"President Hades, is that right?" Chen Fan approached the crowd and greeted Hades with a smile.
Hades smiled and said, "I never expected the Daimyo 'Hand of God' to be so young. Makarov truly has a worthy successor. Fairy Tail will surely go even further under your leadership."
"Although this is my first time meeting President Hades, I feel a sense of familiarity. It seems we were destined to meet in our past lives! Haha," Chen Fan said with a smile.
"Yes! I felt a sense of familiarity when I first saw you! Haha."
Everyone else was disgusted by Chen Fan and Hades' hypocrisy. They secretly wished to kill each other, yet they were chatting and laughing together. Indeed, they couldn't compare to them.
"President Hades, I'm quite surprised by your mention of Great Magic World. If that era really comes, what will happen to people like me who aren't mages? What will happen to them? You know, I'm the most selfish person. Whether other people's magic is strong or not is none of my business. I only want myself to be well. If my interests are affected, it will put me in a very difficult position," Chen Fan said shamelessly.
Hades was sweating profusely. Although he had long suspected Chen Fan's abilities, Hades was still quite surprised to hear from Chen Fan that he hadn't been using magic.
"Ah...! Then we should further promote the arrival of this era! If Lord Chen Fan doesn't know magic, with the arrival of the Great Magic Era, you will also be able to use magic," Hades said with a smile.
Chen Fan smiled but remained silent until Hades became extremely nervous. Then Chen Fan spoke up, saying, "This is different from what I heard. I heard that if that era arrives, ninety percent of ordinary people who don't know magic will be unable to adapt to the Great Magic Era and will die!"
Everyone was shocked. If what Chen Fan said was true, then it meant that 90% of the world's population would die. What would be the point of that era then? How utterly depraved would one have to be to do such a thing?
Hades's face darkened;
"Is what Chen Fan said true, Hades?!" Makarov shouted. He had been thinking about the benefits mages received, but he hadn't expected ordinary people to be in such a miserable state. The purpose of their mage guild was to help those who couldn't use magic. In a sense, these ordinary people were their bread and butter. If the Great Magic Era that Hades spoke of were to arrive, these ordinary people would all die, which was something a legitimate guild could not tolerate.
Hades remained silent. Everyone in Fairy Tail knew that Chen Fan was right; all the ordinary people would die. It was a massacre, no, even a massacre wouldn't be this cruel. Ninety percent of humanity—what a massive number! What difference was there between that and the destruction of the world? Everyone in the world was a mage; if you killed all the non-mages, you could actually achieve that kind of spectacle.
Everyone assumed a fighting stance; they wouldn't allow that to happen.
At this moment, Natsu, Lucy, Kana, Mira, Erza, and Lisanna also arrived. They were startled by Elfman's appearance, and then surprised to see Laxus. They hadn't seen Laxus in a long time, but they had always believed that Laxus would return.
"Is that a dragon? Elfman!" Natsu's eyes lit up as he looked at Elfman's new look. Mira was also startled by her brother; was this really her brother? Lisanna was also happy that her brother had become so powerful.
"Yes! It was Boss Chen Fan who found the Azure Dragon's Dragon Scale for me, and I finally succeeded in receiving them recently," Elfman said.
"So cool!" Natsu kept groping Elfman's body, looking like he really wanted to pull out a piece of it;
"Alright! Stop fooling around! The enemy is right in front of us," said Ailuyan.
Hades was accompanied by several more people: Meredy, Cain Hikaru, and Azuma. Seeing Azuma arrive, Chen Fan felt somewhat relieved. He didn't want this great tree of Fairy Island to fall; anything within the guild that was worth remembering, Chen Fan hoped would be destroyed.
"Are there only a few left? Were they all taken down by others?!" Elfman exclaimed.
Natsu gave a confident smile, Happy flew over and said, "Natsu defeated a guy who uses Black Flame."
Lucy chimed in, "Loke also defeated a Goat Spirit."
"Don't say that, Loke Lucy n't with us anymore," Kana whispered.
"Oh... no...! No one else can take the remaining few from me!" Elfman shouted;
"Where's the other one?" Happy counted and realized there was one person missing.
"I don't know!" Several people shook their heads;
The way the group spoke to Hades and his companions, treating them like prey, infuriated Hades, but Chen Fan's presence alone quelled their anger.
"Hades...! I don't want to know, nor am I willing to know, what you mean by the so-called Great Magic Era, but I think you don't yet realize just how much trouble you've brought us." Chen Fan said calmly to Hades. As Chen Fan spoke, the members of Fairy Tail all stopped joking.
Hades's expression darkened as he said, "What do you mean by that?"