User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 522 & 523: Gray's Trump Card & Is Destiny Burning, Review/@comment-31.132.65.54-20170218162605/@comment-25111584-20170222200509

Ultear can create many crystal balls from one crystal ball. She can control the motion of those crystals. Voila, magic carpet complete. It isn't rocket science... well, you know what I mean. >.>

She can reach the Eclipse Gate in next to no time with her MC. All the Dragons are busy. May I also point out that Lucy had no problems getting back after being thrown by Zirconis? Despite actually running about through the Hatchling-infested streets? And all of the points you brought up are wild speculation. They could happen or they could not. Why should she assume one or the other? There is nothing against trying it as, in case it failed, she could always use Last Ages to revert time. Not to mention Last Ages was itself a failure...

Gray tried to kill Natsu in a fit of vengeance. The exact thing that caused Ur to lose her life. And Natsu was innocent. Attempt on innocent life due to regression to a past self that Gray loathes? Check. Not saying that Gray's past self is as bad as Ultear's, but the emotional turmoil is the same.

What Gray knows is Mavis' past with Zeref and that he is not always in a mood to kill. What he knows is that Natsu returned with pretty bad injuries. What he knows is that Makarov simply considers August to have more knowledge of Magic rather than actually be stronger than Zeref, who is still considered the strongest. Assuming Zeref to be anything but overwhelmingly powerful and deadly when intent on slaughter would be foolhardy.

The same need for urgency is present in Gray's case. The whole point is that Gray can take out Zeref before anybody engages him. Then there's also Zeref's endgame (which is completely not cooked up at the last minute e_e). It's most probably something which should be nipped in the bud.

Ha, I know. I complained about that when the Chapter came out. Especially with Mest's teleportation, Laxus' Lightning Body and Jellal's Meteor... Gray probably ended up right on the doorstep and decided to have a good gawk at Zeref's heavenly body and attire a breather before making his presence known. I doubt Zeref'd mind. :P

As for the oou-perspective, I meant that I have no major problems with Ultear sacrificing herself. The main problems I have is the way Mashima portrays such sacrifices and fake deaths.