User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 520: Dragon or Demon, Review/@comment-24102956-20170204101737/@comment-7418318-20170204141043

You forgot the Deus Ex Machina that is the Tenrou Tree. Through yet another extremely lucky coincidence he was teleported within the aura of the tree and as we've seen and heard in the S-Class Trial arc, no FT member can die under the protection of the tree.