Fairy's Chess Game

Chapter 35 The Fourth Ice Sorcerer

What Ersha Yunzhe said made others feel puzzled.Gray suddenly recalled the rumors about Woz and ice magic again, and before he had time to think about it, Woz had already made some moves.

Woz covered the guild badge on his left chest with his palm, muttering something.

"The cross is completely sealed, undo it."

With a soft shout, all the mages present keenly felt the sudden appearance of a new and unfamiliar wave of magic power. From the point of view of the mages, it seemed that there was suddenly a powerful mage around them.

It turns out that Woz itself has magic power, and the magic power is so powerful. Natsu and Lucy sighed. Judging from the magic power fluctuations leaked at the moment of unblocking, the magic power reserves of Woz itself can be called terrifying.

"This magic power..." Gray looked at Woz in surprise, he felt strangely familiar; then turned to look at Leo, sure enough, his face was also full of shock.

Natsu sniffled: "What, it feels very similar to Gray's magic power."

Woz turned to Grelio and the two: "You guys should still remember this magic?"

As he spoke, Wadsworth stretched out his hands, clenched his right hand on his left palm...it was Gray's standard action when casting magic.

"No way?" Lucy looked at Gray in disbelief, and found that he was also surprised.

"The shape of ice, the rose garden."

As a result, the magic power that had been suppressed for a long time swept out of Woz's body like a tsunami. The pure sense of oppression caused by the magic power made everyone except Erza take a few steps back to avoid the sharp edge.On the sea behind Woz, a huge ice-blue magic circle unfolded, and then amidst the freezing sound of "click, click", a crystal clear rose bush suddenly grew on the sea.

Huge but delicate flowers bloom wantonly between the heaven and the earth.The huge magical shape that suddenly appeared made everyone's heart flutter. Moreover, there was a constant sound of freezing in the ears. The magic power in Woz's body was still pouring out, as if there was no end, and the rose garden was still expanding until it reached the coast. As far as the eye can see, the entire surface of the sea is covered by a rose garden of ice.

"This magic..."

"how come?"

The two ice shape mages were shocked, because, as far as they knew, there was only one person who could cast this magic, and that was their master Ulu.The Ice Rose Garden is Ulu's famous stunt!

Magic like modeling magic has a very high degree of freedom. Unless they are related by blood, it is almost impossible to have the same shape.Although Woz's magical "rose garden" is slightly different from the "rose garden" under Ulu's unique "rose crown", to be honest, the real difference between the two is negligible. Not to mention, even Leo and Gray would admit their mistakes.

Similar to this extent, no one would believe that Woz has nothing to do with Ulu.

Woz stopped and was silent for a moment, as if organizing his words.Then, without waiting for the other person to ask, start explaining yourself.

"First of all, Uru is my teacher." Woz paused for a moment, as if to give everyone time to accept, "As you can see, my ice modeling magic is made by imitating the teacher's rose crown. If there is no mistake , I am Ulu's first disciple - I once asked the teacher, no one has learned magic from her before me. So, I can be said to be the big brother of you two."

Gray asked, "We never saw you when we were at Master's. Leo, what do you know?" He turned to Leo, because Leo started ten months before him.

The latter shook his head.

"Because I left before the teacher accepted you. Maybe this made the teacher too sad, so she didn't mention me again." Woz shrugged and asked suddenly, "Teacher, she really didn't say anything about my business?"

Gray: "No, at least I haven't heard of it. We only know that Ulu once had a daughter, but we didn't know that there was a senior brother like you." Maybe it's because I have experienced too many things about Master Ulu this day, so in Facing the hard facts, Gray appeared surprisingly calm, and quickly adjusted his mentality, admitting Woz's identity.

Only then did Gray understand why Woz, as an ice mage, had no intention of communicating with him, because Woz himself is a powerful ice mage!

Woz looked sad: "It seems that the teacher didn't forgive me after all. After all, we almost fell out in the last year."

"What's going on here?" Erza asked suddenly, it was a little hard for her to imagine that with Woz's temper, she would have such a trouble with someone.

Woz thought for a while: "To put it simply, the teacher has a daughter who was told to die because of excess magic power disease."

"I know that." Leo nodded in understanding.

Woz continued: "The teacher was very sad, but I always thought that her daughter was not dead. It was the Magic Development Bureau who deceived the teacher. Maybe the teacher was too sad and couldn't believe my words. Instead, she thought I was lying to comfort her. Her. I expressed my dissatisfaction with the teacher for giving up my daughter so easily... I was afraid that what I said was a bit harsh at the time, but it made the teacher sad, so I was kicked out of the teacher's house."

Gray said: "That's just Ulu's angry words. I'm afraid she doesn't really want to drive you away." He made this judgment because Gray himself had a similar experience at the beginning. But in the end, Ulu came to rescue himself in person.

Woz knew this too, just glanced at him silently, and said: "Of course I know, I have been with the teacher for eight years, and I know what kind of person a teacher is. But at that time, I thought, as long as I find the teacher's daughter , all misunderstandings can be resolved. So I left right away and searched for people all over the world. You also know that I have Lululuya's help, and it is impossible for the teacher to chase me back..."

After learning that Ulu's daughter was still alive, Gray asked excitedly, "Did you find it?" Suddenly, he realized that if Woz found the teacher's daughter, why would he never return?
"I found the clue, but I couldn't see anyone. When I confirmed the news, I wanted to go back to find the teacher. Then, I found it in Prague..." Woz looked at the central temple of the island, where there was an ice-sealed Daliola.

