They were also the ones who seemed to have S’yne’s enemies pulling strings.

“If we know where to point our weapons, we need to start pointing them. Itsuki, Sadeena, Shildina, how are your levels coming along? Report, including the state of your level raising,” I ordered. I’d spent most of my time with Glass and L’Arc and so hadn’t been following the progress of Sadeena and the others. Raphtalia had tagged along with them and provided all sorts of support.

“The monsters in this world provide quite a lot of experience. I’ve been pleasantly surprised,” Sadeena said.

“Yeah, they have a lot of experience. Strong though,” Shildina added.

“I see,” I commented. When I was here before, I vaguely recalled thinking the monsters offered better-than-normal experience. But Kizuna had been in the party then, and she was strong when fighting monsters, so maybe that confused the issue.

“But the ocean offers more, right?” I asked.

“I’m not sure. I can say the monsters on the land compared with ones in the oceans of this world don’t offer much difference in experience,” Sadeena said.

“Yeah, not much of a difference,” Shildina added.

“Okay then,” I said. The reason was unknown, but it looked like in Kizuna’s world there wasn’t much of a gap between experience on the land and experience in the ocean.

“You asked about our levels. I’ve reached 82, and so has Shildina,” Sadeena reported.

“Wow, good. That was fast,” I said. I was still only 90, meaning they had caught up pretty fast.

“We can push it a lot higher yet,” Sadeena said.

“Yeah. I’ve finally got some of my height back,” Shildina added. She still wasn’t back to her full height, but she was growing taller every day.

“That’s great to hear. Carry on raising your levels. I’ll take part too,” I told them.

“Sure thing!” Sadeena cheerfully replied. Then I looked over at Rishia, and Itsuki nodded.

“I’ve kept up with enhancements and raised my level to 80. I’m easily getting the same kind of experience as we got from the Cal Mira islands during an activation period,” Itsuki reported.

“Do you think it’s easier to raise our levels because this is a different world?” I asked. It felt like there had to be a reason why experience was lower on our world.

“Each world—” S’yne said.

“S’yne is saying that there are differences in experience in each world, and these differences change depending on how frequent the waves are,” her familiar explained. She had visited many worlds, so she was likely to know. This world, then, had three dead holy heroes and vassal weapon holders who were underestimating the waves. We should’ve probably been thankful that it hadn’t been destroyed by the waves already, I mused.

S’yne had pushed her own level to 81.