A tavern run by Magnolia Fairy Tail at dusk

"We're back, President......" Mirajane shouted as soon as she entered the tavern.

"Welcome back......" Laraghi at the bar was the first to shout.

"Ah, you're back, how did it turn out......" Makanov was still sitting at the bar drinking as he was customary, and there were only two people in the tavern, Raj and Makanov.

"Ashu has gone on a trip and is not ...... in the kingdom of Etheya," Mirajan replied.

"Is that so, it seems that the source of mana has not been restored," Makanov said as he looked at Mirajane and Lucy, who had already laid down their luggage.

"So did you find the result you wanted," Makanov asked again, taking a sip of his wine.

"I guess," Mirajan said with some uncertainty.

"Where's Lucy?" said Makanov, looking at Lucy.

"I don't know......" Lucy said, shaking her head.

"Is this so" Makanov shook his head slightly and said helplessly, "In that case, then stay in the guild during this time, everyone in the guild has gone to practice, and the entire guild is just me and Laraji, it's really lonely."

"Everyone is also trying to defeat the Sabertooth Tiger in the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts, and they will definitely practice hard in these three months," Lucy said.

"This is also, let's wait for them to return in the guild, as for three months, we can only live in solitude," Makanov said helplessly, "Really, such a deserted tavern is really uncomfortable......"

"President, in the past few days since everyone left, you have said this sentence more than a hundred times," Laraj on the side said a little speechless.

"Yes, I'll just say how familiar it is......" Makanov suddenly realized, "but seriously, it's really a little uncomfortable," Makanov said again.

"It'll be fine in three months," Mirajan said.

"Yes, I hope they can improve in the next three months," Makanov nodded.

"It's not getting early, President, you haven't eaten yet, why don't you cook a meal in the tavern, there are only four of them anyway" Mirajane glanced back at the sky outside the tavern and it was already starting to darken.

"Well, then please, Mira," Makanov agreed.

"I'm here to help...... Lucy said at once, she had never been left behind in learning to cook with Mira.

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Since no one came to the tavern, the four of them had a meal together, and then they closed the tavern and went to their homes.

However, Mirajan and Lucy did not rush back to their house, but followed Makanov to ask something.

"President, we heard from Uncle Ollie that you had already met Ashu eighteen years ago?" Mirajan asked Makanov.

Makanov was stunned when he heard Mirajan's question, and then nodded, "Well, that's right, it's true."

"What doesn't that tell us about these things?" Lucy wondered.

"After all, those things are in the past, and it's useless to mention them again," Makanov said slowly.

"That's true, but ......" Mirajan frowned slightly, trying to say something but didn't continue.

"I know what you're trying to say, after all, the Council at that time gave a gag order, two years ago, no, I recognized Ah Xiu when I first met him nine years ago, and I knew from that magic that there was absolutely nothing wrong. That's why I was interested in talking to him, who knew that after so many years, his intelligence actually returned to the level of a normal person, which made me curious"

"At that time, after some communication with him, I found that he was a kind and filial child, and at the same time he was a little confused about the future, and it happened that he had the idea of joining the Magus Guild, so I decided to let him join the guild, which was also to firmly set him in the shadow of light and prevent his potential ability from bringing disaster to the world," Makanov said slowly.

"Maybe, our guild will become the strongest guild in the entire Aceland because of his potential ability," Makanov smiled after saying this.

After hearing these words, a few black lines appeared on Mirajane and Lucy's foreheads, and they couldn't help but think that Makanov probably only let Ah Xiu join the guild for this reason.

"But then I found out that Ah Xiu's magic power is not strong, it seems that because of the influence of the forbidden demon enchantment that was specially strengthened back then, the magic power has always been kept within a certain value, and the excess magic power will disappear innocently after exceeding this value, so after I asked Ah Xiu to learn the shape of fire, his magic power has been out of the range of values, until the incident with Lagersas, I found that his magic power exceeded that value and began to grow slowly, so at that time I will tell you that Ah Xiu is recovering his strength." Makanov said as he looked at Mirajan.

"I see, so you knew that Sikia was the one of the Asura Dreams from the beginning?" Mirajan continued.

"I've thought about it this way, but I'm not sure if it's true, it seems that the guild of Asura Dream really exists, you should have seen this guild when you went to Itya once, how is the situation of this guild?" Makanov was a little surprised, and then asked.

"It's not a dark guild, it's not even a guild to be exact," Mirajan began.

"Yes, it's just a group of people who are hiding behind the scenes to protect everyone's due peace," Lucy nodded.

