Chapter 59: Demonic Conference in the Snowy Mountains
With a creak, the door of the tavern was pushed open, and a petite girl who looked to be about 12 or 13 years old and had a cold personality walked in.
The girl was dressed simply, in blue and white cloth pants and a grey coat, which looked a bit old and not very warm, but she didn't seem cold at all. Her silver-white hair matched the snow outside the house. The girl was very pretty, with a watery face, but her body seemed very strong, like a young snow leopard.
It doesn't look like the way people living in this place should be - but it is the way the Fairy Tail world should be.
"I'm back." The girl named Winter took off her coat and asked, "Uncle, who are these people?"
"Winter, you're back?"
"they are……"
Poole was about to introduce himself, but Natsu, who seemed to be very familiar with the place, greeted him directly: "I'm Natsu, the wizard of Fairy Tail."
"I'm Lucy."
"I'm Harpy."
"Wizard?" Winter's face showed a proper puzzlement. He walked over and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Poole explained to his niece: "They were commissioned by me to come and help fight the monsters."
"Just these two people and a cat?" Winter frowned and asked, "What kind of magic did you use?"
"fire."
"Protoss."
"Why."
"Is this the person you asked for help?" Winter took a deep look at them, then turned to look at his uncle in disbelief: "A hot-blooded idiot restrained by the ice attribute, a woman with useless fat all over her body, and a cat who can only act cute and eat grilled fish? (Although this cat is indeed very cute)"
"This little girl is so unlovable!" Lucy complained in a low voice with her mouth puffed up with anger, "What do you mean by useless fat?! I have a plump figure!"
Happy was not convinced and swallowed the remaining half of the grilled fish in his hand in one gulp: "That's right! I can still fly!"
"I think you should go back as soon as possible, otherwise you will lose your life if you can't win the fight." Winter said simply and turned to walk to the corner.
Only then did Lucy realize that this pub had a second floor.
"Winter, you can't be so rude!" Poole scratched his head. "Really, this child is different when she grows up. She is getting more and more rebellious. I'm sorry, please forgive her disrespect."
"No...it's nothing." Lucy smiled awkwardly.
"This person's magic is very different." Natsu said, looking at Winter's back. His perception has always been very sensitive.
After hearing what Natsu said, Lucy realized, "Magic power? Is she a wizard too?"
"Yes, Winter was considered to have a talent for using magic since she was born. As I said before, she was supposed to inherit the magic of the Isisnew clan."
Poole said to Natsu and Lucy, "But, perhaps her father's death was a big blow to her. After I arrived, I found that she became very withdrawn and her personality became more and more strong. Don't look at her now. She used to be a little girl who loved to act spoiled."
Poole smiled like an old father showing off his child, his eyes full of nostalgia: "I originally lived with my tribe in the city outside, and I rushed here after receiving the news of my brother's death. I wanted to take her away, but she stubbornly refused to leave.
Even if she lost the demon-killing method inherited from her clan, she could still live well on her own. That child seemed to want to prove this to her dead father, so I had no choice but to stay here and take care of her."
"I don't have a strong talent for magic, so I asked the Magic Guild to help me get rid of those monsters." Poole took a sip of wine. "Winter shouldn't be kept here by such an obsession. She has a brighter future. I hope she can get out of this snowy mountain and see the outside world."
"Uncle..." Lucy was moved by the words of the uncle in the tavern, because she subconsciously compared Winter with herself.
I'm so envious. Even though he's just an uncle, he cares so much about her. Even if he doesn't agree with her decision, he will silently support her behind the scenes. What about me?
Lucy thought of her father, Jude Heartfilia.
As a wealthy man who controls the railway consortium of the Kingdom of Fiore, he has always been strict with Lucy, not caring about her preferences and life, and even seems stingy with his daily greetings.
"I've made up my mind!" Lucy stood up and clenched her fists.
"What?" Natsu and Happy looked at Lucy in confusion, not knowing why she reacted so suddenly.
