Wetland Campaign

Perhaps no one in the entire Expeditionary Force had expected this.

The Toad Ancestor, one of the relatively mysterious Old Kings who rarely appeared in the real world, actually had an incarnation hidden deep within the wetlands, secretly watching this campaign.

If the Toad Ancestor truly descended upon the wetlands in person and clashed head-on with the Expeditionary Force,

the largest battle of the Great Expedition might erupt ahead of schedule, and the number of deaths would be impossible to estimate.

However...

As one of its divine attributes was "endless sloth," the Toad Ancestor did not wish to personally participate in this war.

In a half-asleep, half-awake state,

it could see every detail within the wetlands and dream of some of the outcomes that would result if it personally intervened in this battle.

Reality was simple.

Yet its dreams were exceedingly complicated, so complicated that the Toad Ancestor could not even be bothered to think about them and only wanted to sleep soundly here.

Not to mention how the other Old Kings might react once a large-scale war broke out, among these humans alone were several knights capable of harming it.

Deep within its dreams, scenes of the underworld and hell continually surfaced.

At the same time, the Toad Ancestor vaguely dreamed of Gray Matter, a higher being it somewhat feared and was unwilling to approach...

Since the Toad Ancestor did not wish to interfere, yet required a large number of Human Knights as necessary sacrifices for its perfect molting... there was only one plan.

It would order the Toad Capital lords under its command to launch a surprise attack on the Knight Orders passing through the wetlands.

However, a campaign initiated with a single Medium Deed would be small in scale. Even with a complete victory, the captured knights