User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 371 - In Which Hiro Should Just Quit Out of Shame (Tartaros Arc: Part 2 - Song of the Heavenly Dragon)/@comment-117598-20140215002129

I guess timers for magic bombs are set to explode only AFTER everyone is at a safe distance. While I don't necessarily care that they all lived. The way they lived bothers me. Apparently there was enough time for Cana to incapacitate Elfman, realize that the bombs are about to explode, deduce that there wasn't enough time to get everyone out to safety, turn the entire guild into cards without resistance of any kind, gather the cards, get the Exceed to gather the cards, and then fly them far enough to survive an explosion that wiped out the entire FT building.