"Is that so...... Makanov said in a deep voice, "but that's fine, it's not a dark guild," Makanov continued.

"President, I have something important to tell you, Ah Xiu is now the president of Asura Dream, so Ah Xiu is still a wizard of Fairy Tail?" Mirajan asked in a deep voice as she looked at Makanov.

"The leader of the Asura Dream ......" Makanov fell silent.

"According to the rules of the Council, a sorcerer cannot join two sorcerers guilds at the same time, since you say that Asura Dream is not a guild and is not under the management of the council, then Ashu can barely be considered a fairy-tailed sorcerer," Makanov said slowly.

After hearing Makanov's words, Mirajan and Lucy smiled, this is the main reason why they followed Makanov this time, Xiu is the president of Asura Dream and can he still be recognized by Fairy Tail, they didn't find a feeling in the Etya Kingdom, so I wonder if it would be better to meet Xiu next time in my previous identity, this is what the two women think.

"Thank you, President," Mirajane and Lucy thanked immediately.

"It's not the first time anyway......" Makanov said indifferently.

"Huh?" Hearing Makanov's words, Mirajane and Lucy looked at Makanov suspiciously.

"No, I didn't say anything just now," Makanov retorted when he suddenly realized that he had slipped something.

"Is that so...... Mirajane and Lucy sweated, what they had just said made them understand, but it was also in line with Makanov's style, and he would not act according to rigid rules.

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In the days after Mirajan and Lucy returned to Magnolia, because they went to Etoya and did not repair the source of mana, Makanov could only take Mirajan and Lucy to Polyusica again, and this time Polyusica finally agreed to try to treat Mirajane and Lucy, and for several days Mirajan and Lucy stayed at Polyusica for Polyusica to try to treat.

Although Polyusica agreed to try to treat Mirajan and Lucy, she had already said that she was not capable of curing the disease.

Everyone in the guild is practicing, although Mirajane and Lucy's magic source is broken, but they don't want to drag everyone down, Mirajan began to try to get a note from Loki to try to replenish the magic power of Adras's magic props, Kayala gave Mirajane a large number of magic crystals, so Mirajan is not short of magic crystals now, although he encountered difficulties at the beginning but suddenly remembered that Polyusica is also a person from Adras, and suddenly Mirajan found a shortcut, with Polyusica's guidance, Mirajan soon has successfully mastered how to add magic to the baton, and playing with the baton has almost become Mirajane's entertainment for a day。

Lucy also began to exercise with the galactic whip that Baluge gave herself according to the physical training method that she had given her before, and it was indeed as Balugo said that Lucy could indeed use the galactic whip in terms of Lucy's current magic power, and Lucy's magic source was much better damaged than Mirajane, which is why Lucy still had a small amount of magic power in her body.

As time passed, three months passed slowly, during this time, nothing unexpected happened, the members of the guild returned one by one in the space of three months, and the tavern that Makanov usually noisy and deserted gradually resumed its previous noise.

On the fourth day before the last day of the Great Demon Fighting Exercise, Natsu and his party returned to the guild exhausted, and the return of this group of people means that the guild has basically returned from practicing abroad, and Makanov is also about to start announcing the list of people who will participate in the Great Demon Fighting Exercise.

On the third day of the last day of the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts, a large group of people had already gathered in the tavern at this time, and this group of people were all people who had gone through a lot of hard cultivation in the past three months, and of course there were also people who had carried out some useless cultivation in these three months, but it was certain that everyone's strength had improved to a certain extent.

"Ahem, now I'm going to announce the five representatives of the Great Demon Fighting Exercise," Makanov stood alone on a high place, looking at the crowd who were looking at him with excitement.

"Definitely ......have me," Natsu enthused.

"The man is going to participate in the Great Demon Fighting Exercise," Elfman exclaimed with the same excitement

"Can you change the mantra?" Kana said speechlessly, for nearly three months, she and Elfman Lishana went to the mountains to practice, and all day and night she could hear Elfman constantly calling manly, which was strange for her ears to callous.

"Manly ......," Elfman shouted excitedly again.

"I can't stand it......" Kana was not very good for a moment.

Watching this scene, Mirajane and Lishana couldn't help but laugh.

"Alright, the first thing to announce is that the personnel are," Makanov interrupted the crowd and spoke, and then everyone fell silent and waited for Makanov's next words.

"Natsu, Gray, Elusa......" Makanov announced the three names in one breath.

