Chapter Summaries

Ren sent a newly appointed Dimensional Guild vice guild master to intervene in the destructive battle near the capital, while Hashirama and the others overwhelmed the Ten Wizard Saints. The fight paused as several powerful wizards sensed the return of someone familiar.

• The Ten Wizard Saints unleashed powerful spells against Hashirama, while the capital's magical barrier shielded the city from the shockwaves.
• Ren sent a blood-red figure to deal with the fighters and appointed him a Dimensional Guild vice guild master, then followed with Kayle and Morgana.
• Hashirama shattered the guild masters' trump cards, leaving Makarov, Bob, Goldman, and Warrod badly beaten.
• Jose Porla revived his Blood Dragon with the blood of sacrificed wizards and challenged Hashirama again, who praised Jose's resolve to protect his guild.
• Hashirama, Madara Uchiha, Qing Zhi, Magellan, and others sensed that a familiar person had been revived.

Ryder, the Dimensional Guild’s vice president, appeared at the tournament and killed Jose Porla by tearing out his heart and draining his blood. After Jose Porla’s death unleashed the rampaging Blood Dragon, Ryder transformed into a giant blood bat and swallowed it whole.

• A blood-colored streak drained mages of their blood, then gathered into Ryder as Jose Porla challenged him.
• Ryder revealed he was the Dimensional Guild’s vice president, tore out Jose Porla’s heart, and drained his blood to regain his strength.
• With Jose Porla dead, the Blood Dragon broke free and rampaged, devouring blood from fallen and injured mages.
• Ryder transformed into a giant blood-colored bat and swallowed the Blood Dragon in one bite.

Ryder appeared on the battlefield, devoured the Blood Dragon, and swiftly overwhelmed Serena after he transformed into a Black Dragon. As Ryder continued beating Serena, thunder and lightning filled the sky, and Madara Uchiha and the others looked up in silence.

• Ryder devoured the Blood Dragon, leaving the gathered mages terrified and stunned.
• Ryder landed beside Hashirama and reproached Hashirama, Madara Uchiha, and Qing Zhi for worrying Lord Ren.
• Serena ignored the others’ caution, attacked Madara Uchiha with Black Dragon’s Roar, and Ryder silenced him with a stomp.
• Ryder used a blood-red Devil’s Claw to overpower Serena, then slammed him into the ground.
• Thunder and lightning suddenly filled the sky, and Madara Uchiha and the others obediently looked up.

Ren confronted Serena’s Chaos Dragon’s Roar and destroyed it with the Zhu Xian Sword, leaving Serena severely wounded. Serena’s two wings were cut off as he roared in agony.

• Ren arrived on a lightning throne while the mages recognized him as the Dimensional Guild’s leader.
• Magellan told Ren he had found only two Celestial Spirit Keys, and Ren said the other four were present.
• Ren noticed Serena had become a Black Dragon using Dragon Crystals, and Serena vowed to kill the Dimensional Guild.
• Serena launched his Chaos Dragon’s Roar by combining the power of eight Dragon Crystals.
• Ren summoned the Zhu Xian Sword with Sword Magic and cut through Serena’s attack.
• Ren guided the sword into Serena’s back and severed both of the Black Dragon’s wings.

Ren used the Four Zhu Xian Swords to defeat and imprison Serena, while Ryder stopped Draculos Hyberion from intervening. After Ryder released Draculos, he asked Ren whether the Dimensional Guild intended to destroy every guild in Fiore.

• Ren severed Serena’s dragon wings and sent four sword lights after him as Draculos Hyberion rushed to save Serena.
• Ryder caught Draculos Hyberion in a blood-red claw and prevented him from reaching Serena.
• The Four Zhu Xian Swords pinned Serena inside a magic array, and Ren’s sword light cut Serena’s tongue and damaged his throat.
• Ryder released Draculos Hyberion and explained that he had saved him because he was a fellow Vampire.
• Draculos Hyberion asked Ren whether the Dimensional Guild intended to destroy every guild in Fiore.

After defeating Fiore’s guilds, Ren demanded their Celestial Spirit Keys and announced rewards for other rare items and information. His departure with Serena left the remaining Heavenly Kings determined to reform Fiore and strengthen its wizards.

