Chapter Summaries

Elefseria joined Fairy Tail’s S-Class Mage Examination, prompting Kagura to devise a plan to exploit a fight between him and Natsu. More powerful candidates kept appearing, and the chapter ended with Athena revealing that Rousseau Signor was a second Dragon God.

• Elefseria arrived at the guild hall and announced that he would participate in the S-Class Mage Examination.
• Kagura planned to provoke Natsu into fighting Elefseria so she could take advantage of their battle, but Damagral appeared and challenged Elefseria over their old fight.
• Kagura despaired at the growing competition, while Athena announced that she would also participate in the examination.
• Athena activated her full-power mode and identified Rousseau Signor as a Dragon God; Rousseau’s shadow writhed like a dragon.

Athena revealed that Rousseau Signor was possessed by Gold Dragon Vernes, who claimed to be an invincible, formless being. Aileen separated Vernes’s spirit from Rousseau Signor, and Ywen used the Philosopher’s Stone to materialize it, leaving Vernes surrounded by Fairy Tail.

• Athena identified the entity possessing Rousseau Signor as Gold Dragon Vernes, and Vernes explained how she had become formless and established Golden Owl.
• Natsu tried to attack Vernes, but Elfman restrained him and Erza warned that Rousseau Signor would be hurt.
• Athena explained that Super-Tier Separation-Attach Magic and the Philosopher’s Stone could make Vernes vulnerable, and Aileen separated Vernes’s spirit from Rousseau Signor.
• Rousseau Signor revealed that the Signor Sisters had betrayed Vernes, while Ywen summoned the Philosopher’s Stone from Earth-land World.
• Ywen used the Philosopher’s Stone to materialize Vernes as a small blonde girl, and Fairy Tail’s mages swarmed her.

Fairy Tail cornered Vernes and nearly executed her before she convinced Makarov to let her join by offering to transmute gold. Makarov named her the guild’s final candidate for the S-Class Mage Examination, while Kagura angrily rejected the idea of taking it.

• Acnologia restrained Vernes as Fairy Tail’s mages questioned her claim that she wanted to join the guild, and Selene, Ignia, Damagral, Elefseria, Athena, and Mercphobia all recommended killing her.
• Vernes defended herself by accusing the other Dragon Gods and Elefseria’s allies of causing deaths, while insisting that she had revived the dead with alchemy.
• Makarov revealed that Fairy Tail would spare Vernes if she could contribute to the guild, and Vernes offered to transmute gold, earning her a place in Fairy Tail.
• Makarov announced Vernes as the final candidate for the S-Class Mage Examination, and the guild celebrated the prospect of spending gold.
• Gray and Lyon asked Kagura about taking the exam, and Kagura furiously refused while Gray noted that she usually took it the following year.

Makarov began the S-Class Mage Examination on Tenrou Island, where the candidates split into fierce battles and Kagura saw a chance to exploit the exhausted victors. The chapter ended with the God of Time arriving late at the guild, followed by an author’s note about the update delay and the novel’s imminent conclusion.

• Makarov announced that the last candidate standing on Tenrou Island would pass, and the candidates rushed through a portal to begin the examination.
• Damagral trapped most candidates inside his Great Labyrinth while he, Elefseria, Vernes, and Athena transformed and began fighting outside it.
• The Black Dragon Slayer Knights attacked the Signor Sisters, who used World Alchemy to remove their opponents from the battlefield.
• Natsu unleashed Dragon Force and defeated several candidates, then clashed with Gray, who entered Demon Slayer mode.
• Kagura realized the strongest candidates were occupied in separate battles and considered waiting to seize victory after they were worn down.
• The God of Time arrived late at the guild, and Dimaria scolded him for missing the start of the examination.

After Chrono stopped Kagura from seizing victory on Tenrou Island, he passed Fairy Tail’s S-Class Mage Examination, along with several other candidates. Makarov finally announced that Kagura had passed too, then immediately introduced an SS-Class rank and a new examination for S-Class Mages.

• Kagura found the exhausted candidates on Tenrou Island and prepared to claim victory, but Chrono appeared and stopped her with his control over time.
• Several days later, Makarov announced Chrono as the first successful candidate, then named Damagral, Vernes, Elefseria, Athena, Kirin, Misaki, Amber, Suzaku, and the Signor Sisters as passing candidates.
• Kagura believed she had failed again and considered giving up, but Makarov revealed that she had passed the examination as well.
• Fairy Tail members congratulated Kagura, and Mirajane gave her flowers and her S-Class certificate.
• Makarov announced that Fairy Tail would create an SS-Class rank and hold an examination for active S-Class Mages every three years, prompting Kagura to vow she would pursue that rank too.

