King Fiore was the capital of Culocas

"It's not much different from eight years ago, Habi......" Natsu looked at the streets around her.

"Yes, Ashu was still studying magic here when I was here last time I was sightseeing," Harpy said, looking around as well.

"It's not that I'm here to disturb people," Gray said speechlessly.

"What's the bother, as an explorer, you have to venture everywhere," Natsu said unconcernedly.

"If it weren't for the need to practice, Natsu would have wanted to follow Lucy and her family on an expedition to the Ethea Kingdom three months ago," Harpy said.

"Even if you don't practice, I'll refuse," Lucy on the side said helplessly, if Natsu followed, it would definitely be a burden, and Lucy didn't want others to follow to Etoya, why didn't she recover the source of mana in Etheya.

She and Mirazhen have also explained to everyone that Xiu went on a trip because he accepted his brother Mengli's reason, and they just left when they went to Xiu, and they couldn't come back for a while, as for why they didn't come back, they explained that they couldn't stand the blow after hearing about the Wolf Island and escaped for a long time, and also said that Xiu had also come back to see it in the past seven years, but he didn't have the courage to meet everyone.

This explanation reassured everyone about the matter of cultivation, as for the dream of Asura, except for a small part of the situation that Makanov knew, the rest of the people did not know, and she and Mirajan did not plan to tell everyone about these things, which is also what Makanov said, the less people know about these things, the better.

This time, because of Loki, Lucy came with Natsu and the others to participate in the Great Demon Fighting Exercise, otherwise she would have come here with Makanov and them as a support group.

"Speaking of which, my body is still a little uncomfortable," Gray frowned slightly, rubbing his arms and waist.

"Is it because of three months of non-stop practice?" Lucy wondered.

"No, it's the after-effects of something called the Second Magic Source......" Gray sighed as he shook his head.

"Second source of magic, what's that?" Lucy wondered.

"It's a gift from a guild," Gray chuckled.

"By the way, it suddenly occurred to Lucy, can you activate the second source of magic to restore the ability to use magic?" Natsu said suddenly.

"Ahh

"Don't think about things too simply, it's still unknown whether it will work or not...... Xia Lulu said calmly.

"That's right, it's not okay for Lucy and Mira to stay in a state where they can't use magic, and I'll ask them if they can do it when they get to Kurokas," Elusa spoke.

"What the hell are you talking about? I didn't understand a word, and is that thing called the second magic source that can restore Sister Mira's magic source and me?" said Lucy, confused.

"Here's the thing, actually......" Just as Gray was about to say something, a voice prepared Gray's words.

"I've finally found you......" a familiar voice sounded.

"President......" Elusa immediately turned her head to look at the source of the voice, which was Makanov, and behind Makanov were Rebibiska......

"Looks like we'll have to talk about it later......" Gray said, looking at Lucy.

"It's okay, I'm just curious," Lucy said, shaking her head.

"I've finished registering, and the rest is up to you, and you'll take the honor of Demon Tail," Makanov said, looking at Elusa.

"Well, after all the hard work, President, we'll take care of the rest," Elusa nodded in response.

As if they heard Makanov say the name of Fairy Tail, some of the pedestrians around him immediately turned their attention to Makanov's side.

"Do you hear that? Fairy Tail ......"

"Ah, I hear you," several people began.

"Hey, Fairy Tail, are you here again this year to get the last place?" a middle-aged man shouted to the crowd.

"Hahaha......" The people around him began to laugh because of the middle-aged man's words.

"What's laughing, what's so funny about this, Fairy Tail is different this year, okay" Hearing the laughter around him, Natsu immediately shouted at the pedestrians in dissatisfaction.

"Don't waste your efforts, as we all know, the saber-toothed tiger is the king, I think you are still the last one this year," the middle-aged man just now said disdainfully.

"That's it, that's it, hahaha......" The laughter around him grew louder.

"Damn" Natsu gritted his teeth and began to get angry, with his temper he could not stand this ridicule, and just when he wanted to teach the middle-aged man a lesson, he was stopped by Makanov.

"Forget it, let them laugh, we'll use our strength to keep them shut," Makanov said in a deep voice.