• Ren dismissed the guilds as weak and demanded that they hand over their Celestial Spirit Keys.
• Karen and the other guild members surrendered their keys, and Magellan gathered them.
• Ren announced that the Dimensional Guild would reward people who brought it Celestial Spirit Keys, Dragon Crystals, Elemental Spirits, Elemental Crystals, or information about them.
• Ren left for the Northern Continent with Serena imprisoned in the Sword Formation, while Draculos Hyberion lamented that Fiore could not stop him.
• Warrod Sequen and Wolfheim agreed that Fiore’s guilds needed reform and greater pressure to grow stronger.
• Draculos Hyberion ordered Hogue to end the Magic Games, hold the Grand Magic Games every six months, support guilds damaged in the battle, and spread basic magic throughout Fiore.

Ren oversaw life in the Northern Continent while keeping Serena imprisoned in Black Dragon form for study and to harvest materials that could strengthen children. Ren continued prioritizing construction of the Tower of Heaven, leaving Serena’s transformation research for when Orochimaru woke up.

• Draculos Hyberion resolved to notify the king and urge the guilds to share magic and cultivate strong mages after Ren’s departure.
• News of the Magic Games spread, and the Magic Council’s restructuring left Fiore with around a thousand guilds as people began training after magic was shared widely.
• The Northern Continent’s residents settled into its completed city, where many adopted children from the Tower of Heaven and the Black Dragon’s roars became familiar.
• Ren inspected Serena, imprisoned in Black Dragon form, and asked Morgana to investigate how Dragon Crystals had enabled his transformation.
• Ren explained that Orochimaru would handle the research after waking, while Morgana would draw Serena’s blood and could remove his Dragon Crystals even if doing so affected his transformation.
• Ren left Serena behind and continued focusing on completing the Tower of Heaven near the Eclipse Gate.

Hades entered Fairy Tail’s basement to investigate the laboratory and was struck by the Ankhseram God’s curse near the crystal containing Mavis. Makarov and Gildarts confronted him, and Hades revealed that he was Gellberg using Enchantment Magic to apply his consciousness to another body.

• After Serena was shut inside the palace, Zeref awoke in Fiore and unleashed darkness that withered the forest as he searched for the source of a new seed of darkness.
• Hades slipped into Fairy Tail’s basement and opened the ancient door to his former laboratory.
• A dark curse struck Hades, draining his life force, and he recognized it as the Ankhseram God’s curse.
• Hades approached the crystal sealing Mavis, but Makarov arrived and demanded to know who he was.
• Hades admitted that he was Gellberg, explaining that Enchantment Magic had let him place his consciousness in another body, while Gildarts looked on in shock.

Hades stole a fragment of Mavis’s crystal, revealed that he wanted immortality through the Death God’s Curse, and was expelled from Fairy Tail by Makarov. That night, a strange darkness descended across the land and attacked Ren, who stopped it with his soul energy.

• Hades broke off a piece of Mavis’s crystal and said he wanted to uncover the secret of the Death God’s Curse to gain immortality.
• Hades told Makarov that the curse had caused Mavis to kill Duo’s mother, leaving Makarov stunned.
• Makarov expelled Hades from Fairy Tail, and Hades left, declaring that he was now only Hades, the King of the Underworld.
• Makarov mourned Hades’s departure as darkness covered the land, and Zeref sensed its arrival in a forest.
• Ren spotted a black aura in the palace and used his soul energy to stop it after his magic power failed.
• Morgana admitted that she did not recognize the strange darkness, despite being made of darkness herself.

Ren discovered that the Death God's Curse had infected him and vowed to kill the god responsible. He assigned his allies tasks across Fiore and the Alvarez Empire, then began experimenting with controlling the curse's death aura.

• Ren identified the death aura as the Death God's Curse after it withered a plant, and realized it had made him ageless and undying.
• Ren told Ryder and the others that a god had cursed him and vowed to kill that god.
• Ren ordered Magellan to finish the Tower of Heaven before 777 and told Ryder to remove Black Dragon Serena's Dragon Crystals, leaving one if needed or turning Serena into a vampire.
• Ren sent Madara Uchiha to handle magical beasts, gather treasures, and investigate the Alvarez Empire, while Qing Zhi explored the world's past and Hashirama guarded their base.
• After the others left, Ren gathered the death aura in his palm and hurled it toward a fish tank.

Ren used his unused Trash Station opportunity to seek greater strength, but the station connected to Shrouding the Heavens during Ye Fan’s battle against the Forbidden Zones. As Ren watched the overwhelming fight, a streak of blood-red light shot from the image toward the spatial tunnel.

