Chapter Summaries

George proposed turning the disrupted Harvest Festival into Fairy Tail’s First Magic Tournament, with the champion becoming guild master-in-waiting. Laxus accepted the challenge, and George offered to create a lakeside venue for the competition.

• George proposed holding a yearly tournament to name Fairy Tail’s strongest mage, restore the festival, and give Laxus a peaceful chance to prove himself.
• Natsu, Gray, and other guild members eagerly supported the tournament, and Makarov agreed to hold it.
• Laxus asked whether winning would let him become guild master, and George and the others agreed that the champion could succeed Makarov.
• Makarov declared that the winner would become guild master-in-waiting and required Laxus to apologize and stop causing trouble if he lost.
• George suggested cash prizes for the top ten, and Makarov approved rewards for second through tenth place.
• George volunteered to build the tournament venue in the middle of the lake.

George created an island arena in the lake by lifting and moving a mountain, then announced Fairy Tail’s first Grand Magic Tournament. With the arena ready, Makarov explained the competition rules, and George flew the participating mages toward the island as townspeople cheered.

• Lucy and Cana signed up for the tournament after hearing there was prize money.
• George used an Ancient Magic spell to lift a small mountain, move it to the lake, and cut its top into a circular arena.
• George announced the tournament to the town, drawing residents and tourists to the lakeshore.
• Laxus reconsidered George as a potential rival after witnessing his mountain-moving magic.
• Makarov explained the tournament’s draw-based elimination rules, while Jellal and Mystogan declined to participate.
• George carried the mages toward the island on an iron plate as the townspeople cheered.

George and the other Fairy Tail Mages competed in a guild tournament, advancing through the early rounds as Lucy got a lucky bye and Erza defeated Natsu. In the third round, George faced Juvia, who attacked him with her water magic.

• Makarov held a random draw for the first tournament round, and George drew number twenty-three.
• George, Laxus, Erza, and other strong Mages quickly defeated their opponents, ending the first round in under ten minutes.
• Lucy drew a bye in the second round and advanced automatically, while Erza defeated Natsu after a long fight.
• The third-round draw paired George with Juvia, while other notable matches included Evergreen against Elfman, Gray against Bickslow, and Levy against Gajeel.
• Juvia entered her waterized state and trapped George with Water Stream Restraint.

George defeated Juvia and advanced through the tournament, while Lucy reached the top seven after drawing multiple byes. The fifth-round matches set George against Freed as Freed fought to secure Laxus’s path to becoming guild master.

• George escaped Juvia’s Water Stream Restraint, shocked her with lightning magic, and knocked her unconscious to win Ring Eight.
• Laxus defeated Sarusuke, Evergreen petrified Elfman, Levy beat Gajeel, and Gray and Bickslow fought to a draw before both were eliminated.
• Lucy advanced to the top thirteen and then the top seven after receiving byes, while George defeated Warren Rocko with a single strike.
• Laxus defeated Cana, and Erza quickly defeated Evergreen by using her artificial eye to resist petrification.
• Freed challenged George and said he needed to defeat him so Laxus could become guild master.

George defeated Freed in one blow, and the Fairy Tail tournament advanced to its final after Lucy lost to George and Laxus narrowly defeated Erza. Laxus and George were set to fight for the championship and the candidate for Fairy Tail’s next guild master.

• Freed used Forbidden Dark Script and Aera to transform and attack George, but George grew into a giant beast and knocked him unconscious with one strike.
• Mirajane declared George the winner, and the tournament draw paired George with Lucy and Laxus with Erza in the semifinals.
• George defeated Lucy after she summoned Aquarius with the lake water and nearly flooded the island.
• Erza fought Laxus in Lightning Emperor Armor, but Laxus devoured her lightning, destroyed her armor, and won after an exhausting battle.
• Laxus reconsidered his view of the guild’s mages after seeing Erza, Natsu, and Gray’s strength.
• Mirajane announced that Laxus and George would face off for the championship and the candidate for Fairy Tail’s next guild master.

