Chapter 273

[Anyway, the ticket included everything; everyone just needed to have fun there, and that was OK.]

[Carrying excitement and joy, Erza, Lucy, Gray, Natsu, and Happy set off immediately.]

[Target! Akane Resort!] ===== CHAPTER 573 =====

[The Sky Screen's image continued.]

[Akane Resort.]

[It is the most popular seaside tourist destination in the kingdom.]

[On the beach, there is a vast amusement park where one can experience all kinds of projects.]

[This is a sanctuary for leisure, with the boundless ocean kicking up waves.]

[Amidst the waves, Lucy was struggling to control the direction of her surfing, letting out excited roars.]

[On the shore, Natsu and Gray were chasing each other, occasionally accompanied by angry curses.]

[Not far away, Erza was lying leisurely on a beach chair, wearing sunglasses, with juice placed beside her, leisurely enjoying her vacation time.]

[It seemed she hadn't been this relaxed in a long time.]

[Erza sighed with emotion for no reason.]

[Completely unaware that not far behind her, a pair of eyes was quietly watching her.]

[Time was passing.]

[Happy times are always short; in the blink of an eye, night had arrived.]

[The Fairy Tail group also came to the hotel's underground entertainment space to play.]

[As one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the Fiore Kingdom.]

[Even the underground space was decorated exceptionally dreamily.]

[Magic's 24 colors shone throughout the entire space.]

[Game machines, claw machines, board games, and even indoor roller coasters; all kinds of entertainment facilities were available here.]

[Shouts and yells from Natsu and Happy came from beside the gashapon machine.]

[Behind them, Gray was competing with someone in chess, and in another hall, Lucy was looking at Erza gambling with a face full of admiration.]

[Everyone was having fun to their heart's content.]

[No one noticed that a crisis... had quietly arrived.]

[Not far from the shouting Natsu and Happy, a figure appeared, made entirely of square blocks like stacked building blocks.]

[Target! Aimed directly at Natsu and Happy!]

[At the same time, Gray behind them also met an acquaintance, Juvia from the Phantom Lord guild.]

[In the battle not long ago, the two had met.]

[This time, Juvia's arrival was mainly to express her desire to join Fairy Tail.]

[Just as the two were talking around this topic.]

[Behind them appeared a burly man wearing a headscarf, with an eye patch covering one eye.]

[Without any nonsense, the burly man launched an attack directly!]

[A huge explosion completely kicked off the prelude to chaos.]

[Natsu was directly controlled against the wall by the block man using his body transformed into blocks.]

[On the other side, Erza and Lucy also met a dark-skinned man.]

[And what surprised Lucy the most was that this man actually called Erza "sister"?]

[Erza also seemed to have remembered something, standing frozen on the spot.]

[Her expression... was actually somewhat fearful?]

[Before Lucy could think carefully!]

[The entire field of vision went completely dark.]

[As if the lights had been forcibly turned off, everything within sight fell into darkness.]

[That was the burly man's magic, Dark Setsuna!]

[The moment the darkness descended, he flashed behind Gray and Juvia, knocking both of them down in one move.]

[The terror brought by the darkness was not just that; Natsu, who was pinned to the wall, also encountered a gunshot from the block man.]

[The muzzle spitting fire was aimed at Natsu's open mouth.]

[Violent explosions mixed with Natsu's screams rang through the entire hall.]

[When the darkness receded, Lucy was shocked to find that the entire space had suddenly become empty.]

[The crowd that had just gathered around had all disappeared; in the entire room, only she and Erza remained!]

[Lucy was bewildered, and Erza seemed to still be in a daze.]

[The next moment, the dark-skinned man appeared directly in front of Lucy.]

[His hands were fiddling with playing cards.]

[Inside each playing card, a person was sealed.]

[Clearly, everyone who had just been here had been sealed into the playing cards by this dark-skinned man using a bizarre method.]

[Lucy's heart sank heavily!]

[Things were not looking good...]

[Just as Lucy was thinking of a way to break it, ropes as nimble as snakes climbed onto Lucy's body, lifted her hands above her head, and tied her up directly.]

[The next moment, a young girl wearing a yellow coat and cat-ear decorations appeared in her sight.]

[Not only that, the burly man who had been rampaging on the other side, as well as the block man, also appeared in this room.]

[Erza was extremely shocked and called out their names in disbelief.]

[The burly man, Simon! The block man, Wally! And the cat girl, Millianna! Of course, there was also the dark-skinned man using playing cards, Erza's younger brother, Sho!]

[A brief conversation made Lucy understand that these people were all Erza's former companions.]

[But they had parted ways for some reason, which was why Erza was so shocked by their appearance.]

[She didn't even notice the magic circle flashing behind her; the next moment, Erza was easily knocked unconscious.]

[Immediately after, she was taken away directly by that group of people in front of Lucy.]

[Even Happy, who had been following Natsu, was hypnotized and taken away together.]

[Lucy was very panicked, but the ropes on her body were still tightening; at the critical moment, Lucy discovered that people trapped in the cards could also affect reality.]

[After some struggling, she finally untied the ropes.]

[Lucy immediately went to find the other companions.]

[Fortunately, even in the state of a surprise attack, Gray, Natsu, and the others were still fine.]

[Especially Natsu; after being shot in the mouth, he only fainted for a while and then woke up completely unscathed.]

[It made people unable to stop calling him a monster or something.]

[Natsu, whose brain was clouded by anger, had no intention of paying attention to anyone else.]

[Relying on his super-strong sense of smell, Natsu locked onto the location of the block man just now and rushed out, yelling.]

[With Natsu leading the way, things became much simpler; the group immediately followed Natsu's footsteps, preparing to find that group and save Erza back.]

[However, Erza had been taken onto a ship and had already moved away from the coast.]

[Although Natsu's sense of smell was keen, once he got on the boat, he collapsed directly.]

[Dizzy, he could only rely on a sliver of instinct to point the direction.]

[Although everyone was very suspicious of whether the direction Natsu was pointing at the moment was correct.]

[But, other than that, there was no other way.]

[Therefore, they could only bite the bullet and trust Natsu.]

[The ship drifted on the boundless sea.]

[A long time had passed, and just when everyone was almost in despair.]

[Lucy keenly noticed the sea level floating with the corpses of birds.]

[Moreover, even the surrounding sea presented a creepy black color, as if it were a realm of death, making people fearful.]

[Not far away, an island could already be seen, with a strange tower towering into the clouds standing on top of the island.]

[The dizzy Natsu pointed his hand firmly at that tower, which also clarified the direction for everyone.]

[They began to approach the direction of the tower.] ===== CHAPTER 574 =====