Chapter 403 Black Dragon (Ch 403)

“A hundred-year mission… does that mean that no one has been able to complete the task in the past hundred years?”
Lucy said in shock.
“Yes, that’s right. Gildarts is going to try to complete a task that no one has completed in the past hundred years. I wonder if he will succeed this time?”
Mirajane also came over and said.
Lisanna, Gajeel, Juvia, Jinana, and other members who had joined the guild in the past three years all looked over after hearing the conversation.
Lisanna, Jinana and the others were simply curious about the fact that Gildarts had a hundred-year mission.
Gajeel and Juvia were even more curious, because as powerful wizards, they naturally knew about the ten-year mission and the hundred-year mission.
They themselves have done S-level missions, so they are naturally aware of the difficulty of S-level missions, not to mention the SS-level and ten-year missions which are even more difficult.
They had also heard of the Hundred-Year Mission, but they didn’t care about it after hearing it at the beginning. It sounded like this kind of mission was not something they should do, and daring to try it would be irresponsible with their own lives.
“But isn’t this too exaggerated?”
Lisanna looked around and saw that everyone in the guild was cheering happily and dropping the work in their hands.
Gajeel and Juvia nodded in their hearts after hearing this. This was indeed exaggerated.
“By the way, Magnolia’s Gildarts Mode…what exactly is that?”
Lucy asked curiously as she listened to the broadcast echoing in her ears.
“Well, you’ll know when you go out and take a look.”
Mirajane said with a smile to Lucy, Lisanna and other guild members who had just joined in the past three years.
After hearing this, they couldn’t suppress their curiosity and walked out of the guild gate one after another.
Although Gajeel showed disdain on his face, he did not stop and came to the side of the guild gate and looked outside.
Wendy and the other three little girls and Xia Lulu also came outside. What was about to happen was a big scene, which they had not seen many times.
The last time was three years ago. Now that I have the chance, I naturally want to come to the door and take another look.
There were also many guild members who ran out of the guild to watch this grand event.
Everyone arrived at the door, and the sound of bells and broadcasts continued to echo over Magnolia.
Soon, the bells and the broadcast stopped.
Then they saw a shocking scene.
“Ka-ka-ka-ka!!!”
Looking at the entire city of Magnolia from where they were, they saw that all the buildings in the city, along with their foundations, were constantly moving.
“You must be kidding!”
Lucy said loudly with a panicked look on her face, pointing at the building that was moving in the distance.
The others were also shocked, including Gajeel and Juvia, this was even more shocking than the previous Spectre’s ruler’s mobile guild transformation.
After a series of movements and changes, all the buildings and foundations finally stopped.
In front of everyone, a straight road appeared, extending all the way to the outside of Magnolia.
On both sides of the road are moved building foundations. The road is very wide, about ten meters wide.
“The city… the city is split apart?!”
Lucy screamed, she was so scared that tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.
“The magic used by Gildarts is called Crush, which turns everything it touches into powder.”
Erza also walked to the gate and smiled when she heard Lucy’s words.
“So if he accidentally gets distracted for a moment, he’ll smash the building in front of him and walk right past it.”
Urrutia also came here and she continued.
“How dumb is he? He transformed the town just because of this?”
Lucy complained without hesitation after hearing this.
“Well, because he used to be in a daze from time to time, Magnolia’s buildings were often vandalized, so most of his income was used to pay for the damages.
Later, the mayor of Magnolia discussed with everyone and decided to directly transform the entire city.
Of course, Gildarts also invested his own savings into the project to complete the city transformation.”
Noah also came over and said with a smile.
Lucy and the others fell into silence for a while, finding it hard to connect the dots between such powerful strength and the confused personality described by Noah in one person.
“Here it comes!”
Natsu exclaimed excitedly.
I saw a figure wearing a tattered black cloak and had orange hair walking towards me from the distance on the road.
“Tap…tap…tap…”
The footsteps gradually got closer, and everyone could see the face of the person coming clearly. He was a tall man in his forties or fifties, with stubble on his chin, dressed simply.
Everyone looked at Gildarts happily as he walked into the guild.
“Gildarts, duel with me!”
Natsu said loudly to Gildarts.
“This comes right up!”
After hearing this, Elfman couldn’t help but complain.
“Welcome back!”
Mirajane said to Gildarts with a smile.
“This person is Gildarts.”
Lucy looked at the uncle in front of her nervously.
Gajeel, Juvia and the others were secretly watching from behind. Is this uncle the one who is going to do the Hundred Year Quest?
