As wizards across Crocus are cornered and killed by the dragons, Ultear recalls her forbidden Last Ages spell, which is capable of reversing time at the cost of the user's life. Ultear decides to atone for her lifelong misdeeds by using the spell to avert the dragons' arrival in the present. Although she discovers that only one minute has been reversed and collapses from exhaustion, the spell allows the wizards to foresee and avoid their own deaths, including Gray's. At Mercurius, Lucy reunites with her friends near Eclipse and, using her future self's notebook, she reveals that they can return Future Rogue and the dragons to their respective time periods by destroying Eclipse.