Mystogan arrives at the cathedral to fight Laxus.

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Lucy fights Bixlow. She summons Saugitaur, but he gets shot down. Loki summons himself and saves her, and they fight together.

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Erza confronts Evergreen. She has the advantage, until Evergeen threatens to smoke all the hostages if she doesn't bow down and give up. Evergreen can't really do that, though. Can she? Seems like she can free the hostages of their spell from a distance, but destroying them from a distance?

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The enemy doesn't play nice. All over town there are rune traps, in which two contestants get locked in. The trap will open once there is only one left. In moments the Fiary Tail members left are more than halved, involuntarily fighting among their own.

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The battle is over, everybody is back, and Natsu is recovering from the side-effects of eating Lacrima. Nothing to worry about though, he's eaten some strange energy elements before, like Laxus lightning when he was smaller. Turns out he might be eating electricity again soon.

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Back in 2007 I posted about ADC Fansubs starting to offer direct downloads as an alternative to torrents. Back then it was a surprising turn of events, because so far torrents had really been the only alternative. Now, the majority of fansub groups offer direct downloads instead of torrents. They do this not only as a service to the users but also often to make money themselves, as many file hosts give a share of revenue to the uploaders for every X amount of downloads they get. It's not a bad turn of events though, direct downloads obviously have many advantages compared to torrents.

It made me think, when did this trend start? Could ADC have been the first fansubbing group to offer direct downloads? If not, who was first? At the time there were already plenty of websites offering large directories of anime downloads, but not the fansub groups themselves, that took much longer. Does anybody out there know the answer? Is there any fansubbing group dating pre-2007 with a history of direct downloads I don't know about? Let the world know. Comment.