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Chapter 659: The Year 679
Chapter 659: The Year 679
Claire knelt on the ground, staring blankly as Feng Ye reached out with his colossal hand, squashing the phoenix like a chick and pressing a giant palm print a few miles wide into the earth.
As Feng Ye examined the phoenix's power, she looked ahead, her eyes wide with shock. She could see Feng Ye, standing before her at normal height, and the giant, floating version of him in the sky, mirroring each other's movements perfectly.
It was like a projection cast by a flashlight.
"Are you... a god?"
Claire stood up, her eyes reflecting her awe as she looked at Feng Ye.
Feng Ye turned to her, his expression calm, and said, "If you're referring to the kind of god from your imagination, then yes, I am. Is there something else you wish to say?"
"No."
Claire lowered her head, feeling the Phoenix power within her slowly detach and slip away, along with her life force, fading into nothingness.
Feng Ye glanced at her and then at the ball of Phoenix power in his hand. After a moment's thought, he gently flicked his finger, sending the ball of power toward Claire.
Buzz!!!
The golden Phoenix power enveloped Claire's body, bathing her in a soft golden light.
Scorching flames erupted, burning away Claire's clothes, along with her skin, flesh, and bones, turning them to ashes in an instant.
"Ugh... Ahh..."
Claire cried out in pain, but just as quickly, the searing pain throughout her body vanished, replaced by a sense of rebirth and pleasure.
The Phoenix power swirled wildly around her, merging with her soul and releasing a torrent of golden flames. Within the flames, her destroyed body began to regenerate at a rapid pace.
Reborn from the ashes!
In just a few seconds, about thirty feet above the ground, Claire's figure reappeared at the center of the golden flames.
The naked girl curled up in the center of the flames, hugging her knees to her chest, like a newborn in this world.
She slowly opened her eyes.
As she did, the scorching flames behind her transformed into the shape of a giant phoenix before settling into her brow, leaving a golden flame-shaped magic array that soon faded and disappeared without a trace.
Claire reached out, marveling at her newfound body, feeling the immense magical power and energy within her. She felt that with just a gesture, she could easily shake mountains and tear the earth asunder.
"Your courage to sacrifice yourself for your mission is commendable, and encountering me is your fortune. I bestow upon you the power of the Phoenix, and from now on, you are the true Phoenix Priestess."
Feng Ye smiled gently at Claire.
He had already analyzed the Phoenix power and only needed to understand it, not consume it, as it was minuscule compared to the power of the three stars he carried in his snuff bottle.
After a brief moment of astonishment, Claire's face lit up with gratitude, and she bowed to Feng Ye in the traditional manner of a priestess.
"Thank you, God."
While she was willing to die for her mission, it didn't mean she didn't want to live, especially as a young girl full of curiosity about the world. She didn't want to leave it so easily.
Feng Ye smiled faintly and made his giant form in the sky disappear, leaving only the projection standing on the ground below. He looked at Claire and said, "Let's fix your appearance first."
"Yes."
Claire lifted her head, a hint of pink dusting her cheeks, as she tried to manipulate the Phoenix power within her. The power surged from her body, transforming into an exquisite priestess robe adorned with phoenix patterns.
However, after this feat, she lost her balance due to unstable magic control and stumbled, flailing her arms wildly to grab onto something, but she grabbed only air and fell straight down, crashing into the rock in front of Feng Ye's projection.
Feng Ye watched silently.
Thud!
Claire fell right through Feng Ye's illusory projection and face-planted into the rock, leaving a human-shaped dent at his feet.
"Ouch... that hurt..."
The girl rubbed her head as she climbed out of the hole, surprisingly without a scratch. She turned her head, not daring to meet Feng Ye's gaze.
Feng Ye didn't mind Claire's clumsiness and said, "You've just gained the power of the Phoenix, and you're not used to controlling it yet. For now, follow me and cultivate for a while."
He wanted to observe how the Phoenix power would manifest in a human wizard like Claire, adding to his knowledge.
The power of the Creator, Chaos, was like an extremely complex and lengthy 'multivariate equation,' and every magic and magic form scattered across these worlds could be seen as an equation within that grand equation.
Some of these equations might overlap, while others might not.
Once enough equations were gathered, the multivariate equation could be solved, a simple task even for a first-grader.
