Chapter 97: War Begins
The city of Woku, where the ruler of the Phantoms lives.
"Damn it! This must be the work of Fairy Tail!"
In the makeshift guild, Phantom's guild leader, Joseph, who was also one of the Ten Great Mages of the Holy Land, slammed the table angrily, "I didn't expect that old guy Marklov would be so tough and even dare to launch a night raid?!"
Joseph wore a tall hat, a purple-black magic robe, and had a mustache. He looked to be in his forties or fifties, with a hateful, gloomy, wretched, and ugly face.
"Tsk... what's there to be angry about!" Gajeel, who had just returned, sat at the bar, eating iron and drinking, ignoring Joseph's temper. "I smashed their guild, so they smashed ours. Isn't that normal?"
Joseph was speechless. He was never one to suffer a loss, especially against a guy like Markrov. He hadn't settled the old score from the regular meeting six years ago. "Did you follow my instructions and attack the Fairy Tail people?"
Gajeel laughed wildly with pride: "Of course! If Erza hadn't come at the end, I would have just hung those guys up and beat them up!"
"Humph! Well done!" Joseph laughed happily, and then ordered the guild members, "Everyone, get ready. They will probably attack us soon!"
"Ohh, are we going to war with Fairy Tail?"
“It’s so exciting!”
"After this, we are definitely the strongest guild in the Kingdom of Fiore!!!"
Amid the shouts of his younger brothers, Joseph turned and left triumphantly.
The cheers in the Phantom Tavern didn't last long before they were interrupted by a loud bang. Everyone turned around and saw that it was the members of Fairy Tail who came to attack them and completely demolished their makeshift base.
Markov, who was walking in the front, turned into a giant and shouted, "Joseph! Come out!"
A giant palm slapped away a dozen people who were coming towards it, sounding the clarion call for war.
Markrov ignored everything and ran straight into the depths. Now he just wanted to beat Joseph up. The other Fairy Tail people were also ruthless and taciturn guys, so they started fighting without saying anything.
Well, it's clear that a war is about to start here, and the other side also knows that their actions will lead to a guild fight. Who would bother talking to you at this time? Just start using magic, fists, and weapons.
As soon as the handover took place, the most violent offensive was launched from this side.
"The Fire Dragon's..."
"ICEMAKE..."
"Change clothes..."
“…”
There is no one in Fairy Tail who doesn't attack in anger, and all the rulers of Phantom Flame are warmongers.
Fists flew back and forth, weapons rose and fell, and attacked from all sides. Magic of all colors appeared one after another, and shouts from all mouths resounded throughout the nine heavens and ten earths! The sounds of fists and feet colliding, weapons clashing, guns firing, magic exploding , angry shouts, and wailing all rang out in one. Shouts soared to the sky, and calls were everywhere.
In terms of numbers, Phantom Haunter is several times the size of Fairy Tail, but in terms of individual strength, one Fairy Tail member is as good as three Phantom Haunters, and some can even fight ten at once. Therefore, judging from the basic strength alone, the two sides can be said to be evenly matched.
"go to hell!"
“Take that!”
"Take my punch, asshole!"
Soon, the impact of the gap in high-end combat power on the battle became apparent.
Facing these noobs, Erza, Killer, Natsu, Gray and the others were invincible, like tigers and sheep, and no one could resist them. Killer's [Rain of Bullets] alone was as powerful as the combat power of a hundred people, until...
Ding ding dong!
The collision of metals created fleeting sparks. During the battle, the bullet that Kira conjured up with his Word Magic was blocked by an iron shield. It was Gajeel.
"Hey, isn't this Tielong? I haven't seen you for a while, and you seem to be even more annoying!"
Gajeel's eyes were full of provocation: "I didn't succeed in the last fight in the Council, I won't miss it this time! I have been waiting for this moment for a long time! Come on, fight with me!"
"It's a pity that I'm not your opponent!" Kira grinned and gave a mocking look in return, "Natsu, hit him away!"
“?!”
Before Gajeel could react, Natsu rushed over from his side and smashed his flaming fist into Gajeel's face, sending him flying dozens of meters and crashing into a nearby Phantom member.
Kira didn't even look at it and ran directly in the direction of Markov: "I'll leave this to you."
Seeing this scene, several extras stopped Kira. Perhaps they didn't know Joseph's plan, but the order they received was to stop everyone except Marklov here.
"I won't let you pass...Ah!!"
Kira kicked the small fish that rushed over and flew away: "A few extras want to take advantage of my popularity?"
When shooting a person, shoot the horse first; when capturing a thief, capture the leader first.
Although Joseph's plan was crude, it was very effective. He knew that once Markrov fell, even if the Fairy Tail people could still fight, their morale would be greatly damaged. Therefore, he specially asked his subordinate Aliya to learn "Air Domain·Destruction" to launch a sneak attack on the old man.
For a magician, magic power is equivalent to physical strength, and even more so to vitality.
It is a well-known concept that people with abundant magic power are naturally in good spirits, while people with less magic power are weak.
As long as there is still a little magic power in the wizard's body, it can slowly recover. Once the wizard is in a state of very little magic power for a long time, magic deficiency syndrome will occur, which may cause serious illness at the mildest and life-threatening at the worst.
The most insidious thing about this move, Sky Domain: Annihilation, is that it can completely drain the opponent's magic power. Once it succeeds, the magician's body will be left with no magic power and will be unable to regenerate, and naturally he will suffer from severe magic deficiency!
If the scattered magic power cannot be collected in time and sent back into the magician's body, the magician will die!
Joseph knew that Marklov would definitely come in person to seek revenge, and would not let anyone else interfere in their fight, which gave him an opportunity. As long as he let his men block the other members of Fairy Tail and leave Marklov alone, he would be able to win with a surprise attack. By then, no one else would be able to stop him, the Holy Ten Mage.
The idea was good, but it was a pity that he met Kira.
The out-of-body magic source is a product that Kira made several years ago. It can identify the magic power injected into it and store special magic power for the magician. Each out-of-body magic source can only be activated once. For the user, it is equivalent to having another magic source.
It is different from ordinary magic crystals that store magic power. Magic crystals are mostly used to drive energy for magic props, and can be used for any magic props, which is equivalent to a power bank.
Before setting off, Kira asked Marklov to inject his magic power into it, just in case. Even if his magic power was really emptied, it could be restored as quickly as possible without the trouble of running around to collect the free magic power.
Fairy Tail had sent out all its main forces, with only a few people left behind. While worrying about their companions, they were also taking care of the injured Levi and others.
Although they did stay in the guild under Kira's orders, the Phantom's men came to arrest them and sent out two S-class wizards from their guild. It would be the same no matter where they were.
Speaking of which, the strength of the S-class wizards of each guild is different. Jura of Snake Scale can be ranked among the top ten, while several of the Phantom Spectres cannot beat Natsu and Gray.
Overall, Fairy Tail's S-class wizards are relatively strong, but it is the strongest magic guild in Fiore after all, so it is normal for the standards to be a bit higher.
Lucy was born in the Heartfilia Group, the largest railway group in the Kingdom of Fiore. Her father, Jude, was the boss of the group. As the business had not been good in recent years, he wanted his daughter to marry a noble young master of the oil group. After finding out that his daughter was staying at Fairy Tail, he entrusted a Phantom, who was as famous as Fairy Tail, to bring his daughter back.
Joseph, on the other hand, took this opportunity to declare war on Fairy Tail and kidnapped and extorted them.
