Natsu’s Family Tree Just Got More Complicated. Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest Chapter 177 Review!

In the previous Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest chapter, while the Oracion Seis face their demonic counterparts, Erza finally unmasks her opponent Wed.

Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 177 is titled, “Fairy Flame Invitation”

This chapter has 20 pages.

The chapter begins with Wed’s face finally being revealed and he looks like Ignia but with more prominent horns due to the Dragonization process Ignia started.

Wed stands for Warm Earth Dragon, as in warm but not hot because Wed does not see himself as a real dragon like his father as he was born from him and a human mother.

Erza asks if Ignia is his father and why he wants to become a dragon.

Wed explains that because he is Ignia’s son, he cannot stand becoming human.

However, Erza does not believe this answer due to Wed’s desire to battle her before being turned into a dragon, which Wed confirms but only because now Erza is no match for him, as shown when Wed lunges with his “Extreme Fire Dragon Scale Sword”, pushing Erza off and destroying the street.

Meanwhile, Ignia and Faris continue their confrontation but then Ignia dips as he senses something.

Before Faris could pursue him, a woman, Bestia, appears.

She is the commander of the Fire Dragon God’s guild, Fire and Flame, which is a similar position to Bluenote when he used to be part of Hades’ Grimoire Heart.

Like Wed, she has also Dragonized, with darker horns and sharp nails, and takes Faris away via Teleportation Magic, with Bestia noting that she would cause trouble if she used her magic like this.

While flying off, Natsu sees Ignia in his dragon form, who seems to recognize the strange power emerging.

Wed’s Dragonization Reveals Ignia’s Humanity

This chapter seems to add more nuance to Ignia’s dragon supremacist vision as he sired a child with a human.

Was he seeking companionship and to rebuild the dragon race from scratch?

Or does he, like Selene, want humans to become stronger in his own way, in which case to abandon the weakness of humanity for

Perhaps as a way to spite his father Igneel over his choice to parent Natsu and give him his power?

Wed may feel inadequacy as a human-dragon hybrid but it is interesting how Ignia was even able to create a guild of humans, if not having some form of sincerity over making humans into dragons for their benefit.

After all, dragons that hate humans usually want to eat or kill them rather than use them to make more dragons, who could act as potential rivals.

Yet it seems Ignia would not fit the mold of new generation “evil for evil’s sake” villains like Sukuna from Jujutsu Kaisen and All for One from My Hero Academia.

In the end, Ignia is, well, a Fairy Tail villain and there is always a chance to see his “humanity” through his desire to end it and make way for the return of dragons.

Additionally, Ignia’s plot reminds me of the Dragon War, the final arc of Tokyo Ghoul:re, and it involves a “Dragon” ghoul whose body produces a gas that turns people into ghouls, similar to Ignia’s Dragonization Magic turning humans into dragons.

The goal of the Dragon War was to further deepen Tokyo Ghoul’s themes on the interplay and interdependence between the two species, so Fairy Tail’s Dragon War could serve that role too.

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