User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Chapter 507: Voice/@comment-5708675-20161025153003/@comment-7418318-20161026184735

Very logical Nc, but as we've learned at length logic and Erza don't mix too well since Tenroujima.

And while it's true that August was unmistakably said to be the strongest of the shields... this is FT we are talking about.

The shields were all supposed to be so far beyond the Ishvan mages that it's impossible for them to be defeated in a one-on-one and yet Wahl was taken down by a more than half-dead Laxus, Neinhart was one-shottet by Jellal (or does it count as seven-shotted? :P ), Bloodman was taken down by a more dead than alive Gajeel, Brandish was taken out by allergies and a single punch... so yeah... power-scales and "supposed to be" mean pretty much nothing in FT these days.