Recaps

Natsu and Gajeel defeated Sting and Rogue after Natsu countered their combined finishing move with his Crimson Lotus Flame-Converging Blade. The fourth day of the Grand Magic Games ended, and the organizers announced a citywide battle royale as the final showdown, where spectators expected Jiang Bai to return to the arena.

• Sting and Rogue combined their remaining magic to unleash White Shadow Dragon's Thread at Natsu and Gajeel.
• Natsu used his compressed-flame secret art to destroy the attack and knock Sting and Rogue unconscious.
• Natsu and Gajeel celebrated their victory, and Chapati declared Fairy Tail the winner of the match.
• Chapati announced that the Grand Magic Games would take a one-day break before the final showdown, a citywide battle royale for points.
• Spectators left the arena anticipating Jiang Bai's return for the final battle.

Fairy Tail celebrated its commanding lead in the Grand Magic Games as the capital’s citizens cheered Jiang Bai. When a fan asked him to sign her skin, Erza and Mirajane stopped him and took him away, though he still gave the fan an autograph with Telekinesis.

• The standings after the fourth day put Fairy Tail in first place with 55 points, 24 ahead of Blue Pegasus.
• Fairy Tail left the arena to cheers, and the crowd focused much of its admiration on Jiang Bai.
• A fan in a red dress asked Jiang Bai to autograph her skin, and he agreed to sign below her collarbone.
• Erza and Mirajane stopped Jiang Bai before he could sign, then escorted him away from the crowd toward the inn.
• Jiang Bai used Telekinesis to give the fan an autograph reading “Infinity,” while onlookers envied Erza and Mirajane.

Princess Hisui heard the cloaked time traveler’s warning that dragons would destroy Fiore and that activating the Eclipse Gate was the kingdom’s only hope. The traveler secretly watched her, wary of Jiang Bai, whom they believed was an unknown variable in the future they remembered.

• A royal guard reported to Princess Hisui that Fairy Tail had reached fifty-five points and led Blue Pegasus by twenty-four after the fourth day of the Grand Magic Games.
• The cloaked figure emerged from the palace shadows and reminded Princess Hisui that they had predicted Fairy Tail’s return before the Games began.
• Princess Hisui acknowledged the figure’s accurate prediction but doubted their claims that disaster was coming and that she alone could save the country.
• The cloaked figure urged Princess Hisui to use the royal family’s Eclipse Gate, describing a future in which dragons had killed their companions and devastated the continent.
• After the figure vanished from the hall, Princess Hisui struggled with her decision while the figure secretly monitored her from a beam’s shadow.
• The cloaked figure questioned Jiang Bai’s absence from their memories of the future and dismissed the report that he had driven Acnologia away, resolving to proceed with the Eclipse plan.

Jiemma punished Sting and Rogue for their losses at the Grand Magic Games and attacked Lector when he tried to defend them. Sting killed Jiemma in a rage, while Minerva revealed she had secretly saved Lector and used his safety to make Sting obey her.

• Jiemma berated Minerva, Sting, and Rogue for their performances, then declared that Sting and Rogue had to leave Sabertooth.
• Lector pleaded for Sting and Rogue to be given another chance, but Jiemma struck him with a magic attack that made him appear to vanish.
• Sting attacked Jiemma and pierced his chest with a blow, killing him.
• Minerva praised Sting, declared him the next guild master, and rejected Jiemma’s authority before he died.
• Minerva told Sting she had sent Lector somewhere safe and promised to return him after the Grand Magic Games if Sting followed her orders.

Chapati introduced the six guilds entering the final survival battle of the Grand Magic Games, with Fairy Tail arriving to thunderous cheers as the clear favorite. Jiang Bai complained that his guildmates had not encouraged him, then faced contradictory advice from Mirajane and Erza.

• Chapati announced Quatro Cerberus, Mermaid Heel, Lamia Scale, Sabertooth, and Blue Pegasus as the first five guilds entering the arena.
• The spectators cheered Quatro Cerberus, watched Kagura enter with Mermaid Heel, and celebrated Jura's status as a Wizard Saint.
• Sabertooth entered looking subdued, while Ichiya's Blue Pegasus entrance drew both cheers and loud jeers.
• Chapati introduced Fairy Tail as the returning champions, and Jiang Bai led the guild into an arena filled with cheering spectators.
• Fairy Tail's members called encouragement to Laxus, Natsu, Gajeel, and Juvia, while Jiang Bai complained that nobody had encouraged him.
• Mirajane told Jiang Bai to go easy on his opponents, but Erza urged him to take every contestant seriously, leaving him exasperated by their conflicting advice.

