Recaps

Lin Yuan and Laxus passed Fairy Tail’s S-Class exam and were promoted, earning access to jobs on the second floor. Their first trip upstairs ended with both reaching for the same job sheet and Makarov warning them not to fight over the work.

• On the boat back from Black Reef Island, Laxus suffered from seasickness and traded insults with Lin Yuan until Makarov kicked them apart.
• At the Guild, Makarov explained the three exam stages and declared that Lin Yuan and Laxus had passed.
• The Guild celebrated Lin Yuan and Laxus’s promotion to S-Class Mages, and Mira reminded Lin Yuan that their bet was still on.
• Makarov allowed the new S-Class Mages to take jobs from the second floor and warned them about the risks involved.
• Laxus and Lin Yuan reached for the same job sheet, sparked up for a fight, and heard Makarov order them not to fight over upstairs jobs.

Lin Yuan chose an S-Class mission to reopen a northern transport tunnel before winter and asked Mira to join him as his partner. Mira accepted, and they prepared to leave in three days.

• Laxus and Lin Yuan fought over a Golden-Horned Flying Lizard request, tore it in half, and Makarov assigned it to Laxus while charging them for the copying fee.
• Lin Yuan chose the lower-paying mission to escort repair crews, investigate tunnel collapses, and reopen the northern transport road before winter.
• Makarov reminded Lin Yuan that he would be responsible for mission decisions, casualties, and compensation.
• Lin Yuan refused to bring Lisanna and Elfman, then asked Mira to join him because her Take Over could hold off the Rock-Armored Beasts while he reinforced the tunnel.
• Mira accepted the mission and wrote her name down as Lin Yuan's partner.

Lin Yuan, Mira, and the repair crew entered Frozen Rock Mountain to reopen the transport tunnel and were charged by a herd of Rock-Armored Beasts. Lin Yuan discovered the beasts were fleeing something deeper in the mountain, and a stronger tremor left the hidden danger unresolved.

• Lin Yuan, Mira, and Elfman set out from Magnolia and reached Stone Hearth Town, where Boone questioned whether Lin Yuan was an S-Class Mage.
• Boone explained that repeated tunnel repairs had been disrupted by Rock-Armored Beasts, and Lin Yuan led the workers inside with safety ropes and spatial marks.
• Mira and Lin Yuan found claw marks pointing toward the tunnel exit before a herd of Rock-Armored Beasts charged them.
• Mira held the beasts back while Lin Yuan stabilized falling rocks and opened a passage so the herd could rush toward the exit.
• Lin Yuan sensed a quaking area deeper in the mountain and realized the Rock-Armored Beasts were fleeing from something; a stronger tremor shook the tunnel.

Lin Yuan and Mira discovered that an abandoned Magic Crystal mining device was causing Frozen Rock Mountain to shake, and Lin Yuan found that the whole mountain formed part of its magic circle. The device was still out of control as rocks fell around them, leaving Lin Yuan to find a way to break the circle’s connections.

• Lin Yuan and Mira followed the tremors through the tunnel and found a cavern containing a huge Magic Crystal and a still-turning mining machine.
• Mira pulled a magic-conducting wire, which broke but caused the device to accelerate and send more violent ripples through the mountain.
• Mira shielded Lin Yuan from falling rocks while he examined the damaged control console and traced the vibrations through the mountain.
• Lin Yuan used his spatial perception to map the resonance nodes and realized Frozen Rock Mountain itself was inside the device’s magic circle.

Lin Yuan and Mira tried to stop the mountain’s machinery, but discovered that cutting off one pillar redirected its magic power to the others. They left the still-functioning device for now and headed out to find a way to shut it down together.

• Lin Yuan stopped one pillar’s magic flow, but the neighboring pillars lit up and the machinery sped up, so he restored the flow.
• Lin Yuan and Mira found that the shutdown gate was held by a warped bracket and that magic power was pulling its axle back into place.
• Mira inspected the route to the distant node and found it blocked by a cave-in, forcing them to consider going around the mountain.
• Mira questioned why Lin Yuan needed to hold down all six pillars before they found a solution, and Lin Yuan agreed to leave the device running temporarily.
• Lin Yuan marked the entrance while Mira took an engraved iron plate, and they left to consult the repair crew.

