With the last chapter having a notice that the next chapter will be titled "prelude to the final showdown". Does that mean Mashima is wraping up the series?
Considering that war arcs could last years who knows....I think the manga was originally meant to last 250 or 350 chapters so it's already gone over two years more than originally planned.
This chapter reminded me of something that I forgot, I remember when I started reading this, I felt the story was a story being told within a story, ie what we are reading is Lucy's version of what is happening and when ever we get the moments with Lucy writing in her journal, we are getting clued that this is a fairy tale based on real life events as told by Lucy.














