Cause for Concern

The mayor was startled by Eleven and quickly stopped him. "No, young man, that Daphne is very dangerous, and she seems to really be able to create dragons. You'd better go back to the guild and ask the adults to handle this..."

Eleven and Natsu are still just underage children, so the mayor's concerns are not unfounded.

"Hehe, don't let our appearance fool you, we're Fairy Tail mages too, especially this kid..." Eleven said, pulling the bewildered Natsu closer, proudly adding, "He's a Dragon Slayer!"

Eleven said this, but Natsu could still hear it. Although he had no idea what was going on, Eleven's sudden and proud introduction made him feel flattered, and he couldn't help but show a proud expression, puffing out his chest.

"What?! Dragon Slayer? Really?!" The mayor's tone was one of shock that surprised Eleven, as if Dragon Slayer were some novelty.

"I would never lie, why are you making such a fuss!" Natsu, who had just been added back to the group chat, was immediately annoyed by the mayor's questioning.

"Now you can trust us, right? Leave it to us, we'll take care of Daphne." Eleven grinned and volunteered again.

"Well, then we'll leave it to you." The mayor hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed. "Then we'll wait here for your good news. We place our hopes in you and wish you great success in your endeavors!"

Based on the clues provided by the town mayor, Daphne's laboratory seemed to be in a nearby town. Eleven didn't plan to linger and decided to travel through the night.

Because Natsu's motion sickness was so severe, he looked like he was about to die at any moment, so Eleven had no choice but to use her Telekinesis to fly Natsu over.

It's strange, Natsu gets terribly carsick, but when Eleven carries him in the air, he's perfectly fine. No matter how much Elaine jostles him, Natsu is completely unaffected, even managing a silly grin. I really don't understand the reason for his motion sickness!

Eleven flew quite fast, at least as fast as a train, and soon arrived at a nearby town.

On the way, he and Natsu had planned a lot of things, such as disguising themselves when they entered the town, then gathering information in places with large populations like bars, then tracking the target, and finally capturing them by surprise, etc., which were all cool and intelligent battle plans.

However, upon entering the town, Eleven merely used his Spiritual Power to roughly scan it, intending only to get a general understanding of the terrain. Unexpectedly, he immediately made a great discovery.

On the outskirts of the town, in a rather remote place, stood a building that looked quite strange, surrounded by fluctuations of various magical runes, which seemed to be defensive magic arrays.

As the Spiritual Power continued to penetrate, it was discovered that the underground of the building was a completely different world, a vast space that housed countless monsters resembling giant lizards. Some of these monsters lay in the water like giant crocodiles, some walked upright like lizardmen, and some were even larger, nestled on the ground like wingless dragons.

Eleven:...

Wait, isn't this just discovering the enemy's main base? So blatantly?

This is so boring!

Our brilliant and resourceful investigation hasn't even begun yet, damn it!

Despite his complaints, the task still needed to be completed, so Eleven immediately decided to go and take a look.

However, Eleven didn't plan to take Natsu with him. After all, the underground of that building was teeming with all sorts of monsters, and Natsu's current strength was still too weak, only possessing the fighting power of Gray. Eleven was afraid that he wouldn't be able to protect Natsu's safety.

"Natsu, I have a place I need to investigate. You stay in town and continue gathering information," Eleven said, turning to Natsu who had just been put on the ground.

"Huh? What are you going to investigate? Should we split up?" Natsu, looking at Eleven.

"That's right, split up, operation code name 'S'!" Eleven didn't seem to have recovered from their cool and clever mission plan, and started acting silly again.

"Wow, the operation codename 'S', how cool!" Natsu is enjoying playing with Eleven more and more these days; the two are very compatible in terms of intelligence.

After giving a few brief instructions, Eleven left Natsu in the town and didn't bother with him anymore. Natsu wasn't an ordinary child, so he probably wouldn't encounter any danger in a small town like this.

Eleven himself quietly slipped into the building he had previously discovered. The defensive magic array outside the building was useless to him. It wasn't that he could break the magic array, but rather that when he used his Spiritual Power to Concealment himself, these triggered magic arrays couldn't detect him at all. He simply flew into the building with ease.

The ground floor of the building resembled a small hotel, with numerous small rooms, all of which were empty.

Most of the rooms seemed normal except for the large beds, but some rooms contained many instruments of torture used for binding people. At first glance, they looked terrifying, but upon closer inspection, it became clear that these instruments were quite soft and not actually intended to injure people. In some places, there were also steel pipes, handcuffs, triangular wooden horses, and so on, which left Eleven completely bewildered and baffled.

Does the owner of this place also run a hotel to earn extra money? That's so realistic! But what are all those strange props for? I have absolutely no idea!

In short, this place seemed eerie in every way, Eleven became extremely vigilant. After carefully examining each room on the ground floor, he found the entrance to the basement.

Meanwhile, Natsu was left alone in the town, also began his operation.

Although he said he was going to launch an operation, he didn't actually do anything. He originally planned to go to the tavern to gather information, but the grilled meat in the tavern smelled too good, and since Natsu had already thrown up most of what he ate, his stomach started growling uncontrollably.

The money that Eleven had left for Natsu to gather intelligence was all gone in an instant.

Only after he had eaten and drunk his fill did Natsu remember that he still had an important mission to gather intelligence. So, with his bloated belly, he casually found a few burly men who were drinking together.

"Hey, guys, I have a question for you!" Natsu grabbed one of them and blurted out the question without any regard for politeness.

"Huh? What's wrong?" The burly man, who had been pulled back by Natsu, looked bewildered and glared at the brat who had interrupted his drinking session.

The other burly men at the same table as the giant also looked over. This group of people all looked fierce and menacing, exuding a strong aura that kept strangers at bay. Only someone as oblivious as Natsu would ask them for information.

"That's..." Natsu suddenly stopped speaking.

Wait a minute, what was I supposed to ask?

On the way, Guang Eleven discussed how to gather intelligence, but he didn't tell me at all what kind of intelligence they were looking for!

Natsu was a little confused at this point, scratching his head and asking, "Yeah, what was I supposed to ask again?"

"How the hell am I supposed to know what you're going to ask?" The burly man nearly choked on his drink, yelling irritably, "Who the hell are you, kid?"

Hearing the burly man ask him a question, Natsu was no longer confused. There was no point in thinking about things he didn't know anyway. He puffed out his chest, pointed at himself with his thumb, and proudly declared, "I am Natsu, the Dragon Slayer of Fairy Tail!"