Chapter 234: Elimination of the preliminaries
Outside the Radiance Hotel
"What? Wendy didn't arrive at the hotel on time, and Elfman and Lucy took the place of Wendy and Loki in the game?"
"Well, that's the way it is," Lisana said helplessly.
"It's such a mess," Mirajan said slowly, recovering from her surprise, a little speechless.
"There's no way around it, if Brother Elfman hadn't done it at the time, Natsu wouldn't have been able to compete," Lisana sighed.
"That being said, but ......" Mira Jean wanted to say something, and after thinking about it, she sighed helplessly, "It looks like I'm going to take a risk, I really don't know what the president will be stupid after knowing this"
"Now tell everyone to go to Wendy immediately, but don't distract Elusa and them because of Wendy's business," Mirajan continued.
"Hmm" Lishana nodded, and since there were only the two of them at the Radiance Hotel, the two of them immediately decided to separate and run down the street.
In the sky labyrinth
Lucy looked around with an uneasy expression, looking extremely nervous.
"Lucy, you don't have to be so scared," Gray said as he looked at Lucy speechlessly.
"I'm afraid to hold you back," Lucy whispered.
"This maze doesn't look like a dangerous place, and the big pumpkin says that if you reach the finish line first, you'll win," Natsu said, looking around.
"Yes, it's a race after all," Elusa continued
"We're going to be the first to reach the finish line," Natsu exclaimed excitedly.
"But how do you know the right direction? in this labyrinth," Elfman began.
"That's a problem," Gray nodded.
"That's what I'm not good at," Natsu grabbed her hair in pain.
In this sky labyrinth, you can't tell the direction at all, and at a glance, it looks like it's all the same road upside down, not to mention the direction, and when you walk in, you won't have a sense of direction.
"That's what I'm not good at," Elfman Khan said.
"Well, if you just choose the right direction, wouldn't you?" said Lucy.
"I'm talking about the end at the final venue, Domus Arena, so in that direction?" said Elusa, looking at the crowd.
"It seems to be in the East," Lucy said after a moment's thought.
"Are you sure?Lucy?" asked Elusa.
Lucy thought about it again, and then nodded, "Well, I can be sure, but now we can't be sure that it is the east, if my magic is still there, I can call Pease to tell the direction" Lucy frowned and said, although she was afraid that she would swallow everyone's hind legs, but since she had participated unexpectedly, she had to try her best to help everyone pass the preliminaries and enter the finals, and as for the subsequent events, it was best not to have your own participation.
"I've been ready for a long time," Elusa suddenly took out a small object and said lightly.
When everyone saw what Elusa was holding, they were dumbfounded.
"No, it's Elusa......" It took Natsu and Gray a long time before they spoke.
"It's really scary" Lucy couldn't help but complain, she never thought that Elusa would actually carry a compass, and the problem of direction could be solved, all that was left was to find the right way.
Then the five men ran towards Elusa, following the instructions of the compass, towards the east.
On the streets of Kulokas, there are still people coming and going, because of the preliminaries of the Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts, whether it is a magician or a common person who does not know magic, they are all looking at the huge buildings in the sky with great interest, although they can't see this sky maze surrounded by iron sheets, but everyone is waiting for the result, there will be those eight guilds to reach the finals.
As time passed, Mirajane and Lishana had found the rest of the guild and informed them, but everyone was ashamed that Lucy had no intention of participating in the tournament, and even Romeo was annoyed that he had a chance to play if he wasn't there.
Harpy had informed a lot more people than Mirajane and Lishana, after all, it had to inform everyone one step earlier, and had met Lishana on a street.
"How's it going, Harpy, have you found it?" asked Lisanna.
"I've searched the east side of Culokas, but I haven't found any trace of them," Harpy said, shaking his head.
"We'll have to speed up and find somewhere else," Lishana said.
"Hmm," Harpy nodded solemnly.
"Hey, can you hear me?" Lishana and Harpy had barely taken a few steps toward a west when they heard a voice in their hearts.
"...... Wolian" quickly realized what was going on, it was Wolian who was using telepathic communication to transmit magic and communicate with everyone.
"Wollen, did you find Wendy and Charlotus?" asked Harpy immediately, and Wollian suddenly informed them that they could only think about it.
"No, with my magic, we can let everyone know each other, so we can find Wendy more quickly," Wollen's voice rang out in everyone's hearts.
