Initially, with the Hawkin Guards numbering only five hundred including Guard Captain Balkan, Alicia's strike force comprising seven hundred elites along with a thousand regular raiders was more than enough to overwhelm their opponents slowly.
But then, just when things were going smoothly, two hundred of those "things" appeared.
Initially, the "things" seemed like a normal two-hundred-strong unit of tall, hulking warriors.
They carried terrifyingly huge greatswords with Tuscany handles, and they were fully clad in heavy, adamantite-tier armor, with only their eerie, purple-glowing eyes visible through the gaps in their helmet's visor.
They looked like an army of justice on the surface, though their sinister eyes betrayed their righteous exterior.
Nonetheless, with only two hundred of them, Alicia didn't think that they would be able to turn the tides of the battle.
Unfortunately, her assumptions were quickly proven wrong.
