A few days later, Fairy Tail guild.
"I'm Wendy. Please take care of me!"
Wendy, with the Fairy Tail's symbol on the back of her hand, spoke to the members of Fairy Tail.
"Oh? A newcomer?"
"What a cute little girl?!"
"How old are you?"
After hearing Wendy's words, a group of Fairy Tail's members very enthusiastically gathered around her.
At this point, Erza, standing with Kenichi outside the crowd, saw the smile on Wendy's face.
She casually brushed a strand of hair from her forehead and said with a smile, "It seems she's recovering well. It was really worrying. I never expected something like that to happen."
As she spoke, Erza recalled the scene where the Cait Shelter's members disappeared one by one before Wendy's eyes, and Wendy's despair.
"Looks like you quite like children."
Hearing Erza's words, Kenichi looked at Wendy over there and casually remarked.
Although Kenichi just said it casually, to Erza's ears, it took on a different meaning.
'Like children!'
'Children!'
Suddenly, Erza thought of something, her pretty face immediately turning red. She hurriedly explained, "No, that's not it! It's just that Wendy..."
Before Erza could finish her sentence, the sound of bells rang through the air.
"This is..."
The moment they heard the bells, the previously noisy guild instantly fell silent.
Natsu, Gray, and the other Fairy Tail's members all turned their gazes outside the guild, their faces full of anticipation.
"Eh? Eh? What's going on?"
Lucy, seeing everyone's unusual behavior, was completely confused.
Wendy's small face was also full of puzzlement.
"Gildarts is back!"
Natsu said with a delighted expression.
"Gildarts?"
"The strongest person in our guild!"
"Even stronger than Kenichi and Erza?"
Hearing Lucy's question, Erza turned to look at her and said, "Whether he's stronger than Kenichi or not, I don't know. But in any case, I am far weaker than Gildarts."
Lucy looked astonished: "Eh?!?!"
After all, Lucy knew how strong Erza was.
Now, hearing Erza say Gildarts was far stronger than her, Lucy was naturally surprised.
While Natsu, Erza, and the others were talking, a fiery gleam also appeared in Kenichi's eyes: "Gildarts, huh?"
Of course, Kenichi wasn't interested in Gildarts the person.
He was only interested in Gildarts's magic.
Gildarts's Crush Magic could break down, disassemble any object, even magic itself.
Furthermore, the power of his Disassembly Magic was extremely terrifying.
And Kenichi's thought was to collect both Gildarts' [Crush Magic] and [Disassembly Magic] attributes.
Amidst the anticipation of Kenichi, Natsu, and the others, the houses in Magnolia Town outside began to move and transform like a shifting maze.
"This is..."
Lucy, looking at this exaggerated scene, asked with astonishment.
"Gildarts Mode!"
"Because Gildarts's magic can smash, crush any object!"
"To prevent Gildarts from accidentally bumping into houses and harming residents while walking, Magnolia Town built this Gildarts Mode!"
Mirajane said with a smile, introducing it to newcomers like Kenichi, Lucy, and Wendy.
"Accidentally bump into houses?"
"How careless do you have to be to do that?!"
While Lucy was complaining, the street in Magnolia Town leading to the Fairy Tail Guild became like a grand palace avenue, with high walls built on both sides, and it was very wide.
Soon, everyone saw a figure walking towards them from that wide avenue.
"Gildarts!"
Seeing that figure, Natsu, Gray, and the others all called out to Gildarts.
"He's really popular!"
Hearing everyone's cheers, Lucy said.
"After all, Gildarts is the strongest in the guild, and he's usually very good to people. He's been away for three years on a 100 Years Quest, so everyone misses him a lot!"
"100 Years Quest?"
As soon as Mirajane said this, Lucy looked shocked.
"A quest that can't be completed within a hundred years? What kind of quest is it exactly?"
When he heard the name [100 Years Quest], Kenichi's mind also stirred.
Perhaps Lucy and Mirajane didn't know what 100 Years Quest Gildarts was on.
But Kenichi knew.
This 100 Years Quest was to go to a new continent and subdue the Five Dragon Gods.
Each of the Five Dragon Gods possessed terrifying power.
'The Five Dragon Gods, huh? Once my strength is up to it, I'll go meet them and collect all their magic attributes!'
While Kenichi was thinking, Gildarts entered the guild.
"Welcome back!"
Mirajane said to Gildarts with a smile.
"Eh?"
Hearing Mirajane, Gildarts looked at her, his face full of confusion.
"You're Mira?"
"Yes!"
"Eh, you're completely different from before! And there are quite a few unfamiliar faces too. Are they all newcomers who joined the guild in these three years?"
Gildarts scanned Kenichi, Wendy, and the others and said with a smile.
"Gildarts!"
Just then, Natsu rushed up to Gildarts.
"Oh, Natsu! You've grown quite a bit!"
"Let's settle this!"
With that, Natsu charged directly at Gildarts and launched an attack.
But before Natsu could even hit Gildarts, Gildarts casually sent Natsu flying.
"So strong!"
"As powerful as ever!"
While everyone was exclaiming in admiration, Gildarts had already walked up to the wall of the guild.
He spread his palm, and in the next second, a dazzling white light bloomed on the wall.
In just the blink of an eye, the wall was completely crushed.
'So this is Crush Magic?'
Seeing Gildarts completely smash the wall, Kenichi's eyes lit up.
And at this point, the system's mechanical prompt also sounded in his mind.
[Ding, congratulations Host, obtained Magic Power attribute +11]
After hearing the system prompt, Kenichi still felt a trace of anticipation.
He was hoping the system would drop Gildarts's Crush Magic attribute.
But several seconds passed, and the system didn't produce a prompt for dropping the Crush Magic attribute.
However, Kenichi wasn't too disappointed.
After all, the probability of the system dropping a Magic attribute was only one-fifth, so not dropping it once was perfectly normal.
'It seems I need to find an opportunity to fight Gildarts and have the system drop the Crush Magic attribute!'
Kenichi looked at Gildarts over there and thought to himself.