So under normal circumstances, strange creatures wouldn't attack cities at random. Take Nurn this time, for example. If someone hadn't manipulated the Minotaur Beast King, it wouldn't have risked attacking a former capital.
It was a city of guns and cannons—the former capital of Magnus, no less.
If Nurn's main forces had been there—the Nurn Ironclad Army, the Repeater Gun Corps, and even the Half-Griffon Regiment Lin Yun couldn't remember the name of—well, that regiment had fewer than a hundred members, only a few dozen or so.
And the Amethyst Wizards led by the Lady of the Graveyard Roses were a completely different matter from the Amethyst Wizards without her.
In short, the fact that danger seldom came near, combined with the two years they'd spent following Gazi, had inevitably given them the wrong impression.
They thought the world was safe. Vampires, greenskins, Beastmen, and the like were nothing but legendary villains, made up to scare people. Their great empire was the best in the world, neighboring Batonia was XXX, and so on. That was the general mindset of the Order of the Holy Lock Knights at the moment.
Oh, and some of them thought: My Divine Bull is so powerful! Those evil creatures can't even get near me, so there's nothing to fear. I only need to pray with all my heart.
They were like frogs at the bottom of a well, never knowing what lay beyond it and thinking the whole world was no bigger than the well.
That didn't mean they were all idiots. It was just that their experience was so limited that it hindered their ability to learn.
Of course, there were some who knew what they were doing. One of the deputy captains was an old hand, specifically brought along to deal with situations