Once the Bach allied knights at the very front were stopped, the Bach allied knights behind them suffered.
Nalant's Mana Cannons fired without regard for cost, bombarding them without pause.
Amid wave after wave of screams, the Bach allied cavalry were mown down in batches.
"Damn it, why... why does this Nalant have so many Mana Crystals?!"
Watching Nalant use Mana Cannons to bombard his subordinates so fiercely, Duke Bick's face was filled with disbelief and anguish.
He truly had not expected today's battle to turn out like this.
If Nalant had captured the goblin race and thus possessed more than fifty Mana Cannons, he could understand that.
But where had Nalant gotten so many Mana Crystals? At this rate of firing, one Mana Crystal could not even sustain a full casting.
Judging by the situation on the field, that meant Nalant had at least fifty Mana Crystals.
"Duke Bick, what do we do now? Do we keep sending reinforcements, or immediately pull the knights back?"
At that moment, several duchy commanders nearby could no longer bear to watch. Of those twenty thousand cavalrymen, more than half belonged to their duchies.
The Bach Empire had only a little over three thousand cavalrymen among them.
Moreover, the Bach Empire was immensely wealthy. To them, three thousand cavalrymen were but a drop in the ocean.
But to the duchies, they were valuable assets.
"Pass down the order: the attacking cavalry is to withdraw immediately!"
Duke Bick had originally wanted to keep exhausting Nalant's Mana Crystals, while also seeing whether the first wave of attacks could break through the enemy cavalry's blockade and charge to the top of the hill.
But upon seeing the expressions of the commanders, he knew that would not work.
He might be willing to fill the gap with