The next day, early morning...
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Noah, who was still asleep, was suddenly awakened by a loud knock on the door. Before he could fully react, he heard Gray's cry.
"Hey! Noah! Are you awake?!"
Noah can't help but frown as he sees the door of his room that has been knocked frequently and shaken up.
Although Gray is indeed not the kind of person who considers not to disturb people's dreams, he usually calls Noah in such an unceremonious way of knocking on the door, but Noah feels that the force of Gray's knock on today is not only A lot older, even the tone of voice became anxious.
Could something have happened
This question just appeared in Noah's heart, and Gray's voice told him the answer outside the door.
"You guy! It's not time to sleep now! It's lively down here! Get up!"
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Noah, who hurriedly downstairs with Gray, had just arrived on the first floor, and found that today, the situation in the guild is different from the past.
The excitement was still so lively, but the members of the guild gathered around the delegation column where the task list was posted, and surrounded the front of the delegation column.
"Is this task again?"
"The client has really worked hard, obviously this task is so unpopular..."
"It's not like that. Look, after the task is completed, the reward will increase a lot more than before?"
"That's it..."
In addition to these talkative remarks, on the guild bar, an old man with a cane in his hand and clown-like clothes, who was as short as an ordinary child, but looked very old, also sat there, casually. Drinking wine, it formed a sharp contrast with the members of the guild.
However, looking at the little old man sitting cross-legged on the bar table, Noah showed a look of joy.
"grandfather!"
This person is Makarov Dolea, the guild president of "Fairytail"!
"Huh?" Makarov's drinking action paused slightly, and his eyes turned to the direction of the stairs. Looking at Noah standing there, there was also a gentle expression on his face, his eyes narrowed with his smile.
"It's Noah? Did you get up?"
"Grandpa!" Noah trot to Makarov's front.
"You haven't been to the guild for several days!"
"Just gathering with a few friends, don't worry!" Makarov touched his head and laughed.
"I'm so sorry!"
"Master!" Gray also came to Noah's side, but he asked curiously, looking in the direction of the bustling delegation column.
"What happened? Why does everyone seem to be noisy?"
"Let them make a fuss first!" Makarov glanced in the direction of the entrustment bar and continued to drink.
"Anyway, you will know later!"
"It will take a long time for everyone in the guild to calm down..." Noah said helplessly.
"So, Grandpa, you should explain it first!"
"That's also..." Makarov, who knew how noisy members of his guild were, also knocked on his forehead helplessly, jumped off the bar, and walked in the direction of the delegation bar.
"Okay! Just quiet down for me!"
As soon as Makarov's voice fell, the originally noisy guild immediately went silent, and the guild members surrounding the delegation fence consciously separated, giving way to Makarov to pass.
Until he came to the front of the delegation column, Makarov turned around, faced everyone in the guild, raised the crutch in his hand, and pointed to an unusually eye-catching order posted in the center of the delegation column.
Noah, who had fairly good eyesight, saw the words on the order sheet clearly and read them out.
"Lake of Ceremony?"
Just after reading it out, Noah saw Gray who was on the side showing a stunned look, and immediately asked.
"What is the ritual lake?..."
"You don't know?" Gray was startled, then nodded.
"That's right, you only came to "Fairytail" for one year."
"What's wrong?" Noah asked curiously.
"Could it be that everyone is so noisy because of this ritual lake?"
"The Lake of Ceremony is a famous lake of wishing!" Seeing that Noah really didn't know, Gray explained aloud.
"According to legend, if you make a wish in this ritual lake, under the witness of the ritual lake, the elves of the lake will fulfill the wishes of the person who made the wish and make your dreams come true!"
"Dreams come true?" Noah immediately lost most of his interest.
"When you hear it, you know it's impossible, right?"
"Well, in fact, it's not just you, many people just take it as a rumor, and they haven't heard of anyone who made a wish there. Then the elves of the lake appeared and realized this person's wish!" Gray Tan said Spread your hands.
"However, there is one person who did make a wish on the edge of the ritual lake, and then it came true!"
After speaking, Gray looked at Noah.
"You know the council, right?"
Hearing this, Noah raised his brows.
The so-called Senate is an organization in the Fiore Kingdom that is responsible for maintaining order in the magical world.
This organization consists of a speaker and eight members. The main task is to monitor the actions of the wizard guilds, punish the guilds that violate the rules of the Senate, and hunt down the dark guilds that endanger the magic world.
In the Kingdom of Fiore, only a guild approved by the Senate can be regarded as a regular guild, and the Sorcerer’s Guild recognized by the Senate must also abide by the treaty established by the Senate, or it will be forcibly disbanded, which is equivalent to Fiore. Monitors of all regular guilds in the Thunder Kingdom.
"I heard that the first speaker of the Senate made the wish to form the Senate in the Lake of Ceremony!" Gray said with a pouted mouth.
“Although the speaker’s method of forming the Senate is indeed possible, since the speaker made the wish to form the Senate from the Lake of Ceremony before forming the Senate, and successfully formed the Senate, the ceremony’s The lake has become a holy place for the Senate!"
"It just so happens that the Lake of Ceremony is a very peculiar lake. Once a lot of magic is injected into it, the lake will start to shine!" Gray cast his eyes on the thoughtful Noah.
"So, I don’t know since when the Senate has flourished. If the Lake of Ceremony is not allowed to remain glowing, the original desire to form the Senate will be invalidated and the Senate will also be disbanded. So Every year, the Senate will issue a commission to a well-known guild to let people go to the lake of rituals and inject magic!"
"So, is that the commission issued by the Senate?" Noah looked at the commission posted in the center of the commission column and asked with some confusion.
"But why does everyone seem to be very unwelcome to this commission?"
"Because if you want the ritual lake to glow, the magic power you need to inject is extremely huge, and you need at least dozens of magicians to complete it. But in this way, the commissioned reward needs to be divided into dozens of parts, so that everyone The amount that can be allocated is pitiful!" Gray folded his arms.
"A task like this with poor pay, even if it is issued by the Senate, who will be there?"
"However, the group of bastards in the Senate requested that the guild that received this commission must complete the task within one month, and this year it is our "Fairytail" turn to accept this commission!" Standing in front of the commission column Makarov's tone was quite complaining.
"Although I really want to push it away, those guys will definitely take this opportunity to stumble me, so this task should be over quickly!"
Upon hearing Makarov's words, the members of the guild looked at each other immediately.
"Complete the task..."
"The pay is so low, who wants to go?"
"That's right… "
Facing the whispers of the members of the guild, Makarov was not surprised, knocked on the crutch in his hand, and said.
"Don't worry about this, I have already decided!"
Saying such a sentence, Makarov raised his head and shot his gaze straight at Noah who was standing in front of the bar.
"This task, Noah, is up to you to complete it!"