In X781, Gildarts returned. The members of the guild were more excited than ever, because before setting out on his latest journey, Gildarts had accepted a Ten-Year Quest.
Above S-Class requests lay SS-Class requests, and even harder than those were the Ten-Year Quests—missions that no one had managed to complete in a decade.
Because of this Ten-Year Quest, Makarov hadn't called him back for the S-Class promotional exam the previous year, especially since there were already more than enough examiners.
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