User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 501: Mari and Randi, Review./@comment-24784846-20160912203139/@comment-7418318-20160913073927

The problem is that as things stand right now help for Lucy won't really matter under most circumstances.

What Lucy and potential reinforments really need is a way to overcome Age Seal, either by preventing Dimaria from using it or by being insulated from it. As long as this doesn't happen, it won't matter who's going to help Lucy.

Unless of course someone comes in and lands a surprise hit on Dimaria like Wendy did... and that surprise hit comes with enough force to one-shot her, which would be the absolutely worst way to resolve this matter.

But a little play on thoughts here... Considering all the talk about how Second Origin works it sounded like the magic container is an actual physical organ within the bodies of mages. If that is the case, wouldn't it be possible for Brandish to manipulate the container with her magic?

I doubt Mashima will just make Dimaria unable to use magic at all, but he might have Brandish reduce Mari's magic capacity. Which begs the question on how magic power intensive Age Seal is in the first place and whether the reduced capacity will completely prevent Dimaria from using it, or maybe reduce it's effect from totally stopping time to "only" slow it down.

If it's the former while still leaving Dimaria able to use God Take-Over it might make for an interesting fight. The problem is the logic. One one hand we've seen from Ultear how costly it is to reverse time for the entire planet, so stopping time for the planet should also be quite energy intensive. But then doesn't her Age Seal stemm from her connection with the god of time? So it'd be odd to have the take-over available, but not the Age Seal.

If it' the latter, that time is slowed for everyone except Dimaria, without stopping completely, it could also be an interesting fight since that is powerful but can be beaten, especially with team effort and high-speed abilities.