He sighed and looked at Leo: "I hid the seal deep in the mountains, and specially arranged an enchantment, thanks to you being able to get it out."

Leo looked away in embarrassment.

Lucy suddenly connected all the details: "Senior Woz, so you already know what Leo is doing here? That's why you said you would bring Gray to complete this task!"

"Probably?" Woz said noncommittally.

Gray said angrily: "Then why don't you stop him? Let him insult Uru's efforts?"

Woz said: "Why do you want to stop it? In my opinion, it is you Gray who really caused the teacher's death! I didn't even ask you to settle the score, so who cares about him?"

Woz didn't allow the other party to interrupt, and continued: "I probably know what you want to say. I know that you really can't blame the teacher's death. So, I just complained."

Lucy dissatisfied: "Of course you can't blame Gray, right? After all, Ulu's departure, he is the most regretful and painful!"

Lucy refuted Woz in a rare way, but under great pressure she didn't give in at all.As Ulu's disciple, Woz's performance was too calm compared to Gray and Leo.The discovery of this detail made Lucy feel a little uncomfortable.Gray's pain and growth along the way touched her a lot.Woz, on the other hand, seemed too ruthless.

Erza hurriedly grabbed Lucy. Ersha is not a girl with delicate emotions, but she also sensed Lucy's emotional changes, and gave Lucy a rare warning: "Don't talk nonsense!"

Faced with the Fairy Queen's anger for the first time, the rookie girl kept silent, shutting up and reflecting, regardless of right or wrong.

Woz sighed: "I see, Lucy, do you think I am not sad and dissatisfied with the death of the teacher at all? In fact, it has been ten years, and those who should cry have already cried, and if they are sad, they will be sad ;I have also accepted the reality a long time ago. I am not an ice mage, so it is impossible for the two of them to feel the presence of the teacher from the ice transformed by the teacher, and I cannot understand their feelings. For me Said, the teacher did indeed die, as early as ten years ago."

Yuka pointed to the vast ice rose garden behind Woz: "Senior, you just said you are nothing? Such power is not considered..."

Woz shook his head: "Shaping magic is free magic. The key is to find your own unique 'shape', and then the power of magic will make a qualitative leap." He said the teaching of his teacher Ulu, "And I just simply Imitating the teacher's magic is at best an ice mage, not an authentic shape mage. So I didn't call Teacher Shifu like Gray and the others. I didn't get out of the teacher's 'shape'."

Woz looked at Leo: "So, although I am not an ice mage, I imitate Teacher Ulu's magic infinitely. If you still want to surpass the teacher, pass me first."

Erza said: "Woz, you are too cunning. In terms of magic power alone, you may have surpassed Senior Ulu, right? Are you setting a more difficult goal for Leo?"

Woz said: "If the teacher is still there, it must be more than this level. The magic I imitated cannot surpass the original version of the teacher. So I am just a word magician, not an ice shape magician."

Leo fell silent.

Woz said: "I have no intention of replacing the position of the teacher, but I think that as a senior brother, I am qualified to guide your path. Leo, you can challenge me at any time, and I will only use ice magic to deal with it."

"You mean, your word magic is more powerful?" Leo asked.

Woz nodded: "If only in terms of power, ice magic will not be weaker, but word magic is the magic path of my talent, and the two can be said to be different existences."

Erza sighed: "But I still feel that Woz is a little foul. One person is almost two S-level wizards." As her S-level upgrade examiner, Erza has personally experienced Woz's strength.It was during the upgrade test that she saw Woz Snow's ice magic for the first time.Mirajane, who passed the test a year before her, also knew this, but maybe even Mirajane didn't expect Woz's ice magic to be so powerful. Woz didn't show his full strength in the exam, right?It was just the scene when Woz unscrupulously released all the magic power, Erza asked herself that she couldn't do the same level.

Fighting spirit rekindled in Leo's eyes: "Okay, Woz... Brother. I accept your suggestion, and you are indeed so strong that I need to go all out to surpass you."

Woz nodded: "In that case, I'll go first."

Lucy was surprised: "Hey, senior won't continue the task?"

Woz asked strangely: "This is your task, right? With Erza here, there is no problem, right? I just came here by chance."

Gray doubted: "Is it accidental, senior?" The whole mission seems to revolve around the people and things related to Master Ulu, and the appearance of Woz is likely to be expected by him long ago.

Although Gray has accepted the new role that Woz suddenly revealed, he still can't call out the word "senior brother". Fortunately, Woz is in the attitude of an elder in the guild, so he simply followed Lucy and called Woz senior.

"Maybe it's inevitable, who knows?" Woz shrugged, "Let's go, I'm still on vacation, don't come to me if you have nothing to do." Woz took back his book from Erza, waved his hand, and left gracefully.Without a boat, he walked directly on the ice field on the sea.With his magical power, it is enough to support the creation of an ice road leading to the port.

"Senior is so chic." Lucy looked enviously at the figure walking away on the ice.

Erza frowned, with a hint of puzzlement: "I always feel that Woz is a bit strange. Such a ostentatious behavior is not like his usual style."

Naz didn't take it seriously: "Maybe it's because we have disclosed our identities with Gray, so we don't need to hide it anymore? But it's more important for us to consider how to destroy the moon now."

In the woods near the shore, the masked man looked at the vast ice rose garden and remained silent for a long time.

(End of this chapter)