Seeing the Lord of High Cliff Castle in person made this group of Follow-up Knights very excited, but they found it hard to reconcile the legendary Lion Hunter Knight—a man of extreme methods and extraordinary valor—with the impossibly handsome young man standing before them.
The ceaseless, tide-like praise from the Follow-up Knights made the Lord grin from ear to ear, but their performance on the training grounds made his expression instantly collapse, his disappointment difficult to hide.
To put it simply: in foot combat, they were beaten black and blue by the Beastman Barbarians. In mounted combat, they were run ragged by the Jackal Wolfman Cavalry and the Centaurs. And in archery, they were utterly crushed by the Feder Archers.
In less time than it takes to eat a meal, their initial high morale evaporated into dejection, completely stripping them of their pride.
