"Hey!"
"Did you hear? I heard that last night, Kagura Mikazuchi, the strongest mage of Mermaid Heel, finally managed to defeat 'Titania' Erza Scarlet!"
"Yeah! I heard that too."
"Except..."
"Can you really call that a defeat?"
"Why not?"
"She brought the chairman and a powerful archer mage with her. The three of them fought together, with magic support from so many mages, and only finally beat 'Titania' on their eightieth attempt—after our people had been harassing her day and night and never letting her rest. I'd say that's a pretty unsporting victory."
"Hahaha!"
"You've got a point. But no matter what, that exhaustion tactic Mermaid Heel came up with really works. We've got the numbers, so we send people to harass the enemy around the clock. Once they can't take it anymore and let their guard down, we send in our main force and hit them hard. It's a brilliant plan."
"It's a good plan, sure, but it takes a lot of people..."
"Yeah!"
"Think about it. Five or six thousand people have been killed and teleported to the prison so far, right? I heard they've had to expand the prison automatically several times."
"More than five or six thousand. At least eight or nine thousand..."
"T-that many?"
"Probably more!"
"..."
"It's already the seventh day. I heard the gatekeeper bosses around the church have all been taken down with the exhaustion tactic. Now all that's left is the dragon guarding the entrance, right?"
"Yeah!"
"Have the commanders up top come up with a way to beat it?"
"Beat it?"
"Ugh... Give it a rest. It can't be beaten. You have no idea how terrifying it is. There's no way we can beat it!"
"Why?"
"Because it's Acnologia—the Dragon King, the Black Wing of the End, the source of