User blog comment:GotMilk5101520/How will the Tartarus Arc Part 4 will end?/@comment-7418318-20140708094604/@comment-7418318-20140710222811

@Anon: Yes you are missing one crucial point: Time.

If I remember correctly even going to the next town from Magnolia takes a day and that's just a small port-town with just a single magic shop. Not a place I'd expect a guild to have even a branch, much less their main building. So we can expect 2+ days of travel time under normal circumstances for the closest allied guilds.

If they go at top speed they might be able to be there faster, but they still take at least several hours to get there unless they have some kind of long-distance mass-teleport magic, which we've only seen in Edolas so far.

The only guild who could arrive in time if they only started to mobilize after Magnolia got hit would be Twilight Ogre. Apart from them being too weak to be of help in anything other than mopping up the fodder-types, who would want to see them?

Shagotte on the other hand could have sent out her messengers before the actual event and her Exceed could also speed up the deployment of the guilds by carrying some of their mages to either the Faces or the crashsite of Cube.

Or she might have sent a few Exceed to seek out CS and OS and carry them to Cube's crashsite.