The train pulled into Oshibana Station, but as the Fairy Tail team and Arthur's group disembarked, they were met not with the hustle of a normal station, but with a terrifying silence.
The Wind Mage Erigor, the leader of Eisenwald, had acted fast. A vast, shimmering, invisible wall of compressed wind magic—the Wall of Silence—enveloped the entire station, trapping everyone inside.
The atmosphere was eerily quiet, the wind magic absorbing all sound from the outside world.
"This is Erigor's work,"
Erza Scarlet stated grimly, her hand instinctively going to her sword.
"He's trapped us. We need to find the core of this magic."
The ensuing chaos was a blur of calculated action from Erza's team.
Erza and Gray efficiently engaged the bulk of the Dark Guild members, their power and coordination overwhelming the low-ranking foes. Lucy summoned her spirits, providing valuable support and crowd control.
Meanwhile, Natsu, who was now completely cured of his motion sickness and overflowing with Arthur's subtle Dragonic Cure energy, immediately located his target: Kageyama.
"You're paying for that kick, Dark Mage!"
Natsu roared, fully fueled by indignation.
The fight was short and decisive.
Natsu's Fire Dragon Slayer Magic, now enhanced by his revived energy, was overwhelming.
He easily beat Kageyama, forcing him into a corner. Just as Natsu had him subdued, Erza, Gray, Lucy, and Happy arrived, having mopped up the remaining Dark Guild mages.
Before Kageyama could be interrogated, he was suddenly attacked—betrayed by his own comrade, a Dark Mage named Byard, who claimed Kageyama's failure would compromise the mission.
Natsu, furious at the cowardly act, swiftly defeated Byard as well.
Cornered and defeated, Kageyama finally cracked and revealed the catastrophic plan: The target of the deadly magic flute, Lullaby, wasn't the station, but the Guild Masters gathered for a meeting in Clover Town.
"What should we do? We can't get out of this place!"
Lucy cried, her gaze fixed on the shimmering, invisible boundary that sealed the station.
Natsu blasted the invisible wall with his strongest fire, Gray slammed it with a mass of ice, and Erza even tried her sword—all to no effect.
The Wall of Silence was designed to deflect external magic.
Erza, seeing her team's best efforts fail and remembering the quiet, vast power she had sensed earlier, looked directly at Arthur. Her eyes were filled with a desperate, critical hope.
"Can you help us?"
She asked, her voice steady but her authority momentarily yielding to the necessity of the moment.
She didn't know how he could help, but her instincts screamed that her only way out was this man.
Arthur could have simply told them that Lucy's spirits, specifically Virgo, might be able to bypass the wall by tunneling through the ground space.
But this time, he wanted to make a statement—to prove the true, unimaginable difference between his power and their most formidable S-Class magic.
"Alright,"
Arthur said, walking toward the invisible barrier with a relaxed stride.
He didn't use magic; he used pure, physical, conceptual force.
He activated his power, not to destroy the wind wall, but to change the concept of the wall itself.
Arthur extended his hand, grabbing the invisible barrier as if it were a solid, tangible object—much like how the legendary pirate Whitebeard could grab and manipulate the very air.
With his power channeled into the sheer physical act, he redefined the Wall of Silence from an impenetrable magic field to a simple, pullable sheet.
Then, using his immense physical might, Arthur pulled the invisible wall.
With a sound like tearing fabric and the rush of displaced air, the entire structure of the Wall of Silence collapsed.
The wind magic scattered harmlessly, and the sounds of the outside world rushed back into the station.
Everyone looked at him, their jaws slack.
They knew he was an S-Class mage, but even Erza—who could Re-equip into heaven-shattering armor—could never have done something so utterly physical, so utterly impossible, to a complex wind barrier.
"Let's move,"
Arthur said simply, his smile utterly unperturbed.
"We have Guild Masters to save, right."
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