"Well, that's right, Natsu ......," Elusa followed.

After hearing Makanov and Elusa's words, Natsu reluctantly turned around.

"Tomorrow is going to start the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts Exercise, but I don't know what tomorrow will be compared to? By the way, Elusa, the official manual issued by the organizer of the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts Exercise, needs you to read it tomorrow," Makanov walked up to Elusa and handed her a book.

"Eh, haven't you attended? Why don't you know?" Natsu looked at Dolaire and Jett in confusion.

"Alas......" Hearing Natsu ask this question, Makanov sighed helplessly.

"Because the competition is different every year," Jett said.

"What do you mean?" said Gray, confused.

"In the year I didn't compete, I actually had a running ......," Jett said, speechless.

"There was a shooting event in the year I didn't participate," Biska said.

"Not only that, but the rules vary a little from year to year, and I've looked at the calendar from year to year and there's really no pattern," Rebi went on to explain.

"In other words, I don't know what tomorrow is going to be," Gray finally understood.

"It doesn't matter, you have to take it all over anything, if you just fight," Natsu said confidently.

"Yes, that's all there is to it now," Elusa nodded in agreement.

"It's just that this book is so thick, I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish it tomorrow," Elusa said as she looked at the thick book in her hand.

"I'll leave this one to me, I've brought wind reading glasses...... Rebi smiled and took out one of them.

"Rebi, you're really well prepared," Lucy was a little surprised, she didn't expect Rebi to carry this with her, but when you think about it, with Rebby's love of reading, it's not a big deal to carry this with you.

Wind reading glasses are a kind of magic prop commonly used in the wizarding world, which allows people to read all the contents of a book in a short time, and they will remember it very deeply.

With the wind reading glasses that Rebi carried, the task of reading all the rules books for recording the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts naturally fell to Rebi's head.

In less than five minutes, Rebi, who wore the wind reading glasses, read the entire book.

"Actually, there is nothing special about it, but there are three main points about the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts that need to be said in particular," Rebi said as she looked at the book.

"Oh, what's the point?" asked Makanov.

"First, the guild leaders who are participating in the festival can't join," Rebi said.

"Of course......" Makanov nodded.

"Second, the attendees of the festival must have the guild's emblem engraved with it, and some of the rules are kept secret before the festival," Rebi continued.

"There must be that," Makanov nodded.

"The strangest thing is the third point," Rebi said, pausing.

"Oh?" everyone waited for Rebi's next words.

"The magicians of the guilds participating in the festival must arrive at the designated inn by noon," Rebi said, turning into the book.

"Why do you have to arrive at the designated hotel by midnight?" wondered Lucy.

"I don't understand it at all," Natsu said confused.

"Just get there before midnight," Gray said.

"There's still a lot of time in that case," Natsu turned to look at the clock hanging in a store, just a little past the hour.

"In that case, you can go on an adventure again, and I don't know what to do in this city in eight years," Natsu said excitedly, looking around.

"It's my first time in this city, and I want to see it too," Wendy said with a smile.

"Let's go......" Natsu and Harpy suddenly shouted, running straight in one direction.

"Hey, do you know where our hotel is?" Elusa shouted as soon as she saw Natsu run away.

"Love, know ......," Harpy responded, and soon the man and the cat were gone.

"Really, if you know and know, you will definitely forget it because of crazy play," Elusa said with some dissatisfaction.

"it, the festival is going to start tomorrow, so let's go crazy first," Makanov said on the side.

"Yes, if I'm really worried, I can go to them then," Lucy followed.

"That's all there is to it," Elusa sighed helplessly.

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The big demon fights the tail of the martial goblin and designates the hotel honey bone

"So you've encountered these things in your practice," Lucy said with some surprise, and she followed Elusa to the Honey Bone Hotel, where Elusa told Lucy about the second source of magic.

It turned out that in the last few days of Elusa's practice at the beach, Elusa and they received a letter brought by a carrier pigeon and asked everyone with Fairy Tail to go to a designated place, and everyone who saw this letter immediately thought that it was a prank, but in order to find out whose prank it was, the group decided to go and see.

