"That was so cool, Noah!"
Even though he was getting motion sickness, Natsu couldn't stop touching the Dragoon, like a child who'd found a new toy.
The others were still reeling from the shocking turn of events.
Standing on the Magic Mecha's shoulder, Erza looked at the Tower of Heaven, now completely changed, and slowly recovered from her shock. "Thank you, Noah."
"It was nothing."
Noah's voice came from inside the Dragoon.
When he sensed an inexplicable, deadly threat, he'd immediately summoned the Dragoon from his Space Ring without hesitation.
In the second before the devastating light fell, Noah piloted the Dragoon and narrowly managed to get all his companions and Ikaruga out of the tower.
As for the other people inside, there was nothing Noah could do for them.
Under Noah's control, the Dragoon landed on the shore. Snowy had been chirping impatiently on the ship for a while now.
As soon as they landed, Gray and Natsu went to investigate the Magic Crystal Tower.
Lucy jumped down from the Dragoon's palm and looked up at the sky, still shaken. "What was that just now? It suddenly turned the Tower of Heaven into a Magic Crystal... How terrifying."
"That was Etherion."
The one who answered Lucy was Ikaruga. "I took part in the war against the Western Continent's invasion three years ago. Back then, the Magic Council used this magic to force the Western army to withdraw from Ishgar."
"But why did the Tower of Heaven turn into Magic Crystal instead of being destroyed when it was hit by Etherion? I don't understand that either."
Simon and the others, who had built the Tower of Heaven, were just as baffled. Although they'd helped construct it, only Jellal knew how the tower was used.
Noah climbed out of the Dragoon.