Since we must fight, we can only strike first to gain the upper hand!

Gray shouted loudly, holding a huge sword as big as a man with both hands, jumping up hard and slashing downwards, the silver necklace around his neck kept slapping against his naked chest, making a clanking sound.

Before the heavy blow hit the target, two sword lights flashed past. Erza turned around and danced with her sword, cutting the huge ice sword into three pieces.

As soon as the pose was set, Gray's attack came again!

"Sledgehammer!"

The ice hammer fell from the sky. Kira said that the opponent's best opportunity to attack is in the air! But Erza did not lack the means of flying. She flapped her wings of the black feather armor and dodged it backwards.

"War God Gun!"

Huge crystal-shaped icicles rising up from the ground, as if they were about to pierce the sky, heading towards Erza.

Erza twisted her body and reversed her direction in the air. She changed her clothes, stepped on the ice crystal, jumped on the ice crystal, drew her sword, rushed down along the icicle, and slashed with all her strength, like breaking a bamboo.

No action is wasted.

Gray had already expected it, and before the attack came, he immediately used a range-covering attack: "Lancer!"

Hundreds of ice guns spurted out, attacking in a spiral, and the twisting wind squeezed the ice guns, hitting the icicles with a squeaking sound, causing large pieces of fine ice chips to collapse, and the scattered cold air caused the surrounding temperature to drop slightly.

The crystal icicles touching the sky were still, but they were riddled with cold air. Erza rushed down like a leisurely stroll in the hail of bullets, like a dancing red fairy.

"Heavenly Wheel, Sword of Cycle!"

Hundreds of swords are driven like arms, with great power and dazzling speed.

"Ice made, ice wall!"

Knowing that ordinary shields could not protect against such intensive attacks, Gray spent a lot of magic power to create a wall of ice to protect himself. The thick ice blocked the rain of swords coming from all directions. The sharp swords fired with a crackling sound and fell with every attack.

A thin layer of ice.

"Erza is so cruel!"

In the ice wall, Gray was sweating profusely. Fortunately, he reacted in time.

Shao Qing, the rain of swords stopped, smoke, and ice mist mixed together. Erza's eyes were sharp, and she saw a large broken hole in the ice wall at a glance. She was about to pursue the victory when she saw a cannon muzzle protruding from the hole.

"Ice Cannon!"

Using huge hailstones as bullets and biting snowflakes as gunpowder, Gray created a cannon, mixed ice and snow together, and formed an avalanche-like attack towards Erza.

Seeing the white frost approaching, Erza's pupils shrank and she braked: "King Kong Armor!"

The Diamond Armor is her strongest defensive armor. It is extremely hard and is more than enough to protect against ice and snow cannons, but...

Before Erza could recover, she felt the ground beneath her feet crack, as if something was breaking out of the ground!

"Bingqianquan!"

The effect of the illusion was not up to expectations, but the brief loss of consciousness was enough. Gray seized the opportunity created before the defeat of Mist Gang, pressed his hands on the ground, and a large number of ice spikes erupted from the ground below Erza like a fountain, wiping her body.

Completely engulfed.

"Success!"

Gray exclaimed, but he was dumbfounded the next second.

"Armor of the Ice Emperor!" Erza changed her clothes in the air again and escaped from the ice and snow without any injuries.

Familiar armor, Gray remembered that this armor could greatly neutralize ice magic attacks.

"Damn it! It's Kira's thing again!" He clenched his fist and hammered the ground hard. Gray was heartbroken, shouted loudly, spent all his remaining magic power, and used his ultimate move again, "Made of Ice, Cavalry Dance!!"

The crisp sounds of ping-ping-pong-pong sounded one after another. Swords, guns, axes, hammers... a huge number of various weapons were produced in an instant, quietly surrounding the air, ready for battle, as neatly organized as well-trained soldiers.

Erza stared at this scene with wide eyes. Even though she had always had confidence in the strength of her companions, she couldn't help but admire: "What a fast modeling speed! It's really surprising. Is this Gray's current strength?"

Even the person she knows best is so out of sorts, let alone others.

Mister Gang next to him, as well as all the companions and spectators watching this scene on the field, were shocked by Gray's amazing move. Shouts and cheers resounded throughout the audience!

At the judges' table, Marklov was very pleased, and his old face smiled like a flower; the reporters who came to report recorded this scene with their cameras; even the mayor was very happy, and he didn't care whether he was strong or not.

