User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 496: Forward, Review./@comment-1776824-20160801144847/@comment-25111584-20160801152345

I realize that Mashima is only interested in specific Shield, but with fewer of them, he'd have to either take them seriously or take the entire army as a whole more seriously. Due to the ratio of strong Fiore Mages to strong Alvarez Mages. He wouldn't have much of a choice. Sure, if Mashima actually bothered to build the Shields properly, 12 would have been child's play for him. But as he's not, having fewer of them would definitely have made things better.