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Under the effects of this terrifying army spell, several thousand people lost their lives in an instant, while even more were blinded.

The power of an army spell was plain to see.

Of course, a mage corps alone could not truly take on an entire army by itself.

In fact, deploying mages directly in war and using spells to inflict casualties was not an economical decision.

It could even be said that the damage a mage corps could inflict in war was basically comparable to that of archers.

To an entire army, several thousand casualties did not even amount to half their total number. If the army were larger, such losses would seem even more insignificant.

Such casualties were roughly equivalent to over a thousand archers firing more than ten full volleys at the enemy.

For archers, firing more than ten volleys would basically exhaust all their strength.

And after casting such a powerful spell, the mage corps was now completely overloaded as well. They could not cast again for quite some time.

Judging by the difficulty of training mages and archers, mages not only had terrifyingly high intelligence requirements—every person capable of becoming a mage was one in ten thousand—the cost of practicing magic was also astronomical. Compared with a mage corps capable of inflicting equal casualties, an army of archers was much easier to assemble.

Yet despite all those reasons, Nitocris and Ye Ting had still decided to send the mage corps into battle.

Because even when they caused the same damage, magic and arrows had different effects.

For most people, death by arrows was understandable. Magic was not.

Compared to arrows, magic either came with dazzling displays of light and sound or was bizarre and incomprehensible. Either way, while injuring the enemy, magic also dealt them an