James continued to walk around and use his exploitation skills for a long time, but nothing really changed.
No matter what he did he could not gain any status points, which was simply awful. In the end, the only option James had tied himself to, and indeed the only option he thought he had to enter into a situation where he could fully emerge victorious from this battle, was the status points he planned to gain by exploiting corpses.
This seemed to indicate to him that he had nothing left at the moment except the Aura of Chaos ability.
However, even an incredibly powerful skill like the Aura of Chaos skill would be useless against such a huge threat. Yes, it weakened enemies and strengthened friendly troops, but that was exactly what happened.