Chapter Summaries

Gildarts returned to Fairy Tail after failing the 100-Year Quest, then Ur came back to Magnolia and reunited with Gray. Their arrivals caused a surge of magic power that let Amani locate the town, while Zorn headed back after preparing for its arrival.

• Gildarts returned to Fairy Tail, greeted the guild, and easily stopped Natsu's attack before sending him into the ceiling.
• Gildarts told Makarov that he had failed the 100-Year Quest, and Makarov reassured him that he was the first person to return from it alive.
• Gildarts accidentally smashed through a guild wall on his way out, and Natsu copied him by punching through another wall to follow.
• Gajeel searched for a talking cat but found none, then met Ur, who introduced herself and helped him up.
• Natsu sensed Ur's return, and Gray rushed to greet his teacher while Juvia shyly watched nearby.
• Gildarts and Ur's return increased Magnolia's magic power, allowing Amani to locate the town as Zorn returned after making preparations.

Lisanna said goodbye to the Fairy Tail members in Magnolia Town before Zorn and the others traveled through Amany—Super-Subspace Magic to Edolas. They split into groups to find Edolas’s Fairy Tail and investigate its kingdom army, while Mirajane in Edolas began crying as if she sensed Lisanna’s return.

• Lisanna tearfully said goodbye to Mirajane, Elfman, and the other Magnolia Town guild members, who wished her well as she returned to her own world.
• As the town dissolved into Magic Power, Zorn sent most of the guild members away and led the remaining group into the vortex toward Edolas.
• Zorn and the others arrived in Edolas, where Mystogan explained that its dwindling Magic Power had led people to develop Amany Magic and rely on powerful magic items and the kingdom army.
• Zorn assigned himself, Lisanna, Wendy, Natsu, and the others to find Edolas’s Fairy Tail, while Mystogan, Laxus, and Gajeel went to investigate the kingdom army.
• In Edolas’s Fairy Tail guild, Mirajane dropped her cup and began crying, sensing that a missing piece of her life had returned.

Mira broke down after Elfman was reminded of Lisanna’s disappearance, while Zorn’s group searched for Fairy Tail and encountered Erza leading the Kingdom Army. Zorn learned which way the army was headed and set out to reach Fairy Tail first, as Natsu vowed to protect it and bring Erza back.

• Elfman saw Mira crying and feared she would return to the depression she had suffered after Lisanna disappeared, prompting him and the Fairy Tail members to grieve.
• Zorn, Natsu, Wendy, Lisanna and the others searched for Fairy Tail, and Natsu assured Lisanna that the guild would be safe.
• Zorn sensed the approaching Kingdom Army and hid the group beneath a dome of light as Erza searched the clearing for them.
• Sugarboy persuaded Erza not to attack, and Erza and Sugarboy later watched the clearing before rejoining the main force.
• Zorn identified the army’s direction and led the group after it, while Natsu vowed to protect this world’s Fairy Tail and bring Erza back.

Zorn and his companions reached the Fairy Tail guild in Edolas, where Lisanna reunited with Mirajane and Elfman. After warning the guild that the Kingdom Army was approaching, Zorn went outside and encountered Erza on a flying monster, who seemed to recognize something about him.

• Natsu rushed into the guild and was greeted by Lucy, who hugged and then playfully tortured him before noticing the newcomers.
• Lisanna reunited with Mirajane and Elfman, and the siblings embraced in tears as the guild members shared their relief.
• Zorn explained that he and his companions came from another world, and Levy warned them that the Kingdom Army was too dangerous to fight.
• Zorn told the guild that the Kingdom Army was on its way, and Levy began preparing the Teleportation Magic Circle as a giant monster descended outside.
• Zorn went out to confront the threat and saw Erza riding the monster; Erza stared at him in disbelief.

Zorn teleported Fairy Tail’s treehouse away from Erza’s approaching attack, leaving himself alone to face the forces in the sky. The guild arrived in a desert, where Lisanna showed off her strength, while Laxus and Gajeel surveyed the kingdom’s capital with Mystogan wary of what lay ahead.

• Erza prepared a powerful beam attack against Zorn as Sugarboy and the kingdom soldiers approached, while Levy tried to activate a teleportation spell for the guild.
• Zorn cast a golden teleportation circle that stopped Levy’s spell and sent Fairy Tail’s treehouse away, leaving him alone in the forest.
• The treehouse appeared in a desert, where Wendy and Lisanna explained Zorn’s status as an S-Class Mage and one of the Ten Wizard Saints in another world.
• Lisanna stopped a giant frog’s attack with a single palm strike and sent it fleeing, surprising the guild members who remembered her as weaker.
• Laxus and Gajeel looked down at the kingdom’s capital while Mystogan worried that the road ahead would be difficult.

