Sinope, HQ of the guild of darkness in July:

After a month of traveling, Alexandros finally arrived in the guild.

"Welcome home Orhan," said Theodora, noticing his terrified expression and exhausted face asking what happened.

"The Roman Emperor's SOUL IS CORRUPTED BY DARKNESS".Alexandros screamed, this made everyone panic and the Grandmaster didn't believe him and asked: " What is your proof of this corruption?" Asked with great concern.

Orhan, still remembering his stay in the imperial palace, told everything to Grandmaster Heraclius, even telling him about the Satanic symbol of the pentagram drawn on his hand.

He was interrupted by Camilia who asked: "Then the true lord of the Khazarian demons is not Lucifer but Emperor Alex Rodgers?" and the answer that shocked everyone was: "Yes, if my theory is correct there might be a war coming but I need to confirm it and I need to confirm...."

Alexios was interrupted by none other than the Roman Emperor Alex Rodgers who recently found their HQ: "Hello everyone, how are you doing? Well it seems some of you are scared".

Heraclius asked him some questions about the demons and what he plans to do with them.

"Alright, so our enemies are an empire that occupies the entire half of Eastern Europe, another enemy that is so strong that we barely defeated him during the Byzantine civil war, and it was before the empire was restored and a lot of potential threats that want this Empire dead, due to me bringing the demons that are mainly for use against the Scarlet Empire and the Sassanid empire, I am sure they aren't so greedy to start great wars....." Alex was interrupted by one of the guild's member who reported that the demons started an invasion

of the Gokturk khaganate and he quickly returned to his palace.

Rome and the imperial palace, July 435:

Reaching his palace in the afternoon, Alex requested Samantha and Zagrios to appear before him and they teleported to meet him.

"I remember both of you warning me of the consequences of me bringing the demons to earth, it was something like a large conflict would break out".

Samantha was extremely worried and literally could guess what happened: "If my guess is right, Khazaria invaded one state of the anti-Roman coalition and we are about to be dragged into the largest conflict this world has ever known that could be horrific, well I guess this conflict would have happened anyway".

Zagrios wanted to say I told you so but he was prevented by his Emperor and asked what he did.

"Depending on the situation, we might have to go to war after all".

Alex all of a sudden asked Samantha: "Do you want to be my queen? I mean I kinda love you and I want to build a family together". He was sweet and polite to the point that everyone found him charming and a nice guy but Samantha saw through his manipulation: "Cut the lies, Alex, you want me to consolidate your dynastic future considering your rule is extremely fragile and also since I am the only one who knows how to keep you from going unhinged and I also love you so yes I accept".

Everyone was shocked because Samantha's rude behavior was tolerated by their emperor. He made everyone scared of him, and then they were ordered to prepare a wedding party and send invitations to local nobles.

After several weeks of doing nothing, the emperor issued a decree on the local governance of the people that stated that each governor had the right to employ advisors as his mini-government which had to be approved personally by the emperor.

For several days the wedding party’s preparations had been ongoing with the chefs preparing the greatest wedding cake of all time and preparing food while Musicians and poets were invited by the emperor to sing at the wedding party.

The emperor was busy selecting the perfect suit for him and accompanied his wife to shop for wedding materials in Rome and bought lots of wine and luxurious plates, then they returned to the imperial palace to check the preparations.

The entire month was spent on preparations and inviting the guests to the palace, the emperor also sent a letter to his parents to attend his marriage and even begged them to attend.

Rome, day of the wedding in August 435:

In the morning, the palace was full of people as they came to see the married couple.

Axel and Elisa felt awkward because they were commoners in a place full of Elite wealthy people but their son came and introduced his family to his noble guests, telling them to be nice to them during the wedding day.

Music started and some people started dancing while others were drinking and eating.

Finally, after several hours, the Roman Emperor and his wife appeared and they were celebrated by the attendees of the party.

The Rodgers family was finally happy that their son had accomplished great things and was completely proud of their son while being unaware of all the atrocities and massacres he committed during his reign.

Everyone danced and spent the entire day having fun unaware of the fact that Alex was the only one who knew that the demon state was engaged in a multi-front war with the Empire of the Rus and the Gokturk Kaganate.

After the wedding was finished in the Early morning, Alex and his queen went to their room.

Once in their room, they immediately started to talk about the situation in the East and what their plans were.

"My lovely wife, you might be shocked to hear me say this but I'm scared and worried because the coalition is too strong for us to face". Alex said with a concerned look on his face.

She laughed and said: "Wow, what a development..I mean from a guy who jumps to fighting wars left and right to a guy who gets scared if he fights a war, well my lovely husband, I think we might need to strike first like the demons." Said the Roman Empress with confidence.

