Chapter Summaries

Ren and his allies attacked the unfinished Tower of Heaven, freeing its enslaved workers and children while Ren searched for gifted recruits. He discovered that nearly every child there had exceptional magical potential, but the reason remained unclear.

• Ren learned that Kayle had found the Tower of Heaven and brought his group to the island.
• Ulu froze an overseer who was whipping a child, then attacked the Tower’s guards in fury over the children’s enslavement.
• The slaves and children took up weapons and revolted as Kayle and Layla helped Ren’s group defeat the guards.
• Ren searched among the children for potential recruits and found that they all seemed unusually gifted in magic.
• Kayle pointed toward the sky and cast Thunderous Force.

Ren discovered that the Tower of Heaven’s Crystal Tower transformed magic and improved the children’s magical aptitude, so he decided to take it. Simon led him to the badly injured Erza, and Ren began healing her.

• Kayle’s lightning struck the Tower of Heaven’s guards, while some children absorbed the lightning and fought back.
• Ren used his Double Pupils to discover that the Crystal Tower transformed magic and enhanced the children’s aptitudes, then told Kayle not to destroy it.
• Simon begged Ren to save Erza, whose eyes had both been destroyed, and Ren followed him to the cages.
• Ren found Erza severely wounded and recognized Rob, who pleaded with him to save her.
• Ren promised to save Erza and began healing her with light from his fingertips.

Ren used refined Black Dragon Blood to awaken Erza’s dormant dragon bloodline, healing her injuries and greatly strengthening her, though she remained blind. He promised to restore her sight and prepared Ice Dragon’s Eyes to implant in her.

• Ren used Light Magic on Erza, then gave her refined Black Dragon Blood to help her recover.
• Erza’s dragon bloodline awakened, healing her wounds and strengthening her body and magic power.
• Erza regained consciousness but panicked because she still could not see, and Ren comforted her.
• Rob explained that magical eyes could restore Erza’s vision, but Ren revealed that he planned to implant Ice Dragon’s Eyes.
• Ren recalled preparing the Ice Dragon’s Eyes with Hashirama’s life force after deciding they suited Erza better than Hades’s Devil’s Eye.

Ruofeng replaced Erza’s eyes with Ice Dragon eyes and sent the freed children away from the Tower of Heaven. He then searched for Jellal, learning that Erza was aboard the airship and still asleep.

• Ruofeng had Lyon shrink the Ice Dragon’s eyes with the Size-Size Fruit, then embedded them in Erza’s eye sockets and urged her to adapt to their cold.
• Erza fell asleep, and Ruofeng entrusted her to Layla while Rob and Simon watched her rescue.
• Ruofeng told the imprisoned children to leave the island, and Kayle freed them by destroying the cell locks.
• Ulu froze the Tower of Heaven’s guards as the slaves fought them and gained their freedom.
• Ruofeng examined the crystal tower, considered Jellal’s abilities, and began searching for his aura.
• Kayle reported that the children had been settled and that Layla had taken the still-sleeping Erza aboard the airship.

Ren rescued the badly injured Jellal and discovered that a book in the Tower of Heaven contained Zeref’s plans for the R-System. After learning that the system used Time Magic, Ren decided to keep building it so he could study time himself.

• Kayle told Ren that Simon had asked him to rescue Jellal, and Ren went with her to find him.
• Ren found Jellal bound and near death, and Kayle used Light Magic to heal his wounds.
• Ren discovered a book containing the R-System’s construction plans and recognized it as Zeref’s handwritten work.
• Ren read the book and learned that the R-System gathered magic power to activate a Time Magic array that exchanged a living person’s time for a dead person’s.
• Ren decided to take the R-System and continue building it to pursue mastery of time.

Ren prepared to take the Tower of Heaven island into the Trash Station after evacuating its people, while Hades learned the Tower had fallen and vowed revenge. Ren opened a spatial vortex around the island and began moving it.

• Ren ordered Kayle to move the Tower of Heaven’s supplies and divide the slaves, sending children and Erza’s companions away by airship while adults were assigned to build the Northern Continent.
• Hades learned that Ulu and the Dimensional Guild had destroyed the Tower of Heaven, and he blamed Ren for his losses.
• Hades chose to hide and recover until he could obtain a perfect body, then destroyed the Magic Crystal and left his room calmly.
• Kayle told Ren that the evacuation was complete, and Ren began tearing open space above the Tower of Heaven.
• Ren expanded the Trash Station’s spatial vortex around the island and summoned Sword Magic—Four Zhu Xian Swords.

