User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 542: Instinct, Review/@comment-108.206.44.99-20170704192751/@comment-7418318-20170705182439

The smallfry was probably wiped out by the combination of Fairy Law plus Larcade's magic. If they survived at all, they should be lying around unconscious.

The Spriggan 12 were so soundly beaten that apart from Brandish they shouldn't attract Acnologia. And Brandish by herself is apparently not as "jucy" in the MP department as the Sabertooth elite together.