Chapter Summaries

Sordil's group rescued Sanfer, learned that a surviving force from the Kingdom of Cushen had captured Erza, and split up so one team could summon reinforcements while the others went to find her. Meanwhile, Makarov discussed sending an orange-haired man on a mission as the chapter ended with both of them looking northeast.

• Old Suo rescued the unconscious Sanfer from a kerosene-and-fire trap, and Vede recognized him as a soldier sent to help Erza.
• Sanfer told Sordil that professional soldiers bearing the Kingdom of Cushen's insignia had attacked his group and that Erza remained trapped in the tunnels.
• Sordil ordered Vede, Athena, Sanfer, Tang Di, and his father to return to camp and ask Irene to send troops, while he and the others went to rescue Erza.
• Erza escaped deeper into the cave after a hidden mechanism unleashed a torrent of water that exposed her hiding place.
• At Fairy Tail, Makarov and the Orange-haired handsome uncle discussed sending him on a mission, then both looked northeast.

Sordil and the Fairy Tail group navigated the enemy’s confusing passages, split up to draw out their pursuers, and fought several Shadows. After Mira confronted Sordil about the unexpected nickname “Demon Mirajane,” distant fighting interrupted them, and the group hurried toward it.

• A messenger reported intruders to the Masked leader, who ordered his men to identify them and investigate their route.
• A girl pointed Natsu toward one of seven identical passages, and Sordil recognized the passages as a trap meant to mislead intruders.
• Kana, Mira, and Sordil agreed to split into groups, prompting the enemy leader to send men after all of them.
• Sordil’s group lured out and defeated Shadows, while Mira, Elfman, and Lisanna captured another Shadow before they reunited.
• Natsu praised Mira as “Demon Mirajane,” and Sordil realized he had revealed a nickname Mira had not yet earned.
• Distant fighting interrupted Mira’s demand for an explanation, and Sordil led the group toward the sounds.

Crimson escaped the Black Shadows and reunited with Erza’s companions, who joined her in fighting them. Black Shadow B overwhelmed the group until Crimson’s Sword Dragon Armor unleashed a white bone dragon that sent him flying.

• Crimson used Flame Crystal Armor to break through the Black Shadows’ encirclement and flee.
• Erza, Mirajane, Gray, Natsu, Kana, and the others appeared and joined Crimson, while Lazy God went aside to resume interrogating a captive.
• Black Shadow B killed a fleeing subordinate, halted the retreat, and sent Natsu and Gray crashing away with his weapon.
• Crimson and her companions coordinated their attacks against Black Shadow B, but his cold-glint weapon blocked them and pushed them back.
• Crimson donned Sword Dragon Armor, and its dragon head burst forth as a white bone dragon that struck Black Shadow B and tore his robe to scraps.

Black Shadow B shed his disguise and attacked Natsu and the others with the Moon Blade, overwhelming them one by one. As Green Robe B’s blade threatened Crimson, a silver-haired youth intervened and identified himself as their old man.

• The black shadows debated whether to flee or fight, then watched as Black Shadow B revealed the Moon Blade beneath his shattered disguise.
• Crimson and the others agreed to fight together, while Kana said Old Suo would intervene if things went wrong.
• Green Robe B charged the group, broke through their attacks, and incapacitated Kana and Elfman.
• The team formed a defensive line, but Green Robe B struck down Natsu and Lisanna and forced Mirajane to revert from Satan Soul.
• Green Robe B wounded Crimson and raised Cold Light toward her throat, but a silver-haired youth stopped the blade and called himself their old man.

Lazy God and the Fairy Tail mages defeated Green Robe B, but Mountain Corner Star escaped and was captured by Lazy God in a mysterious gray world. After the group returned to the capital, the Emperor ordered an investigation into the Black-clothed people, and Old Suo left for the banquet after teasing Tingmei about marrying Heradi.

• Erza told Old Suo to become the next guild master if he wanted the title, and he celebrated until a crimson blade struck him.
• Lazy God reflected Green Robe B's attack, defeated him with Giantization Magic, and teleported to check on Lisanna and the others.
• Lazy God admitted he had arranged the group's battle and confessed that he liked Erza, prompting her to flee in embarrassment.
• The group discovered that Mountain Corner Star had escaped and that the Black-clothed people had abandoned their base; Lazy God later claimed Mountain Corner Star as his master in a gray world.
• After Ace and the others searched the empty base, the group returned to the capital, where the Emperor ordered a search for the remnants and an investigation across every province.
• Old Suo teased Tingmei by saying he would marry her to Heradi the next day, then left for the banquet.

