Ankhseram Curse

"What are these books?"

Erza looked at the tattered books in confusion, unable to understand what Lu Li meant.

Jellal, standing nearby, was the first to react. "Th-These... could these be... Zeref's Books of Demons?!"

He rose to his feet in shock and looked at Lu Li. "Mr. Lu, could it be that when you went out this time..."

"Oh, wasn't I going out to look for medicine? I passed by Tartaros, so I wiped them out while I was at it."

Lu Li said it casually, as though he had merely pulled a radish from a vegetable patch while passing by.

"This..."

Jellal wanted to say something, but he was too stunned to speak.

He had originally wanted to say that Tartaros was extremely powerful and suggest that the Fairy Tail Guild mobilize the other major guilds for a joint operation to thwart their plot.

But who could have expected that Lu Li would go out once, pass by Tartaros, and simply wipe them out?

"Wait... I still don't entirely understand what happened, but... the crisis has been resolved, right?"

Erza was also shocked. She had not expected Lu Li to be so efficient.

She knew Lu Li was strong, but wasn't this a little too strong? She had always felt that this disaster should have been something they barely survived after a desperate battle, relying on their companions and the power of friendship.

"That's right. Mr. Lu has already taken care of everything."

Black Lily followed behind Lu Li. Within the guild, they were regarded as something akin to Laxus's Thunder God Tribe—Lu Li's core subordinates—and their form of address had now been standardized.

"It's good that it's resolved, good that it's resolved. If they had activated that ancient weapon, the consequences would have been unimaginable..."

Jellal felt