Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan fought Wakaba and Macao as they tried to stop him from advancing, then restrained them and continued onward through the Fairy Tail members. The chapter left him moving ahead after defeating the two elders and encountering Fried's rune barrier.

• Makarov backed down after Mira threatened him, and the onlookers returned their attention to the battle.
• Wakaba and Macao stalled Chen Fan before launching Smoke Assault and Purple Torrent together.
• Chen Fan compressed their smoke and purple flames into a small ball, forcing Wakaba and Macao to surrender.
• Chen Fan tied Wakaba and Macao back-to-back, taped their mouths, and continued onward.
• A rune barrier rose in front of Chen Fan, and he recognized it as Fried's magic formula.

Chen Fan defeated Fried and the Raijinshuu during the guild battle, then encountered Lucy and Levy while the magic crystal broadcast his actions. Taurus appeared to defend them, but Chen Fan kicked him away.

• Fried trapped Chen Fan in layered runes that removed the air, but Chen Fan used a coin’s laser to destroy the runes and nearly singed Fried’s hair.
• Fried tied himself up, and Elfman charged Chen Fan in Beast Soul form; Chen Fan sent Elfman crashing into Fried.
• Bickslow fired lasers from his dolls, but Chen Fan redirected them into Elfman and Fried, then knocked Bickslow into them and bound all four Raijinshuu members.
• Chen Fan encountered Lucy and Levy, who took fighting stances as reporter Jayson narrated the confrontation for the magic crystal.
• Lucy summoned Taurus, and Chen Fan kicked him away as Taurus promised to return.

Chen Fan continued the S-Class Mage assessment, outmaneuvering several guild members before facing Natsu and Gray. Natsu challenged him while carrying his companions’ hopes, and Chen Fan began testing Natsu’s strength without rushing to defeat him.

• Lucy cried out when Chen Fan approached, and Levy tried to trap him with Solid Script before fleeing with Lucy.
• Chen Fan turned Juvia’s water form into a whirlpool and spun her dizzy.
• Chen Fan gave Wendy and Charle tampered treats that put them to sleep, then sent them back with a guild member.
• Chen Fan asked Natsu and Gray whether they wanted to fight for the S-Class Mage title, and Natsu accepted the challenge.
• Natsu said he was carrying his companions’ hopes, so Chen Fan kicked him and began gauging his strength.

Natsu and Gray teamed up against Chen Fan with their strongest attacks, but he emerged unharmed and praised their teamwork before punishing them. With only Erza left to face, Chen Fan reflected on his fatigue, the limits of Vector Manipulation, and the danger of his full offensive power.

• Gray covered the ground in ice and trapped Chen Fan while Natsu attacked with Fire Dragon's Roar.
• Natsu and Gray combined their newly learned strongest spells, but Chen Fan walked out of the resulting ice-and-fire blast unharmed.
• Chen Fan praised Natsu and Gray for improving and working together, then attacked them after they mistakenly asked where they had hurt him.
• Makarov blamed a faulty antenna when the live broadcast turned to static.
• Chen Fan considered his remaining stamina, the limits of his calculations, and the risks of unleashing his full power before facing Erza.

Chen Fan fought Erza Scarlet after the Fairy Tail guild’s other members had been defeated, while Makarov explained that he had arranged the challenge to help the guild adjust to Chen Fan’s growing power. The battle continued with Chen Fan unharmed by Erza’s Heavenly Wheel Sword Dance.

• Erza Scarlet approached Chen Fan in Purgatory Armor and insisted on fighting despite his attempt to delay her.
• Makarov told Mira that he wanted Fairy Tail to adapt to Chen Fan’s strength and worried that other guilds might target him.
• Chen Fan reflected Erza’s Purgatory Armor attacks without harming her.
• Erza changed into Heavenly Wheel Armor and unleashed the Heavenly Wheel Sword Dance.
• Chen Fan emerged unharmed from the sword barrage, and Erza remained ready to continue fighting.

Chen Fan learned that Erza, Natsu, and Gray had been stalling him so Happy could reach the finish line, and he conceded the marathon. After encouraging the three to grow stronger and challenge him again, he walked off—only to remember that the punishment game was still waiting for him.

• Erza revealed that she and the others had only been trying to stall Chen Fan while Happy raced to the finish.
• Natsu and Gray said Happy was nearing the finish line, and Chen Fan admitted defeat after realizing he was exhausted.
• Erza, Natsu, and Gray felt the gap between themselves and Chen Fan, but Chen Fan urged them to keep improving and set defeating him as their goal.
• Natsu and Gray vowed to defeat Chen Fan someday, and Chen Fan walked toward the sunset.
• Erza and the others planned how to punish Chen Fan, and he shuddered when he overheard them.

Chen Fan joked with Wendy and Charle before the guild learned that Gildarts had returned. When Lucy asked whether Gildarts was stronger than Chen Fan, Chen Fan called Gildarts Fairy Tail's strongest Mage, and the guild took it as an admission that he could not beat him.