Crimson and her companions attended the Empress’s birthday banquet, where Erza discovered that the silver-haired man she knew was the Emperor and Irene’s husband. After the group returned home, Old Suo revealed that their behavior had voided his promise, leaving them furious and eager to confront him.

• Gray, Kana, and Natsu left the hall to find Old Suo while joking about their plan, and Erza waited anxiously for the banquet to begin.
• An attendant told Erza that the Emperor would attend the Empress’s birthday banquet, and Erza mistook Mira and the Strauss siblings for white-haired frogs.
• Irene arrived and scolded the silver-haired man for not changing; Erza learned that he was Irene’s husband, the Emperor of the Erus Empire.
• The Emperor took his seat, the banquet began, and the exhausted group later returned home after the Rubenkard incident was resolved.
• Kana asked Old Suo to fulfill his promise, but he claimed the group had broken their agreement by eating takoyaki, then left as they realized they had been tricked.
• Natsu set off to challenge Old Suo, but a magnetic voice told him to wait because the boss was busy.

Makarov sent Old Suo to Crocas to find Gildarts, while Fairy Tail learned that Old Suo had been invited to compete for the vacant Ten Wizard Saints position. Old Suo found Gildarts, but after an awkward intrusion, Gildarts began explaining the situation before leaving.

• Laxus told Mira, Kana, and the others that Old Suo was expected to become one of the Ten Wizard Saints, then left town with Fried.
• Makarov ordered Old Suo to go to Crocas and find Gildarts, and Old Suo used Crux's information to locate him at the Himea Inn.
• Sonia explained that the Magic Council had organized a selection to fill the vacant Ten Wizard Saints position left by Jose.
• Old Suo teleported into Gildarts's room and was punched through the ceiling after waking a woman there.
• Gildarts prepared to leave, but Old Suo clung to his leg and asked him to explain what was happening, so Gildarts began filling him in.

Lazy God and Gildarts learned that the Ten Wizard Saints selection would include a preliminary round with two representatives from each guild, then returned to Fairy Tail with Ogg. Guild members across Fiore were summoned to Magnolia, while Jose raged over his interrupted plans.

• Lazy God tried to make Gildarts enter the Ten Wizard Saints selection, but their argument turned into a scuffle that damaged the room.
• Ogg arrived and explained that guild protests had led the Magic Council to add a preliminary round with two experts from each guild.
• Lazy God and Gildarts returned to Fairy Tail with Ogg and hinted that other guild members might also become Ten Wizard Saints.
• Lyra received an emergency message from the guild master and hurried to pack up and return to the guild.
• S-Class Mages across Fiore received a mass summons, while Jose smashed a mountain and vowed to deal with a hated young mage.

Viola, Happy, and Negus returned to the guild, where the S-Class Mages prepared for a tournament to choose two candidates for the Holy Ten selection. The first matches began the next day, with Sordil facing a nervous Churchill.

• Viola punished Negus for stealing Happy’s fish and reprimanded Happy for striking his companion.
• Natsu told Viola that Sordil had returned to the guild, and she hurried back with Natsu and Happy.
• The S-Class Mages gathered for a night of celebration, where Kana introduced her new disciple Raki Orieta before a guild brawl broke out.
• Makarov announced the points system and the first four matchups, including Sordil versus Churchill and Gildarts versus Garpate.
• Churchill asked Sordil to go easy on him, and Sordil promised he could heal him if he got hurt.

The tournament’s first matches ended with Sordil defeating Churchill by forfeit and Gildarts beating Garpate. As Ridas and Lyra began their match, a blue-haired boy at the New Magic Development Bureau tested his magic and accepted that he would need to wait for another chance to compete.

• Gildarts and Garpate fought in Arena Two, with Gildarts dismantling Garpate’s steel attacks and ultimately winning after using a move he had learned from Lazy God.
• Sordil distracted himself while fighting Churchill, then accidentally stepped off Arena One; Churchill was beaten by Sordil’s giant lion and forfeited the match.
• Sordil went to Arena Three to ask Ridas and Lyra for fruit, stole a bite from Lyra’s fruit, and was launched away by her Earth Javelin.
• Ridas began fighting Lyra by darting through the forest of spears she summoned.
• At the New Magic Development Bureau, the blue-haired boy destroyed a small mountain with purple magic and asked Brian whether he could win; Brian warned he had too little time to study magic, so the boy decided to wait for another opportunity.

