Chapter Twenty-Two "Battle of Carne"

"Hey!" First Prince Barbos of the Re-Estize Kingdom shouted as he stared in disbelief at what he was seeing. "When did this happen?!"

"Your Highness, everyone else is thinking the same thing…"

"I know that!" Barbos growled.

He turned to look at the thing that had been causing both him and others alarm. Carne Village. It was no longer a simple farming village at the frontier of the Kingdom's territory. What he was looking at was a complete abnormality. The wooden walls that had once surrounded Carne Village had disappeared and, in their place, thick and tall stone walls had appeared out of nowhere. Carne Village had become a fortress in a blink of an eye. Something that should be impossible even by the standards of magic that Barbos knew of.

"Felix, what is your explanation!" Barbos turned to his personal magician.

"I can think of two possible explanation your Highness," said Felix. "The first explanation is that there was an illusion that hid the fortifications from our view this entire time. The second explanation is that the fortifications were made just recently with the usage of magic."

Barbos paused at what he heard and tried to recall if anything he had learned about in history had such feats as the ones that he heard. Powerful illusions and the creations of fortification was nothing new. It was something that Barbos had known about. Yet, none had been as wide-scale or potent as the one that he was seeing before him. The only thing that he could recall of a similar feat was not from confirmed history but those of myths.

"Assuming either two feats are the correct explanation, what kind of tier magic are we looking at or how many magicians could have done these feats?" Barbos asked.

"Unfortunately, this is outside my knowledge of expertise. I have some knowledge of combat magic but my main specialty is of healing." Felix, Barbos' personal magician shook his head. "What I can say is that I believe this is likely the work of Shirou Emiya… I have heard many rumors regarding the proficiency of his magic skills. Some claim that he is more powerful than Imperial Court Wizard of the Empire, Fluder Paradyne. Reputable one of the strongest human magicians capable of 6th Tier Magic."

"Sixth Tier?! Is that even possible?!"

"It has to be a lie! No one besides the legendary heroes and monsters are supposed to be capable of such a feat. That is just propaganda sprouted by the Empire to make themselves seem very powerful!"

Barbos remained silent as conversation broke out around him. He didn't know if 5 tier magic and above was possible by humans. It was said to be outside the realm of humanity and those humans that do achieve it were historical figures that left their mark as legendary individuals. The notion that one individual could make fortifications fit for a fortress around a farming village or hiding it seemed very difficult to believe. That was until he factored in who was the one that Carne Village was the hometown of. Shirou Emiya was supposed to be singlehandedly capable of feats that could only be possible by a small army.

"Enough!" Barbos shouted to silence his followers. "There is no point wasting time in mindless speculation. We are wasting precious time. Time that we are giving the defenders to strengthen their defenses further." He looked towards his military commander. "What is the status of my current troops?"

"Your Highness, our troops currently stand at ten thousand. The last of our forces will arrive soon. They are about an hour march away."

Barbos nodded in appreciation at the news. He turned and looked upon Carne Village. It no longer looked like it was just a mere farming village anymore. Carne Village was now a fortress. The defenders no longer seemed like poorly equipped village militia from the last battle. They were now sporting equipment clearly superior of his troops.

He chewed his lips as he thought. He saw several problems if he was to take Carne Village in its current state. There were three components that made the task of capturing Carne Village a difficult task. The defenders. The fortifications. Shirou Emiya.

The defenders were incredible powerful. A reported number of two dozen defenders having defeated a force of a thousand of his soldiers during the last battle about an hour ago. About two hundred had been wounded or killed by two dozen defenders and the remaining three hundred causalities caused by ensuring panic as soldier fled an superhuman enemy. Despite the number of defender being no more than a couple of dozens their lack of numbers easily compensated with the sheer ability of each individual defender. Their superhuman abilities further enhanced by superior training and equipment. It was difficult for Barbos to evaluate how many soldiers each individual defender was worth, but he was going to place each defender being worth fifty men as a rough estimate.

