User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 448: Fight the Power! Review and Commentary/@comment-24102956-20150817075229

If Fairy Tail goes to war against the Alvarez Empire, it will give the superpower continental nation a good excuse to invade Fiore and the rest of Ishgar's country in the name of retaliation from foreign invaders and self-defense of their borders since Team Not-so-Sneaky Natsu infiltrated the country to retrieve Makarov and engaged the Shield of Spriggan, Azeal the Desert King in an uneven battle before being pulled out by Team Thor-red Laxus by air transport.