Chapter Summaries

The allied forces battled the Nine Demon Gates across Underworld Island, with Natsu and Sting overwhelming Tempester and several Fairy Tail mages confronting other demons. Wendy and Charle faced Hades together, while Gildarts arrived and began attacking the demons.

• Natsu and Sting fought Tempester, whose Curse had little effect, and beat him down.
• Mirajane, Banjou, Cana, and Lisanna attacked Seilah and quickly gained the advantage.
• Erza confronted Kyoka while Kagura chose to fight the transformed Minerva.
• Hades blasted Ichiya and the Blue Pegasus fighters, then Wendy and Charle prepared to face him using their combined magic.
• Gildarts arrived at Underworld Island, learned demons had hurt Fried and the others, and crushed several demons with a long-range strike.

Emily stayed behind to guard the F.E.S. Storage Site while the battle spread across Underworld Island. Laxus faced the demonized Jura, and other Fairy Tail allies encountered powerful enemies as the island’s defenders fought on.

• Emily used Deception Magic to guard the F.E.S. Storage Site and sent Ultear and the others to support their companions.
• Gildarts arrived to help Simon, Jellal, and Cobra, then crushed Kawaz with a counterattack.
• Laxus defeated Ezel, but found that Jura had been turned into a demon and was far stronger than before.
• Jura struck Hoteye down, and Laxus prepared to fight him as both wizards unleashed immense magic power.
• Old Woman Oba fought a masked demon, and Bob arrived to meet the demon’s punch with an evenly matched attack.

Wendy and Charle fought Hades, using their coordinated Dragon Slayer magic to withstand his attacks until he injured them both. Happy arrived and struck Hades with help from a teleportation Box, while Hades remained largely unharmed and prepared more attacks.

• Wendy and Charle declared war on Hades and blocked his Darkness Chain, Dark Wave, and Black Bullet spells.
• Wendy and Charle charged Hades, struck him with Sky Dragon's Claw, and survived his Amaterasu Twenty-Eight Style explosion through an unexplained defensive ability.
• Wendy and Charle attacked Hades at high speed, but he blasted Charle away and then defeated Wendy in a series of chained attacks.
• Hades caught Charle with a Darkness Chain, slammed her into the ground, and injured her badly with an explosion.
• Happy arrived, transformed into human form, teleported Hades's incoming Darkness Chain away with a prepared Box, and punched Hades, who quickly recovered.

Happy stalled Hades while Wendy and Charle recovered, but they chose to fight beside him instead of escaping. Wendy and Charle unveiled Purple Sky Dragon Mode and badly wounded Hades with their rule-enhanced attack, though he survived.

• Happy used his teleportation Box to redirect Hades's attacks and bury him under falling building ruins.
• Charle recalled how Happy had repeatedly risked himself for her, then drank a Magic Potion and vowed to fight beside him; Wendy agreed to join them.
• Hades burst free of the ruins and launched a relentless assault, pushing Wendy and Charle to the brink.
• Wendy and Charle combined their magic with Emily's power to unleash Purple Sky Dragon Mode and their rule-enhanced Purple Wind Sky Piercer.
• The attack left Hades severely mutilated and bleeding, but he remained alive.

Wendy awakened Dragon Power and revealed immense reserves of magic and stamina, turning the fight against Hades around. She overwhelmed him with relentless Sky Dragon attacks and landed a devastating blow, leaving their battle ongoing.

• Hades defeated Happy and Charle, then beat down Ichiya and the other Blue Pegasus mages as they tried to protect Wendy.
• Hades cornered Wendy, but a familiar voice encouraged her to embrace the sky’s magic, and she awakened Dragon Power.
• Wendy unleashed a sustained Sky Dragon’s Roar that forced Hades to abandon his barrier and swept enemies from the battlefield.
• Wendy blocked Hades’s Dark Wave, shattered his Three Pillars with her Wing Attack, and pursued him with a Sky Hook Claw.
• Wendy located Hades despite his attempt to evade her and struck him with a Sky Hook Claw, leaving a gigantic footprint in the ground.

Hades transformed into a demon and overwhelmed Wendy, Ultear, and Melt, while Natsu and Sting defeated Tempester and rushed to help. Sting and Rogue then confronted the resurrected Jiemma, who vowed to destroy Fairy Tail and the other guilds.

