After finishing their catching up Gildarts and Natsu agreed to clash once in their strongest form and either way regardless of the outcome Natsu would pass to the next phase...
Natsu had long reached his Level and from what he learned from Natsu the others did so as well, he would have to step up his game once recovered and try to control better his magic...
He had a feeling this Ryouji could help his body adapt better to the nature of his magic and therefore control it more skillfully than ever...
Taking their respective positions, Natsu roared as he started transforming to his Emperor Mode... More specifically gaining white scales all over his body, growing a tail and a pair of wings...
His eyes changed as one of them was red while the other was black with both eyes containing runes...
Natsu prepared as flames blazed around him raising the temperature higher and higher as Happy started choking...
Gildarts also had a bit hard time breathing... He gathered all his controlled magic so far into his good old hard bone hand and took a punching position...
Gildarts : Crushing Evil, Spreading the Truth : Absolute Heaven!!!
Gildarts rushed forward as his fist was imbued with a silver-like glow threatening to destroy everything around him.
Natsu : Dragon Demon God's Roaring Breath!!!!!!
An Enormous light came out from his mouth while sucking everything around him in a single point and even made the temperature fell a few degrees...
However, when he opened his mouth again Gildarts was almost in front of him, a huge burst of flames came out from his mouth covering hundreds of meters ahead and dozens in a wide area...
Gildarts hitted the flames with his fist imbued with Crush, causing time and space to freeze as at the point of contact an explosion happened that instantly drew all the flames within creating something similar to a black hole...
Gildart's hand started crackling, and Natsu's scales started rapture as well from the pressure the gravity ball is causing them as they were too close to each other...
Before long the gravity ball started cracking as well as the pressure it emanated grew and blew up making both of them fly towards the walls as they crashed in them and cracks started appearing in the bedrock that showed no signs of stopping...
The whole area started collapsing, and Happy wasting no time as the pressure vanished rushed to take the two and leave further ahead as the room collapsed completely...
With his max speed, Happy was out with them in no time, shocking Makarov who was waiting in the area ahead for those that passed...
When Natsu placed them down both of Natsu who had reverted back to normal and Gildarts starting laughing as they truly destroyed the room causing Makarov to have a few black lines...
After getting scold by him for a few minutes, Makarov finally sighed and looked towards the second passage...
On that place Mest, Wendy were fighting with Lucy and Cana but what was most weird was that when Lucy summoned both Virgo and Loke, the stopped listening to her as they stared at Mest...
Especially Loke...
Mest : What is it...??
Loke : You... don't remember me right??
Mest : No, do i have to??
Loke : Use your exclusive magic to yourself and you will see why...
Mest slightly frowned as he heard the words of Loke, especially since he knew his exclusive magic of altering memories...
Lucy : What's going on guys...
Virgo : Princess this guy is not a member of Fairy Tail...
Wendy & Lucy & Cana : Huh??
Loke : No it would be accurate to say that he belongs to Fairy Tail, but i have no idea why he used magic to alter everyone's memories that let him join fairy tail again...