Chapter Summaries

Fairy Tail and its allies launched an assault on the Albares Empire’s army while Irene began separating Mavis’s body from her magic inside the guild. As the Spriggan 12 entered the battle, Natsu confronted Ajeel, who was searching for Erza.

• Makarov coordinated the guilds’ positions, and Fairy Tail, Serpent's Scale, Saber Tooth, Blue Pegasus, Mermaid Heel, and others charged the Albares Empire army.
• Natsu, Gray, Lyon, Er Gou, Wendy, Gajeel, Icarus, Laxus, Erza, and Makarov used their magic to rout soldiers across the battlefield.
• Irene began the separation spell on the bound Mavis while Zeref left her to complete it.
• Neinhart manifested Serena, Ajeel, and Bloodman, and the Spriggan 12 moved to join the battle.
• Natsu confronted Ajeel, whose Sand Axe Natsu burned away, and the two attacked each other with Dragon King's Dragon Flame Burst and Sand Sea.

Natsu defeated Ajeel with Flame Dragon King's Purgatory, while Gray confronted Inbel and found that the Winter General could freeze and dismiss his Ice Make attacks. Gray was still facing Inbel as the enemy admired his Ice Gatling and considered arming the Albares Empire with it.

• Natsu scorched Ajeel's sand monster and launched him into the air with Flame Dragon King's Purgatory, burning him to ashes as the sand collapsed.
• Gray and Juvia encountered Inbel, whose magic had filled the area with snow and freezing winds.
• Gray sent Juvia to help the others and promised to answer her question after the war.
• Inbel froze Gray's ice lances, shield, and hammer, while Gray evaded Inbel's Ice Flower Burial.
• Gray used Ice Make: Slide to redirect Inbel's ice pillar and then fired an Ice Gatling, but Inbel's cold stopped the bullets before they reached him.

Gray defeated Inbel after overcoming his Underworld Ice, then learned that Inbel believed Gray might be able to kill E.N.D. Elsewhere, Gajeel fought the resurrected Wahl and was caught in a lightning attack.

• Inbel used Ice God's Robe to restrain Gray, but Gray created matching Demon World's Ice and broke free.
• Gray shattered Inbel's ice armor and pressed an Ice Sword to his throat after Inbel stopped Gray's arrow with Winter's End.
• Inbel told Gray he might be able to kill E.N.D. and suggested Gray had already met him; Gray knocked Inbel unconscious and vowed to kill E.N.D.
• Gajeel recognized the resurrected Wahl and attacked him, while Wahl analyzed Gajeel and switched to Power Type.
• Wahl blocked Gajeel's Iron Dragon's Club, trapped his arm with the shield, and sent lightning through his body.

Gajeel battled Wahl, using his metal-eating and shadow abilities before transforming to fly after him. Elsewhere, Mirajane confronted Jacob and dodged his attacks, but he trapped them both inside a spatial barrier.

• Gajeel bit off and ate Wahl’s arms, then used his Steel Shadow Dragon Mode to attack him.
• Wahl analyzed Gajeel’s abilities, transformed into God Speed Form, and flew out of Gajeel’s reach.
• Gajeel transformed into Flight Mode and flew after Wahl, eliminating his aerial advantage.
• Jacob returned to battle after being healed and attacked Mirajane, who mocked his earlier defeat.
• Jacob created a spatial barrier around himself and Mirajane as she gathered power into her fist.

Mirajane fought Jacob, using her growing Reinforcement Curse and hardened body to withstand his attacks. She trapped him in black water with Heaven and Earth Gloom, where he risked suffocating.

• Mirajane traded blows with Jacob and gradually gained the advantage as Reinforcement Curse strengthened her.
• Mirajane credited the demons created by His Majesty for giving her access to Curses, including Reinforcement Curse.
• Jacob vanished with invisibility magic and attacked Mirajane, but she used Full Body Hardening to resist his strikes.
• Jacob tried to rend space around Mirajane, but she dodged and the battle reached a stalemate.
• Mirajane flooded the ground with black water and trapped Jacob in it with Heaven and Earth Gloom, warning that he would suffocate.

