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To the people of Fairy Tail, although Noah had been gone for a month because of a mission, which was admittedly quite a while, it still paled in comparison to Gildarts.
The man publicly acknowledged as Fairy Tail's strongest Mage had already been gone for several whole years.
Whenever he left the guild, they had to count the time until Gildarts returned in years.
There were all sorts of reasons why Gildarts stayed away from the guild for so long every time he left, but the most important one was that he simply wasn't the type who could stay idle. He often wandered through every corner of the continent.
This time, Gildarts had accepted a mission before leaving as well.
It wasn't an ordinary mission, nor was it merely an S-Class Mission that only S-Class Mages could accept.
This needed some explanation.
Above S-Class Missions, there were actually even higher-ranked missions known as SS-Class Missions.
They were dangerous missions that even ordinary S-Class Mages had to carefully consider their own capabilities before taking on.
And above SS-Class Missions, there was another type: the Ten-Year Mission.
These were extraordinarily difficult missions that no Mage had been able to complete for an entire decade, and had therefore practically become legendary.
Before leaving the guild, Gildarts had accepted a mission.
It wasn't an SS-Class Mission, which ranked above an S-Class Mission, nor was it a Ten-Year Mission, which was even more terrifying and had gone uncompleted for a full decade. It was a Hundred-Year Mission, one that stood above even the Ten-Year Mission and had remained uncompleted by anyone for a full hundred years.
A mission that no Mage had