Fire blades and glaciers collided. After the battle between Gray and Kana the day before yesterday, one day later, there was another confrontation between ice and fire in this arena.

boom!!

The flame blade cut through the glacier, and the endless cold air froze the flames; the glacier gradually melted, and the flames began to extinguish... The tug-of-war between red and white lasted for nearly a minute. Gradually, the flames became weak and unable to continue, and white immediately gained the upper hand.

Sensing the change, Mira no longer held back and increased her output. A more powerful glacier rushed out in an instant, completely extinguishing Natsu's flames and freezing the entire place!

Feeling the cold air hitting her face, Kira praised: "This power is at least as powerful as two or three Gray's ultimate moves!"

Poor Gray was unknowingly reduced to a magical unit of measurement.

Poof!

With a loud noise, Natsu was hit by the ice and flew out. In the end, he still failed to defeat Mira. This also completely ruined his idea of ​​"completely defeating the demon Zonia and proving his strength."

The competition between magicians with opposite attributes is helpful for training their magic skills. Therefore, the ice magician is undoubtedly Natsu's best helper on his growth path. Although he often fights with Gray, the two are about the same strength and their efficiency is still a bit low.

Those demons in Zonia are undoubtedly Natsu's best experience package. Since his return, his strength has improved by leaps and bounds. Now he can even touch Mira. If Mira hadn't accepted Ace and used the flame mode

, maybe it can really make Natsu succeed.

At the end of the battle, Mira exited the receiving state and thoughtfully walked over to help Natsu up. This also meant that today's game had come to an end. There was only the final decisive battle left in the entire competition. With the last expectation, the audience left one after another.

…

Late at night, Fairy Tail Guild.

There was only a weak light in the entire tavern, shining on a rectangular table. Several figures whose faces could not be seen were sitting together, and they were talking about major events related to this game.

"Tomorrow is the final battle. Get ready and clear all your bets."

The leader of the man had bewitching red hair, cold blue eyes, and carried two swords at his waist. His face was extremely handsome, but what he said was the most terrifying words. His understatement was enough to bankrupt half of the guild.

The man's words caused the dozens of figures sitting opposite him to stiffen and start whispering. Some even wanted to sneak away.

Boom!

A soft sound attracted everyone's attention. To the left of the man, a girl with wheat-colored skin smashed a wooden barrel with only half a barrel of wine left on the table, threatening in her words: "Anyone who dares not to pay, I know what will happen."

Bar?"

To the right of the man, a short figure only as big as his head flew onto the table. The candlelight flickered, illuminating his appearance. He had blue skin, a white belly, pointed ears, a long beard, two wings on his back, and a tail.

Not like what humans should be like!

The short figure retracted his wings, clasped his hands and said, "Since you chose to bet like that, you have to think of the consequences. I have advised you to suppress Natsu!"

The cold words made people feel chilled. Several people looked at each other and thought to themselves: Who would have thought that with Natsu's strength, he could also enter the semi-finals?

An old man who was smoking squinted his eyes and hammered the table with his hand: "Damn it! Who would have thought that Erza, who has such a great chance of winning, would stop at the top sixteen. I'm so angry!"

"Jie Jie..." A voice that didn't sound like a good person said, "This shows that she is only at that level!"

His voice was slurred, and everyone knew that he was eating iron. Although it was not the first time that he had seen this, the thought of a person chewing iron as a delicacy made him want to vomit.

"You can't say that..." the orange-haired man touched the ring in his hand and said, "Erza is just unlucky."

The shirtless pervert was also unhappy: "That's right, you haven't even passed the preliminary round."

"You bastard, do you want to fight?"

"Always here for you!"

On the other side, the old man smoking a cigarette said: "But, wouldn't it be too hasty to end the game like this? You see, Laxus didn't even pass the preliminary rounds. This ranking is not convincing enough!"

"That's right! My babies are very dissatisfied with this..."

"Dissatisfied? Of all of you here, who dares not to give me some face?" The red-haired man stood up, with his sword halfway out, and said, "Is it bad if you want to try the sword in my hand?"

"Hmph!" The dark knight with long green hair on the opposite side drew out a Western sword, "You test me with a sharp sword, and my sword is not bad at all!"

At the same time, a man and a woman raised their guns: "What era are you in? Talk about guns! Guns! Do you understand?"

Seeing that they were about to start fighting, an old voice stopped the two of them: "That's enough! Stop! Don't even look at where this place is!"

The appearance of the voice made everyone stunned and asked tremblingly: "You... why do you appear here?"

The old man said: "Ah... do you think there is anything in this guild that I don't know?"

Several people were silent, this person was someone they could not afford to offend!

"Could it be that you also participated in this gambling game?"

"Participate?" The old man opened one eye and glanced sideways at the speaker, "You are too naive!"

A thought popped up in several people's minds: Could it be...

"That's right!" said the red-haired man at the head, "this time, we are not the only ones opening the bet, he is also one of them."

