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I guess an army of more than 10,000 men is a lot."

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　Fontana's army, having completed its preparations, marches south toward the battle with the Northern Noble Union.

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　The location is the plain of Rajka, south of the territories of Xylia and Boutica.

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　Both sides were encamped in an open area called the Gorzon plain.

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　Fontana's army, including Xylia's, numbered less than 20,000.

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　In contrast, the Union of Northern Nobles has about 80,000 troops.

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　It seems as if we are always fighting against a numerical disadvantage.

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　But the Fontana army as a whole is only about 50,000-60,000 even with the introduction of conscription.

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　If we gather them together, we may be able to compete with them in numbers, but we can't neglect dealing with the domestic situation and other places, so this is the number of soldiers we can muster in the current situation.

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　I mean, how could the Northern Noble Federation come up with such a large number of soldiers?

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　For their part, there must be quite a few battles going on, such as the previous coalition force to defeat Fontana and the coalition force for the operation to recapture King's Landing.

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　I think that the other side probably does not want to fight aggressively either.

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　However, the other side is Fontana, which has been gaining strength in recent years.

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　They cannot afford to leave the situation unattended when problems arise.

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　And moreover, they cannot abandon the Rajkas, a noble family that has formed a coalition with the Fontana.

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　If that were to happen, they might be abandoned by those around them the next time they are attacked.

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　Therefore, the nobles who belong to the Northern Noble Federation could not choose not to fight.

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　What I am trying to say is that their will to fight is not that high.

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　So I decided to fight.

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　Normally, if I am outnumbered, I would choose the tactic of building a wall to fortify my defense and then surprise attack to play a trick on my opponent, but this time, I will not do that.

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　Instead, we will face each other and challenge to a fair and square battle to decide who will win the battle.

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　The winner will make peace with the loser by offering favorable conditions to the loser.

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　However, we cannot let our guard down against an opponent who outnumbers us four to one.

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　We must be determined to win the war with all our might.

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"Ars-sama, the opponent has made a move. We are ready to move at any time.

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　Both sides form up and deploy their forces.

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　Wagner, the initiator of this battle, makes a preamble to the general of the Rajka family, denouncing the other side.

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　Of course, the other side does not just sit there and listen to him.

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　They exchange rough words in the form of replies.

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　If the number of the two armies had been smaller, it might have been possible to listen to what both sides had to say, but with an army of over 10,000 men, it is likely that many of them could not understand what each other was saying.

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　However, after the performance of the morale speech was over, both sides turned back to their own army.

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　Then, the other side started to move first.

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"......It looks like, as expected, 13 noble families have gathered together with their respective armies. The movements are disjointed but powerful enough. Signalman, inform Fontana's army! Cavalry units on both flanks, begin flanking attack!

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"Yes, sir. Command to the cavalry. Advance and begin flanking attack.

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　By the way, I would never charge into battle with a sword in my hand.

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　As a general, my main job is to give orders from the rear.

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　The five battalions I brought with me this time are actually commanded by my brother Byte and Brams, the head of the Lubitsch family.

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　The first thing I did was to order the cavalrymen among them.

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　As Kyle had done in his military exercises, he first moved the cavalrymen who were positioned on the left and right sides of the army to attack from the flanks in a enveloping manner.

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"......The rock crossbow staff is strong after all. It's overwhelmingly powerful in terms of control on the flanks."

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　In the rear of the main camp, and from the top of the tower, he looks over the battlefield with binoculars to see how the cavalry is doing.

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　The cavalry is, of course, mounted on Valkyries.

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　The rider, named after his brother Byte, is able to use the magic of "Kishujutsu" (the art of horsemanship).

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　But to tell the truth, I felt that the [Cavalry Art] could be used with or without it.

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　Before this battle, I had given the cavalry unit a rock crossbow staff that I had obtained in the East.

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　The staff fires a rock larger than a man's head when it is enchanted.

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　The cavalrymen used it while riding the valkyries.

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　At this time, the cavalrymen were instructed to use the staff of the rock crossbow to control the area.

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　In a controlled movement, the rock attacks from the cavalrymen do not aim at a specific person in the opposing army, but rather they all attack together to cover a wide area.

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　Rocks fired at an angle of 45 degrees fall on the Allied troops from overhead, accelerated by gravity.

