"They're retreating already?"
Watching Count Wellen lead his men in a frantic retreat across the river, everyone in the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps froze in surprise. They had long since geared up and stood ready for battle.
When they had seen Count Wellen preparing to launch a full-scale assault with ten thousand men, most of them had been extremely nervous.
After all, the Xinfei Merchant Guild's defensive force was far too small by comparison. Even with the Abundant River serving as a defensive barrier, most of them believed it was impossible for a mere thousand men to hold off ten thousand.
Yet once the fighting actually began, they discovered that the entire battle was nothing like what they had expected. It was so easy they could hardly believe it.
From beginning to end, the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps had simply stayed on their side of the river, operating large Magic-Powered Stone Throwers to launch Large Explosive Flame Bombs across the water while sealing off the bridge with the new Cylindrical Magic Repeating Crossbows. They had done nothing else.
While the two hundred men tasked with sealing off the bridge could at least be said to have engaged Count Wellen's troops, the rest of the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps had not even seen what his men looked like.
From beginning to end, neither side had engaged in any close-quarters combat.
And just like that, the battle was over. Count Wellen had fled with his men, utterly disgraced!
A battle this bizarre was probably rare in the entire history of the Sains Continent.
Looking at the bewildered guild guards, Xu Yi chuckled. He thought that even the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps, who had the most experience handling and using military magic machinery, had probably yet to fully break