• Ren entered the Trash Station with Kayle and Morgana and asked it to connect him to a new world so he could become stronger.
• After the spatial vortex expanded for hours, a thunderous roar shook the Trash Station and an image revealed Ye Fan fighting several Great Emperors.
• The Trash Station explained that it had chosen Shrouding the Heavens and reinforced the tunnel, though Ren could only watch the battle and hope to obtain something by luck.
• Ye Fan fought the Forbidden Zones with the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron and Heavenly Emperor Fist, then charged into the Primordial Forbidden Zone to attack the Corpse Emperor.
• Ren envied Ye Fan’s strength as a blood-red streak of light shot out from the image.

A Zhu Xian Sword Aura carrying Ye Fan’s blood crossed into the Trash Station and struck Ren, leaving him at the mercy of the station’s attempt to cleanse and remake him. As the chapter ended, the aura continued to crush his body and tear at his soul while golden flesh and bone gathered into a blood sphere.

• Ye Fan was wounded by a Sword Aura from the Four Zhu Xian Swords during his fight with the Forbidden Zone.
• Ren recognized the swords and feared the Sword Aura would reach the Trash Station through a spatial vortex.
• The Sword Aura entered the Trash Station, forced Kayle and Morgana into their original forms, and cut into Ren.
• The Trash Station’s playful voice said Ren’s body would be cleansed and reforged into a Sword Body, but Ren could not hear it.
• The Sword Aura shattered Ren’s body and severed part of his soul, then compressed his remains until golden flesh and bone formed a sphere of blood.
• More Sword Aura burst from the spatial tunnel.

Ren endured the spatial tunnel’s Sword Aura, which gradually purified and tempered his body and soul while the Trash Station expelled the various powers fused within him. As the Sword Aura weakened, Ren regained consciousness and angrily demanded to know why the Trash Station had connected to another world, while Ye Fan took advantage of the failed formation to slaughter the Supremes.

• The Immortal Sword Formation’s Sword Aura was drawn through the spatial tunnel, letting Ye Fan escape its attack and strike down the Supremes.
• Sword Aura tore Ren’s body and soul apart, while a God Tree sprouted from his blood and the Trash Station explained that the tree’s immortality had already become part of Ren.
• The Trash Station identified and expelled Ren’s Saiyan and Uchiha bloodlines, Dragon Crystal, and other fused treasures as Sword Aura continued tempering him.
• Ren’s body shrank into a purple blood sphere, and the Trash Station recognized the Ultimate Twin Flames as they burned it.
• Ren recovered a sliver of consciousness as the Sword Aura weakened, cursed the Trash Station for connecting to another world, and heard that his body and soul had grown purer.

Ren discovered that his body had been reduced to a small ball of blood and learned that the Four Zhu Xian Swords in his soul had drawn the Sword Aura that refined him. Meanwhile, Ye Fan defeated the last Forbidden Zone Supremes, leaving the Sword Formation battle settled.

• Ren saw that only a fist-sized ball of blood remained of his body and considered using genetic technology to create a replacement.
• Ren realized that the Sword Formation’s missing Sword Aura had been drawn through the spatial tunnel to refine him, and the Trash Station said the Four Zhu Xian Swords in his soul were far from ordinary.
• The Sword Aura returned to the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, but Ye Fan remained confident behind his blood-strengthened Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron.
• Ye Fan killed the final Forbidden Zone Supremes with his Heavenly Emperor Fist and laughed in triumph.

Ren watched Ye Fan kill ten Supremes with the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, then saw the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram enter the Trash Station and merge with his soul. The diagram and Ye Fan’s Holy Blood remade Ren’s body, leaving him with a purified form whose potential he believed was limitless.

• Ye Fan seized the Four Zhu Xian Swords after the Sword Formation shattered, but the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram escaped into a spatial tunnel.
• Ye Fan sent a drop of Holy Blood after the diagram and exchanged a brief look with Ren through the tunnel before it closed.
• The Zhu Xian Formation Diagram struck Ren and joined the Four Zhu Xian Swords in a formation around his True Spirit.
• The diagram’s energy combined with the purple blood to form Ren a violet-gold body, while the Sword Aura also tempered Morgana and Kayle.
• Ren emerged from the sphere, donned a robe, and recognized his former body parts nearby.
• Ren concluded that his new body was purer than his old one and had far greater potential for growth.

