User blog comment:Cheapshotfail/Fairy Tail Chapter 326 Thoughts/@comment-117.227.243.39-20130407135755/@comment-7418318-20130407140510

The King has no authority over Etherion, only the mages council has that. Doranbold and Lahar even commented that the King simply owning something like Eclipse is illegal!

And blasting the barely inhabitet Tower of heaven island and the uninhabited Tenrou island is quite a bit different than wiping out Fiores capital city, a whole lot of tourists who came to see the GMG and the vast majority of mages of the country all in one shot.