Ren used four Immortal Swords to sever the Tower of Heaven’s island from the seabed and send it through a spatial vortex into the Trash Station. He left the swords behind as they began absorbing magic power, while the rescued children watched him in awe.

• Ren summoned four enormous Immortal Swords, whose Sword Aura cleared a thousand-meter area around the Tower of Heaven and severed the island’s roots from the seabed.
• Ren commanded the island to rise, and a spatial vortex swallowed the Tower of Heaven into the Trash Station as the children looked on in awe.
• After the vortex vanished, Ren sent the four swords across the sea, where they split an island, triggered a volcano, and pierced an iron mountain.
• The four swords absorbed magic power and began to endure beyond Ren’s control, while he boarded the airship and told everyone to head back.

Ren returned to the Northern Continent with gifted children and captured adults, while news of his powerful magic spread ahead of the Magic Games. At the Games, Hogue announced that Fiore would reduce its roughly twenty thousand guilds to one thousand, leaving weaker guilds facing disbandment.

• Ren ordered Kayle to take the airship back to the Northern Continent and brought captured adults along to help build the Tower of Heaven.
• Reports of Ren’s four enormous swords and overwhelming Sword Aura reached guilds across Fiore before the Magic Games began.
• Makarov and Gildarts watched the Magic Crystal footage and concluded that the magic belonged to someone from the Dimensional Guild.
• Makarov led Fairy Tail into the arena, where the guild’s rowdy entrance drew cheers and left him and Laxus embarrassed.
• Hogue announced that Fiore would allow only one thousand guilds and that every guild ranked below them would be disbanded.

Hogue announced that the first Grand Magic Games event would eliminate most guilds, and the melee began across the plaza. Magellan hunted Celestial Spirit Keys while Laxus fought the other contestants, and the battle continued.

• Hogue announced a melee in which contestants had to defeat ten opponents and take their guild emblems, with eliminated guilds disbanded.
• Nearly twenty thousand contestants began fighting, and Magellan poisoned a Celestial Spirit Mage to take his Golden Key before searching for more keys.
• Magellan poisoned another Celestial Spirit Mage and took a Silver Key, lamenting that it was not Golden.
• Laxus used Lightning Make—Thunder Beast to attack nearby contestants and taunted them into fighting him.
• A contestant summoned Scorpio with a Golden Key, while Laxus dismissed Celestial Spirit Magic and said Hades had told him to use only basic lightning magic.

Laxus defeated a small-guild team, but Magellan arrived and took the Celestial Spirit Mage’s key, forcing Laxus to defend him. Magellan used Poison Make to create Impel Down-inspired attacks, leaving Laxus facing a charging herd of venomous beasts.

• Laxus overwhelmed the small-guild wizards with Thunderstorm, then told their surviving Celestial Spirit Mage he could join Fairy Tail after his guild disbanded.
• Laxus avoided a sudden mass of venom as Magellan formed from it and took Scorpio’s key.
• The Celestial Spirit Mage asked Laxus for help, and Laxus confronted Magellan to protect him as a future Fairy Tail member.
• Laxus attacked Magellan with Lightning Make—Thunder Dragon, but Magellan created Red Lotus Hell from venom and the forest’s sharp fragments injured nearby fighters.
• Laxus fired Thunder Bullets at Magellan, who summoned venomous Magical Beasts with Poison Make—Magical Beast Hell; the beasts charged at Laxus.

Magellan unleashed poison across the arena, killing several wizards and provoking Laxus and other mages to attack him. He raised a massive venomous Impel Down to block their assault and prepared to defend it as Laxus struck at the prison.

• Magellan spread Hungry Hell and Extreme Cold Hell across the arena, forcing wizards to flee or forfeit while Laxus fought back with lightning.
• Hogue recognized Magellan, and Jose Porla identified him to the Ten Wizard Saints as the man responsible for the poison.
• Magellan unleashed Infinite Hell, killing the wizard holding the Scorpio key and others who could not escape the venom; Laxus and Jura Neekis joined the charge against him.
• Magellan created a towering venomous Impel Down that withstood the crowd’s magic attacks.
• Laxus launched his Thunder Dragon Sky-Piercing Halberd at Impel Down, and Magellan vowed to stop anyone from destroying it.

