Chapter 176

"Also, what just happened here?"

Following a string of questions, Ulteara soon learned the whole story of what had taken place.

"A dragon? The Five Elder Stars? The World Government?"

"There are actually dragons within the Grand Line?"

Ulteara muttered to herself, the heaviness within almost written plainly across her face.

The gruesome scene around her especially made her heart increasingly heavy.

As for these fellows who had come from another world, whether good or bad, their arrival in this world was undoubtedly a good thing.

Ulteara was not the only one troubled.

Thousands of meters away, in a small tribe settled in a valley plain, a white-haired old man stared at the spot where Nirvana had vanished, his face also etched with worry.

"I never expected the vanished dragon race to appear again, and to take Nirvana with them."

"Could the great war of four hundred years ago be replayed?"

The old man before them was none other than the creator of Nirvana from four hundred years ago, Robinru.

Unlike others, Robinru himself was a living history.

Having survived four hundred years and having lived through the era of dragon rule, he understood better than anyone how terrifying the dragons were.

In that era, in the eyes of the dragon race, the human race was nothing but ants, nothing but food.

Afterwards, for some unknown reason, they suddenly withdrew from the world's sight.

Never would they have thought that after such a long passage of time, this terrifying creature would appear once more!

"Could it be that they fled to another world?"

"The Five Elder Stars, the World Government? Regardless, I should report this matter to the Magic Pingyi Society first."

"Now that I am only a soul, I no longer have the ability to manage these things."

……

Rain Village

The great battle was still ongoing; the continuous fighting had already reduced the entire Rain Village to ruins.

"Natsu, are you alright?"

After parrying a strike for Natsu with her sword, Erza turned her head and looked at Natsu with deep anxiety.

"I'm fine, you don't need to worry about me."

Saying so, Natsu stood up once more, released his flames, and charged toward his opponent.

But upon closer inspection, one could see that Natsu's flames had shrunk to nearly half of what they were at the start; the once vigorous, searing flames had also dropped sharply in temperature.

With Wendy's amplification magic at the beginning it might have been fine, but over time, Wendy naturally could not keep it up.

Having lost Wendy's assistance, in the environment of Rain Village, Natsu—who used Fire Dragon Slayer Magic—was already unsuited to begin with, and combined with the field effects, his strength naturally plummeted.

But what could they do about it?

At this moment, they had no retreat left.

"In that case, we must take down the enemy quickly and get back to the guild!"

Hearing Natsu's words, although Erza's heart was already anxious to the extreme, she could do nothing about it.

Now, apart from raising her sword and defeating her opponent, they had no other choice!

After that, Erza led the other mages to continue launching their attacks.

After several waves of chaotic fighting, more and more people gathered around them.

The reason was none other than—

After prolonged fighting, most of the mages had already exhausted their magic power.

Although they held the advantage in numbers, each of the opponents individually possessed at least the power of a Saint Ten-class mage, so the mages had little advantage to speak of.

Coupled with their extremely rich combat experience, as well as those strange ninjutsu and genjutsu, it was a harsh lesson for every mage present.