Chapter 507: Makarov: Laxus, You’re My Grandson, So Why Did You Backstab Me?

"..."

Lucy naturally knew that she was a comic-relief character. She had a clear understanding of her own role. She was simply unwilling to accept it.

Especially when Lucy looked at how powerful all the other members of the Fairy Tail Guild were, this unwillingness became even stronger.

As a member of Fairy Tail, the strongest Mage Guild on the continent, Lucy had often fantasized that one day she could become as powerful as Natsu, Gray, and Erza, the members of her Mage team.

Or perhaps become a Mage as famous throughout the entire continent of Ishgar, and even throughout the Earth-land world, as Laxus and Gildarts.

Unfortunately, reality was simply too cruel. The cold truth and facts had told her again and again that she, Lucy, could only rely on making complaints to barely make a living for the rest of her life.

"Actually, Lucy, you shouldn't be so pessimistic!"

"Besides making complaints, you also have other abilities."

Evan looked at Lucy's pessimistic expression and could not help speaking.

"Really?!"

"Besides making complaints, is there anything else in this world that I can do?"

As Evan's voice fell, not only Lucy from this world, but even Lucy from Evan's world seemed to come back to life at this moment, becoming infinitely interested.

"Of course, and this is something that only Lucy can do..."

Evan smiled slightly as he looked at Lucy, whose interest had been piqued.

In fact, Lucy's role was far greater than Lucy imagined!

The Fairy Tail Guild actually had a set of unspoken rules: when things were going smoothly, look to Natsu; when things went badly, rely on your companions; if that still didn't work, shout, "We are Mages of Fairy Tail!"

But if all three of the above failed, then it was time for Lucy to make her move! Lucy was the trump card that only came out in desperate situations!

In the original story, Lucy had several moments where she turned the tables in desperate situations.

During the Grand Magic Games arc, Lucy forcibly closed the Eclipse Gate, preventing those ten thousand dragons from completely emerging from the Eclipse Gate. Otherwise, the royal capital would absolutely have been reduced to ruins.

During the Tartaros arc, when all the Mages in the guild were captured by the "King of the Underworld" Mard Geer using Curse Magic, Fairy Tail relied on Lucy to summon the Celestial Spirit King and turn the situation around.

During the Alvarez Empire arc, when Natsu transformed into the END book written by Zeref, Lucy rewrote the END book and resurrected Natsu.

And in other timelines, whenever Fairy Tail fell into a crisis, Lucy also used the Eclipse Gate to travel into the past and save the world...

It could be said that Lucy was absolutely a miraculous tool for turning the tables in desperate situations. The power hidden within Lucy far exceeded Lucy's imagination. Normally, Lucy was constantly making complaints simply because she was storing up power for the moment when she would turn the tables at the critical moment...

"What exactly is it?!"

"Tell us quickly~ Brother Evan~"

"We really want to know what there is in this world that only we Lucys can do!"

"That's right, that's right..."

Just as Evan was recalling several classic examples of Lucy turning the tables in desperate situations in the original story, the two Lucys could no longer control their excitement. They wished they could pry Evan's mouth open right now and make him explain everything.

Thus, while Evan was thinking, the two Lucys bombarded Evan with questions one after another.

"Hehe, if one day even I am defeated! Then at that time, it will be up to you Lucys to turn things around."

Evan listened to the voices beside his ears as his thoughts gradually returned to reality. Looking at the two beautiful girls before him, who were gazing at him with immense anticipation, he smiled lightly.

"Why are you speaking in riddles?!"

Lucy from this world frowned. She hated people speaking in riddles the most. Because she was not very clever, she simply could not figure out the meaning behind these riddles.

"Riddle guy, get out of Fairy Tail!"

Lucy from Evan's world was much more straightforward. Having spent a relatively long time in Fairy Tail, she had learned many ways of speaking from Evan.

"Haha~"

Evan looked at the two Lucys before him, who had tried to pry information out of him only to receive a riddle and then wear bitter expressions. He immediately laughed, simply because Evan knew that this Lucy girl was not very clever and definitely could not understand what he meant...

"Right, Lucy, I actually don't recommend making riddle guys get out of Fairy Tail!"

"Because once all the riddle guys roll out of Fairy Tail, then this world will be filled with riddle guys everywhere!"

