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"That's so cool! Noah!"
Even with his motion sickness, Natsu couldn't stop touching the Dragon Cavalry, like a child seeing a new toy.
The others were still immersed in the shock of the sudden change.
Standing on the shoulder of the Magic-Powered Armor, Erza looked at the greatly changed Tower of Heaven, let out a slight sigh of relief, and emerged from her shock. "Thank you, Noah."
"It's nothing."
Noah's voice came from inside the Dragon Cavalry.
Upon sensing an inexplicable fatal crisis, Noah unhesitatingly summoned the Dragon Cavalry from his spatial ring.
A second before the destructive light fell, Noah maneuvered the Dragon Cavalry, narrowly bringing all his companions and Ikaruga out of the tower.
However, Noah could do nothing for the other people inside the tower.
The Dragon Cavalry, under Noah's control, landed on the shore, where Snow had been squeaking excitedly on the ship for quite a while.
As soon as they landed, Gray and Natsu went to investigate the Magic crystal tower.
Lucy jumped down from the Dragon Cavalry's palm, looking up at the sky with lingering fear. "What was that just now? It suddenly turned the Tower of Heaven into a Magic crystal... It was terrifying."
"That was Etherion."
The one who answered Lucy was Ikaruga. "I participated in the war against the Western Continent's invasion three years ago. At that time, the Magic Council used this Magic to force the Western army to withdraw from Ishgar."
"However, why the Tower of Heaven, after being hit by Etherion, not only wasn't destroyed but turned into a Magic crystal, I don't understand."
Simon and the others, who built the Tower of Heaven, were also completely bewildered. Although they participated in its construction, only Jellal knew how to actually use the tower.
Noah exited the Dragon Cavalry and, in front of everyone, shrunk the mighty Magic-Powered Armor to figurine size, placing it inside his spatial ring.
Hanging the ring necklace back around his neck, Noah pretended not to see the curious gazes of his companions, especially Natsu, and instead of explaining the Dragon Cavalry he had suddenly pulled out, he began to talk about the R-System.
"The Tower of Heaven is a Magic storage crystal with an 'absorption' function, used to store the Magic necessary to activate the R-System."
"Now that it has absorbed the necessary Magic through Etherion, its energy is sufficient, and it naturally reveals its true form."
"I don't know what happened at the Magic Council headquarters that even the Guild Master couldn't stop Etherion from being activated."
Erza frowned slightly, but remembering Makarov's strength and hot temper, she no longer worried.
Before long, Natsu and Gray returned, pushing a large ice cart together. The cart was piled with people—the other two members of Trinity Raven, and some soldiers from inside the tower.
From the slight rise and fall of their chests, it was clear they were still alive, which was beyond Noah's expectation.
The Tower of Heaven did have an absorption function, but to completely absorb Etherion, which possessed absolute destructive Magic, without leaving a trace, and to keep the people inside the tower completely unaffected by Etherion—that was truly astonishing.
However, this was only a part of the R-System's functions, and not even its primary one.
This made Noah sigh in admiration: the Black Mage who created this Magic over four hundred years ago was truly a terrifying individual.
Fortunately, after more than four hundred years, even a Black Mage with astonishing talent is not immune to death. Otherwise, why would Jellal go to such lengths to revive him?
There were still many ordinary people inside the tower, so Simon and the others also went with Natsu to the Magic crystal tower to rescue people.
Erza originally wanted to help with the rescue, but she saw Noah gathering materials on the spot, chiseling small pieces of Magic crystal from the Magic crystal tower and crushing them into powder with a blast spell, arranging something around the Magic crystal tower.
Following Noah out of curiosity, Erza grew increasingly strange. What Noah was arranging was an extremely complex-looking Magic circle.
The Magic patterns arranged with Magic crystal powder were densely packed, so much so that even a Mage like Erza felt a dizzy spell looking at them.
Mages generally use their own Magic to draw Magic circles and complete spells, rarely relying on external forces. It was extremely rare for someone like Noah to directly arrange a Magic circle using Magic crystals.
Unable to contain her curiosity, the red-haired girl couldn't help but interrupt her companion. "Noah, what are you doing?"
"It's obvious, isn't it? Arranging Magic."
As he spoke, Noah knocked another piece of Magic crystal from the tower, crushing it with a low-power explosion spell.
Continuing his work, Noah also told Erza his ultimate goal: "I want this Magic crystal tower."
Looking up at the towering structure, which seemed to stretch endlessly, Erza wondered if such a massive thing could simply be claimed. She looked back at Noah with suspicion.
Did he intend to shatter the Magic crystal tower and then transport the Magic crystals in batches? But even with large transport ships, it would take a dozen round trips, and the commotion would be considerable.
Or perhaps he would use Spatial Magic to transfer the tower?
But Magic capable of transferring that magnitude of Magic Power would have to be a Super Magic, and could Noah even use it?
Erza suddenly realized that Noah was like a mist, never revealing his true self. Her intuition told her that Noah was hiding something from everyone.
He arbitrarily set a birthday for me, yet he refuses to show his true feelings—it's so unfair. So Erza decided that after they returned, she would carefully observe Noah and uncover his little secrets.
While the girl was lost in thought, Natsu and the others had already cooperated to bring everyone out of the tower, and Noah had also completed the arrangement of the Magic circle.
Asking those around him to step back, Noah knelt outside the Magic circle, slammed his Magic-gathering hands to the ground, and a sacred white light suddenly ascended into the sky, enveloping the Magic crystal tower.
Super Spatial Magic: Anima activated!
It had been seven or eight months since he arrived in Earth Land, and although Noah had been happily slacking off, he hadn't forgotten his homeland, the Edolas world, whose Magic was on the verge of depletion.
With the help of the Second Guild Master of Fairy Tail's Spatial Magic books and some understanding of Anima, Noah successfully replicated the Magic that had sent him to this world.
Originally, Noah had planned to collect some Magic-rich Magic crystals and send them back to the Magic-poor Edolas world as replenishment.
But now, with a massive amount of Magic Power right before his eyes—enough to easily destroy a country—and in the convenient, usable form of a Magic crystal, how could Noah miss such an opportunity?
With Jellal arrested, the Tower of Heaven was ownerless.
Since no one claimed it, Noah unceremoniously took it.
Watching the Magic crystal tower gradually disappear into the towering light curtain, leaving only the island where the Tower of Heaven once stood, Noah breathed a sigh of relief.
Although they were parallel worlds, Edolas was actually much smaller than Earth Land. The continent of Ishgar alone was no smaller than the Edolas world.
Noah was relieved—the Magic from Etherion was enough to temporarily alleviate his homeland's urgent needs.
When the light curtain dissipated, the unconscious soldiers and the ordinary people who had been deceived by Jellal into continuing to build the Heaven guards gradually woke up. Some of them recognized the girl who had led them in resisting the Heaven guards back then.
Through Simon's explanation, the truth of the matter became clear.
It turned out that Erza had not betrayed them. Jellal had deceived everyone to continue building the Tower of Heaven, merely changing the method to continue enslaving them.
Now the Tower of Heaven was gone.
But the belated freedom brought a mix of joy and sorrow.
Seven years had passed since Erza was forced to leave the Tower of Heaven, and they had continued building the Tower of Heaven for seven years. Including the initial three years of enslavement by the Black Magic Cult, a total of ten years had passed.
That was ten years of time—who knew how many people had been separated from their families by death.
For a moment, the island was filled with weeping.
Erza remembered her companions who had died fighting against the Heaven guards seven years ago, and her eyes reddened.
Everyone was finally free.
Grandpa Rob, do you see this...?