The cleanup of the battlefield was quickly finished.
Because of the Thunderstorm Elementals' nearly frenzied attacks, almost all the magic and witchcraft on the armor had been utterly destroyed.
Only a very small number of pieces of equipment specially supplied to senior officers like Gale had survived the terrifying lightning storm.
Even so, the cavalrymen who had gone through a bloody battle were immensely satisfied.
The Raptor Cavalry was the Amani Empire's most elite force, and the armor and weapons they wore were all forged from Thorium, countless times better than the steel weapons they used themselves.
Even if the equipment was ruined, bringing the Thorium back to be reforged could still produce quite a few "divine weapons and sharp weapons."
After all, no Thorium veins had been discovered within the Arathor Empire's current borders. At most, there were only a few low-yield Mithril mines.
Moreover, Thorium and Mithril were inherently rare magical metals. Unlike iron, copper, and tin, they were neither abundant nor easy to mine. Most occurred alongside other mineral veins, and were worth even more than precious metals such as gold and silver.
Thus, the gains from this battle alone equaled the total wealth they would have needed decades of going without food or drink to save up.
As the saying went, when productivity was extremely backward, war and plunder were always the fastest and most effective paths to wealth.
Of course, that was only if one won in the end.
Seeing the heavy spoils loaded onto the backs of warhorses, the knight who had been conflicted a moment ago immediately recovered and took the initiative to suggest, "My lord Duke, I believe we have dealt the enemy a heavy blow this time. At an extremely small cost, we annihilated more than several hundred of the Amani