User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 357: The Nine Demon Gates, Review./@comment-8153438-20131025132332/@comment-7418318-20131025163017

A good excuse if it happens once... but the rune knights only managed to be in the hot-zone a SINGLE TIME throughout the entire story.


 * Phantom Lord? They turned up after the dust had settled to question everyone.
 * Tower of Heaven? Not even dispached. I guess here we can blame Jellal and Ultear,...
 * Nirvana? Came after everything was resolved to take the credit for "capturing" Jellal and the already beaten Oracion Seis members.
 * Edolas: Never showed up. The probably didn't even notice a whole town missing for a week or so.
 * Tenroujima: Oh hey, they were present during the crisis, but to no fault of their own. They just happened to already be there for something different when the bad guy just happened to show up in the same place... and got pretty much wiped out before knowing that there even was a crisis.
 * GMG: Again they actually were there.... but only because the crisis just happened to come to the place they were camped out at... good jub *thumbs up*. But have they made any meaningful contricution to the fight?
 * Village of the Sun: Never even showed up.
 * Tartarus arc: All their guards wiped out and their charges killed to the last.