Chapter 561: Serena's Fate Changed
"Do you know that your name is very similar to someone I know... No, it should be a dragon!"
In a small town, in a fancy and expensive restaurant with gorgeous decoration, in a private room by the window on the second floor, at a small square table for four, two men were sitting face to face and chatting.
In front of them, the table was littered with cups and plates, with more than a dozen bowls and plates stacked up into two small hills, but two waiters were still pushing the food carts to deliver food here.
This is a high-end restaurant with chain stores throughout the Albares Empire. The quality of the waiters... no, it's their service attitude, which is quite high. Everyone has a smile on their face.
Even though the two ate like starving ghosts and were not wearing any high-end brand-name clothes, they would not even frown. They would just put the plates in front of them with standard and elegant movements, and then say "Enjoy your meal" in a clear and gentle voice.
Sitting in the seats were a handsome young man and a weird old man.
The boy had short red hair, a heroic appearance, a carefree and unrestrained temperament, sky-blue eyes that were as gentle as water, and a gaze that was as clear and clean as the sweet spring water on the Tianshan Mountains. His skin was whiter than the fair-skinned and beautiful waitresses in the store, and he had the potential to be a gigolo.
However, judging from the two gorgeous and sharp swords beside him, this young man is definitely not a gigolo who needs to be kept by a rich woman, but a magician, ranger, or swordsman.
Compared with the young man, the middle-aged man on the opposite side is much inferior in appearance, and the same goes for temperament, there is no comparison at all.
He is obviously a grown man, not young anymore, but he wears two high ponytails. If it weren't for the scar on his nose that adds a bit of masculinity to him, he would probably be mistaken for a pervert or a psychopath by passers-by.
However, although he was spared from being called "perverted" or "lunatic", he still couldn't avoid being labeled as "chuunibyou".
From the moment he entered the restaurant, this middle-aged man acted like a teenage boy, speaking and acting strangely and nonsensically. He would occasionally utter strange words like "god~" and sometimes make gestures like "hey hoo, hey hoo". He was even more energetic than other boys of this age.
When the young man in front of him talked about his name, the uncle finally stopped what he was doing, thought for a while and said, "GOD~ It seems that dragon has good taste!"
This middle-aged man is the former 'First of the Ten Saints' of Ishgar, and now one of the 'Twelve Holy Shields' of the Albares Empire, 'God' Serena!
And this young swordsman is Kira's Edlas counterpart, Disper .
Disper looked into Serena's eyes curiously and continued to ask, "You two have similar names. Are you really not related? For example, she gave you the name, or your parents received help from her..."
“No, no…”
Serena habitually performed a few large movements similar to aerobics, and responded to Disper's question: "I can only say it is God~ fate!"
Unlike the others, after being separated from the crowd, it took Disper half a month to find this guy who was wandering around somewhere unknown.
According to Kira, this man who was said to be favored by the Dragon God, had a lifelong goal of becoming stronger and defeating Akunorolia. It was precisely to become stronger that he left Ishgar and joined the Albares Empire. From this point of view, Serena can really be regarded as an ambitious middle-aged man with lofty ideals.
Of course, considering that he was probably still very young when he set this goal, it is not wrong to say that he was an ambitious young man.
But after observing for a period of time, Disper discovered that this strange Serena was neither warlike nor cruel, let alone loyal to Jellal. On the contrary, his character seemed a little depressed, like a decadent uncle who was tortured by life, or a fat otaku who had lost his life goals. This surprised him.
What Dispere didn't know was that the Serena in front of him was no longer the same Serena.
The original Serena could easily defeat the Four Heavenly Kings ranked below him by himself. He could be said to be a well-deserved strong man. Even among the Twelve Shields, he was ranked in the top six. Although he might have met Acnorolia a few years later and was killed by it with one move, this did not affect his strength positioning.
But now, his fate has shifted!
Although he also came to the Western Continent to become stronger, the rumor that Acnorolia was defeated by Fairy Tail had already spread to his ears during this year.
When Serena first heard the rumor, she didn't believe it.
Who is Acnorolia ? The Dragon of the End of the World! His Power is Terrifying!
There should be only one person in the whole of Aslant who can defeat it, and there must be only one, and that is myself, who is favored by the Dragon God!
It is the enemy that he is destined to defeat, and he is the end of its four hundred year legend!
The young man favored by the Dragon God defeated the evil dragon that intended to destroy the world. What a beautiful and romantic legend!
Such a legend should be passed down for hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years, and even adapted into dramas, novels, music, or paintings by countless art masters, and become a legend known to everyone in Aslant!
But all of this was ruined by Fairy Tail! It was ruined by that little brat called Kira Hopelet!!
Serena would never accept such a thing!!!
But after that, news came from Ishgar one after another: the Council and the Kingdom of Fiore made a big fuss about the matter, publicizing it and making Fairy Tail famous. The news even spread to the Albareth Empire, finally forcing Serena to accept the matter.
That day, the tears she shed were the youth that Serena could never get back.
After implanting eight dragon-slaying crystals and learning eight kinds of dragon-slaying magic, I turned around and found that there were no dragons in the world that I could fight. How could I describe this regret and loss with just one word? !
Selene fell into the lowest point of his life, but he soon picked himself up again.
As a middle school uncle with ideals, goals and ambitions, a genius wizard who has regarded Acnorolia as his life goal since childhood, he knows that wallowing in loss is of no use.
Since his target Acnorolia was defeated by someone else first, couldn't he just defeat that person?
So Serena decided to challenge Fairy Tail and that brat named Kira! To prove to the world that only he, Serena, was the lifelong enemy of Acnorolia! !
But before he left, he thought of another thing: this brat named Kira seemed to be only 20 years old, which meant he was his junior. Wouldn't it be a loss of status for him to go to his house like this? Wouldn't the magic world laugh at him for looking for trouble with a rising star, as the dignified 'First of the Ten Saints'?
So Serena became depressed and decadent.
Serena had heard of Kira. When he left Ishgar for the Western Continent, Kira was just becoming famous, but this kind of superstar newcomer in the magic world appears every few years - for example, the one before Kira was Jura - so Serena didn't pay much attention to him.
I never expected that the little kid who I had ignored would snatch away the life goal I had been striving for all my life in just a few years.
From then on, in order to distract herself from her distress, Serena started to eat a lot and soon became a glutton who could eat dozens of servings in one meal.
This situation continued until the day when Disper appeared before him...
"Do you want to take back the glory that belongs to you? Do you want to challenge Kira to a duel? I can help you!"
"Come, fight me first! If you win, you can go around saying that Kira was defeated by you; if I win, you will leave the Albares Empire!"
"Why do you ask me? Because I am Kira!"