• Hades transformed into a demon, and Wendy, Ultear, and Melt attacked him before Alice carried them out of the way of his counterstrike.
• Natsu and Sting unleashed their strongest attacks against Tempester, defeating him, and Natsu charged toward Hades.
• A spell intercepted Sting, and the resurrected Jiemma appeared to fight him.
• Rogue joined Sting and said Gajeel had gone to battle Hades, then the two prepared to face Jiemma together.
• Jiemma learned that Sting and Rogue had joined Fairy Tail and vowed to destroy Fairy Tail and every weak guild in Ishgar.

Sting and Rogue challenged Jiemma, rejecting his belief that individual strength mattered more than a guild’s bonds. Meanwhile, Mirajane escalated her fight with Seilah by revealing her Demon God Halphas form.

• Jiemma claimed he had entered the Abyss of Magic and declared that only the strongest individual mattered.
• Sting explained that Fairy Tail’s strength came from caring for its members, and he and Rogue attacked Jiemma.
• Sting reflected on how his time in Fairy Tail had changed his understanding of strength and why Lamia Scale had not considered Sabertooth worth challenging.
• Seilah acknowledged Mirajane’s combat skill but claimed their existences were separated by a dimensional gap.
• Mirajane used Demon-Receiving Magic to transform into her Demon God Halphas form against Seilah.

Mirajane drew on Miko and Hermes’s power to overwhelm Seilah’s historical champions, while Erza prepared to reveal more of her own strength against Kyoka. The battle continued with Seilah shaken by the revelation that Mirajane could Take Over Hermes.

• Seilah summoned legendary human fighters using Hermes’s alchemical legacy and challenged Mirajane to face them.
• Mirajane was struck by Arluno’s arrow and remembered how Ifrit had helped her overcome her insecurities and feel accepted in Fairy Tail.
• Mirajane asked to use Miko’s form and transformed her right hand through Full-Body Take Over of Hermes.
• Mirajane blasted the historical fighters aside, leaving Seilah terrified that a human could Take Over the ultimate demon.
• Erza declared that her desire to protect her companions made her stronger and told Kyoka that she could not defeat her.

Mirajane defeated Seilah using Miko’s power, but Mard Geer unleashed Alegria and trapped nearly everyone inside Underworld Island. Lucy refused to destroy Aquarius’s key to summon the Celestial Spirit King, so Ifrit carried out his backup plan: Mavis crashed Tenrou Island into Underworld Island, beginning the second half of the battle.

• Miko lent Mirajane the power of one demonic hand, allowing Mirajane to defeat and absorb Seilah while Erza kept Kyoka from intervening.
• Lily attacked Mard Geer’s palace, and Mard Geer introduced himself as Pluto before activating Alegria.
• Alegria engulfed the island’s inhabitants in red flesh, leaving Lucy free by chance and trapping the others.
• Ifrit appeared beside Lucy, secretly killed Tempester, and urged her to destroy Aquarius’s key so she could summon the Celestial Spirit King, but Lucy refused.
• Ifrit summoned Tenrou Island, and Mavis steered it into Underworld Island, smashing the island apart and freeing the allies.
• Ifrit announced that the second half of the battle had begun as Natsu and the other allies broke free.

Fairy Tail began its decisive battle against the Gate of the Underworld, with Ifrit leading the assault toward the Core of Hell while the others protected him. Kagura defeated Minerva, and Sting and Rogue struck down Jiemma after Minerva urged them to kill him.

• Ifrit revealed that destroying the Core of Hell would stop the demons from reviving, and Laxus ordered Fairy Tail to protect him as he headed for it.
• Simon and Happy moved injured allies away from the battlefield while Fairy Tail prepared to attack and the Gate of the Underworld defended its Core of Hell.
• Kagura refused to hear Minerva’s past and fought her; Minerva recalled Jiemma’s abuse and was cut in half after choosing to fight to the death.
• Sting and Rogue, enraged by Minerva’s death and Jiemma’s cruelty, unleashed White Shadow Dragon's Scale and defeated Jiemma.
• Ifrit mocked Jiemma for being defeated in one strike three times, and Jiemma lost consciousness as the others laughed.

Gajeel defeated Ezel, while the other Fairy Tail members fought demons and resurrected enemies across the battlefield. Erza unveiled her Seibel Armor and used its True Knowledge attack to pierce Kyoka, leaving her defeated.

