Lucy comes to visit Gray in his hospital bed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he lay there with a pale face, covered with a white quilt. On the beds on either side of him lay Xue Nai, Rahal, and Meester. Gray and the others killed each other because of Serra's command spell, and although they were stopped by Wendy and the others in time, they still had many wounds on their bodies. And Yukino has not recovered because she was locked in a cell by the people of Hades Gate and starved all day.

After Wendy had urgently healed them, she and Kana followed the orders of Speaker Quran and rushed to the battlefield of the royal city. Lucy had to stay here, keeping the ten Star Keys in her possession, and there were many elite wizards of the Magic Council outside the room to protect her.

In a quarter of an hour, she, Gray, Snow, Rahal, and Mester would be transported by carriage outside the city to a safer location. Although Lucy wanted to stay in the royal city, and was willing to pay the price of giving the ten Star Spirit Keys to the Speaker of the Güran for safekeeping, the Speaker refused.

"Young kid, you probably don't understand how complicated astral magic really is. You have made a contract with these ten Star Spirit Keys, and if they find you, then they will be able to find them through your contract with them, no matter how far away they are. The bigger problem is that we can't break the eclipse gate, and that door can't be broken unless it is opened, which is the law of this gate, and the risk of opening it is too great. I understand that you don't want to see your companions stay in the royal city and fight, while you have to leave. But this is your mission as the owner of the Zodiac Star Spiritual Keys, protect them, and trust us that we will be victorious, I, Quran Dom, assure you with the honor of my life, child. ”

Since the Speaker had spoken to this point, and Mebis and Makarov were of the same opinion, she could only endure and sit here.

Gray, Snow, Meester, and Rahal remain unconscious, showing no signs of waking up.

At this moment, she heard the sound of shelling outside—the magic cannon finally sent by the Council of Magic, and it had been firing at the island of the underworld without stopping—and after an eerie silence, she heard a sharp and piercing sound from outside, like fingernails scraping glass.

Immediately after, there was a loud bang. The huge concussion shattered all the windows here. Lucy covered her ears and curled up on the hospital bed. The guards outside kicked open the door and broke in.

Lucy looked around in a heartbeat, then she ran to the hospital bed and looked at Gray and them, but luckily they weren't stabbed by the broken glass, and they were all safe. Then she walked to the windowsill, and looking out through the shattered and twisted window frames, she saw the distant flames and smoke that was superior to the fire.

"What's that?"

No one was able to answer her question. She looked back and saw that the young guards were just as scared as she was, but had to keep their composure, for their duty was to protect her and Gray.

So, a man's voice answered her, and it was very loud here.

"That's the crashed island of the underworld, Miss Lucy."

The temperature of the room became like an ice cellar, and before she could say anything, she shivered and her lips were blue. She had to shrink back, and when she looked at the guards, she realized that they were even worse, they had all been frozen to ice, and their hair and eyebrows were covered in frost.

The man who had done all this walked in from outside the room, and with every step he took, a layer of frost formed in the place he walked.

"Let me introduce myself, Miss Lucy, I am Silver, one of the Nine Ghost Gates."

He had a mature and charming smile from a middle-aged man and looked extremely kind.

"You've seen what you're doing, I've taken care of the guards outside, and there's no one of you here. I hope you'll give me all the Star Spirit Keys in your hands, or I'll be able to freeze you into ice cubes. ”

Lucy shivered even more from the cold, and she curled up in the corner, gasping for air.

"You ...... Why is it here? Shouldn't you ...... Left? ”

"It is clear that we have deceived you, and we have even deceived our own companions. Actually, most of the members of the Nine Ghost Gates did leave, but I, along with the President and Franmars, two people you don't know, stayed because they had a special mission. Unlike them, I was the only one of them who was not a true demon, but half-human, half-demon, and even the Magic Council couldn't easily detect my demonic aura, so the task of staying and taking the remaining ten keys was in my hands. Personally, I don't want to do this kind of drudgery. ”

"I ...... I...... I can't give you ......."

"You're strong, miss, you've done a great job. However, you must understand that there is no possibility of refusal. You may be ready to give up your life, but do you notice that there are still four of your companions here? Don't you care about their lives? ”

Silver showed her Gray, Snow, Meester, and Rahal in the hospital bed like a polite gentleman.

