Recaps

Jiang Bai refused to take the many requests addressed to him, most of which were bizarre invitations from noble ladies. Makarov then revealed that the latest request came from Warrod Sequen, a renowned Wizard Saint, and insisted Jiang Bai accept it.

• Jiang Bai arrived at the guild hall and refused Makarov’s stack of requests, saying he had no need for the money or work.
• Makarov warned Jiang Bai that ignoring requests could hurt the guild’s Magic Council rating, but Jiang Bai joked that Natsu and the others would cause more trouble anyway.
• Macao and Wakaba envied the requests sent to the young wizards and drank at the bar until Makarov ordered them to work.
• Jiang Bai’s requests were revealed to be mostly peculiar invitations from noble ladies, so he had thrown them away.
• Makarov stopped Jiang Bai from leaving and revealed that the client behind the latest request was Warrod Sequen, one of the Ten Wizard Saints.

Jiang Bai accepted a mission requested by Warrod, one of the Ten Wizard Saints and a Fairy Tail founder, and arranged a vacation with Erza and Mirajane afterward. He set out with Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Wendy, Happy, and Carla, while Natsu and Gray continued bickering on the journey.

• Makarov revealed Warrod’s request and named Jiang Bai, Natsu, and Gray for the job; Jiang Bai agreed after securing a vacation with Erza and Mirajane.
• Natsu and Gray argued over who would take the mission, so Makarov knocked them into the guild floor with his magic.
• Makarov sent Lucy and Wendy along in hopes they would keep Natsu and Gray in check, and the group departed together.
• The party walked across scenic plains as Natsu and Gray argued, while Jiang Bai strolled behind them enjoying the spectacle.
• Natsu and Gray resumed their argument over Gray’s lack of a shirt and Natsu’s pink hair.

Lucy and the others reached Warrod’s cabin, where Jiang Bai explained the Wizard Saints’ standing and his own title. Warrod greeted them with a prank, leaving the group questioning whether the tree-like old man was truly a renowned Wizard Saint.

• Lucy asked Jiang Bai to stop Natsu and Gray from arguing, but he said their bickering showed how close they were.
• Lucy asked whether Warrod was powerful, and Jiang Bai explained that Wizard Saint rankings reflected influence as well as strength and that the Magic Council had recognized him after he defeated Jose.
• The group reached Warrod’s cabin and found him watering plants while telling them to be quiet.
• Warrod abruptly revealed that his stern warning was a joke and said plants enjoyed lively sounds.
• Natsu mistook the tree trunks growing from Warrod’s head for a sign that a tree had come to life, while Lucy wondered whether he was really a Wizard Saint.

Warrod told Fairy Tail that he had found Sun Village frozen beneath strange ice, including its Eternal Flame, and asked them to rescue its inhabitants. He sensed that the villagers were still alive, but he could not melt the ice with his Green Magic.

• Warrod greeted Jiang Bai and the others with several jokes before finally explaining his request.
• Warrod demonstrated how his Green Magic could quickly grow a seed into a flower and described his efforts to restore greenery to the wasteland.
• Warrod said he had discovered Sun Village during a patrol and found its people, animals, homes, plants, and Eternal Flame frozen solid.
• Warrod told the group that the villagers still showed faint signs of life, but he could not dispel the ice and had sent an urgent request to Fairy Tail.

Warrod explained that Fairy Tail needed to save Sun Village from unnatural ice that could suppress the Eternal Flame, and sent Jiang Bai, Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Wendy, Happy, and Carla there. Warrod’s giant tree carried them to the frozen basin, where Jiang Bai stopped Natsu and Gray from fighting and led the group toward the village.

• Warrod said Sun Village was buried under unusual ice that could seal the Eternal Flame, and explained that Gray and Jiang Bai were essential to the mission.
• Jiang Bai accepted the request, and Warrod revealed that he had also invited him because he was curious to meet the continent’s youngest and strongest wizard.
• Warrod used his magic to grow a giant tree that carried the group south across the wasteland to Sun Village.
• The group landed safely near the frozen basin, and Natsu said he wanted to fight Warrod after the mission.
• Natsu and Gray started bickering, so Jiang Bai hit them on the head and led everyone toward the ice-covered village.

