Rome imperial palace, June 436:
On the last day of June, the emperor assembled his ministers and his queen as quickly as possible, once all they came he issued several orders:
-Mobilize the Roman legions as quickly as possible
-The task of the Roman army was to finally destroy the rebels, and fight in the Persian chaos.
Then Alex told his ministers to oversee the army mobilization and at least mobilize sixty thousand troops mixed between humans and orcs and told everyone his intention to join the civil war.
Kahn asked Roman ministers to carry on the orders and leave the palace, and only Samantha stayed.
"Do you expect the demons to join the civil war? do you expect this war to expand beyond the borders of Persia?" asked Kahn with an anxious look but Alex looked at him calmly: "The demons would never miss such an opportunity to join a conflict or escalate it even further and make it a world war, considering that if I am correct that they are committing atrocities left and right".
The Rus front of the Demon Wars, back in mid-July to September 436:
Lucifer decided that it was a good idea to fight on two fronts, so he told his generals in Atil that he would divide the army into two fronts; the Rus front and the Siberian front while emphasizing brutal offensives and genocides.
All the generals and princes of the underworld who settled in the mortal world agreed to his plan and prepared for the war.
In the next three days, the Khazar armies were ready for war and they began by sending demonic dragons to burn the Rus cities to the ground.
Meanwhile, the Rus king Svaytoslav was surprised at this attack and ordered to prepare for defense.
Unfortunately, the demon paratroopers foiled any defensive preparations, they began to take over one Rus city after the other massacring thousands of its population; the slaughter continued for twenty days before the Rus emperor was killed in battle and the nation chose to submit to the demon empire.
Siberian front of the demon wars, from June to July 436:
The news of the lightning offensive reached the elven kingdoms
They were shaken to the core because the fall of the Rus was very fast so they immediately decided to meet in the kingdom of Sakha and agreed to unite and restore the Lorian Empire.
The demons launched another surprise attack on the entire Siberian front, with thousands of troops dropping from the sky and intense magic bombardment.
Unfortunately, the strategy of the demons failed as the elves managed to block their aerial attacks and even killed many demon soldiers. Moreover, the ground invasion came from various directions, starting with intense hellfire attacks and brutal mage-to-mage battles. However, these battles kept resulting in one defeat after another for the demons. Despite the repeated failures, the demon generals remained indifferent and persisted with the same strategy, leading to a stalemate.
Lucifer was extremely angry and told the demon generals to stop the attacks for now and focus on defense until he formulated a defense.
Meanwhile, the elves realized that they couldn't hold the demons for long so they also decided to stop their attacks until something could be done.
The Levant region, July 436:
News of the Persian collapse reached the rebel Levantine rebels and Persian troops garrisoning the lands, it became utter chaos as the Persians began to pull out of the Levant to the Sassanid faction land.
Realizing that they were on their own, the rebels decided to prepare for the inevitable as they started preparing anti-dragon arrows, their mages were trained as quickly as possible to fight Roman mages.
Now after the war preparations, the rebels thought that they were ready for war but what happened was a surprise and intense bombardment that lasted for three days as Filipe's dragon army and the Roman air mages kept bombing Levantine cities day and night under Kahn's order.
On the fourth day, the ground operations from Anatolia successfully reconquered the northern part of Syria but the southern front armies were stuck as twenty thousand troops were pinned down in the southern part of Semetia by elite guerilla fighters, so its commander Governor Constantine fired a massive fire spell that exploded on the city and leveled it to the ground, destroying people and animals alike.
As for the northern front, it became a stalemate so Kahn decided to start leveling one city after the other while unleashing his orc units on the civilians and soldiers alike telling them to eat and enjoy their meals.
This war became a slaughter that hardened the will of the Levantine rebels, the war became even more brutal than expected as both sides were inflicting massive casualties on the other without regard for civilians.
People were killed left and right as the Roman and rebel soldiers clashed fiercely in every battle on the Syrian front, and dragons supported the Roman units from the other by intensifying the bombardment killing over twenty thousand civilians in all the region.
