Hey, didn't see that coming, did you? The little ratfolk have big ambitions too!
The fighting in Marlowe Town was raging.
Thanks to the Holy Light Knights' unconventional "firepower" tactics, the Shadowbone undead, despite their numerical advantage, still couldn't storm the high ground they were defending.
Bullets did little damage to the undead, so the armed knights had decided to solve the problem with explosives instead of scripture and prayers. Fortunately, as an armed force from Transia, they were never short of such things.
From third-generation personal grenades to the personal grenade launchers they'd gotten from the halflings, from improved mortars to Iron Fist missiles that could now be reloaded, and finally the countless burning-gold anti-personnel mines in every knight's saddlebag—their arsenal was varied indeed, proving just how much the Transians loved big explosions.
If you didn't like any of those mechanical explosives, the knights also had explosive runestones infused with psionic energy.
The irregular runestones were crystal-clear, as though real fire had been sealed inside them. All you had to do was break the stabilizing rune before throwing one, and when it hit the ground, it would unleash a wild storm of flames to destroy the enemy.
The only drawback was that these runes could only be used by people with psionic talent. Ordinary people couldn't precisely break those unique runes.
These unusual explosives had first been invented during the Black Calamity by goatman sorcerers who had defected to Transia. At first, they'd only meant to prove their loyalty to Governor Murphy, but after countless rounds of battlefield refinement, the runestones had officially become one of the weapons purchased by Transian military units.
When conventional explosives couldn't get the job done, these runestones could often have miraculous effects.
Besides the unique firestorm runestones, the goatman sorcerers had also provided