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"Those three hundred thousand troops were also the number our king believed she could protect after careful calculations."

"However, if we had known of Sir Arthur's arrival earlier, perhaps we could have increased the army by another one or two hundred thousand."

Lancelot looked at the troops passing around them and spoke regretfully.

"To prevent the King of Lions' judgment?"

Remembering the judgment spears he had seen twice before, fired from the distant horizon, Ritsuka asked as his heart stirred.

Lancelot nodded. "...That's right. When the army advances, we must be wary of the King of Lions' judgment. Without protection, these three hundred thousand troops would be reduced to ashes beneath it."

"...And three hundred thousand is the limit of the area our king can protect."

Everyone from Chaldea immediately understood Lancelot's meaning.

This was not Constantinople. The people there lived clustered together, and King Arthur's Avalon, or even the holy sword, was enough to protect the entire city.

When the army set out, however, it could not advance in a broad formation. It had to move in a single-file formation, which greatly expanded the area that needed protection.

Even Artoria could not protect an area extending a hundred li in every direction.

If Artoria had known of Arthur's arrival beforehand, the army could have been larger, because the two of them both possessed holy swords capable of blocking the holy spear.

"I observed them carefully, and aren't there far too many cavalrymen here? Could the European Continent really find this many warhorses?"

Roman looked around and voiced his confusion.

More than a third of the three-hundred-thousand-strong army consisted of cavalry. It was truly unbelievable.

Lancelot smiled bitterly. "...These warhorses were all 'ripened' through magecraft. They're essentially disposable."

"...Under normal circumstances, we wouldn't do this. It would turn warhorses into