Chapter 39

"Leo's goal has always been to surpass Uru!"

Gray, who was walking forward with his head down, talked about what he knew about Leo. Everyone's eyes instantly turned to Gray.

"The reason why he wanted to lift the seal of Deliora was because Uru was no longer around. He wanted to surpass Uru, so this was the only way!"Gray said slowly.

"He believed that if he defeated Deliora, who even Uru couldn't defeat, then he must have surpassed Uru."

"That's it... if you want to transcend someone who no longer exists, this is really the only way..."Lucy said with a serious expression, she seemed to remember something

"No, there's something Leo doesn't know yet..."Gray's mood suddenly became agitated. He gritted his teeth and tried to stay calm,"Uru has indeed disappeared, but...she is still alive!"

"What?! Lucy and Happy were shocked,"Really?""

Raphael is now slowly recalling the plot. To a certain extent, Uru is indeed not dead. She is just alive in another form, but this kind of life...don't mention it.

Gray continued to recall, Recalling what happened ten years ago:"Ten years ago, my village and parents were destroyed by Deliora. I was the only one who survived because my parents put them in the cellar and blocked them with their bodies...."

Gray choked up and continued,"It was Uru who found me and saved me. He also taught me modeling magic, which gave me the ability to protect myself. But I didn't understand it at that time. I only wanted to quickly gain powerful strength to take revenge!"

"One day I heard people discussing that Deliora had arrived in the Northern Continent. I ignored their dissuasion and insisted on challenging him...."

When everyone arrived at the ruins, they were surprised to find that the ruins were tilted!

"It must be Natsu who did it. He is inside now. Let's go!" Gray hurriedly wanted to rush into the ruins.

"Found you! Fairy Tail!"A group of people from the religious sect gradually approached them.

"Leave this to me, and you go and end things with Leo!"Raphael stood up, faced the cult, and said with his back to Gray

"Raphael..."

"Go quickly, don't forget that this mission is a test for you, especially for you!"

Gray gritted his teeth and continued to rush towards the ruins.

In the ruins, Natsu and Leo had many collisions, but because Leo's shaping magic was too powerful and free, Natsu mostly dodged and could not cause effective damage.

At this moment, bursts of tearing sounds came from the ice wall next to him, and soon, Gray broke through the ice!

Natsu and Leo looked at him in surprise, and Gray said to Natsu:"I'll take over next! I'm going to put an end to him!"

"But didn't you lose once?"Natsu asked

"No, it won't happen this time, I will completely end it with him!"Gray clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and stared at Leo and said

"You are very confident, you are the loser!"Leo looked at Gray mockingly and said

"Ten years ago, I was responsible for Uru's death!" Gray looked at Leo with firm eyes, squatting in horse stance and crossing his hands,"But, I will never forgive you for hurting your friends, doing unforgivable things to the villagers, and melting the ice! Let's be punished together!"

Leo panicked when he saw Gray's posture:"This... this posture is... absolutely frozen?!"

"Absolutely what?"Natsu looked at the two of them in confusion.

"Are you crazy?"Leo yelled at Gray crazily.

"Two choices, either leave here and stop your plan, or die with me!" Gray looked at Leo calmly.

"So you want to use this to threaten me, how boring!"Leo relaxed instantly and looked at Gray with a mocking face.

"Do you think I'm joking?"Gray began to release magic power, and the powerful magic power instantly blew Natsu away.

"You guy!"Leo resisted the magic power with difficulty and tried to fight back. Upon seeing this, Gray directly increased the burst of magic power. Leo was finally thrown away and slammed into the wall!

"I'm ready, ready to die. I'll ask you one last time!" Gray's face looked particularly hideous due to the continuous explosion of magic power, and his body gradually began to turn into ice crystals.

"Die together! Still live!"Gray gave his last shout!

"hehe..."Leo climbed up with the help of the wall, staring at Gray with a grin,"Come on! Cast the magic if you have the guts!"

Natsu on the side finally remembered that Gray's master lost his life because of this magic. He anxiously used all his strength to go to Gray.

"It seems that this is your answer, it's over, absolutely cold..."Gray saw that Leo would never give in, so he angrily turned on his magic to the maximum, about to cast this magic that would kill both of them.

Natsu finally crawled to Gray's side, and seeing that Gray was about to cast the magic, he jumped up and knocked Gray down with a punch. As Gray was distracted, the ultimate magic stopped being released.

"You bastard, what do you want to do? Do you want to die?!"Natsu grabbed Gray's arm angrily and yelled at him

"I have to make an end to this guy! I'm ready to die! What are you doing? Let me go!" Gray grabbed Natsu's collar and shouted at him angrily.

Natsu grabbed Gray's hand, stared at Gray and said angrily:"Is death the solution? Huh? How long are you going to escape?"

Gray was stunned.

At this moment, the ruins suddenly shook, and Raphael and Lucy (although Lucy was just shouting 666) who had defeated the cult group outside the ruins were catching fish, but when they looked up, they saw that the ruins had returned to its original state from the slanted state.

""What...what happened? How did the ruins return to their original state?" Lucy asked Raphael in disbelief, covering her mouth in surprise.

"Someone must have used magic to restore it to its original state, so Deliora will be unsealed. Let's go and take a look."Raphael stared at the ruins and answered Lucy's question. It seemed to be Ultear's magic. We should go in and take a look.

In the ruins, Natsu went to chase Saludili, leaving only Leo and Gray.

"You already thought that Natsu would stop me, so you were confident, right?"Gray stared at Leo and asked his own question.

"No, I didn't expect you to release it, but it doesn't matter if I take it, after all, I still have a partner, and have you forgotten that the Moon Drop can dissolve the absolute freeze?"

Leo folded his hands and looked at Gray with a mocking look.

"Ah~ Yes, then the absolute freezing I released at the beginning was completely ineffective!" Gray realized it belatedly.

"Give up, you can't beat me...."

"Stop it!"Gray walked up to Leo and said,"Give up resurrecting Deliora!"

"Hey, when did you become a mother-in-law?"Leo looked at Gray with disdain, and even wanted to laugh,"Has the failure of threats turned into preaching? Did you think it was a cartoon?"

"Listen to me, Uruta..."Gray continued talking to himself, looking at Leo calmly,"Still alive!"

Leo opened his eyes wide, with disbelief in his eyes!

"Absolute freezing is to convert your body into ice, which means that the ice you plan to melt now is Uru, her body! She turned into ice and is still alive!"Gray lowered his head and said tremblingly.

Leo just listened blankly, without any reaction at all.

"I'm sorry for keeping it a secret from you. This was a decision made by Uru and I. She was afraid that you would unseal the demon and challenge it beyond your ability, and lose your life!"

Gray gritted his teeth, shed tears, and trembled as he told Leo the truth.

"Gray..."Leo was silent for a long time, then slowly walked towards Gray

"So don't..."Gray thought the persuasion was effective, raised his head, and when he was about to continue persuading Leo, an ice sword was instantly inserted into his body.

Leo walked up to Gray with a ferocious smile, looked at Gray fiercely and said,"I've known about such boring things for a long time. Uru now is just a pile of ice!"

Leo pulled out his ice sword. , brought out a trace of blood, kicked Gray to the ground, walked up to Gray and said coldly:"That's not Uru anymore, it's just a pile of useless ice slag ready to melt, why are you still so naive?"

"You! You've known this all along?" Gray covered his wound, lay on the ground, looked up and stared at Leo with hatred.

"asshole!!!"

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