Chapter 11 Erza and Laxus
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 11
Chapter Title: Erza and Laxus
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Evan silently watched the crowd inside the guild while simultaneously claiming the reward for the advanced quest. Honestly speaking, the reward this time was quite astonishing. He hadn't expected that joining Fairy Tail would directly yield him a reward of a full one hundred million funds.
Evan looked at the number in his fund column and fell into deep thought. He currently had two paths he could choose from.
The first path was to upgrade the majority of his abilities all to level eight.
The second was to upgrade his magic power to level nine.
If his magic power reached level nine, it would allow his magic power to directly reach a non-human level, which was the level of the Four Gods of Ishgar, specifically the bottom three...
Evan thought briefly and chose to first upgrade his other abilities to level eight. After all, having level nine magic power without level nine combat power wouldn't be of much use.
Someone like Warrod, who only knew how to plant trees and was the Ishgar Continent's number one tree-planting expert, was the representative of having an enormous magic power but lacking offensive magic of the same level.
Having thought it through...
Instantly, Evan's character panel updated:
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Character: Evan
Physique: Special Physique (Can eat multiple Devil Fruits)
Haki:
Observation Haki: LV8 (+)
Armament Haki: LV8 (+)
Conqueror's Haki: LV8 (+)
Devil Fruit:
Zoan-type Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Beast Model, Azure Dragon: LV8 (+)
Paramecia-type Press-Press Fruit: LV8 (+)
Logia-type Glint-Glint Fruit: LV8 (+)
Martial Arts:
Swordsmanship: LV8 (+)
Rokushiki: LV8 (+)
Magic:
Magic Power: LV8 (+)
Enchantment Magic: LV8 (+)
Separation Magic: LV8 (+)
Resistance:
Toxin Resistance: LV7 (+)
Illusion Resistance: LV7 (+)
Elemental Resistance: LV7 (+)
Time Resistance: LV7 (+)
Spatial Resistance: LV6 (+)
Funds: 570,000
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With this, all of Evan's abilities aside from his resistances had reached the level eight standard. Power continuously flowed within his body as he felt himself becoming stronger.
"Evan, I'll leave Erza to you. I'm going to go find a place for us to stay first!"
Just after Evan finished allocating all of his points, Irene prepared to leave the bustling guild. She preferred quietness and didn't like such noisy places.
"Mm! Leave Erza to me."
Evan nodded gently.
He knew that Irene had lived alone for over four hundred years and was still somewhat unaccustomed to human communal life.
"Alright..."
The instant she received Evan's response, Irene took Ilya, Ian, and Eden, and instantly vanished from within the guild.
And it wasn’t long after Irene and the others had left...
That a matter which gave Evan a headache occurred.
Erza, with the intention of making friends with her peers, patrolled around the guild before her eyes landed on a boy who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old with short golden-blonde hair.
Erza then politely walked up to the boy, smiled, and asked.
"Hello! My name’s Erza Belserion, I just joined Fairy Tail today. May I ask what your name is?"
"Tch~"
The blonde boy, who had originally been staring blankly ahead and thinking about who-knows-what, turned his head upon hearing Erza's words. After casually sizing up the little girl in front of him with a glance, he revealed an obvious expression of disgust, and then he forcefully turned his head to the other side, seemingly not wanting to pay attention to her at all.
Seeing the blonde boy's obvious look of disgust, the smile on Erza's face instantly stiffened. She walked around to the side the blonde boy had turned his head to, then she forcefully slapped the boy's table, and asked.
"Hey! Did your family never teach you that when others greet you, you must politely respond?"
"So annoying! I don't have time to talk to a weak and powerless brat like you!"
The blonde boy's face was full of disgust. What he hated most were brats, especially weak brats.
"B-brat?!"
The veins on Erza's forehead seemed to faintly bulge. She looked at the blonde boy in front of her with a fake smile, and asked.
"Ah? You blonde little delinquent, you sure can talk, huh?!"
"B-blonde little delinquent?!"
The blonde boy's original composure completely vanished like smoke upon hearing Erza's phrase 'blonde little delinquent', instantly breaking his defenses.
