref Dragneel.
From this matter, the distinct uniqueness of Larcade could be seen.
He was an Etherious created by Zeref, serving as a secret weapon for the sake of fighting against the black dragon Acnologia.
As Zeref's experimental body for reviving the strongest Etherious, END, he possessed White Magic capabilities that controlled desire and the soul, incapacitating combat strength by triggering the enemy's desire and controlling a white cross to attack.
In the battle of Ishgar, his desire magic made the allied forces lose their combat strength, even affecting members of the Spriggan 12, including Irene, until it was forcibly stopped by Zeref.
August always felt that Larcade stole his father away, therefore acting very coldly toward Larcade.
Even if August gathered the Spriggan 12, Larcade was also always absent.
Therefore, going to look for Larcade in a situation like this and copying the opposing party's magic would be very easy for the opposing party to spot the weakness.
Thus, Yumesaki directly bypassed Larcade, looking for other people.
With each person, he only spoke a few sentences, patted the opposing party's shoulder, and after finishing copying the opposing party's magic, he then turned around and left.
By the time the other people still hadn't had a chance to react, Yumesaki had already successfully obtained his goal.
Therefore, Yumesaki never failed at all.
Very calmly, he copied the magic of the Spriggan 12 one time each.
Among them, the one that made Yumesaki most satisfied was the magic belonging to Dimaria Yesta.
As one of the Spriggan 12, this Dimaria Yesta was a pure battle maniac, referred to as the Goddess of War.
However, the magic used by that person was Time Magic.
It could halt time, and could even inflict all the pain ever experienced by the opposing party in the past onto their body simultaneously to carry out torture.
It was extremely excellent.
Next was the magic belonging to Brandish μ.
This woman who held the moniker of "Nation Destroyer" mastered command magic that altered the form and mass of objects.
She could make any object or human shrink completely, capable of making an island shrink into a pebble between the snaps of her fingers, and could also make any object shrink until it disappeared.
She could also enlarge a pebble into an island, and naturally could also enlarge living things, even up to a human body.
It was a quite terrifying magic.
Yumesaki felt this thing was really too good to use. If combined with his own magic, it could play out many absurd variations.
After mastering these magics, Yumesaki went back to Tenrou Island once again.
He planned to go look for August to copy his magic a little bit.
After all, he had already helped August and his parents recognize one another; August shouldn't refuse, which would be right.
However, at the moment Yumesaki returned to Tenrou Island, he discovered a problem.
Zeref was dead.
This matter precisely made Yumesaki slightly shocked.
Because Zeref was cursed by Ankhseram to not age and not die, up to the point where even committing suicide could not be done.
For the sake of killing himself, Zeref started to cause trouble, creating a massive number of Etherious, even using his younger brother's corpse to create the strongest Etherious, END, which was Etherious Natsu Dragneel.
But he who was here now, why did he suddenly die out of nowhere?
After Yumesaki asked August, he only found out from August's mouth that at the moment Zeref and Mavis found out August was their child, both of those people became extremely excited.
But right at this time, Zeref's curse flared up.
As previously stated, the curse received by Zeref was the Black Magic of Ankhseram, one of the ancient curses, its alias being the "Contradictory Curse." The more one respects life, the more it releases and scatters death energy; conversely, if one does not respect life and everything, then it will also not release death energy.
Therefore, Zeref's curse flared up, a terrifying black wave erupted, wanting to erase August.
But fortunately, August had already been prepared from the start, avoiding the curse at the very first moment.
However, this did not mean August was safe.
Because this curse thing had a possibility of flaring up at any time.
But right at this moment, Mavis was also struck by the same curse as Zeref. The more she loved life, the more she released death energy.
The feelings of guilt toward her child, the feelings of love toward Zeref, made Mavis's death curse surpass Zeref's.
Subsequently, in the blink of an eye, it finished off Zeref.
Thus, Zeref just died like that.
Ah, this... this was precisely a matter that Yumesaki had never thought of.
Unexpectedly, Mavis, because she wanted to protect her child, erupted with a powerful force and finished off her husband.
For a moment, Yumesaki didn't even know how to provide a comment.
What was this considered? A woman is originally weak, but for the sake of becoming a mother, she becomes strong?
Uhm... it was also not unacceptable.
