"Erza, are you joking? One day? The training hadn't even started yet—how could it already be over...?"
To everyone present, they had all climbed step by step to where they were in the realm of mages.
They clearly understood that the higher one's strength rose, the greater the difficulty became.
For Erza, an S-Class mage, to take another step forward—
Without three to five years, it would be impossible for her to make any major breakthrough.
Even taking a step back, a minor breakthrough would probably require three to five months.
Yet she had completed a three-million guidance course in a single day.
Was this supposed to be over before it had even begun?
"Ahem, Qin Yu, Erza may be a little simple-minded, but we're still practically half a guild. Three million for just one day of lessons—isn't that a bit too shady?"
Makarov could not help coughing dryly.
After witnessing Uchiha Qin Yu's strength, he had not wanted to provoke someone like him too much.
But when Erza's interests were at stake, he still managed to stand firm for once.
Faced with Makarov's question, quite a few people present fell silent.
Their gazes all landed on Erza.
They desperately wanted to know what exactly had happened.
"Hehe, I thought the mages of Fairy Tail were intelligent people. Erza, the Fairy Queen, is even famous far and wide, yet I never expected her to be foolish enough to spend three million on a single day of guidance."
Ultear suddenly laughed in a soft, sinister voice.
"Originally, when Laxus refused to take on the mission against Eisenwald, I thought it would at least fall to the Fairy Queen. It seems I'm truly disappointed this time."
"I'd better entrust this mission to another guild."
After leaving those words behind, Ultear turned to