Chapter 654: The Magic Guild

Daleola, though hailed as a walking calamity, possessed the most formidable trait of an almost immortal vitality.

Even Uru had to sacrifice herself, freezing Daleola, and over a long span of time, exhaust every last spark of his life force before finally, alongside her future disciple Leo, accomplished the feat of slaying Daleola.

Yes.

When future Leo used moonlight to thaw Daleola, Daleola had indeed reached the brink of death—but had Leo not intervened to shatter the final flicker of his life, the thawed Daleola might have recovered on his own through his innate abilities.

What Luo Fu now lacks is a means to drain Daleola’s vitality in the shortest possible time.

Though Luo Fu’s shared abilities have now reached the level of unlocking the Mangekyo Sharingan, those abilities capable of delivering decisive damage to Daleola either lost their original power during localization into this world’s magic, or have yet to achieve true qualitative transformation from mere quantitative growth.

At this moment, Luo Fu and Daleola were locked in a state of mutual impasse, neither able to retreat.

Daleola’s instinctive beast nature sought to escape from Luo Fu’s grasp.

Meanwhile, Luo Fu had originally intended to eliminate Daleola—to repay Uru’s debt and to test his own strength.

But now he suddenly realized how astonishingly rapid his ability localization had become.

This made Luo Fu fear how much time had passed since he left the Tower of Paradise.

Upon realizing he could not resolve Daleola quickly, yet worrying about his companions on the Tower of Paradise, Luo Fu’s eyes suddenly flared with a magnificent magical array.

A colossal magical array instantly enveloped Daleola; wherever it passed, space twisted into vortexes resembling a ravenous maw, swallowing Daleola whole.

Kamui Space.

Though Kamui Space, after twelve heavenly world power synergies, had grown into a new world rivaling an independent universe,

who could forget that Luo Fu was still in the midst of power localization?

Yet by using his spatial ability to temporarily trap Daleola within Kamui Space, Luo Fu discovered a glaring weakness in his Kamui Space compared to those of other heavenly worlds.

In the Fairy Tail world, all supernatural abilities stem from magic formed by mana, and due to this world’s inherent Dao and principles, every spell cast inevitably manifests elaborate, often meaningless magical arrays.

This robbed Luo Fu’s Kamui Space of its elusive, unpredictable nature.

In other worlds, spatial abilities were famed for their stealth and inevitability—but in the Fairy Tail world, the invisible spatial vortexes of Kamui Space were forcibly adorned with garish magical arrays.

It was harmless against Daleola—a mindless, beastlike undead calamity—but if the opponent were a battle-hardened mage,

Kamui Space would likely miss nine times out of ten.

The twelve heavenly world abilities manifested in Luo Fu with mixed results.

For now, Luo Fu could only set aside his frustration.

After all, he was still anxious about the fate of his companions on the Tower of Paradise.

While Luo Fu temporarily trapped Daleola in Kamui Space and sought a way to reach the Tower of Paradise,

Uru, who had forcibly taken Gray away, had originally carried the sorrow of abandoning Leo.

But Uru never expected that, while traveling with Gray toward the Magic Guild headquarters, she and her disciple encountered residents who had fled the town due to Daleola’s path—among them, unmistakably, was Leo.

Leo’s appearance was indeed an unexpected joy.

Yet at this moment, Uru had no time to teach her disciple.

Without hesitation, she seized Leo once more and rushed headlong toward the Magic Guild headquarters with both disciples, utterly disregarding Leo and Gray’s obsession to witness Daleola’s death.

Magic Guild Headquarters.

Heiberyen, a current Saint Ten Mage, looked at Uru with astonishment.

As a being whose strength rivaled the Saint Ten, Uru held a uniquely special status within the Magic Guild.

Upon arriving at the Magic Guild headquarters with her two disciples, Uru immediately met Heiberyen, the second-ranked Saint Ten Mage and current Council President.

Upon hearing from Uru that a terrifying being like Luo Fu had appeared on the continent,

Heiberyen had no doubt of her words; after confirming Luo Fu’s details once more, he immediately began summoning the Saint Ten Mages.

The Magic Council was a uniquely specialized institution.

Nearly all matters concerning magic fell under its jurisdiction.

From minor disputes between mages and commoners to the current crisis of a being like Luo Fu—resembling a system bug—all lay within the Magic Council’s authority.

Of course, the Magic Council could only govern matters involving magic; secular powers remained under earthly rule—even nominally, the Magic Council itself was subordinate to the king.

As a Saint Ten Mage, one held a particularly special status even within the Magic Council.

When Heiberyen contacted the other Saint Ten Mages and convened the meeting,

within mere moments, thanks to the convenience of magic,

a world-shaking message spread rapidly across the continent, transmitted through every Magic Guild and its subordinate branches, covering the entire land and reaching even the most remote regions.

After demons and dragons, humanity now faced another terrifying enemy.

Based on Uru’s intelligence, the Magic Council immediately classified Luo Fu as a dire threat.

On one hand, the Magic Council was inherently authoritarian, especially regarding magic—just as the Fairy Tail Guild frequently received punitive notices from the Council, even though its own master was a Saint Ten.