"I want to help the uncle, so that the little girl can get out of this snowy mountain and see the outside world! Uncle Poole is right. That little girl, Winter, should have a more exciting future instead of living here forever, bound by this inexplicable obsession."
"By the way, why are you so excited all of a sudden?"
"Lucy is acting weird~"
"Stop making so much noise! You just need to support me."
"yes!"
…
In a mysterious cave on a certain mountain in Zonia, four figures were holding a meeting around an ice table. They exuded a dark and gloomy aura unique to demons.
Among them, the burly uncle who seemed to be the eldest of the four spoke in a deep tone and serious face: "Everyone! The plan that has been going on for decades is about to succeed, and the Lord is about to be resurrected. I hope you will not let any reason cause the plan to go wrong!"
"You stinky uncle, stop giving orders to others like a boss. I won't buy it!"
The one who refuted him was a grumpy little girl with two ponytails. She put one foot on the round table, the white lace on her legs looked like white clouds, and she had one hand on her waist, like an underage bad girl with no manners.
"Okay, Claude, control your temper a bit. I think you should read more books like me in the future." The young man next to him looked bookish, which was totally inconsistent with the temperament of the other three.
"That's right. I advise you to be more respectful to Ace," said a graceful, beautiful, and voluptuous woman beside him, laughing. "If you are hung on an icicle later, we will not plead for you."
"Humph! It's you again, you bad woman. Every time you say bad things about me in front of the stinky uncle, you get me punished."
"You will be punished because you have never learned good manners. It has nothing to do with me."
"Huh?! Books? Etiquette? You two don't really think of yourselves as human beings, do you?" The girl named Klaue grinned with a fierce look in her eyes, "We are demons! Cruelty and cold-bloodedness are our nature!"
"Alright, Klaue, Sinuo, and Ferg, be quiet!" The burly uncle named Ace slapped the table. "That guy from the Isisnu clan has commissioned a human wizard to come here. You should be careful during this period and don't let them ruin our plan."
The irritable loli Crowley showed disdain: "They are just a few wizards, do we need to be so cautious? I can handle them alone!"
Si Nuoyi, who looked like a queen, spread her chest on the table and said, "Don't underestimate the magicians nowadays. Remember a few years ago, didn't a human break into the base alone and kill Walter? If you are careless, you may be the next one to die!"
"That's because he's too weak! If I had stayed behind, the result wouldn't have been like that!"
The young man named Ferg glanced at Klaue, who was obviously a little dissatisfied and said, "Don't be so confident! That man inherited the magic of the Isisnew family!"
Although she was not young, Claude, who had not read much, kept silent because she knew that the wizard who inherited the magic of exterminating demons could cause harm to them, but her personality did not allow her to give in in a verbal confrontation.
"You also said that the reason why Watt was killed so easily was because of that magic. These guys this time didn't inherit the magic of the Isisnew family! They are just a group of humans who can be slaughtered at my will!"
"I think sooner or later you will suffer because of your arrogance! When the time comes, you can cry to me as much as you want!"
"You bastard, do you want to be punished?!"
"That's enough! Do you still take me seriously?!"
Seeing that the three men didn't take him seriously at all, the burly uncle Ace immediately released his pressure. The terrifying pressure made the three men breathless and they dared not say a word.
After stopping the quarrel, Ace directly assigned tasks, "In short, in order to prevent them from affecting the master's resurrection plan, the three of you will each lead your wolf pack to deal with these bastards!!"
"yes."
After the three left , Ace turned back and entered the secret passage in the cave, and after many twists and turns, he arrived at a secret room.
In the spacious secret room, stands a gigantic demon ice sculpture tens of meters high.
"The time is almost up. Soon I will have your power, former master of the sea!"
If Kira or Gray were here, they would recognize at a glance that the ice magic that sealed the demon in front of them was the life-threatening trick passed down by the Uru lineage, absolute freezing!!!