Kahn kept reporting everything to the emperor as he was busy suppressing the revolt while telling him it might take longer than expected.
Back in the Roman Empire, July 436:
Shahrazad, the sister of the Sassanian princes, arrived in Rome telling the emperor that she would fulfill the agreement of her brothers and would satisfy his needs.
Alex looked at her calmly and said: "it seems that you are expecting me to be a lecherous perv but no worries I am not, now do you want to go with me to check the army preparations?"
Both left the capital toward Illyria where a large Roman army was being assembled, and after a month, a hundred thousand troops were ready and were divided between Elves, Humans, and Orcs.
"That's impressive, I never saw the elves willing to volunteer in the Roman army" spoke Alex with a surprised expression.
One of the elven commanders approached him:" Hello Your Majesty, my name is Flavius Majorianus and I can explain this by saying that the elven governor of Hispania managed to convince the Elves that loyalty is nice".
Shahrazad kept observing how the Roman Emperor behaved with his soldiers and she understood that he was a nice guy.
Now before the army was ready to teleport to Anatolia, Alex decided to give a speech to his soldiers: "This will be a trip to a foreign land that needs our help, you will certainly forge comradery with each other but be ready for losses and tragedy and i hope our trip won't have such tragedies, now as for the reason we are fighting this war, is that we are liberating the non sassanid ruled lands of Persia and unlike most of the wars we fought, do not harm any local, if you take a city behave as liberators not as conquerors and do not dare to raise a city to the ground"
The soldiers were ready and expressed their willingness to fight.
He also informed them of the plan: "Now commanders and soldiers, we shall advance from Anatolia to take the Sassanid part of Armenia and then advance to Ctesiphon and then drag the fight to Bahram's lands".
The commanders understood the mission and left through the teleportation panel alongside their emperor who told Shahrazad to stay with Samantha to learn everything from her.
War in the Levant, July 436:
Kahn's situation grew even worse, he kept ordering the execution of thousands of levant citizens while displacing thousands of citizens away from their houses.
The orcs in his army had a first from eating the corpses of women and children, then they would get ambushed by Levantine rebels who fought fiercely and even pushed the Roman forces out of Semetia into Syria but with each loss, the dragons kept burning the rebel cities and farms for an entire month till the rebels decided to surrender.
Kahn immediately sent the news to his friend, he reported that he lost ten thousand troops in the entire month of warfare and he proudly reported that he turned the entire cities of the levant to ashes.
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War in the east, August 436:
After arriving in Anatolia, Alex received Kahn's letter and was extremely happy saying that cities can be rebuilt.
He then arrived at the borders of Armenian rebels, he sent a message to their king telling him to surrender his part of Armenia to Sassanid rule
The rebel king came personally to deliver his message to the Roman Emperor and said: "I will not give up the freedom of the Armenian and caucasian people, I will free the population of Roman Armenia and unite the country to the border of Tigran the Great's empire!"
Alex looked at him: "Then I shall unleash my orcs to feast upon your people, I shall allow all my soldiers to assault your women and massacre anyone in front of them." he was interrupted by a messenger who brought a letter from Kahn and then he chose to read it loud: "My soldiers finished off the rebels, a lot of civilians died and since I know you love war crimes, I ordered the orcs to eat the meat of the enemy citizens and the dragons burned the entire Levant to ashes and you might guess the rest"
The Armenian rebel king immediately surrendered and begged for mercy but Alex laughed at him and spoke calmly: "My man, calm down and now I need you to be my insider in the Sassanid court and be my agent in the Persian state and spread Roman influence in the east."
Everyone but Alex was unaware of the fact that Beelzebub was using a fly to spy on them, he ignored it and explained his goal in detail.
Bahram decided to make the first move and sent his general Vishtam straight to Ctesiphon to conquer it.
When news reached Narseh, he panicked and requested Alex to hurry up and after waiting for two weeks, Alex's forces numbered thirty thousand troops reinforced by fifty thousand undead soldiers arrived in the Sassanid capital just in time before Bahram's forces arrived.
