Chapter 776: Put your hopes on...
"Go ahead!! I'm on fire!!"
"We have so many wizards here, that guy may not be able to kill us all before his magic power runs out!!"
"It's just an Acnorolia, what's the big deal? It's just a stinky lizard! If everyone attacks it together, even if one person only scrapes it, we can still kill it!"
Under Makarov's encouragement, hundreds of wizards became excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. They shouted to give themselves courage and said the most cowardly words in the most ferocious tone.
"These guys...are they serious about what they're saying?"
Listening to the shouts of the passing wizards around them, Gray, Lucy and others felt embarrassed for them. Some of them who usually spoke rudely even revealed a hint of disgust in their eyes.
"Please be considerate. They don't have the strength you have. It's already great that they can do this!"
Erza thought it was normal for these people to behave like this. As a wizard who was both 'powerful' and 'not powerful enough', she knew clearly how outrageous the gap in strength between wizards was. She also knew what kind of people should do what, and knew what courage, responsibility, and escape were.
Therefore, Erza did not look down on these wizards who were obviously not strong but were willing to stay here to fight the dragon for various reasons. Instead, she believed that this was a manifestation of their bravery and responsibility, which many people could not do.
At this time, Erza has entered combat mode. She is wearing armor, holding a sword, and has her hair tied into a neat and combat-friendly hairstyle. She stands in front of everyone with a serious and earnest look.
Beside her, Mira, Gildarts, Cana, Gray, and Lucy were also on high alert. As the top mages in the guild, they consciously stood in front of most of their companions. As for the dragon slayers Laxus, Natsu, Wendy, and Gajeel, because of their previous experience of teaming up, they were already standing in front of all the guilds this time, and even began to distribute their positions, ready to give Acnorolia a hard blow.
One minute has passed since Acnorolia appeared, and all the wizards of the guilds have made different responses. Some are ready to fight despite the difficulties, some are standing there at a loss, and some are timid and hide. This is the gap between different people, and also the gap between those with experience in fighting dragons and those without.
Compared to Fairy Tail's quick and sophisticated response, other guilds were clearly far inferior.
The mages of the Emperor's Shield were all very strong, but since they had little experience in dealing with dragons, they all stood still and waited for orders.
'Witch's Sin', led by Jellal and Urrutia, formed a formation with Eric as the main attacker;
The same is true for 'The Heart of the Dragon'. The members of this guild are all second-generation dragon slayers, but they are all young and have never fought a dragon before.
As for the guilds such as 'Snake Princess's Scales', 'Crow's Tail', 'Four-Headed Hounds' and 'Blue Pegasus', the strong ones came forward and the weak ones retreated to protect themselves. Some were protecting King Thomas and the Emerald Princess, and at most they acted according to the situation and cooperated in the attack.
This is because a large number of wizards among them are useless in this battle with Acnorolia and will only cause trouble to others.
“Hurry, hurry, Jura and Leon, just the two of you go up, the others get out of here, don’t die in vain!”
Granny Oppa controlled Shirley to spin in circles with one hand, and loudly commanded the wizards of the guild to quickly form a formation, "Especially you, Toby, facing this kind of enemy, your magic is useless, so don't rush forward!!"
The dog-headed man Toby was furious: "What?! Why doesn't my magic work?!"
The magicians silently complained: Why is it useless? Don’t you know what’s going on?
"Everyone protect yourselves. This is not an ordinary enemy, so leave it to me, the most MEN~!"
In the 'Blue Pegasus' camp, Yiye made a pistol-like gesture with his hands, waving his flowing orange hair, but his body in a white suit couldn't stop shaking.
He was actually scared to death.
"How can we let you face it alone?! At least let us help, One Night Boss!!" ×N
Yi Ye burst into tears, tears streaming down her cheeks. "You guys...you guys...are really MEN~ to the extreme!!"
"I say, facing an enemy like this, is there anyone among us who can get involved?" Pakas raised his wine gourd and took a big sip. After a burp, he looked at his companions behind him with a slightly drunken face.
The companions immediately stepped back in tacit understanding and shook their heads vigorously.
"Hahahaha... Really? I thought so!" Pacas laughed drunkenly, "But we are the wildest guild, right? WILD..."
"FOUR!!!"
Somewhere in the venue, Brian and Alok stood side by side, looking at the giant dragon emitting a dark aura. Neither of them panicked at all, but their performances were not exactly the same: Alok looked more calm and composed. Although he knew that his strength was not enough to deal with Acnorolia, he was able to just do it. And Brian was terrible . He had a crazy grin on his face, as if he was saying something arrogant like "I will destroy Acnorolia until it becomes nothingness."
Behind the two men, behind a stone pillar several meters away, Ivan, Black Snake, Narubdinku and others hid nervously, their faces pale and their teeth chattering.
I have to say, as the president of a guild, Ivan's behavior is extremely shameful!
"Akunorolia, the giant dragon recorded in the Apocalypse, is a very special existence even in the entire history of dragons and humans. I didn't expect that we would meet it here... Come here, all of you!"
Silver looked at the huge black shadow in front of him, waved his hand, and called several companions in the guild to his side.
"What's wrong? Do you have any battle plan you want to tell us?"
At his signal, Nadia, McCalla, Disizu, Nicole, Siduo, Korai and the cat all came over and waited for the president to issue orders.
