Petrel

Chapter 26

Half an hour had passed since I had encased the local underdog, Shikamaru, in ice. As expected, the train was stopped by Eisenwald, but when the members of the dark guild wanted to enter the train to take the passengers hostage, an unpleasant surprise awaited them. As soon as the first person touched the train, the whole world seemed to freeze, and a moment later, all Erigor and his henchmen were covered in letters that glowed with a bright green light. We were standing right in front of the barrier. I was holding Lucy in my arms like a princess, and Elsa was holding two dragon slayers by the scruff of the neck, who were thrown to the ground a moment later.

-What happened?! - The white-haired beauty started spinning around in my arms in panic, as a result of which I released her onto the ground.

- It was just a combination of my time magic and Elsa's space magic, and the barrier in front of us was created using letters based on wind magic. It's a pity that I can only stop time for 3 seconds, otherwise I would have immediately prepared the conditions for Natsu and Gray's training today, but it's okay, they won't run away anyway. - I told the stunned Heartfilia and began to finalize the letters.

To be honest, it was somewhat reminiscent of website layout. Where the area of the letters covering the block was responsible for the html, and everything inside was the block elements, the letters themselves acted as a replacement for css and js, setting, so to speak, the rules of the area, which is what I was actually doing now.

-Hey, you bitch, it would be better for you if you let us out, or I promise that I will personally fuck each of you and then I will cut you into pieces 3 times a day and make you eat it. - The one who spoke, which in principle was obviously Erigor, who had already tested his power on the barrier, realizing that he was not even capable of creating a ripple.

We all ignored his words, except for the slightly pale spirit enchanter. Naturally, Elsa noticed this and ruffled Lucy's hair and said soothingly. "Don't worry, with our current strength, even without magic, we can put them all on their shoulder blades. And only Natsu and Gray will be fighting today as a training exercise."

- Training? - Lucy asked again, clearly not understanding how a serious mission to catch a particularly dangerous dark guild turned into training.

-Yes, what I am busy with now is creating conditions for the future training of these blockheads, because unfortunately they are only capable of developing in battle; in peacetime their progress is too slow.

"But why is that?" Heartfilia asked with confusion.

- Because they are idiots with muscle instead of brain and only know how to pump more magic into one blow. Okay, I'm done. - Nodding with satisfaction and ignoring the angry cries of the dark mages, I gave the two blockheads a healing kick.

- So, puppies, now I will launch you into the barrier, where you will go through a battle in 3 stages and I will pay for the food for a month to the winner. - I told the two magicians in a commanding tone, who were still rubbing their butts wincing in pain, but although my actions seem too cruel towards them, the fact is that a month of food for any of them is equivalent to a couple of years of food for an ordinary person who doesn't mind eating, due to which they have eternal problems with finances and something like this is literally manna from heaven for them, which was confirmed by their excited faces.

- In short, the first stage will be to take out all the small stuff and whoever takes out more will have the opportunity to restore magic and strength before the second stage.

-The second stage will consist of a duel between you and the winner will finally receive treatment from me before the final where he will have to fight Erigor.

-If you fail in stage 3, the lullaby will be given to their leader to give them the opportunity to free the demon, but if you succeed, the flute will be destroyed by highly concentrated storm magic containing elements of both god slayers and dragon slayers.

-Is everything clear?

- Yes ma'am! - shouted two idiots and jumped straight into the barrier. I had to quickly add a lullaby to the barrier in order to start the sequence.

"Isn't it too dangerous?" Lucy asked worriedly.

- No. Wendy added a fuse that will save them in a dangerous situation. And the flute, even if it can take its true form, still remains half a poke for us. And Erigor, he can only blame fate for the fact that he is a wind mage.

- Elsa, can you stop time too? - Lucy asked, wanting to satisfy her curiosity.

- No, I am currently at the stage of small buffs and the ability to resist stopping time in time magic, but in space magic I am ahead of Wendy by as much as she is ahead of me in time magic, so we complement each other perfectly in this regard. - With a smile she told about our achievements in the field of space-time magic.

-Wow! - Our future student admired us, and in the meantime, the training (beating) began behind the barrier.