"The human Necromancer is rampaging again. Is the Church of Light just going to sit back and do nothing?"
The Dwarves of the Bronzebeard Kingdom didn't worship the Goddess of Light. Still, after detecting the Skeleton Legion, their first reaction was to report it to the Church of Light and ask the Light Priests to punish the lawbreaking Necromancer.
The King of the Bronzebeard Kingdom worried that the native Light Priests, who were human, would side with the Demacia Kingdom. At the same time, he asked his relatives on another plane to file a cross-planar report.
"Our enemy has changed. We need to adjust the shells for the God-Forged Cannons!"
While reporting the matter to the Church of Light, the Bronzebeard Kingdom made preparations for a second contingency.
Their enemies had previously been the Human Legion. They had developed Caltrop Shotgun Shells designed to devastate flesh and blood, driving the Demacia Kingdom back at every turn.
Now they had another opponent. Caltrop Shotgun Shells were useless against the Skeleton Legion, so they needed to make High-Energy Shells that could blast the skeletons to ash.
"Your Majesty, High-Energy Shells consume a tremendous amount of resources. Our stockpile of Flame Spirit Crystal won't be enough to make many."
Dwarf muskets and cannons didn't use conventional gunpowder. Instead, they used a high-energy crystal called Flame Spirit Crystal, a magical propellant that Dwarf artisans made by refining Fire Elemental Crystal powder with various magical materials.
The Caltrop Shotgun Shells, designed to devastate flesh and blood, killed through kinetic force. They required little Flame Spirit Crystal to load, allowing the Dwarves to bombard the Human Legion frequently.
High-Energy Shells relied on concentrated energy to kill. They needed a large amount of Flame Spirit Crystal to inflict significant damage.
Over the years, most of the Flame