The Grand Magic Games began a citywide survival battle in Crocus, with guilds earning points for eliminating opponents and bonus points for defeating hidden captains. As Jiang Bai was left to roam alone, Blue Pegasus and Sabertooth made plans to avoid or redirect danger while pursuing points.

• Chapati announced that contestants would fight across Crocus, earning two points for each elimination and ten points for defeating an enemy captain, then rang the starting bell.
• Natsu and Gajeel rushed off, Laxus refused to team up with Jiang Bai, and Juvia left to avoid Gray misunderstanding her.
• Hibiki planned for Blue Pegasus to avoid Jiang Bai and Jura, target enemy captains, and deliberately lose to Quatro Cerberus after taking the lead.
• Minerva sent Sting and Rogue to hunt opponents while Rufus revealed that he had sent Kagura Jiang Bai's location, drawing her toward him.

After Sabertooth took the lead in the battle royale, Kagura confronted Jiang Bai and unleashed her strongest attack, but his Infinity stopped it effortlessly. Jiang Bai refused to lower his defense unless Kagura called him “onii-chan,” and she reluctantly agreed.

• Chapati announced that Sting had defeated Bacchus, giving Sabertooth ten points and moving it to second place with thirty-eight points.
• Minerva planned to hunt across the city while hoping Kagura would drain Jiang Bai’s magic, and Orga asked if Kagura might win.
• Jiang Bai detected Kagura approaching and waited for her at an intersection, where she attacked him with her sheathed sword.
• Kagura drew her sword and used Archenemy: Slash Form, but the attack disintegrated against Jiang Bai’s Infinity.
• Kagura asked Jiang Bai to remove his defense for a proper fight, and he demanded that she call him onii-chan; she reluctantly did so.

During the Grand Magic Games, Jiang Bai faced Kagura in a sword fight and used their duel to challenge her relationship with the resentment behind her blade. After defeating her final attack without harming her, he told her to learn to control her power and left the fight on his own terms.

• Erza crushed the viewing stand's stone railing when Jiang Bai flirted with Kagura during the live broadcast, while Mirajane teased him and the guild members kept their distance.
• Jiang Bai promised not to use Infinity and formed a transparent Telekinesis sword to meet Kagura's attack with swordsmanship.
• Jiang Bai parried Kagura's rapid strikes and forced her back, then told her that her hatred was controlling her sword and urged her to keep her identity while using her power.
• Kagura used Gravity Suppression and unleashed her strongest Archenemy slash, but Jiang Bai's Serious Sword Strike split the blade aura and stopped harmlessly before her face.
• Jiang Bai dispersed his sword aura, told Kagura to learn to control her power, and said her calling him onii-chan counted as payment for the lesson.

Sabertooth swept through the capital and scored enough eliminations to overtake Fairy Tail in the Grand Magic Games survival battle. The chapter left Laxus fighting Jura as Sabertooth reclaimed first place with sixty-eight points to Fairy Tail’s sixty-five.

• Jiang Bai defeated Kagura, earning Fairy Tail ten points and bringing its total to sixty-five.
• Sting eliminated all of Quatro Cerberus, while Rogue knocked out Ichiya and Jenny, helping Sabertooth raise its score from thirty-eight to fifty-eight.
• Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale eliminated Mermaid Heel contestants, then clashed with each other in the southern district.
• Laxus confronted Jura in the western district and began a battle of lightning against stone.
• Minerva, Rufus, and Orga ambushed the exhausted Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale teams, eliminating all five fighters and earning Sabertooth ten points.
• Sabertooth reached sixty-eight points, overtook Fairy Tail, and reclaimed first place.

Jiang Bai watched Laxus fight Jura, then faced Jura after Laxus was defeated. Jura withdrew rather than fight Jiang Bai, giving Fairy Tail enough points to secure the lead and protect its sixty-million-J prize.

• Fairy Tail fell behind Sabertooth in the overall rankings as Laxus fought Jura in the west district.
• Jiang Bai arrived and taunted the exhausted Laxus, prompting him to resume his attack on Jura while Jiang Bai watched from a conjured chair.
• Jura defeated Laxus with Supreme King Rock Crush, earning Lamia Scale two points.
• Jiang Bai offered Jura the chance to rest before they fought, but Jura withdrew from the survival battle instead.
• Fairy Tail received ten points for Jura's withdrawal and rose to seventy-five, leaving Sabertooth unable to catch up even if it eliminated Natsu, Gajeel, and Juvia.

