The demon elephants from India wore skull-like iron masks over their massive heads. Blades extending from the tips of their tusks stretched a full two meters, gleaming with cold iron light. They lashed their trunks wildly and let out deafening bellows.
A dense mass of Undead Army cavalry followed close behind the war elephants, lances raised.
With these colossal beasts, over eight meters tall, charging at the front, they could practically see the enemy formation trampled into pieces, the ground turned into a muddy paste of blood and flesh.
The Frankish cavalry struck first.
They aimed their arrows at the elephants' heads and necks. Their powerful composite bows gave them a range of up to five hundred meters, but the elephants' hides were thick and tough. Even when arrows pierced their iron armor, they became lodged in their coarse skin and did little damage.
Though the demon elephants' heads and necks bristled like hedgehogs, their charge did not slow in the slightest.
"Hahaha! These ignorant Franks! Those arrows sticking into demon elephants are like thorns stuck in our hands. They think that can stop the elephants' charge?"
"Crush them! Grind them to death! For His Majesty Bahram, for the Holy Fire!"
"The Holy Fire burns eternal, supreme and mighty! Kill all these unbelievers!"
The drivers and archers atop the elephant towers shouted excitedly.
Since the Demon Elephant Legion had been formed, enormous resources had been poured into it. This was their first battle.
After all, these big creatures had astonishing appetites. In only three years, the young elephants had been fed into the towering beasts they were now, consuming an incalculable amount of resources both openly and in secret.
At that moment, a tiny figure wearing a golden crown could vaguely be seen atop the city walls, slowly raising a