Magellan fought Jura Neekis and then Ten Wizard Saint Jose Porla at the guild competition, revealing his overwhelming venom magic. The battle escalated as Phantom Lord urged the other guilds to attack the Dimensional Guild, while Laxus and the others hesitated.

• Magellan unleashed his Venom Demon, corroded Jura Neekis's attacks, and transformed Impel Down into a venom trident.
• Jura Neekis asked who Magellan was, and Aria identified him as a Dimensional Guild member responsible for destroying Phantom Lord branches.
• Jose Porla attacked Magellan with Death Storm, but Magellan countered with a Poison Dragon, and their clash shook the arena.
• Jose Porla summoned a Bone Dragon, and Magellan charged it with his venom trident as their attacks collided again.
• Aria urged the guilds to attack the Dimensional Guild, but Laxus and the other guild members held back warily.

Magellan’s fight against the gathered Ten Wizard Saints, Uranus, and guild mages threatened the arena and its spectators. Madara Uchiha arrived to stop the attack, revealed that his lord had come too, and demanded that the Celestial Spirit mages hand over their keys.

• The Ten Wizard Saints and Uranus rushed to stop Magellan’s battle, while Sequen prepared a barrier and Hogue secretly worried about Magellan being surrounded.
• Magellan summoned a thousand-meter poison demon dragon, which clashed with the combined magic of the gathered mages and was swallowed by their torrent.
• Madara Uchiha descended and used Shinra Tensei to detonate the magical torrent, sending its blast toward the stands until Warrod Sequen blocked it with Nature Barrier.
• Madara told Magellan that he had come because of the chaos and that his lord had arrived as well.
• Madara demanded that the Celestial Spirit mages hand over their keys, while the Ten Wizard Saints watched him warily.

Madara Uchiha demanded the Celestial Spirit Keys, then fought the gathered wizards when Jose Porla provoked them. Makarov blocked Susanoo’s attack on the spectators and drew Madara’s attention as the battle continued.

• Madara Uchiha threatened to take the Celestial Spirit Keys by force, and Jose Porla urged the wizards to fight rather than surrender in front of the live audience.
• Makarov warned that allowing the Dimensional Guild to destroy the capital would make them traitors to Fiore, and Madara Uchiha attacked Jose Porla with Banshō Ten'in.
• Jose Porla answered with Death Storm as other wizards launched spells, but Madara Uchiha formed Susanoo to withstand their combined assault.
• Magellan unleashed Poison Tsunami, and Hades tried to devour the poison but spat blood and could not absorb it.
• Madara Uchiha swung Susanoo’s swords toward the arena, so Makarov used Giant Magic and Giant Armor to block a blow with his shield.
• Madara Uchiha praised Makarov’s strength and launched Yasaka Magatama.

Madara Uchiha used Limbo—Susanoo to overwhelm the fighters attacking him, while the Wizard Saints prepared for the arrival of the Dimensional Guild’s master. Hashirama and Qing Zhi arrived as Magellan continued fighting.

• Makarov and Jose Porla attacked Madara Uchiha with Giant Armor and a Bone Dragon, while Warrod Sequen and Draculos Hyberion identified Jose’s Necromancy and discussed the dragon remains he had obtained.
• Warrod Sequen, Draculos Hyberion, and Wolfheim chose to conserve their magic because they expected the Dimensional Guild’s master to arrive.
• Madara Uchiha’s invisible Limbo shadows struck the Bone Dragon and sent Makarov and the other attackers flying.
• Warrod Sequen sensed four invisible Giants around Madara, and Madara praised him for recognizing the technique.
• Hashirama arrived on a Wood Dragon with Qing Zhi, who commented on Magellan’s difficult fight.

Madara Uchiha and his companions faced Fiore’s guilds in the capital while Ren visited the palace to study the Eclipse Gate. Ren tested the gate with a black hole, alarming the king of Fiore, who warned that its destruction would doom the Fiore and Heartfilia families.

