Fairy Tail: Collapsing Stars

Chapter 467: Fairy Tail Is Preparing to Go and Cause Trouble on Other Continents

Time flew by…

In the blink of an eye, half a year quietly passed!

The time had come to X785, May, spring!

The Fairy Tail Guildʼs main forces, who originally would have been ”buried” on Tenrou Island because of Acnologiaʼs attack, were still active in the Kingdom of Fiore! The entire Mage Guild, Fairy Tail, still displayed endless vitality, firmly maintaining its title as the strongest Mage Guild in Ishgar, without the slightest sign of decline…

As for the town of Magnolia, where the Fairy Tail Guild was located, it was now lush and green. The originally bare trees along the streets had already put on emerald-like new clothes, and then…

”Boom!!”

Amidst the intense flames, they turned into countless ashes!

”Natsu, donʼt run!!”

”Have you found Lucy?”

”Not yet…”

”Damn it, where did that Lucy run off to?”

”Forget it, letʼs deal with Natsu first!”

Countless Mages, violent Magic power swirling around their bodies, waved their hands, causing Magic Circles to form on their own. They then transformed into streams of elemental attacks and attacked the young man with short cherry-pink hair.

”Continue, continue! Donʼt stop!”

Facing everyoneʼs attacks, the young manʼs eyes contained not the slightest fear. He merely raised the corners of his mouth and provoked everyone. Suddenly, he was swallowed by flames. Blazing flames wrapped around his entire body, making him look like a man of fire. The flames that had just ignited the trees also came from this young manʼs hands.

The young man was none other than the Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild, the Fire Dragon Slayer Mage Natsu Dragneel, who used the flames inherited from the Fire Dragon King Igneel!

At this moment, as he released flames with a wave of his hand, all the Mages rushing toward him were sent flying!

”Hahahaha! Just this level!”

After defeating todayʼs challengers, Natsu burst into loud laughter.

Half a year had already passed since Fairy Tail Guildʼs X784 S-Class Mage Promotion Trial. During these six months, the number of people who wanted to prove that they possessed the strength to become an S-Class Mage of the Fairy Tail Guild by defeating Natsu and Lucy had not decreased. Instead, there were more and more of them…

The reason was that someone, for some unknown reason, had spread this news outside the Fairy Tail Guild, claiming that as long as one could defeat Natsu and Lucy, one could obtain S-Class Mage certification recognized by the Magic Council! From then on, one could rise rapidly in the magical world of the Ishgar Continent, going from an unknown nobody to someone fought over by countless Mage Guilds…

From then on, countless Mages who considered themselves fairly strong but could not pass the S-Class Mage Promotion Trial held by the Magic Council all gathered toward Magnolia Town!

This caused the town to experience a second spring, and the economy of the entire town was driven upward by several percentage points…

This behavior was even called the—Lucy Effect by some economists in Magnolia Town!

However, Lucy herself, who had been written into economics textbooks by economists, did not feel happy about this at all…

Inside the Fairy Tail Guild.

”Iʼm so tired, this is too hard!”

Lucy muttered to herself. Who knew how she had spent these past six months?!

If her experience over these six months were to be described in four words, it would be as if she had ”arrived in hell”…

”Lucy, itʼs time for you to renew…”

Just as Lucy was muttering to herself, Mirajane walked toward Lucy with a smile, then looked at Lucy kindly as she spoke.

”Uh…”

The corner of Lucyʼs eye twitched. She took out the wallet she carried with her, her fingers trembling as she pulled several banknotes from inside and handed them to Mirajane. As those ten-thousand-Jewel banknotes disappeared from Lucyʼs wallet, her already cash-strapped wallet became even emptier. There was almost no money left now~

”Thank you for your patronage~”

Mirajane smiled slightly at Lucy and collected Lucyʼs money.

”This is too hard…”

Lucy hugged her head alone, sitting in the no-battle zone of the Fairy Tail Guild! She cried out in pain.

Because the Lucy Effect had unexpectedly turned out to be so effective, there were simply too many people challenging Lucy and Natsu. This caused enormous trouble even for those who were not interested in Natsu and Lucy.