It had been 24 days since the Demon King Alisa declared war.

　The war was at a standstill.

　Demon King Arisa had three regions to control. To be honest, it was difficult to annihilate the entirety of Demon King Arisa's forces during the period of the Declaration of War, given the time schedule.

　Assuming the enemy didn't interfere, it would take Lina's troops three days to capture one of the controlled territories. Many of Chloe's troops had dropped out of the main force, so they couldn't expect the same results as before. The remaining time for the 《Declaration of War》 is six days. No matter how hard they tried, it was impossible to capture the three control areas - all of Demon King Alisa's control areas.

　Before I started the war with Demon King Arisa, I controlled 34, Demon King Arisa controlled 12, but now I control 43, Demon King Arisa controlled 3, if you only look at the results of the war, it wouldn't be wrong to call it a great victory.

　However, I wasn't satisfied with the results of the battle. More to the point, I wanted to annihilate Demon King Arisa's forces during the period of the Declaration of War, no matter what it took.

　There were two reasons.

　One, Demon King Arisa was too strong as an adjacent hostile force. Right now, it's fine because they can't recover their CP at the cost of setting up the 《Declaration of War》, but once the 《Declaration of War》 is lifted, their CP will recover. If that happens, the difficulty of defeating it will increase further.

　For one thing, if the 《Declaration of War》 is lifted, the surrounding demon kings and humans will invade my territory again. In that case, it would be difficult to spend all my energy on Demon King Arisa like I do now.

　However........what do we do?

　To be honest, it's currently tough to capture one of Demon King Arisa's control areas.

　Demon King Arisa is small and clever, and if our main force starts invading, it will invade my control area at the same time. If we withdraw our main force, the Demon King Arisa will also retreat. If we don't launch an invasion, Demon King Arisa will remain on the sidelines.

　In order to defeat Demon King Arisa, we needed the power of the main force to defeat Demon King Arisa. However, Demon King Arisa repeatedly avoided the main force.

　As a result, they would fall into a stalemate.

　As a test, they started the invasion with their randomly selected subordinates and left the main force to defend, then Demon King Arisa politely took the lead in defending himself.......and repelled the invading subordinates.

　There's only one way to break the deadlock.

　However, that solution had the potential to limit my options for the future.

　After much deliberation, I came to a conclusion.