All My Summons Become Divine Girls

Chapter 263: The Guild Has a Problem

Hajin followed Yenna toward the survey wagon while Mila spread all three witness groups across its rear table.

The junior clerk remained near the empty ravine, repeating his measurements in case the missing Gate decided to return.

Orin placed his site map beside Cassie’s interior sketch, aligning the former threshold with the mountain seam nobody outside had seen.

Mara brought Hans’s casualty roll plus the damaged road plan, leaving both covered bodies outside the assessment table.

"Start with the part your badge never recorded," Yenna said, tapping Hajin’s #210 beside the apex statement, "how did three Rings produce that strike?"

"They did not produce it alone," Hajin replied, placing Vella’s exposed seam record above the map, "Eclipse Lash concentrated everything through a damaged Growth Weapon for one contact point."

He explained the natural load path, the apex crossing his angle, and Aegis redirecting the falling face afterward.

The full release had reached ten-Shard output at contact, but his pathways could not maintain the same level beyond one strike.

Yenna read the statement again before looking toward the empty ravine where the mountain had disappeared with its Gate.

"Could you repeat it here?" she asked, pointing toward the unbroken western ridge, "same distance, without Vella finding another seam."

"No," Hajin said, keeping the answer shorter than her question, "I could damage it, but I would not split it from summit to root."

Mila wrote the distinction beneath the peak-output field, separating weapon amplification from sustained Ring capacity.

"That keeps the event inside the ranking model," she said, checking the old Beast King report, "barely, but it gives the branch something better than mountain happened."

"The model still needs a threat context," Orin replied, turning his survey rods on the map, "the circuit was ten-Shard when both nodes shared power, not one ten-Shard body."

He traced the mobile apex route plus stationary mother, showing where the joined circulation had inflated the Gate beyond either creature alone.

Hajin’s strike killed the stripped apex after Vella removed its regeneration, Loccy broke its throat, and Juna eliminated its support formation.

"That does not reduce his kill," Orin said, looking toward Yenna before she objected, "it tells us what mission support made the opening possible."

"It also tells us what happens if the guild sends him alone next time," Mara added, placing two fingers on Elise plus Sable’s names, "people die while one fighter covers every route."

Hajin looked toward the covered bodies before answering, finding nothing useful to argue inside her casualty count.

"I entered after Hans cleared the village," he said, keeping both hands against the wagon edge, "the apex reached the last cart before the road emptied."

"Hans clearing the village is part of your result," Mara replied, moving the retreat map beside him, "so are the bells, frames, barrier plates, and people who held position."

She marked the irrigation cut where six wounded recruits survived, then circled the road section Loccy had broken through Burdenfall.

The western ditch would fail under another loaded clinic wagon unless crews rebuilt its lower brace before the next rain.

Mara had found the damage during one walk, while Hajin’s attention stayed on the Gate plus witness packet.

"I missed that brace," he admitted, following her mark toward the clinic route, "give the repair order to Marrick before your wagon leaves."

"Already sent," she said, showing the runner mark beside the survey time, "your road crews should reach it before we finish here."

Yenna folded both arms, looking less pleased by the answer than Mara appeared.

"You manipulated Allen’s first comparison device," she said, returning to the silver badge, "he never proved it, but everyone with eyes knew #1,210 was wrong."

"The number kept people from asking what I was," Hajin replied, "I needed Gate access without every House deciding I belonged in its cellar."

"Then you jumped past me after the Beast King," she said, pressing one finger against #210, "and I decided the report had carried you again."

Mila stopped writing while Yenna held the admission, leaving the older argument between them without helping either side.

"You sold a six-Shard core in front of me after that," Yenna continued, "I kept changing what proof would satisfy me whenever you reached it."

"You were wrong," Hajin said, watching frost gather around the table fastener, "that happens more often when you start from angry."

The frost thickened before Yenna pulled her mana back, though she did not deny the answer.

"I was wrong about where your strength came from," she said, closing the old report, "I am not wrong that hiding it can break an assignment."

Orin moved the apex route under her hand, showing the first point where a standard three-Shard team would have entered.

An assessment matching the filed rating would have sent fewer barriers, no senior healer, and one extraction cart into a ten-Shard circuit.

"Understating yourself stops being private when the guild builds a raid around it," he said, tapping the false threshold, "the number decides who stands beside you."

Hajin understood that argument better after carrying six healing lines while Elise plus Sable remained beside the ditch.

Understanding it did not make him want the Crown or guild holding a better measurement of every limit.

"You get the single-strike peak plus the limits written here," he said, turning Mila’s page toward Yenna, "my summons keep their own assessments."

"Juna and Loccy already gave direct combat statements," Mila replied, leaving their private bond details blank, "we do not need ownership mechanics to rate visible output."

Mara added independent command marks for the delayed Gate entry, civilian priority, and decision to preserve the mother’s chamber during collapse.

Orin refused to rate Hajin as a standard core extractor because every Gate he cleared erased the site plus recoverable natural core.

"That makes you useful for corruption events and terrible for evidence recovery," he said, drawing a line through ordinary extraction requests, "the branch needs both facts before assigning you."

Mara added another restriction before the review moved on, barring planners from treating Aegis as a replacement for evacuation teams.

"The gallery survived because everyone stood inside one protected recess," she said, indicating the exterior route map, "outside, your barrier could not cover the Gate mouth, road, and clinic ditch together."

Hajin accepted the mark after checking each separated position, knowing the barrier had failed whenever one body tried covering three objectives.

Yenna took the combat field herself, recording that Hajin’s verified peak exceeded her direct output while his endurance remained unknown.

She added a controlled comparison request beneath that line, keeping her own party available instead of recommending another improvised Gate test.

Yenna placed her seal beneath Mila’s review code, then left the final placement field empty.

"His verified peak belongs above #210," she said, returning the form to the clerk, "his sustained ceiling remains unverified, and the assignment restrictions stay attached."

The clerk carried the sealed review toward the guild wagon while Mila marked the top-one-hundred boundary beside the blank field.