Sawken

**Sawken** is a cavalry knight of the Royal Capital Defense Force of the Louria Kingdom.

## Appearance

In the manga version, Sawken is a young man with thick curly hair. He wears full medieval knight armor.

## Personality

Sawken is a knight of the Defense Knight Order who fights mounted on horseback. The entire cavalry knights have skilled in the art of distracting the enemy with the agility of horses. They have been bequeathed the honor of the vanguard.

However, When the 32nd Troop and the Heavy Infantry Battalion were eradicated, he stood frozen in fear. However, when he saw the single man defiantly stand against the enemy attack, he felt embarrassed of his cowardly self. Had he not come with this attack, he would have stained the name of Louria’s knights.

Furthermore, there was simply no way that their outnumbered enemy could stand up against their gigantic horde. Even if they were to use their powerful breath once more, they’d likely run out of magic before they could eradicate them all. Their powerful army, already in the tens of thousands, was charging ahead. As far as the eye can see, he could only see a wave of soldiers running towards their enemy.

## Chronology

### Rodenius War Arc

After the cavalries of the 1st Cavalry were killed by light bullets from the machine gun of the JGSDF 7th Division on the battle, General Patagene and the military strategists were in a state of shock. As the fortunate survivors of the 1st Cavalry fled into the capital, the cavalry knight, who got injured with his head bleeding, finally began to speak to General Patagene that the enemy might be few, but they threw the light bullets as their weapon.

When the military strategists discussed considering the amount of magic it could cast, the enemy might deplete them of magic power if they use human wave tactics with many people. Lourian army would get killed one after another that way. The heavy infantry's shields might be able to hold on somehow, but they can pierce through the metal armor. While the military strategists still made discussion, General Patagene decided that they would have the entire heavy infantry deployed from the front gate and lure away the light bullets. The rest of the soldiers and cavalries would deploy from the other gates, which would be on their blind spot, spread out, and charge all at once.

After most of the Heavy Infantry Battalion had fallen to the battlefield, leaving only one Swallow with his magic shield by light bullets from 50 cal machine gun, the soldiers poured out from eight gates to defend the capital. Mounted knights, infantrymen, archers, and even mages all poured out of the gates and dispersed to meet their foes. One of the mounted knights, Sawken, readied his lance as he pushed forward with his horse.

When the regimental commander saw the soldiers and cavalries coming to attack the JGSDF 7th Division, he thought they're switching to a strategy of attaching to tanks and shooting them down individually. He sent a message to the JMSDF destroyer *Izumo* for air support.

At the direction of the regimental commander, ten AH-1S Cobras attack helicopters began to take off the northern coast from the JMSDF destroyer Izumo. As someone shouted, Sawken looked for something strange ahead of him. Multiple things flew up in the sky releasing light. When the meteor shower-like light hit the ground, a huge chunk of his comrades were swallowed by the earth that was thrown up, dispersing fragments of flesh and red splatter throughout the vicinity. Then there were arrows of light, raining down on them one after another at a more shallow angle. They all seemed to encapsulate an intense volume of explosion magic, landing within the extensive vicinity of Sawken and blowing up, erasing his comrades from existence.

Straining his eyes on the direction from where the arrows of light came from, he saw 10 insect-like objects hovering high in the sky. Those *things*, which unleashed powerful magic which burned the earth and let out thunderous roars, seemed to make flapping sounds as it slowly moved, further releasing more bullets of light. The places where the rain of light made its mark punched out deep holes into the earth, leaving behind red-hot craters. Launching even more arrows of light, they mercilessly wrought destruction upon them. Sawken was overcome by terror at the reality that no matter how much they struggled they cannot win. Adding insult to injury, the bullets of light which had mowed down the Heavy Infantry Battalion returned. He felt the heat to his right, and his gaze slowly shifted.

By the time he noticed there wasn’t anyone else left, he lost consciousness due to bleeding and helplessly fell from his horse to the ground.

## Trivia

* Sawken only appears as a character in the light novel and manga, not the web novel.

## Gallery

JGSDF AH-1S Cobras helicopter attacked the Lourian cavalries by cannon and missiles.