George and Laxus began fighting to determine who would become Fairy Tail’s next guild master. After learning that Laxus could absorb lightning and slow his movements with a spell, George vanished and prepared to defeat him with long-range magic.

• The guild’s mages chanted for George as their preferred successor, while Freed, Bickslow, and Evergreen rallied behind Laxus.
• Laxus attacked George with lightning, but George redirected it and fired a coin at him with a Super Electromagnetic Cannon; Laxus absorbed the electricity and caught the coin.
• George realized Laxus could devour lightning, while Laxus switched to the Lightning Battle Suit and charged into close combat.
• George slowed Laxus with the Impediment Jinx, then used Disillusionment to disappear rather than fight him up close.
• Laxus stopped to defend himself and searched for the invisible George.

George and Laxus fought in a fierce magical battle, with George using deception and his powers to overcome Laxus’s attacks. The chapter left Laxus battered beneath repeated Fiendfyre blasts, close to collapsing.

• Laxus dodged George’s Confringo and used Thunderstorm Tide to expose George’s cat form, but the explosion sent Laxus flying.
• George’s Fiendfyre dragon bit Laxus, who blasted it apart with lightning before attacking George with a Lightning Dragon Halberd.
• Laxus used lightning spheres to conceal a pincer attack by his true body and Thought Body, but George destroyed the Thought Body with an iron spear from beneath the arena.
• Laxus’s true body struck at George, who Apparated above him and unleashed a powerful Fiendfyre that smashed him into the ground.
• George cast Fiendfyre repeatedly until Laxus was close to collapsing.

After defeating Laxus, George became the tournament champion and was named Fairy Tail’s next Guild Master, while Makarov expelled Laxus for endangering the town and the guild. Makarov then brought George to the sealed basement to reveal secrets reserved for the Guild Master.

• George pretended that Laxus’s injuries were fatal, prompting Makarov and the guild members to show their concern before George healed him and Laxus apologized to Makarov.
• Mirajane announced George as the tournament champion, Lucy as runner-up, and Laxus as third place; George also repaired the damaged island.
• Makarov announced that George would undertake the Hundred Year Quest and become Guild Master after returning, then expelled Laxus for trying to attack the town and his guildmates.
• George promised to reinstate Laxus when he became Guild Master, and Laxus thanked him.
• Makarov led George to a sealed basement door, saying it was time to teach him secrets known only to the Guild Master.

Makarov revealed Fairy Tail’s greatest secret to George: the sealed body of First Master Mavis Vermillion, whose limitless magic could threaten the world if misused. He gave George the three Great Super Magic books, which George memorized before preparing to leave for the Hundred Year Quest.

• Makarov brought George into the sealed chamber and showed him Fairy’s Heart, which contained Mavis Vermillion.
• Makarov explained how the Second Master sealed Mavis’s body after failed attempts to revive her, and how it gained limitless magic that could destroy the world.
• Makarov gave George the Magic Books for Fairy Law, Fairy Glitter, and Fairy Sphere and taught him about the chamber’s seal.
• George used his Gale-Force Reading Glasses and Body Divisions to memorize all three books in less than an hour.
• George assessed the spells’ requirements and drawbacks, noting that his immortality eased Fairy Law’s cost while Fairy Glitter demanded exceptional Light Magic and control.

George learned that Fairy Sphere was a time-based defense, led Fairy Tail’s Magic Parade, and traveled to the Northern Continent to begin the Hundred Year Quest. He found a terrifying black dragon and recognized the man attacking it as Gildarts.

• George learned that Fairy Sphere froze time around its user and considered how his knowledge of time magic might help him learn it.
• George led Fairy Tail’s Magic Parade through Magnolia City atop a giant formed by Thunder Giant.
• Two days later, George left Fairy Tail and flew to the Northern Continent to pursue the Hundred Year Quest and obtain a Dragon Crystal.
• George used the Tracking Charm to search for Gildarts before approaching Dragon of the Magic Array, since he wanted to learn what had happened during Gildarts’s three-year quest.
• George spotted a powerful black dragon in the mountains, concealed himself, and saw Gildarts attack it with a punch.

