"Hmm?"
As the smoke from the explosion dissipated, Lieutenant Haisler, who had been staring at the periscope, hummed in surprise. The number of remaining heat sources from the enemy was much larger than expected. The infantry shotgun didn't work as well as it should have.
How is this possible?
There were no cries, no mutilated bodies. The winged bird-man knights were still charging, their distance less than 1000 meters.
This isn't logical.
The power of that type of shell was terrifying. A direct hit, even to knights with a giant shield, would turn their armor into a colander. The General Equipment Department had even provided a bunch of grotesque photos to prove that the same shotgun could turn even heavily-armored knights into sieves.
What had they done?