"I don't know what's going on, Wendy doesn't seem to have received my communication, I suspect Wendy has had an accident" Wollen's anxious voice continued.
"Didn't you get it? I'm in some trouble now," Mirajane frowned on a street in Culokas.
"Everyone, let's try to find it together, no matter what, we can't distract Elusa and them from this time," Wolian said.
"Hmm" Suddenly, many voices in unison sounded in Wolian's heart.
"Daddy, Uncle Wakaba, let's look in that direction," Romeo pointed to another street.
"Well, let's look in that direction, you can't leave every corner untouched," Markao nodded in agreement.
"I really don't know what happened to Wendy, it would be bad if I met those evil uncles who like little Lori," Wakaba said worriedly.
"What do I think, it's the two of you," Romeo said speechlessly, how could he not know the habits of these two men after being with his father Macao and Wakaba for so long.
"We're just communicating normally," Wakaba immediately retorted.
"That's it, how can a son say that about his father," Marcao said with an embarrassed face.
"Really," Romeo shook his head helplessly, and ran towards the designated street, with Macao and Wakaba immediately following.
Romeo, who was looking for him in various corners of the street, suddenly noticed a man in a pure black cloak walking by, Romeo didn't pay much attention at first, but suddenly remembered what he had just seen in a flash, and he was stunned.
"What's wrong, Romeo?" Soon Macao stepped out of a corner and saw Romeo's stunned expression.
"I seem to have seen Sister Lucy just now?" Romeo said, somewhat uncertain.
"How is this possible, you are mistaken," Macao said in disbelief.
"That's right," Romeo frowned and touched his head, now that Lucy is in the Heavenly Palace Labyrinth, she will definitely not appear here.
Knowing that Dakai was wrong, Romeo began to find Wendy's whereabouts again, more than twenty meters behind the place where Romeo and Macao left, a person wearing a pure black cloak that covered his feet was walking forward slowly, pay attention to it, you can find that the mysterious man's head cloak twisted back slightly, as if looking at something, but this state did not last a few seconds before the mysterious man turned around, and his footsteps were still unhurried towards a dark street corner and stopped, and then raised his head slightly to look at the heavenly palace maze in the sky, because the street corner is very dark and the cloak is completely unable to see the appearance of the person inside, can only faintly see the mysterious man's jaw, the skin can be seen very white in the dark, it seems to be a woman.
"This result ......"
"I'm so disappointed......" The mysterious man's voice sounded, but the voice was very low, and he could only tell who it was a woman, but he couldn't tell who it was, because there was no one around, so it was impossible to know who this woman was.
The mysterious woman lowered her head, pressed the black cloak on her head again, and walked out of the corner, walking in one direction, gradually disappearing into the crowded street.
Inside the Heavenly Palace Labyrinth
Lucy and the five of them were already dazzled by the maze in front of them, obviously moving towards the east, but they took the wrong way and almost fell off the maze, this fall will fall directly to Kulokas, plus this height will directly die, then they understand why the big pumpkin said not to blame them after accidentally losing his life.
"What now, it's not a good idea to keep heading east, it's easy to get lost," Lucy said with a frown.
"I can't tell where we're now, and we don't know where we started," Elusa said, looking around.
"It would have been much better if we had marked it at first, but now we can't tell where we are," Lucy continued.
"And what if it looks exactly the same here, what if it's marked?" Gray asked.
"I don't understand what you're talking about," Natsu said, confused.
"I'm not good at this kind of thing at all...... Elfman said with a sweat on his forehead.
"You've said that many times," Gray grumbled at Elfman, giving him a white look.
"This can be remembered, and now this is the only thing I can do," Lucy said, raising her hand.
"Well, that's it, it's a little late, but it's only for Lucy, who has the most active mind among us," Elusa nodded.
"I'm glad I can help......" Lucy was also happy, just now she had been worried that she would drag everyone back, but once she had her own place to play, she was still very excited, at least she was a useful person.
Lucy asked Elusa for some paper and pen, these things are not brought by ordinary people, but Lucy asked Elusa if she didn't, and then Elusa used her terrible strength, took out her own paper and pen from her weapon space and gave it to Lucy, everyone was once again impressed by Elusa, and sure enough, Elusa was the most terrifying.
The five of them chose the road again, this time Lucy began to remember the surrounding terrain on the paper and made marks, ten minutes passed, and the five of them successfully recorded a small part of the map of the maze, but this map was only understood by Lucy for the time being, after all, she wrote it down.