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　It would be like a carpet bombing or a ranged attack.

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　There is no escape.

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　Rather, whether they are hit or not depends on their luck, but the two winged forces on the other side were almost stopped dead in their tracks by that alone.

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　It would not be an exaggeration to say that the effectiveness of the rock crossbow staff, which can fire more damaging attacks at a greater distance than the [scatter] and [ice spear] has until now, has been proven here.

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"Ars-sama, the leading force of the allied army is heading towards you. They are expected to clash with Fontana's army soon.

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Yes, sir.

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　The cavalry delivered a heavy blow to the flank of the opposing force.

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　This will give us an advantage on the left and right.

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　But not so on the front.

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　Because of their numbers, the other side has the advantage in breaking through.

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　So we have placed here a new force from the East.

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　In addition to Thanatos, the warrior of Atmos, I had included Ian and Laila in the forward force.

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　They had been brought here by transfer stone for the purpose of this battle.

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　The Atmos warriors were told that they would be transformed into giants if the radio operator who received the [telepathic] message told them to in the Eastern language.

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　The Atmos warriors, who are also mercenaries, obeyed the instructions and took action.

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　Just before the two armies were about to clash head-on, a Titan appeared on the battlefield.

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　All of them are wearing black demon armor.

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　This armor was made from the material of a slain ogre that appeared in the northern forests, and is highly elastic.

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　The armor is extremely elastic and will not break even if a warrior of ATOMOS, who is the same size as a normal human being, becomes a giant over 5 meters tall.

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　I gave it as a gift to the six Atmos warriors present here.

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　By the way, this Oni Armor is one of the items that can help the movement of muscles just by wearing it, or it can improve the strength of the wearer.

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　It is an excellent piece of equipment that my brother and I have been wearing for years.

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　The allied forces are shaken up by the sudden appearance of a giant on the battlefield.

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　Thanatos wielding the Ruyi Dragon Cudgel and Ian and Lyra wielding the Hardened Brick Cudgel against the Allied Forces.

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　Since most of the aristocrats follow the theory and don't use the powerful ones such as the leader of the army in the front line, there was no one who could stop the Atmos warriors at that moment.

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　The peasant soldier is sent flying through the air and crashes to the ground far away by the club-wielding, rampaging giants.

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　This was enough to send the opponents almost into a state of panic.

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　For a while, they watch from the top of the tower through binoculars.

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　The army of the Union of Northern Noblemen naturally includes knights and squires, and the general rank is also the leader.

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　However, the head of the army cannot come out to the front immediately.

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　And even if a knight can use magic, there are more people who can use magic here than there are knights who can use magic.

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　If both armies are judged simply by their numbers, the other has more, but Fontana's army has an unusually large number of people who can use magic due to its characteristics.

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　However, since the knights were not named after those who had the ability to become knights, the quality of the other knight is probably better if we look at each individual knight.

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　But even so, the number of knights who could use magic, which is a weapon of choice, was greater than the number of knights who could use magic, which is a weapon of choice, in the chaotic war situation.

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"......The leader class in the main camp is about to make a move. It's about time. Signalman, send a message to the sky. Tell them to drop the rock.

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Yes, sir.

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　As he looks around the entire battlefield, he knows when it is time to make a decision.

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　As I observed the entire battlefield with magic power in my eyes, I saw that the Northern Noblemen's Union had a large number of heads of families in their main camps.

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　Of course, even though they are in a coalition, since each army is under a different chain of command, not all of them are gathered at the main camp since each army has a leader in command.

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　However, perhaps because the war was going in our favor, I sensed an atmosphere in which those with power were beginning to move out of the main camp and toward the battlefield.

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　This is the moment to take advantage of.

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　The moment when their consciousness turns to their army that is being worn out by the attack.

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　In other words, at this moment when their attention was turned to the front where they were fighting, they launched an attack from the air, completely disoriented.

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　Airships.

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　The airship of Barca was already flying over the plain where the battlefield is located.

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　In fact, he had already been raising his airship over the area for many days.

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　In a previous battle, Barka had used his airship to attack from the sky.

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　In particular, it seems that information about my dropping huge ice blocks from the sky with my ice-flame sword and converting them into flames to burn food was shared with the Northern Nobility Federation.

