User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 358: Magical Barrier Particles, Review./@comment-3424593-20131031171958

since you were late you get the scraps. *copies comment from Gisme's blog*

Laxus didn't actually "win" against Tempesta. Tempesta the immortal said he gave up one of his lives. so hopefully Calamity is maybe 1/10 of Tempesta with 1/10 oh Tempesta's power. That'd be awesome and it would tell us just how powerful the demon gates are.

i'm glad that Tempesta's Magic was explained because, as Evergreen said, it lowers/diminishes the power of Mages, which fits into what Freed said in the last chapter about him not being able to move because of his Magic.

Also, I really like how Mashima made this one event of the Magical Barrier Particles lead to many positive outcomes. First, we can see that Tempesta has a secret weapon he can use any time against an opponent and it makes Mages weaker, making him really powerful. Second, he killed over 100 more people and completely made an entire town into basically a wasteland. Thirdly, Laxus ate it, which means we will see him later on with a Double Dragon Slayer mode, what will the second element be though, we don't know. Fourthly, it made the most powerful team of Fairy Tail (yes, the most powerful team) go incapacitated, which means that somewhere in the middle of the war they will show up like bosses and I will fanboy scream at Bickslow ;).

Also, I love that now Fairy Tail is gonna go to war. This hopefully means that they will not create another alliance team and it will not drag all the legal guilds that appeared in the GMG. Yay.