User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 527: Emotion, Review/@comment-203.215.121.20-20170316235629/@comment-203.215.121.20-20170317001058

I agree that the fight with Gildarts had to end soon... but not like this. I mean, he could have just left the battlefield to join Zeref or to confront Acnologia after blasting Gildarts and Cana with an unnamed blast or with one of his copied spells.

Come to think of it, those soldiers of Alvarez are pretty loyal to the end. The top bodyguards and generals have been taken out or have quit, but they're still fighting as if they still stand a chance (of course, this isn't even counting the supposed other million troops of the eastern army stationed in Bosco and thus unharmed)