User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 516: The Truth About Enchantment, Review/@comment-2214433-20161226235007/@comment-1776824-20161227045128

No, magic has rules, and magic has strengths. You clearly are not reading this series correctly. You must just be looking at the pictures.


 * 1) Jutsu Shiki is a magic of rules. The rules are absolute. It can only be canceled with a particle canceler, or rewritten. So the rules must be altered by someone who knows how. Makarov doesn't know the language Freed used, so he couldn't break out. Enchantment doesn't involve rules. Each magic is different. Enchantment is about latching something onto something else, whether it's to make it stronger, negate something, rearrange something... whatever, really. You just don't understand. Or refuse to. Whichever.
 * 2) Magic is indeed about strength. More magic power means more strength in your attacks. It also means you can learn more advanced magic, or cast magic longer. Irene has quantities of magic power that make normal people quiver in fear, which means yes, magic is quite literally about who is stronger.