Fortifications were another thorn to Barbos task of taking Carne Village. Barbos was not looking at any mere fortress. This was not something that was normally made within several days, weeks or months. It was a fortress that normally would've taken years to make without the aid of magic. Stone walls that were six meters tall. The thickness of the walls was unknown, Barbos was willingly to bet that they were thick enough to withstand prolonged punishment from siege weapons. Also, the design of the fortress had many defensive features that greatly aided the defenders to the point that defenders may as well have several more times their number when on the defense.

The final and most troublesome problem that Barbos had with any plans of assaulting fortifications and taking Carne Village was Shirou Emiya. Ever since the Empire had declared war on the Kingdom the status and location of Shirou Emiya was known. It was like he had vanished into thin air. If Shirou Emiya or any of his team was within Carne Village than Barbos faced an incredible opponent(s) for each one was an admantite adventurer said to be worth a battalion of soldiers on their own. Even more if Team Chaldea was to work together.

Barbos looked at war table to see how many of his forces were currently available for deployment. Out of the fifty thousand troops that he had set out with his current troop count was about ten thousand. The first attack of a thousand of his soldier had been a disaster. Two dozen defenders out of a couple of dozens managed to repel a thousand. If he was going to have any real chance of taking Carne Village, he needed to deploy several thousand troops.

"Assault Carne at once with all our current forces!" Barbos barked. "Send a message to the rest of my force to quicken their speed and hurry."

- O -

A steady stream of oil-filled pots impacted on the sides of the wall, followed by flame arrows. The explosive impacts were comparable to the bursting of fireballs, creating bright red flames which gave off endless plumes of black smoke.

"Hold fast! Flames like these can't breach the wall! As for the defense of the gate―" Enri shouted before she was interrupted.

The sound of a heavy impact, doom, came from the outside of the gate. Once more, a great doom came from the gate. It was the sound of siege weapons - most likely battering rams.

"Someone, deal with the battering ram!"

"I am on it!"

Soon there was a series of small explosions where the battering ram had come from. Cries and screams of pain rose from the other side of the wall. The shouting soon gave way to panic and fear as soldiers were sent scrambling to avoid getting hit by fireballs. However, the battering ram did not stop. They must have been using multiple rams in a sequential attack.

"Take cover!"

A hail of arrows from the enemy came down towards Enri. She easily jumped out of the area that arrows had landed. When she got up she saw that not a single arrow had struck herself or her fellow defenders.

"Prepare for close combat! The invaders are scaling the walls!" Enri shouted as like always an attempt to scale the walls by the attacker followed the hail of arrows was shot at the defender. "For Carne!" She shouted as she launched herself into combat with the closest soldier to scale the wall.

"For Carne!" Enri's fellow defenders bellowed as they engaged the invading soldiers.

Enri dodged out of a sword and with agility that surpassed most humans and dispatched a soldier. Soon another soldier died as she slashed his throat before moving onto to several more soldiers. She mowed down soldier after soldier until she stopped when there were no more soldiers to fight.

Looking for more soldiers to fight, she only saw the corpses of dead soldiers or injured enemies that were being finished off by her fellow defenders. Enri saw the attackers seemed to be retreating into the distance as they seemed to be regrouping in preparation for another assault that might happen anytime in the future.

"This is so weird…" Enri muttered as she recovered her breath. "This still feels incredible strange despite having months to getting used to it…"

"Yea, same here…" One fellow defender replied.

"Who knew that Shirou-sama was so skilled. Not only is he a master swordsman, archer and magician but he is also a skilled enchanter and pharmacist."

"Yea, I thought Shirou-sama had been joking when he was going to ascend us to high humans!"

"When was Shirou-sama ever the type to joke around? Has anyone seen him even make a joke once?"

"No, but I heard rumors that he is a complete different person when he is with Arturia-sama."

"That is likely true. Have you seen the look Shirou-sama gives Arturia-sama? It is that of someone in love."

Enri smiled at what she was seeing. Even though they were facing an enemy of overwhelming number her fellow defenders were chatting to each other happily. It was a good sign. Her teacher, Arturia, had taught her in this kind of situation morale was the most important factor over anything else. She hoped that their good morale held until reinforcements from Chaldea or their savior arrived.