George found Gildarts badly injured after the black dragon defeated him, then healed his severed limbs. After learning the Hundred Year Quest involved five hidden dragons on the Northern Continent, George planned to seek more information from Dragon of the Magic Array rather than abandon the quest.

• George recognized Gildarts as the wizard fighting the black dragon, which severed Gildarts's left arm and left leg before flying away.
• George reattached Gildarts's limbs with Healing Magic and introduced himself after Gildarts mistook him for Happy.
• George demonstrated his strength with a Super Electromagnetic Cannon, convincing Gildarts that the Master had approved his participation in the Hundred Year Quest.
• Gildarts explained that the quest involved finding and sealing or killing the Five God Dragons, which he had searched for unsuccessfully for three years.
• George decided to visit Dragon of the Magic Array and question its guild master about dragons before deciding how to proceed.

Gildarts agreed to accompany George to the Dragon of the Magic Array Guild, where Elefseria explained that the Black Dragon was Acnologia and revealed the dangers of Dragon Slayer Magic. The chapter ended with Elefseria transforming into a dragon and explaining that becoming a Dragon Slayer had cost him his humanity and outlived his companions.

• Gildarts decided to continue the quest with George, and they flew to the Dragon of the Magic Array Guild.
• Elefseria recognized Gildarts as the ninety-eighth challenger and asked whether he had found clues about the Five God Dragons.
• Gildarts told Elefseria that a Black Dragon had overwhelmed him and asked whether it was stronger than the Five God Dragons.
• Elefseria revealed that the Black Dragon was Acnologia, a human who had become a dragon after using Dragon Slayer Magic to hunt dragons.
• George revealed his magical power and asked about Dragon Slayer Magic, and Elefseria explained that it could transform a human into a dragon.
• Elefseria transformed into a giant dragon and said he had become one after learning Dragon Slayer Magic from Irene Belserion’s book.

After seeing Elefseria transform into a dragon, George learned that Elefseria had mastered Dragon Slayer Magic through Irene Belserion’s Magic Book and persuaded him to teach it. George stayed with Elefseria to begin studying, while Gildarts returned to the guild.

• Elefseria transformed into a giant dragon, startling Gildarts and George, and explained that he had learned Dragon Slayer Magic from Irene Belserion’s Magic Book.
• George praised Elefseria and agreed that he and Gildarts needed more training before facing the Five God Dragons.
• Elefseria proposed that they train while he gathered clues about the dragons, and Gildarts accepted the plan.
• George asked to stay behind and learn Dragon Slayer Magic from Elefseria so he could protect his companions and help seal the Five God Dragons.
• Elefseria warned George about Dragon Slayer Magic’s difficulty and the risk of Dragonization, but agreed to guide him after George insisted he could learn it.

A month after studying Dragon Slayer Magic, George reached the Earth God Dragon’s labyrinth but chose to seek a different source of Dragon Power first. He tracked the Fire God Dragon, leaving the sealed Earth God Dragon as a fallback.

• Elefseria praised George for learning Dragon Slayer Magic theory in a month and brought him to the Earth God Dragon’s labyrinth.
• George considered the six God Dragons and favored the Fire God Dragon or Wood God Dragon for their potential benefits to his magic and vitality.
• George learned that Dragon Crystals suppressed the Dragon Seed and could prevent Dragon Transformation, while removing one would stop Laxus from using Dragon Slayer Magic.
• George used Direction Manifestation to track the Fire God Dragon and flew after the golden arrow.

George tracked the Fire God Dragon Igneel to his volcanic city and learned that Igneel was the father of Natsu’s adoptive father, Igneel. After testing Igneel’s defenses with his magic, George injured him with Fairy Law and escaped as Igneel charged at him.

• George followed a Tracking Charm to the City of the Fire God and met Igneel in human form.
• George learned that Igneel was Igneel’s father and told him he was Natsu’s friend, but Igneel threatened to burn him alive.
• George blocked Igneel’s flames with Protego, then struck him with a Plasma Railgun that Igneel’s fiery defenses stopped.
• George cast Fairy Law and injured Igneel, who vowed to burn him to ashes.
• George escaped through a mirror and used Apparition to vanish.

