User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 359: Fairies vs. Hell, Predictions./@comment-5426822-20131102154732/@comment-7418318-20131102164008

I agree in principle, but I wonder about the timing.

The council won't be reformed THAT quickly, so if it was "just" that, wouldn't it be wiser to first take out the Wizard Saints and only then make the move on any potential new councilers?

But they made the move on them immediately after taking down the council, so they must be some very imminent threat, not just a mid or longterm target.

Come to think of it... could they be attacking former council members to lure their strongest opponents into an ambush? Kill a few ex-council members, but leave others alive for now under the pretense of not being able to make a move at all of them at once. But what they really did was setting up traps around the location of the other ex-councilers for the mages who will come to "save them", which will most likely be the strongest and best the legal guilds have or maybe the Wizard Saints themselves.