I was somewhat expecting it, but the moment we left the forest, I became stifled for breath. The number of monsters present made me wonder if all the monsters in the world were gathered here. Even though we had not been very sneaky, it shouldn’t have caused them all to appear like this. It was almost as if…all the El Patiz in the world were deployed to hunt us.

I had already seen a sky full of monsters, but the number of monsters filling up the plain made it look as if all the floors in the dungeon had broken down and had their monsters released. Even Daisy flinched slightly, and she was someone who commanded an entire undead army.

If we tried to charge through them like we did previously, we would undoubtedly be swallowed up before we could advance even a hundred yards.

I involuntarily asked, “Ren…What are we going to do?”

He said in a voice full of despair, “Crown Prince, you should already know. We can only break through.”

Right, I wasn’t a devil who would abandon the children after coming this far. Plus, even if we retreated to the forest, it wasn’t a place the children could survive in without Ren. The El Patiz couldn’t go in the ocean, so we had to reach that place.

I nodded. “Alright, then let’s fly.”

There was no need to mind the monsters on the ground!

I breathed in and jumped on Lotte’s back with Ren, two beastmen children, and one human girl. The others were riding Daisy’s Flame Drake, Pookie. The monsters on the ground charged at us like an army of ants and roared, but we didn’t care.

“We’re going straight to the ocean!” I shouted.

“Got it.”

Lotte flapped her wings and...