User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 511: The Hell of Starvation, Review/@comment-130.105.140.154-20161124071225/@comment-2214433-20161124152452

We could argue that it wasn't a have-to-sacrifice-myself situation as per Mavis trying to reveal her plan. Mashima made it seem more of a fuck this shit I'm out action tbh...

Furthermore, when you have Irene saying afterwards, that with the remaining Spriggan being fine, nothing really changes, you can put Makarov's sacrifice to the same folder as Sherria losing her magic. Essentially, all it did was removing Makarov, Fairy Law and a random army out of the game so that things could progress in some way towards the 'finale' of the arc. Just a plot device.