The two sides were hopelessly mismatched, especially considering that the enemy's strongest fighters had yet to act. The Black Knight could see no hope at all.
Of course, this was only to be expected. Otherwise, he and Gandalf would never have chosen to show off their strength in hopes of "fetching a good price."
What the Black Knight and his companions had not expected, however, was just how powerful Isaac and the others were!
They could not withstand even a few third-tier attacks—
The moment surrender became an option, the world suddenly seemed a much brighter place.
Before his surrender, Isaac's strange and powerful abilities had filled the Black Knight with abyssal despair. He could control demons, gods, and even Dimensional Worlds!
All those incredible powers were especially terrifying in his hands!
After surrendering, however, those same powers became strangely reassuring. After all, Isaac was his boss now.
Once the Black Knight pledged his allegiance, things went much more smoothly. All the troops fighting inside the Small World ceased hostilities and focused instead on collecting data on the World Wall, cooperating with Isaac and the others outside the world.
But the surrender of the Black Knight and his companions did not mean everything would end so simply.
On the contrary, the overall difficulty actually increased!
Regardless of a world's size, once life arose within it, the world itself possessed a will of its own. The only difference was how powerful that will was.
The world will arose from all living beings, yet existed independently of them.
It—or perhaps He—would not turn corrupt or evil like those in many fantasy novels Isaac had read in his previous life. The world will itself had no allegiance. Or rather, it would not side with any individual living being. It stood only with all