Lucy returned dejectedly.
I'm so stupid. I clearly realized Natsu and Happy were joking, yet I still foolishly tried to sneak in this way. It's so embarrassing...
However, upon seeing Noah and his companions arrive, the blonde girl's smile returned.
Because the purpose of this trip overlapped with the mission of Natsu's team, Noah told Natsu and his team that he had come to track down the members of the "Iron Forest".
When they heard that the other party was a dark guild and had connections with Baron Aibal, Natsu and Lucy's eyes immediately sharpened.
Natsu is a warmonger and is eager for a big fight.
Lucy was still upset about being called an "ugly duckling" and wanted to beat up Abal to vent her anger.
The five people and one cat immediately reached a cooperation agreement.
Night fell.
The grand villa was brightly lit, but the group of Noah who had infiltrated the building found no one there, which made them even more certain that Baron Abar was up to something.
They walked through one empty room after another until they stopped in the study, where they quickly found the book titled "Sunrise" that Natsu's team needed for their mission.
"Wow, it's actually a work by that great writer, and it's never been published before!"
Because it was a work by an author she admired who had never been born, and driven by curiosity, Lucy immediately used her magical gadget, the "Speed Reading Eyes," to quickly read the book.
However, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.
The entire content of "Sunrise" is actually praising the perverted Baron!
In Lucy's mind, the literary giant who had passed away many years ago was not the kind of person who would fawn over those in high positions, so how could he have written such a clumsy work...
Noah took the book "Sunrise" from Lucy and ran his hand over the cover. "Wow, isn't this [text replacement] magic? That's a rare kind of magic."
Lucy looked at Noah with surprise, "Could there be some hidden meaning in this book?"
"That's right, the magic [text replacement] has hidden the true contents of this book."
Noah returned the book to Lucy without responding to her expectant gaze. "I do have the ability to break this spell, but the person this book is meant to be delivered to is not me."
Lucy immediately understood that the qualified person was the one who had commissioned this mission, so she stopped asking questions.
"Hey everyone! I've found a tunnel!"
Natsu and Happy rushed back in a hurry, and with his Dragon Slayer mage's sense of smell, he successfully discovered the hidden tunnel under the villa.
Arriving at the entrance to the tunnel, Erza drew her sword, ready for battle. Her intuition told her that both Abel and the mages from the "Iron Forest" were down there.
An eerie wind howled through the damp tunnel, and Natsu, clearing the way, ignited orange flames on his fingertips, illuminating the dim light.
After many twists and turns, just as the group was about to reach the end of the passage after turning the last corner, countless magical runes suddenly poured out from the cracks in the rocks, forming a vast dark vortex that seemed about to distort the passage.
"Watch out, it's a triggered barrier!"
Before Noah's warning had even faded, Erza instantly donned the Black Feather Armor, and her horizontal and vertical cross-shaped sword strikes shattered the magical barrier in the blink of an eye.
The shattered fragments of the barrier transformed into purple starlight in the air. Amidst the dissipating dark currents, Natsu suddenly burst into flames, his blazing magic power clearing a path as he sped towards the end of the passage.
Others followed suit.
Passing through the passage, they found themselves in an underground palace, where something was taking place on the altar in the center.
Baron Aibal and his four maids, along with several mages from the "Iron Forest," were present. Apart from them, there were more than twenty people dressed in religious attire.
Looking at the leader's familiar white attire, Noah couldn't help but sigh at the persistent presence of the Black Magic Cult; he could run into them anywhere.
However, the leader of this dark magic team is an acquaintance, the dark magic priest Daziru who escaped from Mira in Silent Town.
Because the barrier was triggered, the dark forces had made preparations in advance, and when Natsu broke into the dungeon, he was subjected to a large number of magical attacks.
"Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!"
Natsu swept his arms, and his Flame Wings instantly cleared away the magic attacks from the minions, while he easily dodged the remaining magic.
"Hmph, Fairy Tail, it's you nosy bastards again."
The Black Priest Daqilu glared at the newcomers through gritted teeth. The crushing defeat at Silent Town was etched in his memory, and he harbored resentment towards those who had thwarted his plans.
Mira, who had received the soul of Satan, kindly reminded her former defeated foe, "Stop talking big and think about how to escape. After all, the dungeon isn't big, and there's only one way out."
Recalling the humiliating memory of narrowly escaping death from the "demon," Daqilu's face darkened, and he raised his hand, unleashing a torrent of inky magic rain towards Mira.
The verbal sparring session is over, and the battle is about to begin.
Aibal spotted Lucy hiding behind Erza immediately. "You're that ugly freak who came for the job during the day!"
"You're the ugly one! Your whole family are ugly!"
After her childish retort, Lucy drew the golden key in the air in front of her, and with a tinkling sound, the starlight gate with the Cancer constellation pattern opened in the dazzling starlight magic circle.
Holding two scissors and wearing glasses, the "crab spirit" Keisha, the celestial being of the Cancer constellation, makes her appearance.
"Miss Lucy, what kind of haircut would you like today, please?"
Despite being a Cancer, her verbal tic is "shrimp"; despite being a powerful Celestial Spirit, her dream is to become a hairdresser...
With no time to complain about her eccentric Protoss companions, Lucy pointed at Aibal and declared, "No haircuts today, let's fight, Keisha!"
Even if Lucy didn't say anything, Keisha knew what he should do. His earlier questioning was just to lighten the mood. He then charged at the enemy with scissors in hand.
"You're not the only one who knows about the Celestial Spirits of the Zodiac who can hold the Golden Keys!"
Aibal sneered and took out a golden key from his clothes. The key was emblazoned with the Virgo constellation, one of the twelve zodiac signs.
"The Virgo door, give it to me..."
"Don't open it! Fire Dragon's Overlord Fist!"
Natsu's figure suddenly appeared from the side, his fist, stained with a jet-black luster, slammed into the unsuspecting Baron, and the magic power that instantly exploded unleashed a blazing dragon flame that swept across half of the dungeon.
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