Chapter 115: The One Who Curses Digs Two Graves (11)
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Both armies finished getting into formation with the plains between them. The human army had spread their cavalrymen out in a line on both their right and left sides so that they could charge whenever they wanted to. If I were to make a rough estimate, they had at least 10,000 cavalrymen. Seeing 10,000 cavalrymen was truly a sight to behold.
A thing called aura exists in this world. Each nation likes to call it something different like air, emanation, aurora, etc, but in any case, it’s something that allows humans to become superpowered. This is what makes the military system here vastly different from the one back in my world.
To put it simply, it can drastically increase the strength of a knight.
No matter how strong you make your defenses with spearmen, if a knight swings his aura-enhanced sword, then he could cut the spears like a blade through stalks of corn. You can’t pierce a knight’s body even if you stab them with a sword or land a direct hit with an arrow. They become literal human tanks.
The military power of each nation depends on how many knights the lords of each respective nation possess. Rulers tend to become especially worried whenever they discover that one of their vassals have a lot more knights than necessary. You created another battalion of knights? Are you trying to start a rebellion?……They usually think along these lines.
Due to how important knights are, people tend to hire anyone that has a talent in using auras whether they’re a fallen noble or a commoner. The lords of minor territories are usually kept in check by their rulers, so they aren’t able to scout talented individuals. Therefore, those who are gifted are usually sent to the capitals of kingdoms or dukedoms where an effort to raise knights are usually made. In other words, where academies are born.
The ‘right to establish an academy’ is incredibly important.
Minor lords naturally don’t have the authority to create academies. You’d have to be someone like Margrave Rosenberg to be able to get those rights. As a result, the margrave had thousands of knights and cavalrymen. If they didn’t have the utmost trust from their rulers, then they would never be given the right to establish an academy.