Lin Yuan and Mira found a way to divert the machine’s returning magic power and bring down its gate. The drill bits stopped, but a bent bracket still held the gate slightly open, leaving Lin Yuan ready to dismantle the jammed mechanism.

• Boone identified the iron plate as instructions for a maintenance bypass, and Lin Yuan and Mira determined how to divert the return flow safely.
• Mira flew to the stone building, cleared the pressure relief channel, removed a locking pin, and turned the diversion wheel.
• Lin Yuan isolated the returning magic line and compressed the distance beneath the gate, bringing it down and stopping the drill bits.
• Lin Yuan saw that a bent bracket still wedged the gate open, then gathered magic power around his fist to dismantle the mechanism.

Lin Yuan, Mira, and Boone shut down the dangerous old mine machinery and repaired the tunnel route. As snow began to fall, they cleared an icy drainage ditch so the first grain cart could pass.

• Lin Yuan broke the bent brace, stopping the gears, and warned Boone's workers not to reconnect the old wiring.
• Lin Yuan and Mira helped Boone's crew shore up the tunnel, clear rubble, and seal off the old mine entrance.
• Boone inspected the icy slope and ordered the workers to clear the drainage ditch, spread sand, and test the road with an empty cart.
• Lin Yuan shoveled out the frozen ditch as the grain driver and others unloaded the cart, preparing to let the first cart through.

Lin Yuan and Mira completed the tunnel repairs, watched the first grain wagon pass through, and returned to the Guild with their payment and a sack of chestnuts. Makarov recorded the successful delivery as the Guild members gathered to share the chestnuts.

• Lin Yuan guided a grain wagon through the tunnel while Boone organized the caravan and confirmed the road was open.
• Boone inspected the tunnel the next morning, signed the acceptance form, and gave Lin Yuan the remaining payment and a sack of frost chestnuts.
• Lin Yuan and Mira returned to Magnolia by train, split their reward, and decided to share the chestnuts with the Guild.
• Natsu grabbed chestnuts to roast, while Lisanna took Mira’s scarf and the Guild members gathered the chestnuts that spilled across the floor.
• Makarov checked the acceptance form and payment receipt, then recorded that the first grain wagon had passed through.

After Natsu’s chestnut-roasting mishap, Lin Yuan asked him to demonstrate Fire Dragon’s Roar and studied how he gathered and released his magic power. The chapter left Lin Yuan believing he could apply the same principle to his own God Slayer Magic.

• Natsu’s fire-breathing ruined the chestnuts and Guild ceiling, so Makarov sent the roasting outside and forbade Natsu from breathing fire directly on them.
• Lin Yuan asked Natsu to use his roar, and Makarov directed them to the riverbank to keep the demonstration away from the Guild.
• Natsu used Fire Dragon’s Roar to destroy a large rock while Gray protected the onlookers with an ice wall.
• Lin Yuan watched Natsu repeat the roar and realized that gathering magic power into one point and releasing it in a fixed direction made the attack possible.
• Lin Yuan considered applying the technique to his God Slayer Magic and said he should be able to do it too.

Lin Yuan attempted to imitate Natsu’s roar and unleashed a devastating blast of compressed space that carved a trench through the river valley. Makarov stopped the attack from reaching the town and forbade Lin Yuan from using the magic again unless his life was in danger.

• Lin Yuan gathered his magic power and tried to release it in a roar like Natsu’s.
• Lin Yuan’s Space God’s Roar compressed and tore through the riverbed and rock face, continuing even after he tried to stop it.
• Makarov blocked the torrent and deflected it into the sky, preventing it from reaching the town.
• Natsu urged Lin Yuan to fire again, but Mira pulled him away from the warning rope.
• Makarov showed Lin Yuan the destruction and banned him from using the magic unless his life was in danger.

Lin Yuan and Mira took a commission to drive Iron-Feathered Vultures from Red Stone Canyon without damaging its suspension bridge. Mira fought them in the air while Lin Yuan struggled to target the flying flock, and the chapter ended as more vultures took flight and Mira told him to pull them down.

