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Beyond Demons and Dragons","simultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-chapter-655",655,"\u003Cp>Jellal Dragneel, the legendary progenitor of dark wizards, is perhaps the most vilified mage in history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his name has become taboo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the root of it all was a curse that granted Jellal immortality—and because of this curse, every action of his drains vast amounts of life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This plunged the inherently kind Jellal into unprecedented suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he traveled the continent, wherever he went, disasters followed; death clung to him like a shadow, never leaving his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To end it all, Jellal even created Deliora, a demonic plague of undeath designed solely to kill him—but even Deliora could not kill Jellal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Jellal was forced to wander the continent endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the Tower of Paradise later claimed Jellal’s name, and even future Jellal believed he had been aided by Jellal, the truth was that the Jellal he saw was merely Ultear, daughter of Ur, in disguise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real Jellal, due to his curse, had always been alone—and he had not died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, because of the curse, Jellal could not die even if he tried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when he saw the Magic Council launching a massive manhunt for Luo Fu,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jellal seized it as if it were his last lifeline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deliora, the undead plague he himself had created, could not kill him—so what of this monster stronger than Deliora? If he sought him out, could he use him to end it all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, in Jellal’s mind, he did not believe Luo Fu was truly as dangerous as the Magic Council’s warrant claimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, his own experience made it clear how unreliable the Magic Council was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Jellal’s suffering stemmed entirely from the curse, the Magic Council failed to understand the truth and simply blamed it all on Jellal’s nature, even claiming it was all intentional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Jellal, upon seeing Luo Fu’s warrant, feel a strange sense of kinship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would go find this being the Magic Council called superior to demons and dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Luo Fu truly was as evil as the Magic Council claimed, Jellal would fight without hesitation—if he could kill Luo Fu, he would rid the world of a terrible threat; but if Luo Fu, like himself, was wrongly hunted by the Magic Council, Jellal hoped to die at Luo Fu’s hands, thus ending his four-century-long torment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though modern wizards held severe misconceptions about Jellal, one thing was true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That Jellal’s power was extraordinarily strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a dark wizard, even regarded as the progenitor of dark magic, this was no exaggerated slander.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet as a top-tier mage, even though his strongest magic belonged to the dark arts, this did not mean he lacked knowledge of other magics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant he decided to seek Luo Fu, Jellal used magic to lock onto Luo Fu’s location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the boundless ocean, Luo Fu was conducting a grid search for the Tower of Paradise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if sensing something from beyond, he suddenly turned his gaze to his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clearly felt a strong sense of being watched, emanating from that direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the vast distance between them, Jellal’s eyes lit up sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart swelled with intense anticipation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a graceful step, Jellal vanished from his spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he reappeared, he stood on the ocean surface, not far from Luo Fu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this black-haired boy who had inexplicably crossed space to appear before him, Luo Fu’s gaze hardened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he did not recognize the boy, Luo Fu sensed on him a power identical to Deliora’s—or rather, not magic, but something deeper, a fundamental essence of life, strikingly similar to Deliora’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, strictly speaking, Luo Fu had reversed cause and effect: it was not that Jellal resembled Deliora, but that Deliora resembled Jellal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Deliora was the demon Jellal created specifically to kill himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jellal had intended to first determine whether Luo Fu posed a grave threat to the world as the Magic Council claimed—but upon seeing Luo Fu, Jellal confirmed one thing immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo Fu possessed the power to kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Luo Fu appeared now as a seemingly innocent child, Jellal sensed an unimaginable terror in his potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a potential Jellal had never witnessed in his centuries of wandering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Magic Council believed Luo Fu’s threat surpassed dragons and demons—but Jellal was certain that while dragons and demons were powerful, compared to Luo Fu’s potential, they were unworthy to even carry his shoes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jellal’s assessment was not exaggerated—do not forget, Jellal’s own brother was raised by a dragon. More precisely, his resurrected brother was nurtured by dragons; as for demons, Jellal had created countless of them himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of this, Jellal was certain that if Luo Fu harbored malice toward humanity, his threat would dwarf that of demons and dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Jellal himself felt immense danger from Luo Fu—how much more so for demons and dragons?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t be alarmed,” Jellal said with a gentle smile, sensing Luo Fu’s wariness. “I am Jellal, a mage. I was merely curious about what manner of being the Magic Council labeled superior to demons and dragons, so I came this way. If I’ve unsettled Itachi, I apologize.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Jellal introduced himself, Luo Fu instinctively grew wary—but soon he was utterly bewildered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What had he done? How had he been wanted by the Magic Council—and even deemed superior to demons and dragons by the Ten Saints?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until now, since arriving in this world, Luo Fu had only revealed his awakened magic in the Tower of Paradise, and interacted with only Ur and Gray, the master and apprentice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps, if one counted trapping Deliora in the Space-Time Dimension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in any case, why would the Magic Council issue a warrant for him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who exactly did the Magic Council issue warrants for?