The Fairy Selection Tournament’s first day ended as Lyra lost to Ridas by tricking him into winning their bet, while the guild argued over who would become Fairy Tail’s strongest. After five days of matches, Gildarts and Lazy God reached the final, and the chapter ended as guild members placed their last bets.

• In Phantom Lord, Gajeel questioned the president’s choice of fighter, but the president insisted Gajeel had great potential and settled the matter.
• Lyra and Ridas fought in Arena Three and wagered that the loser would share their student; Lyra deliberately went out of bounds so Ridas won the match and the bet.
• Churchill, shaken by his previous match, was quickly defeated in Arena Four, bringing the first day’s matches to an end.
• At the guild hall, Viola backed Gildarts to win and wagered an enormous sum, which she admitted came from Old Suo’s warehouse; Lazy God arrived as the others reacted.
• After five days of competition, Gildarts and Lazy God emerged as the finalists, and the guild members divided into betting factions.
• The yellow cat bet everything on Uncle Sordil, while the blue cat bet everything on Lazy God.

The final Fairy Selection Tournament match between Lazy God and Gildarts escalated as both revealed powerful techniques, while a black-haired girl was drawn to a mysterious katana in the mountains. The match continued with Lazy God unleashing an evolved attack against Old Suo’s advanced defense.

• Crimson learned that the remnants had infiltrated the waters off Kaelum City, and the Ice Dragon King took over government affairs while sending her to rest.
• Lazy God and Gildarts began the tournament final, trading attacks as Gildarts demonstrated techniques copied from others.
• A black-haired girl was lured by a purple light to a katana hidden among bones, then woke with unfamiliar memories and left carrying the blade.
• Gildarts accused Lazy God of holding back, and their renewed clash prompted Lazy God to use an evolved Total Annihilation: Cross Kill against Old Suo’s Heavenly Net defense.

Sordil and Gildarts’s duel devastated part of Magnolia, so Fairy Tail punished Sordil by sending him to the Magic Council under Gildarts’s supervision. Meanwhile, a group at sea discovered an eye-like vortex and prepared to observe it before notifying their teacher.

• Sordil repeatedly launched Gildarts through the air, then struck him with a combined lightning-and-fire attack that carved a trench through the arena.
• Makarov suspended the match after Sordil’s attacks destroyed buildings in Magnolia, and Fairy Tail members put out the fires and helped rebuild the town.
• Fairy Tail sentenced Sordil to five days without magic and with transport-induced dizziness, and Gildarts accompanied him on the train to the Magic Council while other guild members joined them.
• At sea, a group spotted an eye-like vortex in the sky, but a blonde woman delayed notifying their teacher and directed their warship toward a nearby observer.

Sordil's group and Phantom Lord's group clashed over scarce rooms before Ogg moved them to alternate accommodations, and the Holy Ten selection began with the guilds traveling outside the city. Meanwhile, Anna found something on an unknown island and tried to alert her teacher, but Diphiya had to cut off their call.

• Ogg gave Sordil's group identity badges, and the prison guards beat Old Suo after he claimed he had never visited the city.
• Sordil's group and Phantom Lord's group arrived at the same inn, where Jose and Old Suo argued over the last rooms and prepared to fight.
• Ogg stopped the confrontation by announcing that the Chairman had arranged other accommodations for the arriving spectators.
• Ogg collected the exhausted guild members the next morning and explained that the Holy Ten selection had to take place outside the city because of the battles' destructive power.
• Anna found something on an unknown island and contacted Diphiya, who said she would notify her teacher before Divine Constable Di abruptly ended the call.

The Ten Wizard Saints Selection began with Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord trading accusations before the contestants drew lots. Old Suo advanced through early rounds on blank lots, then faced Sordil in the semifinals, where Sordil’s slippery magic repeatedly toppled Ichiya until the judges urged him to fight differently.

