Dragon’s Bloodline

There was a wilderness with the name of Falsas.

It was a rich plain at one point. A narrow river flowed through it, supplying the imperial capitals food. It was a massive grain-producing region.

Now, however, it was nothing but a wilderness. Through a certain rampant magic, the imperial capital and everything else disappeared.

An army made its appearance in an area just right to deploy its forces in.

The demon army came from the north, occupying a hillock and being vigilant of the enemies that were coming from the other three directions.

Allied forces approached from those three directions. They set up camp a sufficient distance away.

In terms of replenishing their supplies, the demon army was at a disadvantage. This was the human races territory, after all. Even though theyd occupied everything behind them, even ignoring the giant races among them, they were still a 500,000 strong host. Them fighting a war of attrition was unthinkable.

Meanwhile, although it was due to psychological reasons, the allied forces had to make this a short-term decisive battle as well.

What are demons? For humanity, they were pure evil. For the humans, it was impossible to allow them to stay in mankinds territory forever.

However, not giving into his generals opinions, the commander-in-chief, Sion, insisted that they should make this battle an extended one.

Although they had no less than double their enemys troop count, he didnt think that that was enough to win.

The demon army was composed of many strong races like goblins, orcs, kobolds, and beastkin. They werent lacking in races well-versed in magic like dark elves, vampires, nagas, and three-eyes, either.

They also had races whose bodies were overwhelming, like giants and trolls. He believed that as far as war potential was concerned, they lost.

The demon army dispatched a dark elf envoy to this awfully composed commander. The message was that if they were given these devastated lands, they wouldnt advance any further for the time being.

The allied forces rejected the offer, of course. They hadnt hurt the envoy, either. This was due to Sion recognizing the demons as an equal opponent, however.

In a certain sense, that was the beginning of a mutual understanding.

Their face-off reached the tenth day.

The demon armys state was visible to the allied forces to some extent. What was especially noticeable were their giant golems, the most characteristic of which being a single, massive blue golem.

Whereas the golems so far looked as though they were wearing knight armor, this golem was more animalistic. It looked like the silhouette that forsook everything to run.

Let alone the humans, even only a few people on the demons side knew that this was the final weapon made by the Demon King. In other words, it was the robot that united chemistry and magic. Its name was the Demon Kings Machine God.

And then the eleventh day arrived.

The first thing to move was a unit from the demon army.

Unable to endure their impulses to fight that were even stronger than a humans, it was a force of trolls that decided to attack of their own volition.

She clicked her tongue, but Rei gave the entire army an order to attack.

Move freely! If youre still alive when this is over, Ill lash you with my whip!

They didnt say it, but the staff felt that that wouldve actually been a reward.

After having a back and forth with magic, the fighting started.

The humans magic were primarily targeting the giants that were wrecking their formations.

As for the demons magic, it was focused on something much more annoying: Casalias dragoons.

By throwing down explosives down on demon troops from the sky, the demon armys formations were collapsing badly.

Be ready for attacks from above! That stuff isnt magic!

Still issuing orders, Rei looked over the battles progress. The demon army far outstripped the allied forces in ability to charge. However, once they clashed, they were surrounded and destroyed.

The same happens to their strong individuals standing alone, their numbers decreasing.

The demon army held a stronger war potential.

However, even including their elevation advantage, against the allied forces experience, their numbers were decreased little by little.

They numbered 500,000 and 1,200,000 before the confrontation, so any smaller tactics now would be meaningless.

Rei decided to call for a retreat when the allied forces reserves started to move so as to cut off the demon armys path to retreat.

The demon armys retreat began.

This was a retreat, but it wasnt that theyd lost. Although their forces on the outer edges were hit by attacks and were routed, the interior troops held their discipline and kept moving.

Moreover, a giant blue golem stood as the armys rear guard.

Wielding a giant halberd, the golem swept a way an entire human unit in one blow.

Notify your troops, pursuit is meaningless.

Sion judged that if they were to keep pursuing, they would instead be the ones to suffer a loss.

Indeed, the demon army had still maintained control over themselves, aiming for that.

(Our advance has finally stopped, huh? The humans as well.)

Rei muttered to herself, but she felt that everything was proceeding nicely.

However, in truth, the allied forces were dissatisfied.

It was common knowledge that the best results could be obtained while pursuing a retreating foe.

And Sion had stopped them from doing just that.

The second battle to occur between the demons and the allies would not have Sion in command of it.

The demon army retreated to the outskirts of the empires territory.

There, Rei received Demon King Ars arrival.

Then, the Demon King stopped their advance and started giving a speech.

It was a calm, composed explanation for their defeat. It wasnt something meant to raise their morale.

However, he added something at the end.

I will be there for the next battle.

There was nothing in existence that could raise the Demon Kings armys morale more than that.

With that, the Demon King summoned new robots in front of the army.

They were robots that looked the same as Reis and there were ten of them.

One of the robots were black with the rest of them being white.

Each time one of the robots appeared, the Demon Kings troops morale increased even further.

Three days later, a rematch between the Demon Kings army and the allied forces was held one the plains of Falsas.

Their army of 1,200,000 troops scrambled to run away.

It wasnt as though there werent those who would eventually make a name for themselves among those caught in the confusion.

But they were nothing but defeated soldiers for now.

The Demon Kings army let out their war cries.

Theyd triumphed. The now possessed the norther part of the empire.

However, there were still upwards of a million troops remaining for the allied forces, so it wasnt like they couldnt launch a counterattack.

But their remaining staff officers were lacking in ability.

Regretting that they dismissed Sion out of misguided rage, they returned to their countries.

Now, lets make a country!

Following the Demon Kings declaration, a nation started to be built.

Canals were built, soil was plowed, walls were made, and a city was erected.

It took a mere few days for it to be completed through the help of 500,000 people.

This was the birth of a city that would come to be known as Falsas in times to come.