The scene immediately descended into chaos as the battle puppets suddenly seemed to be empowered by enhanced magic, crashing about wildly, disrupting the knights' ranks with brute force and unpredictable tactics, driving them back to the steps of the temple. When the steel fist swung towards the frontline knight, they raised their steel shields to block it. With a booming sound, a bowl-sized dent appeared on the face of the shield, on the Sun God's emblem, distorting the once radiant smiling face into a crying one.
The paladins immediately lost feeling in their arms, a numbness that at least confirmed the limb was still there. The knights gritted their teeth, transforming their pain into strength, swinging their longswords at their foes. It was an attack that exchanged life for life, but the knights believed that Pate the Priest would cast the Healing Divine Skill in time to give them the upper hand.
