Time flew by, and another month and a half passed, with the Wolf Cavalry + Yuumi Medical Room + Hextech Product Sales bringing in a considerable profit.
Once his income source was stable, he paid back the living expenses Makarov had lent him, as well as the advanced rent money.
Ezreal had recently been busy improving his combat coordination with his summons and practicing his magic.
He would often spar with members of the guild; he had basically sparred with almost every well-known character.
Except for Gildarts, who was always on a hundred-year quest.
And Mystogan, who was currently mysteriously handling the "Edolas Anima Magic."
As well as Laxus, who had just returned from an S-rank request; aside from these, he was now getting along well with everyone.
From his recent sparring matches, he particularly enjoyed fighting Marcus, Gray, and Natsu.
Marcus was the weakest, and his magic focused on large-area attacks, leaning towards a traditional Mage style.
Gray's Ice Make magic was quite versatile, his close-combat ability was also good, and he was the most precise in his attacks.
Natsu's style was more focused on close-quarters combat, more like a Magic Warrior; flames wrapped around his limbs, making him fight more like a beast, with every move being very primitive and direct, which was quite unsettling.
Fighting these three, Ezreal's strength improved significantly, especially in his battles with Natsu, where his close-combat ability showed exceptionally clear progress.
And with a month of battles, his coordination with his summons also became more seamless, and he had mastered most of the auxiliary magic recorded in the Dimensional Summoning Magic book.
Furthermore, while browsing the library's collection, he found many cultivation methods for Light Magic, and subsequently, during this period, he studied under Makarov, the only one in the guild who mastered Light Magic.
Under the guidance of this knowledgeable Ten Wizard Saints, Ezreal quickly mastered many Light Magic spells, and his learning progress astonished even the well-traveled Makarov.
In just one week, Ezreal had learned most of the Light Magic Makarov knew, and even had enough energy left to learn some daily magic for everyday life.
For example, water flow cleaning magic for easy dishwashing and mopping, breeze dust removal magic for cleaning room dust, and clothes-changing magic that didn't require him to take off his own clothes, etc... At the guild training ground.
Though called a training ground, it was actually a large, somewhat useless grassy area, with a small stretch of beach at its edge connecting to the vast Fairy Tail Lake.
Ezreal and Natsu stood facing each other once again.
Intense fighting spirit burned in both their eyes.
Thanks to the profits from the last request, Natsu hadn't gone out on a request for a week, sparring with Ezreal every day.
Many familiar faces were also around: Gray, Elfman, Cana, Happy, Marcus, Laki—these common faces of the guild had all come to watch the excitement, and judging by their small stools, it was clearly not their first time.
"Natsu, go, you can definitely win!" Happy, held in Laki's arms, waved his little paws, cheering Natsu on.
"Natsu, go!" Marcus shouted loudly.
"At least force out EZ's full power, Natsu!" Gray sat backwards on a chair, with his hands resting on the backrest, saying lazily.
"Put on some clothes, Gray!" Cana, who was guzzling from a barrel of alcohol similar to a large mineral water bottle, picked up his jacket from the ground and threw it on Gray's head.
"Oh! I will definitely defeat you, EZ!" Natsu clapped his fists together, and crimson flames erupted from his fists, burning brightly.
"Then you'll have to try a little harder, Natsu." Ezreal responded with a gentle smile, and the sapphire on the back of his left hand glowed.
"I'm coming, EZ!" Natsu pushed off the ground with his feet, flames surged from beneath him, turning the green grass to ash and burning scorch marks into the ground, as he lunged forward.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu, with crimson flames burning on both his hands and feet, had fierce eyes. Using the thrust of the flames, he instantly rushed in front of Ezreal and threw a flame-wrapped punch at his face.
"Light Array!"
Ezreal, unhurried, cast the Light Magic he learned from Makarov, extending his left hand flat, forming a sword-finger gesture, with a golden orb of light glowing at his fingertip.
A golden magic array, thin as a cicada's wing and wide like a round shield, stood before him.
The edges of the magic array were inscribed with profound ancient texts, while the center bore the Fairy Tail Guild emblem.
Natsu's flame-wrapped punch was blocked by the upright golden magic array.
The flames had no effect on the magic array, and his momentum was stopped.
Natsu didn't hesitate for a moment, placing his hands to his mouth, making a blowing motion.
"Fire Dragon's...!" As he inhaled, his chest swelled astonishingly, and Natsu unleashed a crimson flame breath from his mouth, carrying an astonishingly high temperature.
"Roar!"
The flame breath instantly shattered the Light Array, heading directly for Ezreal, who was now close by.
A golden flash, and Ezreal, having activated Arcane Shift, vanished from his spot, reappearing standing on the beach by the lake.
One Arcane Shift created a distance of over two hundred meters!
Immediately upon landing, the Arcane Arrow that came with Arcane Shift was not fired immediately, but was held in Ezreal's hand.
The back of his left hand glowed blue, and blue magical energy extended from both ends of his fist, forming an energy bow.
He nocked a giant golden energy arrow, nearly 1.2 meters long, onto the bow.
Ezreal drew the bow and nocked the arrow; the tip of the golden Arcane Arrow began to glow white. He integrated the tracking effect of Arcane Arrow and the marking amplification effect of Essence Flux into Mystic Shot.
The white light completely dyed the originally golden Arcane Arrow white, and the terrifying temperature directly distorted the air around Ezreal's body.
This was solar energy compressed to its extreme, and although it was Light Magic, it possessed an astonishing high temperature that even ordinary fire magic could not achieve.
"Mystic Shot, modified! Arcane Shot!"
With a loud roar, Ezreal abruptly released his hand, and the white energy arrow shot out, incinerating the grass into scorched blackness in its path, creating a perfectly straight, grassless strip of land.
Natsu neither dodged nor flinched, once again placing his hands before his mouth, inhaling sharply to expand his chest, and unleashed a roar even fiercer than before.
The crimson flame breath collided with the Arcane Shot, and an intense light suddenly flared, followed by an astonishing high-temperature shockwave carrying crimson flames and white energy particles spreading outwards.
In an instant, dust rose everywhere, and waves of earth surged.
Although Natsu reacted quickly, Ezreal's Arcane Shot was even faster; by the time Natsu's counter-roar struck, the Arcane Shot was already less than twenty meters from him.
The intense explosion directly engulfed Natsu's figure in the flying dust and grass debris.
Ezreal cast another spell, once again drawing his bow and nocking an arrow with his left hand, increasing his magic output, and a white arrow, even thicker and longer than the previous one, condensed into form.
Essence Flux, Ezreal's buff-marking magic in the original game.
And the tracking Arcane Arrow that came with Arcane Shift, he combined it with Mystic Shot, increasing the power of the original Mystic Shot.
If the original Mystic Shot's power was 1, now the new version of Mystic Shot, fused and improved with Essence Flux and Arcane Arrow, had a power of 10!
Under Makarov's guidance, he gained a deeper understanding and mastery of his magic, and integrated it with the magic of Earth Land, no longer confined to the original skill forms.
With Mystic Shot, which brings high temperature and strong explosion effects through extreme compression of light-attribute magic power, as the core of the skill, supplemented by the damage amplification of Essence Flux and the tracking effect of Arcane Arrow.
The original Mystic Shot, under the effect of extreme magic compression, could not perform tracking attacks, but by integrating the casting principle of Arcane Arrow into it, it gained the most important tracking effect.
No need for any fancy other magic skills, the powerful Mystic Shot was Ezreal's primary output method.