A Slightly Shifting Fate

"Hey, old man, stop fooling around!"

Hearing the complaint from the person in front of him, Makarov pulled his face off the invisible wall and roared, "Idiot! Which eye saw me fooling around?"

"Huh?"

"Then why did you stop walking?"

Seeing Ice underwear's baffled expression, Great Guild Master stomped his feet and shouted, "I was blocked by an invisible wall, okay?!"

"A wall?!"

After the murmured words fell, the downcast-eyed man reached out and felt around in the air.

"There's nothing here!"

Bang!

As soon as Ice underwear finished speaking, a transparent wall covered in dark purple writing appeared between his palm and Makarov's.

"What is this thing?"

"A spell formula!"

"Old man, what's a spell formula?"

"A spell formula is a type of barrier. It imposes specific rules on those who enter it. If they do not follow those rules, the people trapped inside cannot leave at all."

"What kind of bullshit magic is this, where whoever says it first wins? That's way too underhanded!"

"This kind of magic lacks offensive power, but as a restriction, it's indeed extremely useful!"

Taking two steps back, Gray looked up at the dark purple words above and asked, "Then what rule does this spell formula impose?"

"People over eighty and stone statues are forbidden from entering or leaving!"

"It seems Laxus is still quite wary of your strength!"

Instinctively, Makarov lowered his head for a moment, only to suddenly raise it again.

"That's not right!"

"Huh??? (Ice underwear, utterly confused)"

"If this was meant to guard against me, wouldn't it have been enough to write that people over eighty were forbidden from leaving? Why write 'entering or leaving'?"

After thinking it over carefully, Gray also noticed the problem.

"Could there be someone outside the guild who can easily defeat Laxus and the