As time passed, it was approaching dusk, and the sky had begun to darken.

Elusa and Lucy at the Honey Bone Hotel not only took a good bath during this time, but because of the strange point, Elusa suspected that there was some mechanism in this room, but after checking the room inside and out with Lucy, they didn't find anything suspicious, it was completely an ordinary six-person hotel.

"It's not getting early, and Natsu and Gray haven't been back yet...... Do you want me to go find them," Lucy, who had changed her clothes, leaned against the window and looked at the sidewalk below.

Elusa, who was wiping her weapon after hearing Lucy's words, stood up from the couch, and Elusa had been wrapped in a bath towel since Elusa had taken a shower.

"It's getting late," said Elusa as she walked over to Lucy and looked up at the darkened sky.

"Well, it's good that you go and look for it, and it's better for them to come back sooner......" Elusa said as she looked at Lucy.

"Hmm," Lucy nodded, and immediately turned and walked downstairs, soon appearing in Elusa's field of vision, walking in one direction.

When Lucy's figure disappeared from Elusa's vision, Elusa suddenly heard something sniffing.

This kind of familiar voice Elusa is not too familiar, why is it familiar because as soon as this sound appears, all kinds of goosebumps appear all over her body, and at this time she feels that goosebumps are constantly popping up all over her body, and the hairs on her back can't help but stand up.

"One...... ...... Night" thought of the name in her mind, and Elusa turned around sharply, and sure enough, she was behind her back, smelling right behind her all night.

"When did you get here?" said Elusa, taken aback.

"Long time no see, Elusa, the fragrance on your body is still so fragrant," said Elusa as she sniffed at her.

Hearing this all night, for a moment, Elusa not only felt a nameless anger in her heart, but also kept rushing upward,

"You bastard, don't just go into other people's rooms, get out of here" Elusa punched the night out of the window and flew out.

After beating the night out, Elusa immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but Elusa, who had just been relieved, was surrounded by three people, and because of the sudden appearance, Elusa was stunned for a moment.

"You look very charming when you're angry"

"Do you need my comfort?"

"Towel, please" The three handsome cyan Pegasi who had been following him all night continued to play their roles and began to talk to Elusa.

With a sigh of relief, Elusa's whole body began to tremble, which was a sign that Elusa was going to go crazy again, and it really didn't take more than a second.

"You guys get out of the ...... too" solved the three handsome guys in the blink of an eye, and flew out of the window like the night before.

At this moment, Elusa was completely relieved, after the three handsome men of the cyan Pegasus left in the night, no one should do such a speechless thing, thinking about why the night came here, I am afraid that the reason why I just saw Lucy leave the hotel.

And Lucy, who had just left from the honey bone, was walking down the street and looking around, and it was still a little troublesome to find Natsu from such a big city, but if you think about it, Nazgray is a little childish by nature, but she will not delay her business.

"Am I going to be too worried?" said Lucy, looking around and soon spotting a clock hanging in a shop.

"Seven twelve...... It looks like I'm nervous about tomorrow's game, I still have so much time," Lucy sighed.

"I don't know why, there's always a strange feeling" Lucy frowned slightly and said to herself, thinking about it but not feeling anything, then Lucy walked towards the street again, Lucy didn't notice that her small leather bag hanging the star spirit fairy was emitting a strange light, this light seemed to be distorted in space and was extremely weak, so it was difficult to be detected.

The sky of Kulokas is getting darker and darker, and some stars are emerging from the sky, shining brightly, but there is a slight abnormality in this seemingly ordinary sky, if someone who knows astrology looks closely, they will find that there are more unknown stars in the sky, and they are still increasing, and the additional stars seem to be forming in a certain trajectory, but this speed is extremely slow, so no one has noticed it.

This day has entered the night, which also means that the magician guilds participating in the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts are basically concentrated here, and the same non-magicians are also gathered here, after all, this is the grandest annual festival of Fiore, and this time of year is also the time when the people of Kulokas are the most, and because of the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts The hotel of Kulocas, the royal capital of the Wufiore Kingdom, is invisibly much more.

In short, from the financial point of view of the country, the Great Demon Fighting Exercise has also brought a lot of income to the Fiore Kingdom, and the country's economy has developed a lot.

Lucy walked around the street for more than two hours and didn't find Natsu and Gray's shadows, when Lucy found that she was very close to the guild inn at this time, she hurriedly walked to the glorious hotel chartered by the guild itself, and the whole guild lived in that hotel, because everyone in the guild who participated in the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts Guild came to cheer for Elusa and them, but when Lucy arrived, there were not many people in the guild, and most of them were walking around in Kulokasr like Nazgre.