• Ogg explained that the enormous structure was the Ten Wizard Saints Selection arena and led the group down to the stands.
• Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord argued after Gajeel charged at Old Suo, while their guild members disputed who had started the provocation.
• Yajima explained the draw-based elimination rules, and Old Suo drew a blank lot, upsetting him because he wanted to fight.
• Old Suo drew blank lots through the early rounds and finally entered the semifinal qualifiers, where his companions cheered him on.
• Sordil repeatedly knocked Ichiya down with his slippery magic, and the referee confirmed that it was permitted but asked him to demonstrate his strength with another method.
• Sordil agreed to fight seriously, and a new battle began amid the crowd’s cheers and the guild masters’ dismay.

Sordil defeated Ichiyō Uramichi and advanced, then Jura Neekis battled Jiemma in the next match. Jura turned the fight around with a trap that left Jiemma caught among growing rock spikes, but the chapter ended before the outcome was revealed.

• Sordil used coordinated magic attacks to defeat Ichiyō Uramichi, who surrendered, and then helped him back to the viewing seats.
• Jura Neekis began his match against Jiemma, using iron and rock magic to keep the powerful Sabertooth fighter at a distance.
• Jiemma struck Jura with a purple energy beam and battered him, but Jura recovered and continued fighting.
• Jura used Flame Qilin Roar to collapse his rock defenses and draw Jiemma into an attack.
• Jura trapped Jiemma among rapidly growing rock spikes, while intense spatial fluctuations prevented Jiemma from teleporting away.

Jura defeated Jiemma by forfeit, and Jose knocked Bacchus unconscious to advance to the semifinals. Gildarts began his match against Maidmed Herou, but after she caught him off guard, he regained control and bombarded her with attacks.

• Jiemma left the arena, forfeiting his match and sending Jura to the semifinals.
• Jose defeated Bacchus with a dark attack that embedded him in the arena wall, then advanced after Bacchus failed the countdown.
• Gildarts ignored his companions' warnings and entered his match against Maidmed Herou, only to be struck into a wall while distracted by her beauty.
• Gildarts broke free and countered Maidmed Herou's attacks, then rained white grid-like energy down on her.
• Nearby spectators speculated that Gildarts was attacking Maidmed Herou so he could finish quickly and flirt with her.

Gildarts fought Maidmed, breaking free of her water trap and overcoming her attacks, while Lazy God healed her injured snow wolf. Maidmed then spotted a possible opening in Gildarts’s defenses as the match continued.

• Maidmed trapped Gildarts in a water cube and used a shrieking creature to disorient him, but he shattered the cube and knocked the creature into the arena wall.
• Gildarts and Maidmed exchanged attacks; her snow wolf wounded him, and he used Total Decomposition to break her chains and injure the wolf.
• Maidmed mourned the snow wolf, prompting Gildarts to ask Lazy God to heal it; Lazy God treated the animal and returned to the spectator seats.
• Maidmed abandoned her joint attack with the snow wolf and searched for a weakness, then noticed a detail in Gildarts’s defenses and smiled.

Maidmed defeated Gildarts by distracting him with a seductive performance, and the guild later tormented him over his humiliating loss. The next morning, the others sailed to watch the matches while Gildarts stayed behind to recover.

• Maidmed hid in a cloud of mist, then seduced Gildarts, knocked him unconscious, and won their match.
• Fairy Tail's spectators returned to their lodgings, where Mira, Kana, Erza, Viola, and Lisanna scolded Gildarts for losing and embarrassing the guild.
• Old Suo proposed that the group eat and drink in front of Gildarts, then arranged a King's Game that left him bound and wearing a Magic Sealing Stone bracelet.
• Old Suo told Ogg that Gildarts had not recovered and would miss the matches, while the others teased him before sailing away.

The first Wizard Saints Selection Tournament semifinal pitted Jose Porla against Jura Neekis, who fought fiercely with stone magic and dark energy. Jose trapped Jura with Soul Devour, and as Ouba tried to intervene, Sordil offered to save him.

• Spectators discussed why the Magic Council had organized the tournament and learned that Sordil had defeated Jose but refused the Wizard Saint position.
• Leizhi announced the first semifinal between Jose Porla and Jura Neekis, and the two began exchanging powerful attacks.
• Jose and Jura clashed with Resonating Fuji and Death Storm, and Jura appeared to pierce Jose before stone pillars trapped Jura in an explosion.
• Jose emerged behind a rock wall and used Soul Devour to pull at Jura's soul, while Jura refused to surrender.
• Ouba tried to rush into the arena, but the guild masters stopped her, and Sordil offered to save Jura.