Chapter 310
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 310
Chapter Title: Lesson 60. Head of the Family - 5
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Constellations are transcendent beings.
They interfere with mortals by crossing dimensional walls, offering sponsorships or forming contracts. In special circumstances, they expend their own power to manifest avatars.
These avatars permanently diminish a Constellation's abilities, so most avoid creating them. What surpasses even that is the descent of the Constellation's true body.
To sum it up bluntly: it's impossible. It had never happened before in history.
But if a Constellation capable of wielding absolute influence across all dimensions through mere contracts were to descend in person...
—I have come myself.
Ban Yu-won saw it and felt as though the sun itself was speaking to him.
The red moon he and Dokgo Yeon had shattered earlier was nothing by comparison.
It was truly the difference between moon and sun.
Even from an immeasurable distance, the heat radiating from it flushed his cheeks.
And it was growing larger by the second.
Closer. Ever closer.
The thing was descending to the ground.
—Become mine, child.
Each time it spoke, the atmosphere vibrated, parts of it igniting in flames.
For Ban Yu-mi and the Rebel Force members who had just halted and calmed the clash between Prominence and the fairies, this was like a bolt from the blue.
Ban Yu-won grabbed the recovered Ulrike and bolted out, snapping at her.
"Is this normal?! Do Constellations casually show up in person just because they're pissed?!"
"It's impossible! Constellations can't descend into dimensions directly in exchange for the authority to wield their powers across them... That's what the Constellations said!"
Ulrike was just as panicked, screaming in bewilderment.
Ironically, the stronger someone was—especially those who handled fiercer flames—the deeper their panic upon witnessing a Constellation.
The simple reason: the weak couldn't even gauge a Constellation's power and merely floundered, while the strong keenly felt the gulf between themselves and it.
'Of course, they've got at least thousands of years on their side. Still...!'
Why did this unprecedented event have to happen right now, of all times?
How on earth had it come to this?
As always, such thoughts were pointless.
Right now, he needed only to figure out how to kill the damn thing.
—Hand yourself... over to me!
"This is insane..."
Ban Yu-mi, who had absorbed nearly three thousand crimson flames and rocketed to the top of Prominence's flame mages in one leap, went pale as she watched the Constellation's body descend.
Ban Yu-won rushed to her side and shouted.
"Snap out of it! You're the family head now—rally everyone and fight back!"
"B-Ban Yu-won. At least you run before we die."
"Cut the movie-line bullshit."
He mocked his sister as she gripped his hand tightly to psych herself up, then drew Requiem.
He had sworn not to use a sword until his abilities caught up... but after absorbing the concepts of deputy head and family head in succession, and now surpassing even six Irectos in growth, maybe it was fine.
Besides, the current enemy was perfectly suited for God-Slaying.
On top of that, he layered on a power even Union Academy's Chancellor couldn't wield: the Starlight of the Starlight Maestro, a special disciple raised to control Constellations and a Constellation herself.
"It's here."
As always when facing a mighty foe, Dokgo Yeon approached first, as if reading his mind—though he hadn't spoken.
She stood beside him, drawing her shortsword. He thought her profile was stunningly beautiful.
Then Ban Yu-mi's grip on his hand tightened fiercely.
She seemed re-energized.
"Don't eye-fuck other girls in front of me, you punk."
"You did it all the time when Lucelle and I went to Earth."
"Yes, Master. You called?"
Lucelle joined right on time, her body crackling with blue lightning and wreathed in flames, her divine beast ears and tail out in full battle mode.
She eyed Dokgo Yeon and Ban Yu-mi flanking him with an amused look, then her gaze turned sharp toward the awkward Ulrike behind him—only to melt into a beaming smile the instant she caught his eye, as if it had been an illusion.
She knew he could read emotions, so she wasn't trying to fool him.
She just always wanted to look pretty in front of him.
"Finally fighting together."
"Yeah. Let's do this."
"Why didn't you call me?!"
"We always count on you, Queen."
"Don't call me Queen!"
As Light and Aire, the two dragonkin, were followed by Mira and Shati. At last, all Rebellion members—including the honorary ones—were assembled.
As they steeled themselves, the sun continued its fall—the grass scorching and igniting beneath it.
—At last free, I will burn away all that bound me. Yes, I want you! You!
No time to humor the Constellation's drivel.
As Ban Yu-won raised Requiem to launch a full assault, Fairy Queen Yura flapped forward.
"Kids, summer's too damn hot, right?"
"Totally, Queen!"
"Wish winter would come!"
"The sun's so ugly!"
"Not this again..."
Mira scowled in exasperation, but the fairies eagerly cheered their queen.
Not out of awe for her command, but because it was more fun that way.
Amazingly, fairies—who always prioritized their own hides—put their queen's orders first.
Then again, they were live witnesses to an event unseen in thousands of years.
"Then it's winter here now! I just declared it!"
In that instant, winter truly arrived.
The Constellation's infernal heat vanished in a flash, replaced by a cool breeze.
Despite their magic being massively depleted from the massive chain-changing earlier, the fairies synchronized with their queen's words, unleashing their power freely. It showed why Fairy Tail ranked top among A-grade dimensions.
But there was no third miracle. Having summoned winter to cool that blazing sun, every fairy collapsed in place.
"Heh... hehet... Sun... repelled..."
"Summer... conquered..."
