As everyone knows.
Fairy Tail has always been meddlesome.
They meddle in Aslant's affairs, they meddle in Edolas's problems, and now they certainly have to meddle in the crisis facing Erientia.
Act first, ask later; it's the Protagonist Party's prerogative.
This... is Fairy Tail.
As the younger generation of the guild, and at an age of chuunibyou where their sense of justice was overflowing, the group was ready to agree without a second thought.
Only the shameless Hope decided to play devil's advocate, quieting his companions. "We're a guild. If you're commissioning us, you should at least talk about the reward first, right?"
"Ah, this..."
Faris was a bit dazed. According to the usual plot progression, shouldn't you just agree immediately when faced with a request from someone as weak, pitiful, and helpless as me?
It wasn't that Faris wanted to use moral kidnapping or get something for free.
The main thing was, she really didn't have anything she could offer as a reward.
Faris's family was dedicated to eliminating Erientia's excess magic power and had poured almost all their resources into it; even as the current Priestess, she didn't have much money.
Should she give away the White Magic Cult as a reward?
But who would want a bunch of fanatics brainwashed by two successive White Mages...
Wait, couldn't she just order those cultists to work?
Moving bricks, pouring concrete, running errands... it didn't matter what they did as long as they made money. They were all idle people anyway; as long as it didn't kill them, she'd make them work to the bone.
Why hadn't she thought of this before? She really was a useless fake Pope.
You weren't useless; you just hadn't realized a person could be so black-hearted... Listening to Faris's inner thoughts, which were enough to get her hanged from a lamppost, Hope's eyelid twitched.
Oh boy, why is the White Mage so wicked?
Faris took a deep breath and was about to voice her plan to have the White Magic Cult work to earn the commission reward, but she was stopped by Hope raising his hand.
"It looks like you can't provide a reward for us to save Erientia all at once."
Hope changed the subject. "How about this? I happen to know a place lacking in magic power. You just need to cooperate and transfer the excess magic power to that world when the time comes."
Although he didn't say it explicitly, Erza and the others understood that Hope was talking about Edolas.
Since the God of Despair had completely dissipated, the Despair Emperor Hopeless, who had regained control of the power of despair, now possessed the power to repair the world and thus revive its magic.
But how fast could one person progress?
Hey! Isn't this a coincidence? Right now, there's a world with so much magic power it's about to explode. As long as a safe spatial tunnel is constructed to transmit magic power, the progress of Edolas's magic revival will increase significantly.
And Hope could summon his other self. He wanted to see if Hopeless, who had once been possessed by the God of Despair and had personally experienced the power of a god, could help him find any traces of the god Ankhseram.
Killing three birds with one stone, I'm truly amazing.
Seeing Hope suddenly start smirking beside her, Cana silently moved aside.
Faced with Hope's proposal, Faris naturally accepted everything. As long as Erientia could be saved, even if she had to be a bed-warming maid... well, forget that part; Hope wouldn't dare accept.
After deciding that the next goal was to deal with the Moon God Dragon and resolve Erientia's crisis in the process, the banquet finally returned to its proper atmosphere.
After some eating and drinking, Hope suddenly remembered something.
Melkobia could easily manipulate the ocean, and the Moon God Dragon could traverse space at will. It seemed the other three Dragon Gods wouldn't be simple either.
The Fire Dragon God went without saying—the biological son of the Fire Dragon King, having lived from four years ago until now. Just by seniority alone, his strength had likely reached a terrifying level.
As for the Gold Dragon God and the Wood Dragon God...
Hope simply asked Melkobia for information on these two dragons; after all, they didn't get along either.
"The Wood Dragon God, Aldoron, was born with an incomparably massive size and vitality. He can freely control natural Plants and create clones with up to eighty percent of his original body's strength."
"Because of his size, few dragons or humans ever provoked him in Giltina, until four years ago when he was kicked by a passing Black Dragon..."
Melkobia gave Hope a schadenfreude-filled look.
Hope nodded, but he was thinking of Gildarts, who had also lost an arm and a leg because a Black Dragon passed by. I guess this drunkard uncle and the Wood Dragon God are brothers in misfortune...
Melkobia continued, "Aldoron, who was on the verge of death, came to this continent with Selene's help. He should be hiding somewhere now, sleeping to recover from his injuries."
Melkobia didn't know exactly where, because his relationship with Aldoron was quite poor, so he never took the initiative to inquire about any news regarding the other.
However, it was certain that the Wood Dragon God was in some city, just like him.
Because the Five Dragon Gods once ran rampant, the number of towns on the continent of Giltina had plummeted, but over time, humans had rebuilt many of them.
Hope wasn't stupid enough to search for the Wood Dragon God city by city with his companions. He planned to contact the Council and have them look into it; locals were naturally more familiar with such things.
"What about the Gold Dragon God?"
"The Gold Dragon God... uh, his name is Viernes."
Seeing Melkobia stop talking after hesitantly giving the name, Hope looked at him in confusion. "That's it? Don't tell me your knowledge of the Gold Dragon God is limited to just a name?"
"Ha... haha..."
Melkobia awkwardly rubbed the horn on his head. "You're right. I really only know what the Gold Dragon God is called. I don't even know what he looks like or if he's male or female."
"Because I... have never seen the Gold Dragon God. I even suspect that even if Selene and the others have seen him, they haven't seen Viernes's true form."
"How can that be? Aren't you all the Five Dragon Gods?"
"That title was given to us by humans out of fear."
Melkobia sighed. "To be honest, I really don't want it. The title of Water God Dragon always reminds me of the sins I committed in the past."
In the awkward atmosphere of staring at each other, Hope helplessly pressed his forehead.
Now that things had come to this, it was better to just keep eating.
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