User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 439: Albareth Empire, Review./@comment-7070784-20150609041649

At first when i heard the name of the empire I thought it could be related to jellal like well see his back story before becoming a slave, and i really hope this arc will focus less on team natsu and more on the side characters mainly mest, elfman, mira, cana, laxus, crime sorciere and raijinshuu, and if ever makarov will die it will help them grow more and maybe in the end laxus could become like his grandfather becoming a guildmaster and a wizard saint for his contribution against the empire specially since all the former council against it are already dead, i mean laxus already wears a coat in his shoulders why not add a wizard saint logo in the back.

I really hope that the fight will really happen in the west continent like erza and jellal making a rescue mission and turns out laxus and his team are already there collecting infos with freed's interrogation by making lie detector runes, bixlows puppet surveillance etc etc. have team natsu fight the empire's 2nd in command and it's elite group and laxus fights the empire's big bad, elfman, mira, mest, cana and crime sorciere will fight elite generals aside from the usual fodders while creating multiple feats, and lastly i hope if the magic council and other fiore guilds will be included in this arc the council will be diplomatic about it and the guilds will be the first defense of ishgar if ever erza and jellal's team failed. who knows maybe the empire is ruled by a dictator that after the arc ends the people will revolt and have a new leader and will become ishgar's new ally etc etc.