Seth has some amazing empathy to others and at the same time an ego that is firm and strong to his beliefs, this boy is really growing as a person, he conquered me in the rumble town arc and is steadily make this feeling justified.
Those Sorcerer leaders aren't very proficient in the art of war it seems to me, it is basic that if the enemy is holding position there is a reason, and they even have a map spell to see the battlefield real time, i understood that they don't have Ocoho sensibility to Fantasia but they don't even seem to be able to feel a little what is shameful to a bunch that should be the elite of this country.