User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 356: Tartarus arc - Prologue, Review and Commentary/@comment-7418318-20131018142958/@comment-1359322-20131018145632

They might as well eliminate all the Legal Guilds, killing all the mages, that way the humans won't have a mean to retaliate. Killing the King would just allow the mages to pact together to attack them. Kinda foolish.