Glorious Results

From the moment they charged into Eskil City until exactly noon that day, Thor's Hammer's 5,000 cavalrymen rode back and forth through the six main avenues of Eskil City, slaughtering without pause. By the time Thor's Hammer's three units regrouped at the appointed time and withdrew from the city's north gate for a brief rest, the 5,000 cavalrymen and 5,000 Sabertooth Beasts all looked as though they had been drenched in a rain of blood, crimson from head to toe and radiating a chilling baleful qi.

Seeing this force emerge from the city, the people who had escaped through Eskil City's north gate looked at them with awe and gratitude. Many had tears in their eyes as they silently moved aside to clear the way. Everyone knew that without this powerful cavalry force, whether they could have escaped Eskil City at all would still have been an open question.

Because of Thor's Hammer's assault, the other five gates of Eskil City, which had originally been sealed shut, were opened one after another. The demonized puppets entrenched near those gates had all been wiped out by Zhang Tie's mobile warfare tactics. With Thor's Hammer carving a path through the city's six main avenues and eliminating the demonized puppets drawn toward them, great numbers of Eskil City residents who had originally been hiding in their homes seized the escape routes Thor's Hammer had opened for them and fled the city in waves through the newly opened gates.

Among those who escaped the city were even several intact units of the former Eskil City Guard.

Given Thor's Hammer's numbers and strength, Zhang Tie knew he could not possibly cover everything—every street and every residential district in a city spanning more than 400 square kilometers. But he had indeed brought Thor's Hammer's strength into