The Monster Even the Fire Dragon King Could Not Destroy!

"It is said to be the masterpiece of the Black Mage Zeref, the culmination of his life's work, possessing the supreme ferocity to incinerate everything. It is even a terrifying monster that the Fire Dragon King Igneel could not successfully annihilate despite his full power..."

Before he could finish speaking...

Jiang Bai, standing to the side, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and twitch his lips slightly.

I was internally rolling my eyes and ranting.

Igneel was not indestructible back then.

Old Fire Dragon couldn't bring himself to do it.

Taking someone else's younger brother back and raising him like a son, teaching him to read and write, feeding him and playing with him every day—it would be a miracle if you could actually bring yourself to slap him to death.

This hellfire Fire Dragon uncle died young, after being crushed by the black dragon, and has been holed up in the icefield village as a torch ever since. He knows nothing about the inside story and is just making things up here based on hearsay from the battlefield back then.

As the last piece of ice at the edge of the village completely melted, it flowed into the soil as warm water.

The hellish dragon in mid-air, formed from towering flames, finally exhausted the last trace of its lingering obsession from four hundred years ago.

Its enormous body transformed into countless faint crimson specks of light, like melting snow in early spring, silently merging into the dry, warm breeze of the Sun Village.

The torch platform was empty, with only a wisp of warm white smoke rising from it.

It has completely disappeared.

Wendy stood at the edge of the stone steps, looking up at the empty blue sky, her small hands hanging limply at the sides of her skirt, looking somewhat lonely and sad.

"Uncle Atlas Flame's soul... has completely vanished from this world..."

This scene involuntarily reminded Wendy of Rob, the Cait Shelter, who had endured for years using his Thought Projection to take care of her.

Both sacrificed their last ounce of will to protect their descendants, and both faded away with a smile after fulfilling their wishes.

Jiang Bai walked over to Wendy and gently ruffled the little girl's fluffy blue hair twice.

"Alright, stop looking so sullen."

"His physical body was shattered by the black dragon four hundred years ago, leaving behind only a wisp of his soul. For hundreds of years, it served as a stove in this desolate, bitterly cold snowfield, constantly surrounded and worshipped by a bunch of big guys. Anyone would get tired of that."

"Now that he has given all he needed to say, and his homeland has been saved, he can return to dust and reunite with his old comrades from four hundred years ago. For him, this is a complete liberation."

Hearing Jiang Bai's words of comfort, Wendy raised her hand to wipe the corner of her eye and nodded obediently.

Gray, standing on the other side, was not immersed in sadness. He stood still, his hands slowly clenching into hard fists.

"END..."

"The strongest demon in the Book of Zeref...?"

Gray repeated the unfamiliar code name under his breath, his mind churning with images of his childhood home town destroyed and his master Ur turning into eternal ice to seal Deliora.

Gray harbors an indelible, deep-seated hatred for demons.

"The strongest monster that even the Fire Dragon King couldn't destroy..."

Natsu put his hands on his hips, stomped his feet heavily on the ground twice, and curled his lip in disdain.

"Who cares if it's an E or a D! They're making it sound so amazing. If they dare to jump in front of me and act wildly, I'll send them flying with a single Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

Gray turned around abruptly, his voice filled with undisguised coldness.

Natsu, don't let your guard down!

"All the demons that crawled out of the Book of Zeref are scourges that slaughter humanity! Those damned things deserve to go to hell and be torn to pieces! Not a single one should be left alive!!"

When Gray said this, he was naturally referring to brutal and savage creatures like Deliora who took pleasure in killing.

As for the group of simple, law-abiding demon villagers he encountered on Galuna Island, Gray always kept them in clear distinction and never confused them with the others.

Standing at the top of the steps, Jiang Bai had his hands in the pockets of his black trousers, looking down at the murderous Gray, then glancing at Natsu who was carefree and picking his nose.

Jiang Bai's complaint radar was instantly full.

Go ahead and curse, curse as much as you want.

The more viciously Gray curses and the stronger his murderous intent, the more spectacular Gray's expression will be when Natsu's true identity is fully revealed and he discovers that his best friend Natsu, with whom he eats, lives, fights, and bickers all the time, is actually END himself. This will be an event that will be recorded in the annals of the magical world.

He'd probably be completely shattered on the spot. Forget about taking action; he'd also have to figure out how to prevent END from disappearing.

Just as the people on the altar were each thinking different things.

Suddenly, a series of heavy, loud thuds came from the main street and square below.

The anti-evil ice covering their bodies completely evaporated, and the giants, who had been running and swinging axes, began to have their blood and magic flow smoothly again.

The massive body, which had been dormant for months, began to stiffly stretch, its joints grinding together with a series of booming sounds like drums.

"Ugh... my head feels so heavy..."

"What just happened? Why is it suddenly light out?"

"Wait! How did my axe end up in this mud puddle?!"

"It's so hot... How come all the freezing feeling in my body has disappeared?"

A muscular giant, standing fifteen meters tall, rose from the ground, rubbing his sleepy eyes with his large, fan-like hands, and blankly surveyed the newly renovated earthen ground around him.

Before the giants could fully process the situation, several sharp-witted giant guards turned their gazes and immediately noticed Jiang Bai, Natsu, Gray, and the others standing at the top of the central altar steps.

To the giants, whose size often exceeds tens of meters, these human mages standing on the high platform looked as small as a few grasshoppers that could be seen anywhere.

"Hmm? That's..."

"Humans?!"

"Why have these strange, short humans suddenly appeared in our sacred Sun Village?!"

"Alert! Everyone grab your weapons! Beware of the enemy!!"

With a few rough and deep Roars, more than a dozen enormous giants who had just awakened grabbed the stone pillars and iron hammers beside them and strode toward the central altar with a thunderous roar, as if the mountains were collapsing and the earth was splitting.

Lucy shrank back in fright, grabbed Wendy's shoulders with both hands, and frantically waved her hands away.

"Wait! Giant brothers and uncles! Don't attack! We're not bad guys!!"

Freya, kneeling at the bottom of the stone steps, looked at the extremely familiar faces around her. She could no longer hold back her tears. She frantically got up from the ground, opened her slender arms, and shouted desperately at the giants who were striding towards her.

"Daddy! It's me! It's Freya!!"

The giant leader, who was running at the forefront, suddenly stopped. He looked down and saw a small figure with long, wine-red hair in the mud. His big, round eyes were instantly filled with endless surprise and disbelief.

"Freya... Freya?!"

"Freya's back!!"

The entire Sun Village was instantly plunged into chaos and the clamor of reunion.