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The night is brightly lit and dots the starry sky. The people of the royal capital are excited, and the reason is, of course, the annual event that will be held here tomorrow - the Great Demon Fighting Exercise.

However, this year's organizers seemed to be a little special, and they surprised everyone on this night: they had to open an "opening ceremony" without notifying anyone!

The so-called "opening ceremony" is actually a qualifier for the Great Demon Fight. Due to the surge in the number of magic guilds in recent years, and the change of the rules that the same guild can send two teams to participate in the competition this time, there are hundreds of guilds participating in the Great Demon Fighting Exercise. Therefore, the organizers hope to be able to select eight teams to participate in the qualifiers.

The rules of the qualifiers are simple, but spectacular: all the guild members of the Kingdom of Fiore follow a ladder to the sky, and then enter a huge chamber with a spherical exterior and an irregularly shaped interior with intricate tracks. There, they will succeed in finding the right path to the arena.

The people all took to the streets, and the streets were empty. They looked at the huge chamber in the sky, and although they couldn't know what was happening inside, they still talked with great relish, as if they had all witnessed the battle of wits between the magicians.

After more than an hour of competition, the official announced the latest progress to the public.

The announcement was made by a short host wearing a pumpkin headdress, who said in a stereoscopic image projected on the night sky with his unique mantra: "Fiore, the list of the eight teams that will participate in the Great Demon Fight this year has appeared, and I believe everyone must be looking forward to the pumpkin." So, let's take this expectation and go to the arena tomorrow to witness the emergence of these eight teams, pumpkins! I'm sure there must be pumpkins from the team you're backing! ”

Then, the host wearing the Easter pumpkin head turned off the video.

Although the people complained about this, their interest and enthusiasm were aroused, and they all discussed with each other that they would go to see the event tomorrow.

The opening ceremony of the real Great Demon Fighting Exercise the next day did not disappoint them. In addition to the magic performance at the opening ceremony, the list of eight teams participating in the Great Demon Fighting Exercise announced by the host of Pumpkin Head also made them very satisfied.

These eight teams are the previous Great Demon Fighting Martial Arts Champion "Sword Biting Tiger", the runner-up "Snake Queen's Scales", the third runner-up "Blue Pegasus", the dark horse "Mermaid's Heel", the "Four Hounds" in the top eight every year, the former dark guild "Crow's Tail" and the declining king "Fairy Tail" A and B.

Although the people are dissatisfied with Fairy Tail's ability to enter the two teams, their impression of Fairy Tail is still stuck in the bad performance of previous years, and they have heard that they are a group of cowards who "can't fight back and scold back", so there are almost no people who support them, but there are many people who call them despicable and shameless, but even so, for Fairy Tail, it is really a surprise to be able to enter the two teams.

Each team has a fixed selection of 5 people and 1 alternate, so that there are actually 6 people participating in the competition.

In addition to a large-faced male presenter, there was also a familiar guest in the commentary table, the former Magic Council member Ajima, who was still wearing the same chef's costume that worked in the restaurant, even though he was sitting in the commentary seat.

After a short period of singing and dancing, the Pumpkin Head host announced the events of the first day.

"Today's key word is 'stealthy' pumpkin." The Pumpkin Head host only said so much, and then didn't go deeper, "Please ask each of the eight teams to select a player to participate in this competition pumpkin." ”

The candidates for each team came out, and Fairy Tail A and B teams sent Gray and Jubi'an. The striking Sword Bite Tiger sent out a contestant named Lupas Noah, who was dressed like a court swordsman with a foil and wore a crimson wide-brimmed hat, to the cheers of the audience.

In the end, it was also this man who won this "hidden" competition.

The "hidden" rule is for eight people to wander around a small embodied town in the arena, battling each other's replicas against each other's duplicates, and points will only be awarded by attacking the real body, and points will be deducted if they attack the fake or be attacked.

The final result of the contest ended in a landslide victory for Lufas Noah. His "memory magic" gave him a huge advantage in this game, as he memorized almost everyone's position, movement, sound, magic, etc., making it easy to tell the real from the fake. No one else could attack him at all, because he could create more fakes at any time—memories of himself he had left somewhere.

The Fairy Tail A and B teams were unfortunately at the bottom and were booed by the audience. In fact, although they don't have much advantage, they are not at the bottom, but the magician Naru Pudingku sent by the Great Crow's Tail is too aimed at the two magicians of Fairy Tail. But it turned out that way, and they had no other way.

