User blog comment:Zack Tan/Volume 9 Intermission./@comment-70.160.109.135-20150825014122/@comment-90.21.229.135-20150826181717

Well this idea of an adamantite adventurer being able to handle an army was stated during the preparations for the battle with Eight Fingers in vol 5-6 (between the golden princess and reavan I think) but as I said an army is not necessarily above 1000 soldiers so 800 or 900 is still a (little XD) army.

Moreover, you said that if adamantite adventurer could deal with an army, the Kingdom wouldn't need an army. Actually it was also stated earlier that adventurers were only connected to the Guild and not with the army even if some nobles have "personal troops" like Reavan and his former Orichalcum(?) adventurers, they only deal with monsters normally if I understood well; please correct me if I am wrong.

Furthermore, if Zy'tl Q'ae withstood some blows from the "combined might" of the Floor Guardians, it was only thanks to his "off the chart" health. Additionally the guardians were holding back in order to obey Ainz's order which was for them to show him their teamwork, among other things the Guardians stated that it was weak and that one of them would easely destroy it (but they had to obey Ainz).

Finally, I understand what you mean by "fighting a lot of ants is different than fighting a lot of giants" (XD) but One Greed King for example is even more of a giant. It's difficult to be accurate damn (XD). Let's take Gazef, you said he could at most handle 1000 soldiers (from the Empire I guess since the Kingdom is at war with it). A soldier from the Empire is level 8-11 if I remember well (not sure) so there is a difference of 20 level roughly; so according to me it is not too insane to think that if 10 Dragon Lords of level 80-85 were needed to kill One Eight Greed, then he might have had a level of 90 (max). But I definitely understand that fighting against 10 extremely powerful beings at the same time is different than struggling against 10 squirrels (XD).

Thanks for reading...