After lightly laughing, Evan seemed to remember something and mentioned the matter of riddle guys to the Lucy from his world.

"Uh..."

Lucy from Evan's world fell silent after hearing this, while also sinking into thought.

"What exactly are you and Brother Evan talking about?"

Lucy from this world listened to the secret language between Evan and Lucy from Evan's world. After thinking about it for a while and discovering that she could not understand it at all, she turned her head and looked at Lucy from Evan's world, at that identical face of hers, and asked.

"That's a detective story about Batman and the Joker that Brother Evan told me!"

"Lucy, you also know that we're writing a novel..."

"To be honest, the story Brother Evan told me gave me a lot of inspiration and helped me polish my novel quite a bit."

"The place where the story takes place is called Gotham City. It's a simple and honest city!"

"To be honest, I feel that this Gotham City in Brother Evan's story was completely adapted from Magnolia Town in our world."

"There is a place called Arkham Asylum in this Gotham City. That asylum is practically a copy of the Fairy Tail Guild. Talented people emerge endlessly from the asylum! And the Riddler is one of the many talents in the asylum!"

Lucy from Evan's world told Lucy from this world what she knew about the Riddler.

"A detective story?! I like detective stories. Tell me about it..."

Lucy from this world was immediately intrigued by what Lucy from Evan's world had said. It seemed that whatever Lucy from Evan's world was interested in, Lucy from this world was interested in as well!

After all, strictly speaking, she and Lucy were fundamentally the same person, merely the same person from different spacetime continua.

"All right! Then I'll tell you about this story..."

"In Gotham City, there is a vigilante named Batman. His duty is to find those clowns among the crowd who don't realize they are clowns, and punish them..."

"However, one day, when a clown was looking in the mirror, he suddenly awakened~ He shouted, 'I finally fell in love for once, yet you made me lose so completely!' And so, the whole story began..."

Lucy from Evan's world also became interested in telling the story after hearing this.

Thus, Lucy from Evan's world took this world's self by the hand and began telling the story about Batman and the clown among the crowd.

"..."

As for Evan, listening to Lucy explain the DC comic he had adapted from a true story, he fell silent.

Originally, it had merely been something he used to entertain the children in the guild...

Now it was being told as a story by someone else, and Evan actually felt a trace of embarrassment for a moment.

It had to be said that the story he had adapted was indeed rather lazy.

Fortunately, Lucy knew how to let the matter pass...

After the two Lucys left, Evan directly claimed the Ten-Year Quest Medal from the quest.

Together with the Hundred-Year Medal he had obtained for stopping the ten thousand dragons, Evan's strength had unknowingly become even stronger~

"Sigh..."

"My talent is too good. Progressing too quickly isn't necessarily a good thing either~"

After obtaining a Hundred-Year Quest Medal, Evan fell into thought. He did not know which of his attributes he should add this newly obtained Hundred-Year Quest Medal to.

"Forget it, I'll add it to Dragon Power!"

After thinking for a moment, Evan ultimately added this medal to his Azure Dragon Fruit.

Evan's mind moved slightly and arrived at the plus sign behind the Level 17 Azure Dragon Fruit. Then he lightly tapped it. Instantly, as a Hundred-Year Quest Medal disappeared, Evan's strength advanced another step!

Thus, Evan's status panel was updated. The Devil Fruit section changed from the original Level 17 to its current state: (Dragon Slayer) Zoan-Type, Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Beast Model: Azure Dragon Form: LV18 (+)

"Boom!!"

When Evan's power rose from seventeen to eighteen, Evan clearly felt his body undergo a tremendous change. The powerful strength brought about by the evolution of the Zoan Devil Fruit caused enormous changes to Evan's body. At this moment, even in human form, the hardness of Evan's tightly packed muscles far surpassed alloys and other substances possessing incredible hardness...

And as Evan's Dragon Power reached Level 18, his Body Technique, which had not advanced for a long time, also improved, rising from Level 14 to Level 15, and even approaching Level 16.

In other words, even without using the power of the Azure Dragon Fruit or Dragon Slayer Magic, Evan could now rely solely on his human-form body to directly contend with monsters at the Dragon King level.

Taking Haki and his other abilities into account, Evan could even defeat Igneel and Acnologia without using Dragon Slayer Magic.