The chatter soon came to an end when the defenders heard several things. The sound of battle cries coming from more than several hundreds of voices could be heard from the other side of the wall. Wood hitting against stone as ladders pressed against the walls. Something heavy smashing against the gates. Sound of attackers coming from everywhere.

"It's another assault!" Enri shouted.

"Damn they are everywhere!"

"What a sneaky bastard! Help me over here. Some of them are trying to quietly scale the walls while their allies keep us distracted."

Enri cursed. Quantity was a quality of its own. Despite how strong she and her fellow defenders were, they couldn't be everywhere. There could slaughter a hundred soldiers without a problem but during that time they could be tied down with fighting. Another force of soldiers could bypass them and open the gates. Such a feat would negate the fortifications' ability to limit how much of the enemy force that could be brought to bear against them at once and they could be overwhelmed by sheer number or attacked from exposed flank.

"Fall back to the second line of defenses!" Enri shouted.

"Go, Enri-san. We shall act as the rearguard!"

For a moment, Enri didn't want to move. She wanted to stay behind and help as the defenders were fighting but she had a duty. Arturia had taught her that she was important centerpiece to the defenders. She was the leader. The one that made the decisions and the ability to formulate how to best use her soldiers. If she was to die than her fellow defender would be in disarray from the morale loss of their leader and inability to respond properly as the chain of command had been shattered.

"You better not die on me! You hear me!" Enri shouted as she gave the group of volunteered rearguards at grateful look.

"We are not planning to die here, Enri-san. We have our family and friends to see. Get out of here while we hold them!"

Enri nodded and didn't look back as she ran with her fellow defenders to the second line of defenses. The retreating defenders were nearly there to the safety of the second line of fortifications when they heard horses from behind them. She turned around to see an unexpected sight.

"No way… When did they sneak upon us?" Enri muttered in disbelief.

Over a hundred mounted knights had appeared from behind them. Enri didn't know how the knights had managed to bypass the first line of fortifications, but they had somehow done it. Anger welled inside Enri as it became apparent that a section of the first line of fortification had been managed. That meant some of her fellow defenders had failed and been killed.

"Run! Don't just stand there!" Enri shouted at her fellow defenders that were stunned at the sight of enemy knights.

The defenders quickly snapped out of their daze and ran. The enemy knights were stunned at the sight of the defenders running. It confused them as the superhuman and invincible defenders that had slaughtered so many soldiers had turned tail and ran. The reason was simple, the Carne Village defender had been trained to fight infantry and not cavalry.

Seeing the superhuman and invincible defenders, the knights pulled the reins and kicked the horses to chase after the enemy. The knights released war cries as they thirsted for the blood of their enemies. What none of the knights expected to suddenly find themselves not moving and impaled into wooden stakes that had not been there before.

What just happened? The impaled knights thought but they didn't have much time to think as the previously fleeing defenders turned back.

Soon the knights that survived being impaled into the wooden stakes tried to free themselves. Many of the knights were unable to and were promptly slaughtered in their helpless states but some were able to free themselves. It didn't matter as their injuries prevented much movement and they too were quickly slaughtered.

"Good work everyone…" Enri gasped out as she recovered her breath.

"Here take this," said Nfirea as he walked out from the second line of fortifications that were not too far away. "Please don't drink the potions in one go. Drink it slowly as you don't wake to be knocked unconscious by physical and mental overlord of your sudden recovery."

"Thanks, Enfi…" Enri said gratefully as she took the stamina recovery potion from her lover's hands and slowly drank it down. "How is everything going?"

"Our current status is…"

- O -

"…broken through the first line of fortification. We have taken…"

Barbos remained eerily silent as he listened to the battle report. His fists balled up. The casualty loss was unbelievable compared to the causalities inflicted on the enemy. It had taken some twenty-five hundred men to take the first line of fortification. Two thousand and five hundred for thirty-six individuals. Under normal circumstances that would have been a military disaster but not when considering how powerful and dangerous his enemy was.

