Since they were traveling, it was inconvenient to conduct experiments, so Isaac read mostly theoretical spellbooks while also taking stock of his own combat strength.
Don't be fooled by how he had wiped out several thousand knights in a single stroke on the battlefield. It looked incredibly badass.
But in truth, that had relied on a ritual and was full of lucky factors, making it difficult to replicate.
His own actual strength was fairly ordinary.
With sufficient preparation, he could at most fight one or two Great Knights above his level, and right now, he was a standard fragile mage.
In terms of offense, he had Fireball Arrow for mid- to long-range combat, which was fairly outstanding within the Formal Wizard rank. But his true trump card was the Demonic Beasts created through Flesh Conversion.
For single-target use, he had the three-hearted, two-headed Three-Core Two-Headed Gale Wolf. Its mana was 2.5 times that of an ordinary First Order Gale Demon Wolf, and the casting speed of its Wind Blades had doubled as well.
Most importantly, the presence of two heads had made rapid-fire Wind Blades a reality, vastly improving the Gale Demon Wolf's practical combat capability.
Beyond its mana and spells, the Three-Core Two-Headed Gale Wolf had also fused the Bloodline Factor of a Demonized Wild Boar. Its Physical Strength was extraordinarily high; thick-skinned and tough-fleshed, it could take a beating.
Its overall strength placed it among the upper ranks of First Order Demonic Beasts.
That was his conventional summon. Isaac had also prepared an unconventional one—the Greatsword Ghoul!
A rather special Second Order Demonic Beast, it was born after the corpse of a Great Knight underwent stimulation from certain special mana. It possessed all the combat instincts it had in life, combining humanity's exquisite combat techniques with the powerful