Recaps

Jiang Bai and his allies fought their Edolas counterparts and the Royal Army in the throne hall. As the battles erupted around them, Jiang Bai and Jiang Bai Warren faced each other again.

• Erza Knightwalker suppressed her jealousy and stood beside Jiang Bai Warren, while Earth-land's Erza stood beside Jiang Bai.
• Gajeel challenged Panther Lily and charged into battle, declaring that he would make him his partner if he won.
• Natsu chose Sugarboy as his opponent and attacked him with Fire Dragon's Iron Fist.
• King Faust ordered the soldiers summoned, while Gray complained that no one had left him an opponent.
• Erza Knightwalker and Earth-land's Erza clashed in the air as the other fights spread through the throne hall.
• Jiang Bai and Jiang Bai Warren returned to a standoff at the center of the battle.

Warren drew Trace Rift and challenged Jiang Bai to a sword duel, but Jiang Bai defeated him even after matching Warren’s physical attributes. Warren demanded to see Jiang Bai’s full strength, and Jiang Bai agreed to face Warren using every ability of the sword while holding back as needed.

• Warren drew Trace Rift, the spatial magic weapon that had chosen him, and his aura changed.
• Jiang Bai created a crystalline sword and matched his physical attributes to Warren’s, setting aside their special abilities for a fair duel.
• Jiang Bai outthought Warren during their sword fight and stopped his sword at Warren’s throat.
• Warren admitted defeat but insisted that he wanted to face Jiang Bai at full strength.
• Jiang Bai agreed to let Warren use Trace Rift’s full power and began raising his own aura.

Jiang Bai showed Warren the difference between their command of space and defeated him with Hollow Technique: Purple. Warren was left disarmed and unable to continue after Jiang Bai erased part of the palace and sky with a single attack.

• Jiang Bai began the third round without restraining his magical pressure, leaving Knightwalker and the others struggling to stand.
• Warren attacked with Space Slash, but Jiang Bai caught the spatial cut between two fingers and demonstrated how he could move through space.
• Warren unleashed Chaotic Space Slashing Dance, and Jiang Bai absorbed its spatial rifts with Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue.
• Jiang Bai combined Blue and Cursed Technique Reversal: Red into Hollow Technique: Purple and fired it past Warren, erasing a path through the palace and sky.
• Warren dropped Trace Rift and recognized that Jiang Bai had utterly defeated him.

Jiang Bai forced Warren to confront the kingdom’s use of Anima and urged him to atone by freeing the people who had been taken from another world. Warren chose to stand against King Faust and asked Jiang Bai what to do next.

• The Royal Army arrived and formed a shield around the devastated Warren, while an officer confirmed that the shattered Magic Crystal had turned into people.
• Warren realized that King Faust had knowingly used Anima to steal lives, and his guilt over the suffering he had caused overwhelmed him.
• Jiang Bai rebuked Warren, dragged him forward with Space Magic, and punched him until he regained focus and heard the demand to release Jiang Bai’s companions.
• Warren ordered the soldiers to lower their weapons and stand down, opening a path to King Faust.
• Warren ignored Faust’s accusation of betrayal, pledged to help reverse Anima, and asked Jiang Bai what he needed him to do.
• Jiang Bai told Warren to take control of King Faust and reverse Anima.

King Faust unleashed the forbidden mechanical dragon Droma Anim after fleeing underground, forcing Jiang Bai and the others to face the kingdom’s ultimate weapon. Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy volunteered to fight it while Jiang Bai settled down with Erza to watch.

• King Faust escaped through a hidden door and unlocked the sealed chamber containing Droma Anim, the Kingdom of Edolas’s forbidden magic armor.
• Faust climbed into the mechanical dragon and launched it through the palace, declaring that he would destroy Fairy Tail and the kingdom’s traitors.
• The sight of Droma Anim thrilled Natsu and Gajeel, while Wendy asked Jiang Bai to let her fight alongside them.
• Jiang Bai agreed to leave the dragon to the three Dragon Slayers, then relaxed with Erza on a telekinetic recliner.
• Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy charged toward Droma Anim.

King Faust activated his plan to make the island containing Magnolia collide with Extalia, while Jiang Bai promised to stop it. Byro called Warren a traitor, but Warren’s soldiers chose to stand with him.

• Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy worked together against Droma Anim, but its rapid regeneration wore them down.
• Faust ordered Byro to activate the Infinity Magic Power Plan, and the Dragon Lock Cannon began dragging the island containing Magnolia toward Extalia.
• Warren confronted Byro for hiding the plan, and Jiang Bai assured him he would stop the island because his companions were aboard it.
• Byro tried to turn the soldiers against Warren by calling him a traitor, but they stepped forward to stand at Warren’s side.

Jiang Bai stopped the Magic Crystal island and disabled Faust’s attack, giving Natsu and Gajeel the chance to destroy Droma Anim. The machine transformed into its Black Heaven form and blasted the Dragon Slayers from the sky, so Jiang Bai Warren stepped forward to face it himself.

• Jiang Bai arrested Byro’s plan by stopping the speeding Magic Crystal island with his telekinetic power, while soldiers seized Byro.
• Faust tried to destroy the island, but Jiang Bai made Droma Anim’s gathered magic vanish and urged Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy to fight as Dragon Slayers.
• Natsu devoured Droma Anim’s flames, and Gajeel ate its armor before they struck it together with Dragon Slayer Secret Arts and blew it apart.
• The metal fragments reassembled into Droma Anim: Black Heaven, which fired its Dragon Rider Diffusion Cannon and knocked Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy from the sky.
• Jiang Bai Warren stopped Jiang Bai from intervening and declared that he would deal with Black Heaven himself, and Jiang Bai yielded the stage to him.

Warren fought Faust and Droma Anim: Black Heaven, using Space Magic to turn the machine’s attacks against it. He destroyed the forbidden weapon and killed Faust, proving himself the strongest in the Kingdom of Edolas.

• Warren charged at Droma Anim: Black Heaven after Jiang Bai gave him permission, and Faust attacked him with volleys of magical cannon fire.
• Warren used Space Folding to evade Black Heaven’s attacks and Space Fault to redirect its beams into the machine.
• Warren recalled his oath to protect people and resolved to atone for his own actions and the kingdom’s crimes.
• Warren struck Black Heaven’s recharging core with Space Severance: Oblivion, piercing the armor and killing Faust.
• Droma Anim: Black Heaven broke apart in an explosion, and Warren declared his victory as Edolas’s undisputed strongest.

After Warren defeated King Faust, Mystogan revealed that he had reversed Anima and sent Fairy Tail's transformed comrades safely back to Earth-land. He disclosed that Edolas would lose all its magic power, leaving its people in panic.

• Warren destroyed Droma Anim: Black Heaven and won the battle against King Faust.
• Happy noticed that the Fairy Tail members aboard the Magic Crystal island had vanished, and Jiang Bai explained that they had gone home.
• Mystogan revealed that he had reversed Anima and returned the guild members to Earth-land.
• Mystogan removed his disguise, and Panther Lily knelt before him and addressed him as the prince of Edolas.
• Jiang Bai explained that Mystogan and Earth-land's Jellal were counterparts from different worlds.
• Jiang Bai used telekinesis to lower the crumbling Extalia safely, while Mystogan announced that Edolas would lose all its magic power.

After magic vanished, Warren calmed the panicked capital and inspired its people to build a future without plunder. Pressed by Mystogan and the soldiers to become king, Warren used Jiang Bai’s coin-flip advice to recognize what he wanted and accepted the crown.

• Warren addressed the terrified people, urging them to survive through their own effort and abandon the pursuit of magic through plunder.
• Mystogan asked Warren to become the kingdom’s new leader, and the soldiers knelt to plead for his acceptance.
• Jiang Bai told Warren that flipping a coin could reveal the answer he already wanted in his heart.
• Warren caught the coin without checking its result and declared that he would become king.
• Warren vowed to bring the country peace and happiness without chasing or plundering for magic.

Mystogan chose to stay in Edolas and help Warren rebuild the country, while Warren became its new king and faced the urgent problem of replacing magic power. Jiang Bai demonstrated a crude battery and introduced electricity, giving Mystogan a vision for Edolas’s future.

