Hero Finn never underestimated any opponent. That was experience earned over many years. The current Lagia Kingdom was not taken seriously by Orario, but if it had been the Lagia Kingdom of old, Orario would not have acted this way—at the very least, it would not have acted merely to ensure enemy casualties. After all, it was always better for the enemy to die than oneself.
The Lagia Kingdom might seem like a joke of a nation, but it had once been very powerful. Even the elves had suffered deeply at its hands. To this day, the elves still remembered those events and never dealt with the Lagia Kingdom. Likewise, the Crozzos, who had won glorious achievements for the kingdom, were also thoroughly unwelcome among them.
The reason for all this was naturally the magic swords forged by the Crozzos. The Lagia Kingdom had been able to grow so powerful and wage war everywhere largely because of the magic swords forged by the Crozzos. As a clan granted essence blood by the Great Spirit of Fire, the Crozzos possessed an innate advantage in forging magic swords.
It was not as if Orario lacked smiths capable of forging magic swords. Tsubaki could forge them too. But their power was simply incomparable. To put it another way, if magic swords forged by other smiths were handguns or rocket launchers, then the Crozzos' magic swords were rocket launchers and missiles.
That was the advantage of the Great Spirit bloodline. Yet bloodline had made them, and bloodline had ruined them. As time passed, the Great Spirit blood in the Crozzos gradually thinned until they could no longer forge magic swords. Thus, the once-glorious family declined. Then Welf was born. The Great Spirit bloodline he displayed thrilled the Crozzos, who saw it as their chance