User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 403: Erza vs. Kyouka, Review./@comment-4933386-20141007101030/@comment-7418318-20141007103225

Also while it's been many chapters, not all that much actual in-story time passed since we saw Makarov.

Just take the fight against Torafusa as an example. If his line about them dying in 5 minutes can be trusted, the entire battle lasted less than that. And the other fights were over quite quickly too, with only comparetively few punches/blasts/whatever being exchanged.