• Gajeel endured Ezel's slashes with Iron Shadow Dragon Mode, then cut him down with the Iron God Sword.
• Gildarts and Cana combined their attacks to defeat the remaining Seven Kin of Renais, though Cana's disgusted reaction left Gildarts dismayed.
• Juvia protected Lucy as they fought Keyes, but Lucy's attacks could not hit him while he used Voidification, and their battle stalled.
• Ultear, Alice, and Melt attacked Crawford and defeated him again because he had injured Tiffanya.
• Erza endured Kyoka's pain amplification and sensory deprivation, then equipped her Seibel Armor and Seibel Spear.
• Erza used True Knowledge: Flowing Light to pierce Kyoka, who admitted that no one could avoid losing to the strike before collapsing.

Gray struggled against Silver as he suspected the demon wore his father’s body, then learned Silver was his father but not the demon possessing him. Believing Silver was Deliora, Gray discovered he could absorb Silver’s ice magic and launched a powerful counterattack.

• Gray hesitated against Silver, but renewed his attacks when Silver taunted him about Juvia.
• Silver wounded Gray, and Gray protected Juvia from Keyes while Lucy fought alongside her.
• Ifrit gave Silver a card that revealed a paternity test confirming Silver was Gray’s father.
• Silver explained that Deliora had taken over his father’s body and that he sought revenge on Ur’s Lineage; Gray charged at him in rage.
• Silver revealed his Ice Devil Slayer Magic and absorbed Gray’s ice, leaving Gray at a disadvantage.
• Gray grabbed Silver’s ice blade, realized he could absorb the ice because he shared Silver’s bloodline, and unleashed a powerful strike.

Gray discovered Ice Devil Slayer Magic’s weakness and defeated Silver, only to learn Silver was his father, Silver Fullbuster, reanimated as a controlled puppet. Silver passed Ice Devil Slayer Magic and the mission to kill E.N.D. to Gray before dying, while Juvia comforted him.

• Silver pushed Gray to his limits so he would discover that Ice Devil Slayer Magic could not harm demons, and Gray used rubble to strike him with a physical attack.
• Gray used Ice-Make: Demon King's Armlet to pierce Silver's heart, then learned that Silver was his father, whose corpse Gate of the Underworld had remade into a puppet.
• Emily killed Keyes with Mugetsu Style: Yasha Senku while Juvia and Lucy left to join Gray.
• Silver explained that he had recognized Gray at the Grand Magic Games and had fought demons to avenge himself and pave the way for his son.
• Silver transferred Ice Devil Slayer Magic to Gray and named E.N.D. as his target before dying, while Juvia supported Gray as he mourned.

Laxus used Erza’s magic to defeat the controlled Jura with his new Instantaneous Flowing Light, but the attack left him exhausted. With Jura down, Pluto and Hades remained, and Laxus took a stamina potion to recover for the battles ahead.

• Laxus activated Infinite Sword Lightning Dragon Mode by combining his lightning magic with Erza’s magic, then formed the Sword Lightning Dragon’s Halberd.
• Jura attacked with eighteen layers of Ice Wall and a falling mountain, but Laxus pierced through both and struck Jura in the chest with Instantaneous Flowing Light.
• Laxus collapsed from exhaustion, and Lisanna supported him while the others recognized that the attack had reached the realm of rule-level magic.
• Pluto grew furious at Jura’s defeat, while Hades praised Laxus’s strength and prepared to remain in the fight.
• Ifrit gave Laxus a Magic Potion, and Lisanna fed it to him to restore his stamina.

Ifrit rescued Jura from his demonic transformation and revealed that reinforcements would help stop the activation of three thousand Faces. The battle against Pluto and Hades continued as Ifrit declared that Zeref’s demons would soon be rejected and eradicated.

• Ifrit suppressed the demon soul inside Jura, who asked to become human again, and took Jura and Silver into the Mirror World for treatment.
• Pluto revealed that three thousand Faces had already been activated and would detonate in seven minutes, while Hades and Pluto held off the attackers.
• Erza ordered the guilds to destroy the Faces, but Pluto explained that the Magic Council had built them in remote locations to hide them.
• When Erza asked Ifrit for a solution, he said they had reinforcements and proclaimed that every Etherias demon would soon be rejected and eradicated.

Inside the Mirror World, Ifrit prepared to eliminate Zeref’s demons and replace them with his Contract Demons, easing Miko’s burden. Outside, Pluto confronted Ifrit, but Natsu and the others stood in his way, and Natsu’s Lightning Flame Dragon Mode began beating Pluto down.