After all, no matter how immune Acnologia was to magic, he could not be immune to Evan's Body Technique! Not to mention Level 15, Dragon King-level Body Technique?!

"However, although my strength has undergone a qualitative leap, my magic power has become even more insufficient!"

"With my current magic power, I'm afraid I can no longer support my Level 18 Dragon Slayer Magic!"

"Even counting my stamina, with my current strength, if I go all out with a single attack, it'll probably drain all the magic power and stamina in my body, right?!"

"However, with my current strength, with a single strike! I'm afraid I could beat the entire Earth-land world until not even a scrap remained, right?"

"Should I find an opportunity to try it?!"

Thinking this, Evan looked at the earth beneath him.

[Sudden Quest: The Spirit of the Earth-land World thinks you have a good eye and intends to bestow a certain gift upon you. Reward: One Ten-Year Quest Medal.]

"Huh?!"

Just as Evan was considering whether he should use the Eclipse Gate to find an unfamiliar world and unleash an all-out attack, he suddenly heard a soft sound in his mind. Then Evan felt his quest template flash. By the time he reacted, he suddenly discovered that he had inexplicably completed a Ten-Year Quest and gained a Ten-Year Quest Medal.

"Looks like the Spirit of the Earth-land World sensed my threat and decided to bribe me with a Ten-Year Quest Medal?!"

"This really is...looking down on me, huh?!"

"Do you really think a mere Ten-Year Quest Medal can bribe me?!"

"Although I'm not a demon either..."

"But as the Spirit of a world as large as Earth-land, you can't be this stingy. I won't ask for much, but surely you can spare ten or eight Hundred-Year Quest Medals, right?!"

Evan suddenly lightly stomped his foot and smiled at the world beneath him.

The Spirit of the Earth-land World: "..."

If the Spirit of the Earth-land World could hit people, it would have applied for a duel with Evan long ago. Although it seemed that the current Spirit of the World could no longer defeat Evan anyway.

However, after Evan threatened it for quite some time, he received no response at all. Evan then knew that the so-called Spirit of the World probably could not squeeze out any extra power to give him...

On the other side...

Now that Natsu and Erza had both decided their battles, the Fairy Tail Guild hall was still in complete chaos!

The battle between this world's Fairy Tail Guild and Evan's world's Fairy Tail Guild had not stopped because of Natsu and Erza's defeats...

Instead, the situation was becoming even more intense!

"Ur, I'm going to make my move!"

At this moment, Gray from this world had already taken off his clothes at some point. Perhaps because he had not seen his teacher Ur for such a long time, this time Gray had stripped himself completely clean.

"As expected of my disciple!"

In response, Ur looked at her disciple Gray's clean, snow-white body and immediately revealed a smile. Ur waved her hand, and her impressive figure was immediately exposed to the air. Of course, unlike Gray, who had cleanly transformed into a completely naked warrior, Ur had not taken off her underwear. Naturally, at this moment, all that remained on Ur's body was her underwear.

"Seriously!"

"I don't even want to talk about you!"

"Seeing as you and I are originally the same person! Gray, pay a little attention to your manners and put your clothes back on!"

Just as Gray from this world and Ur from Evan's world seemed about to begin an exciting battle, Gray from Evan's world looked impatiently at his counterpart from this world and angrily scolded him.

"What?!"

After hearing his counterpart from Evan's world, Gray from this world immediately lowered his head and looked down. Only then did Gray discover that he had unknowingly taken off his clothes.

"Damn it! When did I take off my clothes? Damn..."

In response, Gray was stunned at first, then immediately picked up his clothes from the ground and put them back on.

"Mm. That's more like it..."

"Gray, remember this!"

"No matter which world's Gray you are, remember that you are a respectable person, not some indecent, stinking pervert who casually takes off his clothes!"

Gray from Evan's world seriously spoke to Gray from this world.

"No, no, no! Anyone can say this, but Gray, you are the one person who absolutely can't say it, right?!"

Just as Gray was wearing a serious expression, the two Lucys, who had originally been discussing the story, could not help abandoning their discussion and instead complained at Gray.

"When Gray says this, could you please take a good look at your own body before speaking?!"

Lucy from Evan's world loudly complained at the Gray from her world.

