User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 448: Fight the Power! Review and Commentary/@comment-24264679-20150817160616/@comment-24264679-20150817190057

Actually I doubt the other guilds are of that much use even when powered up. Even with seven years on Fairy Tail some mates still paled in comparison to fairy Tail. Lyon stilled couldn't defeat Gray even with seven years on him. Take BP and QP for example they had seven years and are still damn near fodder besides Bacchus who still paled in comparison to Fairy tail. MINERVA during the Torturous arc got an immense power up but was still easily defeated by Ezra. Like I said they aren't important enough to draw and waste time and space on. The people Alvarez are attacking is fairy Tail. I doubt it turns into this extreme war I am pretty sure it will just be the Spriggan 12 with a around 50,000 foot soldiers vs Fairy Tail which doesn't require all the guilds to come in. Fairy Tail is a big guild it doesn't just consist of the members we have seen. Fairy Tail consist of over 40 members. If 4-5 mates were easily handling Orchi fins army of 100,000 monsters and Avatar 2000 army then 40 mates should be able to wreck foot soldiers especially if their strength parallel the strength of those foot soldiers on that island that Fairy Tail easily wrecked and said that they are super weak. Alvarez is a threat because of the Spriggan 12 and Zeref and people like Marin whip is considered a general. As we have seen the foot soldiers aren't that powerful. Thus the other guilds aren't needed and would just take up space and ruin the quality of battles.