Kingdom of Fiore, Green Vacation Resort.
Wearing nothing but swim trunks, Seiya sat on a lounge chair, watching Lucy, Erza, and Juvia play in the water in their swimsuits. His face wore a peaceful expression.
More than a month had passed since the guild conflict between Fairy Tail and Phantom Lord.
After Phantom Lord had been forcibly disbanded by the Magic Council, many of its former wizards had become homeless.
Because Phantom Lord had never had a particularly good reputation, and because its master, Jose, had now been thrown in prison, Phantom Lord's wizards had become rats crossing the street.
Whether a legitimate wizard guild could prosper depended on factors such as the strength of its wizards, as well as its reputation and renown.
After all, only guilds with good reputations and great strength could receive more jobs.
And only with reliable job sources could a guild offer better benefits and recruit more capable wizards.
Phantom Lord had been disbanded, causing its former members to become rats crossing the street.
Normally, wizards with sufficient strength would never have to worry about finding a good wizard guild.
But the issue was that Phantom Lord's actions this time had been no different from those of certain Dark Guilds. Although some legitimate guilds coveted the talented wizards left behind by Phantom Lord—
—they also worried whether recruiting those wizards would damage their own guilds' reputations, or whether it would offend Fairy Tail.
Ever since Phantom Lord had been disbanded and Seiya had become a new Ten Wizard Saint, Fairy Tail had become the undisputed number one guild in the Kingdom of Fiore.
With two Ten Wizard Saints stationed there, Fairy Tail's prestige and fame had soared to unprecedented heights.
But the more famous Fairy Tail became, the less anyone dared to take in