User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 485: Five Days' Worth of Food, Review/@comment-5894890-20160516141832/@comment-28305203-20160518003057

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If they would have won their battles against the spriggan, I wouldn't mind. But in chapter 480, they lose and they got crucified (not with nails but with ropes....) to wooden crosses. If you lose in a war, logically you would have use your full potential against your opponents and not just a few portion of your capacities. The defeat means that they couldn't handle their enemies and needs some times to master some new spells to replicate.

For the perseverance part, yes, members should do their 100% to achieve their tasks but you can't do it if you were injured badly by your opponents (I seriously doubt the spriggan only did minors injuries and tickles their opponents for the sake of letting them live). Injuries such as :

Sting : "Arrows" in his ribcages (Both sides) and yet by miracle, he's able to stand up and breath peacefully without any medical magic intervention... Rogue : "Sharp blade" in his ribcages (Right side). Same thing as Sting. Yukino : "Sharp blade shard" in her right thigh and close to her right armpit. She should have difficulty to move her leg and her arm but no, she walks toward Sting to slap him in the face without any signs of pain...

For the rest, they were too far to notice their own injuries but Sting, Rogue and Yukino's bodies were not merely cut by the blades but rather stabbed by them. A stab wound requires more times to recover than a mere scratch.