"Several of the enemy defenders have been captured and we have tried to interrogate. So far they have revealed nothing to that we wanted to know…"

His jaws tightened as his teeth grinded against each other. If anyone was to hear how he was having problems with a several dozen defenders despite having an overwhelming numerical advantage than he would become a laughing stock. The number of causalities that his army was taking just to take out thirty-six defenders would be used to justify how inept he was as a military commander and greatly undermine his claim to Re-Estize Kingdom throne even if he was the firstborn. Barbos needed evidence to prove that it was not his incompetence that was causing what should be an easy victory over a fortress with several dozen defenders when he already had ten thousand troops at his immediate disposal and forty thousand more soon to join him.

"What we wanted know is very little. This very little information included a very baffling claim that the interrogated villagers seem to make is that their claim to have been ascended as high human…"

"What did you just say?!" Barbos demanded as he snapped out of his musing.

"I said 'what we wanted to know'…"

"I mean after that!" Barbos shouted in agitated tone. "You said something about high humans correct?"

"That is correct, your Highness…"

That must be it! The reason to explain why the defenders were so capable of fighting off my soldiers! Now I cannot be treated as laughing stock. All I need to find evidence that I was fighting high humans, and no one will be able to accuse me as an incompetent military commander. Barbos thought eagerly as a smile grew on his face. "Felix, please enlighten me to what a high human is. I don't want the myths, but the known facts."

"Ahem…" Felix, Barbos' personal magician, cleared his throat. "High Humans were a branch of our species that went extinct two centuries ago as they were hunted to extinction by the Evil Deities. The Evil Deities supposedly hunted down high humans as they were the greatest threat to the Evil Deities."

"Tell us about what the high humans were capable of…" Barbos gestured at his personal magician.

"High humans are said to be vastly superior mentally and physically to us, humans, that they were seen as superhumans…"

"High Humans are extinct! Are you telling us that not only are they not extinct but that we are fighting high humans!" A noble shouted in outrage as he stood up and pointing accusingly at Barbos' personal wizard.

"Impossible! The information we have that the tax collectors had gathered on Carne Village never anything about high humans. Carne Village was supposed to be like any farming village at the frontier."

"Clearly the tax collectors have been lied to or bribed if what we are fighting is anything to go by."

"We must execute the tax collector! He is a traitor for hiding this kind of information from us."

"Indeed, a traitor that is aiding the enemy!"

The conversation within the war council soon strayed from the original conversation. Barbos didn't rein in the conversations that were forming around him as he listened to what his supporters thought and got a better grasp on their personalities. It was only when he believed that he had gathered the information he was looking for and tired from listening to nonsense that he stepped in.

"Enough!" Barbos roared and the war council soon became silent. "I believe that we are dealing with a village that is home to high humans. How this was hidden from us or any other question relating to the matter is irrelevant to our situation! What we need to focus on is Carne Village." He looked around at his war council. "Please continue on what we know and believe about the defenders."

"As I was saying… the interrogated defenders have made claims that they are high humans and equipped with magic items."

The war council remained silent as they digested that information.

Barbos' mind raced to analyze the information and figure out how to best use it. He frowned in displeasure as the enemy that he was fighting became even more dangerous. Each high human was supposed to be naturally blessed with the strength, speed and endurance ten times of their regular lesser cousins, regular humans. It didn't just stop there. Each high human was supposed to possess the mental capacity of what would be considered a prodigy of normal human standards. If it was just high humans equipped with regular non-magical equipment than he would less agitated at what he was facing. Factoring in the fact that he was facing not just high humans but also being equipped with magic items made the enemy several more times more dangerous than he had initially assumed the defenders would be.

"It has been nearly two hours since the battle started and with ten thousand soldiers we have only managed to seize control of the first layer of fortification at the cost twenty-five hundred soldiers," said Barbos as he looked at his war council. "I believe it is safe to say that we should deploy the rest of our forces. Does anyone disagree with my assessment?"

None of the war council seemed to disagree. Barbos bet things would have gone differently if they hadn't heard the news of high humans or that the fact the enemy using magic items had been confirmed.

"So be it! I, First Prince Barbos of the Re-Estize Kingdom, order that the entire force of fifty thousand soldiers are to assault Carne Village at once!"

- O -

"How are we supposed to fight that?!" One of the defenders shouted in disbelief as she pointed at the seemingly unending wave of soldiers that were heading towards them.