• Ifrit explained that he planned to destroy Zeref’s demons and leave Contract Demons as the only demons in the world, fulfilling Miko’s mission.
• Miko embraced Ifrit and thanked him for finally resolving what had troubled her, and Ifrit assured her that they were the best family.
• Ifrit’s double declared that the era of Contract Demons was beginning and challenged the ancient original sins to die.
• Pluto charged at Ifrit, but Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, and the others blocked his path.
• Natsu entered Lightning Flame Dragon Mode and struck Pluto repeatedly, making him feel pain like never before.

While Fairy Tail and their allies fought Hades and Pluto, wizards and Natural Demons raced to destroy Face before its countdown ended. After every Face was destroyed and Ifrit finished treating Jura and Silver, he learned that Acnologia and Zeref were approaching and affirmed that he wanted a finite life without regrets.

• Fairy Tail members attacked Hades while Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, Sting, and Rogue fought Pluto, and Erza, Mirajane, and Laxus recovered before rejoining the battle.
• Guild members raced toward nearby Face locations, and Tom outran the convoy to destroy one with seconds to spare; nearby Natural Demons confirmed they were helping destroy Faces around the world.
• Miko told Ifrit that every Face had been destroyed, and Ifrit finished treating Jura and Silver, leaving Jura to choose whether to keep his demon power and cursing Silver to die by age one hundred.
• Aza warned Ifrit that Acnologia and Zeref were approaching, but Ifrit declined to stop them and reflected that his research was meant to spare people sorrow.
• Ifrit said he did not seek immortality or longevity and that a hundred years was enough for a life without regrets; Miko chose to spend her remaining years at his side.

With Face disabled and the Gate of the Underworld’s plan collapsing, Ifrit mortally wounded Pluto before Acnologia arrived and struck down Hades. Ifrit teleported Tenrou Island out of danger, but the mages still faced the question of how to protect civilians from Acnologia.

• Pluto transformed and explained that Face was meant to awaken E.N.D., the demon created to kill Zeref, but Ifrit appeared behind him and revealed a blade through his heart.
• Ifrit condemned Pluto and the demons for their empty lives, and then sensed Acnologia approaching.
• Acnologia arrived, ignored Hades’s call to attack the Dragon Slayer Mages, and swatted Hades into the ground; Fairy Tail’s mages then attacked Hades while he was down.
• Mavis worried that Acnologia would destroy Tenrou Island, so Ifrit used Aza to teleport the island away and revealed the ruined Underworld Island beneath it.
• Ifrit said the group could escape Acnologia, but Gildarts, Erza, and Laxus pointed out that they could not abandon everyone or leave civilians at risk.

As Acnologia prepared to destroy everything, Igneel and four other dragons emerged from the Dragon Slayers and reunited with their children. The dragons and Fairy Tail joined forces against Acnologia, while Natsu entrusted the Book of E.N.D. to Ifrit and the battle began.

• Ifrit reassured Fairy Tail that they could fight Acnologia, but Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue began reacting as their dragons emerged from their bodies.
• Igneel and the other four dragons reunited with their children and ordered them to leave the battlefield, but Natsu, Gajeel, Sting, Rogue, and Laxus insisted on fighting alongside them.
• Igneel told Natsu to find the Book of E.N.D. and have Ifrit protect it without opening it, so Natsu retrieved the book and gave it to Ifrit.
• Igneel explained that the dragons had stayed inside the Dragon Slayers to prevent complete dragonization and to help defeat Acnologia, who then declared his intent to destroy dragons, demons, and humans.
• The five dragons charged Acnologia as Fairy Tail joined the battle, and Laxus ordered Happy to teleport away those unable to protect themselves.
• Emily unleashed her full power and revealed swordsmanship and combat ability on par with Fairy Tail's strongest fighters.

Fairy Tail fought Acnologia while Ifrit confronted Zeref, outmaneuvered him, and witnessed him discard Pluto. As Zeref departed and threatened Natsu, Mavis broke down over their past, and Ifrit declared that Fairy Tail would cherish her.

• Acnologia overwhelmed Fairy Tail's attacks until Zeref appeared and reclaimed the Book of E.N.D. from Ifrit.
• Ifrit used Deception Magic and a blade forged from Acnologia's body to outwit Zeref, cutting off his arm and then his head before they resumed fighting.
• Zeref dismissed Pluto, who realized that he and the other demons were merely defective products to Zeref and died in flames.
• Zeref told Natsu that he was not ready and threatened to bring him despair the next time they met.
• Mavis refused to speak with Zeref, then asked Ifrit to save her as she cried in his arms.
• Ifrit told Zeref that Mavis was not destined to suffer for him and declared that Fairy Tail and Ifrit would cherish her.