• Makarov presented Lin Yuan and Natsu with a bill for damage at the riverbank and ordered them to move rocks to pay it off.
• Lin Yuan chose the Red Stone Canyon commission, and Mira joined him because she could fly.
• At the canyon, the bridge keeper explained that the Iron-Feathered Vultures attacked travelers and nested atop an unreachable cliff.
• Mira lured out seven vultures and slammed one into the rock face, while Lin Yuan shattered incoming feather blades but could not stop the bridge from shaking.
• More than a dozen vultures took flight, and Mira urged Lin Yuan to pull them down.

Lin Yuan developed a new way to use spatial folding to deflect attacks and trap Iron-Feathered Vultures while defending the suspension bridge with Mira. A much larger vulture rose from the clifftop, and they prepared to fight it.

• Lin Yuan used spatial mana to stabilize the bridge cable after an Iron-Feathered Vulture nearly pulled it apart, while Mira fought the flock overhead.
• Lin Yuan formed narrow spatial folds behind his arms and used them to deflect feather blades and slam Iron-Feathered Vultures into the ground.
• Mira asked Lin Yuan what his new move was called, and he named it Space God's Folding Wings.
• A giant black shadow rose from the clifftop, scattering the other vultures, and Lin Yuan and Mira prepared to bring it down.

Lin Yuan and Mira fought the Iron-Feathered Vultures while protecting the suspension bridge, then defeated the flock's leader before it could tear the bridge down. They checked the damage and argued over how to count their kills, agreeing the leader counted as ten.

• Mira attacked the Iron-Feathered Vulture leader while Lin Yuan used Space God's Folding Wings to deflect the flock's feather blades away from the bridge.
• Mira and Lin Yuan brought down several vultures, but the leader circled behind them and tried to pull the bridge free of its anchor posts.
• Mira held the leader back while Lin Yuan folded space around its wings and struck it with Zero-Distance Crushing Fist.
• The remaining vultures fled deeper into the canyon, and Lin Yuan checked the bridge before Mira collected one of the leader's feathers.
• Mira and Lin Yuan disputed how to divide credit for the kills and agreed that the leader counted as ten.

After completing the bridge commission, Lin Yuan returned to Fairy Tail and took a job hunting Crystal-Armored Crocodiles at a swamp herb farm. His opening punch failed to break the largest crocodile’s armor, leaving him to face the beast’s next attack.

• Mira found three surviving vulture chicks, and she and Lin Yuan helped repair the bridge before receiving the 350,000 J reward.
• On the train home, Mira claimed victory over Lin Yuan in their vulture count, and Natsu and Gray damaged Guild furniture while fighting with feathers.
• Lin Yuan accepted a 320,000 J commission to deal with Crystal-Armored Crocodiles, while Mira departed on a separate magic-rat job.
• Lin Yuan arrived at the Black Mud Swamp herb farm, where Kaben showed him a broken cage and scattered crystal scales.
• The largest Crystal-Armored Crocodile attacked from the mud, but Lin Yuan’s Zero-Distance Crushing Fist only dented its armor before the beast opened its jaws again.

Lin Yuan defeated the Crystal-Armored Crocodile by using Boundary-Severing Blade to break the connections between its armor scales, then struck its exposed shoulder and neck with Zero-Distance Crushing Fist. After clearing the waterways, he planned to return and find Erza.

• Lin Yuan drew the Crystal-Armored Crocodile onto the platform but found that his punches could not overcome its impact-dispersing armor.
• Lin Yuan learned from Kaben that the crocodile's scales opened near its shoulders and neck when it moved.
• Lin Yuan formed Boundary-Severing Blade and cut through the gaps between the crocodile's scales, disrupting its armor.
• Lin Yuan let the crocodile's tail strike the stationary blade, tearing off more scales, then broke apart its shell and knocked it down with Zero-Distance Crushing Fist.
• Lin Yuan told Kaben they would finish clearing the area and then go back to find Erza.

