Laxus's Invitation, an S-Class Mission

Mira shrugged and said, "You can't keep helping her forever; she'll grow up eventually."

"Ah... I know..."

Chiba rubbed his hair. He'd recently noticed his hairstyle was starting to resemble a hedgehog's head. Was it a hereditary Uchiha hairstyle?

"Yo! Chiba Mira, good morning!" Mest walked towards him from afar and greeted him.

"Good morning!" they both replied simultaneously.

"Speaking of which..." Mest came to his side and chuckled softly, "Was that... your sister? She's got a great figure..."

Chiba looked wary. "You're thinking of making a move on her?"

"Haha! Just kidding, just kidding!" Mest laughed, then said, "Speaking of which, you didn't ask me to explore the space yesterday. What? Were you on a mission?"

"No, no... My senior sister is looking for me..." Chiba trembled as he recalled the torment he suffered yesterday. He strongly suspected that yesterday's events were his senior sister's deliberate revenge. Who learns sword energy like that?

However, at this moment, Mest clearly noticed Mira's resentful gaze, then chatted with her for a few words before walking away.

Mira then came to his side, pouting, and said, "Hey Chiba, you wouldn't be with that guy Mest..."

Chiba was taken aback, then couldn't help but laugh, "You don't actually think I have some kind of strange relationship with that guy, do you?"

Mira nodded.

Chiba reached out and pinched her cheek, saying, "I really don't know what you're thinking. I just asked Mest to help me learn some Ninjutsu."

"Is that so?" Mira blinked, then realized that this guy actually dared to pinch her cheek. She reached out and pinched it back, saying, "You've got some nerve, daring to pinch my cheek!"

Later, Chiba simply let go, because if he pinched Mira's face, she would pinch it harder. If he let go, she would use less force, and it would feel more like she was just touching his face.

Then she kept rubbing and rubbing, leaving him speechless.

"Hey! Let's do a mission together?" Mira suddenly patted his face, her eyes lighting up as she said with a smile.

"Ah... a mission..." Chiba was about to say something when he noticed a vein throbbing on Mira's forehead. He shuddered, then grinned broadly, "Speaking of which, it's been a long time since we did a mission together. How about we pick one to do?!"

"Mmm..." Mira said with a smile, the throbbing veins at the corners of her eyes subsiding.

Chiba immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Luckily, I was quick-witted; otherwise, I would have been thrown out the next moment.

"Do you want to do a mission? I happen to have an S-Class mission here, are you interested?" Laxus walked over at this moment for some reason, holding a list in his hand.

His expression was still a little awkward, as if he were explaining, "The Thunder God Tribe isn't strong enough, so they came to you."

Chiba and Mira didn't mind his little quirk; instead, they focused their attention on the task list.

Annihilate! The demon lurking in the village!

The gist of the story is that a demon is lurking in a small village Morabai. The demon wreaks havoc in the village every night, and even guild mages who went to deal with it before failed. They believe that at least S-Class Mage from the guild is needed to defeat the demon, so the reward for the extermination mission, which was originally only four million, was immediately increased to twelve million.

"The reward is twelve million J, which is not easy even for S-Class Mission. It's quite difficult..." Chiba muttered to himself as he looked at the mission list.

"And also..." Mira pointed to a line of text in the lower corner.

Special requirement: Three S-Class Mages!

"Three S-Class Mages? No wonder they're so wealthy." Chiba exclaimed in surprise, then added, "But we only have Laxus as S-Class on our side right now."

"That's true..." Laxus said calmly, "But this is a joint mission, which means that missions issued by each mage guild can be accepted simultaneously. Only when three S-Class Mages are gathered can the mission begin."

"Two guilds have already accepted this quest. The first is Lamia Scale, and the second is Phantom Lord..." A hint of ferocity flashed in his eyes when he mentioned Phantom Lord.

"The Phantom Lord..." Chiba frowned.

Phantom Lords is currently the top mage guild in the Kingdom of Fiore, with overall strength slightly greater than Fairy Tail. Its guild leader is Jose Bora, one of the Ten Wizard Saints alongside Makarov. They command four S-Class Mages —water, fire, earth, and wind—collectively known as the [Element 4]. However, currently only three are S-Class Mages: wind, earth, and fire; Juvia, the water mage, is still a young girl...

In terms of the number of S-Class Mages, Phantom Lord has three, and Fairy Tail has two. Perhaps from the outside, Fairy Tail is indeed inferior to Phantom Lord.

But... Chiba, who knows Fairy Tail quite well now, knows that this is just a facade.

Mira and Erza are already incredibly close to S-Class level, and they may soon possess S-Class strength.

Having S-Class strength doesn't automatically make you an S-Class Mage. Before becoming S-Class Mage, you need to complete a lot of tasks to spread your reputation. Every year at this time, the mages in the guild are full of energy, although... he didn't witness that this year.

He was still asleep at the time.

Chiba didn't know what other guilds were like, but in Fairy Tail, the S-Class promotion exam was only held once a year, and only one person could be promoted at a time. Two mages with extremely similar strength could very well have one side's defeat in the final battle, thus benefiting the other. For example Erza and Mira.

In the original timeline, Erza became S-Class Mage in 780, Mira in 781. However, using this one-year difference to differentiate their strength would be a huge mistake. After all, their character is similar to Natsu and Gray, with roughly equal strength. It's quite possible that Mira narrowly lost to Erza in the final promotion exam, which allowed Mira to achieve S-Class Mage.

The guild also has Laxus, a monster who might have passed the S-Class Exam without even revealing his Dragon Slayer Magic, Mystogan who doesn't even care about the S-Class Exam, and Gildarts, the strongest mage we haven't met yet. Aren't these three stronger than the three elements? Besides, there's also him.

He wasn't entirely sure of his current power ceiling, but he could utilize two layers of sealed Chakra. Based on his current mastery of Ninjutsu, his strength was at least S-Class, and his own Chakra was comparable to one layer of sealed Chakra...

Speaking of which... his current total Chakra amount clearly doesn't exceed the total Chakra amount of the two seals. According to Feiyin, shouldn't he be suffering a backlash? That girl said his Chakra amount needs to exceed hers to control the full Chakra Complete Tailed Beast Transformation...

"Ha... you actually believed a lie?"