Zorn fought Erza and Sugarboy while trying to understand how he had come to Edolas and why Erza seemed hostile toward him. He captured Sugarboy and the Kingdom Army, leaving himself to face Erza alone.

• Erza attacked Zorn with her Energy Cannon and Sonic Spear, but he blocked and reflected her attacks before parrying her at close range.
• Erza blasted Zorn into the sky with her Vacuum Spear, but Sugarboy’s attempt to strike him ended with Zorn kicking him into a crater.
• Zorn considered whether an identical version of him had appeared in this world or whether he had lost his memories before arriving in Edolas, while Erza charged him again.
• Erza told Sugarboy to retreat and alert the Capital, but Zorn surrounded the Kingdom Army with Light Swords to stop them from escaping.
• Erza unleashed her Holy Lance, Holy Stone World, while Sugarboy tried to soften Zorn’s giant Light Sword with the Rose Sword.
• Zorn transformed the Light Sword into chains, disarmed and bound Sugarboy and the Kingdom Army, then turned to face Erza alone.

Erza fought Zorn in the sky but, after he praised her, remembered their childhood meeting and training together. She put away the Holy Lance and stopped fighting, while Zorn wondered what important thing he had forgotten.

• Erza and Zorn clashed above the former Fairy Tail site, while their battle currents left the soldiers and Sugarboy dangling from chains in nearby trees.
• Zorn noticed Erza’s hurt and longing, concluded they were not enemies, and told her she was strong.
• A flashback showed Zorn rescuing young Erza from pursuers in a forest and helping her escape to another town.
• Zorn defeated a giant bear and taught Erza his power and Physical Arts, which she mastered with remarkable speed.
• Back in the present, Erza recalled Zorn’s praise, put away the Holy Lance, and stopped fighting.
• Zorn watched Erza lower her weapon and felt he had forgotten something important.

King Faust learned that magic crystal supplies were dwindling and that contact with Erza and Sugarboy’s units had been lost, prompting him to mobilize the kingdom and summon a powerful ally. Meanwhile, Mystogan decided to overthrow the kingdom with Laxus and Gajeel, while Fairy Tail discussed learning a new power system before Zorn arrived with a large group.

• Byro warned King Faust that magic crystal conversion had fallen and the kingdom had less than six months of magic power remaining.
• Coco reported that contact with Erza and Sugarboy’s units had been lost, so Faust ordered Hughes and Panther Lily to search the capital and investigate their last known location.
• After the others left, Faust gave Byro a token and approved his request to summon a powerful person.
• Laxus and Gajeel agreed to help Mystogan overthrow the kingdom and pursue a revolution that would replace reliance on magic with technology.
• Lucy and the Fairy Tail guild members discussed training in a new power system, and Zorn appeared at the guild entrance with three companions and a large crowd behind them.

Zorn and his companions returned to Fairy Tail’s guildhall with the soldiers defeated, and he revealed that Erza had secretly been helping them escape. In the Capital, Laxus and Mystogan confronted a cloaked man who looked exactly like Gildarts and prepared to fight him.

• Zorn brought the defeated soldiers to Fairy Tail’s guildhall, where Erza knocked Natsu down with one blow.
• Zorn explained that Erza had repeatedly let the guild escape unharmed, and she did not deny that she was on their side.
• Panther Lily inspected the ruined forest, learned that the enemy had disappeared, and ordered his soldiers to return to the Capital.
• Laxus and Mystogan encountered a cloaked figure in the Capital, who revealed a face identical to Gildarts’s and challenged them with an ancient-looking sword.
• Laxus gathered lightning in his hand and accepted the fight against the man.

A scarred Dark Guild boss learned that the Edolas prince had returned and ordered his men to prepare for battle. At Fairy Tail, Zorn led the group toward a confrontation with the kingdom, while Gajeel faced Panther Lily in battle.

• A subordinate told the scarred guild boss that someone had arrived from Another World and that the Edolas prince had returned, prompting the boss to order his men to prepare for battle.
• At Fairy Tail, Natsu urged Zorn to take him to fight the kingdom, and Erza said she trusted Zorn to succeed.
• Zorn agreed to leave, and Lisanna insisted on joining him; Mirajane and Elfman supported her decision.
• Panther Lily sent his soldiers back to the kingdom, then attacked Gajeel with his enlarged sword.
• Gajeel blocked Panther Lily's strike and praised his strength.

