Ben is having a meeting with Anna Heartfilia at his house now. He has some things to talk about with this woman who traveled through time from 400 years ago. She also wants to talk with him because the purpose of her time travel was to defeat Acnologia, and Ben was the one who achieved her purpose.
"Were you really taught by a Dragon?"
"Why are you asking?"
"Because I don't remember sending you along with the other children."
Ben smirks because now he knows that Anna & Zeref were the ones who sent Wendy, Natsu, Gajeel, Sting, & Rogue from the past in order to slay Acnologia.
"I was taught by a Dragon, the Sun Dragon who was an Ancient Dragon God, Escanor. However, I was not born in the same era as those 5 at the Age of Dragons. I was born in this Era and taught magic by Escanor at this Era too."
"So the Sun Dragon survived Acnologia's hunt?"
"Well, he was never there, to begin with. Escanor has passed away even before the 1st Dragon Slayer appeared. The one that taught me wasn't his real self, it's a part of his soul that he left to find a successor."
Ben tells Anna the story that the entity who revived him here has prepared. He only told this detailed story to a few people, and now he tells this to Anna because he knows he needs to tell her. She won't buy any random story because she was the one who prepared the 1st Generation Dragon Slayer personally.
"So you were taught by a soul for a while and then it disappeared. Because his soul disappeared, he couldn't perform Dragon Soul Technique to remove the effect of your Dragon Seed, huh? Then how did you remove that effect without Dragon Soul Technique."
Anna is intrigued, so Ben tells her that he learned Sun Devil & God Slayer Magic to suppress the Dragon Seed. It confuses Anna, so Ben needs to tell some details to her. His explanation surprises Anna because she never thought it was possible.
"Are you sure you are a human?"
"Last time I checked, yeah. Anyway, I wanted to meet you to ask something important. You were the one who made the Eclipse Gate with Zeref, right?"
Anna gets serious instantly and she gets wary of Ben.
"What about it?"
"I need your help to make one."
"ARE YOU CRAZY?"
Anna shouts while hitting the table, but Ben just sits there calmly.
"Just listen to my explanation first, alright? You aren't young anymore, your bones might break if you hit the table that hard."
"Tch, I'll listen to the nonsense you're about to say."
Ben smiles thinly and starts telling Anna what he's planning to do. Anna listens half-heartedly, but then she gradually widens her eyes as he listens to Ben's explanation. Ben looks very serious too and it scares Anna even though he doesn't intimidate her.
"Are you serious? Thousands of Dragons, and you want to fight them alone?"
"Why not? I will do anything for my children's lives even if I need to fight the whole world and be something worse than Acnologia."
Anna thinks for a rather long time and Ben doesn't say anything. He just waits for her answer patiently because he doesn't want to force her. Then after minutes of thinking, Anna finally agrees to it.
"Fine, but we will destroy the Gate after you used it. I don't want to play with time and space anymore because it's very dangerous."
"Alright, let's start the project tomorrow."
The next day, Ben & Anna go to Ben's lab near Cait Shelter village. He has built the Gate, but it's still incomplete because he still lacks information about the time & space magic that needs to be used to travel time. Anna checks the Gate which only has the size of a normal door because Ben made it just enough for one person to enter.
"This, are you sure you need my help? You are almost done with this. And you don't even need to use the Gold Keys to activate this."
"It is almost done, if we only compare it to the Eclipse Gate you made. But this thing is different because I need to travel to another timeline, a specific one at that. If I just want to travel to the future like you, then the Gate would've been finished by now."
"Oh, that's right. Then, what do you want me to do? I never made a Gate like that nor do I know how to make it. You don't even use the keys, so I don't even know how you will open the portal on your destination."
"Well, that's the problem. Even if I can go to that timeline without the need to use the same Gate on that side, I still don't know how to return because there is no Gate."
"How about using the Eclipse Gate on that side?"
"It should've been destroyed by now because I told future Lucy to destroy it. Leaving it intact was very dangerous because more entities can use it to travel through time."
