Soren's Foresight!

Heavy cavalry had always played an important role in battles fought with cold steel.

Even when the enemy was demons, they were no less terrifying!

Five hundred heavy cavalrymen were not many, but once they formed up and charged, their coordinated, explosive power still sent many demons into a panic. The demons were far stronger than humans, but they were still flesh and blood. In the earlier fighting, the town's militia had already shown them that the humans here were no pushovers. Driven by unshakable conviction and a strength of will the demons could not understand, they had fought on until now.

And these newly arrived heavy cavalrymen were stronger still. There were more of them than any other group of reinforcements.

But!

As the charge inflicted terrible losses on the demons, another scene flashed through the mind of the pirate leader, Sir.

One that made him wonder how he had ever found the nerve.

That day.

He had talked back to Lord Soren.

The reason was simple. Lord Soren had overseen the formation of this heavy cavalry unit from the start, from its training plan and tactical instruction to the matching equipment commissioned from the Northern Witches Council. Born into a noble family that had fallen on hard times, Sir had received proper knightly training, so Soren had appointed him commander of the unit. Sir had no objections to anything else, but when it came to their weapons, his opinion differed completely from Lord Soren's.

The issue was their knight lances.

Compared with ordinary land cavalry lances, the ones Lord Soren had designed were a little too long. They almost resembled dragonlances.

They looked formidable, but they were not particularly nimble in a real fight.

Sir had always believed such weapons would hamper the cavalry, especially against another nation's