Fairy Tail: The Poor Man's Magic Array Book

In the year X778, Fairy Tail was entering its golden age.

Ryan, raised in the Magnolia orphanage, entered the guild clutching a worn-out magic array book and chose the most obscure and expensive path: inscribing magic arrays.

He took apart patterns, tested variations, and filled a folder with discarded pages. From a novice who couldn't even draw a basic array properly, he gradually improved existing formations and explored how to create his own.

He witnessed Laxus rise to the rank of S-Class, followed Gildarts's silhouette as he entered the city, got caught up in a banquet with fire dragon and ice mages, and even blew up a mission site with Cana.

He may be poor, but the path of magic arrays that belongs to him is one he must pave himself, all the way to the peak of S-Class.