User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 472: Laxus vs. Wahl, Review/@comment-24784846-20160208231405/@comment-7418318-20160208235743

Just because it uses a word from the real world doesn't mean it has to be the same thing.

I hate to bring up examples from other series, but it shows my argument very good: Just look at Fullmetal Alchemist. What they do is more like magic than actual real-world alchemy and yet they call it just "alchemy" there.

Besides with him being a different species or a construct, it's hard to tell whether he is actually using magic or some other kind of ability to begin with.