• Chen Fan tried to hug Wendy and promised to meet any conditions she set, while Charle called him out for drugging their food and took his dried fish.
• Bells rang across the city, and Chen Fan realized Gildarts had returned.
• The Fairy Tail members cheered for Gildarts, whom Mira identified as the guild's strongest Mage.
• Erza said she could not compare with Gildarts, and Lucy asked how he measured up to Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan calmly called Gildarts Fairy Tail's strongest Mage, prompting the guild to cheer that he had admitted defeat.

The guild celebrated Gildarts’s return after three years away on a 100-Year Task, while Chen Fan joked with Makarov about Gildarts’s romantic success. As the city announced Magnolia was switching to Gildarts Mode, the streets and buildings began to move.

• Chen Fan complained that Gildarts had many women who loved him while he was still single, then teased Makarov about Porlyusica.
• Mira and Erza explained to Charle and Lucy that Gildarts had been away for three years on a 100-Year Task.
• Residents celebrated Gildarts’s return, and the city ordered everyone to evacuation points as Magnolia switched to Gildarts Mode.
• The ground shook and the streets and buildings began moving, leaving Lucy, Wendy, and Charle confused.

Gildarts returned to Fairy Tail, where he learned that Natsu had been beaten by Chen Fan and challenged him to a future fight. He reunited with Makarov, who paused his grapple with Chen Fan to ask about Gildarts’s mission.

• Gildarts’s Crushing Magic had split a road through the town, and Lucy learned that he could destroy buildings if he got distracted.
• Gildarts arrived at the guild and recognized Mira after she told him that he was already at Fairy Tail.
• Gildarts saw Natsu wrapped in bandages and learned from Happy that Natsu wanted to fight him once he recovered.
• Gildarts accepted Natsu’s challenge and greeted Makarov, interrupting Makarov’s grapple with Chen Fan.
• Makarov sat back down and asked Gildarts how his mission had gone.

Gildarts returned to Fairy Tail after failing a dangerous mission, then reunited with Chen Fan and traded lecherous stories with him. As Mira and Erza worried about Wendy’s closeness to Chen Fan, he called Wendy outside to talk.

• Gildarts admitted that a mission had been too difficult for him, and Makarov praised him for returning safely when no one else had come back.
• Chen Fan greeted Gildarts, who initially failed to recognize him before they embraced and caught up.
• Chen Fan and Gildarts began bragging about women they had met, while Loke appeared and made Lucy and the others angry with his obscene remarks.
• Wendy said she was happy when Chen Fan was happy, prompting Mira and Erza to agree to keep the two of them apart.
• Chen Fan called Wendy outside because he wanted to talk to her.

Chen Fan brought Wendy and the others to Gildarts's home, where Gildarts revealed severe injuries from a black dragon. Wendy could not heal him, and the chapter ended with Natsu asking where the dragon was.

• Chen Fan led Wendy, Charle, Natsu, and Happy to Gildarts's home after Gildarts invited them along.
• Chen Fan asked Wendy to examine Gildarts, who revealed serious wounds on his left arm, left leg, shoulders, and waist.
• Chen Fan removed the seal from Natsu's mouth, and Natsu demanded to know who had injured Gildarts.
• Wendy tried to heal Gildarts, but his strong magic power broke down her healing magic, so Chen Fan sent her and Charle outside.
• Chen Fan identified a dragon as the cause of Gildarts's wounds, and Gildarts said it had been a black dragon rather than Igneel.
• Natsu asked where the black dragon was.

Chen Fan explained that the black dragon was once a Dragon Slayer Mage and reassured Gildarts that he could defeat it if given the chance. Gildarts asked Chen Fan to look after the guild, while Natsu ran off after hearing about Gildarts’s injuries.

• Natsu demanded to know where Igneel was, then ran out after Gildarts described the injuries he suffered from the black dragon.
• Wendy told Chen Fan that Natsu had run off, and Chen Fan sent her to check on him while he spoke with Gildarts.
• Chen Fan told Gildarts that Wendy’s Sky Dragon Slayer Magic might help with his injuries and suggested he visit Porlyusica for treatment.
• Gildarts asked Chen Fan about the black dragon, and Chen Fan revealed that it had once been a Dragon Slayer Mage who fought and killed dragons.
• Chen Fan said the black dragon was nearly immune to magic and that he could destroy it if he got the chance, reassuring Gildarts.

Chen Fan joked with Gildarts about his lack of knowledge of magic, while Makarov worried that the three Dragon Slayers in Fairy Tail had made the future unpredictable. Later, Chen Fan entertained Lucy, Wendy, Levy, and Charle with a fake ghost story as the guild carried on its peaceful daily life.

• Chen Fan told Gildarts that he still knew too little about the magic in the world and was too busy with guild matters to travel.
• Makarov reflected on Porlyusica's warning that the three Dragon Slayer Mages in Fairy Tail had made the future more unpredictable.
• Wendy and Lucy discussed how their dragons, including Gajeel's, had disappeared on July 7, year 777.
• Chen Fan began a spooky story about a shadow and crying in an alley, but Erza startled him before he could finish.
• Lucy and Wendy scolded Chen Fan for frightening them, while Levy laughed and Erza recalled his old habit of telling ghost stories on rainy days.

