Standing proudly in the spacious main hall aboard Grimoire Heart's black airship were its seven strongest members—the legendary Seven Kin of Purgatory!!
"Hahaha! The Great Magic World our guild master has been waiting for is finally almost here!! Just thinking about it makes my whole body boil with excitement!!! Hahahahaha—" Blazing with strange, scorching black flames, Zancrow, one of the Seven Kin of Purgatory, threw his mouth wide open and roared with wild laughter.
"Hey, Zancrow, you're roasting us." Fanning herself, Ultear rolled her eyes at the apparently overexcited Zancrow and complained, "Besides, we haven't secured Zeref yet. Don't forget where he is right now: Wolf Island, the Holy Land of Fairy Tail, the guild that's already risen to become the Kingdom's number-one Mage guild! I hear Fairy Tail's main fighting force is there for their S-Class Promotion Trial, and even Makarov is with them! Getting Zeref probably won't be as easy as we imagine."
"Hahaha! It's just some little Light Guild!! Nothing worth making a fuss over—" Zancrow burst into scornful laughter. "So what if it's the Kingdom's number-one Mage guild?! It's nothing before our mighty Grimoire Heart!! And so what if Makarov, one of the Ten Wizard Saints, is there?! We have our invincible guild master, Hades!! There's absolutely no need to worry, Ultear—"
"That's true..." Although Ultear relaxed a little at his words, a trace of worry lingered in her heart. Zancrow was right. Before Grimoire Heart, the strongest of the three powers in the Balam Alliance—the Dark Realm's greatest force—a mere Fairy Tail really was nothing to worry about. Even if it was currently the strongest guild in the Kingdom's Light Realm, destroying it would hardly be difficult if they truly set their minds to it! Others might think she was overthinking things, worrying that they