Chapter 34

Ace smiled and waved his hand, saying, "I need to go back first and tell my old man about what happened today."

"I'll come find everyone to hang out again in a while."

After saying that, Ace directly used the power of the Flame-Flame Fruit and swiftly vanished from everyone's line of sight.

Once no one could see Ace's figure, Lin Cheng directly used the remote recall function to summon Ace back into his system backpack, putting a perfect period on this script.

Not long after Ace left, Makarov also returned.

After returning, Makarov learned from Erza and the others what had happened, and directly contributed a wave of over ten thousand emotion points to Lin Cheng — quite NICE indeed.

And this was only the beginning.

After that came the Magic Council, and after the Magic Council, the major newspapers scrambling to report on it.

Lin Cheng had already arranged for several puppets to go work at a few fairly well-known newspapers. If nothing unexpected happens, tomorrow's papers will cover the war between Phantom Lord and Fairy Tail.

The Bai Huzi Pirates, the Monu Sect, and Ace's instant-kill of one of the Ten Wizard Saints will all be reported.

"The Bai Huzi Pirates, the Monu Sect?"

Makarov looked at Erza, who stood before him reporting, his brow deeply furrowed, slightly lost in thought, and said, "That guy called Ace really killed Joseph?"

"With just a single strike?"

Even though he had already clearly heard the entire account from Erza's mouth, Makarov was still utterly shocked.

This shock completely suppressed the anger Makarov had originally felt toward Phantom Lord.

After all, even though the war between Phantom Lord and Fairy Tail had reached this point, Makarov had never thought of killing Joseph — he was, after all, a Holy Wizard Saint of the Light faction, and a certain order had to be maintained.

"Mm, that's right."

"Before that, he blocked an attack from the Magic Convergent Cannon with an extremely relaxed state."

Erza fully understood Makarov's shock at this moment. Even though she had been on the scene herself, even standing in the best viewing position, she herself found it incredibly hard to believe.

Joseph Porla, one of the Ten Wizard Saints standing at the very pinnacle of the continent, had been instantly killed by an obscure 'nobody' — and this 'nobody' was merely a captain of a force no one had ever heard of.

Just a captain.

"Right, Master, there's also that Monu Sect."

"Although all of us saw Ace kill the Dazuisi Sect of the Monu Sect."

Erza said to Makarov with a solemn expression, "But Ace says he didn't actually kill the Dazuisi Sect of the Monu Sect — meaning that just one of their Astral Bodies was able to fight him evenly."

"This so-called Dazuisi Sect may be even more terrifying than Ace."

An Astral Body is a clone in the world of Fairy Tail.

After learning Astral Body magic, a wizard can choose to split off part of their spiritual power and a portion of their magic power, forming an Astral Body with partial combat ability.

An Astral Body can possess at most no more than fifty percent of the original's combat power — it can be weaker, but absolutely never stronger. Once the ratio is exceeded, the original and the Astral Body will fall out of balance, producing severe consequences.

The mildest symptom is that the Astral Body will develop its own brand-new consciousness and break away on its own.

Causing the original to permanently lose the combat power contained in that Astral Body.

In other words, in Erza and the others' eyes, what Ace had defeated with all his might was merely an Astral Body clone possessing no more than fifty percent of the original's strength.

"The world is getting more and more chaotic."

"Erza, what's the situation over at Phantom Lord now?"

As Erza continued her report, Makarov shook his head with a slight headache and shifted his attention to the other side — the Phantom Lord guild.

Originally, the main characters of this event should have been Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord, the two strongest guilds of the Kingdom of Fiore. But because of the appearance of the Bai Huzi Pirates and the Monu Sect,

Makarov had been back for nearly half an hour without even dealing with the Phantom Lord matter.

"Phantom Lord chose to surrender right after you, Master, came back."

"They know very well that with Master Joseph dead, there's no one left who can stand against you, Master."

This time, Phantom Lord's surrender was especially decisive.

After all, without a Master at the level of a Holy Wizard Saint holding things down, facing Makarov, who was also at that level, they had virtually no room to resist.

And the time had already reached this point — the Magic Council had probably long since sent people on their way. Continuing to resist at this point certainly wouldn't end well.

"Alright then, that's that."

"The Magic Council is probably on its way — get ready to give statements."

Makarov let out a small sigh and said with a smile, "Although we were the ones who started this war, everyone saw what Phantom Lord did, so there shouldn't be any trouble."

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