But Mirajane and Lizana happened to be in the hotel and seemed to be busy with something.

"What is this doing, Sister Mira?" Lucy walked in to see Mirajane counting some snacks and drinks.

"The president instructed that this is a condolence gift for the people who participated in the Great Demon Fighting Exercise, and I have to comfort them at this time," Mirazhen said with a smile.

"I see, but this is the time to make them happy, they will definitely have a hard time in the next few days," Lucy nodded in agreement.

"However, so many things have to be given to Elusa, the president is really generous," Lucy said as she looked at the large boxes of edible goods underground.

"Yes, the president is bleeding profusely, and he has taken out the only money left in the guild to support everyone for the past seven days," Mirazhen said with a smile.

"It seems that the president is determined to be number one," Lucy sighed.

"But there's one more thing you don't know, Lucy," Mirajan continued, laughing.

"What's the matter?" Lucy wondered.

"That'......," said Mirajane, muttering softly into Lucy's ear, to Lucy as one could hear her.

"Eh......" When Mirazhen finished speaking, Lucy was dumbfounded, and the corners of her eyes kept twitching and her expression was extremely exaggerated.

"Yes...... President...... Also...... It's too messy......" Lucy was stunned for a while before she said this.

"Sister Mira, you are really careful, even if the president has ordered it, you don't have to say it so quietly," Lishana on the side said helplessly.

"Natsu, they didn't know there was such a thing," Lisana sighed.

"I wonder what their expressions will be when they find out......" Lucy Khan said.

"In that case, Lucy, you must hide it from them," Mirajan laughed.

"Sister Mira has a good belly and ......," Lucy couldn't help but complain.

"By the way, Sister Mira, I have something to tell you," Lucy remembered what Elusa had said about the second source of magic.

"That's right," Lucy continued, telling her everything she had told herself.

"That's the way it is, Sister Mira," said Lucy.

"That's why the president made this decision," Mirajan remembered the absurdity of Makanov's doing, and realized what was going on.

"As for the second source of magic, it's actually a good idea to give it a try," Mirajan said.

"So, Sister Mira, do you agree?" Lucy was a little surprised.

"Well, if you can't succeed, you'll have to wait for Ah Xiu to come back," Mira Zhen sighed.

"Yes......" Lucy nodded in agreement.

Lucy and Mirajane and Lisanna then talked in the Radiant Hotel for nearly an hour, and it wasn't until Lebby returned to the hotel that Lucy remembered her original mission.

"Oh no, I forgot to come out to find Natsu and Gray," Lucy sweated profusely.

"Sister Mira, I'll go first," Lucy said, running out of the hotel.

"What's wrong with Lucy, why don't you talk for a while," Rebi asked, looking at Lucy as she hurried out.

"Seems to have forgotten the task given to her by Elusa," said Mirajan Khan.

"That's right," said Lebby, looking back at it again.

"By the way, Rebi, you went to the beach with Elusa and the others during the three months of cultivation," Mirajan asked Rebi.

"Well, with Wendy," Rebi said, nodding.

"Then Lebby, you also opened the second source of mana," Mirajan asked.

"Hmm," Rebi nodded, "Sister Mira, why are you asking this, are you interested in this?"

"Why are you making this expression? Since the second magic source can increase the strength, it's very good," Mirazhen wondered.

"yes, I want them all," Lisanna said, nodding her head.

"It's true that the increase in strength is obvious, but have you ever seen a way to easily increase your strength?" Rebby's face had turned blue at this time, and sweat was pouring out of her forehead.

"Eh......" Looking at Reby's scared look, Mirajane and Lishana stared at each other in confusion and then looked at Rebi, and then looked at Jett and Troy behind Reby, only to find that they had embarrassed expressions of neither standing nor sitting.

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After coming out of the Radiance Hotel, Lucy looked around helplessly, and she was depressed at this time.

"I don't know if Natsu and Gray have made it to the Honey Bone Hotel," Lucy said depressedly.

There is a characteristic of people's psychology, the feeling of doing things seriously and doing things seriously is different, the hearts of people who do things seriously are fearless, but there will always be some uneasy and uncomfortable feelings in the heart after doing things seriously, Lucy is like this now, there is always a feeling of uneasiness in her heart.

"Half past ten...... Do you have some time, let's go to the Honey Bone Hotel" Lucy shook her head helplessly, and then walked towards the Honey Bone Hotel.