When they arrived at the designated place, they found out that it was not someone's prank, but three people who wanted to see them, Gerald, Urutia, Melti, Gerald was originally in prison, and was rescued by Urutia and Melti six years ago, so Gerald is now a fugitive, and Urutia and Melti are the remnants of the demon heart, these three people formed a guild, called the Witch's Sin, not a regular guild nor a dark guild, the purpose of existence is to destroy all the dark guilds that exist in this world, and the ultimate purpose is to find Zeref and then destroy the evil existence of Zerefto avoid the recurrence of the same Dark Magus as they did.

"It's very ambitious," Lucy couldn't help but say, "The witch's sin has the same meaning of existence as the dream of the asura in a certain purpose," Lucy said from the bottom of her heart.

"Yes, Gerald has managed to move from darkness to light, but he still has to bear the identity of darkness," Eru muttered fearfully, her expression a little gloomy.

Lucy looked at Elusa with a gloomy expression, and then remembered what she knew about Xiu now, "However, Gerald, they are very satisfied with what they have to do now," Lucy asked.

"Hmm," Elusa thought for a moment, then nodded.

"In that case, it's pretty much the same," Lucy said to Elusa, as if asking herself.

"yes, that's enough," Elusa smiled and nodded.

Lucy also smiled, "Looking at Elusa, it seems that I also understand my feelings for Ah Xiu, maybe what I can do now is to support silently behind my back" Lucy said secretly in her heart.

"However, now I especially want to know what Ah Xiu and Siqia experienced four hundred years ago, the eternal guardian power of the flame of life, what kind of deep feelings is this," Lucy looked up at the sky and thought to herself.

"Gerald, they came to us for one thing, according to Gerald, they can feel a strange magic every year during the Great Demon Fight, this magic is somewhat similar to Zeref, they want to find out the source of this magic and because they can't approach it because of their current status, they specially found us, let us keep an eye on it" Elusa continued.

"Eh, the magic similar to Zeref's, every year?" Lucy was taken aback.

"Well, Gerald said they could feel the magic because they had been in contact with Gerald," Elusa nodded, "Because of this, we were paid some special rewards, which is the second source of magic," Elusa continued.

"Each magician has a magic container in his body, and the magic in this container cannot be used normally after the magic power is used, and the use of magic can only be resumed after the magic factor of nature recovers the magic power, and the situation of you and Mira is that you cannot use the magic normally because the magic power cannot be restored due to the damage of the magic source."

"And the second magic source is to stimulate the human magic source to hide the unused part, so as to become the second magic source of the human body, and achieve the effect of increasing strength, if you activate the second magic source, maybe because the second magic source can restore your previous strength," Elusa looked at Lucy and said.

"I see," Lucy understood what the second source of magic was all about.

"But I have a question, is the second source of magic alone?" asked Lucy.

"I need to ask Urutia about this, after all, it was with Urutia's help that Natsu and they opened the second source of magic," Elusa said.

"Actually, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work, Mirajane and I will be able to recover when Ashu returns," Lucy said.

"Didn't you say that Ashu went on a trip, what if he didn't have a year or two to come back like Kildas?" said Elusa.

"It's true, but it's still unknown whether it will work or not," Lucy hesitated.

"Don't worry, Gerald, since they want us to keep an eye out for the anomalous magic of the Great Demon Fighting Buri, then they should approach Kulokas and contact us, and I'll talk to Gerald at that time to see if I can help," Elusa said.

"Thank you, Elusa, I'll tell Sister Mira about that too," Lucy nodded.

"Well, that's it, I'm still a little confused about the fact that the organizers of the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts have decided that they must arrive at the hotel before midnight" Elusa looked at the room where they were staying, and it was clear that there were only five representatives in the guild they attended, but there were six beds in this room.

"Looks like the guild delegates at the festival will live together," Lucy said.

"I don't know what the significance of the organizer's arrangement is," Elusa sighed helplessly.

"Forget it, let's take a good shower and I'll wait here for Natsu and their return, by the way, Lucy, can Loki be able to reach him?" Alusa asked Lucy again.

"Well, Loki should be able to get there on time," Lucy nodded.

"Then I'll be relieved," Elusa said, nodding.