Facing the knight's lance that had nearly claimed her life.
Emily's gaze did not waver in the slightest. She swiftly raised her own knight's lance, lightning-attribute battle qi clinging to it as she thrust forward as well.
In an instant, the two horses brushed past one another.
Crack!
The shaft snapped.
But the spearhead had already pierced through the other man's chest—she had killed another Earth Knight.
Yet it was of no use. The knights of Coral Island were steadily dwindling.
Of the original thousand-odd knights, a full third had already been lost after several charges. And behind the Roaring Knight Order, fresh knights continued to emerge. Those knights were not elites, mostly a motley rabble, but on the battlefield, they were still powerful reinforcements.
To deal with the invaders, the Raging Wave Marquis had dispatched nearly every knight order in the River Source region. Their numbers had likely surpassed three thousand.
He meant to wipe out the Coral Island Knights here completely.
Emily did not know what the final outcome would be, nor did she have the mind to consider such questions. Every time she killed an enemy knight, she felt her entire body burn hot.
Boundless strength surged from every limb and bone, urging her to continue fighting.
"Charge!"
With a furious roar, she had already become the lead knight of a small knight squad. Grasping her fourth knight's lance, she aimed it at the black-armored knights ahead and abruptly launched a new charge. Lightning-attribute battle qi spread out, causing the patches of battle qi around her that were on the verge of falling apart to gather, entwine, and weave together once more.
The knights behind her all felt as though their battle qi was answering some call, receiving an enormous boost.
Following that sensation, the knights howled