"Do you remember the Steam Knights?"
Russell spoke.
Talulah's expression instantly turned serious.
Although she, the Crown Prince of Victoria, had basically never lived in Victoria, she had still heard the legends of the Steam Knights.
They were Victoria's trump-card military force.
They stood around eighteen meters tall.
Their entire bodies were forged from special metals and equipped with life-support systems, Originium Arts amplification modules, and flight apparatuses.
Upon entering combat mode, the knights activated Originium devices to generate plasma, then used magnetic fields to contain it, forming plasma light blades over ten meters long as they charged.
Victoria had never lacked tales of knights suddenly descending from the sky when war reached its bleakest point, leading troops to tear apart enemy forces and forcibly reclaim victory.
Of course, those were stories from a long time ago.
Because most of those knights were loyal only to the nation, not the nobility, Victoria's parliament had lured the thirty-three Steam Knights into a trap, where the Sarkaz Royal Court had wiped them out until only one madman remained.
"The Steam Knights are terrifying enemies."
Even Patriot spoke up, offering them the highest praise.
"When they march in formation outside a city, that city's fall is inevitable. Even if my people or the gargoyles were defending it, all that would remain would be ruins. Among the special forces of all nations, the Steam Knights have the highest efficiency in storming cities and capturing strongholds."
That was probably one of the reasons Theresis had wanted to wipe them out completely.
Kazdel's walls had been torn down by those things more than once.
"What if I told you that as long as a friend of mine gets the blueprints, she can mass-produce dozens, even hundreds, of sets of Steam Knight armor?"
The boy spoke like