User blog:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 353 : Nine Ghost Gate

This weeks chapter starts with the  reveal of  Altas Flame being the guardian of the Sun Village  or rather his spirit being the one that  guards the village. It seems  like Alatas  Flames has been burning for 400 years straight which is  quite impressive for  a spirt and it seems like the events of the Eclipse  gate  has Atlas Flames remembers Natsu ,which brings some questions of  how would that  affect   past timeline events.

It's revealed that the ice  covering the village jarred most of Altas Flames memories. Wendy diagnoses that  while  his spirit and willpower remains  strong, his magic is  still greatly weakened over time due to him being a spirit   and being frozen by the ice magic  caused damage to his memoires.

It's then revealed that   a single person was able to  freeze both him and the entire village of Giants. The man who  froze the  village  seemed to mistook Altas Flame for a demonic spirit and  froze the entire village to  eradicate him. It's revealed that the man is  now  revealed  to be  a Demon Slayer,  a mage   that specializes within slaying demons.

Now this is quite an interesting  twist. Some people have complained a bit about the chapter now throwing in Demon Slayers into the mix of Dragon Slayers and God Slayers but i personally see no problem with this, if anything  just thinking further into the whole chaos 400 years ago with the creation of Dragon Slayer Magic  designed to fight Dragons who were a big  problem at the time and demons were also  problems  like Lullaby and Derioa, this actually makes the most sense to develop a way to counter them directly.

Demon Slayers aren't  really far fetched at all, if anything it's actually starting to piece together all the puzzle pieces surrounding the mystery of the events within  the past and  we're getting closer to  knowing  what brought the origins of both Ancologica and Zeref.I fail to see how this is implausible when you  think about it carefully. God Slayers  still seem silly given there's no  gods within Fairy Tail to the best of our knowledge and  for all we know, it might as well be called " Anti Dragon Slayer Magic" given it's only use so  far is seemingly countering and potentially killing Dragon Slayers. Demon SLayers designed to kill demons that are proven to not only exist but be a serious problem also seems reasonable.

Anyways, Flare  begs for the  Eternal Flame to    restore the village  back to it's  original state with the village  still being  frozen solid. Atlas Flame now  regaining his memories back  then  uses his magic power  to melt the ice  surrounding the village  but before he  does that, he  reveals more into the past  with Acnologia, Ingeel and Zeref.

It's revealed that  Zeref at some point created a terrifying magic spell called E.N.D., a  spell that's  stands out within the book of Zeef as the most vile magic ever created. Yeah, it sounds pretty bad when you have it abbreviated as  E.N.D. and when you consider that Zeref revealed that he intends to destroy humanity. It's revealed that Ingeel  attempted to  destroy E.N.D however  he  failed to  do so , therefore this magic still exist somewhere.

Now let's go over for what  we learned so far from the past. 400 years ago, there was basically the apocalypse where humanity was nearly wiped out between the Dragon Wars and the demon invasions linked to the Gate of Hades, Zeref at some point was likely  defeated by Ingeel  however was not killed and E.N.D,whatever it was  probably still exists because Zeref is still alive. Acnologia also somehow survived and went into hiding for 400 years and 7 years before the start of the series, the dragons disappear. Could it be that Laya Heartfilia  also knew about E.N.D.  and possibly seeked to destroy it  but it backfired greatly ?

Anyways the village is revealed to be  restored thanks to the power of  the Eternal Flame  which is  good  because that means all the Giants  survived the  attack on their village. The bad news is that we're denied our Girl on Girl action and  even more disappointingly, Erza isn't going commando either and neither is Minerva. Minerva after seeing  the odds against her between  Team Natsu, Erza and the Giants makes a smart move and retreats from the village promising to  settle things with Erza sometime in the future. Erza responds with telling that that she still has good within her heart with Minerva ignoring her as usual.

It's later revealed that Atlas flame's memories  disappeared due to the lack of magic power within him   and the village seems to be  restored back to it's  former glory. Anyways Natsu and the team contemplate what was said to them and like the readers of the series, wonder what is E.N.D and how can it be stopped.

The chapter ends  with  what appears to be the reveal of the man who caused all the problems within the  Sun Village  is  now  residing within a  grave  somewhere in the frozen continent where Gray is said to be from  shows a middle aged man paying his respects to the dead on a certain grave. It's revealed that the man    who froze the  village is named  Silver and  strongly  resembles an older Gray, which makes him either  Ur's  former lover or husband and  raises more questions regarding the history of this guy.

This man is also revealed to be one of the 9 Kyuukimon to be summoned by the Taratos Guild, the last  branch of the Baram Alliance which are a  group of  dark guilds out to  use dark magic and bring back Zeref and have connections to the Gate of Hades, which seems to contradict the idea of him being a Demon Slayer or Exorcist. Either  this guy  is a liar  about him being an exorcist  or  he has his  own hidden goal.

Overall this was a  satisfying chapter   that  adds more mystery behind Zeref, Tartaros and   the Sun Village, one thing that  kinda disappoints me is that we didn't get to see Erza and Minerva go at it with each other  but overall  it has me  tuning in to more next week.

Overall: A