Everyone has no opinion on these three people participating in the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts as Fairy Tails, after all, they have long recognized the strength of these three people, and the next two are also the two representatives that everyone cares about the most, but everyone has long been prepared in their hearts, Lagersas and Guggier are the last two representatives It is most likely, but unexpected names appear.

"The remaining two deputies are represented by Loki and Wendy," Makanov said the last two expressions.

At this moment, Wendy was dumbfounded, Lucy didn't arrive, because Makanov had already said this matter a few days ago, it was possible to let Loki take the place of Lagersas and Gergil, and this possibility has gradually become bigger in the past few days, and Thor and Guggill have not come back for a long time after going out to practice, and they discussed this matter with Lucy yesterday, and Loki also agreed to this matter.

"Why me?" said Wendy in surprise to Makanov, who had more people in the guild than her, why they chose her.

"Well, Wendy, you still don't want to know......" Lucy said with some embarrassment.

"Lucy, have you recovered your magic," Natsu looked at Loki with some surprise, and said Loki, who didn't know when he appeared and chatted with Gray.

"No, after three months of treatment by Granny Polyusica, there is no effect, Loki came out with his own magic," Lucy Khan said.

"Well, we can fight together again, Loki" Gray happily exchanged fists with Loki.

"Well, it's nice to be able to win the Great Demon Fight Martial Arts for Fairy Tail as a Fairy Tail Magus," Loki laughed.

On this side, he was happy, but on the other side, Jubia was in tears, "I'm going to part with Lord Gray...... My heart hurts...... "But no one watched this scene, just Jubia was crying in a way."......

"Why, Sister Lucy?" Wendy asked, looking at Lucy.

"Actually, I'd rather have Kirdas and Lagersas as the last two representatives, so that nothing goes wrong," said Makanov before Lucy could speak.

This directly made everyone speechless, it turned out that Loki and Wendy were just Makanov's substitute representatives, among them, only Loki's strength was known to be very strong, after all, it was Leo, the head of the twelve stars of the zodiac.

"It's a shame that Lucy's magic hasn't recovered, so Mira doesn't either," Elusa said with some pity.

"Elusa, you don't have to worry about this, Lucy has been practicing very hard in the past three months, and her fist and foot skills have improved a lot compared to before" Loki smiled at Elusa.

"Really?" Alusa was a little surprised.

"Of course it's true, Lucy said that she would take advantage of this period when she had no magic to strengthen her weakest point as a Star Spirit Magi," Loki continued.

"Sounds good, Lucy, when is it time to fight," Natsu excited.

When Lucy heard this, a black line suddenly appeared on her forehead, "What do you think of me, it's just an intensive practice, if I really compete with you, will I still have my life?"

"I know," Lucy cried out as soon as she finished speaking.

"What do you know?" Charlotte looked at Harpy suspiciously.

"Lucy is going to be as strong a man as Elphman," Hubby said to Lucy with a look of "I look at you."

After Harpy's words were finished, a picture involuntarily appeared in everyone's minds, Lucy had a figure as strong as Elfman under her cute head, full of muscles, wearing a super large swimsuit, showing off her muscles to people and talking at the same time......

"Manly"

"Poof...... was listening to everyone's discussion for a moment, drinking alone, Makanov directly squirted out the wine he had just drunk, and those who didn't drink almost squirted out their own blood, and then the violent laughter completely resounded in the sky, and soon the tavern fell to the ground.

"Ahh......h

"How do you want to die, dead cat...... Lucy took out her Galaxy Whip and looked at Harpy with a murderous look in her eyes, smiling evilly.

"What a terrible Lucy......" Harpy was stupefied.

"It's what you brought on yourself, what do you say about Lucy's head Elfman's body, poof...... What else to say...... Burst...... Manly or something...... Poof, are your words brainless...... Poof......" Xia Lulu said as she controlled her uncontrollable laughter.

"Ahh......h

"Poof...... Hahaha" Harpy was stunned for a second, and then a louder laugh rang out than everyone else.

"Give me a ...... death" Lucy kicked Harpy out of the tavern, and the guild fell silent for a few moments.

After some mediation by Harpy, everyone in the guild had completely disappeared from the tension of the Great Demon Fighting Exercise that would be held the day after tomorrow, and some only had the self-confidence to rush to the end.

"Ahem, from now on the Fairy Tail team is formed," Makanov yelled.

"Oh......" everyone below roared.

"For 30 million, cough ......"

"To get the Chief Guild of Fiore, come on, Fairy Tail," Makanov shouted with his hands raised.

"Come on......" As Makanov shouted, everyone in the guild reached its peak of excitement.