"Your defeat was inevitable from the very beginning." Watching Midnight's body gradually grow cold, Achill beckoned with one hand, released Konjiki Ashisogi Jizo's Bankai, and returned it to his Requip Space. He raised his head and said calmly, "Because if you wanted to take Nirvana from us, fighting alone without sufficient strength, your only option was to intimidate us into handing it over! But from what I've seen, your only powerful spells were your distortion magic and illusion magic! The best way you could intimidate us was to demonstrate strength far beyond the Ten Wizard Saints—and show that you could take one down instantly! You obviously ruled me out immediately. My fearsome reputation meant you wouldn't dare make me your target. Gerard is also one of the stronger Ten Wizard Saints, so he wasn't a safe choice either! That left Mr. Jura as your only option among the three of us. But even then, you weren't strong enough to subdue him instantly without giving him a chance to resist! Your distortion magic might be powerful, but relying on it to take Mr. Jura down instantly was still too risky. That meant your only choice was to create a false show of intimidation through illusions..."
"But even if Natsu hadn't acted, provoking your greed to intimidate us further and making you use your distortion magic again, which let me find your fatal weakness—" Achill turned toward Erza and shook his head with a soft chuckle. "The fact that your illusion was only half as effective on Erza was enough to ensure your complete defeat. That's why I said you had no excuse for losing..."
There was actually something else he hadn't said. *The reason you didn't use another illusion when Natsu attacked you, recreating what happened with Jura, was probably fear,