"I like this game, Laxus! Happy, charge!"
Natsu, whose recovery was astonishingly strong, sprang to his feet and overtook everyone with Happy, becoming the first to rush toward the guild doors. Gajeel the Iron Dragon and Gray followed close behind.
They seemingly did not take Laxus's threat of the Hall of Thunder seriously. Their minds were set solely on defeating Laxus and claiming the title of Fairy Tail's strongest wizard.
Perhaps, deep down, they had long believed that Laxus would never truly activate the Hall of Thunder and destroy the entire town.
Jerry was about to speak up and warn them, but then he smiled and closed his mouth.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two crashing sounds rang out at the entrance.
Gray and Happy rushed through the doors, while Natsu and Gajeel slammed hard into an invisible magical wall and were bounced back into the crowd.
Words then appeared across the magical wall:
Wizards over eighty years old are forbidden from leaving the guild. The use of any Space Magic is forbidden.
While everyone had been watching the Miss Fairy Contest earlier, Fred had already laid a Dark Arts Formula over the entire guild. Its purpose was to seal the powerful First, Second, and Third Masters inside the guild.
It also prevented Jerry, who was proficient in Space Magic, from using the Space Magic he excelled at most.
"Why are we being stopped by a ban on people over eighty?!"
Seeing the words on the formula wall, Natsu immediately began jumping around in anger.
Happy, who had flown back again, kindly reminded him:
"Natsu, did you forget what Zeref said yesterday? You and Gajeel came from four hundred years ago. You're both over four hundred years old."
"A Dark Arts Formula, huh? It has some skill behind it."
At that