The Storm King's knights were masters of storm combat techniques. Ordinary Carian soldiers were like children before them.
But the Inquisitor Knights weathered their attacks with heavy armor and greatshields. Though they struggled to inflict casualties, they left their opponents equally helpless.
More absurdly, the Inquisitor Knights began using the "Great Runes incantations" Horace had taught them.
"Chains!" Phantom golden chains shot from the ground and ensnared three storm knights.
"Punishment!" A magic circle appeared beneath a knight's feet. The storm soldiers within its range slowed drastically, as though mired in a bog.
Beyond these knights, the soldiers on both sides fought with flesh and steel.
Compared to the Carian soldiers, Stormveil's battle-hardened troops were somewhat better trained, but the massive force of Doll Soldiers made up the difference.
Yet Caria had another advantage Stormveil could not match: battlefield physicians.
The "Nurse Corps" moved among the wounded. Their treatment was simple and brutal-they pressed their hands against wounds and burned them with Bloodflame, forcing out clotted blood and bone fragments. Copious blood flowed out, and the wounds healed with it.
What? You asked whether these nurses would draw concentrated enemy fire as they roamed the battlefield? You didn't really think these Numen who worshipped the Formless Mother couldn't fight, did you?
These nurses excelled at making wounds and "healing" them. Once they touched someone's wounds, few people in the world could avoid passing out.
Their treatment was excruciating. The wounded often screamed their hearts out as blood covered the ground. But after the screaming, they could stand again and return to battle.
They even fought more fiercely than before-after experiencing the world's most agonizing pain, they could no longer feel pain at all.
The Storm King glimpsed this during a lull in his fight.
His pupils contracted.
*Bloodletting treatments... rivers