Any newly emerged powerful being, unless proven friendly, was typically treated as a threat from the outset.

Worried he had been unconscious too long in the shipwreck and missed events at the Tower of Paradise,

Luo Fu had even resorted to trapping Daleola in Kamui Space and hurriedly prepared to set sail—how could he know that in this brief span, he had become the Magic Guilds’ number-one wanted criminal, universally feared?

His status had now become equivalent to that of demons and dragons—entirely excluded from humanity.

At this moment, Luo Fu was adrift upon the open sea, completely lost.

The reason was simple: Luo Fu had been captured and taken to the Tower of Paradise at a very young age.

Trapped on a solitary island, and treated no better than slaves among the children there, how could he possibly understand the world? His perspective was confined entirely to the tiny island.

Upon entering the shared space, Luo Fu had immediately chosen to leave the Tower of Paradise—unfortunately, relying solely on a small boat, with no map, no knowledge of currents or routes, and only a vague direction, he set sail toward the continent.

On the open sea, he encountered a violent storm; after the shipwreck, he remained unconscious for an unknown duration, only awakening to find Uru and Gray before him.

In other words, regarding the world itself, Luo Fu’s understanding was at best a superficial echo of his past-life memories.

Under these circumstances, when he set sail again, Luo Fu became lost at sea once more.

Fortunately, his powers had now localized sufficiently to ensure his survival on the open sea.

Even if he encountered another storm with raging winds and torrential rain, he would no longer drown and lose consciousness.

Yet finding the direction of the Tower of Paradise across this boundless ocean remained a simple matter.

The Tower of Paradise, now controlled by cultists, was a target of severe crackdown by the Magic Council.

Aside from those within the Tower, almost no one knew its location.

Even if Luo Fu returned to the continent to seek help, he could not possibly learn the Tower’s whereabouts.

A being who had shared the powers of twelve heavenly worlds—even Uru, a Saint Ten Mage, regarded him as transcending humanity—now committed such a ludicrously basic mistake.

If Luo Fu wished to find the Tower of Paradise now, he had only one crude method: use his abilities like a radar, sweeping the vast ocean in a Ditanshi search to pinpoint its exact location.

Yet Luo Fu, lost in searching for the Tower of Paradise, was unaware that even the Tower itself had already become aware of his existence.

As a cultist stronghold, the Tower of Paradise was rarely known to outsiders, yet its cultists closely monitored events on the continent.

Any ripple on the continent was swiftly reported to the Tower of Paradise.

Luo Fu’s existence had shaken the entire Magic Council, prompting the Saint Ten to issue a continent-wide manhunt.

This news reached the Tower of Paradise almost instantly, relayed by cult members.

Tower of Paradise.

Originally, due to the oceanic isolation from the continent, the Tower of Paradise would not publicly post notices regarding the Magic Council’s decisions.

No one could have imagined that a being deemed by the Magic Council as surpassing demons and dragons had once been merely a child on the Tower—a tortured, neglected, barely surviving human infant.

Yet upon learning of the Magic Council’s actions, the cultists carelessly tossed a wanted poster bearing Luo Fu’s clear likeness aside—where it was spotted by the very administrator Luo Fu had once hypnotized.

This was a bug in Luo Fu’s earlier hypnosis technique.

After all, to escape the Tower of Paradise, Luo Fu had implanted in this administrator the false memory that he was dead—and that the administrator himself had thrown his corpse into the sea.

But Luo Fu had overlooked one crucial point: in this administrator’s mind, he was a person who had awakened mana.

In the Tower of Paradise, awakening mana meant something unmistakable.

Ordinary children—whether one died or dozens perished—were of no concern to the administrators. But once a child awakened mana, everything changed.

This was precisely why, under the dual stimuli of Luo Fu’s implanted memory and the wanted poster, the administrator instantly recognized him.

On one hand, a child awakening mana under such brutal conditions was rarer than phoenix feathers or unicorn horns.

On the other, a child who awakened mana and immediately died in his hands left an indelible impression on the administrator; to ensure absolute certainty, Luo Fu’s fabricated memories had completely overwritten the truth—back when his powers had only just begun localizing.

Now, upon seeing the poster, the administrator could not help but show shock, blurting out: “How could it be this child?”

As a true high-ranking member of the Tower of Paradise, the cultists’ logic was beyond normal comprehension.

In the instant the administrator spoke out,

Luo Fu, previously ignored by the cultists, was now finally targeted. When the administrator revealed that the being deemed by the Magic Council as surpassing demons and dragons—a grave threat to humanity—had once been merely a child of the Tower, and one already declared dead,

the cultists immediately moved to seize Erisha and the others.

The cultists’ motives were incomprehensible to ordinary people.

But Luo Fu had no idea that, because Uru had relayed his information to the Magic Council, and the Council had made a public fuss, another person had now set their sights on him.

Zeref Dragneel.

The most violent, strongest, most evil legendary dark mage in magical history, a terrifying existence who had lived from four hundred years ago until now.

Of course, Zeref’s true nature was entirely different from the legends.

The real Zeref was not the evil, violent dark mage of rumor—he was, in fact, a kind man.

(End of Chapter)