User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 525: Why Did the Emperor Never Love His Child?, Review/@comment-203.215.120.246-20170304151633

What I want to know is how Erza and Wendy are going to survive their encounter with Acnologia... too bad we still have to wait for that

Given what Zeref just did to Larcade (and his overall instability in general), this really makes me wonder how the empire was kept in order and who actually governed the population on behalf of the emperor. I can only wish that Zeref will unleash more of his magic soon.

As for August, as much as it's nice to see him perform martial arts moves and ask cryptic riddles (repeated three times for rhetorical effect, although it could be that Mashima is just lazy rather than being literary), I'm starting to seriously worry that the king of magic won't show that many spells anytime soon (never mind if they're unnamed), that his defeat would be the most ridiculous out of the 12 (because the bigger the hype, the harder the fall), and that the expected loss would not only be delayed but sidelined now that Zeref and Acnologia are in play. Even Madara's demise in Naruto would be more bearable by comparison