Qing Zhi nodded. "Naturally! It's not like we'll die for good, so we might as well give it a shot! Oh, right. I gave Hogue a few keys. He should deliver them to you in a few days!"
Ren sipped his red wine. "Keys? You mean Celestial Spirit Keys?"
Qing Zhi nodded. "That's right... I searched some ruins recently and found several Celestial Spirit Keys. One of them is even the Golden Zodiac key for Virgo! I have no use for them, so I asked Hogue to bring them to you!"
Ren frowned. "The Golden Key for Virgo?"
Ren knew Celestial Spirit Magic well enough. After all, Lucy, the heroine of the original story, used it. The Virgo key had belonged to her, too.
But Ren remembered that the Virgo Golden Key had first been in Duke Everlue's hands, and he had even turned Virgo into an enormously fat woman! How the duke had obtained the key was another matter.
Now that the Virgo key was coming to Ren, the duke clearly wouldn't find it in the future.
And when Ren thought of Virgo, a Celestial Spirit who liked being disciplined, he couldn't help feeling a little excited. She was practically the perfect maid!
All right, his thoughts were getting a little wicked.
But the most important thing about the Golden Keys was their connection to Eclipse in the year 777! Lucy's mother had gathered twelve Golden Keys and opened the Eclipse Gate, which had stood for four hundred years. In the end, she summoned five Dragon Slayer mages, including Natsu and Wendy... and Lucy's ancestor as well!
The year 777 was a turning point for this world!
And it was only 774 now. In the original story, Ulu had died in 774! She hadn't died this time, but the