"How could we possibly be defeated by those monsters!"
"This country is our country!"...
Seeing all the mages below responding to the king's words, Thomas E. Fiore couldn't help but shed tears;
"A dragon?" Natsu stammered.
"Once we see them, we can ask Igneel, Grandine, and Metalicana where they are," Gajeel said, having suffered several injuries in the final match and covered in bandages.
"What if they don't tell us?" Wendy said.
"Then beat them until they talk! Whoa... I'm fired up! As a Dragon Slayer Mage, you really have to defeat dragons!" Natsu suddenly shouted. Natsu wasn't much better off; the constantly changing spatial attributes during the battle with Minerva had caused Natsu a lot of trouble.
"Are we really going to defeat the dragon? Then it's our turn!" Sting and Rogue said.
Go Sting!
"Rogue, Roger!" the two Koneko shouted. Sting and Rogue looked rather pathetic; one was being brutally beaten by Gajeel, and the other was covered in bruises from being beaten by Lili.
"Where is the young lady?" Rufus asked, having been defeated by Gray and seriously injured himself.
"I don't know!" Orga said, also a seriously injured person.
"All the guilds are united, what a wonderful aroma!" Yi Ye exclaimed.
"A dragon versus a Pegasus! That sounds like a pretty good scene."
"Then let's do our best!"
"Tsk...! There's really nothing we can do!" The Blue Pegasus was almost entirely unscathed, perhaps because their defeat was too swift;
The same goes for all the members of Four Beasts and several members of Mermaid Heel. It can be said that those who were defeated by Sabertooth were almost unharmed in terms of combat strength. In a way, we should really thank these people.
Everyone else suffered injuries, more or less.
"It's been a long time fighting alongside you!" Lyon said to Gray; "Don't let me down, okay?"
"Thank you...! Thank you...! Pumpkin...!" the king exclaimed.
Everyone was stunned and dumbfounded. It turned out that the Pumpkin Head who had been acting as the referee was actually the king.
The tasks were quickly assigned; Lucy seemed to have been taken to the castle earlier, and the activation of the Eclipse required the Celestial Spirit key.
"We Fairy Tail will take care of protecting this Central Park!" Makarov declared. No one knew better than those who had personally fought Acnologia how powerful dragons were.
"Where are the people from the other guilds?"
"They're all waiting on the streets!"
"Grandpa...! Still worried?" Chen Fan said, carrying the two children to Makarov's side. As night fell, the two children were sleepy and fell asleep on Chen Fan's shoulder.
"You're not unaware of Acnologia's strength. Although it's special, I can't even imagine what would happen if ten thousand dragons appeared at the same time." Makarov was somewhat worried, more so fearing that Chen Fan would react the same way he did back on Tenrou Island.
"You mustn't use that forbidden technique again," Makarov said sternly to Chen Fan.
Chen Fan smiled and shook his head, saying, "I'm not that great! I have a family and children now, how can I just leave like that!" As he spoke, he looked at his two sleeping children. When his two children were born, he knew that he had truly taken root in this world, and that there was more to protect, and therefore greater responsibility.