Internet Magic in Fairy Tail (Re-upload)

Dropping a meteor whenever you feel like it?

Nate felt speechless. He had no choice but to intervene and stop it.

After all, he couldn't just stand by and watch the meteor crash into the prison, causing countless casualties.

The livestream chat erupted in celebration of his feat, but Nate noticed that the flow of negative emotions he had been harvesting had dropped significantly.

[With Nate-sama here, we're guaranteed victory!!!]

This sentiment spread like wildfire through the comments, turning the chat into a wall of support.

Given the circumstances, Nate could no longer sit back and do nothing.

Hovering above the battlefield, he pressed his palms together. A radiant golden light burst forth, illuminating the area below.

"That's… Fairy Law!"

Keyes, the necromancer, immediately sensed the danger and shouted, "Silver, stop him!"

Silver grinned and extended his right hand toward Nate, despite the vast distance between them.

In an instant, extreme cold surged across the battlefield, freezing Nate into an ice sculpture in midair.

But the golden light remained unwavering, growing brighter and brighter until, after three seconds, it reached its peak.

Fairy Law activated.

A holy light—a divine punishment against darkness—descended upon everyone.

Keyes muttered, "Too late…" and fell silent.

The battlefield lapsed into eerie stillness. The sounds of fighting ceased as everyone basked in the sacred glow.

The Rune Knights felt warmth spreading through their bodies, like a father's comforting embrace.

However, the black mages who had come to break into the prison were judged as targets of extermination. Under the power of Fairy Law, they fell like wheat before a scythe.

Kyôka's expression shifted.

"Reinforcement Curse: Self-Enhancement!"

The sacred light, brimming with purity, was like poison to demons.

As the golden radiance began to fade, Nate hovered in the air, freed from the ice as the holy power melted it away.

The battlefield was transformed. Nate's move had effectively ended the conflict, leaving only a handful of enemies still standing.

Silver narrowed his eyes upon noticing that Keyes had been obliterated by the magic.

Why wasn't I affected? he wondered.

At the prison's main gate, Kyôka had barely survived by reinforcing herself.

The Tempest, however, was not as fortunate and lay completely drained, pale from head to toe.

Warrod Sequen chuckled.

"Nate's Fairy Law? Seems stronger than Makarov's. Just kidding, of course."

With a faint thud, Nate descended beside Warrod.

"This was my first time targeting hundreds of units simultaneously. I'm not used to it yet," Nate admitted.

Because the power had been dispersed, he had only managed to kill Keyes and heavily injure Tempest out of the three members of the Nine Demon Gates he had targeted. Kyôka had resisted, and Nate had deliberately spared Silver.

"Lord of the Magic Net, Nate, you truly are powerful!"

Kyôka, who had once considered capturing Nate to glean information about Zeref, now realized how lucky she was that her ally Seilah had dissuaded her.

"Why don't you surrender? Surely you don't think you can escape," Nate said, eyeing the demoness.

Kyôka glared at Warrod before returning her gaze to Nate. The tide had turned against her, and now she faced two formidable foes.

Even in a one-on-one fight, she couldn't win. Against both of them, her chances were zero.

"Looks like I'll have to use my rebirth," Kyôka muttered, placing her hand over her heart.

"Self-Reinforcement: Ultimate Strength!"

Her body surged with cursed energy, her heart turning into a ticking bomb.

Warrod's smile faded as he shouted, "She's trying to self-destruct!"

But Nate moved faster.

In an instant, he teleported behind Kyôka, seized her wrist, and conjured black chains of cursed energy that wrapped tightly around her neck.

Her self-destruction was halted, and she was immobilized.

"Senior, I'll leave the cleanup to you. I'm taking her to the prison for a proper interrogation," Nate said, dragging Kyôka away.

…

Later, in a prison cell:

Kyôka stood on her tiptoes, her hands shackled and suspended in the air.

"This isn't made of magic-sealing stone…"

She noticed that the chains binding her weren't crafted from anti-magic minerals but from some unknown material that sealed her cursed energy.

"What is this?"

"Cursed energy is the power of curses. Magic-sealing stone can't suppress it," Nate explained casually, manifesting a chair and sitting in front of her.

"These chains are made of something I developed to seal cursed energy. Looks like it works well."

Kyôka snorted. "What do you want?"

"I want to run a little experiment," Nate said, standing and placing a finger on her cheek.

Zzt.

Electric sparks flickered. Kyôka trembled as lightning coursed through her body, leaving her paralyzed.

"Hah! This level of interrogation is nothing!" she sneered, though her body betrayed her with trembling.

Nate intensified the electric shocks, causing Kyôka to let out muffled groans as her body convulsed.

He felt no guilt about tormenting the demoness. In the original storyline, Kyôka had captured and tortured Erza in a similar manner. This was just payback.

After ten minutes of interrogation, Nate finally stopped.

Kyôka glared at him with fury.

"You call that interrogation? Shall I show you what real interrogation looks like?"

Nate smirked, stroking his chin thoughtfully.

"You demons are perfect machines for generating cursed energy."

Even this relatively mild treatment had produced a wealth of negative emotions. The pain didn't bother Kyôka; it was the humiliation that fueled her negativity.

"What I need right now is workers like you who excel at producing cursed energy."

Nate entered the Deep Web with a thought.

In his core space, his reserve of cursed energy had reached 150,000 stars—far from the million he had anticipated.

Still, that didn't matter. According to the Gate of Truth, there were three ways to ascend to godhood.

Each method required a total of one million stars, but their individual costs varied.

Summoning the Gate of Truth, Nate asked directly:

"What's the cheapest way to ascend to godhood, and how much cursed energy does it require?"

The Gate quickly responded:

[Based on your situation, there are three suitable methods for godhood. According to the principle of equivalent exchange, the cheapest method requires 100,000 stars of cursed energy.]

"And the other two?"

[The second costs 300,000 stars, and the third costs 600,000 stars.]

"What's the main difference between them?"

[To receive this answer, you must pay 1,000 stars of cursed energy.]

Nate chose to pay.

[The difference lies in difficulty. The most expensive method is the easiest to achieve.]

So the most expensive is the simplest?

After some thought, Nate decided.

"Pay 100,000 stars and tell me the cheapest method to ascend to godhood."

In an instant, a surge of esoteric knowledge about godhood flooded into his mind.