Gildarts' 100-Year Quest

In the end, Crawford did not make things difficult for Natsu and the others, keeping his promise to Eleven and releasing them without charge.

Later, Eleven learned that Natsu and the others seemed to have been released by someone. According to their description, their escape was smooth sailing, and they stormed into the Magic Council with almost no obstacles.

After thinking it over for a long time, Eleven concluded that the only person with a reason to do this was Jellal. Of course, that bastard was definitely not acting out of kindness; he released them because he wanted Natsu and the others to cause trouble in the Magic Council.

This guy is really quick-witted. After hearing that Eleven had gotten involved with Crawford, he immediately started causing trouble for Eleven, ultimately causing Eleven to waste Crawford's favor.

However, looking back now, it's hard to say whether it was good or bad.

After calming down, Eleven carefully reviewed the events of that day and felt that the entire Magic Council seemed to be intentionally avoiding the topic of Jellal and Siegrain's relationship.

This makes sense, after all, the name Siegrain has almost become a symbol of the current generation of rising stars in the Magic Council. If it were revealed at this time that Siegrain had a connection with a criminal, the Magic Council would lose all face.

Furthermore, Siegrain is considered to have impeccable credentials within the Magic Council, being a newcomer personally groomed by the council chairman, thus guaranteeing his legitimacy. This makes it even less likely that the Magic Council will investigate Siegrain.

Seriously, did that councilor really not know Siegrain's true identity? Eleven was highly skeptical.

Although Crawford always seemed to be smiling and used relatively peaceful magic, Eleven always felt a subtle tension throughout his body when he was with him. His intuition told him that this old man didn't seem to be a good person.

Of course, in Eleven's view, apart from Mr. Yajima, there were hardly any good people in the Magic Council, so he didn't pay much attention to the senator's unusual behavior, fearing that he might have mistaken him for an ordinary corrupt official.

Now that I think about it carefully, I feel that this old man might not be so simple. Perhaps... Natsu and the others were also released at the old man's behest, just to dissuade Eleven from asking him to investigate Jellal.

Ugh, so annoying!

The Magic Council felt like a bunch of old sly foxes, spending all their time sitting in their offices scheming and plotting, which made Eleven, who grew up in Fairy Tail, very uncomfortable.

Even if you could read minds, you could only read a person's most superficial thoughts; you couldn't possibly understand what these cunning old foxes were plotting.

Several days had passed since he returned from the Magic Council, and Eleven finally decided to stop thinking about it if he couldn't figure it out. What those guys in the Magic Council wanted to do was none of Eleven's business, as long as Fairy Tail wasn't involved.

As for Jellal, Eleven still intends to take a longer-term view.

He himself didn't actually feel that he had any deep-seated hatred for Jellal; the reason he was targeting Jellal was entirely to avenge Erza.

Although he had been clamoring to beat Jellal up, it didn't solve anything.

Erza's inner conflict lies with the so-called "Tower of Heaven" in her Memories. If the problem with that tower isn't resolved, even beating Jellal to a pulp won't necessarily improve Erza's situation.

However, Erza's Memory also lacked a specific location for that tower, which left Eleven quite troubled, as he felt he didn't know how to get involved even if he wanted to.

Sitting in the attic on the second floor, Eleven's mind was filled with all sorts of random thoughts. He kept blowing bubbles into the juice in his hand, his gaze peering through the gaps in the second-floor railing at the bustling hall on the first floor.

Natsu and Gray were busy challenging Erik, who had just returned, in a 1v1 duel, and then the next second, they were both beaten to a pulp.

Erza and Mira started arguing again for some unknown reason, and they looked quite fierce and intimidating.

The others were also in small groups, either drinking or fighting, just like usual, and there was no indication that they had just experienced a large-scale attack by the Dark Guild.

Laxus and the Thunder God Tribe have gone out to train again. These guys never seem to stay in the guild for long, and I wonder where they go to hang out every day.

Laxus and Makarov had a serious discussion about Laxus beating up his father, Ivan, and concluded that they should just ignore it.

Makarov had no objection to Ivan's arrest by the Magic Council; this way, his son, who had gone astray, needed someone to educate him.

Of course, this had nothing to do with Eleven; he didn't even know who Ivan was, and had never even met him.

The reason Eleven stayed on the second floor instead of joining the commotion wasn't because he wanted to contemplate life, but because he had accidentally discovered that Makarov and Gildarts were secretly having a secret meeting on the second floor.

Eleven initially assumed that the two old lechers were secretly reading pornographic books together, so he eagerly joined them, intending to have a manly exchange with the elderly folks.

However, the two old lechers didn't seem to be reading pornographic books; instead, they were seriously discussing some kind of mission, which greatly disappointed Eleven.

"Hey, do you guys need to be so secretive when discussing a mission? What kind of mission is it anyway?"

Turning his gaze away from the bustling lobby, Eleven took a sip of his juice and looked at Makarov and Gildarts with a bored expression.

He'd been sitting there for ages, but the two of them hadn't paid him any attention, just babbling on and on about things Eleven couldn't understand.

Makarov rolled his eyes at Eleven, noticing the kid was getting impatient. Who gave you permission to eavesdrop? It's a miracle we didn't kick you out, and you're already getting impatient!

"Eleven, this isn't a mission you can handle. Listening to too much won't do you any good. Stop meddling and go play somewhere else!" Makarov waved his hand, rudely shooing him away.

Eleven was taken aback. He had already completed several S-Class Ten-Year Quest, and now Makarov was saying there were missions he wasn't qualified to take on?

Holy crap! Could it be...?

"100-Year Quest?!"

Eleven couldn't help but gasp, looking at Gildarts with a shocked expression.

Seeing Eleven's naive and unsophisticated demeanor, Gildarts felt quite pleased with himself. He immediately adopted a nonchalant attitude, smiling and nodding at Eleven.

Although Gildarts's performance was quite flamboyant, Eleven couldn't care less about that at the moment; he hadn't yet recovered from the shock of Gildarts going on 100-Year Quest.

100-Year Quest! Just as its name suggests, this is a mission that no one has been able to complete for a whole century!

In fact, the history of guilds on the mainland is only about a hundred years.

Only a mission that no one has ever been able to complete since the guild's inception deserves to be called 100-Year Quest, or Impossible Quest!

Unexpectedly, Gildarts is now also taking on this Impossible Quest. Truly, Gildarts is something else!

Eleven opened his mouth, actually wanting to ask Gildarts to take him along, but in the end he held back and didn't say such an unreasonable thing.

After the initial shock, Eleven slumped weakly in his chair, looking at Gildarts and Makarov, and couldn't help but want to laugh. The guild had just been attacked by the Oración Seis, and Magnolia wasn't even fully rebuilt yet, and these two pillars of the guild were already making headlines again.

This is also...

That's absolutely amazing!!