Nora and Medea found Eleanor and repeated what they had said before. The blonde Knight immediately became excited.

"Yes, exactly!" When it came to "saving the people," Eleanor's sense of justice exploded, "Someone should go to the Iberian Peninsula and rescue those innocent people from the slaughter of the Undead Spirits!"

"So, should we talk to Aske about this?" Medea seized the opportunity to extend an invitation.

"We should go..." Eleanor was about to set off, then suddenly hesitated.

Medea: ?

"Wait." Eleanor waved her hand, speaking earnestly, "I think we shouldn't go to Aske."

"Why?" Nora asked with a smile.

"Firstly, Aske definitely has his own considerations," Eleanor stated seriously. "It's not just based on the simple and subjective idea that 'the people on the Iberian Peninsula are suffering and we should save them', but more on 'what we can do' and 'to what extent can we achieve our goals', considering these objective factors."

"Secondly, if we just go there together, it will inevitably make him feel the pressure of 'majority dissent', which in turn, will interfere with his original judgment... so we shouldn't do that."

Ah... Medea was completely speechless. She hadn't expected the usually difficult Nora to be so easy to talk to, and the normally righteous and mindless Eleanor to suddenly seem like a changed person. I was totally unprepared!

But she was also good at improvising and said with a smile:

"But as the Squad Leader, isn't it also his duty to understand the thoughts of his team members?"

"Then we should go to him separately and discuss our own thoughts, instead of going together and putting pressure on him," Eleanor replied.

"And." Noticing Eleanor's firm attitude, Medea was still reluctant and continued to tempt, "What if Aske's current decision is already at a wavering balance point? That is, from an objective perspective, 'we can join the war' and 'we can also not join the war', where the risks and benefits are roughly balanced."

"If we go to him together, he might just go with the flow and agree; but if we go separately, the pressure might not be enough to reach the threshold, and he might lean towards not joining the war to avoid hassle... After all, our Squad Leader is someone who avoids trouble and has always maintained a lazy attitude of 'if you can avoid it, avoid it', hasn't he?"

"In this way, if we don't actively express our own wishes, we might miss the chance to persuade him to save the people of Iberia, and more innocent people will fall under the slaughter of the Undead Spirits..."

She stopped at this point, because the Enchanting Demon, adept at reading expressions, had already noticed that Eleanor was not motivated by her description.

More precisely, Eleanor's eyes still sparkled with compassion, justice, and fervent emotions, yet she didn't allow these selfless and altruistic instincts to easily control her brain as before—she was still seriously trying to think, trying to analyze and solve the problem described by Medea.

"Medea, someone once told me, 'People can have great ideals, but must not aim too high', 'you should start with a simple, small goal, rather than trying to be a savior right away'," Eleanor said somberly.

Medea: ..........

Nora: ..........

The two Mind Mages looked at each other; although they couldn't read Eleanor's mind, they were a hundred percent sure...

This sort of thing must have been said by Aske!

"I of course want to save those innocent people, I want to save them," Eleanor looked at them earnestly, "but I won't, for this reason, rashly push everyone into the battlefield. Because I understand the cruelty of war, I cannot do this."

"So, you are giving up save their lives for the benefit of our team?" Medea asked incredulously, hardly believing that these were words the always just Eleanor would say.

"No." Eleanor answered firmly, "I will, to the best of my ability, try to save their lives, but not at any and all costs."

"Medea, I'm glad you can think this way, but there are too many considerations in war— the overall situation, the comparison of enemy and ally strength, geopolitical situations, diplomatic progress, even detailed troop distribution specifics, and so forth. I plan to first have a comprehensive understanding with the Church Court. After we have a complete plan, then I will talk to Aske about this matter."

Eleanor said confidently, Nora nodding incessantly beside her, while Medea felt unbearably uncomfortable.

She had realized a cruel fact: none of her companions were truly foolish.

Miel was like this, Sigrdrifa was like this, and now Eleanor was too: Even though they initially seemed naïve and easily influenced due to their lack of experience, as they had traveled and encountered more, they had all begun to mature and become difficult to manipulate.

Why do people grow up and become clever? Damn, how troublesome.

Of course, after Medea completed her Bloodline Completion and integrated Medusa's personality, causing her nature to change, she naturally ignored this fact.

"In fact, a battle fought by our small Mercenary Group is different from a war between large-scale armies." Seeing Medea's changing expressions, thinking she was still hesitating, Eleanor continued to patiently persuade, "Medea, simple and direct thinking won't work, we should still consider the problem from the perspective of the entire team…"

You don't say! Medea was so stifled, she could barely nod and smile:

"Hmm, I wasn't thoughtful enough (at this point she almost felt like vomiting blood). Let's go and find Nora's brother, His Excellency the Valian Bishop, and understand the specific situation."

Of course, as a representative of the Church Court, the Valian Bishop would definitely "selectively" provide ample materials, proving the plan "for you to go to Iberia to participate in the war" had high feasibility and minimal risk,

so Medea wasn't worried about any problems arising.

Teleporting away from Fire Island, in the elevator hall on the top floor of Lysine Building, Eleanor suddenly said with a smile:

"It's really quite strange, Medea. I thought you opposed us going to Iberia to participate in the war, especially since Aske had proposed that 'Acceleration Plan', right?"

"The Acceleration Plan can only improve our Level, but it doesn't help with our experience and awareness training," Medea said faintly.

Nora and Eleanor nodded, understanding the subtext—actually, they only understood half of it.

Indeed, the Acceleration Plan only improved understanding and grasp of the Law, which equated to the speed of leveling up, similar to a person's "hard power."

As for the "awareness" and "experience" Aske emphasized in regular training, these corresponded to a person's "soft power," which couldn't be enhanced through the Acceleration Plan.

But the words Medea didn't say were that her support for going to Iberia to confront the Undead Spirits wasn't for such saintly reasons as "saving people."

Rather, it was to slow the team's growth of "hard power" and accelerate the growth of "soft power."

Aske's Level wasn't much ahead of everyone else, which meant there wasn't a significant disparity in hard power. However, Miel had said "it's almost impossible to prevent Aske from leaving this world in future events."

That is, the disparity in soft power was too great.

Thinking further ahead, if hard power grew too quickly, allowing the girls to collectively reach the Demigod Rank prematurely, it would only allow Aske to take the team to find the Bronze Dragon sooner, thus advancing the timeline for leaving this world.

But the girls' lack of soft power had much less impact on Aske's subsequent plans compared to the lack of hard power, because he could use his own "experience" and "awareness" to make up for the team's deficiencies in this area.

Exploring his technical command strong enough to fill the tactical gaps of the girls.

And once, for the sake of keeping him in this world, Medea had to turn against Aske, the problem of their own insufficient soft power would immediately erupt.

So, decelerating the growth of hard power while accelerating the growth of soft power, in order to close the overall strength gap with Aske, or even surpass him in this aspect, was indeed the most crucial task ahead.

Acceleration Plan… Go to hell! Medea thought furiously.

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