Jiang Bai and his companions discovered that Sun Village's frozen inhabitants were giants who remained alive, but Natsu's flames could not melt their magical ice. Jiang Bai knew Silver was responsible and, before thawing the village, called out three hidden observers.

• Jiang Bai and his companions entered Sun Village and discovered giants sealed inside the ice.
• Jiang Bai confirmed that the giants were alive with their consciousnesses frozen into dormancy.
• Natsu exhausted himself trying to melt the ice with his flames, but the ice remained unchanged.
• Gray examined the ice and found a powerful magical will that resisted ordinary elemental powers.
• Jiang Bai recognized the ice as Silver's Ice Devil Slayer Magic and confirmed that his own fire could melt it.
• Jiang Bai called out three observers hiding behind rocks, and his companions prepared for danger.

Jiang Bai and the Fairy Tail mages encountered three treasure hunters from Sylph Labyrinth who planned to steal Sun Village’s Eternal Flame using Moon Drop to melt the ice. Jiang Bai let them run ahead so he could take the treasure from them, then sensed more dangerous enemies approaching the village.

• Three Sylph Labyrinth hunters emerged and claimed the Eternal Flame, boasting that Moon Drop could melt the ice trapping it.
• Jiang Bai mocked the hunters as thieves, while Lucy questioned how they expected to retrieve a flame buried beneath the ice.
• The black-haired leader showed the group his Moon Drop potion and led his companions toward the village’s central altar.
• Natsu and Gray tried to pursue the hunters, but Jiang Bai told them to let the trio clear the way and steal the treasure from them afterward.
• Jiang Bai sensed that more formidable enemies had arrived near the village.

Deliora used his Regression Curse on Jiang Bai, shrinking him into a five- or six-year-old child, but Jiang Bai remained calm while Lucy, Wendy, Carla, and Happy fussed over his cute appearance. Deliora grew furious at being ignored, and the chapter ended with him shouting that Jiang Bai’s strength, speed, and magic power had been reduced.

• Deliora revealed that he was a demon from the Book of Zeref and identified Jiang Bai as the human Lady Kyoka had warned him about.
• Deliora dismissed Jiang Bai as weak because he could not sense magic power coming from him, then used his Regression Curse.
• The curse shrank Jiang Bai into a small child, while he examined his new body without showing alarm.
• Lucy poked Jiang Bai’s cheeks, Wendy took pictures, and Carla and Happy joined in admiring and teasing him.
• Deliora became enraged that the group ignored him and shouted that Jiang Bai’s strength, speed, and magic power had hit rock bottom.

Jiang Bai revealed that Deliora's Regression Curse had only reduced his strength to a tenth, then broke it after analyzing and adapting it into Regression Magic. Deliora refused to accept his recovery and unleashed another furious curse attack.

• Lucy and Wendy prepared to protect the shrunken Jiang Bai until he explained that he still retained a tenth of his usual strength.
• Deliora insisted that Jiang Bai could not reverse the Regression Curse without the caster removing it.
• Jiang Bai analyzed the curse and developed Regression Magic that could alter an enemy's abilities but could not shrink their skeletal frame.
• Jiang Bai shattered the curse with Telekinesis and returned to his original body, shocking Deliora.
• Deliora poured out his curse power and repeatedly commanded Jiang Bai to regress.

Jiang Bai overwhelmed Deliora with Regression Magic, stripping away the demon’s power and leaving him helpless. Before Jiang Bai could finish the confrontation, a monstrous beast emerged from underground and swallowed Deliora, then burrowed away as Jiang Bai prepared to pursue it.

• Jiang Bai’s innate resistance nullified Deliora’s Regression Curse, and Jiang Bai retaliated by using his own Regression Magic to drain Deliora’s strength.
• Jiang Bai explained that his magic’s suppression depended on the gap in their overall strength, and Deliora accepted that he could not defeat him.
• Deliora praised Jiang Bai’s strength but insisted that Lord Hades would defeat him, then a violent earthquake split the frozen ground.
• A huge, one-eyed beast burst from underground, swallowed the helpless Deliora, and retreated into the depths.
• Natsu tried to pursue the creature, but the ground sealed over; Jiang Bai watched its escape and challenged it to get away.

