Once the undead ambush turned into a frontal assault, the situation on the battlefield at Fatan Port quickly changed. The Liches deployed the Air Force for the first time. Countless flapping sounds came from the darkness. The Cruzian soldiers on the walls were still puzzled—what was that noise?—but the young members of the White Lion Guard beside them turned pale. "Get down!" They pulled their comrades from the Empire to the ground, then crouched tightly behind the battlements.
The Port Guard soldiers hit the ground hard and were still too dazed to start cursing when a terrifying rain of bones suddenly fell from the sky. Countless Bone Vultures crashed onto the walls with a clatter. Soldiers struck by them suffered broken bones at best and died on the spot at worst. One Cruzian soldier who reacted a little too slowly was hit head-on, his eyeballs bulging from their sockets. His lifeless body flew several meters before landing. Once the Bone Vultures hit the ground, they immediately exploded, transforming into a terrifying rain of fragments. The Port Guard soldiers who failed to dodge suffered heavy casualties.
The veterans of the White Lion Guard who had fought in the Black Rose War and the Battle of Tosankard were fine, but the recruits and Cruzian people who had never encountered the undead suffered terribly. The Port Guard soldiers who were not near the White Lion Guard were hit especially hard. For example, among the independent Port Guard squad assigned to defend a tower, seven of the thirty men died on the spot and twelve were seriously wounded. Aside from the three inside the tower, who escaped unscathed, everyone else suffered injuries of varying severity. Knight Light, who had been directing the defense from the top of the tower, and his two attendants were