"Son-in-law?"
Beyond the fairies muttering nonsense—delighted by their own chain-changing—Yura stood tall, unlike the rest, and addressed Ban Yu-won.
"We got no juice left to return to Fairy Tail. You take responsibility and get us home, son-in-law."
"Indeed. That's chain-changing too."
"What a shame... to give my daughter to such a guy..."
With those final words, Yura toppled onto her fairies.
Ban Yu-won chuckled, realizing the fairies' speech quirks had rubbed off on him.
But considering their feat—reviving the dying land with frost and slashing the Constellation's momentum—he figured this earned respect.
—This won't stop me.
Even weakened by winter after descending from an untouchable realm to reachable heights.
The Constellation remained terrifyingly powerful.
Come to think of it, the Epoch Follower had sponsored Prominence multiple times, expending power; Ban Yu-won had personally destroyed several artifacts; and even the orb the family head used was reforged from its true body.
In other words, it hadn't even been at full strength when manifesting as that massive sun...
"How is this possible? How can something like that exist?"
If a true dragon from legend appeared, would it be like this?
Ban Yu-won focused his vital energy into his All-Reading Eyes, trying to pierce it, but the vast gap made it futile.
One thing he sensed: that sun wasn't its true form.
A dual-layered structure—its core concept wrapped in something else...
'In other words—it's not self-transcended. Like humans receiving Constellation sponsorships, it got help from something else.'
Realizing that much was enough.
Thinking it built that power itself made victory impossible; knowing it was in a similar boat filled him with confidence to find an opening.
And exploiting gaps was Ban Yu-won's specialty, with the world's best eyes.
'Cellon, help me.'
—...
He called Cellon, whom he'd left idle as a trump card.
But she hesitated long, only responding anxiously after repeated calls.
—This feels wrong. Constellations can't reveal themselves like that... Something happened at Union. That's certain.
'What are you on about now... No, that's not the issue. Defeating this thing comes first.'
—...You're right. Please, end it fast and get back to Union.
He'd long suspected ties between Union and Constellations.
But seeing Cellon this agitated, a deep unease boiled in his chest. Grimacing, he gripped Requiem tighter.
"Yu-won, hold on."
Before that.
As Light stepped forward, clutching Aire's hand.
"Leave it to me first."
"To us."
"Yeah, to us."
"You don't mean..."
"Hoo."
Ban Yu-won gaped as As Light's armor glowed brilliantly.
The light engulfed As Light—and somehow Aire too—swelling massively into a colossal golden mecha-dragon.
[We can manifest it by combining our dragonkin power!]
[Queen, shut up and power up.]
[Ahhh! So jealous—I wanna merge with that dragon too! Ask later if we can combine, Master?]
Despite the crisis, Aire's deflated tackle and Lilith's envious reaction gave him a headache.
But their created power was real.
Far beyond what he'd felt against the previous foe, an aura of a true dragon—unanalyzable, inimitable—gathered in the mecha-dragon's gaping maw.
—What...?
The Constellation faltered, spewing fierce flames to attack, but lingering chill in the air thwarted it.
The mecha-dragon's jaws split wide.
Its golden breath blasted the sun.
—Grahhhhhhh!
The Constellation's flames exploded everywhere to block it, but the dragon's empowered breath shoved the sun back, boring a massive hole through its center.
Was this overwhelming might because the mecha-dragon found its master, or thanks to Aire's stellar support?
Recalling Aire riding Abel into battle, Ban Yu-won admitted she was the ultimate fusion robot booster part.
"Incredible power... but it's not done!"
"Now's our chance—unload everything!"
After the fairies' massive chain-changing and the true dragon's breath—miracles for the ages—the sun endured.
But now it seemed assailable. The Rebellion members unleashed full-force attacks.
Shati's annihilation magic engulfed even the Constellation's mana in explosions; Mira poured all her power into arrows to weaken it.
Lucelle focused pure lightning—sans flames—into a barrage...
"Yeon?"
"You crush the egg. I'll handle what hatches."
As if seeing something Ban Yu-won couldn't, Dokgo Yeon closed her eyes, shortsword drawn, concentrating.
Untouchable dignity. Noble spirit.
Ah, she's gorgeous.
"Hey, look at me. Me."
Ban Yu-mi pouted at his Dokgo Yeon fixation and thrust her sword forward.
"I'll attack—you finish it. Got it?"
"Do it."
"Hup."
Ban Yu-mi was the one whose power drew the Constellation here.
Having grown mid-battle and bloomed her crimson flames truly—with heavy aid from Ban Yu-won—she unleashed a slash infused purely with that power into empty air.
The flames blanketing the sun vanished in an instant. Cracks spiderwebbed its colossal form.
"Ban Yu-won!"
"Got it."
He summoned the usual twenty-five Storm Swords into the air.
But he activated an unused concept, Unity, fusing them into one massive greatsword.
He extracted the Giant's concept from the Code Core, isolated the "Giant" part, and imprinted it onto the unified Storm Sword.
Resonating it with Requiem in his hand, as the greatsword loomed overhead, casting shadows on the ground.
All that remained was—as Dokgo Yeon taught him—
"Pierce!"
He swung Requiem. The resonating greatsword channeled God-Slaying energy fully, its slash cleaving the sun in half!
—Such annoyances!
The next instant, something burst from the sun's core and shattered the greatsword.