Would be incredibly cheap if Laxus wins this. Right after the chapter where Erza took out all 100 monsters and Cana got an ancient guild spell for free again.
If Laxus pulls a Natsu than what would be the point of the whole Lumen thing ? Ivan is coming after it so what will happen if it appears that Laxus is enough to beat the top 5 of Raven Tail. They would form no threat for FT. So I think they will tell Laxus something shocking or make something clear to him. He will lose motivation but he manages to land a punch on Ivan or something which will shock RT.
Depends on something like that if Ivan would ley Laxus win or lose the fight.
That is my main concern with fairy tail, it has no bigger story besides some of the huge plot lines like the dragons and dark guilds/Ivan. If you compare it to One piece, Naruto and even Bleach then those stories have lots of other stuff going on while in FT everything is more or less started and finished within the arc. The lumen histoire, we never heard a word about it. Now very conveniently it was introduced to us in the beginning of this arc.
Ultears ark of time can't be used on living things, but she could enhance the magic power of everyone right before the tournament.
If Hiro doesn't write himself in a corner with those troll chapters like visits to the summon realm then he could've given them 30 days of training, that would be more convincing. We never seen Natsu train a single day in his life. He should be the same guy who had trouble fighting that "Kage" dude at the beginning of the series but now he is eating lacrima, golden flames, god flames, thunder and everything that comes in his path to win every fight he gets into.
I'm a bit done with the thin story line, 4 pages of fan service every chapter and FT winning every fight. There is a difference between a plot twist and an ass pull. The lumen histoire, just like the 13th key btw are an ass pull. It would've been more convincing if it was introduced to us earlier in the story.
Now it was like Oh Gildartz now you're master I've got to tell you this, *walk down the stairs* TADAA!, Gildarts seen it and that was it, and quit the job. It's not the best introduction ever.
So if Laxus "magically" beats every single one of RT then I think I might be done with FT.