Expanding on this, sniping behavior like this can result in the original group dropping the series. Odds are that the sniper isn't very committed and will drop it themselves after a couple chapters, which leaves the series in question completely dead in the water.
Sniping is poison for fan...
That's weird. His golems have spent the entire story being one-shot by basically everything, but now they can tank an enemy on the same level as the summon Akira had to basically die to make last arc? Author, there are limits to how little you can care about powerscaling in a battle manga...
It feels like this was originally a really great, well written story, but then something terrible happened. Like, right before sending the original manuscript to the publishing house, a 6-year-old somehow got ahold of it and replaced the ending 1/3 with some nonsense scribbled in crayon, and...
Akira's managed to find weird mist, soul power, demon gods, weird mythical sphinxes, and all sorts of other McGuffins, but he still hasn't managed to find a spine. Akira Rainford, the summoner who half-asses everything in life, without fail.
Isn't that apostle the dude who had his wife killed so he could take advantage of the girls at the orphanage? I agree with Collin, he would make a way better apostle, and that's saying something.
So, the country whose greatest weakness was disunity thought injecting disunity into their military command, where fast decision making is vital, was a winning idea. These people deserve to be conquered.