"It's slow," Gray noticed, something was wrong.
"yes, I don't know when I'm going to find it," Natsu was a little impatient.
"It's true that this labyrinth is so big, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time to record it," Elusa agreed.
"But what else can be done," Lucy sighed.
As soon as Lucy's words fell, everyone actually heard the sound of people talking from the originally quiet labyrinth, which surprised the five people, and after quieting down, everyone immediately heard that one person was complaining and urging the other, and it seemed that he was going the wrong way like them.
"I forgot the other thing, it's not just us in this maze," Gray reacted quickly.
"Are we going to avoid it," Lucy asked.
"No, it's all about competitions, and it's always bad to do something," Elusa stopped.
When Lucy heard the black line on her forehead, she couldn't help but complain, "Did I say do it?"
Soon in the field of vision of the five people, a team of five people appeared on another road six or seven or eight meters away from them, when the two teams saw each other and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, Dakai is fate or something, both sides are very familiar with each other, but this familiarity is familiar with each other.
"It's actually you" The person from a distance was a little surprised to see the five of Lucy.
"We were surprised that it would be you for the first time we met another guild's team," Elusa said.
"Although you have paid back all the money, you are not done with the injury to our guild, you weak guild," said one of the people who looked like the leader of the opposing team, his tone extremely dissatisfied.
Paying back the money and injuring the guild members, yes, the team that everyone met was the Ghost of Dusk, the Ghost of Dusk who had some contradictions with Fairy Tail.
"Since I met you, then I will eliminate you in this preliminaries, and let you know that a weak guild is always a weak guild" The team of the Ghost of Twilight immediately took out their weapons and aimed them at the five Lucy.
was pointed at with a weapon, and naturally had to fight back, Elusa took out a sword in an instant, and Natsu and Gray also prepared to attack.
"Wait, isn't it too early to do it at this time" Lucy exclaimed as soon as she saw it.
"Look, this is what a weak guild looks like, a guild that doesn't even understand the rules of the competition is not eligible to participate in the competition at all" The ghost of Dusk laughed at Lucy's yell.
"I see, you can also take the initiative to eliminate other people's teams, I really didn't think of this" Elusa suddenly realized, and then he remembered what the big pumpkin said, there are indeed no rules, magic can be used at will, as long as the eight that reach the end first are considered to win, this is the preliminaries of the big magic fight, a cruel preliminaries.
"Let's let the horses come, I don't know who eliminated whom" Gray looked at the Ghost of Dusk with disdain.
"I'm burning......" Natsu excited, it was so cool for him to fight or something.
The anger of the team of the "bastard" Twilight Ghost began to ignite, and it was simply infuriating that this fairy tail was still not afraid of heaven and earth.
Except for Lucy, who was a little farther away from each other, they all stared at each other to show their determination to eliminate each other, and suddenly the elimination battle between the two guilds, which were not used to each other, was about to start.
However, things always have ups and downs, and just when the two sides are about to start, some sirens sound throughout the labyrinth.
"What is this?" Just when the two teams were puzzled, a scene surprised them appeared, the maze actually began to turn, and this rotation suddenly made everyone's feet unstable.
"What's going on?" exclaimed Gray.
"Grab what's going on around you" Elusa's reflexes were extremely fast, and she quickly made the right judgment.
After hearing Elusa's shout, everyone immediately grabbed the ground around them and stabilized their bodies that were about to fall.
Because of the rotation of the labyrinth, Lucy and the others suddenly heard the earth-shattering shouts from the labyrinth, and it seemed that because of the sudden rotation of the labyrinth, the team in the maze was caught off guard.
Elusa glanced down and found that someone had fallen, and the figure of the Ghost of Dusk, who had just been opposite them, seemed to be gone. It seems that the position has changed because of the maze turning, and it is not visible.
"Ladies of the Heavenly Palace Labyrinth, don't fall down, falling down means that you have lost the qualification for the competition, even if you drop one person, you can't do it" At this time, the pumpkin man's voice sounded, which made Lucy and them breathe a sigh of relief, but fortunately, because of Elusa's reaction in time, everyone grabbed the things around them, otherwise everyone would lose the qualification for the competition because of the turn just now.
The maze rotated for more than ten seconds before stopping, and the five people also stood firmly on the ground again, looked down, and suddenly saw some people sitting on the maze outside the maze below, and it seemed that those people's teams had lost their chances with the finals.