• Mystogan declined to return to Earth-land and chose to support Warren in rebuilding Edolas.
• Jiang Bai suggested staging a fake battle to help Warren win the people’s support, but Warren refused and planned to record the truth in secret archives.
• Warren said Edolas needed a new energy source to replace magic power.
• Mystogan revealed that he had studied Earth-land’s technology, and Jiang Bai introduced electricity as a possible energy source.
• Jiang Bai assembled a crude chemical battery from zinc, copper, salt water, and cloth, then demonstrated its steady current with sparks.
• Jiang Bai explained how moving a coil through a magnetic field could generate current, and Mystogan realized Edolas could use natural and mechanical power to produce electricity.

Jiang Bai demonstrated how to generate electricity, giving Edolas a path toward a new era, and Warren thanked him with a solemn promise. As the reversed Anima began sending the Fairy Tail members back to Earth-land, Lucy noticed that Jiang Bai was not being transported.

• Jiang Bai used metal plates and salt water to produce an electric current, astonishing the people of Edolas.
• Warren thanked Jiang Bai on behalf of the kingdom, and Jiang Bai left Edolas to build its own generators and power system.
• Warren promised Jiang Bai that he would help him whenever needed, even at the cost of his life.
• The reversed Anima began transporting Natsu, Gajeel, Erza, Wendy, Panther Lily, and the other magic-wielding outsiders back to Earth-land.
• Wendy and Natsu said farewell to Mystogan, and Natsu invited him to return to Fairy Tail.
• Lucy realized Jiang Bai was not surrounded by light and feared that he could not return.

Jiang Bai reminded Mystogan of Fairy Tail’s rules before the guild members returned from Edolas to Earth-land. There, they encountered the Exceed and Queen Shagotte, who revealed the truth behind her supposed power of judgment.

• Jiang Bai reassured his companions that he could control Anima’s teleportation, then reminded Mystogan of Fairy Tail’s three rules before the others returned to their world.
• Mystogan promised he would remember his companions, and Jiang Bai later left Edolas as well.
• Lisanna returned from Edolas after saying farewell to its Mirajane and Elfman.
• The Fairy Tail members reunited outside Magnolia and found thousands of Exceed gathered there, with Carla angered by their past treatment of Wendy.
• Queen Shagotte apologized to Jiang Bai and revealed that she had precognition, not the power of judgment, and had posed as a god to protect Extalia from Edolas’s king.

Queen Shagotte revealed that the mission to hunt Dragon Slayers had been a lie to hide her plan to save the Exceeds from Extalia's destruction, and Carla learned Shagotte was her mother. Happy's parents, Lucky and Marl, reunited with him briefly before leaving with the Exceeds to seek a new home.

• Carla challenged Queen Shagotte about the Dragon Slayer mission, and Shagotte explained that it was a lie concealing her plan to send a hundred unborn Exceeds to Earth-land before Extalia ran out of magic and collapsed.
• Shagotte revealed that Carla had glimpsed the future as an egg, and Carla realized Shagotte was her mother before accepting her embrace with Wendy's encouragement.
• Lucky and Marl watched Happy from a distance, but Jiang Bai brought them to him and urged them to speak with their son.
• Marl asked Happy how he had been, and Happy said he was happy with Natsu before Marl embraced him without revealing who she and Lucky were.
• Lucky and Marl said goodbye and left with the Exceeds to seek a new home, while Natsu and Happy headed off to celebrate.

Jiang Bai reunited Lisanna with Mirajane and Elfman, then brought her back to Fairy Tail, where the guild welcomed her return with overwhelming joy. Makarov announced a party to celebrate, and the guild began preparing to rejoice together.

• Gajeel found Panther Lily transformed into a small black cat, and the two reaffirmed their partnership.
• Jiang Bai explained to Erza that the guild members who had been sent back through the Magic Crystal had no memories of the intervening events.
• Jiang Bai took Lisanna to Cardia Cathedral, where Mirajane and Elfman tearfully reunited with her.
• Jiang Bai brought Lisanna and her siblings to the guild, where Lisanna announced that she was back and the members rushed to welcome her.
• Makarov announced a party to celebrate Lisanna's return, and the guild cheered.

Fairy Tail celebrated Natsu’s return as he recounted their adventures in Edolas and Jiang Bai showed the guild recordings of their alternate-world counterparts. On the quiet second floor, Gajeel hinted to Panther Lily that there was a reason he remained unpopular, while keeping his secret mission to infiltrate Raven Tail to himself.