As for why the crow's tail is so aimed at the fairy tail, the reason is also very simple, because the president of the crow's tail, named Ivan Dolea, is the son of Makarov and the father of Laxus. He was kicked out of the Magic Guild by Makarov for committing sins, which was one of the reasons why Laxus had provoked a goblin civil war before, and their final results were similar, both of them were expelled from the guild by Makarov, but the difference was that Laxus gained the right to return to the guild by his own actions.

Ivan and his Dark Guild have always held a grudge against Makarov and Fairy Tail, and this time they don't know what means they used to get the opportunity to become the Bright Guild, and they also participated in this Great Demon Fighting Exercise, and the target was undoubtedly Fairy Tail.

Seeing Ivan's guild members targeting his children like this, Makarov was so angry that he jumped to his feet, if it weren't for the fact that the first president Mebis was by his side and needed to pay attention to his image, he would have sweared.

After that, there were four additional one-on-one magician duels, and this time the candidates for the duel were officially designated, and no matter who they were, they all had to play.

After the first showdown list was released, it was unexpected by many people, and it turned out to be Lucy of Fairy Tail Team A and Freya of Raven Tail to face off.

This duel between beauties is not as gentle and fragrant as everyone imagined, on the contrary, the duel process is extremely intense, and they almost try every means for each other. At the last minute, Lucy had the perfect opportunity to defeat Freya, but suddenly lost her magic powers, resulting in a loss to Freya, and she was seriously injured by Freya and had to be sent to the infirmary.

Clear-eyed people can almost guess what the crow's tail has done, but there is no evidence at all, and the members of the fairy tail can only curse the crow's tail guild in the air and have nothing to do.

The winners of the second and third matchups were Ren of the Teal Pegasi and Oluga Nanagir of the Sword Bite Tiger.

The last game after that didn't have much to watch, because one side of the duel was the "Holy Ten Demon Guides" and "Rock Iron" Gura of the Snake Scales, and the other side of the duel was Fairy Tail Team B's Fried. Due to the large gap in strength, Fried was defeated by Gula almost quickly, and at this time, the boos of the audience for Fairy Tail reached its peak, and it was almost boiling, because Fairy Tail obviously occupied two quarterfinals, but failed to win a single game, I have to say, it is really embarrassing.

Regardless of the attitudes of all parties, this is the end of the first day of the competition, so far, Sword Biting Tiger is firmly in the first place, and Fairy Tail's two teams are at the bottom of the quarterfinals, and Team A is even below Team B.

In the evening, Fu Ko, who was sitting in a chair in a hotel room in the royal capital, received complete information about today's game. He read what was written on the envelope for a long time, and then decided to go out.

He quickly walked to the inn where Fairy Tail had all stayed, the first floor of the inn was the tavern, and now there was a lot of noise from inside, and it was not at all obvious that they had lost all the games today.

Urrutia, who came to join him today, had already told him that she had turned on the "second magic source" of this group of goblins, and she asked him if he wanted to "accept the results". Originally, he was going to come and see it now, and he even had the courage to react as much as possible, but when he walked to the front of the hotel, he couldn't help but pause again.

How so? He wanted to go in and make sure they were alive, but he was scared. Seven years ago, he couldn't save their lives, and if it weren't for President Mebith's super magic, he would probably have a lifetime of regrets, and he left the guild at its most difficult time, how could he think he still had the face to appear in front of them?

At least kill the black dragon to lighten the guilt in your heart......

So, let's take a look at them again tomorrow in the arena.

He turned to leave, but he didn't know that at this time, the door of the hotel was pushed open, and a graceful figure appeared. Miraj poured a plate of hot water outside the door, then looked up at the dark corners around her, and after a moment's view, she walked back.

As he returned along the same path, he inadvertently glanced at the [War Map] and saw a man following him. He looked at the man's name and felt a headache. Then, thinking of something else, he pulled the [War Map] back to the inn where Fairy Tail had landed, and after a few seconds, he gave a strange look.

How is this possible?

He decided to find out the truth, so he stood still and waited for the other party to catch up with him. After a while, a man wrapped in a black robe like him appeared in front of him. The man lifted his hood to reveal the face of a familiar woman.

This is Lucy Hatfilia's face, and the War Map shows that there are two Lucys.

Lucy stared at him for a moment, her eyes suddenly filled with tears, she rushed to him, hugged him tightly, and said hoarsely, "Fuko...... I've finally found you...... Hurry up and help me, or it'll be too late! ”