Even while riding his horse to escape, Thamos felt like he was going mad.

"Why did we fail? We had so many troops! Idiots, I told them from the start to gather and crush them all!"

He still couldn’t understand what had gone wrong. Despite how pathetic they were, he was still the lord of a territory. He had picked up a few things over the years, but he had never seen or heard of magic like that.

"Was there a mage capable of using such spells? Was that even magic?"

Everything was unclear, like a thick fog obscuring the …