Tonight was destined to be an unsettled night, for a simple reason. After the day's Grand Magic Games ended, an unidentified, powerful individual attacked the Inn in Crocus where Sabertooth, hailed as Fiore's strongest guild, was staying—
As a result, every member of Sabertooth, including its master, was defeated in an instant—
As the belatedly arriving Kingdom troops maintained order, Sabertooth's members were carried one by one out of the ruined Inn on stretchers, groaning in pain. All of Crocus erupted!
Although not a single member of Sabertooth had died in this terrifying attack, and all of them had merely been injured, someone had actually managed to injure every member of an entire guild hailed as the strongest! No matter how anyone looked at it, just how terrifyingly powerful must that person have been—
Watching those bedraggled figures being carried away to the Royal Capital Hospital for treatment, people began questioning Sabertooth's status as the strongest for the first time.
For some unknown reason, the Kingdom Enforcement Squad soon suppressed all information related to the incident, leaving people unsure of exactly what had happened or who had defeated the entire Sabertooth guild.
But that did nothing to stop people from speculating! They recalled the one or two furious roars that had come from the Inn, along with the terrifying crimson flashes of magic power that had burst through the building and shot into the sky—
Everyone could more or less guess who had done all this! That attack, a straight beam of pure crimson magical light, was unquestionably the signature of a certain great man! They had seen it more than once during these past two days of competition—
They had witnessed that overwhelming magical attack with their own eyes, both from that man's adopted daughter and from the man