"Hmm? That magic looks familiar..."
"Aye."
Natsu and Happy felt a sense of familiarity when they saw Romeo's magic.
Romeo said in a low voice, "I secretly studied at Teacher Totomaru's magic classroom behind my dad's back."
"That guy... is still doing that sort of thing!"
Gajeel couldn't help but smile when he heard news of an acquaintance. Totomaru was one of the Element 4 and was very skilled in fire magic. Although his strength was considered the weakest among the four, he was a very decent person and one of Gajeel's rare acquaintances.
"How nostalgic! I haven't eaten all the colors of that guy's flames yet! I want to go see him with you!"
Natsu shouted excitedly.
"Sorry, but 'Natsu' is a forbidden word in front of him."
Romeo refused directly.
"It's been so long, yet he's still so petty. How stingy!"
"Aye!"
"You two are married?!"
Erza looked at Bisca and Alzack in surprise. Bisca was someone she had brought back to the guild originally, so her relationship with Erza had always been good.
"Yeah, six years ago."
"Listen, Erza, I was the one who proposed. Al, he..."
"Don't bring that up again..."
"Con... Congratulations. Even though I'm not very experienced in these matters, please take care of me."
Elfman was a bit dazed: "What are you talking about, Erza?"
Mira said, "She's probably imagining what it's like to get married. But speaking of marriage..."
Mira took a secret glance at Kael. It seemed she had also reached the age where she could get married.
"That's wonderful. Do you have children?"
Lisanna asked curiously.
"We have a daughter. Her name is Asuka."
Just then, several people walked through the guild entrance.
"Ohhh!!"
"I offer my loving congratulations on everyone's return."
"What a rowdy guild. Has it gone back to the way it was before?"
"Rejuvenated?"
"For these guys, they haven't aged a single day in these seven years."
Gray said in surprise, "It's you guys!!"
"Lamia Scale?!"
The newcomers were Lyon and his group of five.
Max said, "When we were searching for Tenrou Island, Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale both helped us."
"Then don't we owe these guys a favor!"
Lyon said, "Don't worry about such small things. Although we let Blue Pegasus get ahead of us, we are still superior in terms of strength."
"Ugh... so you care about that!"
Gray couldn't help but complain. Fairy Tail had never cared about such things; they had naturally become the strongest wizard guild on the continent of Ishgar.
Sherry explained, "Because during these seven years, we, Lamia Scale, have climbed to the position of the No. 2 guild in Fiore. What a pity, Lucy."
Lucy asked in surprise, "Does that mean Blue Pegasus is number one?"
Toby shouted, "How is that possible!!"
Yuka said, "Don't get angry over nothing. Blue Pegasus isn't first."
Jura said, "Such things aren't important. It's enough that everyone is safe. Kael, it has been a long time."
Jura greeted Kael individually. After all, when the alliance fought together, Kael had contributed the most, and Jura always remembered that kindness.
Kael smiled and said, "On my end, only a month has passed."
At that moment, Lyon saw Juvia and suddenly felt his heart racing. He flashed in front of Juvia: "Is this the legendary love at first sight?"
"Eh? Eh? Eh?"
Juvia was also dazed.
Lucy was also startled: "Whoa... that was direct!"
Gray had a bad feeling: "More trouble is coming!!"
"That's how it is! I'm Cana's dad!!"
Gildarts put his arm around Cana and introduced himself to the seven-year group.
"Hey! Stop clinging to me!"
Cana was starting to regret it now. She didn't expect this old man to be so clingy, telling everyone he met the same thing.
The guild was lively, filled with constant laughter.
Kael looked at the guild and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Everyone in the guild was safe and sound, but he also felt some guilt. To him, the seven years felt like a single second, but for the members who stayed behind, seven years had truly passed.
Regarding the Tenrou Island incident, he actually had many ways to resolve that crisis. He could have used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport everyone, which would have been the simplest for him.
He could also have used the Arrancar's 'Garganta' to lead everyone directly into the space between dimensions to hide.
In the end, he didn't do any of that. Instead, he chose to fight, and the final result of the battle was his defeat.
Even though he lost, he gained a lot. At the very least, Acnologia, the ultimate boss of the Fairy Tail world, was not necessarily invincible in his eyes.
As long as he continued to increase his magic power, he could defeat Acnologia.
The guild's laughter and joy lasted for three days and three nights, leaving Kael somewhat exhausted.
In the evening, Kael returned home. Seven years had passed, and the house looked slightly old, but overall it was very clean. There wasn't much dust on the tables and chairs; it seemed someone came by often to clean.
As for who had cleaned it, Kael already guessed. It should be Laki; she was the only girl in the guild who would be so thoughtful.
Kael glanced at his system interface.
[Host: Kael]
[Age: 19]
[Race: Human]
[Magic Power: ★★★★★★★]
[Magic: Take Over Magic]
[Character Cards: Ulquiorra Cifer (Gold), Edward Newgate (Gold), Minato Namikaze (Gold), Satoru Gojo (Gold), Gin Ichimaru (Gold), Itachi Uchiha (Gold).]
[Current Gacha Pulls: 81]
At this point, only six golden character cards remained. Although the number of cards had decreased slightly, it was in exchange for magic power as high as seven stars, which wasn't a loss at all.
Seven-star magic power was already the threshold for the Ten Wizard Saints.
Such magic power was enough for Kael to handle most situations, but it was far from enough to face the Black Dragon, Acnologia. Eight stars, or even eight and a half stars—at least that much magic power was needed to contend with Acnologia.
What Kael was most satisfied with was the number of gacha pulls.
81 times!
When he first saw this number, Kael was very excited. He had never seen so many pulls before.
Over the seven years, the system rewarded one pull every month.
Although the Super Magic, Fairy Sphere, had frozen his time, it couldn't freeze the system's time. Nothing was more joyful than waking up and finding so many extra gacha pulls.
80 pulls were enough for him to perform eight S-class missions. Doing eight S-class missions wasn't difficult for Kael; the real difficulty was that there weren't eight S-class mission requests available for him to take.
"I wonder how many gold cards I can pull this time. I'm really looking forward to it."
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