Ctesiphon, August 436:
Alex's forces were greeted in the Sassanid loyalist capital by the garrison and Khosrow Anushirvan and he was informed of the situation.
One of the spies entered and reported a force of a hundred thousand troops composed of Parthians and Dwarves from the Gupta empire was coming, that made Narseh panic, and told the emperor that they only had five thousand troops as garrison as they were forced to spread their armies to keep the remaining lands from rebelling.
One of the Roman mages, Julia Maesa told the emperor that she wished to talk and suggest something to solve this problem: "Let our emperor take care of this".
Alex understood her words and told everyone that he would take over the defense of the capital, he issued several orders to his soldiers and Sassanid forces to prepare for fortifications moreover he ordered that any civilians who didn't have years' worth of supplies evacuate and leave the city.
He then summoned seventy thousand undead soldiers with a finger snap.
The entire first half of the month was spent on preparing defenses for the city.
On twenty of August, Parthian forces finally arrived in front of Ctesiphon, sending a messenger demanding the surrender of the city only to be answered by the messenger's head flying straight to Vishtam who immediately ordered a siege and an encirclement of the city.
Alex expected this strategy and positioned the undead archers on the walls with him observing the enemy's action.
The Parthian army attacked using Mangonel, shooting fireball spell after the other at the walls but not being able to break it while using siege towers to try and enter the roof of the walls.
Alex responded by ordering the undead archers to target the Rhinos that were dragging the siege towers and shoot enemy archers and mages.
This resulted in the death of one Animal which hindered one of the tower's movements, while the arrows were completely blocked by Dwarf mages and Parthian mages.
Alex sent a command to the Roman troops and Sassanid troops to counter the Parthian attacks with their own.
The allied forces obeyed his order and prepared a lightning tornado spell and dropped it at the invaders but it was blocked with ease, unfortunately for the invaders, it was a distraction as three hundred fireball spells were seen dropped right at the invaders killing five hundred troops and destroying some of the siege equipment.
Alex praised Julia Maesa for her accomplishment as she delayed the enemy siege for several days.
The next day, the bombardment continued but no counter-attack was ordered and the Roman Emperor even pulled away the mage knights from the walls predicting that they would be broken due to intense bombardment.
He ordered the preparation of traps to greet the incoming attack and positioned Sassanid cavalry and five thousand of his undead human Roman forces while keeping the rest to defend the center of the city and spread his forces between the left part of the city where he expected a Parthian attack would start.
Finally, after several days of bombardment, the walls broke, and unfortunately for Vishtam, he was unaware of the trap as the moment he ordered his infantry forces to storm the city, the traps that were prepared started to explode on his troops killing five hundred infantrymen and injuring a thousand men.
The explosions kept happening, raising the losses for the Parthians who were forced to retreat.
Vishtam brought an artifact in the shape of a ball and when he activated it, the traps were deactivated.
Seeing this happen, Alex's reaction was pure excitement because this was the first time he had a challenge and then he ordered to sally out against the retreating Parthians.
Narseh told him that it might be a feigned retreat trap so Alex only sent the undead forces just to test his ally's theory, he was proven right as the undead forces were caught in a feigned retreat but they had survived and forced Vishtam to escape, and abandon the siege.
Rome, from September to October 436:
Samantha and Kahn handled the administration of the empire very well with local governments reporting profits.
Unfortunately, the moment October started, was the moment of Instability as the Eastern governors of the Balkans, Anatolia, and Egypt were couped and replaced by newer ones who immediately expressed allegiance to the empire and there were reports of even more stability happening around the empire's local governments
Samantha panicked because once again the Eastern provinces were unstable and after discussions with Zagrios and Kahn decided to write to Alex to request his return from the frontlines in Persia and even Shahrazad agreed to her request.
