Getting hit can completely disorientate you. Larcade's magic is constant, but it only impairs their ability to focus slightly. At least, that's the effects we've seen on on Natsu and Sting. It never impaired them to the point where they couldn't form thoughts. Pain isn't the same as drowsiness. It's worse. Natsu was in a worse shape fighting Zero than he was from the effects of Larcade's magic. The same can be applied to being trapped by Zeref's black magic.Taking hits does indeed break bursts of concentration at infinitesimal moments. Larcade's RIP is a steady stream of constant drowsiness, which inherently taxes the mind at completely different level, forcing a part the mind try to fend off the constant drowsiness that probably only getting worse, and another to continue fighting. This is nothing like pain, which while can have its sustained impact on the mind for extremely grievous injuries, I'd argue Natsu's acclimated enough to pain to mentally withstand it in battle without letting it hamper his concentration, so long as the rest of his body doesn't fail him.
I'm just repeating myself at this point. I, like quite a few other people here, don't see Natsu as strong-willed enough to be able maintain sufficient concentration in that sort of situation to induce Dragon Force transformation, let alone maintain it.
Yet Zeref stated that Larcade's magic was suited to match up against Acno. This is an assertion that relates directly to the character at hand, let alone inferring any sort of speculation as to what you may feel about DF Natsu being arguably strong enough to somehow turn off Larcade's hax.
Let's keep in mind that Larcade's Pleasure had an impact on both Zeref and Irene, the former obviously much stronger and the latter very arguably so. Hax magic is hax magic.
Larcade's magic was engineered to take down opponents much stronger than he was, and his magic was shown to be effective on stronger individuals.
Human -> Dragon Force is what's being discussed here. One of the most strenuous transformations in the series that alters your body.
Irene was still able to use attacks against Erza and Wendy, and she wasn't in her dragon form. Zeref would have oneshotted Larcade if they were actually in a fight. Moreover, pleasure wouldn't work on Natsu.
Zeref also thought END's power could kill him. From what we've seen from END's power so far, that's pretty far from being accurate. Zeref overestimated his demons, and the demons overrate themselves. Let me ask you a question. Do you believe Larcade can actually prevent Acnologia from going DF and then oneshotting him? Or Irene.
Also, like I said before. Dragon Force is overkill in terms of attack power. It has the best chance of making Natsu immune to Larcade's magic, but Natsu probably knock Larcade out with demolition done in base mode. Either way, dragon force was never stated to be that mentally taxing. It taxed their users magically and maybe physically if they go all out. However, think back at all the times Natsu used dragon force. How much complex thought did he require?
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