In the sky of Kulokas, the position of the stars has shifted a lot with the passage of time, but more stars appear on the new night, and if you look closely, the inexplicably extra unknown stars have formed an incomplete pattern, this figure looks like an incomplete magic array covering the entire night sky, and the number of stars continues to increase, and it seems that it is really forming towards an incomparably large magic array composed of stars.

When Lucy arrives at the honey bone, it's still the same as when she left, and only Elusa is bored playing cards in the hotel.

"Didn't you find it?" asked Elusa as she saw Lucy walk into the hotel alone.

"This ...... The ......" Lucy squeaked for a moment.

"Could it be that you're crazy with Natsu?" Elusa's face darkened.

Seeing that Elusa's face was a little darker, Lucy actually felt the incomparably coolness behind her for a moment.

"Absolutely not, I found Natsu and them, but I just went to the Shining Hotel halfway," Lucy shook her head violently, and the last sentence was whispered embarrassedly.

"Is that inn that the guild leader bought with the guild's money?" asked Elusa.

"Hmm," Lucy nodded.

"That's it" Elusa's tone eased for some reason, and she looked at the restless Lucy and sighed helplessly, "Do you want to play cards, I'm bored playing alone"

After hearing Elusa say this, Lucy realized that Elusa was not angry or anything, but it was too boring to stay alone in the hotel.

Lucy accompanied Alusa to play boring cards in the hotel while waiting for Natsu and Gray to return, and the game did not stop until half-past eleven, as Natsu and Gray had returned from outside.

When they returned, they immediately spotted Elusa's dark face, which was as dark as charcoal, and they knew something was wrong.

Under Elusa's absolute majesty, Nazgray and Harpy knelt on the ground, facing Elusa who was sitting on the bed and looked at them coldly, and Natsu and Gray were staring at the ground with their heads down, not daring to look at Elusa.

"What do you have to say?" said Elusa coldly.

Nazgray remained silent, continuing to keep his head down in silence.

"What have you been doing for all this time," Elusa continued.

"I went to eat a meal that wasn't very pleasant," Elusa asked, and Gray could only reply truthfully, but only Gray knew why it was not pleasant.

Elusa looked at Natsu and Harpy and saw that they were muttering and sulking about something.

After a brief moment of silence, Natsu and Harpy shouted in unison, "Absolutely unforgivable for them......"

"Shut up, forgiveness," Elusa yelled when she heard that Natsu dared to resist her.

"It's those two guys of the Sabertooth Tiger, what are the strongest dragon slayer wizards, the second and third generations of bullshit, how can I be the oldest and oldest, bastard......" Natsu's feet and hands jumped violently.

"That's it, I'm the cat next to the outdated Dragon Slayer Magister, and we're poor there?"

"Those bastards who must defeat the Sabertooth Tiger in the Great Demon Fight," Natsu yelled.

"That's right......" Harpy shouted at the same time

"That's why you remembered that you were going to the hotel before twelve o'clock," Lucy said speechlessly.

"This ......," Nazgray and Harpy lowered their heads again and fell silent.

"Okay, I won't talk about your delay in returning, because there is one more important thing now, and that is that Wendy has not returned" Elusa turned her head to look at Zhong Dao, who was placed in the room, and was already very close to Twelve.

"Are she and Xia Lulu lost?" said Harpy, holding up his hand

"How is it possible, Xia Lulu can fly with Wendy, why can't she get lost" Lucy said speechlessly, and then Lucy suddenly thought of something, "Speaking of the girl who doesn't come home late, I think of some bad words, stay up late, bad friends, bad girls, it's terrible, what to do......" Lucy's expression was actually frightened.

When Gray heard Lucy's words, a black line appeared on his forehead, "Are all people who write novels so imaginative?"

"Lucy, you should call Loki out too, and tell us to be in the hotel by twelve o'clock, I think there should be a special purpose" Elusa looked at Lucy.

"Well, last time Loki said that he only needed to put a little bit in his key, even if he was informed, he would open the door with his own magic power and come out," Lucy came back to his senses from his imagination, nodded in response, opened his key, took out Loki's key, and began to enter the only little magic power in his body into the key.

"What's going on?" Lucy exclaimed in surprise.

"What's wrong?" Elusa looked at Lucy, confused.

"Magic can't enter the key" Lucy broke out in some cold sweat on her forehead, and her expression was a little anxious.

"Could it be because of the lack of magic?" Elusa asked.

"No, it's the magic that can't be entered into the key, if the magic is not enough, there will be no situation where the magic can't be entered, only that the magic is not enough and the body can't bear it" Lucy shook her head and said stunned.

"Is the contract with Loki broken?" asked Natsu.