"Brat, are you picking a fight?"
The blonde boy stood up while looking down at Erza from a commanding height.
"Fight then! Who's afraid of who, little delinquent?"
The red-head’s eyes flashed with anger as she confronted the blonde little delinquent in front of her, not showing the slightest intention of backing down.
"Oh? Our newcomer went straight for Laxus, huh?"
"Looks like a conflict broke out..."
"Why not..."
"Fight!"
"Fight!"
"Fight!"
The surrounding crowd of mages who had drunk too much looked at the arguing blonde boy and Erza. Not only did no one go to break up the fight, but they even loudly joined in on the chaos one after another.
"..."
As for Evan, he was somewhat silent at this moment.
Originally, he was still somewhat worried that he had raised Erza to be too lady-like, which would make her unable to integrate into Fairy Tail. But looking at her now, he had clearly overthought it. It was as if Erza was born to join Fairy Tail. The instant she entered Fairy Tail, her style transformed to her reassuring Fairy Tail mode.
"Fight! Fight!"
At this moment, even Gildarts, who was sitting next to the bar counter, after seeing Laxus and Erza confronting each other, held his beer mug high in his hand, looking as if he was watching a show, and continuously shouted with the others.
"..."
Seeing that even Fairy Tail's strongest mage had this kind of virtue made Evan somewhat silent. Just what kind of people were in this guild?!
At the same time, he silently thought in his heart that he absolutely couldn’t turn into one of them.
"Brat, don't think that just because you’re a girl, I’ll show you mercy..."
Seeing that the atmosphere had been hyped up to this point…
The blonde boy's eyes gradually sharpened. Faintly, there seemed to be flashes of lightning darting around his body.
"I don't need a yellow-haired little delinquent like you to show me mercy!"
The young Erza had already developed her queenly aura. The magic power she had inherited from Irene surged around her.
"That magic power..."
The blonde boy felt the magic power around the girl in front of him, surprise evident in his eyes. The boy's gaze also underwent a change. In the next second, he transformed into a streak of lightning and launched an attack toward Erza. Perhaps because the latter was a girl, while the blonde boy had moved first, his mouth didn't forget to remind her.
"Since that's the case, I'm making my move!"
Facing the blonde boy's attack, Erza's expression remained unchanged. With a shift of her thoughts, all the metal objects inside the guild suddenly began to vibrate. In the next second, they flew directly in front of Erza, forming a massive iron wall charged with electromagnetism in front of her.
Boom!
With the obstruction of the iron wall, the blonde boy's attack was naturally blocked.
His attack landed on the iron wall instead. Whether it was the strength in his wrist or the lightning wrapped around his fist, all of it completely vanished.
"What?!"
The blonde boy seemingly hadn't expected that the young Erza could actually deploy such a defense. His expression carried a trace of disbelief.
"A flaw!"
And Erza accurately seized this momentary opening of the blonde boy. She slashed towards the boy while holding an iron sword made up of metal.
"Ugh!"
As Erza's iron sword hit its mark, the blonde boy was sent flying away.
"Hey, hey, hey..."
"You're joking, right? That Laxus was actually taken down by someone of the same age?"
In the guild hall, the mages looked at the blonde boy, who was sent flying, one by one, their eyes full of disbelief.
One must know that the blonde boy wasn’t an ordinary person. His name was Laxus Dreyar, the grandson of the Fairy Tail Guild Master, Makarov. Although still young, his strength had already surpassed ninety-nine percent of the mages in the guild.
He was even regarded by many as the one most likely to become an S-Class mage after Gildarts.
However, such a formidable existence was now actually suppressed by a once unknown little girl. This made the crowd of old drunkards inside the guild feel shocked, while simultaneously finding it quite interesting.
Yes, this crowd of people in the guild were all old thrill-seekers.
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T/N - Laxus got owned. Serves the little shit right. From what I remember, before his redemption arc, he was an insufferable prick. I mean, I understand where he’s coming from, but he’s barking at the wrong tree. He should scream at Makarov instead of pouring out his anger and frustration on the guild members. The old man wasn’t in the right in this either. One of the few flaws of Makarov that I didn’t like.