"Nelly no longer launches an attack, but switches to defend against Danakus's counterattack throughout the whole process. Mina, who retreated, also joined the battle again and cooperates with Dilly, and tries to attack when the enemy launches a counterattack. This can not only reduce Danakus' attack frequency, but also distract him as much as possible." Pannis drew a position map of the battle back then on the table, and restored the desperate battle a hundred years ago little by little in front of the girls: "I was the one who took over the original mission of Nelly, so I also felt how much pressure Neli had under during the fierce battle. As for Flar, he and Maya were entrusted at the end of the team, and only occasionally launched a long-range attack, and the attack intensity was deliberately weakened, but it just reached the standard that could be judged as an attack, and sometimes even this standard could not be reached."

"It seems you can't help it." Catherine nodded and said, "It's time to open the card. You have been worried over the past few hours that Danacus still has no ability to use it, so you have to endure it until Danacus starts to fight back. You think that if he has other means, he will not wait until he is forced to start counterattacking and refuse to use it. So he thinks that this is his limit, so he will decide to use your last and strongest weapon, Hunting Arrow."

"There is another reason to say so." Panis said with a wry smile: "We have done everything we can and have done our best. Although no one said that, and even Deely did not complain anymore, I know that their tolerance has reached its limit. If they continue to consume this, they will probably lose their staff, so I will make this decision."

"This... doesn't look like you at all." Catherine hesitated for a while, sighed and said, "If it's the reason, it actually means you have given up."

"Ha, you can see it." Panis held his chin and stared at the beating oil lamp flames in the room, with a faint confusion in his voice, and said softly: "Yes, when I made this decision, I knew that in fact, I had failed in this war. I had no more tactical preparations, nor had any trump cards to use. I knew that I had been forced to the dead end, and could only place my only hope on the weak and illusory luck of the enemy. If Danacus had other means to use, or if there was any deviation in our hunting arrows, then everything would develop in the worst direction. Of course, from this form, our war with Danacus had not yet divided the winner and lose. Maybe there was a chance to win, but my war had completely failed."

"The first time you were forced into this situation?" Catherine asked, biting her lip, "The first time facing failure?"

"Yes, the first time I faced a desperate situation." Panis said with a self-deprecating smile: "It may not be appropriate to say that the first time I faced failure. In my previous adventure life, I also encountered many results of mission failures. For example, when we were in the Skies Forest, even if the mission failed, these failures did not hit me, because they were failures in another sense. But this time it was different. This time it was a real failure. Although I still seemed calm on the surface and still conveyed instructions in an orderly manner, I could no longer calm down. I began to blame myself, and I began to doubt whether I had the ability to lead everyone to victory, and even began to doubt that perhaps calling everyone to this world of death is a mistake in itself, and maybe there is a better choice, but I didn't find it."

"Self-doubt is often the beginning of self-denial." Although Freya has never seen Panis's most down-and-out appearance, at least he has heard from him that the Princess, who is mature enough, can fully imagine the pain he has suffered over the years. Only when the collapse of belief and complete self-denial can make a normal person become that way, but the Princess is not clear about how a person like Kyle could fall to the point of collapse of belief. Now, she finally understood that for others, it might be just an inconspicuous little thing, but for Panis, or Kyle back then, it has already brought her to the brink of self-denial.

"Well, I can understand." Catherine nodded and said, "But it is not scary to face desperate situations, and even to face failure is not scary. No one will keep everything going for a lifetime. There will always be times when facing failure. You know, I mean real failure."

"I am different, I am perfect, a perfect person is not allowed to fail. A perfect person should keep everything going smoothly for the rest of his life until the end of the gorgeous curtain call." Panis smiled silently and pointed to his nose and said, "This is what I think, or rather, this is what Kyle thinks, is it ridiculous? Haha, the perfect Kyle, the brave Kyle, the Kyle who will never disappoint his friends is actually just a coward who dares to face failure. Just one failure will make him go to the brink of collapse."

"No, no." Just as Catherine stretched out her hand and held Panis's hand comfortably, Lina suddenly slapped the table and shouted: "There is a problem in your words. You are not without a trump card. You at least have the last trump card."

"Yes, let everything return to the origin, and let all efforts return to nothingness." Panis curled his lips and said, "Let Danakus occupy one of the people's bodies, and then this person harmed himself at the last moment. Indeed, this method has always been there, and no one has forgotten it. However, for me, the tactic of having to sacrifice a teammate to see cannot be called a trump card, unless..."

"Unless that person is yourself, right?" Katherine was so familiar with this idea. This was a standard knight-like thinking. It was obvious that when she was with Nellie for too long, part of the two thoughts had become assimilated with each other.

"Ha, maybe." Panis scratched his head, smiled awkwardly and said, "So..."

"It's still wrong." This time, Vivian interrupted him. The mage girl's eyes became sharp and stared at Pannis's eyes and said: "Your words are hidden. A perfect person may be lost and confused in the face of the first failure, but it is impossible to completely collapse. If she collapses so simply, she cannot be called a perfect person. So, there must be something else."

"Of course." Panis nodded, "Because the story has not been finished yet. I just began to doubt myself at that time, and it was not that I didn't have the opportunity to adjust my mindset. To be precise, I had already started to adjust my mindset and conveyed the tactics to everyone. So, almost at the same time, everyone launched the strongest offensive."
Chapter completed!