User blog comment:FairyRaven/One-time-only Spells/@comment-904888-20120709005643/@comment-4829046-20120709123647

Very good points but there is an error "and that instead of the withered state Law puts the affected into, it outright kills the target." This is untrue cause Makarov didn't WANT to kill Jose, if he did then the Law would have completely destroyed him. In Reality, the Fairy Law kills every single person that the caster determines as an enemy in that certain range. The first time Makarov cast it, he considered the Shades to be true enemies so they were killed but he didn't consider the Phantom Lord mages as real enemies. He only used it to teach Jose a lesson.