Ultear, Erza, and the others also finished contacting the other guilds.
"Lamia Scale, Blue Pegasus, and Sabertooth have all agreed to help."
The reason the Council and the other guilds were willing to help was not because they understood Fairy Heart.
Rather, this was not a war that concerned only one guild.
If the Alvarez Empire could attack Magnolia today, then tomorrow it could attack the Kingdom of Fiore.
After that, it could demand even more. Desire and ambition would only roll bigger and bigger like a snowball.
Take one step back, and every step after that would be a retreat.
Therefore, the Council and the other guilds had to resist.
In addition, the Council was also contacting Mage guilds from the surrounding kingdoms, asking them to help with the defense.
Magnolia ultimately belonged to the Kingdom of Fiore, so no matter what, they had to inform the kingdom.
Even when facing an entire empire, Toma did not show any fear. If a king became timid before the fight even began, then what kind of king was he?
After Kagura and Arcadios reported the situation, Toma immediately made his decision.
All knight orders would move out.
Kagura explained calmly ,"The Kingdom of Fiore will also send the Sakura Knights, Hungry Wolf Knights, and Cross Knights. The knight orders have already set out under Arcadios's command."
The Council and the major guilds joined the long-distance meeting room.
At the suggestion of Precht, the current leader of the Four Gods of Ishgar and acting Council chairman, Raizel would preside over this meeting.
In truth, Fairy Strategist Mavis was more suited to this than Raizel.
Unfortunately, the others could not see her, nor could they hear her voice.
Warrod, Jellal, Ur, and Makarov naturally had no objections.
As for the opinions of the other two Gods of Ishgar, after Precht said that Raizel was stronger than him, they fell silent.
"Next is Magnolia's defensive deployment. The initial idea is to combine Freed's rune defensive formation with Second Master Precht's Amaterasu defensive magic circle, then add the support of the Sakura Knights and other forces for defensive assistance. Because of that, the Thunder God Tribe will need to remain in Magnolia."
"Yes!"
The three members of the Thunder God Tribe nodded in response.
At a time like this, Freed would not say anything like, "I refuse to leave Laxus's side."
"You can go write the runes first."
"Yes!"
The three of them nodded and left the meeting room.
Under Freed's influence, Bickslow and Evergreen knew how to write some runes as well, so they could help Freed finish faster.
"In addition, Magnolia needs the Council's newest Magic Convergent Cannon, Uranus. Transfer some over as quickly as possible."
Jellal immediately nodded.
"That is already being arranged. Jupiter cannons as well."
Precht raised a question.
"You mean for me to stay here?"
"After all, their final target is Fairy Heart. I expect there will be a strike force attacking Magnolia directly. I will feel more at ease only if the Second Master stays here."
With Precht's current strength after opening his eye, plus Makarov, and with Precht no longer having the weakness of his heart, he should be able to fight Jacob the Assassin and Wahl the Judge.
At the very least, delaying them would not be a problem.
The ones he probably could not beat were God Serena, who had gone to the western continent, and Larcade.
If things truly became impossible, Raizel's backup plan was simple anyway.
Their side guaranteed not to be the first to use a nuclear weapon—Selene!
"All right."
The moment he heard Fairy Heart, Precht had no more questions.
The west was the most likely direction to encounter the advance forces and main army, because it was the closest route.
Going from the north or south would require taking a huge detour.
As for the east...
Leaving aside who would even go so far out of their way, without August or Irene's help, the Alvarez Empire's army could not directly circle around to the east.
And lastly, the east was Irene and Selene's territory.
In simple terms, whoever came would die.
August had already told Raizel that he would move, but he would not take action.
He might not even appear on the battlefield.
Therefore, they only needed to focus their defenses on three sides.
On the eastern side, they could leave behind some fast scouts who could use telepathy to observe from the eastern plains.
If any troops appeared, they could report back and reinforcements could be sent to intercept.
Raizel already had some thoughts about how to assign everyone.
"The west will be handled by me and Kurnugi, working together with Senior Warrod, the Council army, and the Kingdom of Fiore's knight orders."
"The south will be Jellal, Laxus, Cana, Meredy, and the Dragon Slayer Mages except Natsu. You will meet the enemy between Lamia Scale and Hargeon Port."
"Why except me?!"
Natsu's temper immediately flared.
"You are the secret weapon."
"No problem!"
He sat down very fast after that.
The Dragon Slayer Mages here also included Sting, Rogue, and Cobra.
The young Dragon Slayer Mages would gather together, and in addition to them, Minerva, Orga the Black Lightning God Slayer, and Rufus the Memory-Make Mage would also participate.
"The north will be Gildarts, Ur, Ultear, Mira, Erza, Kagura, Juvia, Elfman, Lyon, and Sherry. You will guard the area near Mount Hakobe. I'll leave that to you."
The north required focused defense because enemies could reach Mount Hakobe through both the Waas Forest and Blue Pegasus's side.
Of course, the north and south would also have Council and Fiore Kingdom troops deployed.
Juvia felt deeply saddened after hearing no mention of Gray's name even at the end.
'Juvia can't be with Gray-sama... Wuuuuu︵⁞=༎ຶ﹏༎ຶ=⁞︵. But Juvia will work hard!'
"The east will be Max, Jet, Droy, Warren... Bring portable communication lacrima with you. Your job is not to intercept. Every two hours, or whenever an emergency occurs, report to those staying in Magnolia!"
Raizel also had the Council and the Kingdom of Fiore send scouts to carry out the same task.
In addition, the remaining three Gods of Ishgar would each appear on the west, north, and south sides.
"Lastly, the members staying behind at the guild: Chelia, Yukino, Reedus, Lisanna, Macao, Wakaba, Kinana..."
There were also some unnamed female waitresses.
Sherria and Yukino were actually fairly strong, but they were still too young.
After considering it, Raizel decided to have them stay at the guild.
The front line would definitely see plenty of blood and death.
Although Lisanna felt somewhat regretful that she could not go to the front line to meet the enemy, she also knew that her current strength was indeed lacking.
After she started working in the tavern, she had admittedly neglected her training somewhat.
"What about me? You're not making me stay behind at the guild, are you?"
Gray panicked when he did not hear his name.
"Don't rush. I'll talk to you last."
In truth, Lucy was also panicking.
She still had not heard her name either.
Raizel's meeting speed was extremely fast.
"That's it. Everyone, you can head to your respective positions. How to arrange the detailed defenses will be up to each group to decide."
"Yes!"
The Council and the major guilds all ended their connections.
The guild members in the meeting room also left one after another.
Raizel called out the remaining names one by one.
"Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Levy. Stay behind."
Levy pointed at herself in surprise.
"Me too?"
Only then did Levy belatedly realize it.
"Oh, right. My name wasn't called just now."
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