Chapter 94

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"What's the situation now?"

"Wow! The ground at the border city has turned into really pretty crystals!"

Natsu looked down at the ground beneath his feet, making a big fuss.

At this moment, the R System of the Tower of Heaven had completely finished absorbing all of the magical sprite power from earlier. The R System had officially activated, and all that was left was to offer the sacrifice to resurrect the dead.

"What's going on?"

"Why…"

Compared to Natsu's single-track mind, Erza, looking at the drastically changed environment around her, had a somewhat uncertain and suspicious expression on her face.

Erza was very clear on the terrifying power of magical sprite power. After taking that terrifying blow from the magical sprite power, it was impossible for nothing to have happened here—even everyone present should not have survived.

But, judging by how things looked now, something special had clearly happened.

Erza wore a somewhat solemn expression as she looked at the building material that had been directly turned into magical crystal around her, then shifted her uncertain gaze to her childhood friend, Jellal.

Although she didn't know exactly what had happened, Erza instinctively felt that all of this was part of Jellal's plan.

And judging by how things looked now, Jellal's plan had clearly met with thorough success.

Before Erza could continue thinking, a rather nonchalant voice from not far away drew the attention of Erza and several others nearby.

"Not bad—it's a high-purity magical crystal."

"A piece this big should last quite a while."

Aizen Sousuke crouched down, ran his hand over the magical-crystallized ground, and a gratified smile appeared on his face.

"Ah!"

"You're that Mr. from the casino before!"

Lucy noticed Aizen Sousuke at this moment as well.

Watching Aizen Sousuke crouching on the ground and feeling the magical crystal, she covered her mouth in surprise.

She hadn't expected to run into Aizen Sousuke here.

However, upon running into Aizen Sousuke, the expression on Lucy's face turned somewhat wary—after all, the place they were in now was no good place, but enemy territory.

Aizen Sousuke might very well be part of the enemy faction.

"We meet again."

Aizen Sousuke looked at Lucy standing nearby watching him, and said with a smile: "Looks like I can't get out of treating you to a meal."

"You can't treat me to anything too cheap."

"Treating you to a meal is certainly no problem."

"But, Mr., why are you appearing at…"

A somewhat hesitant expression appeared on Lucy's face.

However, before Lucy could finish speaking, another enormous change occurred over at the Tower of Heaven.

The R System, which had absorbed all the magical sprite power and turned into magical crystal, in the very next instant reverted to its original state, as if everything that had happened from the start were nothing more than a flower in a mirror, a moon on the water.

For a moment, everyone present, including Jellal off to the side, looked at the scene before them in bewilderment.

In fact, the instant Aizen Sousuke touched the magical crystal, Lin Cheng's side received a system notification.

【Ding! High-concentration energy block detected—available for recycling!】

'Oh?'

'Can it be recycled directly and put into the system backpack?'

At this very moment, Lin Cheng, who was leisurely drinking tea in a small tavern, was slightly stunned upon receiving the system notification, and then a delighted smile appeared on his face.

Without any hesitation, Lin Cheng chose to recycle it directly.

Along with Lin Cheng's choice, an enormously huge energy block appeared directly in Lin Cheng's system backpack, roughly the same size as the one at the Tower of Heaven.

And an energy block about the size of a fist could replenish one hundred percent of an A-rank puppet's energy bar; even an S-rank puppet could be replenished by thirty percent.

Of course, this was only a rough figure—for example, the Xuanwozhang Sect's energy bar might be longer than many S-rank puppets, even considerably longer, so it would already be quite good if one energy block could replenish twenty percent or even ten percent.

Regardless, an energy block this large would be enough for Lin Cheng to use for a very long time.

For a long time to come, Lin Cheng would no longer need to worry about insufficient puppet energy bars or lack of operational capacity.

What happened afterward was what had just occurred.

Because Lin Cheng had taken all the magical sprite power absorbed by the Tower of Heaven's R System, the R System naturally reverted to its original state.

Everything Jellal had schemed for over so many years of working as a spy, going undercover in the Magic Council, was directly seized by Lin Cheng.

"Bastard!"

"You're the one who pulled this trick, aren't you?!"

Once Jellal came back to his senses, although he didn't know exactly what had happened, he could still sense that his plan was likely about to fail.

Looking at Aizen Sousuke's casual, understated expression, the fury in Jellal's heart could no longer be held back.