• Natsu told Macao, Wakaba, and the others that their Edolas counterparts had been turned into a giant Magic Crystal, and Gildarts joined the conversation with Jiang Bai and Makarov.
• Jiang Bai played recordings of Edolas Gray, Macao, Cana, Mirajane, and Natsu, prompting laughter and teasing throughout the guild.
• Happy said that Edolas Jiang Bai had no girlfriend, though Edolas Mira and Erza liked him, and the guild criticized Jiang Bai’s alternate counterpart.
• Panther Lily and Gajeel watched the chaotic banquet from the second floor and compared Fairy Tail favorably to Phantom Lord.
• Panther Lily asked Gajeel why he was unpopular, and Gajeel withheld his secret assignment to infiltrate Raven Tail, saying only that there was a reason.

After Cana confided in Lucy that she felt unworthy of the guild, Lucy sought help from Mirajane and Jiang Bai, who connected Cana’s mood to her father, Gildarts. The next morning, guild members suddenly rushed to take jobs alone, leaving Lucy bewildered by the uproar.

• Cana broke into Lucy’s apartment, then confessed during their bath that she felt she no longer deserved to belong to the guild.
• Lucy told Mirajane about Cana’s confession, and Jiang Bai said Cana felt this way around the same time each year and needed to talk more with her father, Gildarts.
• Natsu refused Lucy’s offer to join his job and left to work alone.
• Gray and Elfman hurried out to take jobs, while other guild members began competing over requests and disbanding teams.
• Lucy watched the guild erupt into a scramble for work and wondered what had happened.

As Fairy Tail gathered for a mysterious announcement, Lucy learned that the guild’s S-Class Exam was about to be revealed. The chapter ended with Makarov and all five of the guild’s current S-Class Mages appearing onstage.

• Carla foresaw Wakaba and Macao gossiping about the young guild members, while Lisanna and Wendy asked her about the future.
• Panther Lily sparred with Erza but reverted to his small form when he ran short of magic power.
• Lucy asked Mirajane about the guild’s strange behavior and learned Jiang Bai had gone to buy another house.
• The next morning, Lucy and the guild members gathered in a packed hall, where Natsu, Gray, Elfman, and Juvia showed their excitement.
• Makarov revealed himself onstage with Jiang Bai, Gildarts, Laxus, Erza, and Mirajane, bringing all of Fairy Tail’s current S-Class Mages together.

Makarov announced the eight participants in the S-Class Mage Promotion Exam, which would begin on Tenrou Island in one week and allow only one winner. As the guild reacted to the selections, Carla saw a frightening vision of Jiang Bai, injured guildmates, and a mysterious man in a black robe.

• Makarov announced that Natsu Dragneel, Gray Fullbuster, Juvia Lockser, Elfman Strauss, Cana Alberona, Freed Justine, Levy McGarden, and Mest Gryder had qualified for the exam.
• Makarov said the exam would take place on Tenrou Island in one week and that only one of the eight participants would pass.
• Gajeel questioned why Juvia had qualified while he had not, and Panther Lily suggested that Gajeel was unpopular in the guild.
• Carla experienced a vision of Jiang Bai forming a gigantic energy sword above the clouds while wounded guildmates lay on the ground.
• Carla saw a man in a black robe standing at a cliff's edge, then hid her fear from Wendy and wondered who Jiang Bai had been fighting.

Makarov announced the rules for the S-Class exam and revealed that Jiang Bai, Gildarts, Erza, and others would serve as obstacles. The eight candidates and their partners were told to meet at Hargeon Port in a week, while the guild erupted into discussion about the difficult exam.

• Makarov explained that the eight selected candidates had one week to choose Fairy Tail members as partners, excluding S-Class Mages.
• Makarov said the exam details would be revealed on Tenrou Island and named Jiang Bai, Gildarts, Erza, and others as examiners.
• Lucy panicked at the thought of facing Jiang Bai, but Gray explained the S-Class Mages would test the candidates rather than require them to be defeated.
• Elfman revealed that Jiang Bai had been the sole final examiner for two years and that no participant had passed his requirements.
• Makarov ordered the candidates and their partners to gather at Hargeon Port in a week, and Natsu and Elfman declared their determination to become S-Class Mages.

Fairy Tail’s mages began choosing partners for the S-Class Exam, and Natsu and Happy rushed off to train together. Gray teamed up with Loke, Lisanna partnered with Juvia, and Gajeel offered to help Levy grow stronger, leaving her flustered.