Sabertooth’s five remaining fighters surrounded Jiang Bai, hoping to defeat Fairy Tail’s captain and claim the championship points. Jiang Bai blocked Minerva’s Space Magic and Rufus’s fire attack without moving, leaving Sabertooth’s assault underway but already thwarted.

• After Lamia Scale was eliminated, Minerva led Sting, Rogue, Rufus, and Orga straight to the ruins plaza to target Jiang Bai instead of hunting down Natsu, Gajeel, and Juvia.
• The five Sabertooth fighters surrounded Jiang Bai, and Minerva assumed his fight with Kagura had nearly exhausted his magic.
• Minerva ordered an attack, but Jiang Bai prevented her from opening a path into imaginary space.
• Rufus cast Hellfire That Burns the Earth, but the flames split against Jiang Bai’s Infinity and left him unharmed.
• Jiang Bai mocked Rufus, reminding him that the opening-day humiliation had not taught him a lesson.

Jiang Bai defeated Rufus and Orga, then freed Sting and Rogue from his telekinetic hold. After learning Minerva was using Lector to force Sting to fight, Jiang Bai located the cat and brought him back, leaving Sting overwhelmed with gratitude.

• Jiang Bai knocked Rufus unconscious and pinned Minerva, Sting, and Rogue with telekinesis.
• Orga attacked Jiang Bai with his ultimate lightning cannon, but Jiang Bai blocked it and beat Orga unconscious.
• Minerva refused Sting's plea to change her demand, insisting that Sabertooth win the championship or Sting would lose Lector.
• Jiang Bai used Mental Detection and spatial coordinate swap to retrieve the unconscious Lector from outside Crocus.
• Sting took Lector back, thanked Jiang Bai, and vowed to repay his kindness even at the cost of his life.

After Sabertooth’s fighters fell, Minerva tried to escape Jiang Bai and take Juvia hostage, but Jiang Bai tracked her down and exposed her plan. He overwhelmed Minerva with his killing intent and left her immobilized as he approached.

• Sting reunited with Lector and gave up fighting, while Rogue also stopped resisting, leaving Minerva as Sabertooth’s only fighter still standing.
• Jiang Bai lifted the spatial suppression and gave Minerva a chance to fight, but she used a spatial jump to flee toward Juvia and planned to take her hostage.
• Jiang Bai appeared at Minerva’s destination, then shattered the imaginary-number space with Psychokinesis and forced her out against a stone wall.
• Jiang Bai deduced that Minerva had intended to capture Juvia and threaten him, and Minerva’s shocked reaction confirmed his guess.
• Jiang Bai unleashed a terrifying aura that pinned Minerva to the ground and alarmed people throughout Crocus, while Chapati and Yajima reacted at the commentary desk.

Jiang Bai banished Minerva into a space where she was killed by spatial turbulence, while Sting accepted a bargain to give Sabertooth’s prize money to Fairy Tail. The Grand Magic Games ended with Fairy Tail announced as the overall champion.

• Jiang Bai agreed to spare Minerva’s life if she survived one attack and Sting gave Sabertooth’s prize money to Fairy Tail.
• Jiang Bai banished Minerva into an alternate space and challenged her to escape using her Space Magic.
• Minerva tried to break out, but spatial turbulence pulled her in and annihilated her.
• Sting and Rogue assumed Minerva had escaped and left the ruined street with Lector.
• Chapati announced that Fairy Tail had won the Grand Magic Games.

Fairy Tail celebrated its Grand Magic Games championship as members of rival guilds reflected on Jiang Bai’s overwhelming strength. At the victory banquet, Makarov guarded the prize money while other guild masters teased him about finding Jiang Bai.

• Fairy Tail’s members and the crowd cheered as the guild was announced as champion, and Yajima congratulated Maka.
• Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, and Mermaid Heel members returned from the arena and discussed their defeats and Jiang Bai’s strength.
• Crocus celebrated at a tavern where members of the six final-stage guilds drank together.
• Makarov repeatedly checked and guarded the eighty million J in prize money and compensation.
• Goldmine and Bob praised Fairy Tail’s roster and asked Makarov how he had found Jiang Bai.

The guilds celebrated after the arena matches, and Kagura visited Jiang Bai, Erza, and Mirajane on the terrace. Her sincere congratulations embarrassed Erza and Mirajane, while Jiang Bai welcomed her to join the banquet.

