AWB Chapter 592 592
Chapter 592 592
Splash!
Before Erza could finish, the others also climbed back onto the ship one after another.
All of them wore equally strange expressions, their faces full of confusion.
"What happened?"
Makarov jumped down from the mast and asked.
"Master… Tenrou Island is sunk on the seabed, but… it hasn't been destroyed. Instead, it's wrapped inside a golden sphere of magical light."
Erza frowned as she described what she had seen.
"A golden sphere?!"
Makarov's eyes widened at once, and he asked again with obvious agitation.
"That's right. It even has our Fairy Tail emblem on it. I tried it—that sphere is incredibly tough. I couldn't break it at all."
Mirajane took over from there.
She had been in a panic just now and had wanted to get inside that sphere to look for Marco, but she had not been able to shake it in the slightest.
"Could it be Marco's magic?" Gray voiced a guess.
The reason he thought so was because the golden sphere was full of the aura of stellar magic, and Marco was the only one who could manipulate stellar magic.
"No… that is one of Fairy Tail's Three Great Fairy Magics. It's Fairy Sphere, the super magic of absolute defense."
Makarov gradually calmed down
He already knew what that golden sphere was, and he had more or less guessed who had cast it.
It definitely was not Marco, because that brat had never learned it in the first place.
"Master Mavis…"
Makarov let out a breath and spoke that name—the very name he had never expected would affect the course of the battle.
While Mavis had been a powerful legendary mage in life, after death, as a lingering spirit, Mavis herself was not particularly strong.
Makarov had never imagined she could actually help, but clearly, he had still underestimated the First Master.
Though Mavis' spirit was not very powerful in itself, she seemed to have borrowed Marco's magic by some method and used Marco's magic power to cast Fairy Sphere, protecting the whole of Tenrou Island.
"Master Mavis?"
Makarov's words made everyone freeze.
Naturally, they all knew that the First Master Mavis had her grave on Tenrou Island, but her spirit—they truly had never seen it.
After all, Mavis had always worried that she would still bring death to the people around her, so she had stayed in her tomb like a shut-in.
She had only ever come out to speak with Marco and Makarov.
"Marco and Laxus… should both be fine."
Once he knew that Master Mavis had used Fairy Sphere to protect Tenrou Island, Makarov relaxed completely.
Since Fairy Sphere had not been broken, and the Black Dragon had fled heavily wounded, then it meant his two grandsons were probably fine as well.
They were most likely simply too exhausted to keep fighting the Black Dragon.
"Really?! They're both on Tenrou Island?!"
Makarov's words gave everyone confidence, and the anxious crowd became excited.
There could hardly be better news than this.
"Come on. Let's all go take another look together."
Makarov did not answer directly. He jumped into the sea, intending to confirm it with his own eyes.
At the same time, a new doubt arose in Makarov's heart.
The Black Dragon had already fled, and they had all arrived—so why had Master Mavis still not lifted Fairy Sphere?
In truth, Mavis wanted to, but she simply did not have the ability.
She had cast Fairy Sphere entirely by mobilizing the stellar magic Marco had scattered everywhere and Laxus' magic.
Now, without Marco and Laxus helping, she was at a complete loss.
It would take her a very long time to undo the spell.
Mavis was regretting it more and more!
She regretted acting too quickly.
She had not expected Marco to still have enough strength left to take Laxus and escape.
In the end, the only thing her Fairy Sphere had actually accomplished was protecting Tenrou Island from being destroyed.
Actually, Mavis had no real attachment to Tenrou Island itself.
If it were destroyed, then so be it—it was only an island.
The reason she had hurried to act was only because she wanted to protect Marco and Laxus.
And yet in the end, all her effort had been for nothing, and now she still had to work hard to undo the magic afterward.
She had made a huge loss no matter how she looked at it!
"That Marco! He doesn't even come back and help!"
Mavis grumbled to herself as she worked, but her eyes quickly lit up, because she noticed that the people of Fairy Tail had arrived.
They seemed to be searching for Marco, for Laxus, and for Tenrou Island.
"Makarov!"
Mavis did not show herself at first.
Only after Makarov went under the sea did she appear in front of him and the others.
Glub glub glub!
Makarov opened his mouth—and immediately got a mouthful of seawater.
"I forgot about that." Mavis was amused.
She cast a simple water-bubble spell on Makarov, encasing his head in a bubble so that he could breathe and speak underwater.
She still had enough strength left for that kind of simple little magic.
Cough, cough!
"Master Mavis! Where are Marco and Laxus?!"
Makarov coughed twice, got used to it, and then hurriedly asked.
In the end, he still could not hold back and revealed just how anxious he really was.
"Huh? I don't know. The two of them just disappeared. Didn't they go back to find you?"
Mavis froze for a moment, then shook her head.
She genuinely did not know.
After badly injuring the Black Dragon, Marco had vanished with Laxus directly. She had no idea where they had gone, and Marco had not left any message behind.
"They disappeared?!"
Makarov's eyes widened.
Worry immediately rose in his heart again.
The others who had followed him underwater were the same, their expressions turning tense all over again.
....
Meanwhile, the Marco everyone was so worried about was currently lying spread-eagle on a patch of lush green grass.
Laxus sat beside him with a blade of grass in his mouth, a somewhat irritated expression on his face.
"How much longer until you recover?"
Laxus looked at Marco and finally could not help asking again.
Marco kept his eyes closed and said nothing.
And when Marco said nothing, Laxus just kept staring at him, staring fixedly at his face.
"Just wait. It'll still be a while."
Marco twitched his lips and answered helplessly.
The magic in this world of Edolas had already been drained dry and could not provide any more magic.
Marco's own magic had been drained dry as well.
He had even converted his ki into magic and used that up too. His Cosmo had also been overburned.
Right now, his entire body was in a state of utter exhaustion. He needed to rest properly for a while.
'Sure enough, using Athena Exclamation with only the Sixth Sense was still too much. The strategy was a bit too aggressive. Good thing the objectives were all achieved.'
Marco sighed inwardly.
As he was now, once he used that move, it basically meant losing his combat ability altogether.
Bringing Laxus across worlds to Edolas had already been pushing himself to the absolute limit.
"That Black Dragon was hurt that badly. Half its body had already been destroyed by you. Why did we still have to run? I think even I could've killed it in that state."
Laxus bit down on the blade of grass in his mouth and started talking nonsense.
"Forget it. Even in that condition, the Black Dragon still isn't someone you can beat."
Marco could not help rolling his eyes and replying irritably.
It sounded harsh, but it was the truth.
The Black Dragon had indeed suffered a heavy blow, but it was still far from having lost the ability to fight.
That Black Dragon was a complete all-around stat monster, and its vitality was just as ridiculous.
A true final boss, through and through—hard as hell to kill.