While Fairy Tail's new participating team was fighting fiercely in the arena, Drake had already led the action team to the location of the Eclipse Gate.
At the same time, another group of people began to act.
Jellal appeared, leading the envoys of the Magic Council, Lahar and Doranbolt, who had appeared in the Tenrou Island incident, to the King of Fiore and Princess Hisui E. Fiore.
Then, Future Lucy, who was traveling with them, revealed her identity and told them what would happen in the future.
After discussion, Mavis and Jellal both felt that they couldn't act directly.
Doing so would easily cause unnecessary conflicts with the kingdom's side. If an accident occurred during the process, it might cause casualties to innocent people, and it might have a negative impact on Fairy Tail afterward.
After all, the fact that someone had brought back unverified information from the future couldn't be used as a reason to explain everything.
In order to avoid wasting time explaining to the kingdom, Mavis decided that the Fairy Tail team and Jellal would act simultaneously.
Jellal would take Lucy to notify the Magic Council and the kingdom of what was about to happen, and although the king and princess had acted foolishly in the Eclipse Project, they weren't so foolish that they couldn't tell what was important.
Even if they didn't completely believe Future Lucy, they would definitely act first, which would make things much easier for Drake's side.
Drake led everyone to break through the kingdom's guards and arrive before the Eclipse Gate, saying, "The magic circle here will absorb all released magic power, so you can't use magic at will."
Natsu's eyes revealed a clear stupidity, and he said, "But Drake, you used magic just now, right?"
Drake rolled his eyes at him and said, "If your magic power control level is high enough, the effect of this level of magic circle can be ignored."
Everyone couldn't help but look at Drake, thinking, is this the strength of the mage who can defeat Acnologia!
Drake enjoyed everyone's admiring gazes for a moment, and said, "Jellal and the others should be almost finished as well. Next, everyone should prepare to deal with the opening of the Eclipse Gate."
Saying this, Drake reached out and pressed his hand on the ground. Complex symbols and patterns floated up from the ground and quickly spread out, extending to a position that was unknown how far away.
That was the huge magic circle arranged by the kingdom to absorb magic power. Drake ignited a flame in his hand, igniting the magic circle from the position of Drake's palm.
The magic circle, which the kingdom had spent huge manpower and material resources to arrange, couldn't even last for ten seconds. The various nodes began to collapse, and the magic words on it also began to shatter.
Drake stood up, took out the pocket watch he used to keep time as if he hadn't done anything, and confirmed the current time.
There was still an hour before the arrival of July 7th, and this hour also passed in the blink of an eye. And because the kingdom had already contacted Future Lucy at this time, no one came to make trouble.
Drake didn't need to take out the pocket watch to see that the time had come, because he could already sense that the surrounding magic power had become strange.
Four hundred years ago, Acnologia turned from a human into a black dragon who slaughtered all dragons on this day, July 7th. From then on, this day when the Dragon King was born was called the Dragon King Festival.
But it wasn't that Acnologia became the Dragon King on this day that made this day special. On the contrary, it was very likely that Acnologia's complete transformation into a black dragon was related to the special magic environment on this day.
The correct way to use the Eclipse Gate created by Zeref also used the same thing.
Although Drake didn't know what the principle was, on this day when the sun and moon intersected, the nature of magic power changed.
Drake turned his head and said, "The time has come, let's begin!"
Lucy nodded, opened her arms, and the twelve golden keys flew out from her pouch and were inserted into the gaps in the Eclipse Gate in turn.
The huge magic power accumulated over the seven years of the Grand Magic Games was consumed rapidly like a flood that had opened the floodgates.
The structure on the Eclipse Gate began to deform, and then the door panels began to move, and that gap slowly widened.
The Eclipse Gate was finally opened! And what was connected on the other side of the door was the era four hundred years ago when dragons were still active in the world.
Just then, Drake suddenly felt the power within his body begin to boil. That was his skill, Dragon Slayer, taking effect.