“Oh, Miss, are you new to the guild? I don’t think I’ve seen you before.”
Gildarts looked at Mirajane in front of him and said with a little confusion.
“I’m Mirajane.”
Mirajane said with a smile.
“Mira?”
Gildarts looked at Mirajane in front of him with confusion. After comparing her face with the little gangster Mirajane in his mind, he finally reacted.
“Oh! You’ve changed a lot!
By the way, is the guild holding some kind of event? It’s decorated so beautifully.”
Gildarts looked at Mirajane in front of him with surprise, and then kept looking at the layout of the guild.
“Gildarts!”
When Natsu saw that Gildarts didn’t respond to him, he rushed to a place not far in front of him.
“Oh! Natsu! Long time no see!”
Gildarts’ face was all smiles when he saw Natsu.
“Hehe! I said it! Fight me!”
Natsu rushed towards Gildarts with a bright smile on his face.
“Maybe next time.”
Gildarts knocked Natsu into the air with one hand.
Natsu was completely unable to react before he crashed into the roof, sinking into it, his body twitching unconsciously.
Lucy, Gajeel and the others stared at what was happening in front of them in amazement, Natsu was definitely not weak, but he had no ability to resist at all in the hands of this man.
“Sure enough…it’s super strong!”
Natsu said excitedly as he recovered from his convulsion.
“Uncle really hasn’t changed at all.”
Gray said as he looked at Gildarts.
“A man among men!”
Elfman said excitedly.
“Yeah, the strength is still that strong.”
Erza said seriously.
“Oh, there are a lot of people I haven’t seen before. They have really changed a lot.”
Gildarts looked around and saw many faces he had never seen before, and his face was full of emotion.
Suddenly, he saw the figure he had been thinking about.
“Kana-chan~”
A sickly sweet smile appeared on Gildarts’ face. He rushed over quickly, jumped up, and pounced on Kana.
“Damn dad!”
When Kana saw Gildarts’s action, she reacted instantly and pressed Gildarts’ face with one hand to prevent him from rushing towards her.
“Kana-chan~ my lovely Kana-chan~ show daddy~ I haven’t been intimate with Kana-chan for a long time!”
Gildarts struggled to get closer to Kana.
Kana used both hands to press down on Gildarts’ face to prevent him from getting close to her.
Although she was very happy to see Gildarts return, she was still frightened by his enthusiastic behavior.
“Ah? Cana is Gildarts’ daughter?”
Lucy said in amazement.
“Well, Kana joined the guild at a very young age just to find her father.”
Noah said with a smile beside him.
When Lucy heard this, she immediately thought there was some gossip to be heard, but looking at the current situation, it was probably not the time to talk about such things.
She planned to find Erza and the others later or go directly to Cana to find out more.
After struggling for a while, Gildarts found that he could not get close to Kana, so he had to stop.
Kana also breathed a sigh of relief and dropped her hands that were pressing on his face.
When Gildarts saw Kana put down her hands, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. He quickly approached Kana and rubbed his face directly against Kana’s face.
“!!!”
Kana was startled and quickly raised her hands, pushing Gildarts’ face away with force.
After Gildarts rubbed against Kana, he stopped pestering her and simply took two steps back and left Kana.
He looked very happy, while Kana next to him looked unhappy.
“Gildarts.”
Makarov was sitting on the counter and saw that Gildarts had already met his daughter, so he shouted to him.
“Oh! President! Long time no see──!”
After hearing Makarov’s voice, Gildarts walked to the front of the counter and said happily.
“You’ve been working hard. It’s great to see you back safely.”
Makarov relaxed when he saw the intact Gildarts standing in front of him.
When he learned that Gildarts was injured and sent out a distress signal, he was shocked.
Later, I learned that he had actually seen the black dragon in the Book of Apocalypse, and I became extremely worried.
Fortunately, after Noah went to see him, he came back and said that the injury was not serious.
He was just worried that the black dragon would come to hunt him down, so he stayed outside.
Now seeing Gildarts standing in front of him intact, Makarov finally felt relieved.
“I’m sorry to have worried you.”
Gildarts said to Makarov with great respect.
He could see that Makarov was genuinely worried about him, and he was naturally very touched.
“The Hundred Years Mission is indeed very difficult. I have no solution.”
Gildarts scratched his head and sighed.
“What?”
“It’s a lie, right?”
“That Gildarts…”
“You didn’t complete the mission?!”
After hearing Gildarts’ words, everyone in the guild exclaimed.
Noah and Makarov did not tell anyone else about the failure of Gildarts’ mission, so no one knew about it.