Mirajane defeated Jacob by breaking his spatial barrier, while August overwhelmed the allied mages until Gildarts and the Western Heavenly Kings arrived. Gildarts confronted August after seeing Cana injured, and August unleashed his Evil Thought Possession magic.

• Jacob tried to escape Mirajane’s black-water world, but she attacked him and trapped him there.
• Jacob cast Space Shatter, threatening to collapse the surrounding space, but Mirajane broke his barrier and struck him.
• The collapsing space sucked Jacob in, and Mirajane dispelled the black water before she could be caught as well.
• August defeated the allied mages and summoned a massive fireball, but Gildarts, three Western Heavenly Kings, and Jura arrived and Gildarts erased it.
• Gildarts checked on his injured daughter Cana, then challenged August, who unleashed Evil Thought Possession.
• Warrod moved the fallen mages out of danger, and Cana left while Gildarts faced August.

Gildarts discovered that August could copy magic and challenged him, while Mavis escaped Irene and rallied Fairy Tail by declaring war. Irene empowered the Albares Empire’s soldiers with Attachment Magic, reigniting the battle as Wendy’s allies faced stronger enemies.

• Gildarts attacked August, whose crimson state nullified Gildarts’s magic, and deduced that August copied other people’s magic.
• Mavis used Illusion Magic to escape Irene’s separation spell, and Dorant caught her as she fell from the guild’s outer wall.
• A giant eye searched the town for Mavis, who appeared as a gigantic phantom and rallied Fairy Tail to reclaim their home.
• Irene used Attachment: Berserker to transform the Albares Empire’s soldiers into more ferocious opponents.
• Irene spotted two girls approaching, including one whose hair matched her own.

Irene confronted Erza and revealed that she was her mother, then forced Erza to witness the memories of her birth and abandonment. Erza rejected Irene and defended her chosen family, but Irene attacked her and Wendy with overwhelming force.

• Irene appeared before Erza and Wendy, declared herself Erza's mother, and said they were enemies for opposing Your Majesty.
• Erza rejected Irene's claim and attacked her with Heavenly Wheel Armor, but Irene's magic barrier blocked the strike.
• Irene touched Erza's forehead and flooded her with memories of Irene's past, including creating Dragon Slayer Magic, being imprisoned, and abandoning Erza in Rosemary Village.
• Erza thanked Irene for giving birth to her but warned that she would kill her if she harmed Erza's family.
• Irene unleashed Attachment: Impact, and Erza's Purgatory Armor attack was crushed by the blast.

Erza and Wendy fought Irene, combining their magic and briefly breaking through her defenses, but Irene overpowered them and warned Wendy that Dragon Slayer Magic could turn her into a dragon. Wendy insisted she would avoid dragonization because her dragon had entered her body and created antibodies.

• Erza and Wendy attacked Irene with their combined magic, but Irene cut apart their assault and blasted them backward before Wendy healed them.
• Erza and Wendy activated the Five Dragon Armor and Dragon Power, allowing Erza to pierce Irene’s barrier while Wendy struck with Sky Piercer.
• Irene dodged Erza’s Flame Dragon Break and shattered Wendy’s secret art with her Holy Dragon’s Claw, but Erza caught Wendy before she hit a boulder.
• Irene crushed Erza to the ground with Attachment: Gravity and questioned Wendy about her Dragon Slayer and Attachment Magic.
• Irene warned Wendy that excessive Dragon Slayer Magic could cause her to become a lonely, tormented dragon, but Wendy said her dragon had entered her body and created antibodies to prevent it.

Irene learned that dragonification could have been prevented by placing a dragon inside a Dragon Slayer Mage, and her grief turned into a furious attack on Erza and Wendy. After Irene overwhelmed them and approached Wendy, the story shifted to Laxus confronting Serena.

• Irene realized that dragonification could have been prevented by a dragon entering a Dragon Slayer Mage, and she erupted in anger over her past.
• Erza and Wendy dodged Irene’s barrage, then Erza attacked with fire and sky magic while Wendy entered Star Dragon Mode and launched a starry sphere.
• Irene used enchantment, gravity, and compressed space to swallow Wendy’s attack and detonate it, blasting Wendy and Erza away.
• Irene regained her calm and walked toward Wendy without looking at Erza.
• Laxus encountered Serena, mocked his defeat by Gildarts, and challenged him as Serena boasted of the eight Dragon Slayer Magic Crystals embedded in his body.
• Laxus and Serena attacked each other with their Dragon Slayer magic, and their blows collided.

