The S-Class mission, the Galuna Island incident, didn't bring Xiao much profit. Aside from a large number of Moon Tears Crystals, there wasn't much of value.
Moreover, the effect of the Moon Drip was almost the same as that of Moon Tears, so Xiao basically watched the entire event without getting too involved.
After all, his strength had already surpassed these so-called S-Class missions, and he wasn't interested in such small-scale matters.
However, the subsequent Phantom Lord incident caught his attention.
The conflict between the two guilds had a long history; it merely erupted at this point.
This incident was essentially a direct confrontation between the Fairy Tail Guild Master and the Phantom Lord Guild Master.
As early as six years ago, during a Guild Masters' gathering, Jose and Makarov had formed a grudge after getting into a drunken argument.
At the time, both insisted that their own guild was the strongest and greatest, which eventually escalated into a fight, with Makarov emerging victorious.
Since then, Jose had harbored resentment toward Fairy Tail and had been waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.
Recently, at the request of Lucy's father, Jose forcibly kidnapped Lucy and used the opportunity to attack Fairy Tail's members and destroy its guild hall, deliberately provoking a war between the two guilds.
The fierce battle was dazzling, with brilliant magic blooming like fireworks as spells collided and intertwined.
Behind the spectacle was an equally thrilling battle of strategy.
Xiao watched every fight across the battlefield with wide eyes, astonished by the combat wisdom displayed by these top Magicians.
However, although the battle appeared evenly matched, the outcome had already been decided.
While Phantom Lord possessed deep foundations, it was still slightly inferior to Fairy Tail.
Once both sides revealed their ultimate trump cards, the victor became obvious.
Phantom Lord's greatest weapon was the Super Magic Giant, Phantom Lord MK-II, capable of unleashing the forbidden spell Abyss Break.
(Abyss Break: A super-destructive magical array classified as forbidden magic due to its overwhelming destructive power, capable of annihilating everything within its effective range.)
Fairy Tail's ultimate foundation, however, was the legendary large-scale Super Magic: Fairy Law.
This Super Magic summoned divine light to purge darkness, annihilating every enemy recognized by the caster's heart while completely destroying them on a spiritual level.
Under Fairy Law's sacred radiance, the entire Phantom Lord Guild suffered a devastating defeat, with only a handful of kind-hearted youths spared from its judgment.
As Fairy Law's primary target, Phantom Lord Guild Master Jose, despite being one of the Ten Wizard Saints, could not withstand this fatal judgment spell.
He exhausted every last bit of his strength, nearly burning away his own life force just to barely survive being erased.
As a result, he was left with only a few years to live and permanently lost all of his magic power.
After personally experiencing the power of Fairy Law and nearly having one of his clones erased, Xiao immediately fled.
Before leaving, he conveniently took away Phantom Lord's magical machine—the Super Magic Giant Phantom Lord MK-II.
A Gundam.
It was literally a magical Gundam capable of wiping out an entire city with a single shot.
Even if he couldn't use it for now, it was still worth collecting.
However, the machine was simply too enormous to move directly.
After modifying it extensively, Xiao finally renamed it Nightmare MX-1.
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Not long after the Phantom Lord incident ended, Dream Xiao once again entered the Great Firmament Arena.
This time, his opponent was Sho Uchiha from another world.
The moment they met, both immediately sensed an extraordinary similarity between them.
Their power systems were almost identical.
Both possessed a unique personal space and continuously gathered power from their respective worlds through it.
The only real difference was that one harvested Chakra, while the other harvested magic power and stamina.
The battle between them was destined to be exceptionally fierce.
After only a brief exchange, both sides immediately began considering how to defeat an opponent so similar to themselves.
This battle was not merely a duel between individuals, but a clash between two worlds.
After all, both sides had gathered their strength by collecting power from the entire world, effectively controlling the lifeblood of their respective civilizations.
Of course, anyone capable of entering the Great Firmament Arena was naturally no ordinary person.
In large-scale supernatural warfare, no matter how many ordinary mortals participated, they could never determine the outcome.
In the Naruto World, a Genjutsu cast by an Elite Jonin was enough to render thousands of ordinary people unconscious, causing them to die peacefully within their dreams.
Meanwhile, in the Fairy Tail World, a single large-scale spell cast by a Magician could effortlessly destroy an entire small town.
The Fairy Tail Guild's Magicians had repeatedly been held accountable by the Magic Council because they caused excessive collateral damage during missions.
It wasn't because their battles were especially intense.
It was simply because Magicians were too powerful.
Even an ordinary attack possessed destructive power that normal people simply couldn't endure.
Therefore, every Ninja and every Magician who entered the Great Firmament Arena was, without exception, an elite combatant possessing considerable strength.
However, despite both sides consisting entirely of elites, the Magicians clearly possessed superior individual combat power.
From a certain perspective, Chakra was indeed noticeably inferior to magic power.
Although Chakra originated from the Divine Tree converting natural energy, that served only as an intermediary.
Most Chakra was still composed of the user's physical and spiritual energy.
Magic power, on the other hand, directly drew natural energy from the world itself and converted it into magical power within the body.
Furthermore, the greater a person's magic power, the more powerful their spells became.
Therefore, there was naturally a considerable gap between the two systems.
At the very least, ordinary Ninjutsu could not directly contend with magic.
Of course, Chakra's relative weakness also came with its own advantage:
its universality.
Almost anyone could learn and use it.
As a result, the Naruto World within the Great Firmament Arena contained approximately 8 million Ninjas,
whereas the combined number of Magicians and Mages totaled only around 3 million, a difference of nearly threefold.
This phenomenon was largely the result of the major Ninja clans' deliberate efforts to cultivate Chakra users.
Chakra differs fundamentally from magic power.
Magic power places extremely high demands on innate talent.
If you lack the talent, then you simply lack it.
Even with a lifetime of effort, an untalented person might still be unable to surpass a gifted child only a few years old.
Chakra, however, is different.
It is not strictly limited by talent.
Whether the target is a human, an animal, or even a plant, as long as it comes into contact with Chakra, it can be infected by it.
After all, the very essence of Chakra is the plundering of a planet's energy and life force.
Therefore, it possesses almost no entry threshold.
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