"Where is Shirou-sama?! We need him right now!"

"Forget our savior for now. Where is our reinforcements?! Chaldea shouldn't be taking this long to send us reinforcements!"

"Are we being left here to die?! Chaldea is a place that is impossible to reach unless someone can teleport."

Enri became incredible afraid as she watched her fellow defenders losing the seemingly unshakeable morale that they had been showing before. Morale was soon hitting rock bottom as her fellow defender lost their will to fight and some even considering abandoning the fight. She had tried to call upon the "charisma" that her teacher, Arturia, had said she had possessed. Yet, any attempts to calm her people or rally them had failed.

"Should I use it?" Enri wondered as she pulled out a horn from her pocket.

The horn was supposed to be something special. It was given to by her savior, Shirou Emiya, after Arturia had decided to take her as an apprentice officer. Supposed it was going to be her something to be used in her greatest time of need. She didn't know if it would truly work but she definitely found herself in her most dire situation of her life. Enri didn't have time to wonder if the horn would truly work. She placed the horn to her lips.

Please work! Help me get out of this situation alive! Enri wished as she blew the horn.

What rang out was a basso profundo note that made the very land tremble.

"En-Enri…" Nfirea spoke in a panicked tone.

Enri realized that the panicked Nfirea was not looking at her, but beyond and behind her. She followed Nfirea's line of sight and turned her face. She found the seemingly never-ending army that had been charging at them stop. The charging army looked so shocked that they simple stopped moving. That didn't mean the army just stopped. The soldiers and knights behind them smashed into their comrades in front. As a result, soldiers were trampled over and crushed by humans and horses alike as the army came to a stop.

"Eh?" Enri blurted out in confusion as she finally got to see what was shocking everyone. "EH?! WHAT IS THIS?!"

Enri and Nfirea could only stare in disbelief at what seemed like a thousand soldiers appearing out of nowhere. It was not the fact that a thousand people had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. The thing that caught their eyes the most was how fast the small army seemed. They moved so fast that it was like they were staring at only afterimages left in the wake of the army. Only the imprinting of feet on the ground as evidence that Enri's and Nfirea's eyes were not looking at an imaginary army.

"FOR SHIROU EMIYA!" Hundreds of voices roared as they smashed into the Re-Estize Kingdom Royal Army. The roaring continued as the sound of metal clashing against rang. Soon the sound of agonizing screams and confused shouting followed. It was the sound of people fighting. People being injured and dying.

Enri and Nfirea stared at the where the sounds were coming what they found was to be a witness of an unbelievable scene. It was not the scene of proper fight. What they were seeing was completely different from what they had been part of not too long ago as they fought the soldiers and knights. A fight would be wrong to describe what was happening. Slaughter. That was what was happening. The newly appeared army was completely and utterly annihilating soldiers and knights like they were nothing. Tens. Hundreds. Thousands. It didn't seem to matter. An unstoppable force that nothing seemed to stand in the way.

It was a bloodbath. Parts of weapons, armor, flesh and bone were sent flying into the air. It was not just limited to parts. Entire whole sections of humans and horses were too. Anything imaginable that was once made up equipment or living beings shot in every direction that was the battlefield.

What did I unleash…? Enri thought in horror as she felt bile coming up.

- O -

"My Prince! Please allow the men to fall back!"

He glared angrily at the knight addressing him. It was obvious what he should do. Rationally speaking, they ought to fall back now. However, running away was also not an option. Defeat was not an option for him. If he was to retreat than he was as good as died. Barbos would not only shame himself but his family and his supporters. The shame would be so devastating that he would likely be disowned and abandoned. Something that he would result in him losing the protection that had kept him alive from his enemies.

"...Denied. Keep fighting." Barbos growled.

"Your Highness! Please reconsider! Our side is largely composed of peasant conscripts; our chances of victory are slim. I beg you to order a retreat!"

Barbro knew that as well. He knew that his forces were losing. Badly and the chance of victory seemed far away. The military training that he had received taught him that retreat, and regrouping would be the best option in this current situation. Yet if he didn't die on the battlefield than he was only delaying his inevitable death to poison or any means of assassination with the protection that he currently enjoyed were to be stripped away from him.

