additionally, just a few chapters ago we saw the Elf easily cover a whole bandit camp hill in an earth dome. To prevent them escaping she could just do that again
I swear... MC has no sense of self preservation. He's got the best delvers in the world in the backseat giving him advice and he goes and does stuff so reckless it makes you wonder how he's survived this long
The strange vision of the Hero is intriguing for me... I don't think it was just an illusion or cloaking skill. What if the government or hero's descendents created her with magic in order to avoid making their own child suffer the life of a hero? Then she could be made of magic, and that's why...
Yay! Im excited to see what puppet swords final form will be after devouring the villagers. My guess is itll either be identical to mc as its master or an attractive woman(we all know what this manga is about)