Lin Yuan returned from the herb-farm commission and asked Erza to teach him swordsmanship so he could wield his Boundary-Severing Blade properly. Erza took him to the backyard to assess his technique, inviting him to attack her with anything he had.

• Lin Yuan and the herb farmers drove away the Crystal-Armored Crocodiles, and he helped repair the fence before leaving the swamp.
• Kaben recorded two and a half baskets of herbs as losses when Lin Yuan completed the commission.
• Lin Yuan returned to Magnolia with the completion form and crystal scales, then handed the form to Makarov.
• Lin Yuan asked Erza to teach him swordsmanship and explained how his Boundary-Severing Blade worked.
• Erza brought Lin Yuan to the Guild's backyard and told him to attack so she could see how little he knew about using a sword.

Lin Yuan asked Erza to teach him swordsmanship, but she quickly exposed the flaws in his attacks and showed him how to recover after striking. After adapting his Boundary-Severing Blade into a short, adjustable weapon, he continued training with her in the Guild's backyard.

• Erza began training Lin Yuan with wooden swords and defeated him in their first two exchanges.
• Erza explained that Lin Yuan telegraphed his attacks and committed too much force, then taught him to bring his sword back after a strike.
• Lin Yuan adjusted his approach, defended against Erza's attacks, and used a short thrust that left room for his next move.
• Erza advised Lin Yuan to consider distance, angle, and his sword's position, while warning that ordinary swordsmanship would not fully suit the Boundary-Severing Blade.
• Lin Yuan shaped a short, adjustable section of the Boundary-Severing Blade along the wooden sword, and he and Erza resumed training.

Erza trained Lin Yuan to control the Boundary-Severing Blade by choosing and memorizing three fixed lengths instead of changing its reach by instinct. Lin Yuan began to track the blade's edge through spatial perception, ending the chapter with its tip poised inches from Erza's shoulder.

• Erza explained that Lin Yuan's attacks failed because he did not know where the changing blade's tip would end up.
• Lin Yuan chose familiar short, medium, and long lengths for the Boundary-Severing Blade and practiced switching between them.
• Lin Yuan forced Erza to retreat with the long blade, but she defeated him when he kept extending it and lost track of its tip.
• Erza asked Lin Yuan where his sword's edge was, and he used spatial perception to locate it without looking.
• Lin Yuan blocked Erza's attack with the medium blade, changed it to a short blade, and stopped its tip half an inch from her shoulder.

Lin Yuan trained with Natsu to learn how his opponents detected his attacks, and discovered that his gaze, shoulder, and magic power revealed his intentions before his sword moved. After fooling Natsu with a feint, Lin Yuan continued training as Erza warned that he still needed to coordinate his body with his blade.

• Erza stopped Natsu from stepping on her markings and explained that he would help Lin Yuan figure out why opponents could read his sword.
• Natsu dodged Lin Yuan's shifting blade and explained that he sensed Lin Yuan's gaze, right shoulder, and prickling magic power before each attack.
• Lin Yuan used spatial perception and a shoulder feint to make Natsu dodge the wrong way, then tapped Natsu's shoulder with his wooden sword.
• Natsu tried to trick Lin Yuan by announcing an attack on the left while aiming at the right, but Lin Yuan read his gaze and shoulder and blocked him.
• Erza warned Lin Yuan that an expert could read his gaze, breathing, footwork, and magic power, then challenged him to keep training.

Lin Yuan sparred with Erza to test how much he had learned about swordsmanship, and she pushed him harder after he showed better technique. After his defeat, Erza judged that he had mastered the basics of handling a sword, though he still had much to learn.

• Lin Yuan used short and medium blade forms, spatial movement, and close-quarters attacks as he fought Erza, who praised his improved sword handling.
• Erza used Requip to change into training armor and attack Lin Yuan with twin blunt swords, leaving him few openings.
• Lin Yuan extended his blade to stop Erza’s pursuit, then contracted it to exploit a brief opening, but Erza deflected his thrust and struck him back.
• Erza defeated Lin Yuan with a pair of coordinated attacks, and Mira remarked that he had lasted longer than before.
• Erza criticized Lin Yuan’s footwork, grip, and reliance on spatial movement, but told him he had finished learning the basics and now knew how to hold a sword.

