Whether Lizardmen or Birdmen, every one of them was incredibly brave, and their combat skills were so polished that Hai Na felt ashamed.
Even after being injured, they never retreated—she had never seen such a brutal battle, so fierce that it made one's blood run cold.
Why... did they have to fight to this extent? Hai Na felt nothing but shock and dread.
It was not as if she had never experienced cruel flowers. Although it had only been a dream, she had indeed experienced battlefields and the apocalypse during the Promotion Ritual.
But that feeling of evading, hiding, protecting others, and resisting natural and man-made disasters... was completely different from the war before her.
They used weapons if they had them, fists when their weapons broke, and teeth when they were caught—
Breaking arms, biting eyes. Groups of people fought like maddened beasts.
Not to survive, but to kill the other side completely.
To "defeat" the other side, they were even willing to give up their own lives...
"Why do this..."
Hai Na murmured.
She lived in a civilized age.
Even when the Queen was assassinated and the enraged Griffin Legion retaliated in kind, they remained humble and courteous—the Griffin Legion led by the Grand Guardian was like a true order of knights and never harmed innocents.
Although they often flew overhead in the dead of night, the howling wind and thunder would wake people up. Yet in the two months since the war began, not a single civilian had died directly beneath that thunder. There had only been civilians trampled to death in panic during the early stages of the war.
The Griffin Knights merely attacked Stibnite's strategic locations, dismantling valuable buildings or destroying warehouses. They would even warn their targets in advance, like proud knights challenging each