Chapter 24 The Unlucky Laxus
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 24
Chapter Title: The Unlucky Laxus
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Time flew by.
A few months passed in a hurry. It was now August, the tail end of summer, when all things grew exuberantly...
"Alright, let's stop here for today!"
In the back mountain of Fairy Tail, Evan stopped his spar with Erza. Honestly speaking, he no longer had anything left to teach the little girl.
Under Erza's super strong talent, in merely a few months' time, she had raised her Swordsmanship to around level five or six based on the standards of Evan's system.
This made Evan sigh with deep emotion. If he didn't have the system's help, he probably wouldn't be able to raise his Swordsmanship to the level five or six in his entire life. As expected of Erza, who inherited Irene's terrifying talent. She was truly a monster-like existence...
Well, in the original work, after Erza had awakened her magic power, she relied on her own talent and successfully became an S-Class mage of Fairy Tail in merely three or four years, so in Evan’s eyes, this much was normal.
"Phew..."
While panting heavily, Erza gently wiped the beads of sweat from her head. Her current manipulation of Haki had become increasingly proficient, and her Swordsmanship had also become incredibly fierce. She had even thoroughly mastered the secret technique of flying slashes. Even so, she still couldn’t defeat Evan. She couldn’t even catch up to his figure. This made her somewhat distressed.
In Erza's eyes, if she couldn’t catch up to Evan's footsteps, then she wouldn’t be able to go on quests together with him...
"In short, Erza, I have nothing left to teach you. For your subsequent training, you’ll need to depend on yourself from now on. Whether it’s enhancing your magic power, or training your Haki and Swordsmanship, what level you can ultimately reach in the future will depend on how high your aspirations are."
Evan looked at his little sister and spoke softly.
In nearly three months of time, he had successfully helped Erza enhance the power of her Swordsmanship, but there was still no progress with her Haki.
This made him somewhat suspect that there was a problem with the way he taught.
Or rather...
Although a special ability like Haki, which didn’t belong to this world, could be enchanted onto others through his Enchantment Magic, in the end, it could only be enchanted. Whatever level was enchanted, it would be fixed at that amount, and it wouldn’t continue to increase in level...
If it was the former, that was fine. Evan could only complain that his teaching talent was far inferior to Teacher Kaido and Teacher Katakuri...
But if it was the latter, then things would be troublesome. Enchanting a power that couldn’t be upgraded into Erza's body, Evan didn't know whether it was the right or wrong decision
However, he still had a backup plan...
Even if a power distinct from magic like Haki couldn’t be upgraded through training in this world, he could also just wait until his funds became abundant and forcibly empower Erza...
However, this was a last resort. He still believed that Erza could upgrade her Haki through training.
In fact, even if an ability like Haki could be upgraded through a person's training after they were enchanted with it, Evan didn't plan to enchant this kind of ability onto too many people. Because the mainstream power of this world was still magic. If the enchanted person gave up magic to train in Haki, in his view, their loss would somewhat outweigh their gain...
And the reason Evan enchanted Haki onto Erza was because her magic, Requip: The Knight, didn’t require training.
Whether Requip Magic was strong or not mainly depended on exactly what armor she wore. If the armor was strong, then Erza was strong.
Her main offensive methods were still Swordsmanship and Martial Arts. As such, she could completely manage to train in Haki, Swordsmanship, and magic power simultaneously without delaying any of the three.
Anyway, Erza's magic was mainly just about collecting equipment and enhancing her strength...
Thus, she could achieve perfect compatibility with her magic, Haki, Swordsmanship, and even Devil Fruit abilities. This kind of compatibility couldn’t be achieved by other people.
Speaking of Devil Fruits...
Evan originally wanted to try enchanting his own Devil Fruit abilities onto Erza, but he failed. He discovered that if he wanted to bestow Devil Fruit abilities to others, he had to completely separate the Devil Fruit inside his body, turning it into a complete fruit, and then have the other person eat it. Upon thinking of this, he gave up...
