"Expelled from the guild by the Guild Master himself?!"
Mirajane's voice suddenly rose, as if she'd heard something incredible.
Noah had only just joined Fairy Tail and didn't understand why expelling someone would surprise Mirajane so much.
Cana explained, "I heard about this person when I was little, from Wakaba and Macao chatting."
"In all the years since Fairy Tail was established, there have been members who left the guild or chose to quit, but everyone parted ways peacefully, and many still kept in touch with the guild afterward."
"But Ivan was different. He was the first member in the guild's history to be expelled for violating a guild taboo."
Mirajane curiously pressed on what taboo Ivan had committed, but Cana didn't know either.
After expelling Ivan, Makarov, to prevent the curious from being too curious, simply hid the guild taboos completely. Not only did the new generation not know, but even guild elders like Macao and Wakaba were unaware.
But Noah knew what that so-called taboo was: the Lumen Histoire that Ivan claimed possessed endless Magic Power.
Only such an existence, which would stir up a storm, would make Makarov, that gentle old man, do such a thing.
"But Cana, you still haven't answered about Ivan's relationship with the Guild Master. Are they relatives?"
"Hehe, more than just relatives."
"Ivan is the Guild Master's biological son and Laxus's biological father."
At this, Noah became as shocked as Mirajane.
Sacrificing family for righteousness—oh, Guild Master.
However, Noah thought of Ivan being captured by his own father, Faust, and sent to the guillotine without even undergoing torture.
Before the guillotine, Ivan unhesitatingly betrayed information about the Lumen Histoire to Faust.
Noah seemed to understand Makarov's anger now.
It's just that if Noah encountered such a situation, he would only find a place to lock Ivan up for life, rather than letting him go.
Perhaps Makarov never expected that his own son, despite his arrogant ambition, lacked the backbone to match it.
Fortunately, Noah's father had already cleaned up Makarov's mess.
Ivan would most likely be imprisoned in Edolas for life and would frequently experience Faust's "kindness."
After chatting with Mirajane and Cana for a while, Noah left. After all, it was a girl's room, and it was inconvenient for him, a male, to stay too long.
Before leaving, Noah made sure to remind Cana to carefully guard the Soul of Rebirth card. Yuki's life was now linked to that card.
Card exists, dog exists. Card destroyed, dog dies.
Of course, the reverse was also true, but presumably, no one would be cruel enough to kill a pet dog.
Returning to his dormitory, Noah activated Wish to claim his reward for this mission.
[Local commission completed]
[Reward: Independent mastery of Magic Card]
[Client's comment: Noah is truly a great person, if only he hadn't teased me by raising Yuki's value to one million...]
This little girl actually had the nerve to complain about him. If she hadn't tried to seduce him for a freebie, he wouldn't have teased her...
Noah pouted and accepted the reward.
Instantly, a vast amount of Magic Card theory and techniques appeared in Noah's mind, neatly organized.
"So that's it. Comprehensive development, but due to critical limiting factors, it's forced to be only half-baked."
Magic Card was a type of Holder Magic, but it wasn't outstanding.
Magic Cards were mostly of average quality, and most were functional cards. The power of offensive cards was also hard to describe, completely incomparable to Celestial Spirit Keys in terms of combat.
As for Card Mages who fought using cards, their physical abilities were completely incomparable to Requip Mages. The latter's strong physique, honed through countless battles, combined with various items obtained through Requip, was a formidable combat force.
This neither-here-nor-there positioning put Magic Card in an extremely awkward spot.
Mediocre offense, and the Mage's physical abilities were not great. Its only advantage was probably its diverse "functionality," but such cards were expensive on the market and their practicality wasn't guaranteed.
For example, the Flying Card Cana used when she flew over Iron Furnace Ridge to find Noah was a type of functional card, but it had a cooldown period of thirty days, making it somewhat impractical.
However, this was nothing to Noah. Although he didn't have a single Magic Card right now, Noah was still full of confidence in his Magic Card.
After all, there was still a long-term Wish commission. After witnessing the effect of the Soul of Rebirth, Noah understood how terrifying the power of cards in Yugi Muto's world was.
He just didn't know when this "ordinary high school student's" next commission would begin, and whether the reward would still be cards.
After tidying his clothes, Noah returned to the guild with the two books he'd borrowed yesterday. He'd finished Magic Common Sense and couldn't understand the Amaterasu book, so he planned to look at other Magic books.
For no other reason than to understand the characteristics of more Magic.
Magic Common Sense clearly stated that devising targeted combat plans based on the enemy's Magic could often have unexpected effects.
Therefore, mastering a large amount of Magic information became necessary.
This was a world of Magic, with all sorts of bizarre spells. Noah didn't want to be caught off guard one day.
Among the guild's collection of books, there was one that contained descriptions of many spells. Undoubtedly, that book was also edited by the Second Guild Master.
"Noah, are you free right now?"
Before he even had a chance to open the door to the temporary library, Noah was stopped by a calm voice.
Turning around, he saw Erza, the Fairy Queen, whom he'd met once. She was still dressed in a tight armored top, a short skirt, and long boots.
Noah wasn't sure why this S-Class Mage was looking for him, so he politely asked, "I was planning to read. Do you need something?"
"Master Doran has already told me what happened at Iron Furnace Ridge."
"Let's spar in hand-to-hand combat, Noah."
Cana had told Erza about Doran's request when she returned yesterday.
Today, before dawn, Erza had gone to Iron Furnace Ridge, retrieved her new armor from Doran, and also learned about Noah's outstanding performance from Doran.
Especially Noah's excellent hand-to-hand combat skills, which Doran praised endlessly, piqued Erza's interest in sparring with this new guild member.
An S-Class Mage's invitation to spar in hand-to-hand combat...
"Okay, now?"
Noah readily agreed. He also wanted to see if the Fairy Queen of this world was as formidable in hand-to-hand combat as the Army Commander-in-Chief of another world.