User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-24546844-20160606192748/@comment-7418318-20160607072720

Wide area... hmm... it might also be possible that all (or at least a large number) of the Alvarez soldiers were caught in the MBP cloud and are either dead or lying on the ground gasping for air and unable to get up.

Bradman doesn't strike me as someone who'd be particularly bothered with killing his own small-fry subordinates.