Erwin and Larwood finally knew why there weren't any magicians among the Skycourt Kingdom's ranks now. As it turned out, all of their magicians were hiding in that airship.

Beneath the gigantic shadow of the airship, the entire city of Haggardy had already been set ablaze. Looking at the city from afar, it resembled an enormous flaming pyre with dense smoke rising up to the heavens, and the anguished voices of the citizens in the city were ringing out incessantly.

Thankfully, there was a slight silver lining for the city's citizens, which was that the airship didn't linger in the sky above the city for very long. Instead, it flew directly toward the sky to the north of the city.

It was clear to Erwin that Luphen's intention was to avenge his mercenary legion's cavaliers, who had been dealt a heavy blow by the magicians of the Four Winds mercenary legion earlier.

With that in mind, Erwin gave Larwood a hand signal, telling Larwood to focus on the battle at hand and leave the airship to him. After that, he unleashed a barrage of instant-release spells up toward the underside of the airship. However, the airship was too far away, so all of the spells disintegrated into magic turbulence before they could even reach their target.

Luphen was looking on from not far away, and he was rather amused to see this. In his eyes,...