The Chosen Hero (Continued)

Perhaps because Sakaigami Todoh had been thoroughly beaten up by Black Rabbit and was full of pent-up anger, he and Miss Hisui Asuka dragged Kasukabe Yao to the library to speak with Jin.

They apparently intended to vent their dissatisfaction with the community by coaxing No Name's future leader into studying advanced mathematics. As a result, only four people had come to the vegetable garden.

Leticia, dressed in a maid uniform with her beautiful blond hair tied up by a specially made ribbon, crouched down and picked up a handful of soil devoid of any trace of life. A hint of sorrow appeared on her pretty face.

"...What a miserable sight. It's hard to believe this used to be the farm district. Now, there's nothing left but stones and gravel."

Black Rabbit beside Leticia lowered her head with a gloomy expression.

For the two of them, who knew how fertile this land had once been, these lifeless fields were a sight too tragic to bear. The golden sea of rice that had once swayed in the wind, the abundant fruit in brilliant colors, the land that had sustained the community's lifeline—all of it was gone.

The scars left by the Demon Lord—the only and most devastating natural disaster to strike the Hako niwa World—were immense. It had not only taken the community's companions and pride, but had even ravaged the land where the community lived beyond recognition.

"My lord, Lady White Night Yaksha, what do you think?"

The vampire who had already sworn allegiance to Li Zihan asked her master and White Night Yaksha, whom he had invited.

"Using time manipulation to cause such a vast stretch of land to destroy itself... What an extraordinary opponent."

Li Zihan frowned as he witnessed an attack by a time-based ability user of