Chapter 88

Era, magic council meeting room,

"Well then, saint Fiana, please speak of what you found out during your mission." Said Gran Doma as he glanced at Fiana.

The sea god slayer nodded and stood up from her seat, "Around three months ago, the magic council sent me to Pergrande kingdom to 'destroy' a powerful dark guild that already annihilated five towns, killing tens of thousands of people."

Natsu clenched his fist hearing the number of people that died. They were innocent! Some of them might even be childrens and elderly who couldn't defend themselves!

Fiana gave Natsu a reassuring look, which caused him to smile and motioned her to continue.

"Anyway, the dark guild has 12 S-class mages and three Saint class mages, one of them is as strong as a genuine saint. Of course I beat them up pretty easy, however, when I heard what the leader said I immediately decided to head back here to inform you."

She paused, as the atmosphere in the room grew tense, as everyone was staring at her. No one questioned why she didn't use lacrima, after all its common sense that communication lacrima only has limited distance where it could connect to.

Well, unless you decided to pour an Etherion-level magic power just to communicate from one kingdom to another.

"The Endless Abyss was recruiting every known dark guild all over the continent. Right now, just one of their division can destroy a kingdom. I even encountered their 8th division, I didn't fight and quickly fled. Even I wasn't confident on facing them."

Natsu already heard some of it from Ultear so he wasn't that shocked, and Gran Doma already heard it from Fiana's report before the meeting.

Only the others were tensed and shocked. One division can destroy a Kingdom? Even the 5th Saint, who's prowess wouldn't lose to a God of Ishgar, was forced to flee as she wasn't confident on winning.

"Of course after that encounter, I didn't immediately head back, I stayed for awhile to gather some info, and from what I heard, they are planning on waging a war in all of Ishgar."

War against Ishgar?! Everyone was totally startled hearing that. If a war truly broke out, the losses they will suffer will be imaginable!

Natsu furrowed his brows, no matter how hard he thinks, he just couldn't understand why the Endless Abyss want to have a war against an entire continent?

True, Ishgar might not be as strong as Alakitasia where the Alvarez Empire is located, but it isn't weak either! If they are pushed too hard then they might release Etherion and activate 'those' things that the Tartaros are after.

"Do you know why they wanted to do this? I mean, they couldn't be just declaring war to the entire continent for fun right?" Asked Kylla.

Natsu has some theories, but that's it, a theory. However, it is also impossible if he thought about it. Nevertheless, there might a miniscule chance that it might be true.

Fiana, upon hearing Kylla's question, just shook her head. "I don't know, I dared not to stay any longer. I fear that I might get find out if I remained for awhile."

"Tsk! After those damnable titans, Endless Abyss next?! What happened to this continent!?" exclaimed Wolfheim.

"Yeah, our job as a saint was pretty lax back then. All we need to do is attend some sort of monthly meetings and pretty much do what we like...but now...." Julius sighed.

Its true, a saint was pretty lax seven years ago, Natsu can testify to that. After all, gramps only drinks, check out girls, and drink again. They didn't face a situation like they were facing right now! Well, not that Natsu knew of.

"Do you have any idea about their manpower? How many are they? How strong are they? Or is there someone to be wary of?" Asked Hyberion.

Fiana thought for a moment before speaking, "As far as I know there are thirteen divisions, each divisions have more or less three saint class mage and two genuine saint mages, as for the S-class and below, I have no idea. But there should be at least a hundred s-class in each divisions."

Gran Doma furrowed his brows, he might be a scheming and corrupt bastard, but he isn't evil enough to let thousands of innocents die by the hands of the dark guild.

"Damn! Just one division is truly a kingdom level threat." he slammed his fist on the table before setting his eyes on Julius, "Saint Julius is from Pergrande kingdom right? Would it be alright to ask you to gather some intel on the Endless Abyss?"

Julius nodded, "Its fine, our continent is at stake here after all."

"I shall also do the same." Kyoya spoke up, "I have all sorts of connection all over the continent, getting information shouldn't be too hard."

"Thank you saint Hibari." Said Gran Doma.

[Alright! Let's begin the first match of day one! Lucy Heartfilia of Fairy Tail team A versus Flare Corona of Raven Tail!]

[The rules of the match is very simple! If you win you receive 10 points! If you lose then you'll get 0! If its a tie then 5 points each! Fighters please head down to the arena!]

"Go bunnygirl! Show them the result of master's training!" Gajeel cheered, even though he doesn't want to call Natsu that, he can't just call him Natsu or Salamander in public.

The crowd might hate him for disrespecting the 'Hero of Titan War'

"You can do it Licy-san!" Wendy cheered.

"Win Lucy, we can't fall behind from Team B." Said Erza with a smile.

Lucy smiled and faced her friends, "Don't worry guys. Leave it to me, I'll definitely win!"

"Ohhh! Such a manly response from Lucy!" Roared Eflman while looking towards the team A.

"That's to be expected! She's from Fairy Tail after all." Sting laughed while Rogue just grunted but still has a smile on his face.

"Humph! The opponent is Ivan's stupid guild after all! Smash 'em up Lucy!" Makarov roared in anger with Asuka on his shoulders, cheering with a smile.

"Smash! Smash! Haha~!"

Mavis however, just remained silent and glanced at Raven Tail. Yukino noticed this and couldn't help but ask, "What are you thinking about First?"

"I'm just wondering, what is the aim of Raven Tail for participating in this tournament? I mean, why now? And not last year or before that?"

"Well...they're Ivan's after all! They must be here to embarrassing us!" Makarov angrily replied.

"Hmm, it will be nice if it was only something as small as that."

"Fufu~ no matter, we'll stop them once they've done something suspicious." Said Ultear to which Kagura just nodded.

Hearing this, Mavis smiles, "That's right. We're Fairy Tail after all."