While Alex knows that the Dragon Slayers have arrived in this era and get scattered, he doesn't have any plans to find them and unite them. He's already busy with his life and besides, they will be fine because they have their dragons inside them.
Those guys are also the main characters of this world, so they should be fine even if he doesn't do anything about them. For now, he should just focus on himself and get stronger to prepare for the unpredictable future.
Then, a few days after Alex and Laxus returned from their job, Makarov brought a pink-haired boy into the Guild. Of course, he finds and brings Natsu to join the Guild, just like in the story.
The Guild welcomes a new member again after a while. They now have some young Mages, not just the adult ones. Alex knows more young Mages will join them in the next few years, but for now, they only have a few.
Though Natsu's arrival makes Alex think about Wendy. Edolas Jellal, a.k.a Mystogan should have found her. But then he would leave her in the care of a tribe that actually is just a group of spirits, so she basically will live with ghosts for a few years.
Even the villager spirits are actually projections made of the chief's magic. That old village chief was surely one hell of a strong Mage because even after his death, he still can stay in this world and even have enough magic power to make that level of illusion.
His Illusion Magic is so strong that Wendy doesn't realize that they aren't real humans for a few years. Maybe it's because she is still a child. But Alex is sure that it's also because the Illusion Magic is just too real.
Normal illusions can't be touched, but there's no way Wendy will never touch anyone in the village when she lives with them. That means the Chief's Illusions can even create physical bodies, which is a very high level of Illusion Magic.
Well, Wendy will still have a normal life even when she lives with those Illusions or Spirits. Even so, they are still not real living beings and her only living companion there will be Carla.
Alex still thinks that it's not right to make her live in that environment even though they raise her properly. After all, he thinks she still needs to interact with more people and know more about this world.
Besides, that Chief's spirit stays in this world for a reason. Alex can't remember it well though. He can only remember that the Chief is guarding a massive and very powerful weapon or device that's buried near that village.
That weapon is very dangerous and it was created by his people. Alex can only vaguely remember whether the Chief stayed there to guard it and waited for the time when he could find people who had the power to destroy that weapon or to avoid awakening it.
Anyway, Alex surely remembers that a Dark Guild will try to use that weapon and the alliance of 3 Guilds will stop them. Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus, and Cait Shelter.
It's another strange thing when Alex thinks about Cait Shelter. For them to do a joint mission with Fairy Tail and Blue Pegasus must mean that they are Legal Guild. But he doesn't understand how they can even be a Legal Guild when their members are mostly just Illusions and they stay in a forest.
Well, it's too difficult to think about, so he just stops thinking about that. What he thinks now is actually the weapon that is guarded by the Chief spirit. To be precise, the energy or magic power kept in that weapon.
Such a massive and powerful weapon surely needs a lot of energy to operate it. Alex vaguely remembers that there are some big Lacrima Crystals filled with Ethernano inside that giant weapon.
The amount of Ethernano in those lacrima crystals must be very massive to be able to move such a gigantic structure. It might be dormant now, but the Ethernano inside those lacrima crystals must be full because the weapon can be operated right away when the Dark Guild finds it.
Alex is really enticed by those fully-loaded lacrima crystals. After all, he needs a lot of magic power a.k.a Ethernano to break the Tailed Beasts' seals. 6 Beasts are still sealed, so he really needs a lot of Magic Power to break their seals.
He doesn't know whether the magic power inside that weapon's lacrima crystals will be enough to break all the remaining seals, but it should still help a lot, so he needs to find a way to get the magic power of those crystals without causing a disaster by accidentally activating that weapon when he can find it.
Yeah, finding the location of that weapon is not easy either. He doesn't remember the name of the forest where Cait Shelter is located. So he can't find it now because it should be near Cait Shelter but he doesn't know where it is.
He can only wait until he hears something about Cait Shelter might haven't even formed yet now because they only make it for Wendy and she might still be walking around the forest with Mystogan.
Alex thinks that maybe he should ask Mystogan when the guy joins the Guild. But he doesn't know whether Mystogan will even join soon or quite later because Mystogan comes to Earthland to find a way to close the Anima that connects Earthland and Edolas.
It might be hard to get closer to him too. After all, Mystogan keeps trying to hide his real identity even to his Guild mates. He literally puts them to sleep whenever he returns to the Guild since he is introduced in the story.
So getting closer to Mystogan might be more difficult than getting closer to Laxus. That's why Alex needs to think of another way to find the location. He can't just randomly explore forests, after all. There are so many of them so it will take a really long time if he does that.
Well, even if he can find it now, he is still not ready to get that weapon. He needs to improve his magic power absorption skill or he might trigger and activate the weapon because he can't absorb it fast enough and the weapon activates its defensive system or something like that.
Alex needs to make sure he can absorb so much magic power very quickly so the weapon will lose its energy before it can even move and destroy things. After all, he only wants the magic power, not destroying the world.
So he focuses on what he can do now and can think about that weapon or Wendy later. His hands are already full of many things. Training, taking care of Meteor Destroyer, taking jobs from the Guild, etc.
Anyway, now the Guild has become even livelier since Natsu joined. He literally just can't be calm since his first day. Both Natsu and Gray also become "enemies" very quickly, just a while after they know each other and show their magic to each other.
Erza is still quite shy, so she doesn't try to stop them like she usually does in the story. That is until they anger her by destroying her strawberry shortcake during their usual brawl because no one bothers to stop them. She gets really angry and beats them quite badly.
From that day on, Erza will often stop them when they fight. She even starts stopping other fights too which Makarov thinks is a good sign because she becomes more open with the other Guild members now.
Alex is never bothered with the fights though, at least that's how it looks from the outside. He will always just enjoy his drinks or meals at the bar while others fight. But he actually uses his magic sneakily to escalate the fight.
He will partially transform just a finger into Shukaku's finger. Then he will sneakily control small amounts of sand to trip the fighting members so they'll hit each other more often, even the ones who only watch, so they will join the fight too.
Only Makarov realizes his sneaky action, but the old man doesn't say anything. After all, Makarov is very impressed by Alex's ability to only transform a finger. Partial transformation isn't rare, but Take Over Mages usually can only transform a big part of their bodies like limbs.
Transforming only a finger needs a lot of concentration and to use the Beast's magic just through that 1 finger needs even more concentration and effort. So what Alex does is really impressive.
Makarov thinks that it might be Alex's way to train his magic mastery while also joining the fun and he is right. Alex realizes that he can increase his understanding of his Magic and the Beasts' Magic when he limits the area of transformation as small as possible.
After all, using the magic through a smaller area is much more difficult than a bigger area or even just fully transforming his whole body because he needs to concentrate all his magic power to flow through that small area to use the spells.
"Alex, do you want to take a job?" Makarov suddenly asks, making Alex stop his game out of surprise.
"Job? Why are you asking so suddenly?"
"Well, you seem to be looking for challenging jobs since you returned. But the only difficult job you did since then was the Manticore subjugation with Laxus. But now there is a challenging job that you can do alone. So, are you interested?"
Alex hasn't heard what job it is, but just the thought of doing a challenging job alone is enough to make him interested. It's finally time to push himself again.
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