"Good. The battle's progressing within expectations."
Axel muttered in relief, seeing that Arianne's team was doing quite well.
However, one thing he hadn't anticipated was the loss of personnel. In that short moment, all eight bandits he sent forward died helplessly.
"Not giving them the armor really fucked them up, huh..." he lamented.
Of course, it's not that he was being a penny pincher... though there's that too.
The main reason is that the armor he bought ran out of stock. Although he could choose a different manufacturer with a different set of default buffs, it wasn't worth the price in Axel's eyes—eyes that, even now, underestimated the value of his own products.
You can only imagine how overpriced those armors were if even he was thinking they're way too expensive.
After a brief moment, he shrugged casually. "...Well, they're bandits anyway. And there's more of them left. Nothing to bother about."
All the sides were doing well enough.
