User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 503: The Last Sight Seen, Review./@comment-7418318-20160928235211

Since down below the rather interesting topic of how exactly Natsu was able to resist time-stop was swallowed by... other stuff, let's try again in a seperate thread:

Maybe E.N.D. has some kind of Curse power which ignores Magic, something like Erza's Nakagami Armour or whatever it's called. He was able to bypass DiMaria's time stopping. Besides, Zeref needed an Etherious capable of killing him, so said Etherious would need to be able to bypass the immortality. If he has Magic Immunity, Gray wouldn't be able to do jack to Natsu. It is possible Zeref gave him such an OP ability, since Natsu is very dear to Zeref, thus the Killing Curse will certainly be triggered when Natsu gets close to Zeref. Such a situation would require Magic Immunity, otherwise E.N.D. would die before he even gets close to Zeref.

Unless Zeref can bring himself to see Natsu as a mere tool created for his demise, rather than a beloved brother. But i wouldn't take a chance with that if I were Zeref, as emotions tend to fluctuate. First of all we don't know if Natsu really has magic immunity now, but even if he has, it means little. Hiro will find some way to make it work, whether it makes sense or not. :P

ISDM was tailor made to defeat Demons/Devils, so it being able to cut through an otherwise inpenetrable immunity would be right up that alley. Just like Dragons are immune to most forms of magic, except their own and that of Dragon Slayers and very few exceptions (like Last Ages for example). Hey... maybe their immunity to magic was the reason why the Dragons didn't remember the events of the one minute that was reversed. Never thought of that possibility before, but I digress.

It could well be that this immunity/resistence is something that Zeref based off of how Dragon immunity works, but he only developed that right before creating E.N.D. Later someone else (or maybe even Zeref himself) somehow managed to take the lessons from Dragon Slaying Magic and apply it to that new Demonic immunity, thus creating Devil Slaying Magic. Of course it would mean that if anyone other than Zeref came up with it, Zeref must have created some other being with such an immunity after reviving Natsu, since if Natsu always was the sole posessor of this immunity, nobody would have ever learned of it, nor seen a need to counter it.

And even if neither of those is the case, this would hardly be the first time magic works on something that should be immune to it. Just remember the whole Magic Barrier Particles debacle...

As much as it would suck, there is of course also the possibility that Dimaria's guess is correct and that Natsu has become too powerful to be affected by her power.

In theory it's also possible that Ultear once again intervened and shielded Natsu and Dimaria just didn't notice because she was too cowed by Natsu's sudden revival and power-up.

Another possibility is that Natsu's new powers are linked to Ankhseram and that one god's abilities counter another god's abilities.

Or Natsu was tailor made to resist God-powers so that he could counter Ankhseram's curse, which would mean he'd be fully susceptible to any kind of magic or curse (save for flame obviously), unless it's used by a God or someone linked to a God. Dimaria's time-stop powers come from her connection with Chronos after all, so they'd fall under that category.

I think those are the relevant posts, though I didn't go through the entire thing in detail due to it's length and quite frankly annoyance on my part. If I overlooked your comment feel free to post it here again. :)

Now discuss away.