• Magellan, Qing Zhi, Laxus, Hades, and the other young mages combined their attacks against the ice bird, sending a shock wave across the arena.
• Makarov, Jose Porla, the Ten Wizard Saints, and the other guilds faced Madara Uchiha and his three companions as Warrod Sequen sensed their growing strength.
• Morgana told Ren that Qing Zhi and the others had arrived, while the king of Fiore worried that their confrontation would damage the capital.
• Ren explained that he had come to the palace to examine the Eclipse Gate and concluded that Zeref’s power centered on Time Magic and Dark Magic.
• Ren formed a tiny black hole and pressed it toward the Eclipse Gate, prompting the king of Fiore to warn him that destroying it would doom the Fiore and Heartfilia families.

Ren connected the Eclipse Gate to the Tower of Heaven through the Trash Station, briefly activating it and discovering its link to the R-System. He left with Layla for the royal treasury, while Fiore's king planned to use the Dimensional Guild's strength to restore royal power.

• Ren linked the Eclipse Gate to the Tower of Heaven, causing the gate to glow and allowing Zeref to sense its activation.
• Ren concluded that the Eclipse Gate and the R-System shared an aura connected to time, but he closed the link and said the gate should not be opened yet.
• Ren told Fiore's king that he would help Layla gather the twelve Celestial Spirit Keys and agreed to visit the royal treasury in exchange for the royal family's treasures.
• Fiore's king told Arcadios that he trusted Layla and expected Ren to become his son-in-law, hoping the Dimensional Guild would help him oppose the Magic Council and reclaim royal authority.

Ren found a Blood Dragon Slayer Crystal in the royal treasure vault and prepared to use it to awaken Ryder. Meanwhile, Serena revealed his Black Dragon bloodline at the Magic Games and attacked Madara Uchiha, while Acnologia sensed his aura and learned that Serena was his offspring.

• Ren searched the royal treasure vault for Dragon Crystals and special Elemental Crystals to revive his former subordinates.
• Layla gave Ren a Blood Dragon Slayer Crystal, and Ren decided it could awaken Ryder, the Red Earl.
• Serena attacked Madara Uchiha with Black Dragon's Roar, revealing that Draculos Hyberion had awakened his hidden bloodline and helped him fuse eight Dragon Crystals.
• Draculos Hyberion explained that Serena was likely the Black Dragon's son, shocking the people who heard him.
• Acnologia sensed Serena's bloodline aura, recalled Zeref's plan to create a dragon-blooded weapon, and grew furious at having an offspring.
• Serena rejected Madara Uchiha's insult and launched Black Dragon's Claw at him.

Madara Uchiha transformed the Black Dragon Serena into a dragon duel, while Hashirama took over the ground battle against the opposing forces. Jose Porla used the Black Dragon Blood to awaken the Bone Dragon as a Blood Dragon and ordered it to attack.

• Madara Uchiha shattered Serena’s dragon claw with an altered Planetary Devastation, but Serena transformed into a Black Dragon and pursued him into the sky.
• Hashirama created Wood clones that summoned more than a dozen Wood Giants and Wood Dragons, prompting Warrod Sequen to charge at him.
• Wolfheim fought Qing Zhi and Magellan while Draculos Hyberion guarded the imperial capital.
• Jose Porla demanded Black Dragon Blood from Draculos Hyberion and poured it over the Bone Dragon.
• Jose Porla’s magic revived the Bone Dragon as a crimson Blood Dragon, and he ordered it to devour blood and unleash Blood Dragon Roar.

Jose Porla, Goldman, Bob, and the guild masters unleashed their trump cards against Hashirama, who answered with powerful Wood Release magic. As Hashirama formed a colossal Thousand-Handed Guanyin, Makarov and the others prepared their strongest attacks against it.

• Jose Porla drew blood from fallen mages to empower his Blood Dragon, while Goldman transformed into Cerberus and charged at Hashirama.
• Bob transformed into an angel and flirted with Hashirama, who misunderstood his invitation and attacked with Divine Gate.
• Hashirama used Tree World Advent, and Warrod Sequen countered with Nature Magic—Tree Descent as their forests clashed.
• Hashirama summoned True Several Thousand Hands, combining his forests, wooden men, and Wood Release clones into a Thousand-Handed Guanyin.
• Makarov called for the others to use their ultimate moves and launched Fairy Glitter at the Thousand-Handed Guanyin.