I muttered, “I guess when you’re reinforcing something, you need some material to go along with the reinforcement stone.”

That sounded a bit nonsensical, but it was the perfect way to describe the current situation. The cloud of Pure Black Desire’s fragments covered the magic circle and began to greedily absorb blood.

“What are those!? Did you do something, Hero!?” the Army Commander demanded.

I retorted, “That’s a secret.”

Sorry, but I don’t know what that is either.

From his confused face, I could tell he no longer had the magic circle in his control. I turned to look at the magic circle once again and saw that it was distorting little by little. The black blood that had painted the magic circle began to move towards one place, moving so fast that my eyes could barely keep up.

I asked provokingly, “So? What’s your plan now? It looks like that magic circle isn’t going to activate.”

“…Hmmm.”

He was thinking the exact same thing. The helpless look on his face made him look like a middle-aged man who had just...