Lucy shuddered, she was silent for a long time, she could feel the temperature of the room still dropping. She finally couldn't take it anymore, and large tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, forming ice crystals. She shook her hands and had to cry and pull out the ten keys that were strung together from her clothes.

Silver took it and relieved her and Gray of the cold.

"You're doing a great job. Don't worry, I'm not like them, and I'll keep my promise. I just want these ten keys, I won't hurt you, and now I'm leaving. ”

But Gray suddenly sat up from the bed and grabbed the key from Silver's hand with both hands, much to the surprise of both Silver and Lucy.

He was still a little weak, he didn't know when he woke up, he stared at the man in front of him.

"You can't take them...... I don't allow ......"

Silver looked at him for a moment and said, "But I'm insisting." ”

In the next second, Gray froze into ice. It's hard to imagine that an ice-shaped magician could be frozen by the ice itself.

"No!" Lucy finally regained her strength and let out a scream.

However, Silver had already left with the ten keys he had easily obtained, and with him the extremely cold temperature of the room. The ice on Gray and the guards was completely thawed ten minutes after he was gone.

As a result, no one at all was able to catch up with the man and see where he had taken the ten keys.

Where the island crashed, a huge crater changed the terrain and plunged the surrounding dwellings into a sea of fire.

It took a moment for Fuko and Elusa to crawl out of the rubble and onto safer ground. Of course, they were able to survive because of their own great strength, but the civilians and magicians in this area who had not had time to evacuate just now were not so lucky, they all died, and none of them survived.

Elusa choked on the smoke and coughed violently. Fuko healed her with magic. Ten seconds before the fall of the Underworld, they were able to lift Serra's spell and kill several Rami in that extremely unbalanced state, and then they managed to escape with the help of Fuko's magic.

They were also sure that Wild Bloom and Sierra were dead after they had fallen here on the island of the underworld—there was no way they would survive such a violent impact. But they also knew that these two madmen, nay, the madmen of the entire Gate of Hades, were still being reborn in all corners of the royal city.

"At least we can now know that the Book of Demons is not on the island of the Underworld, otherwise it would have been destroyed. It should be someone at the Gates of Hades, perhaps their president. ”

"You really look forward to everything, let's settle the matter in front of us first, how about it?"

Elusa finally felt a little better, and stopped coughing, and she pointed to the dense small figures crawling out of the rubble in front of her.

No one has survived such a violent impact, and perhaps there should be exceptions. Rami is one such exception. They had only barely met the little girl and fully realized her cockroach-like ability to survive.

The surviving Rami all crawled out, their weapons in their hands, grinning at them.

"Yes, Elusa, you're right. We can't let them pester us anymore. ”

Like Fuko and Elusa, there are also the Light Magiers who are dealing with the Gates of Hades all over the royal city. The Nine Ghost Gates, the strongest sect in the Gate of Hades, and the fanatical believers under their command, are not quite numerous at all. The Magic Council didn't bring many magicians in a hurry, so the main force of the confrontation became the guild magicians here.

"I've told you hundreds of times, I'm pretty sure I killed him!"

"Love! But he reappeared and attacked Lisanna! ”

Rarely, Natsu and Harpy got into a fight.

Before Natsu crashed on the island of the underworld, he spent a lot of effort to finally defeat the jackal, but he didn't have time to rest, so he rushed to other areas to support his partner.

With Harpy in his presence, his mobility became extremely strong, and after a while, he arrived on the battlefield of Miraj, and saw that the three Miraj sisters, Jubien, and Pansali had joined forces, and they were working with the magicians of the other guilds to fight against the slash of Boy Che and the undead army of Keith.

Keith was able to resurrect the dead here and keep them under his control, and there were quite a few of them, many of whom were Light Magus during their lifetimes, which greatly hindered Miraj's attack.

In this case, they saw a figure flash, and then the continuous explosions caught the wizard team off guard, causing the group of magicians to be injured to varying degrees, among them, Lisanna's injuries were very serious, causing Miraj and Elfman to give up the attack and protect her by Lisanna's side.

Soon, Natsu saw that the owner of the figure was the jackal he had defeated a few minutes earlier.

The jackals were naked, causing explosions everywhere and there, much to Natsu's annoyance. He felt that he needed to take responsibility, and this time he must completely defeat this Nine Ghost Gate. What's more, hurting Lisanna is something he will never tolerate!