User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 401: Igneel vs. Acnologia, Review and Commentary/@comment-25111584-20140922130957

Stream still hasn't got theirs out ... Oh, well, had to make do with Panda.

This chapter was nice. Still waiting for Acky to speak though. meh, Mard's gonna give Natsu the spanking he needs. XD I wonder what Mard's 'plan' is though. And by 'erase', does he mean to use Face against the dragons? That could be ... fun, but guess that's not how Face works. >.> Now I have a load of questions. >.< And still no Gray. Guess he's planning something ... maybe.

Looks like all the Slayers were reacting to Igneel's emergence after all, Metal and Grand are still a mystery then.

1. So what exactly is Mard's 'plan'? I ... don't think he's actually on Zeref's side. 2. So Igneel tells Natsu not to open the book, but why? I thought Face needed to be activated for E.N.D. to revive. Taking the most specific case, if opening the book by Natsu alone was bad, all Mard had to do was get him to open it when he was their prisoner. So I think Mard's playing something really big here ... 3. Erase the dragons without E.N.D.? I'm pretty sure that'll be Face, it then allows the Mages to keep on fighting ... or they'd all end up like when Azuma uprooted that tree on Tenrou ... And it also gives the Igneel death which I'm hoping for. :D Though Acky might mp survive somehow ...