"Huh?!"

Gray from Evan's world was slightly stunned after hearing this, then looked down at his own body.

"What?!"

When Gray saw his body without a single piece of clothing covering it, his expression immediately changed in shock, and a trace of disbelief flashed through his eyes.

"How is this possible?! When did I take off my clothes? Damn it!"

After Gray reacted, he immediately cursed as he picked up his clothes from the ground and muddleheadedly put them back on his body.

"Grays!"

"You need to face your hearts honestly. We Ice Mages do not need such inferior things as clothes to preserve our body temperature! What we need is intimate contact with nature at all times!"

Just as Gray from Evan's world and Gray from this world were both lowering their heads and seriously putting their clothes back on, that man, that man with a pitch-black mosaic over his body, finally stepped forward!

He stood on top of a table in the Fairy Tail Guild without the slightest sense of shame and laughed loudly at Gray from this world and Gray from Evan's world.

"Shut up, idiot Lyon!"

As the white-haired man who resembled a pervert expressed his views on Ice Mages to the two Grays beneath the table, he immediately received an angry rebuke from both Grays in unison!

Yes, this man with short white hair and a tough body, who was unquestionably a handsome man if one only considered his appearance apart from his personality, was none other than Gray's senior disciple, Lyon!

"Don't be shy, Gray! I know what kind of people you are better than you do! All you need is to seriously face your hearts..."

After hearing his two junior disciples rebuke him, Lyon not only did not become angry, but instead became eager to try. Combined with Lyon's current appearance, he was practically the embodiment of a pervert.

"Ice-Make: Ice Sculpture!"

Thus, in order to draw a clear line between themselves and their senior disciple, the Grays from the two worlds simultaneously cast their magic at Lyon.

"Ah..."

Almost instantly, Lyon, who had been planning to drag his two junior disciples into becoming perverts together with him, immediately turned into an ice sculpture, standing on the wooden table of the Fairy Tail Guild.

"Thud!"

Immediately afterward, perhaps because Lyon had become far too heavy after turning into an ice sculpture, combined with the Fairy Tail Guild's wooden table being truly questionable in terms of quality, not long after Lyon became an ice sculpture, his excessive weight directly crushed the wooden table. As a result, Lyon fell directly onto the floor of the Fairy Tail Guild, smashing a deep depression into the guild's wooden floor.

"My wooden table, my floor, my guild..."

This scene happened to be witnessed by Makarov, the Guild Master of Fairy Tail. Looking at Lyon, who had smashed a deep hole into the floor, he immediately grabbed his head and shouted in frustration.

No one could understand just how much pain Makarov was experiencing internally at this moment as the Guild Master of Fairy Tail...

Except...

Makarov from another world!

Yes, Makarov from Evan's world had also come to this world. When he saw his counterpart from this world suffer a heart attack and lie on the floor because of the destruction of various tables and chairs in the guild, Makarov from Evan's world merely smiled lightly.

"Sorry! This isn't his Fairy Tail, so it doesn't matter how badly it gets destroyed~"

Yes, although Makarov from Evan's world could empathize with his counterpart from this world, Makarov from Evan's world had absolutely no intention of helping him. In fact, Makarov from Evan's world was watching his counterpart's heartbroken appearance as if he were watching a joke.

At this moment, Makarov from Evan's world was thinking: "Finally, it's someone else's turn to have a heart attack! I have to say, smashing someone else's guild really feels great!"

Yes, Makarov who did not have to pay money was simply this bold.

On the other side...

Just as Makarov was suffering heart pains, his two beloved grandsons were continuously fighting.

"Rumble..."

"Zzzzz..."

"Boom!!"

The two Laxuses were like two golden bolts of lightning, constantly flashing throughout the Fairy Tail Guild. Wherever the two passed, countless tables, chairs, and sections of floor were destroyed by their lightning, turning into countless charred ashes.

"Although your magic power isn't anything special! Your combat awareness is pretty good~"

Laxus from Evan's world softly praised his counterpart from this world.

Although the Laxus from this world had only just broken through to the Level 8 magic power evaluated by Evan's system, and had only recently defeated Jura from this world during the Grand Magic Games and obtained the title of the strongest human, this level of strength could perhaps be considered powerful in this world, but in the eyes of Laxus from Evan's world, he was truly too green...

