Chapter 687: Double Battle
"Welcome back, Kira!"
"Oh, I'm back, everyone!"
Happy flapped his wings and flew over, circling Kira and asking with shining eyes: "You were so amazing just now, Kira! How did you do that?!"
“Wahahaha…I can’t tell you. This is a secret.”
"Huh?? Why is this happening??"
"Well~ I'm afraid that if I tell you, you'll be scared to death. You might not be able to sleep well during practice at night."
"Is it a terrible magic?"
Kira pondered for a moment and explained: "Well, it's not a question of whether it's scary or not. It's that kind of... very special kind of... magic!"
If they knew that a man like me could use time pause, it would be normal for me to not be able to sleep at night, right?
Makarov looked at Kira who was in high spirits and praised him with great satisfaction: "Well done, Kira."
"President, instead of saying something, why don't you give us some more realistic rewards..."
Kira was not excited by these verbal praises. He turned around and asked a soul-searching question, "This time, the bonus should be at least 3... No, 5 million J, right?"
The total is only 30 million, and you want 5 million for yourself? What are you thinking?
"hehe."
Makarov gave a simple but clear reply, then turned around and continued to pay attention to the progress of the competition.
Kira was a little disappointed that he didn't get a satisfactory answer, but he had to bow his head under the eaves, so he could only swallow his reluctance with tears.
"Hehehe...after we get back, the old man should step down, right? Then the money will be mine!"
While Kira was still happily dreaming on this side, he had already started preparing for the next match schedule on the other side.
Today is the third day of the Great Demon Fighting Exercise. The fighting mode will become a two-player battle, with twice as many people on the field. This will add more uncertainty to the entire fighting process.
"It's a two-player battle... Who will be chosen randomly?"
The first thing that can be confirmed is that those who have participated in the fighting mode and been defeated will not be able to play again, so eight people can be eliminated first. In addition, as mentioned before, wizards who "have not participated in the fighting mode" will be given priority, which eliminates another eight people.
If the principle of not duplicating troops is really upheld, then for the remaining thirty-two people, sixteen people per day would be just right.
As the guild's intelligence officer and military strategist, Kira began his predictions for the upcoming games.
"The ones who haven't gone out to fight yet are me, Erza, Cana, and Natsu. If it's a two-on-two fight, as long as we're not facing Zeref and his group, any combination should be fine..."
"No, if it's Natsu and Cana who are teaming up against Jura, they might fail. But if it's Erza who's meeting Jura, there's no need to worry..."
"I say! Kira, you were talking to yourself too loudly!! We all heard it!!"
Cana protested drunkenly, holding the bottle in her arms, "That's too much! Isn't it just like saying that even if we put our bodies together we can't beat Erza? There should be a limit to how much you can look down on others, right?!"
Don't you have any idea whether you can defeat Erza together?
Kira blinked and turned to look at the others: "So? Do you think I was wrong?"
The people behind him waved their hands in unison: "No! No!!"
"See, everyone agrees on you."
Cana still refused to accept the defeat and proudly puffed out her chest towards everyone: "Hehe...you guys, don't underestimate me! I am completely different now! Maybe I am even stronger than Natsu!"
Everyone was speechless: "You are just admitting that you were not as strong as Natsu before..."
In the competitive mode and fighting mode, the halftime break is 30 minutes. The reason for this is not only to give the audience time to go to the toilet, but also to allow the players who participated in the previous competitive game to recover.
As soon as the hunting competition was over, Kira removed the magic cast on Timaria and others. As they were not seriously injured, they woke up soon and were now in the lounge cleaning the red paint on their bodies.
Thirty minutes passed with everyone playing and laughing, and soon, the competition began for today.
The first match is between Hibiki and Ivan of 'Blue Pegasus', and Ajir of 'Emperor's Shield', and Timaria, who just came back from a bath.
"Did Dimalia not wash herself clean? Her body still looks red. I remember it should be whiter... "
“What?! Why, why, why can you see it so clearly?!”
"Damn it!! I'm so jealous!!"
"That should be a rub, right? How could a low-quality magic sniper rifle be used in a competition?"
"Really? She rubbed it really hard..."
"Ahhhh!!! It makes me want to rub her!!!"
"What are you guys saying about girls' bodies?! This is so shameful!!"
Although she was participating in the competition and the duel on the same day, for Dimalia, it didn't take her much effort to defeat an opponent of this level.