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　They are not stupid.

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　It seems that they had taken measures to prevent the food from being burned by an attack from above.

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　But this time, the attack from above the airship was not made with the ice flame sword.

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　It was a rock.

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　They dropped rocks from above, where no magic could reach.

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　There is no rock that can be dropped from the sky, which is not in contact with the ground.

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　Perhaps even if I had been on the airship, I would have been able to make only a trivial attack from a place far from the ground, consuming a huge amount of magic power.

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　But the rock dropped from the one who is on the airship now was big.

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　It was about 3 meters high and human-shaped.

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　Yes, a magical weapon was dropped from the airship floating above.

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　Dozens of huge and massive rocks falling from the sky hit the ground at the same time.

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　The destructive power of the impact was tremendous, and the loud sound of the impact made it seem as if a meteorite had hit the ground.

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　The rocks falling from above the main Allied camp created more than 50 craters in the area where the main camp was located.

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　And it did not end there.

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　The huge masses of rocks that flew from the sky were shattered by the collision with the ground, but after a short time, they started to repair themselves automatically.

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　When the dust from the collision cleared, there stood the rock giant.

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　Although a little smaller than the warriors of Atmos, would one be able to keep one's cool when something similar to a giant, the incarnation of violence that had been rampaging through the front line, suddenly appeared in the main camp behind them?

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　At least, none of the soldiers belonging to the Union of Northern Nobles seemed to be so calm.

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　The tension that had been building up until then, when they had managed to control their forces despite their disadvantage, was suddenly snapped with a single attack from the sky.

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The other side's army is about to collapse. Tell all the troops to surround them. Build a wall to reduce their escape! Surround them and exterminate them.

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Yes, sir.

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　Weakness of magic weapons.

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　It is that if the person who activated the nucleus of the magic weapon is attacked and cannot send magic power, the magic weapon will stop.

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　To reinforce such a weakness, I initially thought of having Thanatos and other Atmos warriors carry it.

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　However, Ian and others were dissatisfied with my taking the Atmosphere away from them a while ago, and I hesitated to entrust it to anyone other than Thanatos and Laila.

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　So I decided to let someone else use the magic weapon instead.

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　In order to avoid being targeted at their weak points, we put them on an airship and use them in the sky, in a place where the person who activated the nucleus would never be attacked.

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　The magic weapon is a rock giant's body around the nucleus when the nucleus is filled with magic power.

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　After obtaining the weapon, we tried various ways of using it, and found out that it is necessary to use a rock on the ground when repairing a damaged body, but the ground is not necessary only when activating the weapon.

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　In other words, we succeeded in easily generating a rock weighing over a ton even in the sky where there is no ground.

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　We decided to use this as the basis for an attack with a huge mass.

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　We had tried this several times in advance and confirmed that the impact of the fall would not destroy the nucleus.

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　Even after falling to the ground, the rock giant automatically rises up and can be remotely controlled from the airship, making it very easy to use.

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　Each of the thirteen noble families has its own magic brought by the best wizards of the past.

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　They have given them to their knights, and they have been showing their power on this battlefield.

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　Some of them used the magic of cat ears, some of them used the magic of fire and water, and some of the noble families used the magic of fire and water.

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　However, it seems that even the heads of the families could not withstand the mass attack from the airships.

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　The leaders in the main camp were caught off guard by the battlefield in front of them, and were caught unprotected by a powerful blow that struck them unexpectedly.

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　It was a scene of defeat that was clear for all to see.

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　The many peasants who had been gathered by the allied forces and were present at the scene seemed to understand this.

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　Even if there were soldiers in front of them who they had been fighting, they were so terrified that they tried to run away.

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　Their fear spread throughout the entire Allied forces as if it were a propagation.

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　In such a situation, no matter how strong the leadership is, it will not be able to unify the army.

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　Many knights were crushed when they tried to say something to the fleeing soldiers.

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　But we will not let them escape.

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　We had been planning this strategy from the beginning, and if the destruction of the main camp was decisive, we were prepared to surround the opposing forces immediately.

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　Although they outnumbered us, we would be able to build a wall to block their escape.

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　Thus, the battle between Fontana's army and the Northern Nobles on the Gorzon Plain was decisively won in just one day.

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