On the twenty-first day—the third week since the conflict erupted—the battle between mages in Magnolia finally came to an end.
Although the Magic Council and those guild alliances that fancied themselves righteous had committed nearly ten thousand Rune Knights and assembled more than twenty thousand mages of varying quality, after a week of fierce fighting in the city, they were finally declared utterly defeated when the high-ranking members of the various guilds, along with the Council chairman and councilors, were wiped out to the last man.
The next two weeks were, naturally, taken up by a long and pointless process of negotiations.
At first, it really wasn't easy...
But after Makarov, who played the good cop, and Precht, who played the bad cop, had repeatedly left some of the prisoners to starve and die of thirst in the spell-formed cells; after the tensions between the mage guild alliance and the Council had erupted; and after the Council and the Rune Knights had begun to fracture, with some members being the first to declare unconditional surrender, the negotiations finally became much easier.
The magical agreement signed by both sides was extremely complicated. Besides accommodating the ideas of a certain troublesome little girl, Makarov and Precht had mainly reached agreement on the following key points:
The newly reformed Magic Council would be reorganized, and eighty percent of its councilors would have to be guild masters or vice-guild masters from Fairy Tail or guilds friendly to Fairy Tail.
The Rune Knights would be reorganized. Some officers hostile to Fairy Tail would be dismissed and replaced by members of Fairy Tail or guilds friendly to Fairy Tail.
The Magic Council would return all assets that it had illegally seized from Fairy Tail, including the Nirvana platform, and pay Fairy Tail precisely ten billion J