• Natsu chose Happy as his partner and hurried out with him to train after Lisanna explained how much the exam meant to Natsu.
• Juvia asked Gray to be her partner, but Gray revealed he had already agreed to team up with Loke, who suspended his contract with Lucy for the exam.
• Lisanna chose Juvia as her partner, and she pointed Elfman toward Evergreen after he worried he would be left without one.
• Levy’s teammates Sarukusuke and Droy argued over who should partner with her until Gajeel offered to help her become stronger.
• Gajeel lifted Levy by the collar and promised to train her, leaving her blushing and Sarukusuke and Droy devastated.

Lucy comforted Cana after she confessed that repeated failures in the S-Class Exam made her feel like an embarrassment to her father, Gildarts. Gildarts reconciled with Cana, and Jiang Bai helped Lucy reconsider her estrangement from her father, Jude, before she resolved to help Cana pass the exam.

• Lucy found Cana drinking alone by the river and asked whether the S-Class Exam was behind her distress.
• Cana admitted that she felt ashamed of failing the exam despite being Gildarts's daughter.
• Gildarts arrived, reassured Cana that her safety mattered more than becoming strong, and carried her home as she slept.
• Lucy felt sad thinking about her own strained relationship with Jude, and Jiang Bai told her Jude had once wanted to earn money to give her a happy life.
• Lucy thanked Jiang Bai, decided to think about resolving things with Jude, and vowed to help Cana become S-Class.
• Jiang Bai recalled that he had asked Porlyusica for a health potion and had it delivered to Jude to protect him from dying of overwork.

Jiang Bai, Erza, and Mirajane sailed to Tenrou Island after Gildarts and Laxus left them behind, and enjoyed the journey together. Once they arrived, the examiners began preparing for the S-Class Mage Promotion Exam, where Erza set a far harsher standard than the others expected.

• Jiang Bai found that Gildarts and Laxus had already sailed from Hargeon Port and learned they had booked him, Erza, and Mirajane a ship of their own.
• Jiang Bai, Erza, and Mirajane spent several hours sailing toward Tenrou Island, where Mirajane and Erza changed into swimsuits.
• The three arrived at Tenrou Island and met Gildarts and Laxus on the beach.
• Jiang Bai told Laxus not to let guilt affect his judgment, and Laxus vowed to fail anyone who did not meet the standard.
• Erza insisted the examiners had to be strict and declared that every candidate must defeat her to qualify as an S-Class Mage.

Jiang Bai and the others prepared eight paths on Tenrou Island before Makarov brought the S-Class exam participants there. Makarov explained that the first round would test both strength and luck, leaving the teams to choose their paths.

• Jiang Bai and the others cleared eight paths through the jungle on Tenrou Island.
• Makarov brought Natsu and the other participants by ship from Hargeon Port, where they suffered from the heat and Natsu's motion sickness.
• Wendy tried to cure Natsu with Troia, but said he had become immune to the magic.
• Makarov told the participants that Tenrou Island was the resting place of Mavis Vermillion and explained the first exam's rules.
• Makarov revealed that some paths required teams to fight each other or earn recognition from Jiang Bai, Gildarts, Laxus, Erza, or Mira, while one path allowed a team to pass without a fight.
• Lucy trusted her luck, while Cana prepared to use her cards to choose a path.

Makarov started the S-Class Mage Promotion Exam while the ship was still at sea, and Freed’s barrier stopped the teams from leaving early. Natsu and Happy chose passage E on Tenrou Island, where they ran into Jiang Bai and appeared to have no chance of advancing.

• Makarov declared the exam underway, and Natsu and Happy tried to fly ahead before Freed’s Jutsu Shiki barrier bounced them back.
• Freed and Bickslow flew toward the island, while Levy rewrote the barrier to let herself and Gajeel escape; Evergreen and Elfman also departed.
• When the barrier vanished, Gray and Loke slid toward the island on ice, Lisanna and Juvia swam after them, and Lucy urged Cana to hurry as Mest and Wendy were already gone.
• Natsu and Happy reached Tenrou Island first, and Natsu chose passage E because he believed it would lead to Erza.
• Natsu and Happy reached the end of the passage and found Jiang Bai lounging in a beach chair; Happy despaired that their exam journey was over.