User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 407 - In Which We Put This Series On Ice (In Order to Destroy Me)/@comment-4072803-20141107013321

Why DO the Nine Demon Gates need all magic wiped from the continent? Pardon me if they gave an explanation and I completely forgot, but if their entire goal is to kill Zeref, then it's a humongous amount of overkill to destroy ALL MAGIC in the hopes of (I assume), destroying his.

And besides, does this mean that the STRONGEST DARK GUILD, that we know has some pretty damn deep pockets, CAN'T FIND ANYTHING THAT NULLIFIES A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL'S MAGIC?! Heck, they even have those magic-restraining handcuffs (I think)! We've come up with Red Lacrima! And yet all these demons can think of is destroying all magic?! It's like nuking an anthill (and in Zeref's case, one full of angry red ants).

Unless.... Zeref's tied himself to magic itself...

...Which would actually be a cool twist...

....which probably means Hiro's not gonna do that, huh?