The war situation was not so positive for me. It was good that the summoned krakens had disrupted the sea blockade line, but it was quickly being resolved by the five elders on the sea. As expected, the elders couldn’t be dealt with using just three krakens. Still, it was worth it just to find out the number of elders waiting at sea. In addition, the magic circles that I had distributed through Milion as insurance had succeeded in activating, but it wasn’t perfect. Certain ones, roughly twenty percent of them, had been torn down, so it seemed like my senior disciples had come. They had done a good job tearing down so many in such a short period of time.

"Still, it seems like it’s still barely within the allowable range."

It seemed the magic circle had only activated properly because I had a bad feeling and had asked Lancelot to investigate. If the magic circles hadn't activated, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything, and I would have been taken back to the village.

"Why are you distracted, Small Chief!?"

"Who’s distracted!?”

I deflected Elder Python’s attack with my Holy Sword.

"Keuk! Uwack!”

I vomited blood. I was almost completely depleted of mana and was pushing myself through it. It seemed that the shock continued to accumulate in my body...