Laxus from Evan's world had already possessed magic power comparable to the current Laxus from this world when he was seventeen! However, Laxus from this world was not without any commendable qualities...

Perhaps because the Laxus from this world had experienced too many life-and-death battles, his fighting style was extremely seasoned. After discovering that his lightning, strength, and other aspects were all inferior to Laxus from Evan's world, Laxus from this world chose to rely on the speed of his lightning to constantly maneuver around, absolutely refusing to give Laxus from Evan's world any opportunity to attack him...

"Monster!"

In response, Laxus from this world merely replied to Laxus from Evan's world with two short words.

To be honest, Laxus from this world had never imagined that although he and Laxus from Evan's world were both Laxus, the strength between them could differ by such an enormous amount...

His opponent completely overwhelmed him in magic power, reaction speed, strength, defense, and combat awareness! The reason he could still barely hold on in front of Laxus from Evan's world instead of being taken down was, first of all, because they were both Lightning Dragon Slayer Mages, so lightning was useless against both of them.

Secondly, Laxus from Evan's world had not gotten serious yet. He was merely playing with him...

Once Laxus from Evan's world became serious, perhaps he could be instantly defeated in a single moment.

Apart from the two Laxuses currently fighting, the Thunder God Tribe also gradually began fighting!

"Quickly take care of the opponent, then go help Laxus!"

The Thunder God Tribes from both sides almost simultaneously decided to defeat their opponents and then go support Laxus.

"Dark Script: Darkness!"

In the next second, the Freeds from the two worlds almost simultaneously cast the forbidden Dark Script, Darkness, upon themselves! Almost instantly, the two Freeds transformed into two demon-like, willful monsters!

In fact, it was not wrong to call Freed a demon at this moment. After all, the so-called Dark Script: Darkness was a forbidden magic that attached the power of the Magic Barrier Particles used to write the spells to the physical body and then assimilated the body with it...

And the demons created by Zeref were precisely composed of Magic Barrier Particles! Therefore, Freed at this moment could completely be said to be partially demonized. Although the degree of this demonization was far weaker than Mirajane, who could directly Take Over the demon soul, it was still demonization.

"Freed, since you used this magic, you should know that even we cannot completely control this power..."

The Freed from this world, who had transformed into a demon, looked at Freed from Evan's world and softly spoke.

"Sorry! The person who cannot control this power is you, while I have already successfully mastered this power!"

Freed from Evan's world merely smiled lightly after hearing this.

The instant he finished speaking, his figure appeared before the Freed from this world. Then he threw a punch directly into the cheek of Freed from this world.

"Uh..."

Caught off guard, Freed from this world was directly sent crashing through the guild ceiling and flying outside.

"Freed! Damn it, babies, go help!"

Seeing this, Bickslow from this world immediately summoned his dolls! For a moment, four dolls flew up from behind Bickslow.

"Haha! Babies, it's your turn to make your move! Gang up on them for me!"

On the other side, when Bickslow from Evan's world saw that his counterpart from this world could only summon four dolls, he could not help laughing. With a wave of his hand, twelve dolls immediately flew out from behind him...

"Control twelve dolls at once? How enormous does your soul power have to be?! How did you do it? Is Fairy Tail in your world filled with monsters or something?"

In response, Bickslow from this world was completely dumbfounded.

"Haha! You're already shocked just because you saw me summon twelve dolls? I still have a trump card I haven't used! I'm only afraid that my dolls are too powerful and will destroy the guild. Otherwise, I could take you all down in an instant!"

Bickslow from Evan's world looked at his counterpart's ignorant expression and could not help laughing.

Bickslow from Evan's world laughed at how young his counterpart was. His counterpart simply did not know how insanely competitive the Fairy Tail of their world was!

"Bickslow, go all out! The guild master will compensate for whatever gets broken!"

Just after Bickslow finished speaking, Laxus's voice suddenly sounded beside Bickslow's ears.

"Understood!"

Bickslow immediately became eager to try after hearing this.

On the other side.

Makarov from Evan's world, who had been watching the show all this time, was immediately stunned. He looked at his grandson with complete confusion in his eyes: "Laxus, you're my own grandson, so why did you backstab me? Forget being the Guild Master of Fairy Tail!"