Under the full-force Explosive Magic unleashed jointly by Hawk and Mia, this Allied Forces unit, which lacked Anti-Magic Devices and had been completely caught off guard by the sudden strike from the sky,
was, unsurprisingly, directly wiped out by nearly two thousand men under that Explosive Magic attack, whose range extended a full four kilometers.
The remaining thousand were completely routed under the assault of the Ground Support Unit, which had joined the battlefield, and the Independent 3rd Division Guard Regiment members, who had received Siegfried's orders and recovered enough to rejoin the fight.
In the end, 231 people were captured, including six officers. The highest-ranking among them was a major.
"So, you two, what should we do next?"
Two hours later, inside a tent at the Imperial Army encampment in Silverstone Mine.
Watching Laiya remain silent and Mia's pale face, Siegfried, now keenly aware of the consequences of having their strategist absent, could not help feeling a headache coming on.
Under Hawk's command, they had successfully defeated and captured this Allied Forces unit. Their brigade commander had also been gravely wounded and knocked unconscious after Captain Laiya struck him down, and was now being held in an abandoned mine tunnel.
Logically, they should have followed the strategy Sergeant Hawk had proposed earlier: find a way to pin the blame on the enemy, then clear the suspicions surrounding their real spy.
The problem was that during the earlier Explosive Magic strike, Sergeant Mia had lacked the power to achieve a two-kilometer attack range.
To maximize casualties, Hawk had no choice but to bear greater pressure from maintaining the spell's coverage.
And under that excessive burden, Hawk, the squad's true strategist, had now fallen unconscious from mana depletion. No one knew when he would wake up again.
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