It might be because she was crushed by Kira in the previous competition. Not only was her magic broken, but she also fainted in public in a very shameful way. This made her very angry. She attacked in anger and killed her opponent in an instant. Ajir on the side didn't even have a chance to fight back.
This was a complete crushing defeat!
The second match was between 'Heart of the Dragon' and 'Four-Headed Hounds'. This match was also a crushing one. Both of the Dragon Slayers had Fairy Tail's A-level combat power and it took them less than ten minutes to defeat their opponents.
After two matches, plus the halftime break and preparation, only half an hour had passed when it was time for the third match.
"Next is the third double duel, 'Fairy Tail' versus 'Snake Princess Scale'!"
"The candidate for the battle is!——"
"Natsu Dragneel, Cana Alperona VS Jura Regis, Tobi!"
Kira looked very regretful: "Ahh~ The worst situation has happened! Is this Murphy's Law? I really shouldn't have said those things before, right?"
"No...Is everything okay?...Natsu and Cana are still very strong, they may have a chance of winning?"
“Why is it a question?”
"You don't even believe what you said, right? That's Jura!!"
Everyone felt that Jura was a difficult enemy to deal with. As for Toby? He had long been excluded from their combat capability.
In the Kingdom of Fiore, Jura was very famous. Before the Great Magic Fighting Competition, he was one of the most watched seeded players, and the "Scales of the Snake Princess" was also a magic guild that was highly regarded.
However, now that the competition has reached the third day, the performance of 'Snake Princess Scale' has not met everyone's expectations, which is something that probably no one expected.
The performance of 'Scales of the Snake Princess' was not impressive, which was partly due to Leon who was eliminated on the first day, but the blame was not too great. It can only be said that it was a pity that he met Inbel who crushed him in all aspects of strength at the very beginning!
The most important point is that no matter whether it is the 'Fairy Tail' that everyone thought would be the number one , or the newly emerged, powerful and mysterious 'Emperor's Shield', 'Witch's Sin' and 'Dragon's Heart', the overall strength of these three magic guilds is not weaker than 'Snake Princess Scale'.
Especially the 'Emperor's Shield'. Although they are small in number, each of them has a strength above Saint Ten, which is even stronger than the original first magic guild 'Fairy Tail'!
This directly led to the fact that the magic guild "Snake Princess Scale", which owned Jura, was completely suppressed in this competition. Even the only competition in which Jura took part performed mediocrely due to issues such as the competition system and magic compatibility.
The only bright spot may be his reflective head.
"Teaming up with Natsu... I think I've never tried this before. Will this be a good teamwork?"
Kana muttered to herself when she saw her name appear on the screen.
She is not Gray, and she does not have the tacit understanding developed from fighting with Natsu every day. Suddenly she is asked to team up with Natsu, and the opponent is of Jura's level, which really makes her feel scared.
Compared to Cana, Natsu was much more heartless. He suggested with a smile: "How about we fight one each? Leave Jura-san to me!!"
"No! I still want to try out the new cards!"
"What?... Did you trade cards with Kira again? You're too rich!!"
Natsu looked at Cana in surprise. Although he had never personally visited Cana to learn about it, he knew how outrageous the price of Kira's cards was through Lucy's complaints. Basically, a set of cards required several S-level mission rewards. (In fact, it was less, because part of Natsu's team's money was often used to compensate for losses.)
However, what no one expected was that Kana actually shook her head at this time: "No! I made the card myself this time!!"
Kira smiled and nodded, "Yeah!"
The air around them suddenly became quiet...
“Ehhhh??!! You made it yourself?!!”×N
"Why are you so surprised?! You guys!!"
"Kana, you can actually make cards?" Lucy asked in shock, looking at her with a look that said 'I didn't expect you to be like this, Kana', as if it was the first day she met her.
“…”
Feeling offended!
"As a card wizard, isn't it normal for me to be able to make cards?!"
"Oh! That seems to make sense! But... why haven't I seen you do this before? And isn't it unsafe to use it suddenly in this situation?"
Who are you looking down on? I've been playing cards longer than you've been playing with keys!
"Don't worry!! Just watch my performance this time!!"
Kana smiled confidently, then turned around and walked towards the arena with high spirits, leaving a group of wizards behind her, staring at her tall and smooth back in amazement.
"Is this guy...really okay?"