"You fool! We must defeat the defenders. If we do not than do you want them to join the Empire? Imagine the enemy fighting alongside the Empire's legions! That would be the end of the Kingdom as we know it!"

"Un-understood."

Soon Barbos saw the knight disappear into the distance to relay his message to the rest of his army. He didn't bother to continue watching the messenger disappear. Instead he turned to continue watching the fight between his army and the enemy army that had seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

Barbos growled as much as he wanted to deny what he was seeing that it was an absolute nightmare that he was dealing with. His army of fifty thousand was being decimated. Already a tenth had either been killed or forced to flee at the unstoppable tide. An unstoppable tide of new enemies that was made up approximately a thousand from what he could see. He needed to figure out something immediately or his forces were going to be defeated.

Dammit! I had to face an enemy of what is incredibly likely a small army of high humans! Barbos thought as he wanted to explode in rage but his need to keep a calm mind prevented him. How were the high humans driven to their supposed extinction again?!

Barbos was clawing his mind to think of how the high humans had been driven to extinction by the Evil Deities. Before he had to think of a brilliant strategy to deal with the enemy army that was decimating his army, they disengaged and retreated.

"Why are they retreating?"

"Be careful they might have something up their sleeve!"

"Get ready everyone for anything!"

Whatever they are doing this is an opportunity that we have to seize, Barbos thought. "Men form up!"

Soldiers formed up into ranks before Barbro. Barbro's forces had adopted a crane wing formation instead. They had not used the fish-scale formation because they wanted to make effective use of their powerful cavalry, and the enemy formation was poor at handling flanking attacks.

In the distance, the nature of the enemy army confused him. Barbos found that there seemed to be any standardized system applying into their equipment and formation. They were all equipped different from one another that not a single individual was the same. Their formation was loose and not very well organized. Instead of a proper military force that was well trained, equipped and disciplined he got the that he was facing a large number of mercenaries. He didn't know what to do exactly as he was not fighting against any enemy that he had any training or experience to fight.

"Your Highness, it is best not to think the enemy as what you have fought before like bandits or proper soldiers," said Felix, Barbos' personal magician. "Think that you are fighting adventurers."

"Oh…" Barbos muttered as he had been enlightened. "Now that you mention it… I can see it. The reason for the once seemingly irrational logic to why the used certain tactics… Thank you, Felix for telling me. Now I can finally make some proper plans to fight this new enemy…"

Barbos turned to look at the enemy in a new light. The information that Felix had provided allowed him to see what he had passed before. Adventurers didn't normally fight in large groups. They operated were small teams. Each individual specialist in a specific role. This would mean that they would organize and operate in small units anyway from three to ten individuals. Each team could operate independently from the other with a very loose strategy and chain of command.

A wall of great pressure bore down Barbos. The hand holding the reins of his horse were slippery with sweat under his gauntlets. He couldn't just forget something incredible important. Despite getting a greater grasp of the nature of the enemy that he was fighting, it was still felt like there unassailable obstacle in the way. That he was fighting superhuman high humans and that they were seemed to be equipped with magic items.

"Your Highness, you must not hesitate," said Felix in a firm and reassuring tone. "You are the First Prince of the Kingdom. You cannot show any fear or doubt. As a leader, your subordinates look up to you as an example. Give the order. They shall be carried out."

"You are right, Felix…" Barbos took a deep breath as he prepared to give out the orders that would decide the battle. "Here are my orders…"

Messengers were soon dispatched to relay Barbos' commands to the entirety of his army. Soon the orders were known to the entire army and they moved to enact them.

The Royal Army of the Re-Estize Kingdom brought their greater number of 43000 soldiers to bear down on the high human army. When the spear-wielding conscripts made contact with the high human infantry, they attacked like a wave would. Some of the conscripts would smash against the high humans while others would wash areas that the high humans didn't hold until they encircled the high human army.

The conscripts clashed with the high humans with devastating consequence. Hundreds of conscripts were wounded or killed within seconds, but it was a futile task to resist. Just as an ocean wave would wash through any obstruction that someone might make to protect their sandcastle on the beach. For every conscript killed, ten more seemed to take the wounded or killed conscripts place.