Everyone was very surprised that Gildarts failed in his mission. His strength was obvious to all and he could complete all the missions he was responsible for.
It is easy to cause great damage and often requires compensation.
But I have never heard of him failing in a mission. This is the first time I have heard of it.
“It’s too early for you to do the century-long mission. Give up now.”
Erza saw Lucy who was extremely surprised beside her and spoke directly to her.
“What?! Do I look that excited?”
Lucy was startled by Erza’s words and pointed at her own face in surprise.
“It’s good enough that you can come back safely.”
Makarov looked at Gildarts and shook his head.
It’s already great to be able to see the world-destroying black dragon of Apocalypse and come back safely.
“I’m sorry, I’ve ruined my reputation again.”
Gildarts said with an awkward smile.
“As far as I know, you are the first person to come back from this mission.
Have a good rest when you come back, and don’t go out for the time being.”
Makarov said to Gildarts seriously.
Since Gildarts dared to come back, it proved that he did not notice that the black dragon was chasing him.
Escaped from the Black Dragon, although he had rested outside for some time.
But Makarov felt that Gildarts still needed to rest in the guild for a while, at least to let Noah check if there were any sequelae.
“Yeah, I’m going to do that, too.”
Gildarts nodded.
“Gildarts.”
Noah came to Gildarts.
“Noah, long time no see.”
Gildarts said to Noah with a smile.
Noah felt helpless looking at him, as he had just met him at the beginning of the year.
Later, I helped him with treatment and delivered medicine to him, and we met several times. The most we didn’t see each other was a few months or so.
“Once you have made the arrangements, please come to my house. I will help you with a detailed examination with the help of the equipment.”
Noah said to him.
“Yes, I understand.”
Gildarts nodded after hearing this.
He knew that Noah wanted to check whether his injuries were completely healed and whether there were any sequelae.
“Then I’ll take my leave and go back to rest.”
After Gildarts said this to Makarov and Noah, he turned and walked to the side.
“The guild gate is over there, not here!”
Noah saw that Gildarts was heading towards the guild wall, so he grabbed him and made him face the direction of the guild gate.
“Haha, I wasn’t paying attention!”
Gildarts said with an awkward smile.
“Dad, you are such a fool.”
Kana walked up and said helplessly.
“Kana-chan~”
Gildarts wanted to stick to it again.
Kana pushed him away with one hand.
“Go home quickly!”
“OK!”
Gildarts happily followed Kana towards the guild gate.
When they were about to reach the door, Gildarts turned around and said to Natsu:
“Natsu, come to my house later, I have a present for you──Ahahaha!”
Natsu was a little confused, but soon smiled.
He was looking forward to Gildarts’s gift.
After seeing Natsu’s smile, Gildarts waved and left the guild with Cana.
After Gildarts left, everyone in the guild started talking, and the topic of discussion was all about Gildarts and his mission.
Natsu called out to Happy and ran out of the guild excitedly.
“You don’t seem surprised that Gildarts’ mission failed?”
Urrutia said, looking at Noah.
“Well, I do know that he failed in his mission, and I know the reason. I’ll tell you later.”
Noah replied.
Urrutia nodded after hearing this.
After hearing what Noah said, the others were also curious, but no one asked any further questions.
If Noah could tell, he would tell everyone. If he didn’t tell everyone, it proves that no one can know.
Then Noah walked out of the guild and headed towards Gildarts’s house.
Gildarts asked Natsu to go to his house, probably to talk about the black dragon, and he wanted to go over and take a look.
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“Will the gift be something like a rare foreign [flame]?”
Natsu said excitedly on the way to Gildarts’ house.
“What could it be?”
Happy responded from beside him.
Led by the excited Natsu, the two of them soon arrived at Gildarts’s house.
“Yo!”
“Excuse me.”
Natsu and Happy walked into the house. When Cana saw them, she smiled and said:
“You guys are here.”
“What’s the gift?”
Natsu said as he looked at Gildarts expectantly.
“Natsu, Happy, you’re here.”
Gildarts said to them with a smile.
“Gift! Gift!”
Natsu said excitedly.
“Okay, I’m really anxious.”
Gildarts shook his head, but his face was full of smiles, and he obviously didn’t feel disgusted by Natsu’s behavior.
He paused, then said in a much lower voice:
“Natsu, I saw a dragon at work.”
When Natsu heard this, his eyes widened instantly.
“But I think that’s not the red dragon you’re looking for. It’s the black dragon.”
Gildarts continued.