Lisanna lowered her voice a little:
"A Ten-Year Quest, as the name suggests, is a quest no one has managed to complete in ten years. A 100-Year Quest is an ultimate quest that no one has been able to complete for an entire century!"
"No one has completed it in a hundred years?!" Lucy gasped in shock, her face turning deathly pale. "Wouldn't that make it insanely difficult?"
She rubbed her eyes again and looked at Blanc. "Is he really that strong? Taking on a legendary quest like that... Sure, he's kind of handsome, but he doesn't look anything like a monster-level Wizard."
At that, Lisanna shook her head slightly and gave a mysterious smile:
"Don't let Blanc's harmless appearance fool you. In Fairy Tail, everyone agrees he's one of the two strongest Wizards at the very top."
"The two strongest?"
"Yep. The other one's an older guy who's still out on a job."
"They've never fought each other, so nobody knows which of them is stronger. But there's no doubt that they're both monsters far beyond ordinary Wizards."
Lucy pondered for a moment, sketching out Fairy Tail's power rankings in her mind.
Just then, something changed amid the commotion in the middle of the hall.
"All right, quiet down. Blanc, come over here."
Guild Master Makarov, seated on the counter, finally set down his mug and spoke in a grave voice.
Hearing the Guild Master call him, Blanc walked over with a smile.
"Long time no see, Guild Master. You're still as spry as ever."
Makarov nodded and got straight to the point, his expression serious and concerned:
"How did the job go?"
The moment the job came up, Blanc's smile collapsed, and he spread his hands helplessly:
"Haha... I failed. I wasn't getting anywhere, so I came back."