The revelry of Fairy Tail's banquet continued.
"Cheers to Cana's promotion to S-Class Mage!"
"Cheers to the destruction of the Balam Alliance!"
"Cheers to Fairy Tail!"
"..."
The clinking of glasses, laughter, and music intertwined, making the scene incredibly lively.
Natsu and Gray had somehow started their daily physical brawl again; Cana and Gildarts were dragging people into drinking contests, successfully knocking out a group of people; Mirajane was smiling while tidying up glasses that had been accidentally overturned... Makarov sat on the counter, watching the chaotic scene in the hall, stroking his beard with a heart full of emotion. "It's a pity the First Generation didn't come back with us. I heard from my teacher and my father that she loved this kind of atmosphere."
He turned his head to look at Erza, who for once hadn't gone to "suppress the chaos." "Speaking of which, why haven't I seen that kid Hope?"
Erza was dealing with a piece of strawberry cake. Hearing Makarov's question, she wiped the cream from the corner of her mouth and said, "When we came back, Hope said he was going to prepare a big surprise for the guild, and then he vanished. I don't know where he is now."
A surprise? As long as it wasn't a shock, anything was fine.
Makarov took a sip of beer and was just about to give a Guild Master's speech regarding the Tenrou Island incident when suddenly, the entire guild gave a violent shudder.
The noisy atmosphere was instantly paused.
Everyone felt it—a tremor coming from underground, pushed by some powerful force.
"An earthquake? Or magic?" Erza frowned. "Regardless of which it is, we should have everyone evacuate the building before making a plan."
She was about to call out to everyone when Makarov stopped her.
At the same time, Gildarts, who was currently chugging away, also had a change of expression and put down his wine bottle.
Others might not know, but Makarov and Gildarts understood very well that the vibration just now was definitely not an earthquake.
To deal with potential enemy attacks, when the guild was expanded and renovated, specific Formula had been arranged to stabilize the building and resist magic.
Excluding natural disasters and magical influences, and having felt no large-scale magic power fluctuations, the only explanation... was likely that something had gone wrong in that underground space where Mavis's body was kept.
Makarov and Gildarts exchanged a glance across the crowd. Just as they were about to head to the underground space to check, one of the guild doors was suddenly pushed open from the outside.
At a time like this, who was arriving?
Everyone's gaze was drawn over.
A petite figure with emerald eyes, a blonde girl wearing a white dress, stood there quietly.
Her gaze swept across faces both familiar and strange, finally landing on Makarov on the opposite side of the hall, and she then revealed a sunny smile.
"Makarov, I'm back."
Clang—
The wooden mug in Makarov's hand dropped to the floor, his eyes widening. "Fi... Fi... First! Why are you here?!"
The entire guild instantly fell into a deathly silence.
All the guild members except those who had participated in the Tenrou Island trip were stunned. That was the First Generation Master Mavis? But hadn't she been dead for many years?
Mavis blinked, appearing a bit confused by everyone's reaction, but then she realized that Makarov and the others had hidden the fact that there was a ghost Master on Tenrou Island from the guild members.
This was understandable; after all, when Mavis was a ghost, she didn't like being disturbed either.
Hope stepped out from behind Mavis and leaned against the door.
"Everyone," he cleared his throat, "let me introduce her. This is Mavis Vermillion, the First Generation Master of Fairy Tail. I've resurrected her~"
The crowd's silence lasted for a full several dozen seconds.
And then... "Ehhhhhh—?!!"
The unison cry of shock almost blew the roof off the guild.
"The First Master?! That legendary Fairy Tactician?!"
"Hasn't she been deceased for nearly a hundred years?!"
"The resurrection is the main point, right? Is that something magic can even do..."
"..."
Amidst the chaos, Makarov's expression was complex. He finally understood what Hope's so-called "big surprise" was.
Resurrection of the Dead.
This kind of surprise is no different from a shock... Mavis's return made the atmosphere of the banquet reach an unprecedented level of liveliness. It had to be said that the Fairy Tail members' capacity for acceptance was terrifyingly strong.
With things like Natsu being a demon from 400 years ago, everyone could remain unfazed; naturally, Mavis's resurrection couldn't occupy much of their time in surprise.
"Alright!"
"To celebrate the First Master's return home!"
"Let's have a toast—!"
Mavis was surrounded by everyone, smiling incredibly happily.
Watching this scene, Hope sat down at the counter with a smile on his lips. Mirajane handed him a glass of juice. "Thanks to you, the guild is going to be lively from now on."
"Hasn't it always been lively?" Hope laughed.
The banquet went on for a whole day, and by the time it ended, it was already night.
After Hope accompanied Mirajane, Erza, and the others in tidying up the hall and returning a certain female drunkard to the dormitory, he came to the guild's backyard alone.
A snowflake drifted into his hand. Magnolia wasn't Tenrou Island in the tropics; the winter night temperature was very low, but for Hope, it felt like nothing.
Whether it was the various ice magics he knew or his Magnetic Field Power, they made him immune to heat and cold.
Hope sat cross-legged, thinking about means to deal with gods.
Not for himself, but for the sake of his guild companions.
After resurrecting Mavis earlier, the curse suddenly descended by ankhseram—if he hadn't had 'Magnetic Field Power' to protect his body, he surely would have fallen victim and become a second Zeref.
Fortunately, he possessed a stronger power, but the others did not. Once the curse was planted, even someone as strong as Zeref could not resist the god's malice.
ankhseram was no positive character.
So before cultivating his Magnetic Field Power to the point where it could break the 'Curse of Contradiction', Hope intended to first find a solution for his companions that could slightly resist the power of a god.
Hope clicked open the system, looked at the vast collection of magic, and found a magic he had recently recorded.
'Inferno Slayer Magic: Remnant'.
The 'God-Slaying Magic of the Moon' could only be passed down through a one-on-one inheritance, but this God Slaying magic, labeled as "Remnant" by the system, could be learned normally, though the talent requirements were quite high.
In that case... let's try to lower the learning difficulty a bit.
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