Changes in two years

*August 16, Year 776*

A lot happened in these two years, John was able to control 40 more puppets, and he divided the slots between Ghost Rippers and Night Disciples, 20 each.

Puppet arsenal (115 Puppets):

(10) Shield Totems

(1) Dragapult mount- takes 5 slots

(55) Ghost Ripper Puppets- As strong as an average S-class mage.

(45) Night Disciples- Able to bring total darkness to an area of a 3km radius.

He's already a respectable S-rank in regard to combat ability, he's already equal in strength to the young Laxus Dreyar who will become an S-rank mage 2 years later.

Or maybe earlier due to the butterfly effect, he heard that there will be an S-class mage promotion trial in December this year.

So, he's doing his best to prepare himself to win the trial in December, and a lot of members will return to watch the S-class trial.

Other than having S-class strength now, he also made progress in wyvern runes, gaining the ability to impose a wyvern's might on an object, making an enemy feel like they are facing a wyvern whenever the weapon is swung.

With these, he had another item in the shop called Wyvern Talisman, when one tears the talisman into pieces a wyvern composed of ethernano will spring out to fight the enemy.

But, all the talismans he sells are all at C-rank, meaning the wyvern's combat ability is only C-rank, even so, many mages still bought Wyvern Talisman before going for a quest, using it as a trump card.

It became another item raking in millions of Jewels for John along with the Azur Lotus products.

He went inside the Mage's sanctuary to look at his current big project after the carriage one, a Flying Boat!

He's been envious of the Fuji Clan's flying boat for a while, so he decided to make one himself, a wyvern-style flying boat, with a wyvern bow, scales all over the boat, and wings on the side, with Fafnir as the inspiration.

"Roar!" With a loud roar, a white shadow flew from the horizon and landed beside John, creating a huge crater and bringing up a large cloud of dust.

In all the times that have passed, Fafnir grew into the size of a regular Blizzardvern while still being pretty young at that.

"Hahahaha, How are you Fafnir?" John laughed as he rubbed Fafnir's head earning a delighted roar from the wyvern.

"Roar!" It let out a happy roar as it nuzzled its head against him, John smiled and then jumped on its back and pointed forward as he shouted.

"Go! Let's go to the prison!"

Whoosh!

Fafnir flapped its wings and headed to the winter biome inside the space, zooming in the middle of snowy mountains stood a huge black prison with screams of pain echoing out from the inside.

As they landed in the middle of the prison, John looked at the wailing people imprisoned in their cells with disdain.

He then went to check on the 55 coffins inside and nodded in satisfaction to see that the puppet inside is getting stronger under the influence of negative emotions.

Seeing that everything is going fine inside the space, he went out and then headed straight for the guild hall to relax once more or see if there was any task that will catch his eye.

The bustling scene of the guild hall once again presented itself in front of, with many people already drinking first thing in the morning.

John went to the bar table and said to the on one the other side.

"The usual please."

The bar lady nodded and put down an entire tea set in front of John along with a few snacks, apparently, it had been prepared earlier since many others also like to have this set in the morning.

While he was eating breakfast, the door opened, and a redhead walked in, different from yesterday Erza now wears plate armor on her upper body, a white skirt, and a sword tied to her waist.

She walked straight to the task board and looked at the tasks on it when three pieces of paper flew in her direction, she quickly turned around and catch them.

"What do you mean by this?" She asked looking at John who threw the paper at her.

"Treat it as a gift from me for your joining, when you are facing a difficult enemy just tear one and it will solve it, it's effective up to B-rank oppponents." John explained with a smile.

"Aren't you afraid that Cana will force you to wear tiny slippers when she heard of this?" Macao asked with a strange smile.

John slapped him in the face while saying in a tired voice. "I'm having a great morning Macao, don't just go ruining it with your stupid questions."

Erza pocketed the talismans and nodded to John.

"I'll pay you back when I have money from my jobs."

Macao who got up from being slapped raised his hands and laughed. "You don't have to pay this kid back, he's probably the richest person in our whole guild right now."

John popped a vein this time as he punched Macao sending him flying knocking into a member who was drinking, that member was not reconciled with being hit so he punched Macao and sent him flying to another person.

And just like that the whole guild hall quickly descended into a chaotic brawl with nearly all members participating in it, with the exceptions of John, Erza, and Makarov, nobody dared to step near their area.

Well, the few guys that dared to approach have all been sent flying by John with an air gun.

"You should quickly pick a task now if you don't want to get involved in the mess." John advised pointing to the massive brawl.

Erza took his advice and quickly looked through the low-level tasks and after picking one suitable one, then went to Makarov who was watching the brawl with a father-like smile on his face.

Seeing Erza going towards him, he took a look and realized that she handed over a task paper in her hands.

He read the task and stamped it when he saw that it was not over what Erza could handle now, he then handed it back to her with a smile.

"Good luck on your first job, kiddo."

Erza nodded with a determined look and quickly walked out of the guild hall while dodging every brawl that came near her.

Once Makarov saw that she already left, his body slowly started to grow into a giant as he roared.

"You damn brats! You men are already so old, and yet you fools still love to make trouble and create a mess."

"Just because we became rich, doesn't mean that we have to use all the money for repairs you damn nitwits!"

Then with violent motions, he stopped the chaotic brawl from getting more chaotic and out of hand, John watched all of this with a smile as he took a sip of tea, like a nobleman watching a play.