George escaped Igneel, then found the sleeping Wood God Dragon disguised as a mountain and absorbed its power for a month, becoming a Wood Dragon Slayer Mage. He discovered the dragon had assimilated the inhabitants of five cities and left without confronting it.

• George escaped Igneel using Mirror Space and concluded he could not defeat the Fire God Dragon quickly.
• George abandoned his search for the Water God Dragon after its tracking arrow pointed into the sea, then followed it to a mountain that was the Wood God Dragon’s body.
• George discovered the Wood God Dragon was asleep and absorbed its Dragon Power from atop its head for a month.
• George formed a Dragon Seed, recovered the life force he had spent on Fairy Law, and gained Wood Dragon Slayer Magic along with stronger Fire Dragon Slayer Magic.
• George discovered the Wood God Dragon had assimilated the people in its five cities and decided not to risk waking it.

After returning from the Northern Continent, George found the Fairy Tail Guild empty and learned that Tenrou Island and everyone on it had vanished. He flew toward the island’s former location to investigate.

• George told Elefseria what he had learned about the Fire God Dragon, Water God Dragon, and Wood God Dragon, then returned to Fairy Tail.
• George arrived at the guild on December 20, X784, and found it deserted; tracking charms led him to Macao aboard a Magic Council warship.
• Macao told George that Makarov, Natsu, and the other mages were believed dead, so George read Macao’s memories.
• George learned that Fairy Tail had fought Grimoire Heart, visited Edolas, and later held its S-Class Mage Exam on Tenrou Island.
• George discovered that Tenrou Island and all the Fairy Tail mages on it had vanished, and he flew to investigate.

George discovered signs that Makarov and the Fairy Tail mages had survived inside a Fairy Sphere, then became the guild’s new master while researching how to free them. In the Harry Potter world, he completed his Animagus transformation into a powerful dragon with wood, fire, and lightning abilities, though he remained wary of the black dragon Acnologia.

• George detected traces of Fairy Sphere where Tenrou Island had vanished and suspected it had protected Makarov and the others from Acnologia.
• George accepted the role of Fairy Tail guild master and assigned Macao to handle guild affairs while he researched Time Magic and a way to rescue the trapped mages.
• In the Harry Potter world, George retrieved his blood-red Animagus potion and transformed into a dragon.
• George found that his dragon form greatly enhanced his vitality, magic power, and physical strength, while retaining his Psychic Abilities and lightning powers.
• George judged that he still could not defeat the Fire God Dragon in its dragon form or challenge Acnologia, whose magic he could neither absorb nor nullify.

George decided to visit the Ancient One at the New York Sanctum to learn about Time Magic and find out her attitude toward him. He arrived at the Sanctum and learned that the Sorcerer Supreme had been expecting him.

• George considered seeking the Ancient One’s knowledge of Time Magic to help him learn Fairy Sphere, and decided that meeting her could ease his concerns.
• George left the school, where Espers from around the world had gathered for refuge, and planned to fly to the New York Sanctum.
• Thor arrived at the school after settling unrest in Jotunheim, then hurried off to watch a movie with Jane.
• George found the New York Sanctum at 177A Bleecker Street and rang the doorbell.
• A Black man in mage robes welcomed George and said the Sorcerer Supreme was already waiting for him.

George met the Ancient One at the New York Sanctum to ask to learn Time Magic, and she agreed on the condition that he help create a chance to change Stephen Strange’s fate. Learning that this universe could be the one Dark Strange would destroy, George agreed, leaving open the possibility of a better outcome.

• Mordo welcomed George into the New York Sanctum and introduced him to the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One offered to teach George Time Magic if he would help change Stephen Strange’s fate point.
• The Ancient One explained that George’s many possible futures might let him alter the event that would lead to a terrible outcome.
• George realized the universe could be the one where Dark Strange broke his fate point and caused the universe to collapse.
• George agreed to the Ancient One’s condition because he wanted to prevent Dark Strange from destroying the universe.