Makarov concluded the Fairy Tail S-Class Mage Examination and announced the guild’s new SS-Class rank, leaving Lucy anxious about being left behind. Elsewhere, Ywen persuaded Eclair to train to control the Phoenix power inside her, while Anna reflected on her peaceful life in the guild and her plans to travel.

• Lucy worried that the new SS-Class rank would make her and Kagura the guild’s only S-Class Mages, and Erza encouraged her to compete in the future examination.
• Makarov declared the S-Class Mage Examination over, then went to drink with Gildarts.
• Eclair asked Ywen how to get along with the guild members, and Ywen convinced her that she needed to learn to fight.
• Ywen took Eclair away for special training, while Anna Heartfilia worried about the brutal training and accepted that her own mission was finished.
• Anna watched Zeref and Mavis together, August painting them, and Acnologia spending time with Ignia and Damagral before deciding she would travel around the world.

Magic Council ERA replaced the discredited Ten Wizard Saints ranking with a new list of twelve, all affiliated with Fairy Tail. A week later, the guild erupted into chaos as its members read the results and argued over their rankings.

• Warrod convened the council, and Jellal and several councilors stepped down from the old Ten Wizard Saints list.
• The council unanimously approved Ywen and nominated Aileen, Acnologia, the Dragon Gods, Elefseria, August, Athena, Chrono, and Zeref for the new ranking.
• Jellal argued that the Ten Wizard Saints should have twelve members, and the council agreed to create a twelve-person list made entirely of Fairy Tail members.
• Marcus brought the ranking announcement to Fairy Tail, where the guild members fought over the newspaper until Natsu got it and read the list aloud.
• Selene, Vernes, Damagral, and Ignia protested their placements, while Lucy pointed out that the list had twelve members and Natsu demanded to know why he was excluded.

Makarov struggled with the unruly Fairy Tail guild and worried about who would succeed him, only for his long-dead parents, Yuri and Rita, to visit after Ywen arranged them a few days’ leave from heaven. The visit ended with Yuri praising Makarov and Rita affirming his leadership, while the guild’s ruined roof left Makarov unable to explain that the building was not meant to be open-air.

• Makarov considered potential successors to Fairy Tail and concluded he would remain Guild Master until he died.
• Yuri and Rita arrived at the guild, and Makarov initially thought he was hallucinating before calling for Ywen.
• Ywen explained that Yuri and Rita were still dead but had received a few days’ leave from heaven, and revealed that Makarov would lead Fairy Tail in the afterlife too.
• Laxus joked about Makarov continuing as Guild Master after death, and Yuri defended Laxus before telling Makarov that the guild’s companions had chosen him as their leader.
• Rita praised Makarov for building Fairy Tail into the world’s strongest guild, bringing him to tears.
• Yuri admired the guild’s open-air design, and Makarov stayed silent because the roof had been destroyed in a fight.

Fairy Tail celebrated New Year with its revived dead, dragons, former rivals, and guildmates, while old friends reminisced and reunited. As the chapter ended, Ywen, Erza, and Aileen joined the party, and the guild welcomed the year ahead together.

• Macao and Wakaba told Romeo and Asuka stories about Ywen's early days in Fairy Tail, including his first-day draw with Gildarts.
• Makarov lectured Macao and Wakaba against taking life lightly, but they seized the underworld properties he had bought to collect rent.
• Ul and Ultear met Gray's mother Mika, who revealed that Deliora had been reborn as her pet dog, while Gray reunited with his parents and Juvia watched nearby.
• Zeref, Mavis, August, and their families reunited with the dead, while Fairy Tail hosted members of Sabertooth, Mermaid Heel, Oracion Seis, and other guilds.
• At midnight, Makarov led the gathered mages in honoring their bonds, and Laxus visited Ivan in prison with New Year's wine.
• Ywen, Erza, and Aileen joined the guild party, where everyone exchanged New Year's greetings as Fairy Tail's story continued.

Acnologia used Zeref’s Eclipse Gate to travel to a parallel universe and hunt down other versions of himself to grow stronger. After annihilating the Dragons summoned at the Grand Magic Games, he left a slain Acnologia with Lucy and asked her to reopen the gate.

• Acnologia told Zeref he planned to use the Eclipse Gate to visit parallel universes and gain power by killing other versions of himself.
• Zeref opened the Eclipse Gate with twelve Anti-Celestial Spirits, and Acnologia traveled through it to Parallel Universe 002.
• Acnologia emerged during the Dragons’ attack at the Grand Magic Games and effortlessly destroyed the Dragons, including the Adamantine Dragon.
• Lucy closed the Eclipse Gate after the Dragons were defeated, but Acnologia returned and asked her to open it again.
• Acnologia gave Lucy the corpse of that universe’s Acnologia as a gift, and Lucy reopened the Eclipse Gate despite her exhaustion.