However, based on what was said by August, his father Zeref, at the moment of his death, was actually very relieved, and also very joyful.
Because he finally did not need to kill living things anymore.
Therefore, August did not hold a grudge against Yumesaki. Instead, he was very grateful to Yumesaki and agreed to let Yumesaki copy his own magic.
Thus, Yumesaki copied all of August's magic here.
Yumesaki had to admit, August's title of Wizard King lived up to its reality, because the magic he could perform was truly extremely vast—vast to the point of making Yumesaki's eyes become dazzled.
In the original storyline, August displayed quite a few magics that made people marvel, but that only constituted the tip of the iceberg for August.
After finishing copying August's magic, he only then understood what was called the Wizard King.
Its gold content was completely full.
But fortunately, after copying August's magic, the current Yumesaki could also be referred to as a Wizard King.
After once again expressing his gratitude to Yumesaki, August left Tenrou Island, returning to the Alvarez Empire.
Even though his parents were no longer around, August still decided to guard the empire founded by his father until he himself died.
Yumesaki also followed the situation to leave Tenrou Island, returning to the Fairy Tail Guild.
At the same time, he recounted the news of Zeref's death to Erza and Makarov.
After Makarov finished listening to these words, he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Once Zeref died, the greatest crisis inside Fairy Tail could be considered to have passed.
As for Tartaros, Edolas, and the like, in Makarov's view, they were not considered a problem at all. With Ishgar's strength, calming down this chaotic world wouldn't exert much effort at all.
As for the Grand Magic Games and such, since they already knew about it, they naturally wouldn't let those things happen.
The only enemy that was somewhat troublesome, there was only one.
The black dragon Acnologia.
This guy was the greatest and also the most unstable factor in this world.
Yumesaki said with a broad smile, "Do you need me to help you guys finish off the black dragon?"
With his current strength, causing a black dragon to die was not a problem at all.
The greatest trump card of the black dragon Acnologia was being capable of turning all magic back into magic power and devouring all magic power, which was what was referred to as being immune to magic.
In a world that was everywhere filled with magic, being immune to magic and the like was originally the greatest bug.
If he did not possess this ability, the black dragon Acnologia at most would be considered a powerful monster.
He wouldn't be invincible.
And Yumesaki, this traveler who originated from another world, a human who mastered other power systems, happened to precisely be the greatest natural enemy for the black dragon Acnologia.
However, facing Yumesaki's request, Erza vaguely noticed something, opening her mouth to ask, "Are you going to leave?"
Yumesaki was startled, looking toward Erza with wonder.
"How could you know?"
"Because whether it is settling Zeref or volunteering to settle the black dragon, you give people the feeling that you are going to leave. Before leaving, you must arrange all affairs properly."
Hearing those words, Yumesaki could not help but laugh out loud.
"Good observation skills, Erza." Yumesaki gave a compliment.
In reality, the days he had come to this world had also reached a point in time; the Golden Gate was once again connecting to a new world.
Based on a sense of curiosity, Yumesaki indeed wanted to go to the new world to take a brief look.
Therefore, before leaving, he planned to first settle the affairs of Fairy Tail a bit.
Seeing that she had managed to guess correctly, Erza's eyelids trembled slightly, "After you leave, do you still plan to return?"
"If there is free time, I will return," Yumesaki said.
Erza could not help but smile, "If that is the case, then the matter of the black dragon is handed over to you."
She understood very well. Zeref had already been taken away by the first Master, Mavis; those two people had already left this world.
If during the guild's S-class Wizard trial the black dragon came, without the protection of the super magic Fairy Sphere belonging to Master Mavis, everyone in the guild would be wiped out by the black dragon.
Of course, there was still one type of possibility.
Zeref was not on Tenrou Island, therefore the black dragon would also not be interested, much less would he come to Tenrou Island.
But the problem was, in a situation like this, would Erza dare to take a gamble?
She asked her own heart; she did not dare, because with a matter like this, once one lost the gamble, the stakes were the lives of the guild members.
Therefore, Erza's thinking was very simple. Rather than going to gamble on an uncertain matter like this, it was better to directly let Yumesaki finish off the black dragon Acnologia, resolving the problem once and for all.
Yumesaki gave a thumbs-up and said, "As expected of Erza, you think clearly. Just leave this matter to me."
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