Once Jax finished speaking, the shop owner opened his mouth wide as he stared at Jax. "Are you sure you want to buy 100 bracelets? You know that it will cost you 2 million Jewels, right? Of course, if you buy this many bracelets, I'm sure my friend won't increase the price for the two extra beads and the strengthened bracelet. As for the few luxurious bracelets, I'm sure he'll be happy to make a few for free."
"Yeah, I'm sure. When do you think they would be ready?" Asked Jax as he paid the 190,000 Jewels bill for the bracelet and cards he had bought.
"They'll be ready in a week." The owner said once he thought about it.
"Alright. Can you send them to the Fairy Tail guild? I'll be there." Jax asked back. He didn't want to run between the guild and the magic shop if they weren't ready.
"Are you a mage or Fairy Tail? Can you show me your mark? If you can show the mark, there won't be a need to leave a deposit as we will know where to find you." Asked the man as his friend would have to use a lot of his money to make the bracelets, and if the young man in front of him left, his friend would be stuck with useless bracelets.
Jax lifted the back of his shirt showing the Fairy Tail symbol on his back. Before replacing the shirt in the right position and leaving the shop. "I'll be waiting for the hundred bracelets at the guild. Remember, I need ten beads on each bracelet."
"Alright, I'll be there within the next seven days with the bracelets." The shop owner said while waving his hand at Jax. He couldn't help but be respectful of the young man. After all, he had just put an order worth two million Jewels.
After seeing him leave, the man immediately closed his shop and ran to his friend's home. He needed to tell his friend to start working directly, and he would help him if necessary. This order would help his friend pay the money he owed and still have a nice sum of money left to live well for a while. Moreover, if they managed to complete the order in time, maybe the young man would order more to allow his friend to live well for the rest of his life.
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As the two left the shop, Jax took the magical cards out of the bag and gave them to Cana as they both went back to the guild together. Cana seeing the cards, had a beautiful smile on her face as she opened the pack of cards and looked at them carefully.
Jax seeing her like this, had a smile on his face as he took her by the hand to guide her through the crowded street. She was so focused on her new cards that she didn't even look at her surroundings. They walked for about ten minutes as Jax helped her evade the pedestrians on the road. As for Cana, she was still studying her new cards.
By seeing her like this, Jax at least knew that she loved them as they arrived at the doors of the guildhall. However, as Jax opened the guild doors, he saw that everyone was moving at high speed. The previous calm and sometimes rowdy guild turned serious at that moment as almost half of the guild members were preparing their weapons and taking rations prepared by the workers of the guild.
Jax, seeing this, hurried towards the master who was frowning. "Master! What is happening?"
"Jax, you're back! There's information that sea monsters are attacking from the Fishy sea, Cloud sea and Whirlpool sea. Not only that, but the monsters on Phoenix mountain and Mont Hakabe are more active than usual, leaving the mountain and attacking the villages. They are walking towards the center of the kingdom, more specially Crocus. The magic council has requested the Redford guild, the Doom Hawks guild and the Scary Titan guild to stop the Fishy Sea monsters. The Windguards, Steelbow and Waterclouds guilds are taking care of the Cloud sea. Fairy Tail has been asked to guard the calm sea if something happened and support the Whirlpool sea with the Grim Crusaders and the Sacred Brigade guild. Two of our S-class mages are going to support while Gildarts has already left for Phoenix mountain. Your job is to go to Mont Hakabe, kill the monsters, find the cause of the monster's behaviour and destroy it. It's a top A-rank job that can increase to S-rank at any moment, so be careful! The last appearance of the monsters is at Shirotsume. Now go." The master shouted.
"Yes, master." Answered Jax as he turned towards Cana, who was next to him. "It seems I'll be gone for a few days. On those days, come to the guild to eat, and I'll tell the workers at the bar so you can buy things on my account. Here, take this." Said Jax as he handed over a wooden token. "You can take this to stay at my house. Take a room on the third floor. If you want to train, go to the first basement. You'll see it's pretty nice." Jax said while giving her a wink and going to the bar to tell the workers to let Cana take money from his account to eat.
