Thank you so much for the support! My new work will begin soon, so please, until then, watch the final curtain draw over our fairies.” The Alvarez Empire story arc has run for about 100 chapters, so this seems like a good stopping point for the entire main Fairy Tail story. The author admitted he started the story arc “without intending for it to be such a long running story in the first place,” but he does believe it gives the “feeling of being the final battle” in the manga series.