Hundred Year Mission

With Erza successfully advancing to S-Class Mage, this year's S-Class Mage exam also came to an end, and Erza finally took her rightful place on Fairy Tail's second floor.

Her personality was calm and composed. Although she had successfully become an S-Class Mage, she did not become overly arrogant or conceited. She did not begin taking on S-Class quests too early, instead heeding Makarov's reminder and spending most of her time accepting non-S-Class jobs with relatively high rewards.

Only when she felt the need to train herself, and when she had formed a team with her companions, would she take on S-Class quests. The process was naturally fraught with hardship, but she ultimately completed them all.

A year.

In just one short year, Erza had completely established both her reputation as an S-Class Mage outside the guild and her prestige within it. Those within the guild admired her, while those outside it feared her.

It was roughly one year later, on this very day, that an elderly man leaning on a cane hobbled into Fairy Tail's guild hall, struggling to make his way inside one step at a time.

He came to the counter, looked at Makarov with his one eye, then somewhat laboriously pulled a request form from his pocket and handed it to Makarov.

"..."

Makarov's expression grew somewhat grave. He reached out and took the request form. After glancing at it, his eyes widened slightly, and cold sweat seeped onto his forehead.

"Mm... This is..."

The request form bore a distinctive mark.

Hundred Year Mission:

Expedition to Spirit Peak Zonia!

A Hundred Year Mission was a quest that no one had been able to complete in a hundred years. Across the entire magical world, there were very few quests that had gone uncompleted for a century—or rather,