Originally, he planned to use Enchantment Magic to exploit the bug that ordinary people couldn't eat two Devil Fruits, but regretfully, he failed...
"Are you going to continue taking quests again, Big Brother Evan?"
After remaining silent for a long time, Erza pursed her lips, looked at Evan, and asked.
"After all, we’re mages of Fairy Tail! As mages, how can we just constantly not go do quests?"
Evan smiled faintly, and then rubbed Erza's small head.
"Alright!
Go do your quests, Big Brother Evan!
I’ll also work hard to take quests. After all, I’m also a mage of Fairy Tail!
When Big Brother Evan comes back again, my strength will be incomparable to the past, and I’ll definitely give you a huge surprise!"
Erza nodded, and then she looked at her big brother as she spoke seriously.
"Alright! Then it's a promise. When I come back next time, Erza must give me a huge surprise!"
Evan looked at his little sister’s serious and cute appearance, smiled, and nodded.
"Mm! I definitely will."
Erza nodded gently while silently making a resolution in her heart.
‘I must make myself even stronger than I am now. I must catch up to Big Brother Evan.’
"I'll be waiting for you..."
Evan once again gently stroked Erza's small head.
Next, he sent Erza back home, bid farewell to Irene, and then returned to the Fairy Tail guild all alone.
The crowd inside the guild was still chatting and shooting the breeze with each other just like before...
Evan also didn't cause too much of a commotion. After all, he was a low-key person.
He casually scanned the surroundings and found that neither the Guild Master nor Gildarts was present. Thus, he went directly to the quest board, preparing to select some quests suitable for himself.
He first went to the regular quest board. The quests in here were all ones that the vast majority of mages could complete. Many quests didn't even have a rank. In fact, aside from S-Class or above quests, the classification of quest ranks wasn’t clear. It was just that Evan's system had its own set of review standards, which was why it divided these quests into various ranks from A-Class, B-Class... all the way to E-Class.
"Sure enough, there aren't any quests that I want here..."
Evan casually glanced at the quests on the regular quest board. Most didn’t have combat or danger, and their ranks weren’t high either.
Evan didn't plan to complete these time-wasting quests. He thought that he should go up to the S-Class quest board on the second floor instead to try his luck...
"Evan, you've returned!"
Just as he was preparing to leave, his Observation Haki suddenly gave him a warning...
"Is it Laxus?"
Evan turned around and looked to the guild’s front doors. At this moment, outside the front doors of the Fairy Tail guild, a blonde boy who looked to be around thirteen or fourteen years old was currently walking with his hands in his pockets, preparing to return to the guild...
Yes, the person arriving was precisely Laxus, who had just completed a quest. These past few days, he continuously accepted subjugation quests and eliminated many magical beasts, solely to temper his strength until he could defeat Evan.
"If I'm seen by Laxus, it’ll be very troublesome..."
Evan muttered to himself.
"So I'm sorry, Laxus. Before I finish selecting a quest, you better not come in!"
As Evan's voice fell.
A massive gravity weight fell onto the body of Laxus, who was just preparing to enter the guild.
Boom!
Instantly, a human-shaped crater appeared in front of the Fairy Tail guild's front doors. Laxus, with a face full of horror, was pinned to the ground, his cheek tightly pressed against the earth.
"This way, there’ll be no problems...
Then before I finish selecting a quest, you’ll have to lie prone here for a bit, Laxus!"
As Evan spoke, his body floated lightly up to the second floor.
Actually, he was doing all of this for Laxus's own good. Otherwise, he’d still have to spend some time to instantly defeat the blonde boy. How troublesome would that be~?
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T/N - Lol, poor Laxus. He continues to take Ls. Well, he keeps pestering the MC for duels, so he should really expect these things to happen. Well, Natsu did the same thing in the manga, so… 😅
Also, Erza’s getting stronger. As for her not yet learning Haki, it’s probably because Haki’s harder to train in the Fairy Tail world than magic, its actual power system. But she should be able to learn it eventually, especially with Enchantment Magic guiding her.