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very least, mages who caused massive destruction—or ones like Jellal, whose curses involuntarily drained life from all around them, turning any human settlement into a disaster zone, and thus branded as evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What had Luo Fu done?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What had he done?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since entering the Shared Space, Luo Fu had only used his three-tomoe Sharingan to hypnotize the Tower’s administrator and escaped the Tower—and before that, he had merely blocked Deliora, the undead plague, in some obscure village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond that, Luo Fu had never truly used any ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, being wanted by the Magic Council made no sense to Luo Fu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Luo Fu’s silence, Jellal studied him for a moment, then suddenly widened his eyes. “Itachi’re really just a child?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jellal was, in truth, among the closest beings to the pinnacle of this world’s magical system. His dark magic could even achieve miracles like creating life and resurrecting the dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he first saw Luo Fu’s warrant—and even the moment he saw Luo Fu—he assumed Luo Fu was merely a mage who had locked his appearance into that of a human child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Mavis Vermillion, the first Fairy Tail master and Jellal’s former lover—she too had appeared as a small girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after carefully observing Luo Fu, Jellal was horrified to realize Luo Fu’s form was not artificially fixed—it was genuinely in the process of growth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It meant Luo Fu was not yet at his peak—if his appearance matched his true nature, then he still had a long way to go before reaching his full potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regaining his composure, Luo Fu looked at Jellal. Despite the legendary status of this dark wizard progenitor, he remained wary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet some instinct told him clearly: Jellal meant him no harm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of silence, Luo Fu asked, “Jellal? Itachi’re the progenitor of dark wizards?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jellal chuckled bitterly. “Yes, I’m the so-called most violent, strongest, most evil dark wizard in magical history—and the creator of Deliora. But I must clarify: legend and reality are not the same. I think Itachi understand this well.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing Luo Fu, Jellal confirmed: the Magic Council’s warrant against Luo Fu was just as baseless as the one against himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet… this Luo Fu was terrifying. Even in his childlike form, his magical power was beyond Jellal’s comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do Itachi want with me? Itachi didn’t come just to warn me I’m wanted by the Magic Council?” Luo Fu asked grimly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not that simple,” Jellal shook his head, then shifted topic. “Itachi don’t seem affected by my curse?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jellal’s curse was terrifying—even dragons and demons might not withstand it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a curse that manifested the exact opposite of one’s true nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Jellal’s case, he deeply loved life—but because of this contradictory curse, the more he cherished life, the more death he unleashed; conversely, if he ceased to respect life, the death energy would cease spreading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how easily could one change one’s nature?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially for someone like Jellal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To force a man who loved life into becoming someone who despised it, even reveled in death—this would erase the very essence of Jellal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there were a way to reverse one’s nature, those cursed would be torn between extremes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loving life, wanting no death, he would twist himself to hate life—but then the curse would invert again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This curse was an unparalleled torment of the soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, Jellal realized: he stood close to Luo Fu, spoke with him—and Luo Fu showed no sign of sensing the death energy radiating from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Jellal did not know was that Luo Fu was far more than a child in appearance—his essence and abilities, drawn from twelve heavenly worlds, were undergoing a process of localization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this process, many abilities from other worlds lost some of their original efficacy after localization—for instance, the Space-Time Dimension, a power nearly all Luo Fus had enhanced, which elsewhere manifested as utterly inscrutable, but here, due to this world’s Dao and principles,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>now appeared with flashy magical arrays, as if deliberately announcing itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the cumulative effect of these abilities had elevated Luo Fu’s essence to the point where he was completely immune to Jellal’s death energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Luo Fu was now nearing the threshold beyond life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Death energy was still energy—and once one transcended the curse’s definition of death as a metaphysical boundary, death became merely a peculiar form of energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Itachi mean this energy, similar to Deliora’s?” Luo Fu raised an eyebrow and gestured toward Jellal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A magnificent magical array appeared, and death energy coalesced from nothing, gathering rapidly into the array’s center—within a blink, it formed a dense sphere in Luo Fu’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the death energy that terrified countless mages manipulated so casually by Luo Fu,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jellal’s heart surged with unprecedented hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps… this being truly could kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the twisted curse, Jellal, who had lived for centuries, had long desired death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even creating Deliora was merely an attempt to use a tool-demon to end his own life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Deliora was born from Jellal’s own power—how could it kill its creator?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1815,"2026-06-21T01:08:31.665Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","86f954981d8424268d6cdcd44d2eed6149fc2a6ece6f0298e66eb23a222bd74e","simultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-chapter-656","simultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-chapter-654",686,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimultaneously-transmigrated-i-forge-the-dao-acr-cover.jpg"]