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Zera achieved victory in her battle, while on the other side of the battlefield, Weston also successfully dealt with Feros.
Even though he had received the demon "Fire Snake" from the Demon Realm, which greatly increased his combat power and even allowed him to evolve a combat style like "Fourth Gear-Snake Form", Feros was still far inferior to Weston in terms of raw strength.
With the defeat of these two, the master and vice-master, the morale of "Fire Serpent's Eye" plummeted, and the rest of the group surrendered one after another, throwing down their weapons.
Afterward, the guild members spent some more time bringing the other guilds within the Forest of Fire Snakes under control.
This ridiculous guild war thus ended with a complete victory for Fairy Tail.
The units from the Council, like most law enforcement officers at a scene, arrived late.
Under the lead of the Fairy Tail Wizards, the compulsory detention squad arrested a total of sixteen dark guild Wizards, including those from "Fire Serpent's Eye".
Weston and his party also set out on their journey back to Magnolia.
When they arrived, their hearts were only focused on avenging Hugh and Stuart, who had suffered losses, so everyone had moved with great haste.
Now that they had won the battle, they were naturally in high spirits on the way home, so everyone subconsciously slowed their pace, taking the opportunity to enjoy the scenery along the way, treating it as a guild team-building trip.
...
Night fell.
By the campfire.
The Wizards gathered together, arms around each other's shoulders, talking and laughing.
Weston approached Zera, who was looking gloomy.
The girl's two index fingers were fretfully twining around the ends of her hair hanging in front of her, round and round, as if she were weaving something.
Her gaze, however, was staring blankly at the dancing flames, unfocused, her thoughts drifting off to who knows where.
"Zera, what's wrong?"
"Ever since the battle ended yesterday, your expression has been strange. You even refused Mavis's invitation to go bathe together."
"Ah!"
"Could it be that, in your heart, you want to be with me..."
Weston's joke came to an abrupt halt after he saw Zera's troubled expression.
Such a look, on the contrary, made Zera unable to help but chuckle.
"Don't worry, I'm fine."
When a girl says "I'm fine", then something is definitely wrong!
Weston blinked his eyes: "Could it be that you really care about what that woman said? Actually, you are still young, you will continue to grow in the future, so don't be too troubled!"
Zera's face instantly flushed red upon hearing this, and white steam puffed from her head like a boiling kettle.
"You heard all of that?"
Weston awkwardly scratched his cheek: "It couldn't be helped, my ears are too good. Although I was fighting that master at the time, I still accidentally heard a little bit."
"So, you couldn't really be because of..."
"I am definitely not troubled because of that kind of thing!"
Zera cut off Weston's unfinished words in one go, her tone suddenly becoming bashful: "Anyway... anyway, we will always be together in the future, and you won't care about that kind of thing, right?"
"This..."
Actually, I still care a little bit!
Weston's lips moved, but he finally decided to swallow these words back into his stomach.
Better not to ask for a beating...
"Then why on earth are you distressed?"
"It's magic!"
Zera finally spoke the reason for her gloom: "In the battle with that woman, although I won, I didn't win by relying on magic."
"So what about it?"
"Close-quarters combat strength is also a manifestation of a Wizard's power!"
In Weston's view, a win is a win, and a loss is a loss.
Moreover, Zera didn't win by relying on external objects, but used techniques and strategies to win fair and square!
"I'm not obsessing over whether my close-quarters combat strength is strong or not. I'm just thinking, my 'Fire God Slayer Magic' seems like it hasn't grown for a long time..."
Fire God Slayer Magic, ever since Weston passed it to Zera, she has used it for ten years.
For the first seven years, because she was on the relatively peaceful Tenrou Island, her progress was very limited. After defeating Geoffrey and taking her revenge, she relaxed even more.
This situation continued until Fairy Tail joined the Kingdom War.
In that year, Zera participated in battles time after time, and coupled with her body being in its growth period, her strength grew very rapidly.
But after the battles ended, she once again entered a relaxed and lazy state.
This time, facing the "Fire Magic Expert" Lena, Zera felt she won by luck.
If it weren't because the magic she practiced was Fire God Slayer Magic, which granted immunity to fire attacks, she would have been taken out by the very first move when the two sides engaged.
"In battle, my magic was controlled by the enemy, and I almost hurt my companions, yet I couldn't even manage to seize back control of my own magic. This is truly too unsightly!"
"So I want to become stronger!"
"Strong enough to protect everyone in the guild, to protect Mavis, and even to protect... you!!"
Heh heh heh...
If this isn't a confession, then what is a confession?
Weston only felt like his heart had eaten honey, sweet as could be.
Sensing Weston's mood, Zera was both embarrassed and annoyed. She turned her head and glared with her two big, watery eyes, then reached out and slapped the shoulder of the person beside her with a "smack".
"What are you laughing at?!"
"I'm talking to you very seriously right now!!"
"Hahaha... Alright, alright, I'm being serious too!"
Weston suppressed the smile at the corners of his mouth and began to ponder Zera's troubles: "You said you want to become stronger, so do you have a direction?"
"Yes, I've already thought it through!"
Zera nodded vigorously, one of her two ponytails behind her head flicked, and a sharp light appeared in her eyes.
"First, I'm going to learn all the magic that woman knows!"
"After defeating her yesterday, I inherited the 'Fire Devil Slayer Magic' from her body. This is a very good start."
"I'm going to train this Devil Slayer Magic, and I also want to fuse it with my current 'Fire God Slayer Magic' to evolve into an even stronger magic."
"Hmm... Let's just call it 'Fire God-Devil Slayer Magic'!"
During the previous battle, the phenomenon of "Unison Raid" had occurred between the two magics, so Zera felt her idea was feasible.
"Then, I want to learn all types of fire magic!"
"Whether it's fire manipulation, fire make, fire illusions, or creating flames of various properties, as long as it's fire-related magic, I want to learn it all. And I also want to train to a level stronger than hers, to become a true 'Fire Magic Expert'!"
"Finally, it's about chasing dreams!"
Zera turned her head and looked at Weston: "You said before that you want Fairy Tail to become the number one ranked magic guild in Ishgar in the future, and you want to become the strongest Wizard in this world, right?!"
"Since that's the case, then I'll set a goal for myself as well!"
"I will become the world's strongest fire Wizard in the future!!"
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