Jiang Bai erased the fleeing monster with Hollow Technique: Purple, then continued with Fairy Tail toward the Eternal Flame. In Sun Village, the group caught Freya, a former Raven Tail member, who revealed that the frozen giants had raised her and begged Jiang Bai to save them.

• Jiang Bai used Hollow Technique: Purple to erase the underground monster and Deliora inside it.
• Jiang Bai and the Fairy Tail group headed toward the altar, while Natsu complained that he had not gotten a proper fight.
• Jiang Bai sensed Freya hiding behind a stone stele and dragged her into the open with Telekinesis.
• Freya told the group that she had left Raven Tail and was born human but raised by Sun Village's giants.
• Freya explained that she had returned to find the village and her adoptive family frozen, then knelt before Jiang Bai and begged him to save them.

Freya told Fairy Tail why she had helped the Sylph Labyrinth thieves, and the guild promised to save her village. At the frozen altar, Jiang Bai confronted the thieves after their Moon Drop ran out, telling them to step aside.

• Freya tearfully explained her attachment to the village and its giants, and Natsu dropped his anger and told her Fairy Tail would help.
• Lucy and Wendy comforted Freya and promised that the guild would rescue every giant.
• Natsu heard the Sylph Labyrinth thieves arguing about their lack of Moon Drop and led the group to the altar.
• The thieves revealed that their potion had melted only part of the ice around the Eternal Flame and mocked Jiang Bai when they did not recognize his name.
• Lucy laughed at the thieves' ignorance until Jiang Bai threatened to dock her share of the request reward.
• Jiang Bai stepped in front of the thieves and told them to stay aside while he took over.

Jiang Bai used a concentrated white flame to melt the cursed ice surrounding the Eternal Flame and sent the three thieves of Sylph Labyrinth into a spatial prison before planning to hand them over to the Magic Council. As Wendy watched the ancient flame glow crimson, the guardian deity of Sun Village began to awaken.

• Jiang Bai melted the cursed ice encasing the Eternal Flame with his white divine flame, shocking the three members of Sylph Labyrinth.
• The thieves abandoned their weapons and fled, but Jiang Bai swallowed them into a spatial prison.
• Lucy prayed that the thieves would enjoy their time behind the Magic Council's bars, and Jiang Bai planned to deliver them to the prison.
• Wendy returned to Jiang Bai as the Eternal Flame began glowing crimson and the guardian deity of Sun Village neared awakening.

Jiang Bai restored the Eternal Flame by feeding it his own fire, revealing Atlas Flame, whose remnant consciousness had guarded Sun Village for four hundred years. Atlas Flame explained that Acnologia had killed him, leaving Natsu and the others grim as Jiang Bai remained confident.

• Jiang Bai explained that Tartaros's ice had drained the Eternal Flame, then gave it some of his own source power.
• The Eternal Flame rapidly regained its strength, dispelling Sun Village's cold and forming the shape of Atlas Flame.
• Natsu recognized Atlas Flame, and the dragon greeted Natsu and Jiang Bai.
• Atlas Flame revealed that Acnologia had destroyed his body and soul four hundred years earlier, leaving only a remnant of his consciousness in the altar.
• Natsu and the others reacted grimly to Acnologia's name, while Jiang Bai remained untroubled by the threat.

Atlas Flame revealed that Acnologia had once been human, and Jiang Bai explained that Dragon Slayer Magic taught by dragons could cause Dragonification. He reassured the frightened Dragon Slayers that Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, and Sting were safe, while leaving the reason for later.

• Atlas Flame told Natsu and the others that Acnologia had been a human Dragon Slayer who became the Dragon King after slaughtering dragons and absorbing their blood.
• Lucy panicked that Jiang Bai’s dragon-blood baths might turn her into a dragon, but Jiang Bai assured her that the baths were harmless.
• Jiang Bai said that Dragon Slayer Magic taught by a dragon could cause Dragonification, frightening Natsu, Wendy, Happy, and Carla.
• Jiang Bai sensed Igneel and Grandine sleeping within Natsu and Wendy, then assured the group that Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, and Sting faced no danger of turning into dragons.
• Jiang Bai said the reason those four were safe would become clear later.