After remaking his body in the Trash Station, Ren returned to find that two weeks had passed and an unknown man had entered the unfinished Tower of Heaven to demand a meeting. Hashirama warned Ren that the intruder was powerful enough to challenge him.

• Ren discovered that the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram and Four Zhu Xian Swords had formed a sword formation inside his soul, which protected him while Ye Fan's Holy Blood slowly strengthened his body.
• Ren awakened Kayle and Morgana, then left the Trash Station with them and returned to the palace.
• Ryder told Ren he had been gone for two weeks and that an intruder had entered the Tower of Heaven demanding to meet him.
• Ren went to the Tower of Heaven, where Hashirama said the intruder was so strong that he was not confident he could defeat him outright.

Ren met Zeref, who explained that Death God's Curse targeted gifted people whose magic could form new systems, including Ren, Mavis, Zeref, and Acnologia. Zeref revealed Acnologia's past and warned that the curse and the magic it tainted stifled humanity's potential.

• Zeref approached Ren at the Tower of Heaven and said he had come to meet him and discuss the Death God's Curse.
• Zeref told Ren that four people had been cursed: himself, Ren, Mavis, and Acnologia.
• Zeref recounted how Acnologia's family was killed by Dragons, after which he became a Dragon Slayer, received the curse, and eventually devoured Dragons of every attribute.
• Zeref explained that the gods cursed human geniuses who developed powerful magic systems, and that the curse's magic could draw talented people into darkness.
• Zeref said Mavis had been cursed after using the Law Magic system he gave her, while Ren had been cursed for creating Sword Magic and the Sword Formation.

Zeref told Ren that the Death God had cursed him and the Black Dragon, and explained how their failed attempt to fight the god had destroyed the Southern Continent. After Zeref left plans for the New R-System, Ren decided to study Time Energy while postponing his plan to kill the Black Dragon.

• Zeref explained that he believed the Death God was in Edolas, the former Central Continent, and described two possible origins for the world's gods.
• Zeref said the Death God's Curse bound him to equal amounts of life force and Death Qi, and that an attempt to fight the god with the Black Dragon had made them destroy the Southern Continent.
• Ren pointed out that Zeref was afraid to challenge the Death God again, and Zeref admitted he hoped to use Time Magic to return to the past.
• Zeref gave Ren his New R-System plans and left the Tower of Heaven, and Hashirama confirmed that the plans would improve its construction.
• Ren told Hashirama to build from Zeref's plans and assured Ryder that the curse posed no threat to him.
• Ren decided to leave the Black Dragon alone for now rather than lure him in with Ulu's Ice Dragon aura and risk exposing their plans.

Ren prepared to grow stronger and build a magical army as the Northern Continent prospered under the Dimensional Guild. After a year of training and research, Hashirama told Ren that the Tower of Heaven had been completed according to Zeref’s blueprints.

• Ren postponed awakening another subordinate, choosing to prepare for possible hostility from the Death God after its curse disappeared.
• Over the next year, the Northern Continent prospered under Ren’s rule, aided by Madara Uchiha’s work and cooperation with Fiore’s royal family.
• Erza trained in Black Flame Dragon Slayer Magic and Requip Magic, while Sherria, Sherry, Tia, Zeref, Cobra, and other children developed their abilities.
• Ren found that Ye Fan’s Holy Blood was changing his body, the Zhu Xian weapons remained beyond his understanding, and his purified energy let him study many forms of magic.
• Hashirama rushed into Ren’s palace and reported that the Tower of Heaven had been completed according to Zeref’s blueprints.

Ren celebrated the Tower of Heaven’s completion and prepared to open the Eclipse Gate with Layla, whose family curse was about to end. At the tower, he reunited with Ryder and the others and questioned Madara Uchiha about the scar he had gained while away.

• Ren celebrated the Tower of Heaven’s completion and summoned Ryder and the others to gather.
• Ren asked Layla to send the Celestial Spirits back, stored the Eclipse Gate, and told her it was time to open it.
• Layla rejoiced that her family’s curse would finally end, while Jade and Lucy secretly followed Ren and Layla out of the palace.
• Ren reflected on how Lucy had been born as Fiore’s princess despite Layla’s changed fate, then continued with Layla to the Tower of Heaven.
• Ren met Ryder and the others at the tower, noticed Madara Uchiha’s facial scar, and asked what he had been doing over the past year.