User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Chapter 507: Voice/@comment-24102956-20161026151347/@comment-7418318-20161027152157

Juding by how he dealt with Mirajane (or would have, if not for Brandish) he also appears to be less prone to posing and playing around. In other words if the Wizard Saints had been defeated by August, I doubt they would have ever gotten up again.