The captured human mages could clearly hear the Fae next to them discussing their lives future viability once someone explained to the local humans how to use the cultivation technique to gain magical powers. The thought terrified them, that power had allowed their Emperor to conquer the whole world in one generation, but these people already had power far greater than his, and they were not shy about using it in combat.
The incoming radio transmissions, bot their own and the local messages, made it clear that the entire Legion had been routed, and only a few survivors had made it to the fallback points. The mages had never considered that the locals might target their Commanders first.
That level of mage should be nearly invincible, in the minds of the Legion, but with those accursed weapons, these monstrous beings and their human allies had shattered mighty magical shields as if they were glass.
