Erza and Laxus

Ywen silently watched everyone in the guild while collecting the reward for the high-level quest. To be honest, the reward for this high-level quest was quite astonishing. Ywen had never expected that joining Fairy Tail would directly earn him a full one hundred million in funds.

Ywen stared at the funds in his status panel and fell into thought. He now had two paths to choose from.

The first was to raise most of his abilities to Level 8.

The second was to raise his magic power to Level 9.

If his magic power reached Level 9, Ywen's magic power would directly reach an inhuman level—the level of the last three of the Four Gods of Ishgar...

After thinking briefly, Ywen chose to raise his other abilities to Level 8 first. After all, having Level 9 magic power without Level 9 combat strength would not be of much use.

Someone like Warrod, who only knew how to plant trees—the greatest tree planter on the Ishgar Continent—was the perfect example of someone with nothing but magic power and no offensive magic on the same level as that magic power.

Having made up his mind...

Ywen's status panel instantly updated:

Character: Ywen

Physique: Special Physique (can consume multiple Devil Fruits)

Haki:

Observation Haki: LV8 (+)

Armament Haki: LV8 (+)

Conqueror's Haki: LV8 (+)

Devil Fruits:

Zoan Type · Fish-Fish Fruit · Mythical Zoan · Azure Dragon Form: LV8 (+)

Paramecia Type · Gravity-Gravity Fruit: LV8 (+)

Logia Type · Glint-Glint Fruit: LV8 (+)

Martial Arts:

Swordsmanship: LV8 (+)

Six Powers: LV8 (+)

Magic:

Magic Power: LV8 (+)

Attach Magic: LV8 (+)

Detach Magic: LV8 (+)

Resistances:

Poison Resistance: LV7 (+)

Illusion Resistance: LV7 (+)

Element Resistance: LV7 (+)

Time Resistance: LV7 (+)

Space Resistance: LV6 (+)

Funds: 570000

Now, aside from his resistances, all of Ywen's abilities had reached Level 8. Power continuously flowed through his body, allowing Ywen to feel himself steadily growing stronger.

"Ywen, I'll leave Erza to you. I'm going to find somewhere to settle down first!"

Just after Ywen finished allocating his points, Aileen prepared to leave the lively guild. She preferred peace and quiet and disliked places this noisy.

"Sure! Leave Erza to me."

Ywen lightly nodded at Aileen.

Ywen knew that Aileen had lived alone for more than four hundred years and was still somewhat unaccustomed to living among humans.

"Alright..."

The moment Aileen received Ywen's response, she vanished from the guild with Illya, Ian, and Eden.

Not long after Aileen and the others left...

Something that gave Ywen a headache happened.

Wanting to make friends with people her own age, Erza looked around the guild before her eyes settled on a boy with short golden hair who looked around thirteen or fourteen.

Erza politely walked up to the boy and asked with a smile, "Hello! My name is Erza Belserion. I joined Fairy Tail today. What's your name?"

"Tch~"

The blond boy had been spacing out, seemingly lost in thought. Upon hearing Erza's words, he turned his head and casually glanced at her. An obvious look of disdain appeared on his face, and he forcefully turned his head away, as though he had no intention of acknowledging her.

Seeing the obvious disgust on the blond boy's face, Erza's smile immediately froze. She walked around to the side he had turned toward, then slammed her hand against his table and asked, "Hey! Haven't your family taught you that when someone greets you, you should respond politely?"

"Quit nagging! I don't have time to talk to a weak little brat like you!"

The blond boy's face was full of contempt. What he hated most were brats, especially weak brats.

"B-Brat!" The veins on Erza's forehead seemed to twitch. With a smile that did not reach her eyes, she looked at the blond boy before her and asked, "Huh? You little blond delinquent, you sure have a lot to say, don't you?!"

"B-Blond delinquent?!"

The blond boy's earlier composure vanished completely at Erza's words. He instantly snapped.

"Brat, are you looking for a fight?"

The blond boy stood up and looked down at Erza.

"Then let's fight! Who's afraid of who? Delinquent!"

Fire flashed in Erza's eyes as she confronted the blond delinquent without the slightest intention of backing down.

"Oh? Our newcomer went straight for Laxus?"

"Looks like they're in conflict..."

"How about..."

"Fight! Fight!"

"Fight! Fight!"

"Fight! Fight!"

The drunken Mages around them did not try to stop the fight. Instead, they loudly egged on the blond boy and Erza.

"..."

Ywen, meanwhile, fell silent.

He had originally worried that he had raised Erza to be too ladylike, making it difficult for her to fit into Fairy Tail. But now it seemed he had worried for nothing. Erza looked as though she had been born to join Fairy Tail. The moment she entered Fairy Tail, everything naturally shifted into the reassuring Fairy Tail style.

"Fight! Fight!"

Even Gildarts, seated by the bar, raised his beer mug and kept shouting as he watched Laxus and Erza face off, clearly enjoying the show.

"..."

Seeing that even Fairy Tail's strongest Mage behaved like this, Ywen was speechless. What kind of people were in this guild?!

At the same time, Ywen silently swore to himself that he absolutely could not become like them.

"Brat, don't think I'll go easy on you just because you're a girl..."

With the atmosphere reaching this point...

The blond boy's gaze gradually sharpened, and faint sparks of lightning seemed to flicker around him.

"I don't need a blond delinquent to go easy on me!"

Though young, Erza already carried the bearing of a queen. The magic power she had inherited from Aileen surged around her.

"This magic power..." Feeling the magic power surrounding Erza, a trace of delight appeared in the blond boy's eyes. His expression changed slightly, and the next second, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and charged at Erza. Perhaps because Erza was a girl, he did not forget to warn her as he attacked, "In that case, here I come!"

Erza remained unfazed in the face of the blond boy's attack. With a thought, every metal object in the room suddenly began to tremble. The next moment, they flew before Erza and formed a massive iron wall crackling with electromagnetism.

Boom!

Blocked by the iron wall, the blond boy's attack naturally missed its mark.

His attack struck the iron wall, and both the force in his wrist and the lightning wrapped around his fist vanished without a trace.

"What?!"

The blond boy had apparently not expected young Erza to be capable of such a defense, and a trace of disbelief appeared on his face.

"There's an opening!"

Erza precisely seized that instant of vulnerability. Gripping an iron sword formed from metal, she slashed at the blond boy.

"Urgh!"

As Erza's iron sword struck him, the blond boy was sent flying.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

"You've got to be kidding, right? Laxus was actually taken down by someone his own age?"

Inside the guild hall, the Mages stared in disbelief at the blond boy who had been sent flying.

That blond boy was no ordinary person. His name was Laxus Dreyar, the grandson of Fairy Tail's Guild Master, Makarov. Though still young, his strength had already surpassed ninety-nine percent of the Mages in the guild.

Many even considered him the person most likely to become an S-Class Mage after Gildarts.

Yet such a powerful figure was now being suppressed by an unknown little girl. The guild's old drunkards were shocked, but they also found it immensely entertaining.

Yes, everyone in this guild was a veteran troublemaker.

Chapter 2 is finished. Please recommend, save, and invest. Also, because it was easy to level up earlier on, the status panel appeared fairly often. Its appearances will gradually decrease later on.