Chen Fan teased Happy and tried to win Erza over with promises of wedding dresses, but she resisted. Mira and Elfman then went to the church ahead of Lisanna’s death anniversary, and Levy told Lucy about Lisanna’s connection to Natsu.

• Levy admitted she had kept quiet because she wanted to hear Chen Fan’s ghost stories, while Happy offered Charle a fish and Chen Fan encouraged him to keep pursuing her.
• After Happy mocked Chen Fan for failing to find a wife, Chen Fan asked Erza to be his bride and promised her wedding dresses, but she stayed in her armor and turned him down.
• Wendy went outside to look for Charle, and Chen Fan took an umbrella to follow her as rain threatened.
• Mira and Elfman prepared to visit the church, and Kana explained that Lisanna’s death anniversary was approaching.
• Levy told Lucy that Lisanna had been Mira and Elfman’s younger sister and had been close to Chen Fan and Natsu; Lucy wondered whether Natsu had once been close to a girl.

Levy teased Lucy about Chen Fan's relationships, while Makarov and Erza discussed the 100 Years Quest. Chen Fan was swept into a strange vortex as he tried to travel to Azeroth and bring Lisanna back, but the town disappeared and he was left behind.

• Levy teased Lucy about her reaction to Chen Fan being close to Lisanna, and Lucy blushed when the guild's unspoken secret became apparent.
• Makarov called Erza over to discuss the 100 Years Quest and explained that the guild had decided not to involve anyone else.
• Chen Fan noticed the swirling clouds above Magnolia and thought that Xiao Gang had failed, leaving him unable to warn anyone.
• Chen Fan remembered Lisanna as a younger-sister figure and resolved to bring her back.
• A vortex formed over Magnolia and a beam of light covered the town; when it vanished, the town was gone and Chen Fan remained behind.

Chen Fan was unable to pass through the closing passage to Azeroth, so Mystogan took him to another teleportation circle, which also failed to transport him. Chen Fan then forced open a spatial crack and was sucked inside.

• Chen Fan tried to enter the shrinking passage, but it rejected him while Natsu and Wendy crossed before it closed.
• Chen Fan called for Mystogan, who agreed to take him to another passage.
• Mystogan activated a magic circle with his staffs, but Chen Fan remained in place because the teleportation failed.
• Chen Fan asked Mystogan to open a spatial passage, then forced his way through a crack and was sucked inside.

Chen Fan reached Azeroth after forcing his way through a spatial storm, but his calculations malfunctioned and weakened him. He found the Fairy Tail guild and learned that its members mistook him for their missing Guild Master before Mira revealed she knew he was from another world.

• Chen Fan emerged from spatial travel injured and weakened, then realized he was still far from Mystogan's coordinates in Azeroth.
• A Fairy Tail guild building appeared before Chen Fan, and he entered hoping to find Lisanna.
• The guild members rushed to Chen Fan, believing their Guild Master had returned after being gone for more than two years.
• Mira told the guild that Chen Fan was from another world, and the members admitted their Guild Master was already dead.

Chen Fan returned to a troubled Fairy Tail and learned that this world's guild members regarded him as their guild master, though he was an outsider. He ordered the guild to recall its members and found that Mira was his fiancée, while Natsu and Wendy had gone to the royal capital.

• Elfman called Chen Fan his brother-in-law, but Mira said Chen Fan was an outsider and not her husband.
• Chen Fan asked Macao about Fairy Tail's situation, then ordered the guild to recall its members from their missions and avoid further injuries.
• Chen Fan learned that Natsu and Wendy had gone to the royal capital with Lucy during Fairy Hunting, and Macao told him Mira was only his fiancée.
• Chen Fan affectionately greeted the grown-up Wendy and asked the guild members where Lisanna was.
• The guild members brought Lisanna out of hiding, and she bashfully called Chen Fan her brother-in-law.

Chen Fan reassured Fairy Tail after the Kingdom’s troops arrived to hunt them, then went out alone to confront them despite his injuries. He faced Shuka Boy, who was stunned to see the supposedly missing master of Fairy Tail.

• Mira and Elfman told Lisanna they had accepted her as their sister despite knowing she was not the Lisanna of this world.
• The guild learned that the Kingdom’s forces had arrived for Fairy Hunting, and Chen Fan silenced the panicked members.
• Chen Fan rejected the guild’s suggestion to flee and walked outside to confront the troops.
• Shuka Boy brought Regio down after spotting Chen Fan and froze when he recognized the missing Fairy Tail master.

Chen Fan defeated Shuka and the Kingdom Army, giving the hunted members of Fairy Tail their first victory. After Mira thanked him, Chen Fan resolved to protect the guild in a world without magic.

• Shuka ordered Regio to crush Chen Fan, but Chen Fan blocked the beast with one finger and sent it crashing to the ground.
• Shuka attacked Chen Fan with Rose Blade, but Chen Fan shattered his armor and fatally destroyed his internal organs.
• The Kingdom Army fled after Shuka fell, and Fairy Tail cheered their victory.
• Mira embraced Chen Fan and thanked him for giving the guild hope.
• Chen Fan decided he should protect Fairy Tail from the dangers ahead.