The endless sea rolled with emerald waves, and white surf crashed against the shore. Fluffy white clouds hung in the azure sky like spun sugar. The sound of waves and the calls of gulls created a scene of perfect tranquility.
Suddenly, the seagulls in the sky seemed to be startled by something, desperately flapping their wings to flee.
A massive surge of energy tore open a huge hole in the clouds, as two dark figures, one large and one small, streaked across the blue sky. They were moving so fast that they created a sonic boom that echoed across the vast ocean.
Facing the monstrous being behind him, the smaller shadow created a blue and a red magic circle that slowly spun into existence. The two circles instantly merged, and a column of intensely hot fire shot directly at the giant shadow.
In an instant, a massive, blazing fireball erupted in the sky. Its volatile energy rapidly expanded, creating towering waves on the sea below. It was as if two suns had appeared in the daytime sky.
Victor stared intently at the fireball, hoping his attack had been effective. But then, a dragon's roar came from within the flames, instantly shattering his hopes.
"Damn it! Does this black dragon have no health bar?!"
Seeing his attack had failed, Victor immediately activated his spatial magic. He had already lost count of how many times he had to flee.
Victor Dreyar was once just an ordinary college student on Earth, sharing the same name—Victor. He had a mother and a father, and he was the second child, with an older sister who had beaten him up his whole life. One quiet night, on his way home after a late-night meal, he was inexplicably hit by a truck.
When Victor woke up again, he found himself a newborn baby, lying naked in front of a dilapidated building. Soon after, a short old man with black and white hair picked him up and raised him.
Victor suspected that this clichéd transmigration was the result of a spat between dimension administrators, and the truck driver was just trying to meet a sales quota.
He recalled that after being hit, he didn't feel a thing. There was only a flash of white light before he blacked out. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a completely new world.
After his arrival, Victor quickly realized he had transmigrated into the world of Fairy Tail. The dilapidated building was the headquarters of the Fairy Tail wizarding guild, and the short old man was its master, Makarov Dreyar.
From then on, Victor grew up in Fairy Tail. At the age of five, he awakened his signature magic, Origin.
Victor named it Origin because it allowed him to clearly perceive the deeper logic and structure of all types of magic, enabling him to deconstruct and reconstruct any given magic from the ground up.
In simple terms, it allowed him to effortlessly and limitlessly learn different types of magic and even create new ones.
Origin also had a passive ability that caused Victor's magic power to constantly and passively grow. Although the growth was slow, over time, and with active training, Victor's magic reserves became monstrous. By the time he was 18, his magic power was roughly equivalent to that of 30 Ten Wizard Saints combined.
The reason he found himself fighting Acnologia dates back to six months ago. While Victor was away on a century-long mission, Makarov, as per tradition, took the guild members to the guild's sacred ground, Tenrou Island, for the S-Class wizard promotion trial.
When Victor returned from his mission and saw the empty guild hall, an ominous feeling welled up inside him, but he couldn't quite remember what had happened. He had only watched about a third of the Fairy Tail anime, and after so many years, many of the specific plot details had become blurry.
Sure enough, a few days after Victor's return, the Magic Council reported that Tenrou Island had mysteriously vanished from the sea, and all the Fairy Tail members on the island were missing.
This shock to his system immediately jogged Victor's memory: this S-Class trial was the turning point of the entire Fairy Tail anime.
During the trial, Zeref appeared on Tenrou Island. The Fairy Tail members fought a brutal battle with the most powerful dark guild, Grimoire Heart. Although they were ultimately victorious, the battered wizards were then confronted by Acnologia, who had been drawn there by Zeref.
To protect them from Acnologia's destructive roar, Fairy Tail's first guild master, Mavis, cast Fairy Sphere, sealing the entire island and its inhabitants within a magical sphere for seven years.
Despite knowing his guildmates were safe, Victor couldn't stand it. He spent half a year searching the world before finally finding Acnologia at sea. A massive battle between the two ensued, destroying seven islands in just a single day.
From the start, Victor used his powerful Origin magic to unleash all the formidable, self-created spells he had learned over the years. But they were all in vain, barely scratching Acnologia.
At one point, Victor even used a quadruple super magic circle, drawing on a third of his magic power by combining three different Dragon Slayer Magic circles with the Fairy Glitter spell, but he couldn't even graze the dragon's scales.
