With Kroya's help, the situation at the Frontline Base had stabilized. At the very least, there would be no problems before the magic power he supplied and the potions that accelerated the growth of the supporting magic plants ran out.
Unless... some exceptionally powerful mages or cultists arrived, or warriors and knights capable of taking a city single-handedly.
Even if someone capable of threatening the magic plant defenses appeared, however, Mifein would deal with them.
The enemy's intentions were obvious: they wanted to use these expendable insect swarms to drain Mifein's magic power, along with the knights' stamina and lives.
As luck would have it, though, a war of attrition was the last thing Kroya feared.
After extensively farming and expanding throughout the Sea Area, he had ample resources to back him up. He had not even deployed his modified magical beasts, merely sending a portion of his magic plants into battle.
This was nowhere near his true strength.
Even if more unexpected developments arose, he could mobilize additional magic plants to deal with them.
All of this could be considered the necessary cost of training his magic plants and testing tactics for them. As long as he gained experience that helped him improve, it was worthwhile.
Kroya was therefore quite confident. After settling things here, he exchanged a few more words with Mifein, who could finally catch his breath.
Then he focused on matters inside the Yavana Sacred Mine.
Although he had not been controlling it directly just now, his angel form had continued leading everyone forward.
Taking this group through the rock walls was rather difficult, but... they really had found quite a few treasures.
This was, after all, one of the largest mineral deposits on the Semrio Continent, one that had endured centuries of destructive mining without