"To drag an Angel of the Heaven of Heavens, capable of destroying the universe with a thought, into a stalemate like this, the price I paid was negligible from any perspective."
Roland spoke in an even tone, neither hurried nor slow.
"But as far as my ultimate goal goes, all I've done is avoid losing."
Although the Black Serpent was trapped outside the world, from another perspective, wasn't Roland also a prisoner on his throne?
Even Roland, who had declared before the battle that he didn't want to lose, hadn't expected those words to prove prophetic.
The rewards of this battle were considerable. Not only had he preserved the integrity of his native world and completed his own closed loop, he had also devoured countless contract spirits, greatly increasing his capacity.
But all of that could only be realized once he came back to life.
As long as Roland remained in a state where he neither won nor lost, it was nothing more than an empty promise.
Yet the situation was precisely this awkward. Once he left the Golden Throne that amplified his {Principle}, even if he had no intention of coming back to life,
merely planning to heal his injuries or interfere with other worlds would immediately shatter this balance.
The Black Serpent, which had already locked onto him, would never give Roland time to escape.
So Roland, whose life was a candle guttering in the wind, didn't even have time to restore himself. He couldn't leave the Golden Throne by so much as an inch.
This undoubtedly placed an indirect restriction on Roland's greatest current advantage: the travel function that came with the Key of All Spirits.
Although Roland could now travel freely through the Sea of Worlds under his own power, in his present circumstances, the Key