And also built connecting passages.
While everyone was marveling at the enormity of the Palace of Hues, Arcadios opened the palace gate.
Leading the group inside.
"The Grand Magic Games is actually a smokescreen event held to absorb the magic power of mages in large quantities."
"In recent years, a portion of the magic power we've collected each year has been used on the arena, and the remaining portion of the magic power has been prepared for this plan."
Arcadios explained everything as he walked.
"So every year you've been stealing magic power from mages?" Gray curled his lip.
"That's too awful," Carla said indignantly.
"Too despicable!" Gajeel cursed expressionlessly.
"Good cursing!" Lily responded.
Finn didn't participate in the crowd's verbal battle.
He had been wondering before how the organizers could have such a vast amount of magic power to just create a city or something.
Now it seemed this explained that question.
"It doesn't matter how you criticize, all of this is so that this plan can be executed normally!"
Arcadios said, stopping his steps.
"We're here." He said, looking ahead.
Everyone's gazes also turned to the huge building in front.
A sense of horror instantly emerged.
It was an incomparably huge gate, with dazzling gold decorations carved on it in a striped pattern.
Twelve huge door bolts were placed in front of the gate, locking it firmly.
The very center of the gate was a symbol in the shape of the sun.
"So big..." Wendy opened her mouth wide.
"What in the world is this thing..." Gray's eyes were also filled with horror.
"This is what was created by collecting vast amounts of magic power for seven years, the gate that can change the world - Eclipse Gate!" Arcadios responded in a deep voice.
"When the sun and moon intersect, you can use the keys of the zodiac to open this gate!"
He turned his body, looking at Lucy and Yukino behind him, with a solemn expression on his face.
"So we need the power of you two ladies who are Celestial Spirit Mages to open this gate, leap through four hundred years of time, and Zeref before he becomes immortal, this is the Eclipse Project!"
After these unbelievable words were spoken, everyone present was fall into the deep shock.
"Leap... through time??" Lucy said incredulously.
To this, Arcadios was not surprised, but explained, "I believe you, as Celestial Spirit Mages, know that the time flow rate of the Celestial Spirit World is different from the human world."
"By utilizing the dimensional boundaries unique to the Celestial Spirit World, we can use the power of Celestial Spirit Mages to open this gate."
He raised his head, looking at the huge moon in the sky.
And said, "In three days, that is, on July 7th, the sun will intersect with the moon. At that time, I want to borrow the power of you two."
"You said July 7th?" Natsu's pupils shrank fiercely.
"That's the day the dragons who raised us disappeared..." Wendy murmured.
"Is it a coincidence?" Gajeel frowned and said.
Just as everyone was pondering, Finn, who had been thinking for a long time, slowly spoke, "If I'm guessing correctly, your plan is impossible to succeed!"
Finn's words made Arcadios turn his head back fiercely.
"What are you saying?" He asked this question with a tightly furrowed brow.
To everyone's questions, Finn raised his head, looking at Arcadios in front of him, and slowly opened his mouth: "Do you know about the Time Paradox?"
"Finn, what are you talking about?" Natsu looked at Finn with a face full of confusion.
"What time... something..."
"Idiot, if you don't understand, just listen carefully," Gray said speechlessly.
Arcadios' gaze on the side was tightly fixed on Finn.
"What exactly do you mean to say?"
Finn touched his chin, and opened his mouth to explain, "It's actually very simple."
"In the world we're in, Zeref is alive, and Acnologia is also alive, that's right, right?"
Hearing this, the crowd nodded one after another.
Seeing this, Finn continued, "Okay, let's make a hypothesis."
Saying this, Finn paused, seem was organizing his words.
Then he raised his eyelids, looking at the crowd, and said, "Let's assume that we now choose to return to the past because of Zeref's threat, and kill him when Zeref hasn't become immortal."
"Then since Zeref is already dead, he won't become a black mage, and he won't, as Arcadios said, transform Acnologia into a giant dragon, that's right."
Finn looked at Arcadios.
To this, he nodded, "That's the purpose of our going back."
"Then, if Zeref dies, according to the development of the world, without the threat of Zeref and Acnologia, we wouldn't think of going back to the past to kill Zeref!"
"So, this is the Time Paradox, because it's a conflicting thing at all."
Finn's words made everyone on the scene look at each other, and an expression called confusion was covered on everyone's faces.
"But... if we really go back and do this thing, what will happen?" Yukino looked at Finn and asked.
"This is what I'm going to say next, assuming that we return to the past and really kill Zeref, but for us, it doesn't change our past."
Finn tried to slow down his speech as much as possible.
"Because as I said just now, it's because of Zeref's threat that we will return to the past, then from the moment we kill Zeref, the past world will deviate from the history we know."
"And that world will develop a new future, and our history will still not change!"
"That is to say, the past we return to will develop into another parallel world, a world without Zeref, and in this world where we exist, there will still be Zeref."
"That's the so-called parallel world!"
After a series of explanations, Finn looked at Arcadios, who was sweating profusely, and said, "So, your so-called plan to travel back to the past will not change our current situation at all, understand?"
Arcadios hadn't responded yet.
Natsu tightly frowned.
After listening to Finn's words, Natsu only felt that his whole person was dizzy.
Those words, clearly each one placed in front of him were words that he was familiar with, but why didn't he understand what they were talking about after they were combined?
"What exactly is Finn talking about?" He asked Gajeel on the side.
"Um..." Gajeel crossed his arms, and thought for a while.
Then he opened his mouth seriously, "I don't understand at all."
"These idiots..." Lucy supported her forehead speechlessly.
"What Finn means is, even if we return to the past and kill Zeref, our world will still not change, but a new parallel world will be extended."
She looked at Natsu and explained.
"..." Natsu and Gajeel looked at each other, and confusion still filled their eyes.
"In short, you just need to know that this plan won't work," Gray waved his hand helplessly.
"Ah~ so that's how it is!" The two suddenly understood.
"As expected, things related to intelligence have nothing to do with these two guys..."
Nancy make complaints.
Finn looked at Arcadios, who was lowering his head, "So are you still going to continue?"
He was silent for a moment, and then raised his head again, "Even if this road doesn't work, we still have..."
"That's enough! Don't move!"
The sudden roar interrupted Arcadios' next words.
Immediately following, a series of rapid footsteps came over.
Hundreds of fully armed kingdom soldiers with weapons possessed up, and surrounded Finn and the others.
"I advise you not to act rashly, Arcadios!"
The crowd surrounding Finn opened a path.
Immediately following, a short old man carried his hands behind his back, and walked over with a serious expression.
"Minister of Defense, what do you mean by this?" Arcadios looked at the person who came, and asked.
"This should be what I'm asking you, you actually dared to leak kingdom secrets to others, you should know what the consequences will be," Defense Minister Dutton said in a tone filled with seriousness.
"You should know the importance of them in this plan! What I'm doing is also for this kingdom!" Arcadios shouted.
However, his words completely angered Dutton.
As a staunch opponent of the Eclipse Project, he believed that unauthorized tampering with history would definitely cause unimaginable consequences.
Therefore, he would stop Arcadios here.
"Are you still lost in the right path, haven't you thought about how terrible the danger it will bring? Little kid!"
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