"How could it be ......," Lucy denied.

"So what's going on," Gray wondered.

"I don't know, it's never been like this before," Lucy said with a frown.

The night sky on Kulokas, the number of stars has exceeded a large number At a glance, the whole sky is flickering with irregular stars, such a night sky is just a galaxy composed of stars for everyone, but still no one has found that these irregular stars have formed a shape similar to a magic array across the entire sky, and the stars on this magic array are really shining with the same regular amplitude, and the time is infinitely close to twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

Just when Lucy wondered why the magic couldn't enter the key, the door of the hotel was opened, thinking that it was Wendy who had returned, and they immediately looked at the door, but it was not Wendy who appeared at the door, but Elfman and Lisanna, who were holding a box of food.

"We're here to deliver condolences," Elfman said as soon as he walked in the door.

"Elfman, why are you here too?" Natsu said in surprise.

"Originally, I was going to participate too, but since I have already chosen you, I have to come to cheer you on," Elfman said helplessly.

"Oh, that's right," Natsu snapped into his eyes.

"What's wrong with you, why do you look a little bad?" Lishana noticed the suspicious expressions of the rest of the people except Natsu.

"That's right, because it is stipulated that the representatives of the Wizards Guild to participate in the festival need to meet at the designated hotel before twelve o'clock, but Wendy has not returned yet, and for some unknown reason, Lucy can't enter the magic power into Loki's key, and Loki doesn't know why he didn't come out," Gray explained.

"That doesn't sound like a big deal," Lishana said after a moment's thought.

"Lisanna, I have something for you to do at once, find Wendy as soon as possible and get her back by twelve o'clock, Lucy, you have to find a way to get Loki out," Elusa said.

"Well, I'll do it right away," Lisana nodded.

"Me too......" Lucy nodded as well.

"Really, what the hell are the organizers thinking, is there something terrible going to happen after twelve," Gray sighed.

However, the clock in the room was moving towards twelve, and there were only a few seconds left, and the night sky outside flickered faster and faster as the stars that seemed to form the magic circle flickered faster and closer to twelve.

"Bell ......" With a bell ringing, the time finally reached twelve o'clock, and the stars in the night sky that flickered extremely fast also stopped flickering with the bell and emitted a light twice as bright as themselves, and the light formed a line, and the composition of these lines completely determined that this was indeed a magic array, a magic array composed of stars in the sky that spanned the entire sky, but this magic array disappeared after it was completely formed, and disappeared in only one second after it was completely formed, and disappeared along with those unknown stars, and in a flash the stars in the sky were nearly one-third less, but these things were still not noticedThe time for the Dakai Magic Array to appear was only a short second and it disappeared, but some people saw a lot more stars than usual.

A magic array made up of stars in the sky that spans the entire sky sounds impossible, so even if people see it, no one will believe it, because it's nonsense.

Somewhere, a young man was sitting on the ground, and in front of him there was a bonfire, because of the bonfire, the young man's appearance could be clearly seen, black hair, and a black and white robe that looked like ancient sacrificial clothes.

The young man was looking at the stars in the sky, his brows furrowed slightly, and there was a hint of surprise and curiosity in his eyes.

"Is there a guest coming?" the boy muttered to himself, remembering something as he spoke, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth.

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"It's twelve o'clock, is there anything strange going on?" Gray looked at Jongdo behind him a little speechlessly.

"It seems to be quite quiet," Lucy continued, as the alarm clock had passed twelve o'clock, and there was some silence outside the street from the room.

However, as soon as Lucy's words were finished, everyone heard a voice from outside the street.

"Good evening, all the guilds participating in the Great Demon Fighting Exercise, everyone......"

"...... outside," Elusa said immediately, and as she spoke, the group immediately ran to the rooftop, and were taken aback when they saw something outside.

"What is this?" said Natsu, surprised.

"It's a stereoscopic image," Elusa said with some surprise.

"Big Pumpkin ......" and Harpy was a little excited.

It turned out that everyone could see a huge pumpkin man in the sky, and this pumpkin man was a three-dimensional image, which seemed to be visible to the whole of Kulokas.

"From now on, there will be a preliminary round of the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts, and the one hundred and thirteen teams will be reduced to eight in one go" The huge pumpkin man in the sky began to speak, and was still dancing.

"Is there a preliminaries?" Gray was taken aback.

"I didn't notice that," Elusa cried out in surprise.

Not only Elusa and them, but also some of the other guilds were a little surprised, the guilds that had participated in the festival before knew that there was no preliminaries last year, but this year they did, and at the same time understood that twelve o'clock was the start time of the preliminaries.

