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Over the past seven years, Fairy Tail had indeed gone through a great deal.
Because Tenrou Island needed to be unfrozen, Mavis had sunk the entire island beneath the sea to prevent anyone from disturbing it or causing further trouble.
A month after Noah and the others had left the guild, Tenrou Island's disappearance was finally discovered.
At the same time, word spread throughout the continent that Tenrou Island had been attacked by Acnoella, the Black Dragon who had destroyed an entire country in the "Apocalypse."
Believing that the guild's core members had been destroyed alongside Tenrou Island by Acnoella, Fairy Tail had once fallen into chaos and despair, ultimately giving rise to all kinds of problems.
For example, once people learned that the core members were gone, fewer and fewer requests were entrusted to Fairy Tail, making it difficult for the guild to stay afloat.
Then there were the remnants of the Dark Guilds and Magic Cults that Fairy Tail had once wiped out. They came knocking and launched attacks more than once.
Faced with all this, the guild's situation worsened by the day, until members began leaving.
By now, aside from the core members who had supposedly perished on Tenrou Island, fewer than ten members remained in the guild.
Fortunately, before heading to Tenrou Island, Noah had had a bad feeling. He had spent all his assets buying a large number of Magic Crystals and handed them over to Macao, Wakaba, and the others for use