Lin Yuan and Mira accepted a job to investigate a mysterious castle that appeared in different places and held twenty-three missing people. When the castle manifested unexpectedly near Belma Town and vanished almost at once, they rushed after it as Lin Yuan realized it was moving faster than before.

• Lin Yuan chose the moving castle job despite Makarov’s warning that previous mage teams had failed to explore it.
• Mira insisted on joining Lin Yuan, and Makarov registered her as his companion.
• Lin Yuan and Mira reached an observation camp near Belma Town, where a Magic Council mage predicted the castle would appear within two days.
• The castle suddenly emerged in the valley and vanished again within ten breaths, earlier than expected.
• Mira leaped from the watchtower, and Lin Yuan crossed the distance to pursue the disappearing gates.

Lin Yuan and Mira entered the shifting castle in search of the missing Magic Council investigators, but its doors connected to unstable, unrelated places. They found an investigator’s backpack and a warning not to trust the doors, then became surrounded by doors carrying changing sounds of people in danger.

• Lin Yuan held open the fading castle gate, and Mira followed him inside just before it shut; the gate opened onto an upside-down dining room instead of the valley.
• Lin Yuan sensed that the castle’s doors connected to shifting locations, and Mira’s attempt to mark one vanished when the wall changed.
• Mira fought magic puppets in a storeroom while Lin Yuan found a hidden door behind the shelves, leading them to chalk marks left by the earlier investigation team.
• Lin Yuan folded space to cross to a distant door after they heard a cry for help, but the room beyond held only an investigator’s backpack and a wall covered in warnings not to trust the doors.
• Doors appeared in all four walls as cries, footsteps, and clashes sounded from behind them, and Lin Yuan discovered that the sounds kept changing places.

Lin Yuan and Mira rescued the people trapped in the shifting castle and gathered them in a circular hall. With all twenty-three missing people safe, Lin Yuan turned to stopping the castle from moving again.

• Lin Yuan found the real connection to a room where six Magic Council investigators were under attack, and Mira helped them escape as he held the doorway open.
• The rescued team leader told Lin Yuan that a circular hall stayed relatively stable and that the castle rearranged itself whenever a bell rang.
• Lin Yuan joined the hall to their room and pinned its corners in place while Mira and he repeatedly rescued people from the castle's shifting rooms.
• Mira and Lin Yuan brought back the last missing people, and the investigation team leader counted twenty-three survivors.
• A bell tolled and the castle began shifting again, so Lin Yuan spread his magic into the floor and said they would stop it.

Lin Yuan stopped the castle from shifting into Belma Town by using his magic to fix every spatial coordinate inside the castle and across the surrounding valley. He held the space still while the rescued people remained inside and the bell continued to tremble.

• Lin Yuan pinned down the hall as the castle’s shifting spaces threatened to merge with Belma Town.
• Lin Yuan abandoned his attempt to secure individual connections and spread his magic throughout the castle.
• Lin Yuan seized the castle’s original coordinates, forcing it to return to the desolate valley and disrupting teleportation outside.
• Lin Yuan froze the castle’s spatial connections when the bell rang again, stopping the rooms and corridors from moving.
• Lin Yuan extended the fixed boundary across the valley and declared that the space would stay put until everyone was evacuated.

Lin Yuan and Mira escorted the castle’s twenty-three missing people to safety, then descended to destroy the spatial core that kept the castle shifting. They broke the clock and its chains, leaving the castle stable as rescue workers reopened the main doors to the desolate valley.

• Mira and Lin Yuan fought off armored puppets while leading the injured and children through the castle to its main entrance.
• Lin Yuan confirmed the spatial seal still held and stayed behind with Mira to dismantle the castle’s core.
• Mira held back a six-armed puppet as Lin Yuan cut the chains connecting the giant clock to the castle’s spaces.
• Mira hurled the puppet into the clock, and Lin Yuan severed the remaining chains with the Boundary-Severing Blade.
• The clock and spatial core broke, and Lin Yuan confirmed the castle had stopped shifting.