User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 418: Challenger, Review./@comment-25111584-20150202144931/@comment-25111584-20150202171956

@Nick: Slow for a 33-pager is what I mean. All the information could have been conveyed in 20 Pages. After reading the Chapter, I wished the end was Natsu stating his future movements to Lucy rather than the two just meeting. And then next Chapter starts of with a new journey.

True about the power thing, but I'd like to see new techniques from Lucy rather than just an increase in Magic Power. Only problem is that her Magic doesn't really allow much scope for creative techniques aside from combining her CS attacks. :c

Her journalist job can help because she can get all the information out there quickly through her sources, which are social contacts rather than employees like the Council would have. So more chance of false rumours, but also a high chance of a random sightings. Would be a pain to parse through all that information, but Lucy seems to have trained at it for a year, so she'd be quite a help in tracking down CrimeS. For tracking down Zeref, I'd put more hopes in CrimeS, Natsu or even Gray, because you'd need high level Magic rather than just a random sighting for finding even a trace of Zeref ... at least that's how I picture it.