There was strength in numbers.
This truth had been acknowledged across existence since the earliest days when the first beings clustered together for protection against threats they could not face alone.
Many had proclaimed that if one simply possessed sufficient quantity, quality became secondary concern.
Accumulate enough. Gather enough. Amass enough.
This was true, but only to an extent.
If there existed a terrifying army of knights numbering 100, each capable of massacring a peasant with single swing of their blade...trained warriors encased in armor that deflected weak strikes, wielding weapons that cleaved through unprotected flesh like scythes through wheat...
Then even 1,000 peasants might not accomplish much against them.
The peasants would charge. The knights would cut them down in swathes. Bodies would pile. Blood would flow. And the knights would stand victorious over mountain of corpses.
