User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 386: Galaxia Blade, Review and Commentary/@comment-83.255.202.133-20140530164705

Marde Geer is probably not defeated yet. He probably will return to normal later in the arc because it did not seem like he cared much that he was turned to stone. He probably would not be so calm if he was now dead and gone so i think Mashima just removed Marde from the story for a little while so the Fairy Tail members can fight the other demons without him disturbing the matches. I hope that Makarov will go and release Lumen Histoire now that hes back to normal like Hades told them.