User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 442: The Law of Space, Review./@comment-1153699-20150629150307/@comment-24546844-20150629175914

I'm not saying that I don't expect a confrontation between Ishgar and Alvarez, as you said, it's inevitable and it's been for a long time. But I don't really expect it to be right now, with just FT involved. It's supposed to be a war between two countries ad I expect Hiro to threat it as such, not Tartarus Arc 2.0 where we only see two non-FT fighting against something that threathens the whole country. A war requires preparation, strategy and coordination and that's not really FT speaciality.

Also, I know that there will be the eventual BS fights like in every other arc on this manga but I don't really expect FT to beat half the continent, rescue Makarov and beat the other half on the leave. That would be lame even for Hiro's messed up powerscale. I know that Hiro tend to overhype things but if they manage to just beat mages on the level of Ishgar gods on their first encounter with no major information about them, just like that would be saying that there are no real threats for the MCs besides Acnologia and Zeref. I don't fully buy the "Natsu is E.N.D. so he is above everything else" excuse that some people been trowing around, at least not before he becomes the full thing.