"If I were not worried about the guild taking too much damage, I would not have needed to wait until Kabe, Laxus, and the other S Class mages were away before making my move."
As he spoke, Jose rose from his seat.
"Still, you are right."
"There is no need for us to wait any longer."
"All forces, assemble."
"We march for Magnolia at once."
"Yeahhh!!!"
The lackeys below all raised their arms and roared in excitement.
Gajeel also slammed his fists together, his face twisting into a savage grin.
"Master, let me take the vanguard."
"I will be the first one to slaughter my way into Fairy Tail."
The moment he finished speaking, he jumped down from the platform without even waiting for Jose's permission.
He shoved past the surrounding trash and charged straight for the front doors.
Boom!
A sudden explosion rang out.
The two huge steel doors, each several meters tall, were blasted clean off their hinges and sent flying inward.
Caught completely off guard, Gajeel was hit head on by the incoming doors and flattened beneath them like a joke.
He was only a step away from dying on the spot.
The people of Phantom Lord had not even figured out what was happening yet.
Then a whole crowd came storming over the fallen door panels and barged straight into the guild hall.
Someone with sharp eyes spotted the fluttering fairy insignias on their bodies and immediately shouted,
"It is Fairy Tail."
"Fairy Tail came knocking on our door!"
The entire guild exploded into chaos.
Up on the platform, Jose, who had looked perfectly calm just a moment ago, went iron faced the instant he realized the intruders were Fairy Tail.
Only after everyone from the guild had surged inside did Kabe finally walk into the stone built castle with Erza and Ultear.
Standing on the blasted door panel, he swept his eyes across the hall before fixing them on Jose atop the platform.
"Old man, no need for you to come looking for us."
"We came to you ourselves."
Without caring how Jose might react, Kabe flung out one arm and gave the order.
"Fairy Tail, cut loose."
"Let those cowards from Phantom Lord see what we are made of."
"Move aside, watch this!"
Macao charged first.
Magic circles lit up over both of his hands, and purple flames shot out like chains, wrapping around more than ten Phantom mages before they could even react.
Wakaba followed right behind him.
Smoke poured from the pipe in his mouth and condensed into a giant fist, smashing the bound mages flying in a single punch.
The others were no less fierce.
Reedus painted animals onto his own body with his brush, then used magic to send them charging into battle.
Macao's sandstorm counterpart Marcus called forth a whirlwind of sand that blinded the enemy, the storm scraping over them like steel brushes and tearing away strips of skin with horrifying ease.
Laki, Levy, Lisanna, and Elfman moved together as one team.
Laki used Wood Make to scatter enemies apart first, then the Strauss siblings rushed in and crushed them head on.
Levy stayed behind them using Letter Magic to support them and clean up anyone they missed.
But the most dazzling among them were Erza, Mira, Ultear, and Cana.
Erza changed into Heaven's Wheel Armor, swords in both hands, and charged straight into the middle of the crowd, cutting through everything like a storm of blades.
Mira gave up nothing beside her.
The moment Satan Soul came out, she tore through Phantom's people so hard that men and horses alike would have been overturned if there had been any to begin with.
Ultear might have only just joined the guild, but when it came to beating down Phantom Lord, she showed no mercy whatsoever.
With the Ice Make magic inherited from her mother, a casual wave of her hand was enough to freeze large groups of enemy mages into sculptures of ice.
Compared to those three, Cana was a little behind in raw power.
But with Crush magic in hand, she feared almost no magical attack.
Every gesture from her caused large scale destruction.
Watching the elites of his own guild get chopped apart like melons and vegetables by only a few dozen members of Fairy Tail, Jose's already ugly expression darkened further.
Deep violet magic rose around him in heavy waves.
Even Aria and the others nearby felt sick and nauseous from simply standing too close.
"What powerful and evil magic."
"Master is truly angry now."
That thought had only just passed through Sol's mind when Jose issued his order.
"Element Four, move."
"Deal with Fairy Queen, the She-Devil, and the other pests that offend my eyes the most."
"Yes, Master."
The three moved at once.
Aria went for the one who interested him most, Erza.
Sol intercepted the rampaging Mira.
Totomaru chose Ultear, who was using ice magic.
Drawing his katana, he stared at the woman before him, confused, then tilted his head.
"If you use ice, then you are supposed to be Gray Fullbuster, right?"
"Are medical techniques really that advanced now?"
"You look exactly like a woman."
"Ultear: ...?!"