Laxus and Gildarts Est fought their way out of the Capital, while Mystogan left to respond to a new move by the kingdom. Elsewhere, Faust and Byro prepared to send the floating Magic Crystal toward the Exceed kingdom, and Hughes waited in the amusement park as someone approached.

• Laxus and Mystogan combined their attacks against Est, but Est broke free and countered them with ease.
• Laxus stopped Mystogan from fighting and sent him away after sensing a new move by the kingdom.
• Laxus struck Est with a lightning-charged punch and drove him out of the Capital, then pursued him with more attacks.
• Est emerged from Laxus's barrage with charred marks and challenged him to a sword fight; their clash split the clouds overhead.
• Byro told Faust that sending the floating Magic Crystal into the Exceed kingdom would make Eternal Magic Power flow into their kingdom, and Faust celebrated.
• Hughes sat bored in the amusement park, unaware of the other captains' situations, as footsteps sounded from a passageway.

Mystogan confronted King Faust to stop him from activating the Dragon Lock Cannon, but a woman and Third ambushed him and seized the key. The woman activated the cannon despite Mystogan restraining her, sending energy surging into the sky.

• Mystogan slipped past Hughes after putting him to sleep and entered King Faust’s conference room.
• Byro gave King Faust the Dragon Lock Cannon’s key, and Mystogan demanded that his father stop the activation.
• King Faust rejected Mystogan’s plea and used his scepter to block Mystogan’s Sleep Magic before attacking with lightning.
• A woman held King Faust at knifepoint while Third fought Mystogan, and she took the key as Byro lay unconscious.
• Mystogan restrained the woman with Fivefold Magic Circle: Miko Kagura, but Third shattered his defense and knocked him back.
• The woman broke free, inserted the key into the Dragon Lock Cannon, and unleashed a surge of energy into the sky.

Zorn and the Fairy Tail members arrived as the Dragon Lock Cannon activated, and Zorn swiftly overwhelmed the Dark Guild and Kingdom Army forces. The Fairy Tail group split up to handle the unfolding battles while Zorn faced the cloaked guild master, as the cannon’s chain reached toward the Magic Crystal island.

• Mystogan realized his Miko Staffs were nearly out of magic power as the city shook and the central castle descended.
• Zorn sensed several battlefields and hidden magic signatures, then destroyed the Dark Guild members and knocked out the Kingdom Army soldiers with his Light Swords.
• Zorn sent the others information about the three battlefields and vanished, while Magic Flute began playing an invisible spell that turned the soldiers against Fairy Tail.
• Wendy spotted Magic Flute, and Natsu and Happy flew toward him as Erza rushed to help Mystogan, who was fighting two opponents while protecting Byro and his father.
• Zorn faced the cloaked guild master as the Dragon Lock Cannon sent a chain toward the Magic Crystal island, and Zorn launched one Light Sword into the sky and another at the ground.

The Fairy Tail members confronted their opponents across the kingdom while the Exceed kingdom learned that its princess had returned. Zorn rescued Ximi after a clash sent Tami flying, then turned back toward the cloaked man.

• Mystogan rescued King Faust and Byro as a Light Sword destroyed the dragon-shaped Chains, and the battles across the kingdom took shape.
• Erza faced Ecloria, while Natsu and Wendy fought Magic Flute, Laxus fought Gildarts, Gajeel fought Panther Lily, and Zorn faced the cloaked man.
• Minister Nade told the cat queen that the princess had returned to this world and was fighting alongside people from Another World.
• Tami and Ximi secretly jumped from their island to join the fighting, but a collision between the Chains and a giant golden sword sent Tami flying away.
• Zorn struck the cloaked man with his sword and magic, caught the falling Ximi, and placed the frightened cat in his hood.

Zorn fought the cloaked man, who revealed himself as Ith- Brain and claimed they had a past grudge. Zorn unleashed half his power and attacked Brain, while the kingdom’s other battles paused in response to his Magic Power.

• Zorn used golden Magic Circles and beams to attack the cloaked man, but the man countered with black energy and broke free.
• Zorn placed the golden cat inside a defensive sphere, then unleashed his Magic Power, drawing the attention of people fighting elsewhere in the kingdom.
• Zorn formed golden armor and a tachi, clashed swords with the cloaked man, and learned that he was Ith- Brain.
• Brain sent a black slash at Zorn, who blocked it and redirected it into an Energy Cannon before summoning a rain of Light Swords.
• Brain was shocked by Zorn’s strength but steadied himself by thinking of his arrangements elsewhere.