Seeing that he couldn't win, Victor sensed the danger and immediately used his spatial magic to flee. After all, it's better to live to fight another day...
After his escape, Victor planned to seclude himself for a while. He knew all three of Fairy Tail's great spells, but the Fairy Sphere seal could only be broken by the caster. So, his plan was to figure out how to unseal Fairy Sphere, release his friends on Tenrou Island, and then deal with Acnologia.
However, his plan was stillborn.
Less than a day after their first battle, a massive black shadow descended upon the Fiore Kingdom. The hurricane created by its flight destroyed everything in its path.
Perhaps because he saw a human using multiple kinds of Dragon Slayer Magic, Acnologia, by some unknown means, went directly to the Fairy Tail guild hall and found Victor.
If not for Acnologia's overwhelming roar, which could be heard from miles away, Victor wouldn't have been able to teleport him to the ocean. If he hadn't, half of the Fiore Kingdom would have been reduced to rubble.
And so, Victor and Acnologia fought and fled for three days and three nights...
"Does this guy have a tracker or something?! He finds me no matter where I go!" Victor complained, his body covered in wounds, as he nibbled on a piece of chocolate.
He couldn't escape Acnologia's pursuit. The dragon would simply appear, and without a word, fire a roar at him from a distance, intent on killing him.
"Fleeing like this isn't a solution. The teleportation range of my spatial magic is limited, and I'm running out of anchor points. Acnologia can find me in half a day. I have to risk it all!" Victor decided to make a final, desperate stand.
After using up another spatial anchor point, Victor found a deserted island and began to set up his most powerful spell.
Solar Flare.
Victor created this powerful offensive spell based on the ultimate ability of Leona, the sun goddess from the game League of Legends.
It forms a beam of light from the sky with a temperature close to that of the sun's surface to annihilate his enemies.
He would use this spell as the main attack, supplemented by Dragon Slayer Magic and enhanced with other powerful spells. This was the most powerful, large-scale magic circle Victor could cast.
"A temperature of 100,000 degrees Celsius, plus the dragon-slaying properties of Dragon Slayer Magic. There's no way this bastard black dragon will walk away without a scratch!" Victor cursed fiercely in his mind after setting up the magic circles.
Half a day later, Acnologia finally found Victor.
But under the night sky, the light from 100 magic circles already pierced the skies. Victor had been waiting.
Acnologia showed no fear. He hovered in the air and opened his mouth. This time, he took longer than usual to gather his breath, clearly sensing the threat from Victor's 100 magic circles.
Under the boundless night sky, a black dragon flapped its black wings, shattering the waves beneath its feet, as a destructive roar brewed in its maw.
Victor raised his hands high, and the 100 magic circles above him pulsed with power. The light they emitted was as bright as day, eclipsing all the stars and illuminating the surrounding sea.
For a moment, time seemed to stand still.
Victor stared at the black shadow below, knowing that if this attack failed to repel Acnologia, it would be over. Even with Origin's powerful regenerative abilities, maintaining the 100 magic circles required an immense amount of magic.
When the spell was unleashed, it would not only drain all of his own magic but also the magic from within a 30-kilometer radius. At that point, unless Victor could instantly escape beyond 30 kilometers, the collateral damage from the collision alone would be enough for anyone to finish him off.
The seconds felt like an eternity. Victor was the first to unleash his magic circles, and Acnologia followed with his most powerful dragon roar. The two highly compressed beams of magic collided.
Instantly, space itself shattered.
A blinding white light tore through the night sky, so bright that a brilliant halo could be seen dozens of kilometers away.
The small island was vaporized into dust by the powerful magical shockwave, exposing the seabed.
The fish that hadn't escaped were vaporized in an instant, turning from unconscious to ash.
The area of exposed seabed grew larger and larger as a colossal tsunami swept toward the horizon.
The collision of the massive energies continued for a long time.
After a few minutes, the seawater slowly began to return, and the enormous crater created by the explosion formed a giant circular waterfall in the middle of the ocean.
As for the outcome of the battle...
In the distance, Acnologia flew unsteadily, having lost his entire right arm and shoulder.
Victor was nowhere to be found.