With no jobs left in their world, Ywen proposed taking Fairy Tail’s adventures into space by establishing guild branches on other planets. He and the others moved the entire Earthland Star System to use it as a vessel, while Precht mistook the plan for Makarov’s scheme.

• Ywen returned to Fairy Tail and suggested that the guild seek jobs in other worlds after its members had exhausted those available nearby.
• Ywen proposed establishing Fairy Tail branch guilds on a hundred planets, and the wizards agreed despite Lucy’s objections.
• When Lucy pointed out they had no spaceship, Ywen used Attach Magic to move the planet.
• After Lucy warned that leaving the star behind would make their world lifeless, Ywen decided to move the moon and the entire Earthland Star System too.
• Ywen, Aileen, and the others sent the Earthland Star System sailing toward an unknown world, while Precht accused Makarov of planning to conquer the universe.

Aileen and Selene borrowed Zeref’s Eclipse Gate to travel to another universe and eradicate scumbags across timelines. Back at the Fairy Tail Guild, Ywen learned their mission and the guild members worried that they—or their parallel-universe counterparts—would be targeted.

• Aileen asked Zeref to lend her the Eclipse Gate, and Selene revealed she wanted to use it for her own goal involving men.
• Aileen and Selene agreed that scumbags must die, then Aileen summoned Lucy, Layla, Yukino, and Sorano to open the gate with the Celestial Spirit Keys.
• Aileen and Selene vanished through the Eclipse Gate to hunt scumbags across timelines.
• Ywen asked Zeref where Aileen had gone, and Zeref said she and Selene planned to wipe out scumbags in every timeline.
• Gildarts, Makarov, Laxus, Levy, Gray, Lyon, and Lucy reacted to the mission, with several guild members fearing they would be classified as scumbags.

Ywen confronted the dragon gods over the damage they caused while traveling through the multiverse with the Eclipse Gate. He banned them from using it without his permission and declared the ban unanimously approved.

• Ywen summoned the dragon gods to Fairy Tail and demanded to know what they had done in other worlds.
• Selene exposed Ignia for replacing Acnologia, killing dragons and Dragon Slayers, and becoming the Dragon King in alternate timelines.
• Ignia revealed that Damagral had likewise taken Acnologia’s place in other worlds and repeatedly exterminated dragons.
• Ignia and Damagral exposed Vernes for replacing magic with alchemy across an alternate Earth-land and founding an alchemy academy.
• The dragon gods exposed Selene for throwing wild parties across entire worlds, and Ywen condemned their actions.
• Ywen banned everyone from using the Eclipse Gate without his permission, then declared the vote unanimous without waiting for anyone to respond.

A month into the Wandering Earth-land Plan, the EDENS ZERO crew made an emergency landing on Earthland and met Ywen Belserion, who introduced himself as a Mage and brought them to the Fairy Tail guild. There, Ignia, Acnologia, and the other powerhouses took an intense interest in the newcomers from space.

• The EDENS ZERO crew landed on Earthland after their ship's route to Saint Jewel was blocked by the moving star system.
• Rebecca, Shiki, and the others met Ywen Belserion, who befriended Shiki and introduced himself as an ordinary Mage from Earthland.
• Ywen used spatial transfer to bring the crew to the Fairy Tail guild and welcomed them inside.
• Rebecca entered the guild and found a gathering of formidable figures, including Ignia and Acnologia, who eyed the space travelers with interest.

Shiki and the EDENS ZERO crew joined Fairy Tail, where Aileen restored Homura’s dead master Valkyrie by reversing her time. After Homura decided to fight Red, Fairy Tail’s members prepared to set off with the crew, declaring that they would conquer the universe and make it their friend.

• Shiki asked the Fairy Tail members to be his friends, then fainted from excitement after making more than a thousand friends.
• Fairy Tail’s Happy met Eden’s Happy, and Aileen offered to find Homura’s missing master.
• Aileen located Valkyrie, brought her to the guild, and reversed time to restore her body and bring her back to life.
• Valkyrie explained that she could now live only on Earth-land World, while Homura declared that she would defeat Red.
• Fairy Tail’s members decided to help Homura fight, and the group boarded EDENS ZERO after discovering Homura’s Ether power.
• Shiki woke up and announced his new goal of making the entire universe his friend, while Ywen added a Fairy Tail flag to EDENS ZERO as the group set out.