"Yes! Do you see that side?" Silver pointed to the location of Laxus and others, and said to several companions, "My plan is... to follow Fairy Tail! Wherever they attack, you will attack!"
"We?? What about you?"
"I have my own fighting skills!"
As a mechanical dragon slayer wizard, Silver is very aware that his dragon slayer attributes are different from those of the others, so his fighting style is also different from that of the others.
He had heard from Kira a long time ago that Acnorolia was immune to magic attributes, but physical attacks were effective, so machinery became the simplest and most effective way of attack.
In fact, in order to prevent himself from being unable to fight back when being attacked by Acnorolia one day, Silver had secretly prepared a mechanical dragon to deal with Acnorolia, and carried it with him through the black technology "mechanical capsule". It can be said that he is the most prepared person here.
"Hey, hey, hey... are you kidding me? You want me to take the lead?? I have a girlfriend!" Eric was unwillingly pushed to the front of the team by a bunch of bad friends. His pair of pointed ears twitched from time to time, as if he was listening to something.
Kongou hid in the middle of the team, and because he felt insecure, he hugged Melty tightly: "Stop talking nonsense, you are the only dragon slayer here, who else can go if not you?!"
"Don't worry! Love can help you overcome difficulties and enemies!!"
"You guys... that's Acnorolia!!"
"That's why we need you!" Rastilos adjusted his glasses, "Don't worry, we are all behind you and won't let you feel lonely! If you refuse again, you will be laughed at and said you are not as good as Melty~"
Eric turned around and saw Melty was like nothing happened, not nervous at all. He was stunned: How could this girl be so calm? ? !
As if she could see what Eric was thinking, Melty said, "What's so strange about that? Two years ago, Urrutia, Jellal, and I were all at Tenrou Island..."
Oh, I forgot! This girl has seen a lot of things in the world, much more than us!
On the other side, under the leadership of Auguste, several twelve shields gathered together to fight.
As the strongest, August stood at the front, his brows furrowed, his hand holding the magic wand, his eyes fixed on the huge monster in front of him. Behind him, Agil, Inbel, Timaria, Brandish, Neinhart, and Jacob, each of them became nervous or fearful because of Acnorolia's strength.
The stronger they are, the more they understand how powerful the stronger ones are. They have experienced the strength of the Twin Walls and Zeref, so they know even more clearly how terrifying Acnorolia is. It is an existence that they may not be able to defeat even if they join forces against it.
Among this team, there were two people who behaved differently. They were only excited and thrilled by the unexpected appearance of Acnorolia, but without any fear or tension.
These two people are none other than the 'God' Serena, who has always regarded defeating Acnorolia as his life goal, and the 'Silver Monk' Laquette.
In fact, Serena has been present since the beginning of the Great Demon Fighting Competition. Although he has left the "Twelve Shields of the Holy Spirit", when he encounters such a grand event, he can't help but take a look with great interest.
When he arrived at Kurokas, he was surprised to find that Jellal and others were also leading teams to participate in the competition. However, because they already had all the members at that time, Serena did not say that he wanted to join.
In Serena's opinion, with six Twelve Shields on the field, there was no need to think about the outcome of the match - although the final result was not what he expected - what's more, he had no interest in the fighting and playing of the younger generation of wizards in the Kingdom of Fiore, so he didn't clamor to take the field, so he rarely showed up from beginning to end, which made people ignore his existence.
"Finally...finally...I've been waiting for this day for a long time!!"
Since the day he learned the dragon-slaying magic, Serena has regarded defeating Acnorolia as the greatest goal of his life and has worked hard for it. Except for the news that "Kira defeated Acnorolia" two years ago, he was full of confidence in himself almost every moment, because he was a follower of the Dragon God and had eight Dragon-Slaying Magic Crystals in his body!
And Lacade is even worse off. If Serena is arrogant and can't see her own position clearly, then Lacade is completely controlled by the CPU.
The idea that 'I am the secret weapon created by my father to defeat Acnorolia' is deeply rooted in Lacade's heart, even to the point of being morbid like 'Acnorolia's life can only belong to me' and 'I am Acnorolia's lifelong enemy'.
"If I defeat Akunorolia, Father will pay more attention to me, right? By the way, I haven't done what Kira said this morning about asking Father and Mother for kisses, hugs, and a lift. I don't know if they will reward me..."
Racked was stuck in fantasy time.
In a corner not far behind this group of people, the young couple, Jellal and Mavis, were looking nervously at Acnorolia's big red lantern-like eyes, sweating profusely and feeling extremely anxious.
“What should I do…what should I do…”
"If I take off the necklace, I wonder if I can defeat it with Death Hunting?"
"But even if it was 'love' that was born out of a desire to save people, the method used was ultimately 'evil' that took lives. Would this method really work?"
Unlike everyone else present, Zeref is the only one who has actually witnessed Acnorolia's true strength four hundred years ago. Even though there was the precedent of 'Kira exiling Acnorolia', he did not think that this group of people could really defeat it head-on.
If it had happened in the past, it would have been fine, he could have just pretended he saw nothing and ran away in shame, but now that he was with Mavis, he naturally would not give up on her and the people they each cared about.
"If it really doesn't work..."
At this moment, Mavis suddenly held onto Jeref tightly. Although her boneless hands were small, they seemed to have endless power. "Believe in them! Sometimes, you can place your hopes on the children. There might be unexpected surprises!"
Jellal's heart was shaken.
The girl's smile is the only bright light in this gloomy night.
