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@HominiLupus -> But what's the point in bringing up the Alvarez Empire if all that's gonna happen is just rescuing Makarov? And even if they do manage to rescue him, Alvarez won't just forget about FT infiltrating their empire and picking fights with/beating people. They will go after them.

A war is pretty much inevitable at this point.

Levy and Gajeel saying they have 0% chance of winning against the Empire is Hiro trying to hype Alvarez up imo (it's not empty hype ofc but still hype..). Max and the others said they have no chance of winning back in the GMG as well. And we all know how that turned out.