"..."
At Feng Ye's words, Claire paused briefly.
Feng Ye chuckled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Claire's eyes shone with a light she couldn't hide, and her voice trembled slightly as she said, "Thank you for taking me in..."
She was grateful not only to have avoided dying with the phoenix but also to have received the power of the phoenix from Feng Ye and the opportunity to follow a god.
Feng Ye smiled casually and took a step forward.
Claire suppressed the tremor in her heart and followed Feng Ye, her bare feet untouched by the sharp stones on the ground.
...
Over the course of about twenty years, Feng Ye traveled the world with Claire, collecting and memorizing various magic from all corners of the land.
This included Dragon Slayer Magic, God Slayer Magic, and more.
During this time, he also left countless legends in this world. Due to his youthful appearance and the fact that he manifested in a human form with a phoenix priestess by his side, he was not seen as a deity but as one of the strongest mages ever!
Feng Ye was the first mage to defeat a dragon without Dragon Slayer Magic, a master of all magic, and the only one to ever repel Acnologia, the Black Dragon King, head-on!
He wandered the world, leaving behind at least a dozen legends in various places, later passed down by the people, making him an Ishgar legend!
Countless mages wanted to follow in Feng Ye's footsteps, but none could find his path. They could only occasionally hear stories about him, the truth of which was uncertain.
Finally.
On the day of X401...
The legendary mage of Ishgar, regarded as the closest to a deity, appeared at the Magic Council one last time. He took away several of the newest magic books and then vanished, as if he had left this world for good.
After that, countless mages tried to find Feng Ye, but all attempts ended in disappointment.
However.
Although Feng Ye had disappeared since that day, the girl who had followed him did not vanish with him. Instead, she established a magic guild.
This guild was called "Phoenix Heart," and it neither recruited nor accepted any mages, nor did it take on any requests. It had only one member.
Claire.
Some dark guilds, seeking Feng Ye's power, once targeted Claire, hoping to gain something from her. But their siege that day was effortlessly destroyed by her.
Her ageless appearance and undying magic always attracted all sorts of people, but for a hundred years, not a single person could destroy Phoenix Heart, the one-woman guild.
Claire, too, became a legend.
She was acknowledged by the Magic Council as the first of the Ten Wizard Saints.
The Magic Council had tried numerous times to gain information about Feng Ye from Claire, but unfortunately, they gained no intelligence about him.
Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, the year X679 of the Ishgar calendar arrived, nearly three hundred years since the birth of Acnologia, the Black Dragon King.
...
In the middle of the ocean.
A giant figure floated in the air, unseen by anyone.
This figure was none other than Feng Ye, who had disappeared for almost three hundred years. After collecting almost all the magic in this world, he had begun his closed-door cultivation to decipher Chaos's power.
"Still missing something."
"No, it's more like missing a lot..."
Feng Ye opened his eyes and murmured as he looked at his hand.
The magic in this world was extremely diverse, ranging from elemental and celestial spirit magic to Dragon Slayer Magic, Lost Magic, and even space-time magic.
Mastering these magics was not difficult for him; one could even say it was simple. The challenge lay in using all these various magics to deduce the origin of the world and unravel Chaos's power.
It was like solving a math problem.
Remembering the formulas wasn't particularly hard; the hard part was applying them to the problem.
Feng Ye's situation was akin to knowing all the basic formulas in mathematics and then trying to derive the 'Grand Unified Theory' single-handedly using only those basic formulas.
It was too difficult!
Even with his power and wisdom, it took him nearly three hundred years to integrate all the formulas and derive a final conclusion.
But the issue was that this conclusion was still not the key to truly unraveling Chaos's power.
It was only half-complete.
Feng Ye's analysis had reached a point where he had completed Part A, and to finalize the deciphering, he needed Part B.
In the world of Fairy Tail, this Part B was known as 'First Magic,' a power that transcended even Ankhseram's Curse, which governed life and death.
"First Magic—Love...?"
Feng Ye sighed.
This was a type of mental power, and it was something he was least adept at.
However, without understanding this magic, he had confirmed over a decade ago that it was impossible to complete the deciphering of Chaos's power.
"Oh well."
"I might as well go look for it; I have plenty of time anyway."
Feng Ye finally sighed.
(End of Chapter)
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