Within Cardia Cathedral, under the towering dome, sunlight shines through the colored glass windows.
In the empty hall, Blanc was sitting on the steps leading to the prayer platform at the end of the hall, stroking his chin in deep thought.
This is the duel ground he carefully prepared for himself.
Originally, according to his idea, he would always stay here.
But the premise is that you must first go through Levy's secret operation and put the first place on your head.
In this way, everyone who wants to win the first place will search for his traces frantically, and finally come here in an endless stream to have thrilling duels with him.
But now that the first place has gone to someone else, he is now holding a small [77] place, so a devil would go to Cathedral to block him.
'How about... go out and get a higher ranking first and then come back?'
He struggled for a while, but quickly shook his head in relief.
Forget it, if he directly participated, then others would have no sense of the game experience.
Moreover, this Cathedral is located in the center of the town, which can be said to be the most conspicuous venue. He does not believe that no one will come!
If the place he carefully arranged was occupied by others, it would be a big loss. It would be better to wait here.
At the end of his thoughts, Blanc's face showed a look of anticipation:
"Who will be the first lucky person to come here..."
Going back in time a little, outside the guild, the entire town of Magnolia also fell into a huge commotion.
"Hey... hey! Look at the sky! What is that?!"
The owner of a barbecue stall on the street suddenly opened his mouth wide and stared blankly at the sky. The barbecue in his hand smelled slightly burnt because he forgot to turn it over.
I saw a huge light curtain condensed out of thin air high in the sky in the center of the town.
The sudden appearance of the strange phenomenon made the streets that were originally bustling because of Harvest Festival instantly quiet down.
Countless people stopped and raised their heads, staring blankly at this inexplicable thing that suddenly appeared in the sky, their faces full of shock and fear.
"Then, what is that? An enemy attack?!"
"No, there are words on it, Fairy Tail Ranking Battle?"
"Look, there's a picture coming out of the light curtain..."
"Isn't that inside the Fairy Tail guild?"
"Fairy Tail did it? That's not surprising. What are they going to do?"
Within the light curtain, in the bright hall, beside the railing on the second floor, a young man with black hair was smiling and waving to the camera.
"Ah, it's Forest Blanc!"
Immediately some young girls in the crowd exclaimed. They straightened their backs and stared at the screen with bright eyes.
Immediately afterwards, Blanc's voice spread throughout the town through amplification magic.
Even the residents who stayed at home and did not notice the light curtain were attracted by his words.
When they learned that there was about to be an exciting event involving the entire guild, the streets of Magnolia instantly burst into cheers!
"Oh oh oh! It's actually Ranking Battle inside Fairy Tail!!"
"Oh my god, this is much more exciting than previous years' Miss Fairy Tail Contest! This year's Harvest Festival warm-up event is too expensive, isn't it?!"
"Real-time broadcast! Ranking Battle from the No. 1 guild in the country! Just thinking about it makes people excited!"
"Hey, that's the competition for the Guild Master position. Are these Wizards playing so big? It's so exciting!!"
"If we fight, I want to see rivers of blood flow!"
"But... is there really no problem with this game? Magnolia will be gone after the game, right?"
"What are you worried about? Didn't you see that the fighting areas are divided into open areas? They are also circled with magic and cannot affect residential areas at all. Blanc is quite reliable in doing things."
The urban residents who were already enthusiastic about Harvest Festival were surprised and delighted at the same time.
It was the first time for me to see this kind of thing in the strongest finals of the No. 1 guild in the country. The astute stall owner had already asked people to prepare popcorn drinks.
Some people were a little worried at first, but after seeing the organizer's response, they put it behind them and looked forward to the next game.
However, as the rankings appeared on the light screen, everyone's eyes fell on the ranking column on the right side of the light screen.
The most eye-catching one is "Fairy Tail The Strongest Man" which occupies a full third of the page.
After seeing the name clearly, the expressions of many townspeople who often paid attention to the guild's dynamics instantly became extremely subtle, and bursts of whispers and complaints suddenly rang out on the street:
"Lucy? I remember she was a newcomer who just joined the guild not long ago?!"
"That's right! When she came to my store last month to buy something, she looked like she was about to cry because of the rent."
"This is unbelievable... She actually suppressed Erza and Gildarts, who is the same monster as that monster? Is this girl hiding so deeply?"
"Can't you tell? He's a Girl who looks so sweet and weak, but he's already the 'Fairy Tail strongest person'... The young Girl now is really terrifying..."
"Well... doesn't it mean that the initial ranking is random? Why doesn't everyone seem to hear it?"
A foreign tourist looked at the surrounding residents who were exclaiming in amazement and seemed to be holding back smiles on their faces, and asked his local friends doubtfully.
"Don't worry about it, just marvel together!" The local friend almost couldn't stand it, and quickly mobilized friends from other places to cheer together.
Just when everyone was amazed and talking about the "strength" exposed by Lucy, dazzling lights suddenly flashed across the sky.
"Look! They've been teleported out!!"
"Whoaaah--!!"
Along with a scream, two meteor-like lights landed on the street of Magnolia.
The light dissipated, and Lucy fell firmly to the ground. Happy opened its wings in time and stabilized its figure while dangling in mid-air.
Before Lucy could stand up, rubbing her sore buttocks, the surrounding townspeople immediately focused their attention on her.
"Oh oh oh!! Look! It's number one! The strongest newcomer Lucy!!"
"It teleported to our street! New monster!!"
"Yo! Supernova! Lucy!"
"Lucy is so awesome! Come on, step on Blanc, Gildarts and Laxus under your feet, and strive to be promoted to Guild Master as soon as you join the guild. It feels super cool!!"
All of a sudden, the residents of the whole street gathered around excitedly, applauding, cheering and cheering one after another.
"Um... ah haha... good afternoon everyone, um, um, actually this is all a misunderstanding..."
Lucy stiffly pulled the corners of his mouth, showing an embarrassing smile that was uglier than crying, and waved his hands crazily to explain.
"Wow, you have such strength and yet are so humble!"
"As expected of the strongest person, his bearing is just different!"
"No! What I said is true!!"
However, a person who pretends to be asleep cannot be woken up.
Even if there were some tourists from out of town who didn't know what was going on, looking at the starlight above her head that was constantly floating out with her movements, and the big portrait hanging over the town, they were all misled by the natural words of the people around her, and they became convinced.
"Wow--!"
Happy stood beside her, her little paws raised at the corners of her mouth, her eyes full of little stars:
"Lucy's popularity has suddenly become so high..."
"Is now the time to envy this!?"
Seeing that more and more people were crowding around and they would be surrounded to death if they didn't run away, Lucy grabbed Happy's tail and forced his way out of the crowd.
"Sorry! I borrowed it! I borrowed it--!!"
"Ah, the strongest man has escaped!"
"She must take the initiative to find the first prey!"
"Come on! The strongest newcomer! We will always pay attention to your performance!"