Atlas Flame asked how Fairy Tail survived Acnologia’s attack on Tenrou Island, and the group explained that Jiang Bai had intervened. Jiang Bai then revealed that someone else besides him could defeat dragons without Dragon Slayer Magic, leaving Natsu eager to know who.

• Lucy angrily complained that Jiang Bai kept cutting off secrets, while Wendy laughed at her frustration.
• Atlas Flame asked how the group had escaped Acnologia after confronting him on Tenrou Island.
• Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Happy recalled that Acnologia had overwhelmed Fairy Tail until Jiang Bai stepped in.
• Atlas Flame accepted that Jiang Bai could challenge Acnologia and praised his ability to overcome dragons without Dragon Slayer Magic.
• Jiang Bai said that another person on the continent could also defeat a dragon without Dragon Slayer Magic, and Natsu demanded to know who.

Jiang Bai revealed that Zeref had once killed a dragon, and Atlas Flame agreed that Zeref could overcome the limits of Dragon Slayer Magic. As Atlas Flame spent his remaining soul to melt Sun Village’s ice, he revealed that an Ice Devil Slayer had sealed him and the village while searching for E.N.D.

• Jiang Bai identified Zeref as the person who had killed a dragon, shocking Lucy, Gray, Natsu, Wendy, and Atlas Flame.
• Atlas Flame said Zeref’s dark magic could cross the rules of Dragon Slayer Magic, while distinguishing Zeref’s power from Jiang Bai’s.
• Jiang Bai urged Atlas Flame to save the frozen giants, and Freya begged the dragon to rescue the village.
• Atlas Flame poured his remaining flames through the ley lines, melting the ice throughout Sun Village as his soul began to fade.
• Atlas Flame revealed that an Ice Devil Slayer had frozen him and the village, believing him to be a demon.
• Atlas Flame said the Ice Devil Slayer had mentioned E.N.D., the ultimate demon in the Book of Zeref.

Atlas Flame used the last of his soul to save Sun Village and then disappeared, leaving Wendy saddened and Gray focused on the threat of E.N.D. The giants awakened as the demon-slaying ice melted, and Freya reunited with her father and the villagers.

• Jiang Bai corrected the account of Igneel and Atlas Flame, then watched as Atlas Flame vanished after exhausting his lingering obsession.
• Wendy mourned Atlas Flame, and Jiang Bai comforted her by comparing his passing to Old Rob’s.
• Gray vowed to destroy the demons from the Book of Zeref, while Natsu brushed off the threat of E.N.D.
• The giants awakened after the demon-slaying ice melted and spotted Jiang Bai and the others at the altar.
• Lucy tried to stop the giants from attacking, and Freya called out to her father, prompting a joyful reunion in Sun Village.

Silver was summoned to the main headquarters for an emergency order concerning Lord Hades's revival plan, leaving the grave he had been tending. In Sun Village, the giants celebrated their rescue while Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Carla reacted to the successful job and its reward.

• Silver sat beside a gravestone in the northern lands when a demon lizardman delivered an emergency summons for every lord of the Nine Demon Gates.
• Silver agreed to return to headquarters after finishing at the grave, then disappeared into the blizzard.
• The giants in Sun Village celebrated their survival and thanked the Fairy Tail wizards for saving their village.
• Natsu complained that Jiang Bai had taken all the glory, while Lucy was pleased about the job's reward.
• Happy offered to buy Carla grilled dried fish, but Carla refused, and Happy turned to stone and fell onto Natsu's shoulder.

Jiang Bai and Fairy Tail helped Sun Village recover, and Freya accepted her place in her giant family without needing to change herself. The group left the village and headed to meet Warrod to complete the mission handover and collect their reward.

• The giants thanked Jiang Bai for helping awaken their guardian deity, who had sacrificed his final spark to save the village.
• Freya thanked Jiang Bai and Fairy Tail, then declined his offer to teach her Giant Magic because she had accepted that her family loved her as she was.
• Freya declared that she would always belong to Sun Village, and the giants celebrated her return with plans for a barbecue feast.
• Jiang Bai led Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Gray, and the two cats out of the village after the giants bid them farewell.
• Jiang Bai reminded Natsu that Warrod still needed to inspect the results, so the group set off to complete the handover and collect their reward.

