It doesn't look like this fight is going to be as cute as some of Wendy's fights...

I don't know why they consider the Face like some irreversible, ultimate doom. There's no way a bunch of cowards like the magic council would have built something like that without the means of turning it off again. In fact since they were so self-serving cowards, there's probably three different, separate ways to reverse the effect. But I suppose preventing its activation in the first place would save lots of lives, which ought to be important in a series where almost nobody ever dies.

I expect Jellal will still play some kind of a role. I don't see why he would have got as many frames as he did otherwise. I doubt his whole part can be just that of a victim of the council members hunt. When this is all over, he should just go forward and be a founding member of the new council. At least it would have a single intelligent member that way, instead of pure fools.