Shen Fei had heard rock music before, but this was his first time hearing anything so loud and awful. He had also heard a little about Raven Tail, the assassination guild. Its three members had changed the outcome of a war by assassinating most of one side's officers. That sounded terrifying, but only on the surface. The real reason they had managed it was that very few mages had participated in that war.
In the Fiore Kingdom—or, more accurately, across the Ishgar Continent—most true mages joined Mage Guilds. Very few joined the military, and the armies here consisted mostly of ordinary people. To put it bluntly, the army Raven Tail had faced back then might not even have matched the guards of the Tower of Paradise, not in individual strength, but in equipment.
Jellal had at least equipped his guards with magic weapons, whereas an army might not be able to manage that. Seventy to eighty percent of the Ishgar Continent's mages lived in the Fiore Kingdom, with only the remaining twenty to thirty percent scattered across other countries. One reason no one had dealt with Deliora as he rampaged through so many places was that he had appeared outside the Fiore Kingdom.
The Ishgar Continent differed from the western continent. Although the Fiore Kingdom was its strongest nation, it had not unified Ishgar. Other kingdoms and duchies still existed.
"Come on. Let's find Natsu, Erza, and the others." Seeing Gray, Juvia, and the others staring blankly at the enemy he had frozen, Shen Fei immediately spoke up.
"Right, Erza..." Gray immediately took the lead and ran ahead, prompting Juvia to mutter Erza's name under her breath. She had thought Lucy was her romantic rival, but now it seemed Erza was one too. Naturally, Juvia had no idea that Gray