Chapter 16 A Meteorite !
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 16
Chapter Title: A Meteorite?!
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"No, it wasn't that the magic activation failed…
Evan, he… successfully released it. This is truly…
…a bit too much!
This kind of magic isn’t something to joke around with, you know?! It’s an ultra-dangerous magic that absolutely shouldn’t be used in a spar against a companion! Evan..."
Just as the crowd was confused, Makarov seemed to sense something and looked toward the sky shrouded by clouds. A few drops of cold sweat dripped down on his aged cheeks.
"Whoosh!!"
In the next second, the clouds seemed to boil, continuously rolling and churning!
Following that, a massive rock burning with fierce flames directly smashed through the thick clouds in the sky. For a moment, it was as if the sky had been split apart! And its full appearance was revealed right before everyone's eyes!
"You're joking, right?! That's… a meteorite?!"
The crowd of Fairy Tail members lying in Makarov's embrace widened their eyes. They looked up in disbelief at the rock in the sky that had broken through the clouds, had ignited due to high-speed friction, was now clad in fierce flames, and was rapidly plummeting down as they spoke.
"Hey, hey, hey!
Evan, you’re truly a brat who continuously gives me surprises!"
Gildarts looked at the meteorite burning red hot and rapidly plummeting toward him. He widened his eyes excitedly as he unhurriedly reached out with his hand toward the meteorite in the sky.
"Crush!"
Along with the flashing of white light…
The massive meteorite instantly transformed into countless fragments! At the same time, the vast majority of its force was offset!
"The meteorite was crushed?!"
"Hahaha, what is this…?"
"These two are complete monsters!"
The Fairy Tail members watching the battle hadn't even recovered from the shock brought to them by the meteorite before they saw it, which they absolutely couldn’t resist, turning into countless fragments through Gildarts's magic.
"Umm, speaking of which, after it turns into fragments, the danger to us is actually even greater, right?!"
A Fairy Tail member in Makarov's embrace complained.
"It doesn't matter...
We have the Master's protection!"
A member spoke unconcernedly.
Then, they felt their line of sight getting lower and lower...
In no time, they had already landed on the ground...
"So..."
A bad premonition suddenly appeared in the hearts of the crowd of guild members.
"Figure out a way to survive yourselves!
I have urgent matters to attend to..."
After Makarov dropped this sentence, he ran directly toward where Gildarts and Evan were fighting.
"What!?"
A guild member who hadn't reacted yet asked in confusion.
"Move your legs and run quickly!"
Before he could react, members with rich experience had already moved their legs and sprinted with all of their might toward a safe place!
"Run!"
After some veterans took the lead, the others finally realized that they needed to run away now!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
It was also not long after the crowd began proceeding toward a safe place that the meteorite fragments in the air landed on the ground, blasting massive deep craters into the earth one by one.
"Truly dangerous..."
The members of Fairy Tail stood in a safe place while looking at the continuously bombarded forest, and whispered softly to one another.
At present, they no longer had the heart to care about the outcome of Evan and Gildarts's battle. Who won or lost in this fight was far less important than their own survival.
On the other side!
With the falling of meteorite projectiles as their backdrop, Evan and Gildarts revealed a trace of a smile on their faces. They were smiles one would show upon seeing a worthy opponent.
The two didn't speak nonsense and just charged at each other at extremely fast speeds.
"That’s enough!"
Just as Evan and Gildarts began to gather magic power and were about to start a new battle, two large hands landed onto their heads. While separating the two, they also struck them fiercely.
"Ugh..."
As they felt the pain on their heads, Evan and Gildarts gradually calmed down.
"You two take a good look around you!"
After Makarov separated the fiercely battling Evan and Gildarts, he crossed his arms in front of his chest and asked angrily.
"Whoosh!"
"Boom!!"
"Crack, boom..."
Gildarts rubbed his chin as he looked at the continuously falling meteorite projectiles from the sky, the splintered and burning trees, and the pothole-filled land, and fell into deep thought.
"Master, could it be that in the middle of my battle with Evan, you used spatial magic and transferred the two of us away from the guild's back mountain?"
After Gildarts thought for a while, he seemed to figure something out and asked Makarov.
"Don't play dumb! This IS the guild's back mountain...
No, the guild's back mountain is already gone...
The reason? You two think about it yourselves. You guys should understand it better than anyone!"
Makarov looked angrily at Gildarts and Evan.
"Oh my...
This is a bit troublesome now..."
Gildarts looked at the mess all over the back mountain and fell into deep thought.
"But whatever, time will smooth over everything!
For now, let me just go back to the guild and rest well! I'm so thirsty!"
As Gildarts spoke, he was about to leave this place on his own to go back to the guild and drink beer.
Smack!
However, just as he was preparing to leave, Makarov's fist landed on his head, making his already somewhat red and swollen head swell even more.
"So painful! Master..."
Gildarts stared with a pair of dead-fish eyes at Makarov and spoke.
"These are for you! If you can’t restore the back mountain to its original state, then don't come back to the guild…!"
As the old man spoke, he threw two buckets and two small shovels in front of Gildarts and Evan, and said seriously.
After he finished speaking, he left in a huff. At the same time, Evan and Gildarts could still hear him muttering.
"Honestly, making a chaotic mess of other people's places is one thing, but tearing down our own mountain too? I can't believe this..."
"It looks like the Guild Master’s serious, huh?!"
Gildarts grabbed his messy hair and looked at Makarov's angry back with a helpless face.
"Anyway, it is what it is. Let's work hard together!"
After thinking for a while, he picked up a shovel and a bucket on the ground and began to make repairs.
"For real?!"
Evan looked at the vanished forest and mountain range, and raised an eyebrow.
"For real."
Gildarts muttered while skillfully shoveling dirt with the shovel.
"Sigh..."
Evan sighed, manipulated gravity, and began to clear the crushed stones on the ground. However good he felt in his heart during the battle, that was exactly how bitter he felt in his heart now.
"Is that gravity magic? Truly convenient!"
Gildarts looked at how Evan manipulated gravity to clear away the crushed stones over a large area while simultaneously filling the pothole-filled ground, and couldn't help but praise him.
Then the middle-aged mage became slightly allergic to the dust kicked up by Evan, and couldn't help but sneeze.
Boom!
Instantly, the already filled ground was torn apart and shattered once again.
"That was on purpose, right?!"
Evan raised an eyebrow as he looked at Gildarts, who had exerted too much force while sneezing and subconsciously activated his magic. If this went on, when would they ever be able to finish their work?
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T/N - So I just discovered that the previous translator of this novel continued their translation about 6 days ago… After 7 months of not touching it… You know what, sure. Since I already started this, I'll continue this translation regardless. If you guys also want me to continue this translation, please support me and this novel whenever you can. I would very much appreciate it. 🙏 (5/27/26)
Fight’s over now. Everyone who bet on undecided won! Now you guys win… uh, I don’t know, the next chapter? Maybe bragging rights too, if you’re into that. 😅
Also, now we have a measure of how powerful the MC is currently. He’s about the same level as Gildarts, but after this, each upgrade will cost him 100 million funds if I recall correctly (except for his resistances). That’s a lot even with his system's new update if I remember it right. So he’s still a long way from Irene. As for the system update, it should pop up in the next chapter.