"If you can move, raise your sword!"

At Buddy's cry, the paladins struggled to get up and ready their blades. Except for the five who fainted from the strong shock, every paladin stood and treated their wounds with divine power. Paladins weren’t called the cockroaches of the battlefield for no reason.

"Wow, great! It's been a while since I've seen such tough guys!”

Doomstone raised his evaluation by two notches.

‘If they can heal, it should be fine to be a little more sincere toward those other than Buddy,’ thought Doomstone.

At that time, Buddy took the lead, raising his sword.

"We are!"

"Strong! Invincible! The best!"

When they shouted boomingly, the strings of divine power were strongly connected among the paladins. It was a secret technique in which paladins rapidly boosted their strength by sharing their divine power. It was an extreme use of divine magic that could not be done unless those involved had absolute trust in one another.

"Oh!"

After becoming connected and amplified, the paladins’ divine power could be compared to a dragon.

"Is it similar to a 100-year-old dragon that became an adult?"

With this much, they could win against an average Crow, but Doomstone was a monster that far exceeded the bounds of an average...