I'VE WON, BUT AT WHAT COST?

ASPEN'S SHIELD broke.

A demi-god's shield broke– and it was a big deal.

The reason he was an indispensable member of the team despite his "problematic" personality was his ability to protect everyone with his shield.

But he felt useless now.

Captain Ruto's training room VANISHED along with its surroundings.

The captain's training room was in the middle of long-range mountains. But after the explosion, the mountains were flattened to the ground and only huge craters were left everywhere. Fortunately, aside from the trees and the plants, there were no living things there– no animals, beasts, or humans.

[I'm supposed to prevent that from happening, but my shield broke…]

Worse, half of Captain Ruto's domain was destroyed.

As if that wasn't bad enough, Aspen could also see that the explosion had hit a portion of the Upper World.