Thanks for the mass release. It also kinda reveals a massive pacing problem if it took us this long to get through the MC’s arrival into the farm, do an easy quest no effort quest, and setup the rest of the arc. I really hate manga needlessly deciding they have to split into two parts.
Also seriously can that old party just die off screen? They serve no purpose (not as comic relief or catharsis) and are just annoying wastes of space. Like what does it even matter if they find the MC’s wanted poster? They don’t know where he is currently or have any way of finding out and definitely have no way to bring him back. A lot of the problem with the pacing is just them. They’ve taken up over a chapter to do nothing with uninteresting one note personalities. They are literally cardboard cutouts written only to be hated in the premise, why is any more time being wasted on them?