Unexpected, but reasonable! Because except for the woman who was drinking, the rest are all judges of the competition! There is a shady story! There is definitely a shady story in this bet!

Several people present thought in unison: "They definitely tampered with the rankings of this competition! In order to make a fortune in the gambling game, they deliberately arranged unsuitable combatants and so on... Damn it! The more I think about it, the more likely it is!

"

Everyone who thought about this looked at each other in silence, but did not dare to say it openly, because once it was revealed, it might be difficult to move forward in the following days.

This time the bet is based on everyone's final ranking. Everyone has a championship, runner-up, semi-finals, semi-finals, top 16, thirty in the preliminary round, and fails the preliminaries. There are seven possibilities in total, and the same person can only be

Even if you press once, you cannot exceed the corresponding number of people in the same position. For example, if you press the Kira champion, you cannot press the Kira runner-up, nor can you press the Laxus champion.

There is no doubt that most of the human champions and runner-ups chose Kira and Laxus, the semi-finals chose two of Mystergon, Erza and Mira, and the top eight chose Natsu, Gray and Ga.

There are other choices such as Giroud, Juvia, Elfman, Kana, Rocky, Ferride, and even Lucy.

Even though the odds are low, it's better than nothing, and you can make a little money.

But now, Laxus, Gajeel, and Juvia have stopped in the preliminary round, Erza has stopped in the quarter-finals, Natsu has advanced to the top four, and Kira and Mira are competing for the championship. It can be said that the mastermind behind the opening has made a bloody profit.

A few people wanted to say something, but a fat ball-like man rushed over and shouted: "No! That person is coming!"

"What? Not good!"

Everyone started to pack up their things in a hurry, but their vision was unclear in the dark, and the more anxious they were, the slower their efficiency became. Some people were even tied down by tables and chairs, and bumped into by people who couldn't see clearly. There was a sudden quarrel.

Outside Fairy Tail Guild, Kira, who couldn't sleep at night and went out for a walk, heard the movement inside and secretly wondered: "Strange, why is the tavern so dark at this time?"

Although it is late at night, the Fairy Tail Tavern is always open all day long, and the waiters work several shifts. It should not be a dark place.

At this moment, a familiar voice came from the roadside: "Drink...keep drinking..."

Kira heard the sound and looked over, and found a drunk Kana lying on the street. She was holding a wine barrel half a person tall in her hand, and she was leaning on it weakly.

How could Kana appear here at this time? Still drunk like this?

Just when Kira wanted to go over and take a look at the situation, she heard Kana's voice waking up: "Well... it's really embarrassing to be here drunk... Hey, isn't this Kira?"

Kira was agitated, stopped immediately, and slowly retreated: "Something's wrong! Something's very wrong!"

He is a sensitive person. He met a female drunkard late at night and was seen by her. He couldn't leave this situation alone, otherwise he didn't know what would happen later! What if he was blackmailed? It's better to go to the guild to check the situation first.

alright!

Kana seemed to be aware of Kira's thoughts, and immediately stood up. At the same time, the drunken look on her face disappeared, and she rushed over with her long legs, trying to get rid of the wine barrel in her hand, but in the end she still didn't want to part with it, and just shouted: "

You bastard, stop right here! Don’t let me pass!"

This guy is really pretending!

Kira ran into the guild and knocked open the door of the tavern.

Bang!

Under the moonlight, the dark tavern was quiet, with only a chandelier swaying in the air. Underneath were the tables and chairs that were in disarray, as well as a few pieces of iron filings, a few cigarette ashes, and a few drops of wine.

Touching the chandelier that was still a little warm, Kira looked towards the second floor...

Kana caught up and blocked Kira's sight: "Why are you running?"

"I think something is wrong with you tonight!" Kira said bluntly, "Just now..."

Kana's heart skipped a beat: "Something's wrong with me! What did you think happened here just now?"

"Nothing, why are you so nervous?"

"I...am I nervous?"

Kira nodded: "You were a little nervous just now."

"Hahaha..." Kana laughed awkwardly, turned around and continued drinking.

The smell of alcohol on his body is not enough to make him pass out drunk on the roadside. This guy must be hiding something from me! No, it’s not just her, there are others! There was obviously someone here just now!

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

Regarding the duplication of content in previous chapters, the author still has not found the reason. He can only speculate that it may be that I did not save it successfully when I rearranged the chapters.

Because I copy the document to the writing area, sometimes I will change it again in the writing area, and then organize the chapters according to the number of words to ensure the number of words in each chapter. Normally, the background will save automatically. I also have the habit of saving while writing, maybe

An accident occurred at this time; it may also be that it was changed after publishing and was not resaved in the background, so some paragraphs will be repeated.

I checked the writing background and found that the content in the draft box is no longer repeated and has been rescheduled for publication.

In the future, I will control the number of words in each chapter and try not to cause losses to everyone. Of course, I will also check it several times before publishing. If I still see this situation at the beginning of a chapter in the future, I will comment on the previous chapter first, etc.

I'll make the changes and order again.
Chapter completed!