"St. Ten, absolutely St. Ten!"

    Looking at George, who led the team down the ring, Kureha Nozomu, a member of Akarui Tenjin, Hyouei Hikari No Hoshi, Genbu no Juubei's Geman and Minaba were all expressionless.

    It's too strong. The first match still can't tell what is going on, but the last three matches with the terrible three-colored flames, just by watching them across the ring, you can feel the terrible strength they contain.

    "Wow, does he have the power of St. Ten?"

    Leo, a member of the Scale Armor of Serpent, asked his true St. Ten Magician partner, Nui, beside him.

    "St. Ten, he may not be a regular St. Ten this time, so the president might be disappointed."

    Jura folded her hands together and slowly closed her eyes.

    As the laggard among the St. Ten, he has seen all the St. Ten Magicians, among which the most terrifying are the four strongest ones who have been regarded as beyond human beings, the Four Kings of Iskujal.

    Even the fourth in the rank among the Four Kings could cleanly defeat the other six behind them.

    Among them, the most powerful is Celeste, the first-ranked in the rankings. She is also the Dragon Slayer Mage who possesses eight Dragon Slayer Crystals and can use eight types of Dragon Slayer Magic, which is comparable to gods.

    When George used the Dragon Slayer Magic just now, it gave him a sense of the feeling he had when facing Celeste, the Heavenly God, back then.

    If George's strength has truly reached the level of the Iskujal Four Kings, then it will be difficult for the Big Mage Tournament to obtain first place.

    "Don't say that, he is indeed strong, but we are not bad either!"

    The pink-haired mage Shelly Brandt, who uses doll magic, made a cheering gesture.

    She thought that George, even if he is a St. Ten, Kureha is also a St. Ten, there is nothing to be afraid of. They have Leo, a four-headed hound leader mage who can balance them, and their overall strength should be stronger than Fairy Tail.

    "This cat has such strength."

    The voice of Genbu no Juubei's Geman is filled with seven-thirds anger and three-thirds jealousy.

    And a glint of coldness flashed through the eyes of her daughter, Minaba:

    "Even if he is a St. Ten, what does that matter? He's just a cat with strength but no brains. Tomorrow's free-for-all, I have all sorts of ways to deal with him."

    "No one can take away my strongest!"

    If that cat were to hide his strength and reveal it on the last day of the competition, he could really catch everyone off guard.

    Unfortunately, a cat is just a cat, fond of displaying its claws but lacking in intelligence.

    "You already have a plan, and it's no wonder that my daughter, whom I've nurtured since she was a child."

    Geman's face was filled with satisfaction.

    A fleeting disdain flashed in Minaba's eyes, and then she explained:

    "It has already exposed its St. Ten power, which has aroused the vigilance of all mages. As long as tomorrow we guide it well, it will be easy for everyone to focus on eliminating it first."

    Can it beat five mages teaming up? One hundred?

    "This Big Mage Tournament really has something fishy about it."

    Getting off the ring, George didn't bother to pay attention to the group of magicians' wary looks and audience cheers, but frowned at the direction of the palace.

    He hadn't paid much attention before, but just now, as he released the Dragon Slayer Magic, he subtly sensed that the magical power generated by his magic was being drawn in a mysterious force towards the palace.

    After solving the four challengers' conference, he lay on Leqi's shoulder and carefully sensed again, finding that not only him but all the magical power released by the mages in this competition were being attracted to the direction of the palace.

    It's as if there is something in the palace that is devouring magical power.

    "Let's go check it out tonight."

    Since there is a conspiracy in the royal family, he naturally needs to figure out what's going on.

    Otherwise, if he gets cheated at the time, it will be bad.

    His current strength is indeed strong, but it's not the strongest. He hasn't fought against creatures like the Black Dragon, the Five Dragon Kings, or the Four Kings of Iskujal, so he's not clear about their level.

    So it's better to be cautious.

    Another day has passed, and the third team defense match has also come to an end.

    Fairy Tail still maintains first place in the points.

    Genbu no Juubei is also in the same situation. Although it took longer than Fairy Tail, it has also defeated all the members of the Challengers' Guild and obtained 60 points.

    The other four team leaders' guilds, except for the four-headed hound that was defeated by the last team with the magicians' magic exhausted, and only scored 45 points, all also scored 60 points.

    This match truly made the audience aware of the gap in strength between top-tier guild magicians and ordinary guild magicians.

    At night, when everyone was asleep, George disappeared in a shadow magic and flew to the palace direction stealthily.

    Following the magical power absorption trajectory he sensed during the day, he bypassed the guards patrolling around the palace and arrived at the basement of the palace. Finally, he found a door with golden twelve Zodiac Spirit patterns carved on it.

    "This door is not simple!"

    Circulating around the door, George carefully observed the patterns and magical patterns on the door and had a sense of shock in his heart.

    As a master of alchemy, he naturally dabbled in the alchemy of Fairy Tail. In order to build a floating city in the Marvel World, he specially found some magic books about making Mage Airships to study.

    Therefore, he could tell at a glance that the door was made from extremely rare and expensive magical metal, using many alchemy techniques that he had never seen in any magical books and were incredibly advanced.

    However, after careful observation, he unconsciously felt that this door seemed to be related to the starlight magic and advanced time magic of this world.

    Starlight magic is the unique magic of this world and cannot be used in other worlds. He hasn't studied it much, but the twelve patterns on the door are obviously the golden twelve Zodiac Spirit patterns.

    As for time magic, he has been studying the laws of time, so he can easily recognize it.

    "The royal family is using Big Mage Tournament to supplement the magic of this door, what is their true purpose?"

    Thinking for a while, he decided that to figure everything out, he still needed to find the king of this country. Such a big event was probably initiated by the king.

    Then, with a quiet magic, he can read the king's memories and everything will be clear.

    If the king doesn't know either, then read the memories of all the queens, princesses, and ministers in the palace, there must be someone who knows.

    However, as he was about to use the tracking spell to find the location of the king, a magic array suddenly appeared under his feet, and his phantasm curse was broken.

    "It's been discovered."

    Hearing the sound of a dense crowd of guards from all around, he suddenly looked up towards the sky above, discovering that there was now a magical eye there, looking directly at him.

    "It seems that there are some unique features in the magic developed by the Magic Development Bureau. I didn't even realize that there was a monitoring spell here."

    Discovered is discovered, come dark or come light.