Alex realized that she was right because by striking the Rus Empire and the Gokturk Khaganate, they were weakening the anti-Rome coalition for him.

As there was peace and prosperity in Rome and Europe, there was chaos in other parts of the world.

The demons of Khazaria decided that it was time to expand and proved that everyone had a reason to worry about their existence.

Their first target was the Gokturk Kaganate, ruled by the centaurs, and they seemed weaker compared to the might of the demon race.

Khazaria, Atil, June 435 before the start of the demon wars:

Lucifer sat on his throne, he received the news that the demon realm in Crimea pledged allegiance to Khazaria, and Azmodeus gave up his authority to his lord.

Being an ambitious demon, Lucifer quickly prepared a massive army and informed everyone of the intended invasion, ordering his subjects to keep it a secret.

After training for an entire month, the massive demon army was ready, so Lucifer left Azmodeus to administer his realm while choosing to command his army personally.

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Gokturk khaganate,Saray-Juk, July 435:

Life in the city was extremely peaceful, as the Nogai clan governed it very well to the point that Bumin Khan

was extremely impressed and gave them a monetary award.

This peace would be interrupted, on July the 25th 435, the demon army launched a surprise attack from the air, landed on the entire country, and targeted the city.

Under Lucifer's command, one million demon soldiers attacked the city of Saray-juk and its border towns. One town after the other kept falling with ease due to the intense slaughter that the demons committed on the native population.

Finally, they reached the walls of the city and kept bombarding it till it broke but the moment the demons tried to advance, they kept losing soldiers due to the traps that were deployed by Gokturk mages and it forced the demon army to retreat from the city.

The next day, Lucifer tried again, and this time he ordered the demon mages to disable all traps after huge difficulties due to a fierce magic battle, the demon mages emerged victorious and that was the signal for the infantry to advance.

The battle was extremely fierce, as both sides kept fighting for every inch of the city, the Nogai clan warriors fought alongside their soldiers fiercely and nearly killed one of the princes of hell Behemoth but they failed in their attack as the demon hordes kept pressing the defenders into a corner.

During the battle, the demon race killed all the soldiers and Nogai clansmen, making it a massacre. Due to this, the head of the Clan, Domon Nogai, fled from the battlefield to the Turkic capital Otuken to inform the ruling Ashina Clan of the impending doom upon their nation.

Battle of the Step, on the way to Otuken:

Meanwhile, the demons finally took over the Nogai lands with even more difficulties and then they tried to advance into the core lands of the Gokturk Kaganate, but they were encountered by a massive army of centaurs led by Issik Ashina.

."These fools don't know what's good for them". Said Lucifer when he saw the incoming army, he ordered his soldiers to be ready for battle and the demon mages started firing their spells at the advancing centaur fighters but they were blocked by a shield spell cast by their warriors.

Deciding to fight them with cavalry, Lucifer decided to send his demon cavalry to attack the centaurs while keeping his infantry knights.

The fight was extremely fierce as the centaur warriors and the demon cavalry clashed fiercely and slaughtered each other and even Lucifer decided to join the fight with his infantry.

The Centaur army was about to lose the battle as they had lost many soldiers but kept inflicting huge losses on their enemy, suddenly one young centaur fired (Hammer of the righteous holy spell) and this caused a chaotic retreat, and Lucifer was forced to flee with his forces.

This battle was decisive as the demon Khazars were forced on the defensive for the first time, Lucifer was extremely angry at his defeat, as he kept following his forces to Nogai lands.

He then received another bad news from Azmodeus, the Rus Empire led by Vladimir the Wise and his son Svyatoslav declared war on the demon Khazar, this forced him to abandon his goal of breaking away from his master's dominion as he left Behemoth to command the demon army while he teleported to Rome.

Rome, the present time in September 435:

Lucifer teleported to Rome, interrupting a meeting session in the imperial hall.

When Alex saw him, he greeted him: "Hello my man, you started a war without my permission and you didn't plan it very well?"

Lucifer, feeling utterly humiliated, kneeled and said: "We had won in the Nogai front but the moment we almost reached their capital if we had not lost the battle of the step due to their use of Holy magic".

Behemoth teleported and reported the situation on the frontlines saying that he was successfully defending his position from the advancing Turkish troops, this was extremely bad for Alex because this could show that the Roman Empire was invadable.

He decided to let them discuss their plan while he sat on his throne carefully listening to their plans.

After several hours, he noticed that both the demon leaders had bad ideas so he interrupted them: "Gentlemen, as you know your attacks failed against the Gokturk..." he was interrupted by Asmodeus who teleported to Rome, he looked exhausted and said: "My lord, I have defeated sixteen Rus invasions of our lands and even attacked them and captured the lands in the Volga river and captured the important city of Rostov and i' am near their capital of Petrograd and confined them to their northern lands and we defeated them in the battle of Tula in two weeks"

Alex laughed happily and Lucifer praised their subordinate for his quick victory, then they told him he had to deal with the Gokturk Khaganate: "We need to defeat those centaurs very quickly before the Persian shah decides that it is a good idea to intervene".