Ctesiphon from September to October 436:
After the victory against the Parthians in August, the Allied forces spent the entirety of September preparing for a new offensive but just as they were about to launch their offensive at the start of the new month, the news of the politics in the federal monarchy system arrived to the Emperor and he was extremely Livid.
"He immediately assigned General Majorian to command the allied forces. Before he left, he touched the general and said, "The undead forces in this city will obey your orders because they will recognize my power. Don't worry, I haven't given any of my magic to you, as it would destroy your soul. I have simply established a link that will allow you to use the undead forces while I solve the problems in the east of the empire."
Rome, October 436:
After Alex arrived, he immediately got reports of the usurpations in the eastern provinces and even got a report of a new usurpation in Hispania.
This was bad news because the federal system that he set up to stabilize the empire and give the people a proper voice in managing their affairs was collapsing and that was bad for his regime, he immediately called all the new governors of Hispania, Anatolia, Egypt, and the Balkan province and demanded to know what is happening in the local governments.
After letting the governor's debate among themselves over who's going to represent them, they chose Diocletian the usurper of the provincial governor of Egypt, and explained: "Well our actions aren't against the imperial monarchy and we don't care about the imperial crown or sitting in that chair that you're sitting in, we just care about the people in our provinces whose lives were ruined by the corruption of the pre usurpations local governments who abused their powers and forgot their responsibilities toward their emperor and their people"
Alex was impressed by their speech of Diocletian and said: "My my, you have nice Oratory skills and now I must say that it is impressive that eastern regions are always unstable because I was fighting in a civil war in the Sassanid empire and there was a revolt in the Levant that was supported by our former enemy Shapur Sassan who got killed by his own general Bahram Chobin who proclaimed a second Parthian empire".
Diocletian was calm and confident that the emperor would support their action, and as he expected the emperor approved of the usurpations but told them: "Just don't do it again, it will be bad for your health if you all trigger another anarchy and its annoying for me to deal with."
After witnessing corruption and abuse of power in the local government, as reported by Diocletian, Alex decided to establish the office of watchers. The watchers were given the task of overseeing government activities to prevent such cases from happening in the future. Alex also issued a new decree to build the University of Antioch, which would teach both Science and Magic. Additionally, a financial decree was passed that prohibited the debasement of currency, allowing only Gold and Silver metals to be used. Finally, the ruler proposed these decrees to the Senate for voting and approval.
The senate Curia palace, October 436:
The Senate session started and one of the first decrees that were brought to the attention of the Senators was the Construction of the Antioch University.
Alexander Publius Cicero, one of the Senators and an ally of Diocletian immediately proposed that the Senate approve of this decree on the establishment of the Antioch University.
On the right side of the Senate, Senator Cato and his Patrician faction tried to disapprove of this law and even oppose it but he was interrupted by Traianus Decius who said: "Gentlemen, let all not pretend that the emperor cares for our opinion...." he was interrupted by Markus Julius Philipus of Arabia: "The emperor cares about others opinion, the proof is that he accepted the new governors who took power by force for the sake of stability because the system he set up is very unstable and would require continuous interventions from the central government and he is annoyed by it because it disrupted one of his mysterious plans."
The Senate gave their vote of approval to the law that establishes the university but when they came to the second law which is a financial law, a heated debate started that forced consul Galerius to cancel the senate session due to the inability to vote sending a report of everything that happened to the emperor in Rome.
Imperial Palace, Rome October 436:
Alex got a report of the result of the Senate session and was happy about it even when the session abruptly ended due to the controversy that his second law generated.
Samantha was annoyed because this held the state but Alex finally decided to expose why he let the senate exist and why he tolerated their opposition: "If this law is bad, I better know it before it becomes one of the state legislations and I really would like not dealing with a civil war or instability specifically in the eastern provinces of our eternal Rome so now tell the Senate to convene as quick as possible to vote on the financial law and if they refused it, they must propose a new economic decree and I might attend one of the senate sessions as I have never done."
Samantha obeyed and she went with Shahrazad to the senate to meet with consul Gallerius and went to the Senate Curia palace to tell the consul her husband's orders.