Laxus defeated Serena with crimson-and-black lightning, while Larcade's Pleasure Magic incapacitated fighters across the battlefield. Sting and Rogue arrived to help, but Larcade's hunger magic left Sting weak and ravenous, and he began eyeing Rogue as food.

• Laxus overwhelmed Serena with his crimson-and-black lightning and struck him with a lightning bolt, making him vanish.
• Larcade unleashed Pleasure Magic across the battlefield, incapacitating Kagura, Mavis, Zeref, Irene, and many others.
• Sting and Rogue arrived, with Sting swallowing Larcade's White Light Blades while Rogue moved the disabled fighters to safety.
• Larcade used Soul of the Hungry Eater on Sting, leaving him intensely hungry and weak.
• Sting told Rogue that he smelled delicious.

Larcade’s Desire Magic made Sting attack Rogue and left Rogue to fight Larcade alone. Rogue fed Sting his shadow Magic Power, allowing Sting to combine their powers and battle Larcade, but Larcade survived his strongest attack behind an energy wall.

• Sting pounced on Rogue under Larcade’s Desire Magic and tried to eat Lector, so Rogue restrained him with shadow tentacles.
• Rogue attacked Larcade, who used White Light Barrier to pull Rogue from the Shadow World and Holy Sound Requiem to injure him.
• Rogue offered Sting his Magic Power, and Sting devoured it, recovered, and gained black-and-white energy.
• Sting combined his shadow and light powers to strike Larcade and swallowed the White Magic he summoned.
• Sting’s Modified Light-Shadow Nova shattered the barrier, but Larcade blocked the attack with an energy wall.

Larcade transformed through Demonization and fought Sting, while Irene used Attachment Magic to transfer her personality into Wendy’s body. Irene took control of Wendy and attacked Erza with Wendy’s own magic, leaving Erza to face her.

• Larcade used Demonization to overpower Sting, who escaped into the Shadow World and swallowed Larcade’s Darkness Barrier.
• Larcade attacked Sting with dark flames, and their blasts collided before Larcade charged through the smoke to grapple with him.
• Irene used Attachment: Personality Transplant on Wendy, explaining that their compatibility made the transfer possible.
• Irene’s original body collapsed, and she declared that Wendy no longer existed as she kicked Erza away.
• Irene tested Wendy’s body by using Sky Dragon’s Gale against Erza, who cut the tornado in half.

Wendy used Full Personality Separation Attachment to reclaim her body from Irene, then helped Erza face Irene as she transformed into the Sage Dragon, Belserion. Erza confronted Irene over their painful past and defended the family she had found among her companions.

• Erza attacked 'Wendy,' but Irene used Wendy's body to repel her and unleash a massive tornado.
• Irene used Separation Attachment Magic to disperse the tornado, then revealed that she had learned the Full Personality Separation Attachment Technique from a book Brother Ye Yang had given her.
• Irene restrained 'Wendy' and began separating Irene's personality, refusing to stop even when Irene threatened to destroy the body.
• Wendy returned to her own body and collapsed, while Erza prepared to continue the fight against Irene.
• Irene transformed into the Sage Dragon, Belserion, and attacked Erza, who defended herself and told Irene how her past had led her to find a true family among her companions.

Erza and Wendy fought Irene, who unleashed a deadly meteor shower before Ye Yang returned and destroyed the meteors. Ye Yang swiftly defeated Neinhart and stopped August from activating a vast magic circle, then asked whether August wanted to see his parents properly.

• Erza attacked Irene in dragon form, and Wendy enchanted Erza with Dragon Slayer Power so her spear could pierce Irene's shoulder.
• Irene used her remaining magic to summon a meteor shower, but Ye Yang returned and shattered the meteors with a golden strike.
• Ye Yang's powerful aura knocked out the berserk-enhanced soldiers, and he defeated Neinhart with a single blow.
• August prepared to activate a massive magic circle, but Ye Yang kicked him away and asked if he wanted to see his parents properly.

