What do you see that suggests it’s magic power leaking through portal and not off pure strength? I mean that would have been easy to illustrate. Like all the damage Aldoron caused and that lifting the ocean feat for Merc. Instead we got a pretty straight forward explanation about raw power and getting serious. I’m down to listen more though.
I think that Acno can beat all of them so far because of Hax. I’ve got him as on their level, but believe that they’ve surpassed him because if they haven’t theirs no real danger at all, which is hard to come by in this story as it is.
The only spell Acno casts covered Ishgar. Also the calcs given for Fiore are large enough that vaporizing it is continental at worst. Zeref is a tier above them, and he’s scared shitless of Acno. Which makes sense if the best humans can do is large cont-multi, and an evil world shaking dragon is running around. An it was the nature of the spell that made it suicidal, not the strain lol.
We don't know what caused it. If you saying it's her sheer power instead of portals doing it, For me it makes more sense that her powering up causing climate to act wack is a result of her dimension magic.
Why? Because these two worlds have no connection apart from Selene's portals - They don't even exist in the same realm. To claim it's her sheer power alone, with no attribution to dimension magic, that is causing this seems ridiculous to me.
Merc raising ocean and Aldo causing massive havoc not even comparable to affecting another dimension through sheer power lol.
I honestly think Acno >= them in stats as well. For me, Acno exerted a much more dominant and deadly aura.
Sure, they have shown better DC and AOE. But, I don't hold high DC and AOE in that high regards, sure it's an indication of great power, but not everything. Current Erza is probably small town level in DC and AOE, yet can one shot characters capable of city/island DC and AOE. For me, "attack potency" that was discussed earlier is a better indicator of power.
Surpassing Acno isn't necessary for real danger. Because nobody in x792 even came close to landing a scratch on Acno. Acno still can one shot every non dragon character in 100YQ except DF Natsu and Suzaku, who he can low diff.
Which spell was that, eternal flare? It was continental in AOE, but not DC. It was a million energy blasts sent across the continent.
So yes, the highest pure DC we've ever seen in the series was Ars magica, which was country level, that too by a suicide spell.
You're saying Fiore is continent size? Meh, I know the calc you're referring to. It's based on scaling from some map, and using distance mentioned by Warrod, right? Nothing really inaccurate about the calc itself, but trying to scale from manga drawings is itself a mistake IMO. As far as I'm concerned, Mashima just meant for Fiore to be a regular country, he likely never even thought of all the stuff you think of while doing calcs.
Ok, for this to be theorized then you would need to show me where any portal is currently opening. Actually, the latest chapter helps out the idea of it being her power since it was he who started the issues going on with magic and Elentir is on the verge of exploding as confirmed by the WW.
He was nerfed half of his strength. Do you thing a 50% Acnologia could cause the amount of destruction he did? Absolutely not. Also consider Mercphobia's words confirm it's due to the strength of a "Dragon God."
Sure, doesn't change my original point.
Any Dragon God at full power beats Acnologia high diff max. It's time to let go of old villians. There was once a time when Hades was seen as the ultimate unbeatable villian, yet he was also replaced by someone stronger.
No, by scaling, he is massively above Irene and August who are easily continental level. Mercuphobia and Aldoron already showed continental level feats by one casually flipping over an entire ocean, and Aldoron is pretty self explanatory. In terms of Acnologia? Easy, he was already showing casual country level feats by killing God Serena the way he did. With the RoT power-up and eternal flares? Easily, continental.
How did said person destroy an Island is what matters. Can they do it on their own, or is it a one-time power-up?
What I'm saying is jut a theory based on what we know Selene can do. Explained in more detail in reply to Nova.
We don't know if it's her sheer power, or dimension magic + sheer power doing it. I find the latter more convincing, that's all.
Elentir has always had issues with magic swelling up and all, which was why the order of white priestesses has existed like forever.
Selene just made it go even more wack by opening up portals, and something she's doing is preventing the powers of those responsible for nullifying the excess magic not work. We don't know what exactly. Selene even did it to WW back in Aldo arc, it seems she has the ability to cancel out white out.
As far as I understand, what's happening to Elentir now mainly a result of Selene opening up portals making the swelling of magic worse + her preventing the white out powers from working. Not a result of her sheer power.
My point about Merc was this.
50% of nerf can't be the difference between being dimensional, vs not even affecting another continent (Fiore in Ishgar).
To put this is perspective. Lets say 100 is dimensional. Obviously being dimensional in AOE dwarfs being continental AOE. If 100 is dimensional, 0.1 should be continental, not 50. Maybe you don't agree with the scaling, but I hope the point is clear.
. It boosts his magic attacks, that isn't useless at all. Again, that's not an anti-feat for Acno, that's a great feat for Igneel. That just proves how strong Igneel was in his prime, him being the dragon king and his son being a dragon god further proves that. Also Zeref confirmed that Acno hadn't gone all out when he met up with him before Alvarez, so him fighting Igneel wasn't him trying his best. Acno can spam eternal flare on Aldoron, don't see the problem. And yes, until we get a statement saying the dragon gods knew that Acno powered up massively, we can only scale them to the last version of Acno they've seen. That's not saying they're weak at all btw, since Acno from 400 years ago is still stronger than the entire Alvarez Empire.