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If Noah had previously considered sparing Zishi Hengxianyi's life if he surrendered, then now, Noah truly intended to kill him.
Under the Five Wings Society's attacks, over the past year, civilian security officers belonging to Fairy Tail had indeed suffered casualties.
Of course, from what Noah understood, there were more injured than dead.
After all, Fairy Village maintained extremely strict exclusion policies toward outsiders. Only those who sincerely accepted the Cursed Children were permitted to live in Fairy Village. No one else was granted residency rights; at most, they were allowed to enter the country.
Moreover, those permitted to enter had to be people who did not reject the Cursed Children.
To that end, Kisara had adopted Noah's former system for testing Promoters, using it to select Promoters who could partner with the Cursed Children in Fairy Village to form civilian security teams, while excluding those with ulterior motives or those merely pretending to accept the Cursed Children.
Because of this, Fairy Village had remained so peaceful and had never been infiltrated by the Five Wings Society.
Since that was the case, even if the Five Wings Society wanted to target Fairy Tail's civilian security officers, they could only do so abroad.
And civilian security officers capable of carrying out missions overseas had to be at least A-rank.
All civilian security officers of that rank were elites within the top thousand of the IP Ranking.
Therefore, even with the Five Wings Society targeting them, killing elites of that level was not so easy.
Yet over the course of an entire year of attacks, several pairs of civilian security officers had still died at the hands of the Five Wings Society, while the rest had all returned to Fairy