User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 490: Fairy Tail Zerø, Review/@comment-192.206.56.1-20160620152821/@comment-9595671-20160620171407

For Question 2, considering how close the buildings are now, maybe she removed the distance between them all. Zeref did say she was intended to have the war end in it's early stages so it seems likely she bunched everyone around the same area, but not exactly together.