"I found it. There's an extremist faction within the Lainer Kingdom called the Tiniara Restoration Army. They hate colonial rule, appeasement, and the royal family currently ruling the Lainer Kingdom.
"The current royal family is actually a puppet regime installed by the Corlens Family to administer their colonial rule. They're distant relatives of the previous dynasty...
"With the Lainer Kingdom's own level of magic, they should never have been able to threaten us. But somehow, those people have allied themselves with evil dragons..."
Inside the Lainer Kingdom Hall, Skord posted questions in several communities he frequented and looked through a considerable amount of public information.
Roland watched beside him, finally figuring out who their potential enemies were.
It all seemed terribly complicated, but once he confirmed that he had only been caught up in it by accident, he finally felt relieved.
"Anyway, Roland, you did really well today. You were pretty heroic."
After getting to the bottom of things, Skord turned back to him and offered his sincere praise.
"Casting spells in combat isn't easy. Plenty of spells you can normally use with ease might fail in an actual fight because you're nervous. Or the caster might lose all composure and reason and start flinging spells around at random.
"The academy never teaches this sort of thing, and it isn't easy to teach, either. Everyone has to figure it out for themselves."
"It wasn't much. I just overwhelmed my opponent with a bigger spell allotment and better equipment."
Roland had a clear understanding of his own abilities.
"But Arcanists like us don't have the time or energy to hone our combat skills, so that really is our only option."
"By the way, how did you use Wish back then? The incantation you recited sounded incredibly short, and the wish you