Chapter 288

Natsu said with dissatisfaction: "Huh? What kind of crappy rule is that?"

Erza also said somewhat concernedly: "It's a truly unpleasant rule. If the organizer makes our team fight Gildarts and the others, it will be quite disadvantageous for our guild!"

While Natsu and Erza were talking, Ye Yu cast his gaze on the pumpkin man.

Although he couldn't see the pumpkin man's expression, he was radiating an incredibly excited aura.

Clearly, this rule was set by this pumpkin man, who was the king.

However, the king wouldn't simply target a certain guild; he just wanted to watch the fun.

"The above are the rules for the Grand Magic Games. Next, we will proceed to the long-awaited opening match!"

"The name of the opening match is 'Hidden'. Please have each of the 8 teams send one participant to take part in this match. As for the specific rules, they will be announced after the lists of the 8 teams are submitted!"

As soon as the commentator finished speaking, Natsu, Gray, and the other participants who had been impatient for a long time were all eager to try.

"I'll take the lead!"

"No, let me do it!"

Just as Natsu and Gray were scrambling, Ye Yu said: "I'll do this one!"

Hearing Ye Yu's words, Natsu and Gray stopped arguing and looked at Ye Yu together.

And Erza and Mirajane also looked at Ye Yu.

After seven years of getting along, Erza and Mirajane were quite familiar with Ye Yu.

In their view, Ye Yu shouldn't be competing with Natsu.

But right now, Ye Yu was taking the initiative to participate in this opening match.

Perhaps Erza and the others didn't know the specific content of this opening match.

But Ye Yu knew.

This opening match wasn't about who was stronger; it wasn't certain who would win.

Natsu and Gray's magic wasn't suitable for this competition.

And Ye Yu's Perception Magic could play a key role in the competition.

Seeing Ye Yu wanting to participate in this opening match, Natsu and Gray naturally had no objections.

At the same time, the other 7 teams also selected their respective participants.

After the organizer received the participant list, the commentator announced loudly: "Please have the 8 participants stay, and the other participants retreat to their respective guild's waiting area!"

"Ye Yu, good luck!"

Erza, Mirajane, and the others greeted Ye Yu and then retreated from the arena.

In the end, only 8 people remained in the arena.

Ye Yu scanned the other 7 people on the field.

He saw Sabertooth's Rufus, Blue Pegasus's Ichiya, Lamia Scale's Lyon, and Fairy Tail Team B's Fried were all present.

When Ye Yu looked at Fried and the others, Fried and the others also looked at Ye Yu together.

After all, Ye Yu's team had won first place in the preliminary round.

"Fairy Tail, let me see your true strength!"

Rufus looked at Ye Yu, the corners of his mouth curling up.

At the same time, the big-headed man from Raven Tail was staring at Ye Yu with a playful gaze.

Ye Yu saw all of this, but he didn't care.

While everyone was looking at each other, the huge arena suddenly changed.

A large number of dense runes appeared in the air.

Soon, those runes condensed together to form a huge town.

The town had high-rise buildings and crisscrossing streets, as if it were a real town.

"Actually using magic to create a town?"

"Isn't this too exaggerated?"

Erza, Natsu, and the others, who had already arrived at the stands, were all amazed to see the huge magic town in the arena.

And soon, Lyon, Fried, and the others in the arena were all teleported into the magic town.

... Requesting flowers...

Hum hum hum—

Following that, a large number of virtual screens appeared around the magic town.

And the images displayed on those screens were the situations of the 8 participants in the town.

To be precise, 7 participants.

Because Ye Yu was still outside the magic town.

He hadn't been teleported into the magic town.

"What's going on?"

"Did the teleportation malfunction?"

Seeing Ye Yu still outside the magic town, the commentator and the audience were all stunned.

And at this time, the expressions of Hearing Wendi, Erza, and the others in the stands all shifted.

"Could it be because of Brother Ye Yu's magic?"

Perhaps others didn't know, but Hearing Wendi, Erza, and the others knew that all Space Magic was ineffective against Ye Yu.

And this teleportation magic belonged to a type of Space Magic.

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"That..."

While Hearing Wendi was speaking, the pumpkin man ran to Ye Yu.

Before the pumpkin man could finish his sentence, Ye Yu used Space Magic himself and disappeared from the spot.

The next second, when he appeared again, he was already in the town.

"That was just a small mistake!"

"Everyone in the stands can see the real situation of the 8 participants in the magic town through these screens!"

"But the participants in the magic town don't know the situation of the other participants!"

"The rules for this competition are simple: the 8 participants in the magic town just need to find other participants and launch an attack. Regardless of whether the attack causes damage, as long as you hit the opponent, you get one point. Conversely, the side that gets hit loses one point!"

Hearing the commentator say this, Natsu crossed his arms and said with a smile: "This is too simple!"

However, as soon as Natsu finished speaking, a large number of figures appeared out of thin air on the streets of the magic town.

These figures that suddenly appeared were exactly the same as the 8 participants.

"What's the situation here?"

"Suddenly so many Ye Yus and Frieds appeared!"

Seeing many Ye Yus and Frieds appearing on the streets of the magic town, Natsu and Happy held their heads and exclaimed as if they had seen a ghost.

"Now in the arena, many clones have appeared. These clones look exactly the same as the 8 participants. If any participant attacks these clones, they will lose one point!"

Hearing the commentator say this, Erza showed an expression of realization: "So that's it, using these clones to interfere with the competition? But for Ye Yu, there shouldn't be any problem!"