• Makarov boasted about Fairy Tail and was surrounded by Blue Pegasus and Quatro Cerberus members determined to drink him under the table.
• Sting and Rogue praised Natsu and Gajeel and asked about their techniques, while the Dragon Slayers offered them food and advice.
• Lector, Frosch, and Panther Lily thanked Jiang Bai for bringing Sting and Lector back together, and Wendy and Sherria bonded over their Sky Magic.
• Jiang Bai relaxed with Erza and Mirajane on the terrace until Kagura arrived and thanked him for his arena guidance.
• Kagura congratulated Jiang Bai, Erza, and Mirajane on growing old together, making Erza and Mirajane blush.
• Jiang Bai accepted Kagura’s wishes, offered her ale, and invited her to celebrate.

King Toma summoned the Grand Magic Games guilds and revealed that ten thousand dragons would attack Fiore, asking the wizards to help protect the country. The wizards pledged to fight, but the king’s “Pumpkin” catchphrase exposed him as the tournament’s pumpkin-headed referee.

• King Toma’s guards summoned the participating guilds to Crocus’s central square under urgent orders.
• King Toma announced a prophecy that ten thousand dragons would attack Fiore within hours.
• Jiang Bai reassured Makarov and the Fairy Tail wizards that he could face the dragons, while King Toma explained the Eclipse Plan and asked the guilds to defeat any survivors.
• Natsu, Gray, Sting, Rogue, and wizards from the other guilds pledged to defend the country.
• King Toma ended his speech with “Pumpkin,” and Jiang Bai confirmed Lucy’s suspicion that the king was the pumpkin-headed tournament referee.

As Princess Hisui opened the Eclipse Gate, Lucy realized it was a passage to the past, but Jiang Bai let it open so the kingdom’s leaders could see the truth and Fairy Tail could fight the dragons. A dragon began forcing its way through the gate as the chapter ended.

• Crocus evacuated its civilians while Gray, Natsu, and the other mages prepared for the dragons’ arrival.
• Jiang Bai decided not to destroy the Eclipse Gate, hoping to defeat the dragons and use their blood to strengthen the mages.
• Princess Hisui ordered the royal guards to open the Eclipse Gate after the royal family’s preparations and unlocking ritual.
• Lucy begged Princess Hisui to stop, then ran to Jiang Bai when the gate began opening and revealed that it led to the past.
• Jiang Bai told Lucy to wait until dragons came through before she and Yukino closed the gate, explaining that the kingdom’s leaders needed to witness the truth.
• A massive claw struck the palace steps, and a dragon’s head pushed through the Eclipse Gate.

Nine dragons emerged from the Eclipse Gate and devastated the royal palace courtyard before Lucy and Yukino used the twelve Celestial Spirits to seal it. The dragons remained loose in the capital, and a messenger warned the gathered guild mages to prepare for battle.

• The first dragon smashed through the palace courtyard, but Jiang Bai stopped its shockwave and rubble with a casual gesture.
• Eight more dragons emerged, and Lucy urged Jiang Bai to close the gate before the main force could follow.
• Jiang Bai told Lucy and Yukino to combine their Celestial Spirit magic, and the twelve Spirits pushed the gate shut, forcing a tenth dragon's claw back through the gap.
• Arcadios warned the guards that nine dragons had already entered the capital, while Lucy comforted the despairing Princess Hisui and promised her companions would fight.
• At Crocus's central plaza, Natsu sensed dragons in the palace, and a messenger reported that living dragons had emerged from the Eclipse Gate.

Future Rogue revealed that he had manipulated Princess Hisui into opening the Eclipse Gate and used Dragon Control Magic to command nine dragons. Jiang Bai joined the guild mages in Crocus’s central plaza, where he declared that his advantage against the dragons was infinite.

• Future Rogue revealed himself to Lucy and admitted that he had tricked Princess Hisui into opening the Eclipse Gate so nine dragons would emerge.
• Future Rogue ordered eight dragons to fly toward the central plaza and rode the ninth dragon after them.
• Jiang Bai and Lucy teleported to the central plaza, where Lucy told Makarov and the guilds that Future Rogue had caused the disaster.
• Sting and present-day Rogue recognized Future Rogue as Rogue’s older self, while the guild mages prepared to face the dragons.
• Jiang Bai stepped to the front of the gathered guilds and told Makarov that his advantage over the dragons was infinite.

Jiang Bai crushed Future Rogue and nine dragons with his telekinesis, then let Natsu and the Fairy Tail mages take on two dragons while he prepared to deal with the other seven. Future Rogue was left demanding to know who Jiang Bai was, and the dragons remained trapped in the crater.

