User blog comment:Dispelling Mage/Chapter: A Father's Job (453) - Review/@comment-27001078-20150921003623/@comment-25324252-20150923011052

You are severely underestimating Gildarts. This seems to happen to a lot of characters that aren't in the spotlight often. Gildarts has never shown his full strength. He has never even come close to it, Just the act of releasing some of his magic power was enough to cause Natsu to fall to his knees in realization that he is nowhere even close to Gildarts' level. The only time we have ever seen him even fight though was against Bluenote whom he took out with absolute ease. I don't think Gildarts could solo a Spriggan, but I think he is one of the absolute strongest mages in all of Ishgar and that he rivals the 4 Gods in power most likely.