Silver Moon Empire, Silver Lion City.
"What did you say? Zero Wing has already taken Starlight Fortress?" Great Elder Adolf stared blankly at Maka Frey's report before snapping back to his senses. "That's impossible! Didn't your eight thousand people only leave a short while ago? Even if you arrived there and didn't rest for a single moment, there are hundreds of thousands of monsters inside the fortress. How could you possibly have killed them all?"
At that moment, he felt that Maka Frey was simply joking with him.
It had not even been a full day since Maka Frey and the others left. Even excluding travel time, there were hundreds of thousands of monsters inside Starlight Fortress. Even if those monsters were only Lord ranked and the gates of Starlight Fortress stood wide open for the Silver Lion Legion to slaughter them—
The Silver Lion Legion's eight thousand people could not possibly have wiped them out so quickly, much less when there were surely Great Lords and High Lords inside, as well as several Legendary Bosses standing guard. Clearing it within two or three days would already have been a miracle, yet they had taken Starlight Fortress?
They would have done well just to clear the patrolling monsters outside the fortress.
Did they really think he had gone senile?
"Great Elder, it's true." Seeing Adolf's utter disbelief, Maka Frey could not help but smile bitterly. "If you don't believe me, see for yourself. We've already entered Starlight Fortress and begun clearing out the monsters. The entire fortress's magic array is providing us with buff effects."
As soon as Maka Frey finished speaking, he switched the video feed to a first-person perspective.
Immediately, the image showed several thousand members of the Silver Lion Legion frantically clearing elemental monsters inside Starlight Fortress.