Leonard had previously looked into Duke's background. He only knew that Duke was a wizard from Black Sail and held the status of a Level 1 Arcanist.
He had also found that Duke had no particular backing. He was merely a wizard who had clawed his way up from the bottom, which was why Leonard had directly spoken out to stop Duke from entering.
In truth, if Vivian alone had entered, he would not have said a word.
But because he believed his background and influence were greater than Duke's, he had tried to stop Duke.
Yet now, it seemed that Vivian and Duke had an unusual relationship, and Leonard had no way to deal with it.
He was not afraid of a real fight. He was only worried that something might happen to his sister, Ella, which left him restrained.
He believed he could easily defeat the two people before him one against two, because Vivian was only Level 1 Vaporization, while Duke was merely Level 1 Liquefaction, about the same as himself.
Leonard was very confident in his own strength and did not believe that an unorthodox wizard like Duke could defeat him.
This was probably the innate sense of superiority that wizard family descendants held over ordinary wizards. They always subconsciously believed themselves to be stronger.
Seeing the current situation, Leonard said, "Fine, then we'll follow wartime regulations! The mining area is so large. We'll search together, and whoever finds something keeps it. We won't interfere with each other!"
His plan was that since he could not stop them, he would first collect as much of the mined ore inside as possible. His Spatial Ring was large enough, after all.
With so many slave creatures here, they could carry away all the ore that had already been