Chapter 360: FTG Chapter 357: Past Stories: The Dragon Slayer Campaign
After coming to Magnolia, Natsu and the others had already learned the entire process of "traveling through time and space" from Anna’s mouth.
They knew they hadn’t been abandoned by their parents (Igneel and the other giant dragons), but were separated from one another because they had traveled four hundred years into the future.
They also knew the purpose of doing so was precisely to deal with a black dragon named Acnologia.
Even more, they knew that they bore heavy responsibilities for the future!
So hearing at this moment that Weston had once hunted giant dragons, they couldn’t help but want to listen to his stories to absorb some combat experience.
"Are there really still dragons in this world?"
The one asking this question was Jellal.
Having been educated at the Royal Magic Academy, Jellal knew what kind of history the creature known as a giant dragon possessed. In his concept, giant dragons should have been completely driven to extinction as early as hundreds of years ago.
In fact, on Ishgar, most people held the exact same concept—
Except for the people of Fairy Tail!
Because just a few decades ago, Darwin and his group had hunted down several giant dragons in Guiltina, and had even sent their hearts back.
"There are! Young friend, there still are!"
Weston said with a beaming smile as he briefly explained the matter of a bunch of giant dragons running to the Northern Continent to scratch out a living hundreds of years ago out of fear of Acnologia’s power.
Subsequently, he also spoke to the few people about the secret lore that had circulated in Fairy Tail Academy for many years—namely, the dragon hunting campaign of Darwin, Erza, and Kurisu in the Northern Continent many years ago.
Along with it, he also recounted the matter of the three becoming famous afterward, gradually becoming the guild master of the Magic Council and the Headmaster of Fairy Tail Academy.
Beneath the night sky, beside the fire pile.
Every single child focused their attention fully, quietly listening to the stories told from Weston’s mouth.
Those grand and magnificent, tense and exciting, twisting and turning, absolutely brilliant stories drew everyone’s minds to yearn for them, wishing they could go back a few decades ago to be born in the same era as the people in the stories and participate in those adventures together with them.
"...After that campaign, the several ’Dragon Gods’ that had plagued the Northern Continent for hundreds of years were finally completely eliminated."
"’Moon Dragon God’ Celine, because she had already mended her ways and even surrendered before the battle to stand on the same battlefront as us, was able to keep her life in the final liquidation."
"Since then, she has lived a secluded life just like in the past, rarely appearing in Earthland again, let alone stepping foot onto Ishgar."
Normally speaking, no matter if it was someone who betrayed their race or betrayed their stance, they would be beyond forgiveness.
But Celine had betrayed the dragon race to side with humanity, and her fundamental purpose was for world peace, so that was forsaking darkness for light and placing justice above family—it was worthy of praise!
"The ’Wood Dragon God’ Aldoron, although massive in size, was himself a sandbag unable to move. Even for the sake of survival, he deliberately split his power into multiple portions."
"Although he set up a special mechanism stating ’only by defeating his clones simultaneously can he be completely eliminated,’ it just so happened that the people who went at that time were all exceptionally powerful, and among them was a presence who was battle-hardened and excelled at commanding battles."
"After the Wood Dragon God died, his body and the immense magic power contained within his form were transformed by us into nutrients for the continent of Guiltina, repairing the damage caused during that campaign."
"It’s just that for a very long time afterward, natural disasters were still frequent in Guiltina, only decreasing within the last twenty years."
To Erzi and the others, in this ’Dragon Slayer Campaign’ from Weston’s mouth, the ’allegiance of the Moon Dragon God’ could only be considered a passable Chapter; the process of ’killing the Wood Dragon God’ was the truly interesting part.
It was also this Chapter that allowed them to truly peer at a small tip of the iceberg of a giant dragon’s power.
"The ’Water Dragon God’ Mercphobia was crushed to death like a speed bump. After his death, the magic power on his body was divided into three portions, placed respectively somewhere in Ishgar, Guiltina, and Alakitasia, used to stabilize the conditions of the sea areas between the three continents."
"This measure provided a vital guarantee for the later frequent maritime trade between the three continents."
Hearing this, Erzi suddenly cried out with a sound, and the others similarly widened their eyes, having a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
"Could this ’maritime trade’ you speak of be the ’Triangular Trade’ written in the textbooks, which originated fifty years ago and brought massive economic benefits to all three continents?"
"That’s right, exactly that one!"
Weston looked at Erzi with a face full of smiles: "It seems your history learning is very good!"
From the perspective of identity, she should be his grandson’s granddaughter.
Mmh...
Even though they were separated by several generations, there were still a few reflections of himself and Mavis present on the young girl’s body.
Of course, there was Erza’s as well.
Natsu turned his head to look at Erzi, asking curiously: "What’s the ’Triangular Trade’? Has that been taught in the textbooks?"
Gray mocked proudly from the side: "Serves you right for not listening properly during class normally, idiot!"
Erzi nudged Gray with her elbow, reminding him: "You really can’t blame Natsu for not listening to lectures on this matter. One must know that this segment of history is a fourth-grade curriculum in the academy, but Natsu and his group only arrived last year, and they directly started studying from the sixth grade, so they simply haven’t read the history books of the lower grades!"
Gray’s eyes instantly turned into dots: "Uh... if you put it that way..."
"Hahaha..."
Seeing Gray fall flat on his face, Natsu clutched his stomach and laughed out loud on the spot: "Which of us two is actually the one who didn’t listen properly during class?"
Gray’s face instantly flushed red with embarrassment, snapping his head to one side: "Cut the chatter!"
Weston watched the brawling crowd with a smile in his eyes, continuing to speak of the Outer Deities: "The ’Fire Dragon God’ Ignia and the ’Earth Dragon God’ Dogramag also died. The ’Dragonification Project’ they secretly plotted had only one path—failure—under everyone’s united efforts."
"Even the forces they secretly cultivated, including those few dragons that smuggled themselves from Ishgar to Guiltina and were still in slumber, were completely crushed by us."
Hearing a certain slightly familiar name, Natsu instantly shuddered: "Ignia?"
Weston explained: "He is the son of Igneel, the dragon who possessed the title of ’Fire Dragon King’ in the past..."
"What?!"
Natsu let out a loud shout, leaping up from his position: "Igneel’s son should be me, right! Which nook and cranny did that fellow jump out from?!"
"Idiot!"
"Just by listening, you can tell that the fellow named ’Ignia’ should be Igneel’s biological son!"
"He’s different from an adopted fellow like you!"
Gajeel was an idiot just like Natsu in certain aspects, but sometimes his brain moved unexpectedly fast.
Even though he himself was a human adopted by a giant dragon, he was much more capable than Natsu at accepting the matter of ’one’s old man having other sons’.
After Gajeel explained it this way, Natsu understood as well.
"So putting it that way... he is my brother?"
