After completing three days of humanities research classes, we boarded the carriages we had arrived in and headed back to the academy.

This task had been at least two to three times harder than the game’s original difficulty.

I couldn’t help but wonder how the eight members of the hero party would have managed without Ethan and me. No matter how I thought about it, I couldn’t picture them defeating Hankerton and Mel on their own.

‘From what I heard later, the village chief Rombel’s side was at least spared a boss battle.’

The twin bandit bosses Ockam and King …