User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 374: Revolution, Review/@comment-5303512-20140307135954/@comment-7418318-20140307172153

Could be.

But I don't really see what Tartarus would have gained from feeding Precht with such lies. Franmalth doesn't strike me as capable of orchastrating such a deception by himself and haivng all of Tartarus involved just so that Fran can get a new soul for his arsenal doesn't sound too realistic to me either.

Hades was certainly obsessed enough with finding the One Magic that I wouldn't put it past him to sell his soul to get closer to the object of his obsession.

Or he might even have believed that Ultear could undo this bargain, once the Great Magic World completed Arc of Time.