How does elasticsearch limit the results of a query on multiple index search?

Say i queried data that is contained in 5 indexes, and the results are limited to 100 will elasticsearch search all the indexes and get 20 results from each or get 100 results from the first index it encounters?

It actually works on a shard level. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/distributed-search.html is old documentation (written for 2.X), but the concept is still the same.

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