• Future Rogue led nine dragons in an attack, but Jiang Bai’s force slammed them into the plaza before they could unleash their dragon breath.
• The guild members watched in shock as Natsu and the Fairy Tail mages took Jiang Bai’s defeat of the dragons in stride, while Sting, Rufus, and Kagura’s companions reacted with alarm.
• Future Rogue asked Jiang Bai where he came from, and Jiang Bai replied that he could not keep track of all the parallel worlds before turning his attention to the dragons.
• Natsu and the Fairy Tail mages asked to fight, so Jiang Bai released Atlas Flame and Jade Dragon Zirconis for them to face.
• Jiang Bai kept the other seven dragons pinned down and stepped toward them, intending to use them as materials for Fairy Tail.

Jiang Bai isolated seven dragons in an airborne enclosure and stopped the Sword Blade Dragon’s attack without moving. The Space Dragon realized Jiang Bai had stripped away its authority over space, and Jiang Bai approached it as it trembled in fear.

• Jiang Bai used Psychokinesis to lift seven dragons from the crater and seal them inside an invisible enclosure high above the ground.
• The dragons mocked Jiang Bai, while the Space Dragon refused to join the others and demanded that he reveal his spatial magic.
• The Sword Blade Dragon attacked with its Roar, but Jiang Bai stretched the distance to infinity and stopped the blast before it could reach him.
• The Space Dragon offered to spare Jiang Bai if he taught it his technique, and Jiang Bai insulted its intelligence.
• The Space Dragon tried to cast Space Blade but found that it could no longer affect space.
• Jiang Bai walked toward the terrified Space Dragon and mocked it for trying to use space against him.

Jiang Bai fought the Space Dragon inside a sealed area, where he blocked its access to external spatial power and dodged its Dragon's Roar. The Space Dragon called on the other six dragons, and all seven surrounded Jiang Bai as he faced them without fear.

• Jiang Bai explained that the Space Dragon needed his permission to use spatial power within his private territory.
• The Space Dragon drew power from its Dragon Lacrima and fired its Space Dragon's Roar at Jiang Bai.
• Jiang Bai dodged the beam, which struck the barrier without breaking it, and the Space Dragon retreated to its companions.
• The Sword Blade Dragon and Levia mocked the Space Dragon for asking for help, but the dragons recognized Jiang Bai as a serious threat.
• The six dragons joined the Space Dragon, armed themselves with their different powers, and surrounded Jiang Bai.
• Jiang Bai smiled at the seven dragons and sarcastically said, "So scary~"

Natsu, Gajeel, Laxus, Sting, Rogue, and Wendy combined their Dragon Slayer magic and finally wounded Hellfire Dragon Atlas Flame, while Blue Pegasus’s attacks failed to harm Zirconis. Enraged by the broken scale and drop of blood, Atlas Flame unleashed his fury on the mages.

• Kagura’s sword slash failed to cut Atlas Flame, and Blue Pegasus’s combined spells and airship cannon left Zirconis unharmed.
• Natsu called on Gajeel and Laxus to join him, while Sting, Rogue, and Wendy joined the Dragon Slayers.
• The six mages combined their Dragon Roars, pushed Atlas Flame backward, and shattered one scale on his chest.
• Sting was shocked by how little damage their attack had done, and Natsu and Gajeel reminded him how powerful dragons were.
• Atlas Flame felt the wound, broke free of his sluggishness under Future Rogue’s control, and roared furiously at the humans as the street melted into magma.

As the guilds struggled against Atlas Flame, Natsu and the others rallied Sting and Rogue to keep fighting. Above them, Jiang Bai used an enchanted close-combat technique to swing the Diamond Dragon like a meteor hammer, smashing several dragons and restoring the mages’ morale.

• Atlas Flame swept his tail through the street, breaking the guilds’ defensive formation and forcing the human forces backward.
• Natsu, Gajeel, Laxus, Erza, Mirajane, Makarov, and Bob urged the frightened mages to stand firm and fight.
• Jiang Bai enchanted his body with concentrated magic power, grabbed the Diamond Dragon’s tail, and swung him into the Wind Dragon, Rock Dragon, and Sword Blade Dragon.
• Jiang Bai slammed the Dragon of Darkness into the barrier, causing the boom heard by the mages below.
• The guild members regained their courage after seeing Jiang Bai overpower the dragons, and Sting gathered Dragon Force and called for Natsu to continue fighting.