Chapter 163

【"Come in."】

【Irene looked toward the entrance and called out.】

【Soon, Kyoka, who had long emerald hair and a voluptuous figure but limbs different from a human's, walked in with a piece of paper and a metal box.】

【"Yo, is Seilah here too?"】

【Kyoka looked at Seilah and couldn't help but tease.】

【Seilah's expression was serious: "I am the Young Master's follower; where the Young Master is, I am."】

【Hearing this, Kyoka couldn't help but shake her head.】

【"Why so serious? Smile once in a while."】

【Seilah blinked: "I only smile for the Young Master!"】

【Kyoka's eye twitched: "Forget it, forget it, I can't be bothered with you."】

【Saying this, she turned her gaze to Black Natsu and Irene.】

【"King, Queen, I have brought the things you wanted."】

【Saying this, she placed the metal box in front of the two.】

【Black Natsu put down his bowl and chopsticks upon hearing this and quickly leaned toward the metal box.】

【He opened it slowly.】

【Inside were three diamond-shaped magic crystals emitting brilliant light.】

【The moment the box was opened, Black Natsu could even clearly hear the roar unique to dragons.】

【It was soul-shaking!】

【"Among these, there is the Sword Dragon magic crystal that our empire already had, and the other two found during this period: the Poison Dragon Slayer magic crystal and the Ice Dragon Slayer magic crystal."】

【Kyoka introduced.】

【"Our search team traveled across the entire Ishgar continent, and we only found these two in places where Dragon Slayer magic crystals were once recorded to exist."】

【"That's enough." Black Natsu's gaze locked onto the Dragon Slayer magic crystals, and he nodded gently.】

【The three here, plus the Lightning Dragon magic crystal and the Storm Dragon magic crystal still in the Galaxy Empire, make a total of five.】

【That should be enough.】

【After all, if it's just for an experiment, maybe one is enough.】

【"By the way, this is the information Queen asked me to pay attention to, saying that you would be very interested in it."】

【Saying this, Kyoka handed the paper in her hand to Black Natsu.】

【It was a newspaper; looking at the date, it seemed to be from a few days ago.】

【The front-page headline of the newspaper had a few simple words written in bold font.】

【"Magnolia Liberated! Black Mage Guild, Fairy Tail Established?"】

【Below the words was a photo.】

【Black Natsu was very familiar with the figures above.】

【There were only four people.】

【Mavis jumping up excitedly in the very front.】

【Warrod and Precht with their arms crossed, and Yuri with one hand on his hip, full of momentum.】

【Looking at the familiar figures in the picture, Black Natsu couldn't help but raise a smile.】

【"Fairy Tail, huh..."】

【"Mavis, you finally completed what you had to do!"】

【Time passed slowly.】

【In the blink of an eye, two months passed in a flash.】

【During this period, besides conducting experiments on perfect dragonization with Irene.】

【Black Natsu did not forget to repair the book called 'Recalling Time'.】

【That was his reliance for returning to his original world, so he absolutely could not give up.】

【Moreover, Black Natsu could already vaguely feel that he was gradually being rejected by this era.】

【This feeling was different from when Black Natsu went to four hundred years later through the Eclipse Gate.】

【Perhaps this was the difference between 'Recalling Time' and the Eclipse Gate.】

【The Eclipse Gate was more perfect, utilizing everything that could be utilized, and even borrowing the power of the Celestial Spirit World, which was why it could make the traveler perfectly adapt to that era.】

【Simply put, it allowed the traveler to truly leave a mark in the era they traveled to and become a person of that era.】

【While 'Recalling Time', although also exceptionally powerful, was ultimately just a book.】

【The travel it brought was like rudely throwing a person into another river of time.】

【Black Natsu now even began to have a feeling.】

【If Black Natsu did not return to his original world within the time limit.】

【Something bad would happen.】

【Disappear? Erased? Or even... exiled into the river of time?】

【These were unclear, but in any case, the consequences would definitely not be a good thing.】

【Over the past two months, Black Natsu had gained a lot.】

【First, the perfect dragonization project.】

【It had made breakthrough progress.】

【In the test using the Ice Dragon Slayer magic crystal on test subject No. 005.】

【They successfully managed to make the Dragon Slayer magic crystal completely integrate into the test subject's body.】

【This integration was different from the second-generation Dragon Slayer method like Laxus, which simply and rudely implanted the magic crystal into the body to obtain Dragon Slayer power.】

【Instead, it cultivated the compatibility with the Dragon Slayer magic crystal through the Irene's Dragon Slayer genes already present in the test subject.】

【Ultimately, it achieved the goal of completely integrating the Dragon Slayer magic crystal into the body like a dragon, becoming a part of the test subject.】

【Just this step failed four times, causing test subjects No. 001 to 004 to be directly scrapped.】

【One could imagine how high the difficulty was.】

【However, heaven rewards the diligent; when it reached test subject No. 005, it was finally successfully integrated.】

【Immediately after, it was the second step: letting the Dragon Slayer magic crystal combine with the Dragon Force existing in the test subject.】

【In other words, it was transplanting the Dragon Seed into the Dragon Slayer magic crystal.】

【Thereby achieving a process where the Dragon Seed sprouts and grows freely within the Dragon Slayer magic crystal.】

【In this way, it was equivalent to finding a free space for the Dragon Force, this source of pollution, to play, so it would not affect the user's mind, etc.】

【It also allowed the user to mobilize the Dragon Force within the magic crystal as they pleased, thereby completing the perfect dragonization of freely changing into a dragon and freely transforming back into a human!】

【So far, these two points of the experiment on No. 005 had been carried out very successfully.】

【This was a huge success in the experiment.】

【Besides this, regarding the repair of the 'Recalling Time' book, with the help of countless experts in ancient texts within the Galaxy Empire studying and deciphering it together.】

【Currently, there was some progress.】

【But this progress, in fact, was not very good.】

【The essence of the book 'Recalling Time' was actually a key that could traverse time and connect thoughts.】

【Simply put, when you open this book, it will take you back to the time node of the event you were recalling in your mind at the moment you opened the book.】

【And this explained why Black Natsu came to the era more than a hundred years ago.】

【Because, at that time! He was recalling... Fairy Law.】

【He was recalling the First Master, Mavis!】

【Therefore, he was pulled into this time node by 'Recalling Time'.】

【Besides this, the book 'Recalling Time' actually had a time limit for travel.】

【And this time limit was shockingly short!】

【Only six hours!】

【Yes, six hours!】

【Strictly speaking, once the six hours were up, you wouldn't even have to worry about how to go back; 'Recalling Time' would take you back!】

【However, in reality, did Black Natsu stay in this time node for only six hours?】