After a period of recuperation, Levy, Droy, and the others had basically recovered from their injuries.
Inside the guild's library, Lisanna and Levy sat facing each other, quietly reading. After an indeterminate amount of time, Lisanna spoke up.
"Levy-chan, I heard you were attacked. What exactly happened?"
When Levy had been injured and fallen unconscious, not everyone had been at the guild. Lisanna, for instance, had been out on a job with her sister, Mirajane, and only learned about it after returning. After all, although being a wizard was a dangerous profession, support-type mages like Levy rarely encountered direct combat during missions.
Hearing Lisanna's question, Levy's cheeks suddenly flushed red. Looking embarrassed, she hesitated for quite a while before speaking softly. "Actually, it wasn't as exaggerated as Droy and the others said. It wasn't really an attack. We were just caught in the aftermath of someone else's fight, and then accidentally fell off a cliff and got hurt."
Levy felt a little awkward. She could understand why Droy described it that way, because it really wasn't something to be proud of.
At that moment, however, Lisanna fell silent, her gaze toward Levy gradually becoming strange.
Do you have any idea that, because of this little bit of "embarrassment," someone is about to suffer terribly?
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Hogria Mountain Range.
The battle between Nullpudding and Ur lasted less than a minute before it ended, with Nullpudding dead.
Nullpudding wasn't weak. At the very least, he possessed A-Class mage-level strength. After all, Raven Tail would later be known as the fourth great guild alongside the Balam Alliance. Unfortunately for him, his opponent was Ur.
Right up until his final moments, Nullpudding's mind was filled with disbelief and utter confusion. He had guessed that Ur was strong, but he never imagined he would be that strong, so overwhelmingly powerful that Narbudin had no chance to fight back. What left him even more bewildered was that he genuinely had never seen any blue-haired little girl at all!
Over the past month, Nullpudding had indeed eliminated or driven off quite a few wizards, but he remembered them clearly. He was certain that none of them matched that description.
Thankfully, Nullpudding never heard the conversation between Levy and Lisanna. Otherwise, if he had learned that he had brought about his own death merely because the collateral damage from his battle caused a little girl to suffer some scrapes, he probably would have jumped out of his grave.
This was just too unfair!
After dealing with Nullpudding, Ur casually slaughtered the remaining dark wizards as well. They were all from the same faction. Killing half and leaving the other half alive just didn't sit right. Believe it or not, Ur actually had a rather severe case of obsessive–compulsive disorder—he hated nothing more than people who only did things halfway. Not only that, he had even been planning to send the rest of Raven Tail to accompany Nullpudding.
As the saying goes: "If you cut the grass without uprooting it, spring winds will make it grow again. But if you cut it at the roots, no matter how hard the spring wind works the soil, not even a single sprout will be born."
Not long after the dark mages were slain, Natsu and Happy finally arrived.
Compared to Ur, they were still just a bit slower. Combined with how quickly Ur had finished the fight, the two once again missed their chance to join the fun, leaving Natsu, the destruction maniac, rather irritated.
"Ur, couldn't you at least leave one for me?" Natsu complained.
"Don't worry. You'll get your chance. I'll leave the enemy leader for you later—how about that?" Ur replied.
"Really?" Natsu's eyes lit up with excitement.
"Yeah. Of course," Ur nodded.
After all, Ivan was still Makarov's son. With Ur's magic power on the verge of going berserk, he didn't dare fight Ivan himself—what if he accidentally killed him?
Besides, Ur was also curious about how Natsu's so-called "power-up" mechanism actually worked. With his dragon father inside him, Natsu could go as wild as he wanted without ever truly dying.
Speaking of which, Ivan was actually pretty tragic.
In terms of magical talent across three generations, he couldn't compare to Makarov above him, nor to Laxus below him. He had trained diligently in magic for decades, only to end up having his entire Raven Tail wiped out by his own son alone—a complete tragedy.
After finishing off the dark mages here, Ur quickly left the area with Natsu.
Before dying, Nullpudding had secretly sent a distress signal to Ivan. Although Ur wasn't afraid of Ivan, he had no intention of facing the entire Raven Tail guild alone. His current strength hadn't reached that level yet. Moreover, after obtaining information from that Raven Tail member earlier, Ur had now grown quite interested in this so-called treasure as well.
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TN: Because this chapter is very short, I'm going to give you guys an additional chapter for today. Have fun reading!
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