After Red Ponytail declared war on the Clock Tower on behalf of the Thousand Tree Clan, the entire Clock Tower was practically driven mad.
The Noble Faction, represented in particular by the Yuriphis Clan of the Department of Spiritual Evocation, even proclaimed that they would erase the Thousand Tree Clan from the world entirely.
It was no wonder the Noble Faction was so furious. During the previous Holy Grail War, the Thousand Tree Clan had openly opposed the Mage's Association once already. The result could be considered mutual destruction. Since the Thousand Tree Clan had sealed off all information, the Mage's Association had no idea whether the Holy Grail War had succeeded. Of course, in their view, the Thousand Tree Clan had certainly failed.
The Mage's Association had also suffered tremendous losses at the time. Not only had every Magus they sent to the Holy Grail War been wiped out, but they had also been specifically targeted, leaving the Mage's Association looking rather battered and disgraced for a long time afterward.
This had already left the Mage's Association leadership boiling with anger. Yet this time, the Thousand Tree Clan had formally declared war and even denied the tragedy that Magi had believed in for centuries, calling it a lie spread by the Mage's Association leadership to control the magical world!
From the Mage's Association's perspective, the Thousand Tree Clan had completely gone off the rails!!
They had once discussed sending Magi to the Far East to wipe out the Thousand Tree Clan once and for all. However, those people had barely arrived before Heroic Spirits sent them home to get married. This only made the Mage's Association stomp with rage, yet there was nothing they could do.
Lineas, who had watched all of this unfold, could only sigh. What the