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As they watched Tenrou Island gradually draw nearer, most of the mages of Grimoire Heart's Purgatory Seven wore feverish expressions in the magic airship's hall.
Led by Hades, everyone here shared the same goal.
—Zeref.
The most vicious and evil Black Wizard in the history of the magical world.
Not only could he be called the progenitor of black magic, but he had also exerted an enormous influence on the modern world.
For example, the race known as demons had been created by Black Wizard Zeref.
For four hundred years, tales of demons endangering humanity had spread across the continent almost without pause, showing just how much harm this race had inflicted upon mankind.
And it was precisely because he had created such a race that Zeref had become the most vicious and most evil Black Wizard.
Yet that was exactly what some madmen sought.
Just as some worshipped demons and some admired bandits, for those who had willingly fallen into darkness, there was no faith or pursuit more fitting than Black Wizard Zeref.
Therefore, to Grimoire Heart's people, Zeref was a godlike existence.
Now that the being they had pursued for so many years was right before them, how could anyone not be excited?
Not even Hades.
"The essence of magic is darkness. It was because I understood this that I became a resident of darkness."
Hades clenched one hand tightly, incomparably dark magic power surging from his body.
"Since the essence of magic is darkness, then as the progenitor of darkness, Zeref is undoubtedly the true leader of the abyss of magic, the existence that holds the