Brain struggled to defeat Zorn, whose Holy Light and seemingly inexhaustible Magic Power overwhelmed him, while a black Magic Circle spread across the Town. Earlier, Gajeel fought Panther Lily and decided to make him his cat; the chapter left them flying toward the Capital to investigate the circle.

• Gajeel asked Panther Lily why he had joined the Kingdom Army, and Panther Lily angrily said he had abandoned his homeland.
• Gajeel caught Panther Lily’s Buster Marm, shattered it, and punched him, declaring that Panther Lily would be his cat.
• Panther Lily got back up and resumed fighting Gajeel, but a black Magic Circle appeared and spread across the kingdom.
• Panther Lily grabbed Gajeel and flew toward the Capital to find out what the circle was.
• Brain fought Zorn, but Zorn’s Holy Light kept countering his Dark Energy and his strength did not wane.
• Brain prepared to activate a black Magic Circle across the Town as Zorn gathered light for a final attack.

Zorn remembered how he had stopped Brain’s attempt to sacrifice people to summon a demon years earlier, then used Fairy Glitter to destroy the Dark Guilds and Brain’s bracelets. After the light faded, the Capital fell silent as Zorn sensed that his Dragon Slayer Magic was nearly merged with his magic.

• Zorn recalled that Brain had used the bracelets to gather the Dark Guilds, sacrifice mages and villagers, and plot to seize the throne, until Zorn stopped him with a slash.
• Zorn remembered that the goddess had hidden his memories after sending him to the wrong world, and he told Brain that stopping the ground magic had cost him little Magic Power.
• Zorn rose into the sky and summoned Fairy Glitter as Brain and the Dark Guild members trembled before its power.
• Mystogan and Erza had already defeated Third Brother and Ecloria, while Natsu, Wendy, Happy, Lucy, Gildarts, and Laxus watched Zorn’s spell.
• Zorn’s Fairy Glitter enveloped the Capital, erased the black Magic Circle, destroyed the Dark Guild members, and broke down Brain’s bracelets, which were linked to Jellal.
• The people in the Capital stood silent after the attack, and Zorn sensed that his Dragon Slayer Magic was almost fully merged with his magic.

Zorn reunited Ximi with Tami and learned that Happy was their lost older brother, while Mystogan chose to reverse Amani and send Edolas's magic power to Earth-land. As the kingdom began to tremble and lose its magic, Mystogan's father silently accepted his decision.

• Zorn reunited with Gajeel and Panther Lily, then rescued Ximi and brought him together with Tami, whom Laxus had found.
• Tami recognized Happy as the lost child of his aunt and uncle, and Happy realized he had found his younger brothers.
• The ground shook as Edolas's magic power began to vanish, and Zorn suspected Mystogan had made his choice.
• In a secret chamber, Mystogan reversed Amani to send Edolas's magic to Earth-land, believing the kingdom had to be destroyed before it could be reborn.
• Mystogan's father watched the operation from afar and accepted his son's decision.

As magic power drained from their world, the queen of Extalia revealed that she was an ordinary Exceed and confessed how the elders had used Shagotte’s foresight to make humans believe their people were powerful. Carla urged the Exceeds to save their country together, and as everyone began glowing and floating toward Another World, Zorn watched Mystogan approach.

• The people of the kingdom and Fairy Tail discovered that magic power was disappearing from their world, and Zorn told Natsu that their king had chosen this outcome.
• The queen admitted to the Exceeds that she was an ordinary, weak Exceed who had deceived them, and an elder explained how their people had invented their supposed divine power to protect themselves.
• The queen declared that Extalia would perish, leaving the Exceeds despairing over their helplessness.
• Carla challenged the Exceeds to stop giving up and rebuild their country together, and they rallied around the queen with renewed resolve.
• The Exceeds and Zorn’s group began glowing and floating toward Another World, while Zorn watched Mystogan approach.

Zorn staged a villainous attack so Mystogan could defeat him publicly and take his place as a powerful prince, while delivering Fairy Tail’s farewell rules to him. Zorn and the others then returned to their own world, leaving Mystogan and the people of the kingdom behind.

• Zorn made the people of the Capital believe he was attacking Mystogan, while secretly speaking to Mystogan and Fairy Tail about their farewell.
• Zorn reminded Mystogan of Fairy Tail’s three rules, and Mystogan accepted his duty to protect the kingdom.
• Mystogan caught Zorn’s attack and struck him, convincing the people that their prince had won.
• Zorn said goodbye to Erza, and she pierced him with the Holy Lance so it could travel with him to Another World.
• Fairy Tail members and their companions exchanged farewells as Zorn and the others vanished from the world.