Chapter 84

"It seems this young lady needs a little bit of help."

Aizen Sosuke looked at Lucy, who was bound on the ground, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Without waiting for Lucy to say anything, Aizen Sosuke walked up to her. Spiritual power gathered at his fingertips, forming a fairly sharp little knife, and he cut through the cat-shaped ropes binding Lucy.

"You've really done me a huge favor!"

"The situation right now is rather urgent, so I don't have time to properly thank you, Mr."

"If there's a chance, next time I'll definitely treat you to a meal!"

Lucy rotated her wrists a little, then bowed to Aizen Sosuke.

After saying that, Lucy quickly ran toward the direction of the casino's main gate.

She really should have properly thanked Aizen Sosuke, but Elza had been abducted, and there was simply no time to keep dawdling. Lucy had to quickly find her other companions—Natsu and Gray.

Worth mentioning is that, because the Phantom Lord had been dealt with very cleanly and decisively by Ace.

As a result, the original Phantom Lord S-Class mage Juvia was not drawn to Gray and did not fall for him, and so unlike the plot in the original work, she did not tail after Gray and follow him to the resort.

And Aizen Sosuke, watching Lucy's gradually retreating figure, said nothing more. Ignoring the people sealed inside the cards on the ground, he unhurriedly walked toward the direction outside the casino's main gate as well.

Eventually, he disappeared from everyone's line of sight.

"......"

'Just briefly showed my face in front of the original protagonist's team.'

'Natsu's sense of smell is incredibly sharp, so I don't need to guide him any further—he can sniff his way over on his own. I just need to wait for them to find the location of the Tower of Heaven on their own.'

Lin Cheng sat inside a small tavern's bar counter, tapping the tabletop with his fingers one beat at a time.

For now, just letting the plot develop naturally is fine. It hasn't yet reached the point where Lin Cheng's characters officially appear.

As for why he chose to appear before Lucy in Aizen Sosuke's true appearance, it's because Lin Cheng plans to temporarily place Aizen Sosuke within the righteous faction.

Until the moment Aizen Sosuke flips the table, he will maintain a relatively good relationship with Fairy Tail's people and other factions in the positive sense.

'The Magic Council will deploy Magician Spritron in this Tower of Heaven incident.'

'This is completely different from the last time Phantom Lord went to all-out war with Fairy Tail—it's a super huge news story.'

The reason Lin Cheng is so keen on the Tower of Heaven arc is precisely because the Magic Council will deploy Magician Spritron during the Tower of Heaven arc, causing a worldwide sensation.

There's no need to think hard about this kind of super huge news story—as long as Lin Cheng participates, he can harvest a massive amount of emotion points.

Let alone an eight-figure emotion points haul, even a nine-figure haul isn't entirely impossible. Under such circumstances, Lin Cheng naturally couldn't let the Tower of Heaven arc slip by.

The Monu Sect puppets are too few in number, and their star rating is only one star—rather weak.

Although the Whitebeard Pirates puppet Ace's power is up to standard, it's obviously impossible to send him in.

That leaves only the S-rank puppet Aizen Sosuke that Lin Cheng newly drew, and the Akatsuki Organization series puppets. Lin Cheng plans to use Aizen Sosuke as an emotion-points harvester for the righteous side, so that leaves only the Akatsuki Organization puppets on this side.

The original author has constantly created one boss after another that the Fairy Tail protagonist team seemingly cannot defeat, but in the end they always end up being defeated by the Fairy Tail protagonist team.

This time, Lin Cheng is preparing to let the Fairy Tail protagonist team truly suffer a crushing defeat for once.

At this moment, through Konan tracking from the sky, Lin Cheng had already confirmed the exact location of the Tower of Heaven. With the location confirmed, naturally many things became much simpler.

"......"

Tower of Heaven, the top.

"How rare indeed."

A man wearing a hood, leaning lightly against his seat, looked at the woman who had gently descended from midair before him, chuckled lightly, and said: "I didn't expect that I would actually have a visitor here."

"May I know what business brings you to my place at this hour?"

The hooded man was naturally the actual controller of the Tower of Heaven—Jellal Fernandes.

As for the woman who had descended before Jellal, she was naturally Konan, whom Lin Cheng had previously dispatched to track the ship.

At this moment, Jellal looked at Konan, who had descended before him, with great interest.

As the BOSS with the highest prestige in the early parts of the original work, Jellal possessed the professional conduct befitting a villainous BOSS—as long as he could talk, he would absolutely never resort to action.

As long as he could hold back, he would absolutely never go all-out.

"It seems you are Mr. Jellal."

Konan looked at Jellal, her expression not changing much, and said: "I am here on the organization's orders to protect Mr. Jellal's life, and then to invite Mr. Jellal to join our organization."