Looking at the battlefield strewn with corpses, Fandral Staghelm murmured, "Uh, this weapon really does pack a punch!"
But the long-barreled muskets were so powerful that they shattered the Orc army.
By the time the other troops took the field, it was rather like picking on an easy target.
Fortunately, the Night Elves favored eliminating their enemies with ranged attacks.
This approach, in which ranged troops shot the enemy full of holes before melee troops moved in to mop up, suited them perfectly.
Fandral Staghelm was already convinced, but he still refused to admit it.
"What if the enemy were Silithids? Their carapaces are harder than steel armor!"
That was how an argumentative person behaved: he had to argue even when there was nothing to argue about.
Silithid was the name the Night Elves had given the Aqir.
Perhaps it was because those things were modeled on scorpions.
But calling the Aqir, with their full range of troop types, by the single name Silithid was inappropriate.
Herad therefore preferred calling them Aqir, then dividing them into categories based on their forms.
The Night Elf leaders had no objection to this suggestion of his.
They could change it; the name had been casually chosen on a whim in the first place.
What concerned the Night Elves more was how to deal effectively with those bugs.
Fighting bugs in that sort of barren desert was absolutely a terrible ordeal!
Herad assessed how difficult it would be to deal with them using conventional forces and found that they really were tough opponents.
"Those bugs have hard carapaces and tenacious vitality, and no matter how many you kill, there's no end to them. They really are troublesome enemies!"
Fandral Staghelm was somewhat surprised by Herad's conclusion.
Most people could hardly imagine how difficult fighting