Erza spared Irene after the meteor was destroyed, while Gray confronted Zeref in the Fairy Tail guild and learned that Natsu was E.N.D. Gray tried to freeze Zeref by sacrificing his memories, but Natsu stopped him, leaving Gray’s plan and Natsu’s connection to Zeref unresolved.

• Erza told Irene she would not kill her and called her Mom before leaving.
• Gray confronted Zeref, who explained that he wanted the Heart of Fairy to create the future he desired.
• Gray deduced that Natsu was E.N.D., and Zeref confirmed Ye Yang had already discovered Natsu’s identity.
• Gray cast Final Magic: Absolute Zero Dissipation, offering up all his memories to seal Zeref in ice.
• Natsu punched Gray, dispelled the chill, and demanded to know why Gray thought Zeref’s death would affect him.

Zeref revealed that Natsu was his younger brother, Etherias Natsu Dragneel, revived as the demon E.N.D., and that only Natsu could kill him. Natsu accepted who he was and began a fierce battle with Zeref, but the fight continued with Zeref challenging his strength.

• Zeref told Natsu that he had died four hundred years earlier and had been revived from his corpse as E.N.D., while Zeref was his older brother.
• Zeref opened the Book of END and crossed out part of it, causing Natsu intense pain and confirming the truth of his identity.
• Gray reassured Natsu that he was himself and their partner, and Natsu rejected the book's power to determine his fate.
• Natsu attacked Zeref with Dragon King Mode, burning through Zeref's dark magic and smashing him into the guild wall.
• Zeref and Natsu traded powerful attacks, and Zeref grabbed Natsu's wrist and hurled him to the ground as Natsu unleashed flames from his mouth.

Zeref fought Natsu and Gray as Irene’s World Reconstruction Magic ended, returning Ishgar to its original state. Ye Yang arrived to protect Mavis, but she traded herself for the Book of END, allowing Zeref to absorb her and gain the Heart of Fairy’s Infinite Magic Power.

• Gray froze Zeref’s Death God demon with Demon-Slayer magic and shattered it.
• Zeref told Natsu that his Magic Power was running low, then unleashed a swarm of Demon phantoms.
• Irene’s magic ended, restoring the guild and bringing Mavis back beside Zeref.
• Ye Yang appeared to shield Mavis, and Zeref offered the Book of END in exchange for the Heart of Fairy.
• Mavis gave herself to Zeref, who absorbed her and transformed into a radiant figure with Infinite Magic Power.

Ye Yang faced Zeref while five dragons battled Acnologia and the Fairy Tail guild fled the area. Empowered by the sun, Ye Yang overwhelmed Zeref’s defenses and left him badly injured, though the fight continued.

• Ye Yang gave Lucy the Book of END and told her to change Natsu’s fate, then ordered Natsu and the others to leave the battlefield.
• Five dragons, including Igneel, fought Acnologia while Makarov led the guild away from the area.
• Zeref attacked Ye Yang with White Magic, but Ye Yang dodged his spells, shattered his light wall, and countered with a Cero.
• Ye Yang used Sun: Liberation, gained a powerful boost, and broke Zeref’s arm with a punch before Zeref healed it.
• Zeref empowered himself with Divine Radiance and struck Ye Yang, but Ye Yang shrugged off the blow and shattered Zeref’s Divine Armor with Golden Crow Pierces the Sun.

Ye Yang overwhelmed Zeref and began cutting off his limbs, but Acnologia appeared and devoured Zeref before Ye Yang could finish. Ye Yang and Acnologia then clashed in a battle fueled by their immense power.

• Ye Yang's Merciless Sun overcame Zeref's Boundless Hellfire, and he mocked Zeref after the blast left him badly burned.
• Zeref claimed his immortal body and infinite Magic Power would let him outlast Ye Yang, but Ye Yang cut off one of his arms and pinned it down.
• As Ye Yang moved to sever Zeref's second arm, Acnologia descended and ate Zeref, healing his wounds and gaining immense Magic Power.
• Acnologia challenged Ye Yang, who met him with Magic Power and Haki enhanced to around 400 percent as they charged into battle.
• Ye Yang and Acnologia exchanged a powerful blow that raised a mushroom cloud, and Ye Yang surrounded Acnologia with red energy spheres.