This could only mean one thing, and that was that a dragon on the other side of the door had become hostile to Drake.
At the same time, a deafening roar came from the wide-open Eclipse Gate.
Erza said loudly, "Lucy, quickly close the door. Something's coming out!"
Drake stopped her and said, "No, the magic power on the Eclipse Gate hasn't been completely consumed!"
Erza frowned and said, "But...!"
Drake showed a firm expression and said, "It's not that easy to change the future. Didn't we already have that awareness!
There's nothing to say now. We just have to fight with all our strength and create our future!"
Natsu grinned, and his fists, burning with flames, bumped together, saying, "That's right, I'm fired up!"
The unease and hesitation on the faces of the others also disappeared, and they all showed invigorating expressions, ready to fight.
Along with a rumbling sound, the stones and dust on the ground began to jump, and then a huge black shadow gradually became clear in the Eclipse Gate.
Roar!!!
Accompanied by a deafening roar, a huge claw covered with iron-gray scales stretched out from the vortex in the Eclipse Gate.
The legendary creature, the dragon, which had already become extinct on both continents for four hundred years, appeared again.
Out of the pride of a dragon, that iron-gray dragon ignored all the humans present, but was very dissatisfied with the surrounding environment.
So it opened its mouth, and a powerful magic power began to gather.
There were Dragon Slayers present, and the roar was also a commonly used skill, but now everyone could see up close what the roar of a real dragon was like.
The unimaginably powerful magic power directly blew off the top of the cave. From the outside, it looked like the lid of a kettle had been blown off directly by steam.
Then the iron-gray dragon flapped its wings and flew directly into the sky, and at this time, a dark red dragon and a cyan dragon had already passed through the Eclipse Gate.
Lucy finally opened her eyes and said, "The magic power of the Eclipse Gate has been completely consumed. I'll close the door right away!"
Lucy put her hands together, and released all her magic power as if in prayer, chanting the incantation of Star Dress Mix.
The twelve golden keys on the Eclipse Gate rotated in a circle. As Lucy chanted, the figures of the Celestial Spirits appeared, and they pushed the Eclipse Gate to close with starlight.
The opening of the Eclipse Gate had the huge magic power collected by the kingdom using the Grand Magic Games, but the closing could only rely on the Celestial Spirit mage's own magic power.
Even though Drake had prepared items to restore Lucy's magic power in advance, it almost drained Lucy before she closed the Eclipse Gate.
But during this process, two more dragons passed through the Eclipse Gate and arrived in the royal capital.
Drake looked at the five dragons that had scattered, took a deep breath. Among these five dragons, there were some that had appeared in the original plot, and there were also some that were unfamiliar.
Moreover, there was no sign of the Hellfire Dragon, Igneel's old friend, which meant that this was likely the worst-case scenario: five dragons that couldn't be reasoned with.
Taking another deep breath, Drake announced, "Only Dragon Slayer Magic can defeat dragons! Dragon Slayers, it's time for a hunt!"
With that, Drake took the lead, summoning fiery wings and soaring into the sky. He slammed into the Diamond Dragon, who was currently destroying a building, with a Fire Dragon's Sword Horn.
Dragon scales could defend against nearly all forms of magic, but they were particularly vulnerable to magic infused with Dragon Force.
Even though the Diamond Dragon possessed extremely hard scales, they shattered and scattered under Drake's impact, causing the dragon to roar in pain.
Natsu and the others immediately followed, each pursuing their chosen opponent.
As Mavis had predicted, the kingdom had indeed taken action. While evacuating the citizens, they had gathered all the mages from the guilds participating in the Grand Magic Games, and the king personally informed them of what was likely to happen.
Outside, all the mages had prepared for battle in order to protect the kingdom.
The dragons were intercepted by the mages the moment they appeared, giving the Dragon Slayers a chance to find their opponents.
This was truly the Dragon King Festival, the dance of humans, dragons, and magic had begun!
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