"We must participate, absolutely!"
"No, we can't! We participated once before and came in last place. It was too embarrassing!"
"The situation is different now! Kenichi-nii and Natsu-nii are back. Our guild has a chance to win the championship!"
"Kenichi and Erza are strong, but Natsu and the others have a seven-year gap!"
…
When Natsu and Gray entered the guild, they saw Macao and Romeo, father and son, arguing fiercely.
"What are you talking about?"
"Participate in what? I don't understand."
Hearing Macao and Romeo's conversation, Natsu asked, confused.
"The Grand Magic Games!"
"During the seven years you were gone, Natsu-nii, the capital of the Fiore Kingdom held the Grand Magic Games every year. Guilds like Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale all participate!"
Romeo explained to Natsu excitedly.
When Natsu heard the name, his spirits instantly soared: "The Grand Magic Games? Is it fighting? Sounds really interesting! Let's have our guild participate too!"
"Lamia Scale... so that means Lyon might also participate in this Grand Magic Games thing?"
Seeing the anticipation on Gray's face, Lucy retorted in astonishment: "Even Gray is..."
"The champion guild of the Grand Magic Games wins a 30,000,000 J prize!"
"Th... Thirty Million?"
Lucy and Makarov, who had been indifferent before, upon hearing Romeo mention this number, instantly had some kind of happy fantasy their minds.
And Makarov also shouted excitedly: "Participate! We absolutely must participate! The guild is just too poor right now~!"
"But participating in the Grand Magic Games requires at least 5 members. Natsu and Gray have been asleep for 7 years. Relying only on Kenichi and Erza might not be enough to win the championship."
Macao said with some worry.
Natsu wasn't worried at all, his enthusiasm grew even higher. He then asked Macao: "How long until the Grand Magic Games?"
"Three months!"
Natsu clenched his fist and said with a grin: "That's enough! Let's make up for the 7-year gap in one go!"
Hearing Natsu, Lucy lowered her eyelids and complained weakly: "It's not that easy!"
"Let's go ask Grandma Porlyusica for some medicine to boost our power 100 times!"
"Sigh, this is getting more and more unrealistic."
"If you want to improve your strength, I can help."
Just then, Kenichi's voice reached Natsu, Lucy, and the others.
Looking towards the source, they saw Kenichi, Erza, and Wendy walking over.
"Really?!"
Hearing Kenichi, Natsu immediately came over and asked excitedly.
"Of course!"
Kenichi nodded, then said: "I have two methods. One temporarily boosts strength, the other permanently. Which one do you want?"
"I want both!"
As soon as Kenichi finished speaking, Natsu immediately raised his hand and shouted.
"First, let's talk about the temporary strength boost..."
Having expected Natsu to say this, Kenichi pointed his finger towards Natsu in front of him and immediately activated Irene's Enchantment attribute.
In the original story, Irene used Enchantment to make Neinhart's magic power break through its limits.
Now, Kenichi also planned to use this move to boost Natsu's magic power!
Of course, this move has some drawbacks...
Since Natsu wanted to try it now, Kenichi would let him try. After all, he had never used this move before.
Bzzzt-
In the next second, the magic power within Natsu's body surged, even overflowing.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa... I can feel it! My magic power got so much stronger!"
Natsu, feeling the magic power inside him suddenly multiply, was ecstatic.
But Wendy, Erza, and the others, seeing Natsu's eyes turn pitch black, their expressions all changed.
"Natsu's eyes changed color. Kenichi, won't this have any effect on Natsu's body?"
Erza asked Kenichi beside her.
Before Kenichi could answer, Wendy said: "This is Enchantment. Kenichi-nii used Enchantment to forcibly increase Natsu-nii's magic power. It shouldn't affect Natsu-nii's body, but relying on external force to boost strength like this, I'm afraid..."
Although Wendy didn't finish, everyone knew what she meant.
The Grand Magic Games is an official competition.
If it's discovered that they used Enchantment to boost strength, they would probably be disqualified.
"In that case, let's use the second method!"
Kenichi dispelled the magic enchantment on Natsu, then glanced at the Arc of Time on the system screen and continued: "It's just that this method is quite painful!"
Hearing this, Natsu clenched his fist and said with a grin: "No problem! Bring it on! As long as I can catch up to the 7-year gap, I can handle any kind of pain!"
Gray said: "If Natsu dares to try it, I can't lose either!"
Hearing Kenichi's somewhat scary description, Lucy said timidly: "I'll... wait and see how it works for Natsu and Gray first."
The second method Kenichi mentioned was naturally Ultear's Second Origin using the Arc of Time.
Over the past seven years, Kenichi had developed many of his magic attributes.
The Second Origin via Arc of Time was one of them.
"In that case, let's begin!"
Kenichi looked at Natsu and Gray before him and said.