User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 506: The Broken Bond, Review/@comment-153.91.194.203-20161017213839/@comment-27281341-20161020185109

I don't think Erza stopping Natsu and Gray barehanded is something so notable. Palms are great for stopping blunt attacks, so it's not like she just stopped it with her face or something. And honestly, as of lately, all evidence point to Erza being way weaker than both Natsu and Gray. She had a very hard time with Ajeel, while Natsu has already beaten 3 Spriggans without much effort from his part and Gray curbstomped Invel and seems to be very close to Natsu, if not his equal. At this point it's fair to say that Natsu, Gray, Laxus and Gildarts and logically Jellal, are stronger than Erza, with all of them besides maybe Jellal, both physically and mentally and by a decent margin.