The Job He Was Destined to Take

Kamuer roared, his entire body transforming into a giant, blazing fireball as he charged upwards.

"Hmph! Too late!"

At this moment, the main body also prepared the technique.

Forty-four seals.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Jutsu!"

It spewed out a massive amount of water, quickly engulfing the surrounding area. Then, this water rapidly condensed and rose, forming a gigantic water dragon that attacked Kamuer, who was surrounded by the Water Formation Wall.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle..."

Large amounts of water vapor rose upwards, but the water dragon remained enormous. After a stalemate lasting several minutes, it finally ended with Kamuer's flames going out.

"Thump!"

Under the onslaught of the Water Dragon Bullet, Kamuer's body was thrown a considerable distance. He eventually lay unconscious on the ground, incapacitated.

Chiba's gaze sharpened, and he pulled out a Kunai, charging towards Kamuer at lightning speed with the added speed of his Gale Palm.

"Clang!"

With a crisp sound, Yaro, the guild leader of the Flames of Life and Death, conjured a blazing fireball with one hand, deflecting the Kunai course and missing Kamuer.

"Um?"

Yaro was slightly surprised. He had originally thought that this attack would knock the Kunai down, but it just went astray.

"You've got quite a skill," Yaro remarked with slight admiration.

Chiba gasped for breath. "What a joke! You think you can just take down Gale Palm with three times the power?"

However, even with Chiba's current Chakra reserves, using so many high-level Water Release Ninjutsu was becoming too much for him. He had no choice but to replenish his Chakra reserves by using the Chakra leaked from the Feiyin seal.

The seal Feiyin placed within him was her unique Sealing Jutsu. Perhaps she wanted to unify the names of the Four Symbols Seal, the Five Elements Seal, and the Eight Trigrams Seal, so she named it the Seven Star Seal.

The Seven Star Seal is a relatively gentle Sealing Jutsu. It only suppresses Feiyin's Chakra and the violent elements within Chakra. It does not imprison her in the sealed space, as evidenced by the fact that she can escape from Chiba's body at any time every day.

The Seven Star Seal differs from other Sealing Jutsu in that it has seven sealing nodes, each representing a portion of her power. Each time a sealing node is unlocked, Chiba gains her share of her Chakra. However, this also carries a risk: the violent element within her Chakra. Only when Chiba's mental strength is strong enough can these nodes be unlocked one by one.

Of course, he can temporarily unblock this point using Feiyin.

The idea that Jinchūriki's seal can be broken through Tailed Beast sounds like a complete fantasy. If it were any other Jinchūriki, the Tailed Beast would have already broken the seal and escaped.

However, Feiyin will not pose a threat to Chiba, because in her current state, if she were to run away, she would immediately be hunted down by Acnologia. Furthermore, with her current strength, she is no match for Acnologia.

Who told her to gradually transform herself from a tree into a dragon?

How could Acnologia tolerate the existence of dragons in the world?

So... at least until Acnologia is taken down, Chiba is safe.

And... he didn't sense any malice from Feiyin; the two of them seemed to be having a great time eating, drinking, and playing all day.

Currently, Chiba, in his normal state, cannot even break the seal of the first "star" and can only absorb the Chakra leaked from the seal.

However, he can break the seal himself, although only one layer, and for a short time. Even breaking the first layer of the seal grants him immense power. Furthermore, with his current strength, breaking the first layer of the seal and releasing his power will not cause him to fall into a coma; at most, he will be in a weakened state.

In the last battle with Rina, it was Feiyin who helped him break the second layer of the seal. Now, after the second layer of the seal is broken, he will become irritable and belligerent. And he will fall into a coma after being resealed.

That's his limit.

The second seal can be broken with the help of Feiyin, or by being in a state of extreme anger.

Feiyin told him all of this after he joined Fairy Tail.

Having broken the second seal, he was able to kill S-Class enemy, but the consequence was falling into a coma.

Having broken through the first seal, he was estimated to be able to compete with S-Class goalkeeper, but afterwards he fell into a state of weakness.

However, he is estimated to need two or three days to recover from his coma, and his weakened state will last for a few hours, or at most a whole day.

If the throne appears next, he will have no choice but to break the second seal; otherwise, the first seal alone will be far from enough to stop those who are well-known even among S-Class beings.

"Chiba, are you alright?"

Mira swooped down from her standoff with the magic swordsman and came to Chiba's side, saying...

Chiba shook his head. "It's nothing, just overuse of Chakra. I'll recover in a bit."

When he said "a while," it was only a few minutes. Because at that moment, Feiyin was already using her unique Chakra -generating method to replenish the Chakra that had leaked from the seal into Chiba's body.

"What a troublesome lad. I don't know how you dealt with Lord Rina back then, but it seems this is your limit." Yaro scrutinized him closely. "However, defeating Kamuer is truly remarkable for your age. If you are allowed to continue growing, you will surely become another 'Ten Wizard Saints' in the future."

"The little girl over there too." He looked at Mira, who was next to Chiba.

"I don't know why you're targeting me. Is it because I killed Rina?" Chiba's Chakra had recovered considerably, so he stood up straight and asked.

"More or less..." Yaro said casually.

"The higher-ups value your explosive power. They think you have something inside you that allowed you to take down a hundred of our Shadow Skull elites and a king. They wanted to capture you for research, and we were just doing it as a side job," he said.

Chiba said, "Was this quest designed specifically for me? Did you find out I joined Fairy Tail and then post this quest in our guild? But how did you know I would accept it? I heard you only give out quests twice a year."

"Tsk... Labi even told you this..."

Yaro smiled and said, "The reward for this quest means that only a handful of people in your guild are qualified to take it. I can still get information about those people in your guild. As for twice a year... heh... we set that rule, why can't we break it? Besides, you just joined the guild, it seems a bit unreasonable not to do quests. Anyway, we'll keep posting quests until you take it."

"Oh, by the way, before you, there was someone in your guild named Erza who took on this quest and completed it smoothly."

Chiba felt a chill run down her spine.

Did these people already anticipate that he would accept this mission?

Or was it destined that he would take on this task?