Asmodeus noticed that Alex was afraid of the Persians and told him that he could beat them and win but the Roman Emperor warned him of the consequences of underestimating the Persians.

"I believe it was the Persians and the Vampire scarlet empire that supplied the holy grade metals for the gokturks to make weapons with".

The Rus Envoy entered the palace after being allowed by the guards: "I came here to talk to the demon lord and not Lucifer but the man sitting on the throne".

Alex looked at him with his scary red eyes and told him that he needed to make peace with the demon race, and the Rus envoy was forced to accept.

The Roman emperor contacted the minister for manufacture and told him to start mining holy grade and increase the extraction of mana from the magic veins in Gallia and Levant, he then ordered to start producing holy grade weapons and split it between normal holy grade armor and weapons and dark unholy weapons that can counter the holy weapons by the year 437.

He looked at Lucifer and said:" Now before you ask me what should I do? well go fight the gokturks and win no matter the cost and as for the Persian threat and the vampire Scarlet, I can deal with them myself because they are our enemies as well".

Lucifer left the Roman imperial palace alongside Azmodeus and Behemoth to take care of the war effort while Alex told Kahn to observe the war.

Battle of Ashina From the last day of September to the last day of December 435:

After returning to the war, Lucifer immediately disobeyed his master's orders and launched a massive offensive on the Turkish khaganate with the support of massive dragon bombardment and intense demon mage.

One village after the other started to become ashes and their population was being brutally slaughtered, even the soldiers were surprised at this quick offensive and were forced to retreat inland to the city of Ashina.

Kahn was impressed with the military successes of his ally and suggested that he press the centaurs even further to surrender.

Once the demon armies reached Ashina city, they noticed it was heavily fortified so Kahn told Lucifer to carry on using the same tactics that he used to score further quick victories, and the demon king obeyed.

The moment he sent the dragon to bomb the city, dragon arrows started to target the dragons and for each fire attack, a dragon knight gets killed and falls from the sky.

The battle entered a new phase and became even more brutal when additional demon dragon troops arrived through a newly opened gate of hell, authorized by Lucifer's master. At this point, the ground forces launched an offensive while the air defense units continued to pose a nuisance and the battle was even bloodier as both the centaur soldiers and the human soldiers kept shooting spells and holy arrows killing a lot of demon soldiers.

Lucifer decided to keep the offensive and ordered his mages to fire their most powerful spells, and they chose the infernal fire spell.

The Gokturk mages tried everything they could to block the spell and prevent it from reaching the populated city and home of the ruling Ashina tribe. Unfortunately for them, they failed and the city was raised to the ground, with a lot of soldiers 70% of the civilian population of the city was killed and the remaining population had to be evacuated to the eastern part of the Khaganate.

After the victory, the demon forces kept taking over one city after the other and thousands were killed trying to stop their advances until finally the western part of the Gokturk Khaganate fell to the demon army.

Lucifer tried to order his army to advance to the Eastern part of the Khagante but Kahn stopped him: "Lucifer, you should stop your campaigns for now and consolidate your gains and if I'm correct, you control large parts of the Rus Empire, and the western part of the Gokturk Khaganate and that means your forces are stretched thin and if I am correct, your enemy would contact the Scarlet vampires and the Persian empire for assistance and even ask the Qin Dynasty for assistance considering the entire world views your existence as a threat"

The demon king understood what he meant and ordered his army to stop the attack while he absorbed the essence of corpses that were everywhere to gain a new title called the demon lord.

Meanwhile, in the Eastern part of the Khaganate, the Khan immediately started sending multiple assistance requests to the Elven tribal coalition of the Far East, the Qin dynasty, and the Sassanid Persians.

Bumin Ashina began to personally oversee the preparations of defensive positions on the borders with the occupied western part of his domain, he also began to prepare for war and train his army to recover his lost lands; moreover he offered the Demon Khazars a permanent ceasefire and his request was accepted.

Reports of the Defeat at the battle of Ashina shook the entire Asian continent and it even reached Europe as it meant that the demons were now one of the great powers of the world that rivaled the Romans, The vampire Scarlet empire, the Sassanid Persians and the Qin dynasty.

Meanwhile in Rome, a new crisis in the eastern provinces is about to start as signs of a certain revolt began to appear due to the oppression of the Semitic people by the imperial court in Rome and the support and funding given by the persians to Judas Maccabeus to form a liberation army and fight Roman oppression and evil deeds.