On the way to Warrod’s cabin, Lucy asked Jiang Bai how strong he had become and whether he could finally defeat Acnologia. Jiang Bai said he had stopped worrying about Acnologia five years earlier and was waiting for a chance to meet the dragon again.

• Natsu and Gray argued over who had been slower when a demon attacked the village.
• Lucy asked Jiang Bai how far his strength had advanced and whether he was confident he could defeat Acnologia for good.
• Natsu, Gray, Wendy, Carla, and Happy stopped to listen to Jiang Bai’s answer.
• Jiang Bai said he had not worried about Acnologia for five years and was simply waiting for another chance to encounter it.
• The group trusted Jiang Bai’s confidence, believing his strength had grown enough to make defeating Acnologia a certainty.

Jiang Bai told Lucy and the others that only reaching the Ten Wizard Saint level would let them begin to grasp how far above them he stood. Natsu and Gray fought over his boastful line while Jiang Bai continued toward Warrod’s house.

• Lucy asked Jiang Bai how strong he was, and he said no one on the continent could challenge him enough to measure his limits.
• Jiang Bai told the group that those below Ten Wizard Saint strength were like frogs in a well, while even Ten Wizard Saints were like mayflies gazing at the sky.
• Wendy praised Jiang Bai’s arrogant remarks, and Natsu excitedly decided to memorize the line and use it against Gray or Erza.
• Natsu and Gray argued over who would get to use the line, then attacked each other with fire and ice magic.
• Jiang Bai ignored their fight and headed toward Warrod’s wooden house, where Warrod was waiting with tea.

After the team completed the dangerous mission in Sun Village, Warrod tried to reward Lucy with a potato before paying her in gold. Back at Fairy Tail, the team learned Warrod was one of the guild’s founders, while Wendy threatened to show everyone photos of a shrunken Jiang Bai.

• Warrod praised the team for breaking the demonic ice and defeating the threat, then warned that Tartaros might be preparing a major operation.
• Warrod gave Lucy a potato as a joke reward, but handed over a bag of gold after she threatened to have Jiang Bai demolish his cabin.
• The team soaked in a natural hot spring, then returned to Magnolia and reported the mission to Makarov.
• Makarov revealed that Warrod had helped Lady Mavis found Fairy Tail, shocking Lucy, Gray, and Natsu.
• Lucy accused Jiang Bai of hiding Warrod’s identity, and Wendy threatened to circulate photos of Jiang Bai after he had been shrunk.

Wendy showed the guild photographs of Jiang Bai after Deliora’s curse had regressed him to a little boy, then recounted how he reversed the effect. The guild laughed over memories of Jiang Bai’s childhood while Mirajane clutched the photographs and teared up.

• Wendy laid out fresh photographs of little Jiang Bai at the guild bar, catching Erza and Mirajane’s attention.
• Mirajane recognized the photographs as newly developed, and Wendy explained that Deliora’s Curse of Regression had turned Jiang Bai into a child before he reversed it.
• Wendy revealed that she had taken dozens of photographs of Jiang Bai before he changed back, prompting the guild members to crowd around and examine them.
• Macao, Makarov, Wakaba, and Erza shared memories of Jiang Bai as a child, and the guild filled with laughter.
• Mirajane held several photographs to her chest and began to cry.

Mirajane begged Jiang Bai to turn into a child after seeing photographs from Sun Village, but he explained that his Regression Magic could not change his age or body size. She claimed the photographs for herself as Fairy Tail returned to its usual bustle, with Tartaros still looming in the distance.

• Mirajane studied photographs of little Jiang Bai and resented missing both his childhood and his brief transformation in Sun Village.
• Mirajane begged Jiang Bai to use Regression Magic to become a little boy so she could pinch his cheeks.
• Jiang Bai explained that his Regression Magic only suppressed energy and physical attributes, while the demon's Regression Curse relied on a fundamentally different power.
• Mirajane claimed the entire stack of photographs and threatened anyone who tried to steal them, making Macao and Wakaba abandon their plans to take some.
• Erza, Wendy, and Lucy watched the exchange as the Fairy Tail guild hall returned to its familiar commotion after the successful Sun Village job.