Chapter 181

Erza looked at Hearing Wendi and Following Ye Yu, who were walking over, and said with a smile.

"Everyone, they've all arrived?"

Hearing Erza's words, Hearing Wendi's small face was instantly startled, and her gaze scanned all around.

Soon, her gaze fell on the cruise ship docked beside Erza.

She saw that Natsu, Gray, and the others were all there inside the ship.

"Then... that being the case, it really is us who arrived late!"

Hearing Wendi said with an apologetic expression.

"I can't say late, the Master hasn't... oh, he's here!"

Erza had originally wanted to say the Master hadn't arrived, but before she could finish her words, she saw Makarov walking toward this side.

"Board the ship!"

After reuniting with Following Ye Yu and Hearing Wendi, Erza walked in front and headed directly toward the cruise ship.

After boarding the ship, Following Ye Yu scanned it and saw that everyone was gathered in pairs.

Natsu, Happy

Gray, Gajeel

Cana, Evergreen

Fried, Bickslow

Mest, Elfman

Juvia, Lisanna

Levy, Lucy

Clearly, these people gathered together were the partners for this round of the exam.

"Following Ye Yu, Hearing Wendi!"

Seeing Following Ye Yu and Hearing Wendi walk over, Lucy immediately stood up and waved!

"Everyone has found their partners!"

Hearing Wendi said with a smile, then walked together with Following Ye Yu toward the place where Lucy and Levy were.

"Following Ye Yu, this time I will definitely defeat you and become an S-Class Ma..."

Before Following Ye Yu and Hearing Wendi could reach the place where Lucy and Levy were, Natsu suddenly jumped out, pointed at Following Ye Yu, and said with a look of fighting spirit.

It was just that before he could finish his words, the cruise ship suddenly shook.

Natsu, who had been full of confidence a second ago, collapsed like a frost-bitten eggplant the next second.

"Natsu, what did you just say you were going to become?"

Seeing Natsu fall to the ground, Gray said teasingly.

"Less, less nonsense..."

"Hearing Wendi, save me!"

Natsu scolded Gray in a half-dead state, then asked Hearing Wendi for help.

"Okay..."

Hearing Wendi just wanted to walk over to help Natsu heal, when at this moment Makarov walked over and said: "Hearing Wendi, from the moment you boarded this ship, the S-Class Mage exam has already begun; you and Following Ye Yu are teammates, and all other teams are enemies!"

Hearing Makarov's words, Hearing Wendi withdrew her palm and said to Natsu apologetically: "Sorry, we are 'enemies'!"

"How could this be!"

Natsu lay on the ground, looking miserable!

"Erza, where are Mirajane and Gildarts?"

Following Ye Yu scanned the surroundings, didn't see Mirajane and Gildarts, and asked.

After all, Following Ye Yu knew that Erza, Mirajane, and Gildarts would also participate in this exam as people testing the participating teams.

"Mirajane and Gildarts have already headed to Tenrou Island in advance, and I stayed behind because of... a certain reason!"

Erza subconsciously moved her gaze away from Following Ye Yu and then said.

While Following Ye Yu and Erza were talking, the cruise ship had already started.

At the beginning, everyone could still look at the scenery on the sea and feel the sea breeze.

But when the cruise ship entered a certain area of the ocean, the air became abnormally hot.

"What's going on? Why is it so hot?"

Hearing Gray's words, Hearing Wendi said with a confused expression: "Is it hot?"

But soon, Hearing Wendi discovered that it wasn't just Gray; over there, Fried, Cana, and the others were all hot to the point of being unable to stand it.

Seeing this scene, Hearing Wendi knew it was really hot.

But what Hearing Wendi found strange was, why couldn't she feel the heat?

"This is..."

Soon, Hearing Wendi discovered that Following Ye Yu, who was beside her, was constantly emitting cold air from his body for some reason.

"Brother Following Ye Yu..."

Hearing Wendi said to Following Ye Yu with tears in her eyes.

I don't know how much time passed, when Makarov, who hadn't appeared since boarding the ship, suddenly jumped out.

"We are about to arrive at Tenrou Island, I will first explain the exam rules for the next steps to everyone!"

Hearing Makarov's words, everyone looked toward the ocean.

They saw that not far away on the ocean, there existed a peculiar island that looked like a mushroom.

"Is that Tenrou Island?"

"It actually has two layers!"

"It really is magical!"

Hearing Wendi, Levy, and the others all looked at Tenrou Island with amazement.

And at this time, Erza greeted Following Ye Yu and then left the cruise ship in advance.

"Do you see that wisp of blue smoke on the island?"

"After you enter the island, there will be 8 paths leading to the place where that wisp of smoke is!"

While speaking, Makarov opened a blueprint.

The content on the blueprint was the map for this exam.

They saw that on the map, there were 8 paths converging together.

Among them, four paths intersected in pairs, and a "Battle" character was written at the intersection.

In addition, there were three paths, each hanging with the images of Erza, Gildarts, and Mirajane.

A "Quiet" character was written on the last path.

After Makarov's explanation, Gray and the others knew that the "Battle" character meant that the two teams that met would have a battle.

The winning team advances.

The paths hanging with the images of Erza, Gildarts, and Mirajane meant having to battle Erza and the others.

As for that "Quiet" one, it meant doing nothing and advancing directly.

Just as Lucy, Cana, and the others were thinking about how to choose the path that would lead to direct advancement, Following Ye Yu's gaze fell on the images of Erza, Gildarts, and Mirajane.

According to Following Ye Yu's idea, he naturally wanted to face these three S-Class Mages.

Following Ye Yu possesses Perception Magic; he wanted to know which path Erza, Gildarts, and Mirajane were in, which was simply as easy as turning his hand.

Therefore, Following Ye Yu wanted to choose whoever he wanted to choose.

"Let's choose Mirajane!"

After some thought, Following Ye Yu cast his gaze on Mirajane's image.

Following Ye Yu also wanted to face Mirajane, who had received the Satan Soul, once. ===== CHAPTER 183 =====