Their disbelief was not unfounded.
Their mighty empire covered much of Eastern Acherialis, leaving them to be an extraordinarily vast polity with more area than the surface of entire super-planets that developed a hundred thousand years on the Continent of Acherialis.
All their power was summated from resources spreading across a massive amount of territory to sustain their extraordinary energy requirements.
"How can a tiny nation, no more than an indistinguishable dot before our mighty nation, possibly muster enough forces to combat twenty ascendent tekvores led by Argenton himself?"
Normally, the feeds from the aircrafts would have long reached their headquarters, but the absence of satellite coverage over the Lost Continent deprived them of any communication until the aircrafts returned home.
They all gazed at the nineteen tekvores, anticipating an explanation for their loss and the resistance of sole technologically advanced civilization on the Panama Continent.