, but Fairy Tail has such a high popularity, which is beneficial to Magnolia.

Erza once again put on the Heavenly Wheel Armor, activated her magic power, and also created countless swords: "Heavenly Wheel: Sword of Chaos!"

Use more to hit more, use faster to hit faster, the two of them control their respective weapons and smash towards each other!

Bang bang bang... ping ping ping pong...

Ice weapons and iron weapons collided together, and there was a loud clashing sound, chopping, splitting, stabbing, prodding... various attack methods were performed one after another, chaotic and orderly, overwhelming, and bystanders could only see the light of swords, knives, etc.

The light and ice crystals refracted and flashed into one piece, and finally fell to the ground together, raising a burst of smoke and dust that covered the entire place.

Even though Gray had created so many weapons, the weapons made of ice could not continue after all. The sound of metal clashing rapidly decreased until the sound completely subsided and the smoke dispersed, leaving only Gray sitting on the ground helpless.

And Erza stood in front of him, pointing a sword at his head.

The victory has been decided!

Without any obstruction, Erza's sword flew towards the blue team's crystal tower, directly smashing the crystal ball placed in it, marking the end of the final game of the preliminary round!

A familiar voice sounded: "Red, the outcome of the blue team has been decided. Congratulations to the red team for winning!"

"Are you okay?" Erza extended her right hand to Gray who was sitting on the ground.

Gray smiled and stood up: "Of course!"

The creed of competition first, friendship second is vividly displayed in them.

"Really, it's really not easy to win against you!"

"You've done a great job!"

Erza was very happy because she won the game; Gray was very happy because he had a great time fighting Erza and although he didn't win, his strength had been improved; only Juvia was unhappy because not only did she lose the game,

I also saw Gray and Erza holding hands.

[Because Juvia failed to win and failed Gray-sama’s help, he chose to be with Erza? 】

At the end of the game, the last ten players teleported back, and there was a burst of cheers from the surroundings.

Among the cheers, only Juvia was holding Gray's thigh, crying and begging him not to leave her, making Gray extremely embarrassed.

On the judges' table, Disper took the microphone and announced to everyone: "The preliminary round of the Fairy Tail Magic Conference is officially over. The winning list is the white team, the green team, and the red team. Please see the big screen for each person's score!"

The voice attracted everyone's attention. Kira looked up after hearing the words and saw the scores of a total of 30 people from six teams displayed on the screen.

According to the contribution of each team, points are given from 2 to 10 respectively. The winning team adds 2 points to each person, and 0 to 2 points are added or subtracted according to the game time. So the scores of everyone are:

White team (win): Kira 14 points, Bisca 12 points, Bigusro 10 points, Marcus 8 points, Nobu 6 points;

Green team (win): Mira 13 points, Philid 11 points, Kana 9 points, Wakaba 7 points, Jeter 5 points;

Red team (win): Erza 12 points, Elfman 10 points, Aba Green 8 points, Doraire 6 points, Tono 4 points;

Blue team (defeated): Gray 10 points, Mystergang 8 points, Lucy 6 points, Macao 4 points, Wolian 2 points;

Yellow team (defeated): Rocky 9 points, Lebby 7 points; Ridasu 5 points, Laxus 3 points, Chico 1 point;

Black Team (defeated): Natsu 8 points, Gajeel 6 points, Juvia 4 points, Alzak 2 points, Pikita 0 points.

"Everyone is ranked according to their scores. If the scores are the same, the winner will be ranked in front of the loser. If they are all winning teams, they will be ranked according to the winning time."

Following Disper's finger, everyone looked at the big screen on the other side, which showed the list of sixteen people who had passed the preliminary round:

First place: Kira, 14 points

Second place: Mira, 13 points

Third place: Bisca, 12 points

Fourth place: Erza, 12 points

Fifth place: Philide, 11 points

Sixth place: Bigusro, 10 points

Seventh place: Elfman, 10 points

Eighth place: Gray, 10 points

Ninth place: Kana, 9 points

Tenth place: Rocky, 9 points

Eleventh place: Marcus: 8 points

Twelfth place: Abby Green, 8 points

Thirteenth place: Mystergang, 8 points

Fourteenth place: Naz, 8 points

Fifteenth place, Wakaba, 7 points

Sixteenth place, Lebby, 7 points
Chapter completed!