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Originally Posted by Archmagination2002

Finishing up volume 3.. figured out the battle sequence too.

Spoiler for Volume 3 Finish:

The battle sequence goes Edward vs Proto 1, Kid/Adi vs Proto 2 and Dietrich vs Proto 3.

Edward uses his experience battling the original prototype in the Cavalry Schools practice Arena to defeat Proto 1. Edwards Knight uses a kite shield in his off hand and that allowed him to corner Proto 1 who was trying to conserve energy(due to it being an energy hog) and with his experience managed to close in and defeat it, but he took major damage from doing so.

Kid uses the SArmor, the grapple and a large bastard sword(since Eru hasn't invented a weapon to use with SArmor yet) to ambush and surprise Proto 2. Adi is using the prototype crossbow to chip away at Proto 2 from a distance. Proto 2 manages to get a bead on Kid while he is in mid-air. Kid desperately uses Eru's Air Compression Bullet to change his direction, barely avoiding dying. Kid then uses Air Compression Shield to cushion his landing.. Kids grapple is broken and stuck to a tree and his sword was damaged from the desperate movements. Adi is running over to save him and Proto 2 attacks only trip face first over the grapple line.. Kid used it as a trip wire. Proto 2 cockpit is forced open and its defeated before it can get back up.

Meanwhile Dietrich is following Proto 3 in the Red Knight and cursing because he can't keep up.(crappy pilot) Dietrich loses sight of Proto 3, but following its tracks he notices signs of combat and become cautious. In a clearing he spots a downed prototype and then see's Edwards White Knight, the Earl of Cumberland broken and pinned to a tree by a sword. Yelling Edwards name frantically he tries to see if Edward is alive.. Edward manages to wake up a little and tells him he is fine and to go after Proto 3. Afterwards Edward loses consciousness again due to bloody head wound.

Following the tracks Dietrich spots them running into a veritable herd of magical monsters.. Dietrich finds this very suspicious and tries to figure a way through or around them, but ends up getting attacked. Dietrich is getting surrounded in waves, but doesn't want to use his Tactical Magic since its a wide range spell and may aggro the rest of the herd.

Kid and Adi show up and offer to help, but Dietrich spots that they are in no condition to help with the accumulated damage to their equipment and he tells them not to. Thats when Hien-oh(my spelling is wrong) shows up with Eru piloting it.(Hien-oh is the mascot Silhouette Knight of the Cavalry School. Its parts and equipment are all different colors created and designed by graduating students) Even though its a mascot Knight, it is the pride of the school and is a powerful knight. Dietrich and Eru dispatch the monsters quickly and Eru tells them to forgot about Proto 3 and return to the fort.

4 of the 5 prototypes are captured/destroyed. The Duke takes stock and finds out that the pirate group used a illegal bait to attract and frenzy the monsters attacking the village. The Duke lost 20% of his men, most of his Silhouette Knights are heavily damaged and the fort is virtually destroyed. The Duke immediately travels to meet with the King taking Eru and the rest with him.

The Duke tries to take full blame for the loss, but the King doesn't allow him to. They discuss trying to locate the pirates who stole the Knight and about checkpoints,etc. The King meets with Eru and the students that were involved in the prototype building(they were summoned from the Calvary School)

Eru ends up telling the King that he wasn't to worried about the loss of the new Knight Frame since it was only a 1st Generation Prototype and that he had plans to build much more powerful Knights in the future. Eventually after a discussion, Eru still only 10 years old becomes the driving force behind a new Calvary School division called Knights of the Future(It uses a Japanese word with furigana saying Future Knight) They will have direct access to the National Knight Production Labs.

In a different nation, the King walks into a facility looking at a unusual Knight frame with a large backpack being taken apart by a blacksmith. The blacksmith is impressed by the design and comments about the unusual thought process it took to create it.

Goddammit. Stealing a kid's toys? That is low and I hope this thieving nation burns to hell.