"What? Then how will you find that timeline?"
"I have given some magic items containing my magic power to future Lucy. They will act as beacons to mark the coordinates that I need to find. Now I just need a way to find them and make a portal that connects this timeline with that timeline."
"Hmm, that's difficult."
"Let's take our time. We can manipulate the time we'll visit because it's around 6 years in the future."
Anna nods and they start working on the Time Gate right away. They don't call it Eclipse Gate because Ben made it to not use the power of Eclipse to activate the Gate. He plans to use a powerful Lacrima to activate it, and now he is making that lacrima.
Ben is making a lacrima using Acnologia's corpse that he stored. It will be the most powerful Dragon Lacrima ever created to this day. Even the combination of Serena's 8 Dragon Lacrimas won't be able to match this lacrima.
Anna is working on the Gate while Ben is making the Dragon Lacrima. He needs to do it himself and it needs to be done very carefully. One wrong step and it might devastate the whole continent because that's just how powerful it is.
Acnologia's Dragon Lacrima is basically his concentrated power. Even though it doesn't have his full power, it is still powerful enough to flatten some nations and kill everyone on this continent. Furthermore, Ben infuses magic power into it to strengthen the lacrima because he needs it to be very powerful.
Both Ben and Anna are working on it every day to finish it faster. But they still take time to enjoy their lives too. Working relentlessly without taking any rest will only stress them and make them can't work well.
Ben spends his rest time with his family and Guildmates. He trains some people too because they got very motivated after he defeated Acnologia. Even Gildarts is staying in the Guild just to exchange some blows with Ben.
Of course, the ones who he trains the most are the Slayers. Wendy, Natsu, Gajeel, Laxus, Sting, Rogue, and the new Dragon Slayer Erza. Then there is Gray the Devil Slayer and Romeo, Sherria, and Orga the God Slayer to be trained too.
His daily schedule is very tight, but luckily he has Clone Magic to make clones that can help him. The clones are the ones that train the Mages, while his real self is working on the Gate and spending time with his family.
Speaking of family, Mira had started teaching magic to their children. They haven't been taught any type of magic though, just how to control their magic power. Also, they are taught basic battle skills that only use their basic power.
Ben and Mira want to solidify their children's foundation before they start learning spells. This is a training method Ben made after learning many things all these years. He realizes that learning magic control before learning spells is very important to be Great Mages.
Without any spells, learning control will be easier, and after that, learning spells will be even easier. Besides, his children need this kind of training because their magic capacities are massive for their ages. After all, they are Ben's & Mira's children, so they are blessed with great genetics.
After 2 months, the Time Travel Gate project finally finishes. It finishes faster than Ben & Anna thought it would. So now, Ben can use it to travel to the future and do what he needs to do. The only thing to do before leaving is having a good time with his loved ones because he doesn't know how long it will take to finish his mission.
Ben spends some quality time with his family and tells Mira everything she needs to do if he can't return fast. He also tells his sisters what to do from now on. Bella wants to follow Ben, but he stops her because this is too dangerous.
Then, the day for him to travel through time finally arrived. He bids farewell to everyone in the Guild first. Makarov stops him for a moment and asks something.
"Ben, are you sure they can do it?"
"Of course, I've trained them very hard that they look like different people now. The 100 Years Quest should be doable for them now. I can't always be the only one who takes such a job. They are also this Guild's future, so they need to grow through hardships."
"Sigh, alright, if you say so. Be careful, your mission is surely far more dangerous than this 100 Years Quest."
"Don't worry, I won't die before seeing my children become good adults."
Ben turns around and waves his hand before disappearing. He teleports to the lab where Anna is waiting. Then after making some preparations, Ben activates the Gate. A dark blue swirling magical portal appears in the Gate and Ben enters it. The Gate stays like that for a while before it suddenly breaks apart and Anna can only sigh now.
"Sigh, it's all up to him now. I hope you succeed, savior of this world."
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