Although they had long anticipated this outcome, the generals of the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire still looked grim as they watched the heavy cavalry corps descend into chaos, men and horses tumbling after a single barrage from the Rulson-Xinfei Allied Forces' Mana Cannons.
These Heavy Cavalry, whose mounts were also clad in heavy armor, represented the pinnacle of military might on the Sains Continent. Only the two great empires had the resources to organize them into full units and corps. In past wars, once these Heavy Cavalry were deployed on vast, open plains like this, no enemy could stop them.
In fact, no enemy could even slow their charge. They would simply crush everything in their path with their furious advance.
Now, however, any Mana Cannon Shell that landed blasted a huge gap in the Heavy Cavalry's ranks. A single barrage had torn their once dense, orderly charging formation to pieces.
With rider, horse, and armor weighing well over two tons altogether, these Heavy Cavalry had once charged fearlessly through endless volleys of crossbow bolts and straight into enemy spear formations. But against the unparalleled explosive power of Mana Cannon Shells, they could no longer press forward unhindered.
As the Mana Cannon Shells exploded one after another, countless Heavy Cavalry were hurled into the air like scarecrows, as though their terrifying weight of over two tons meant nothing.
Many were already torn into severed limbs and mangled bodies as they flew, their lives extinguished.
They had begun their full charge three kilometers from the Rulson-Xinfei Allied Forces. By the time they struggled to within roughly two kilometers, fewer than thirty percent of the twenty thousand Heavy Armored Knights from the two empires, who had charged in formation from every direction, were still mounted and advancing.
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