Years later, Charlotte still vividly remembered the first battle she participated in after her crossing.
Or, more accurately, she remembered the sunlit charge of the knights.
Accompanied by the deep sound of horns, over four thousand armored knights formed a conical array and charged toward the rebel cavalry, greatly outnumbering their own.
The golden sunlight illuminated the earth and the glittering armors of the knights, reflecting a brilliant glow.
No, it wasn’t the reflection of the sunlight.
It was the armored cavalry themselves glowing.
The complex patterns inlaid with Demon Crystals on the bodies of those belonging to the Bold Standing Cavalry of the Tulip Count Domain suddenly lit up, shining brilliantly as their lights swiftly connected.
In an instant, a thousand and five hundred of the Bold Standing Cavalry "wove" a pale silver net of light.
This net of light, like a conical arrowhead, enveloped the entire cavalry formation, and as the brilliance spread to the fully-armed nobles of the Northern Land, it became even more dazzling as if recharged.
Then, Charlotte saw the light net conjure illusions of armor and weapons, attaching to both the knights and their horses. The war armors on them seemed to merge into the radiance, becoming even more sparkling.
At that moment, Charlotte was amazed to find that the aura of all the charging cavalry began to rapidly rise and merge...
The distinct transcendent auras that she could clearly differentiate with her Bloodline’s keen perception quickly vanished.
Instead, a new, thick, unified transcendent aura emerged!
These cavalry... their transcendent powers had somehow integrated in some way, forming a new whole in that moment!
To Charlotte’s perception, these knights seemed to have merged into one, forming a more potent transcendent force.
The charging conical formation was like a gigantic sword of light.
Moreover, as more and more knights’ radiance joined, the "sword of light" grew increasingly powerful...
In the blink of an eye, those comprising the formation almost all reached the tier-entering individual’s level!
But this was not the end.
After crossing the Rank threshold, the connected transcendent aura increased further, quickly reaching a height that even Charlotte found moving.
A more dazzling brilliance flared up on the conical formation. Charlotte saw silver-gray lights spreading across the cavalry, quickly enveloping the entire formation.
That was the outward projecting of Source Power!
And the outward projection of Source Power is precisely the hallmark of the Silver Moon Second Tier!
The aura of these charging knights had actually all reached Silver Moon!
Although the aura was still unstable and not enough to pose a threat to Charlotte, a true Silver Moon, it had vastly surpassed the ordinary Starry...
Seeing the glowing cavalry formation charging towards them, the rebel’s main force instantly fell into chaos.
Despite not having clashed yet, Charlotte clearly saw the highly mobile Northern Territory Cavalry almost instantly choose to retreat, uniformly slowing down and turning around.
After the spread of the Source Power’s radiance, the charging knight’s formation’s speed became even faster.
Despite being heavily armored, their speed even surpassed that of the famously agile Northern Territory Cavalry!
On the open Riverfront Plain, the glowing cavalry formation seemed to transform into a massive silver battle axe, smashing into the main force of the rebel cavalry.
There were no tactics, no battle techniques.
It simply smashed directly into them.
With her excellent vision, Charlotte clearly saw the frontline rebel cavalry get effortlessly torn apart as soon as they came into contact with the cavalry formation.
They were literally shredded.
As if they were made of paper, with their horses and bodies in chain armor, all were shattered into pieces, bursting into clouds of blood mist...
Despite being composed of cavalry, led by armored knights, at this moment, the Legris Family’s elite forces seemed as if they were hitting a rock with an egg, utterly vulnerable.
Clusters of blood mist exploded on the battlefield, and the light-emanating cavalry formation easily tore through the rebel’s main formation, embarking on a one-sided slaughter!
Blood mist spread across the battlefield, spewed by the crushed rebel cavalry, swiftly expanding as the cavalry formation charged.
Witnessing such a terrifying scene, the morale of the rebel’s main force almost instantly collapsed, Charlotte clearly seeing tens of thousands of cavalry immediately fall into panic and chaos.
Then... it was an utterly one-sided rout.
Charlotte could see that the nobles among the rebels were still desperately shouting to maintain their formation, but it was beyond salvaging.
After witnessing the terrifying power of the cavalry formation, the charging rebels lost all will to fight and started fleeing en masse.
And those nobles who attempted to save the situation were quickly engulfed and vanished within the brilliance by the approaching cavalry formation...
The deep horns sounded again, the thundering of hooves reverberated through the skies.
Within the glow, the conical cavalry formation transformed again, gradually beginning to disperse.
Gradually, they transformed from a light cone into three almost linear echelon formations, like lions pursuing their prey, starting the pursuit of the rebel cavalry.