Chapter 199

Time flew swiftly from the year X780 to the year the original story began. Many things happened over these few years. First, Cana, Sorano, and Yukino successively became S-Class Mages. In the year X783, Natsu thought his chance to become an S-Class Mage had finally arrived, but neither he nor Gajeel expected that Dimaria, the Valkyrie, would suddenly burst into the competition out of nowhere! Originally, Natsu thought his final opponent for becoming an S-Class Mage in X783 would just be Gajeel. Although Dimaria had joined the guild a few years ago, she rarely interacted with them and usually just hung out with Lucy and the others. Therefore, both Natsu and Gajeel knew nothing about Dimaria's combat power.