"Damn it, what kind of ice is this? Why can't it melt!"
Natsu, having spent a lot of magic power to create flames, found that the ice that was melting was negligible, and couldn't help but complain loudly.
Gray placed his palm on the ice, and his expression also became serious. It seemed that he had also sensed the special magic power within the ice.
After all, it was magic power that came from a blood relative. Even though his memories of his father were blurred, Gray still had a familiar feeling.
Drake clapped his hands and said, "Let's put the ice aside for now. There are other guests who have come to join in the fun!"
Everyone was an excellent mage, and immediately became vigilant.
Drake turned his head to look at the frozen bushes and said, "You guys have been watching long enough, right? Come out now!"
As Drake's voice fell, three figures walked out from behind the bushes.
Erza and the others had thought that they were enemies, but the three of them were bowing and scraping, looking fawning, which confused them.
Drake, however, said, "It's you guys?"
That's right, Drake knew these three people. These three also came over and said respectfully, "Big Brother Drake, long time no see! We heard that Big Brother's guild won the championship of the Grand Magic Games again. That's really amazing!"
Drake didn't stand on ceremony, and said casually, "I heard that you also won the championship of the Great Treasure Games. That's pretty amazing."
Saying this, Drake introduced them to the others, saying, "These three are members of the treasure hunter guild Sylph Labyrinth. I've met them once before, so you could say we're acquaintances."
Erza and the others saw the three's awkward expressions, and immediately guessed that something must have happened the one time that Drake had said they had met.
And in fact, they hadn't guessed wrong. That had happened when Drake had first returned to Fairy Tail after the Tenrou Island incident.
At that time, Drake had been doing jobs everywhere in order to solve the guild's financial problems, and in that process, Drake had learned about the information about the Zodiac Celestial Spirit Keys.
While searching for the golden keys, he had encountered Sylph Labyrinth, who had also gone there to search for treasure, and then, of course, a battle for the treasure had broken out.
Looking at the way these three treasure hunters looked now, they could tell what the result had been.
Don't look at how these three were, but their strength wasn't weak.
Although the theme of this world was magic and mages, there were also other professions.
Treasure hunters were one of them. They didn't rely on magic, but used finding and using secret treasures as their means of making a living.
Of course, both the process of finding secret treasures and using them skillfully required considerable skill and diligent study, but Drake really lacked interest in this kind of system that relied on external objects.
For example, these three people, relying on the special weapons in their hands, were enough to match many mages, but they were just small fry when they encountered truly strong people.
Drake glanced at the three and said, "You shouldn't be here to travel, right? You've taken a liking to the Eternal Flame here, haven't you! I heard that that's a 'S'-rank secret treasure among you treasure hunters.
You couldn't get your hands on it before because there were giants guarding it, but this time you heard that Sun Village had been frozen, so you thought you had a chance to steal the Eternal Flame, right!"
The three chuckled awkwardly, clearly having their thoughts spoken by Drake.
Drake thought for a moment and said, "It wouldn't be reasonable for me to ask you to give up now, but if you continue, then we'll be opponents!"
The three waved their hands repeatedly and said, "How could we dare to be Big Brother Drake's opponent? We'll leave right away."
Drake nodded with satisfaction, and then took back the flames on his hand. And the three treasure hunters also disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Drake continued, "The troublemakers have left. Next up are the real enemies."
Saying this, Drake made a flicking motion, and a flame flew out and hit a black spot in the air, igniting it into a ball of fire.
Everyone couldn't help but cover their ears, because that thing emitted a piercing shriek after being ignited.
That thing went crazy from being burned by the flames, and its body began to swell, dispersing the flames.
A pair of huge, half-black wings unfolded, revealing a huge body, but the upper half of the body was black, and it dragged a rat-like tail behind it.
Its head only had one huge circular eye, and there were two short antennae on its forehead.
The large mouth under the eye, with saw-like teeth, opened, and the monster swooped down and bit at Drake fiercely.
Drake tilted his body slightly, and as the monster came in front of him, he kicked the monster's large eye with a spinning kick.
The monster's eyeball caved in exaggeratedly, and then flew out directly like a ball, and at the same time, raging flames burned up again.
The monster screamed as it flew through the air, and turned to ashes.
Just then, Drake suddenly noticed an abnormality in his body, and then stretched out his hand to look at his hand, which had shrunk in size.
The others also noticed Drake's abnormality, and Lucy covered her mouth and said, "Drake, why have you gotten smaller?"
Drake frowned. However, shrinking into the body of an eleven- or twelve-year-old completely removed his previous mature and reliable feeling, and instead had a kind of inexplicable cuteness, causing the eyes of the three girls on the side to shine with hearts.
"Hahahaha, Drake, you've gotten smaller. You're no match for me now!"
The only one who would be so out of line at this time was naturally that kid Natsu! Suppressing Natsu, who wanted to rebel, with one hand, Drake curled his lips in disdain.
"Magic power has weakened, control is also very poor, and the body is also much more sluggish! It's not just that the body has gotten smaller, all the abilities have regressed a lot."
Drake told everyone about his situation, and Erza couldn't help but say, "What kind of magic is this? How can it have such a terrifying effect!"
Drake shook his head and said, "This isn't magic, but a curse unique to demons! Curses possess the power of rule-based magic, and you have to defeat the caster to break it!"
Since he knew that Tartaros would be the enemy, Drake had naturally done thorough research, and the curses, the special power of the Nine Demon Gates, were naturally the top priority.
The reason why the demons from the Books of Zeref were so frightening was because the curses they wielded were a power that restrained magic.
After all, those demons had been created by Zeref to kill himself.
Coupled with the ability to erase magic power with the magic barrier particles that every demon possessed, they were an extremely dangerous existence for mages.
With Drake's magic power level, ordinary magic couldn't take effect on him, but curses were different. Even Drake had been unknowingly affected.
"Kyaa!"
Lucy screamed, and under everyone's gaze, her body began to shrink, and she also turned into a little girl!
Natsu said angrily, "Damn it, who exactly is it? Come out now!"
Drake glanced at Natsu. You took advantage of your dear brother when he got smaller, but you're anxious when Lucy gets smaller. How come he hadn't noticed that this kid was this kind of person!
But then Natsu and Erza also turned into children, leaving only the two cats and Gray and Wendy not yet affected.
Drake came to Gray's side and said, "I'm counting on you, Gray. Go take care of that guy! Here's a hint, use the power in the ice."
Saying this, Drake grabbed Gray's wrist and threw him out. Even though his body had regressed a lot, Drake's power was still enough to send Gray to the target.
Then Drake turned his head and said, "Then let's take care of the opponents on this side!"
Everyone followed Drake's gaze, and happened to see the people walking out of the shadows.
"What? It's you guys?!"
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