At the same time as Cana was looking at the token in her hands, she heard the small man who had just given a job to Jax say: "You know, you should take on his offer. From what I heard previously, you live at the orphanage. You'll see that Jax's house is better than it and he built it big enough for a lot of people. I'm pretty sure he built it in hopes of living with other people."
As he finished the sentence, Jax came back and talked to the master. "Master, if I'm not back within the week, there is a guy who will come here to sell me this." He said as he threw a bracelet towards the master. "The bracelet will have ten beads on it. There should be a hundred of them, and they are worth 20,000 Jewels each. If they come to bring them and I'm not here, buy them with my account for me. As long as they don't go over 25,000 Jewels each, it's good." He finished as he said goodbye to his new friend before leaving the guild with his air magic to fly towards Mont Hakabe.
Currently, most of his magical power was low. However, he had enough air magic to reach Mont Hakabe, and within the time it would take, the magical power of the rest of his magics would recover a large part that would allow him to fight. As he flew in the air, he noticed how the citizens were calm. Seeing this, Jax thought it was very peaceful to be too weak to know anything, but it was also perilous as their safety wasn't in their own hands.
Two hours later, Jax arrived at Mont Hakabe. His air magic had mostly been used. However, the rest of his magic had increased back at about 70% of their full capacity. It was enough to fight the monsters. He then used the remaining of his magical power to go towards Shirotsume. There should have been a few mages and soldiers protecting the village and would have more information about what had happened.
However, the closer he came to Shirotsume, the more he felt like something was wrong. There were hordes of monsters walking towards the small village. From afar, he could see spells being sent into the monster horde. Jax had never even imagined that there were so many monsters in Mont Hakabe. As he came closer, he saw a line of defence in front of the village. Wizards were building various defensive facilities such as walls, holes or even just adding pikes on the ground to stop the monsters. As for the knights, they were fighting in the middle of the traps, trying to push them in, or they were simply resting behind the temporary wall.
From his position, he could see that some mage groups were making their way to Shirotsume as fast as possible. According to their strength, Jax figured that they were part of a random weak guild. The jobs had been sent by the magic council to every guild in Fiore since the invasion was there. Moreover, for the more prominent guilds, they had received jobs for protecting a specific place. It was different from the smaller guild, which the magic council just asked to go on any of the closer battlefields to support in numbers.
As Jax came closer to the battlefield, he dropped a few fireballs, lightning strikes and a new spell he had learned, which he called 'Fearful scream.' This unique spell made the targets in the vicinity paralyze for a brief moment. The stronger the enemy, the lower the effect of the scream would be. Finally, he finished by lowering his height as he lined up in front of the paralyzed monsters and condensed a light beam made of his light magic to kill the monsters.
Effectively cleaning a small part of the battlefield, Jax flew to the walls. "Where is the commander?" He asked as he shouted to the soldiers.
"I am!" Shouted the commander who was on the walls. He had seen the young man's magic attack in front of him and dared not underestimate him due to his age.
"I was requested to enter Mont Hakabe to find the cause of disturbance and destroy it. Do you have any information on what happened up there or any ideas?" Asked Jax directly as the longer he delayed, the more people would die.
"We have little information of what happened up there. However, a soldier managed to come back with the information. From what he said, there was a new monster up there. After comparing with pictures, he said that there was a Blizzardvern in the mountains. There were a few wyverns following it, and it seemed to be protecting something. It should have forced the Vulcans down the mountains or allied with them; I have no idea. However, there's something else. If we go by the Vulcans' attack, there should be a Vulcan who evolved into a Vulcan king directing them. For now, we can hold back the attacks of the Vulcans but as long as there is a king, it will eventually destroy us." Answered the commander while shaking his head.
--- Author note
Never heard of those guilds or the two other S-class mages of Fairy Tail? There's a reason. It always bothered me why fairy tail only had Gildarts as S-class mage before the younger generation, so I'm giving a reason here.