When Lu Li woke up, the familiar scenery appeared before his eyes again.
"You're awake."
A voice sounded nearby.
"Master."
Sitting on the bed beside him was Makarov.
"Eh? Did I... pass out?"
"That previous move consumed too much Magic Power, draining all of yours. For us Mages, Magic Power is life force. Never use that move again. If you accidentally develop Magic Deficiency Syndrome, you will never be able to use magic again, and in severe cases, your life could be in danger."
Hearing Makarov's words, Lu Li couldn't help but feel afraid. He had finally been reborn and could learn magic. If he could never use magic again, he would go crazy.
He had read about Magic Deficiency Syndrome in that magic book, and the book emphasized this point.
A Magic Origin is like a well. You should draw from it bit by bit, and it can be endless. But if you destroy the well to forcefully extract Magic Power, the well might eventually dry up prematurely.
Lu Li nodded with a serious expression: "I understand, Master."
Seeing Lu Li listen to his advice, Makarov nodded with satisfaction.
"Although you possess incomparable magical talent, magic is not achieved overnight. The road ahead is long. Take everything slowly."
Lu Li nodded.
Then, Lu Li followed Makarov to the guild dormitory. The rent for the guild dormitory was 100,000 Jewels per month.
Since Lu Li was penniless right now, he could only owe it for now. Fortunately, the guild dormitory had preferential treatment for young guild members. The guild also allowed accommodation and meals to be put on a tab for now, to be paid back slowly when he started working and earning money later.
With a Mage's ability to earn money, as long as one wasn't particularly lazy, the monthly salary would be at least 200,000 Jewels.
This was for the most ordinary Mages in the guild. For S-Class Mages in the guild, completing one S-Class quest would earn a reward of at least 8,000,000 Jewels.
However, most S-Class quests were life-threatening missions that even S-Class Mages were generally unwilling to take.
But slightly lower hunting-type quests also ranged from 200,000 to 2,000,000 Jewels.
Doing a few such jobs a month would yield a considerable income.
After all, being a Mage was a high-risk job. The more dangerous the job, the higher the reward.
Lu Li looked at the dormitory ceiling, feeling both excited and terrified. Excited because transmigrating to the world of *Fairy Tail* meant he could learn all kinds of magic.
Terrified because he feared this was just a hallucination before death, just a big dream, just his dying fantasy.
He feared that as soon as he opened his eyes again, he would either be in the white room of the hospital from his past or in endless darkness. He felt some fear and panic.
Unable to sleep, Lu Li sat up and looked at the full-length mirror by the door. Suddenly, he realized he hadn't seen what he looked like since arriving in this world.
Lu Li quickly walked to the mirror.
A very handsome face appeared in the mirror: silver-white hair, azure eyes like the sky, skin as fair as jade, and a cute face. Looking closely, he somewhat resembled the anime character Gojo Satoru he used to watch.
"This is me?!"
Lu Li couldn't believe it. He was too handsome.
If he had this face in his previous life, he wouldn't have had to worry about food or clothing for his whole life.
He was very satisfied with his image in this world.
After all, if he wanted to pick up girls in the future, he couldn't do it without a handsome face.
Lu Li admired his face carefully, getting more and more carried away the longer he looked.
However, in this world, being handsome alone wasn't very useful. The Blue Pegasus guild was full of handsome men and beautiful women, but weren't they all a bunch of small fry? In this world, strength was the top priority.
Give up using that magic? Give up? He would absolutely never give up.
He had finally created such powerful magic; how could he possibly give up?
Although the world of *Fairy Tail* was very joyful, huge crises were hidden beneath that joy.
Those Dark Guilds, Tartaros, the Alvarez Empire, the Black Dragon Acnologia, and the Five Dragon Gods.
The *100 Years Quest* arc with the Five Dragon Gods could be seen as a sequel to *Fairy Tail*. That continent had always truly existed, just never mentioned, until the *100 Years Quest* arc fleshed it out.
These were all crises that Fairy Tail would face in the future, so naturally, he had to be fully prepared to deal with them.
Makarov saved him, and he joined Fairy Tail, so from now on, he was a member of Fairy Tail. He wouldn't allow anyone to harm Fairy Tail, no matter who they were. Lu Li secretly made up his mind.
Then, Lu Li thought about today's magic. Although he created that magic today, it wasn't perfect. In battle, who would give you that much time to charge up? In that time, you could be killed ten or eight times over. He had to shorten the casting time. So Lu Li began to think.
**[You were satisfied with the power of today's magic, but dissatisfied with the casting speed, so you decided to improve it. You felt that instead of compressing from large to small, it would be better to compress directly.]**
**[If you open eighteen magic circles from the beginning, as long as you continuously infuse Magic Power and release flames to charge, wouldn't it form directly?]**
**[This saves most of the time required for compression.]**
**[Your comprehension is heaven-defying. You have created a new magic. Please name it!]**
Lu Li's eyes slowly opened. In his mind, it was as if he had experienced the process of creating new magic for real, deducing it over and over again in his brain, and finally successfully creating this magic.
"Let's call it, 'Dragon God · Cruel Sun'."
[New magic 'Dragon God · Cruel Sun' named successfully!]
When he used that move today, he immediately thought of Escanor, the Lion's Sin of Pride from *The Seven Deadly Sins*.
That guy also evaporated a lake with a single Cruel Sun, leaving an incredibly deep impression.
Especially during that one minute at noon, he would become the incarnation of invincibility, known as—
—'The One'.
He wanted to be that domineering too.