User blog:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 356: Tartarus Arc Prologue

Boy did Fairy Tail start this  new arc with a bang, literally  as you've all seen regarding the Magic Council's  fate. The chapter  starts with Silver standing outside of of the  location of the Tartaros Guild which is a  medieval castle which begs the  question of  what country are they hiding within ?

The Magic Council now  get back into their main building after they learned that the Government Shutdown ended( Sorry, needed to  add that  joke in ) .They  discuss  about the Fairy Tail guild recent  success within the Grand Magic Games and  the  completion of their mission from Warod Seeken for a bit  while before  they go to the main topic of conversation, the  Tartaros Guild.

They talk about chilling news regarding the dark guild  wiping out  other dark guilds once affiliated  with  that  dark guild within the  last  7 days. Some members think that  Crime Sorcière  is to blame  for the  wiping out of those dark guilds  while others  blame Fairy Tail for  indirectly causing the  dark guilds to fight against each other  however  Doma puts it all together that  the ones who took out the dark guilds were Tartaros themselves who were getting  rid of   weak, useless leads while  gathering the strongest fighters.

However before the Magic Council Senate plans their next course of action, the  Era building is  destroyed in a series of explosions by an unknown attacker. HOLY SHIT! Shit's already getting real and  it's  just 10 pages into the new arc. What's even more  surprising is that some members of the Magic Council were killed by the first explosion, including Lahar,  Mest  i mean Doranbolt's best friend.

Then we see our attacker, a  cat like man   by the name of Jackal  however  he doesn't seem like the  friendly kind of cat as he  reveals his intent to assassinate all 9  members of the magic  council senate  under the leader of the Tartaros Guild. Doranbolt attempts to save Org Roshi from Jackal  but the old man tells him that he needs to live before he's killed.

Boy this is about as much of a dark turn as the King Piccolo Saga within Dragon Ball when Kirin and most of the martial artists were killed  by  Piccolo's  minions in a similar  fashion. Question is why was Era  directly targeted  ? If it's anything like the reason King Piccolo had martial artists killed, it's  a good chance we're  in for some serious dark moments.

Meanwhile at the Fairy Tail Guild, we get a brief  break from the  sudden  dark shift in the plot to  Fairy Tail celebrating the success of their mission with Warod Skeen, unaware of the national  horror that has occurred. Mirajane is is  serving drinks as usual while Elfman threatens to beat down one of the guild members for attempting to make a move on Lisanna while Lisanna calms him down and  Alzack and Bisca bond with  their child.

Erza meanwhile talks to Marakov about her  enlisting within a dark guild showing concern for her which  now posses alot of questions regarding to  what happened to her. It also appears that no one has seen or heard from Jiemmna, Minerva's father  whose  disappeared as well. Erza and Makarov then talk about reporting this all to the Magic Council as well as contacting Sting.

Meanwhile we get to see Juvia again being as  cute as possible. Juvia made some bread for  Gray that has  his face and her face as well  which  naturally  creeps out Gray which Mirajane and Cana  state that Gray doesn't seem interested in her which leads to an  awkward moment with Elfman eating her bread which causes  Juvia to comically overreact.

Anyways we get to more serious parts  with Levy  searching up E.N.D which is said to be a demon that  is  far beyond Deliora or Lullaby and pretty much confirmed to be Zeref's  Strongest Demon. Natsu reaffirms that Igneel failed to  stop E.N.D    but Natsu then  decides to  go  find and bust up Tetartos  despite not even knowing their current location or what kind of power levels they're up against, thank god Natsu's not guildmaster. Lord knows how Fairy Tail would be under his leadership.

However it doesn't  take  long before  news spread across Fiore and  they learned the  dark reality about the state of the world. Meanwhile at the ruins of the large Era building, it's confirmed that all members of the senate, including Lahar  have been killed off  by the attacker known as  Jackal. What would be the next course of action now that the leadership of the magic world is gone ? Meanwhile Doranbolt arrives within prison where Cobra is at to talk with the former Oracion Seis member. Doranbolt demands information from Cobra about the Tartaros Guild  but  Cobra makes the demand to release all 6 members of Oracion Seis by talking to  the higher ups only to learn that they're all dead.

Doranbolt really isn't laying around  here, he even points a  knife toward Cobra's neck and threatens his life if he doesn't tell him information about the Tartaros  Guild. Cobra  refuses to yield from his demand but he does  given Doranbolt  important information about the  dark guild.

Meanwhile at the castle of Tartaros, Kyouka  arrives with her forces  with Silver  waiting there for the other members to appear where we get a revelation that  Silver wasn't anything that  he  seemed to be. He was never human, he was a demon. They mention that Jackal and another member named Tempesta are other on missions before  5 more demons appear.

That's right, all of the people within Tartaros guild are demons. 9 of the strongest demons within Zeref's book. This is bad for the whole world. A demon as strong as Delora was strong enough to force a Saint Wizzard into using a suicide  sealing technique to stop it completely  and these demons are above  Deliora.

Hell just going by Silver freezing an entire village of giants and the eternal flame which was actually Altas Flames, that alone   shows how powerful each member can potentially be. Keep in mind that Silver defeated a Dragon whereas even Saint Wizard and S Class  level mages and even the current Dragon Slayers couldn't beat a single dragon. The world is in serious trouble if all 9  members are this strong.

But even then, it doesn't even compare to the sheer terror of their Gulidmaster who is revealed to be the E.N.D.  So yeah, this guy is  almost as powerful as Ancologica as even Igneel couldn't kill him and keep in mind Igneel and Ancologica are leagues above normal dragons who are shown to level mountains. If E.N.D is as strong as  Acnologia, then the entire world is  in for a threat that they can't hope to handle.

This chapter has definitely set the tone for the new arc, let's hope that Mashima  actually pays off with the hype this time and we don't get another Dragon Festival Arc disappointment.

Overall: A+