"One hundred and thirteen, there's no way Fiorelli will have so many guilds, so ...... There's only one possibility," Lucy thought as she turned her head to look at Natsu and Gray, who couldn't help but have a few black lines on their foreheads.

Elusa on the side frowned, remembering what Gerald said about the extraordinary magic of Zeref, and now these things couldn't help but make Elusa look suspicious at the organizers.

"Since the number of guilds participating in the tournament increases every year, there is nothing to see, so only eight teams will be able to participate in the finals this year," Pumpkin Man said in a somewhat comical and relaxed tone as he danced.

"The rules of the preliminaries are very simple," the pumpkin man said as soon as he finished speaking, and everyone was surprised by the scene that the hotel they were staying in actually rose higher in the sky.

"What's going on?" said Lucy, with some surprise.

"The hotel is transforming," Elusa immediately responded.

"You see, it's the same with other hotels," Gray shouted, clutching the railing on the rooftop.

"The next step is to ask everyone to race, the focus of the race is the final venue, Domus Arena, and the first to reach the finish line will be the first to participate in the final," the pumpkin man began to explain, and at the same time, a stone paved road appeared in the air from the roof of the hotel that had stopped and deformed.

"Do you want us to go up above?" said Elusa, looking at the path.

"You can use magic as you please, there are no restrictions, you only need the eight teams that arrive first, but you must reach the finish line at the same time with a team of five, otherwise you will be disqualified if you do," the Pumpkin man said in a relaxed tone.

"By the way, don't look for us if you lose your life in the labyrinth," and then the pumpkin man said this, which made everyone stunned for a moment.

Continuing to look up at Elusa, they saw that on top of the three-dimensional pumpkin man, there was an even larger circular structure floating in the sky that they had not noticed, and the road in front of the hotel was rising straight to the circular building.

"Okay, the Great Demon Martial Arts Preliminaries, the Sky Labyrinth, officially start ......" The pumpkin man's last shout suddenly made everyone's hearts excited.

"Now that we're going to fight for a place, we're going to have to hurry," Gray said as he looked at the huge building in the sky that had obscured half of their vision.

"Well, let's start now," Natsu said, preparing to climb up.

"Wait" Just then Elusa suddenly spoke, which made Natsu stop moving.

"What's wrong?" Natsu wondered.

"They set it at five, and now that Wendy hasn't returned, and Lucy can't contact Loki, it's useless," Elusa said.

"Eh......" Natsu and Gray were dumbfounded at this moment, and Lucy hurriedly took out the key and continued to input magic power into the key, surprisingly the magic power could be entered normally, but for a moment Lucy's tiny amount of magic power was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no reaction.

"Still can't contact Loki, what should I do" Lucy panicked.

"Wendy......" Natsu also shouted, and he had no choice but to shout to see if Wendy could hear him.

At this moment, a sound of stepping on the ground sounded, and everyone looked at the source of the sound suspiciously, and found that it was actually Elfman.

"Wendy doesn't, but you've got a man," Elfman smirked.

"Huh?" everyone was stunned again, and when Elusa and the others reacted, they realized that they were actually dragged by Elfman on the stone road and ran.

"Brother Elfman......" Lisanna was dumbfounded when she saw that Elfman actually grabbed Elusa, Lucinaz and Gray and ran towards the sky maze.

"There's no way, change players from now on," Elfman yelled.

"Also, there's no time to go to Wendy now," Gray agreed.

"No, wait, why am I taking Loki's place, with my current strength, I can't be qualified," Lucy cried out in panic.

"Didn't the president tell Loki to go? Loki can only be replaced by you when he is not there for the time being, isn't it the same as letting Loki come out at a critical moment?" said Elusa, who admired Elfman's reaction a little, but she didn't expect this to be exactly what Elfman was expecting.

"Eh, that, is it really okay?" Lucy was speechless when she was grabbed by Elfman and ran towards the sky labyrinth, she actually unconsciously participated in the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts Exercise, and she was the weakest in the guild.

"Do you still get the first place?" Lucy began to doubt.

"Lisanna, remember what I just told you, go to Wendy, don't let her have an accident" On the rooftop, Lishana heard Elusa's voice.

"Well, it's on us, you can play in peace," Lishana shouted immediately after hearing this voice.

"Okay, please," Elusa's faint voice came from afar.

On the stone road in the distance, Elfman had already dragged Lucy and the four of them for a long distance, which also meant that Lucy and Elfman had taken the place of Loki and Wendy and officially participated in the Great Demon Fighting Buri.