Ignia was not part of that fight, besides it just looked down for a moment then looks back to the attack, he was still in a fight, not deciding the fight was over and letting his guard down. It does when you talk about that the entire time she search for allies to fight the DG, so how can they match up? It was only that time it showed believing Diabolos could do something. Merc would say otherwise with someone weaker than Athena, DF had power from his allies, not before. It does when Ignia was not fighting as well and showed no hostility in the moment, he did by masquerading his true intentions in his speech. She can react to it just did not because she was done fighting, she reacted to attacks closer to her than that. You don’t have to be allies to call a cease fire. It does when you are a magical being with powers beyond normal. And that is why her guard was down so she did not use magic to enhance her durability. Everyone uses magic to make themselves stronger it is basic Fact, via magic power, she wasn’t slow, just didn’t fight back. Sting was injured, different story and Jiemma was featless at the time. So Haku could blitz Acno and cut him to pieces? And that is something Ignia never showed to do. It does as you said that makes Selene serious, she let him win, that is fact, Suzaku is a fraud, he couldn’t even down Natsu with said attack, and he didn’t have dragon scales. Blowing a hole in not fighting Selene < Making the moon larger. Small Labyrinth feat is smaller than the moon. And Natsu still required his friends help against a half power Merc. Selene tanked his attacks too, no point. Natsu was beating him and then Minerva blocked his attacks. Yeah like braising yourself which is physically protecting yourself. You don’t need hands up, you can take attacks head on if you are ready for them. Magic is part of one’s physical body too, even without using magic, physical attacks still have magic power to them. And yet he still got creamed by them. Selene could take his attacks too, and was not thrown to the floor. off guard only works if you sneak attack them, there is a difference between off guard when one is not fighting verses while fighting right? Laxus was definitely on guard when he saw Natsu running up that pillar, gave him plenty of time, that did not stop him from being hit and felt that attack, same with Gajeel, but it showed that Laxus powered up to continue the fight. You air when magic is based on mind as well. If you are in the middle of a fight you would have to have you body tense so as to avoid letting hits knock you down. Not all the time, only when you are powering up when you actually get serious. In no indication did he make that he was powering up, even then they would have sensed it before hand, so that proves it is still sneak attack. People’s durability can fluctuate based on factors, including mind set, August was brought down by a weaker Spriggans knife attack yet can strongest attacks from Gildarts, no difference here with Selene. Who’s talking about Wendy, we are talking about Irene and how she affects Selene. Irene has more MP than either human Selene or Wendy. You don’t have to be in a fight when magic utilized is affected based on MP difference and that establishes strength, didn’t use any simply because she couldn’t as it would not stop her, just like with Wendy as Irene against Irene as Wendy. Only in Dragon form sure, but like you said, the magic size does not matter by feats, and is shows, Selene did not make the moon bigger as a dragon, nor as a human when she “greeted” Ignia. That would require Selene to be faster, and since she could react to Acno that would be no issue. Only because Irene requested it, maybe, but that only shows that human form isn’t enough for Irene. Wendy was not present. It confounds me how you don’t look at these sort of details when Hiro himself, his editors and other staff makes it clear that power creep is not a think and Irene is still considered one of the strongest. Not mentioning any tweet or what not, that is the author alone, not multiple staff members that support it too. It is simple that Ignia was cheap shotting Selene who was not fighting at that point.