"Good, this is good," said Barbos in pleased manner as he looked at his army slowly grinding the high humans through sheer numbers. "It might take several thousand conscripts, but we will win as the high humans have no way to escape."

And then, something happened that Barbos had not expected.

There was a bright light appearing into the distance. Barbos was blinded despite being hundreds of meters away. He closed his eyes and even than the light was so bright that he had use his arms to cover his closed eyes. After the light subsided a bit was Barbos able to finally see what he was looking at.

"Impossible…" Felix said in a very quiet tone then he spoke words so quiet that Barbos couldn't hear his personal magician anymore.

"What is the problem?" Barbos asked in concern as he saw a frightened looking Felix.

"We need to retreat right now!" Felix turned to his liege. "If we don't there is…!"

"Calm down!" Barbos shouted as he placed his hand on his friend's shoulder and squeezed. "Slow down and tell me what is the…"

"By the orders of Shirou Emiya, we have arrived." Several voices shouted, and their voices echoed through the entire battlefield.

Barbos' mouth dropped open as he finally understood what Felix been so afraid of. He recalled memories of asking Felix about several questions to satisfy his idle curiosity. One question that he had asked had been about something that had happened in myths quiet often. The hero or villain being able to travel vast distance with the use of teleportation magic. Felix had replied that teleportation was something only of myth for it was 6th Tier magic and above, magic that was beyond the realm of humanity and those of legend.

"Taste the wrath of the Chaldea Heavy Infantry!"

Hundreds of warriors – Barbos estimated at nearly three thousand at best – charged at his army. This group of warriors were even more devastating than the first group that had decimated a tenth of Barbos' army. Barbos couldn't even compare the two as it was akin to comparing a dagger with a sword. Anything caught in their path was simply thrown aside in pieces as the Chaldea heavy infantry smashed deeply into his army and break apart their formation.

"Try escaping us, the Chaldea Light Infantry!

This group of high humans were more numerous than their more heavily armed and armored brethren. As a result of their lightly equipped nature, their movements were so fast that they seemed like shot arrows. The collapsing and breaking formation of Barbos' army were quickly encircled and harassed constantly to prevent any attempt to regroup and reorganize.

"Witness your doom by the hands of the Chaldea Magic!"

Magic. Just about every kind of magic that Barbos could imagine being used on the battlefield rained down upon Barbos army. The most numerous being elemental magic such as fire, water, earth and wind alongside more rarer forms of elemental magic. Even exotic magic that used things like light and darkness was used. Devastating magic that Barbos hadn't even heard of or known were used. Whatever magic was being used they were utterly devastating. Many times, there were not even anything remaining of his soldiers left after being struck by magic. Entire sections and formation ceased to exist from the devastation barrage of magic.

"None shall stand before us, the Chaldea Riders!"

From just about every direction came a horde of magical beasts – from gigantic version of common animals to rare magical animals – mounted on them were the high human controlling their mounts with skills that Barbos could scarcely believe. What made Barbos' jaw drop and look in disbelief was the appearance of incredible powerful and rare magical monsters that he thought was untamable or tamed only in small numbers like hippogriffs and pegasi. His eyes blinked refusing to believe what he was seeing when he saw wyvern, the smaller and weaker cousins of dragons. The magical beasts with their skilled riders causing havoc by running deep into his army's formations and bringing their power to bear.

The combination of infantry, magic and magical creatures was too much. Conscripts and professional soldiers alike were torn apart. Any attempts to reorganize broken with the destruction of the chain of command or the annihilation of the entire unit. Morale soon hit rock-bottom that none even tried to fight and flee. Barbos' forces lost any rational thought and did whatever they could to escape the battle even if it meant hurting or killing their allies. Those that tried to retreat were either destroyed before they could even try and if a miracle they were able to retreat then they were torn while trying to escape the battle.

"Your Highness!" Felix shouted, snapping Barbos out of his shocked state. "We can't hold them! It's only a matter of time before the enemy reaches us! We need to retreat!"

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