Demon Wars, from October 436 to February 437:
The wars between the demons and the elves were really brutal as demon cities were sacked one city after the other while the demons were doing the same to elven cities and villages.
Lucifer even unleashed demonic Ogres against his enemy thinking that they would beat the elves but his entire ogre forces were crushed at the battle of Komi and his advances into Elven Siberia were completely repulsed and he was pushed back to the Status Quo in the last three weeks of January 437.
Atil, January 437:
The Khazar demon emperor got the news of the defeats of his forces in the battle of Komi and all his advances were halted, he was extremely mad at his generals because the frontlines were now back to a stalemate.
"YOU BASTARDS ARE TOO INCOMPETENT, NOT ONLY YOU FAILED TO TAKE A SINGLE CITY FROM THE ELVEN FORCES AND YOU EVEN GOT CRUSHED IN MULTIPLE BATTLE THAT PUSHED US BACK TO THE STATUS QUO FRONTLINE BORDERS" Screamed the demon emperor at his generals who were ashamed to speak, suddenly one general decided to speak: "My lord, I know we failed despite the odds of victory are supposed to be with us, but hear us out, the Elves are using divine tier weapons and magic because they figured out it was the only way to defeat our army and if I am correct, the source of this knowledge comes from the dwarven race who back Bahram Chobin's rebellion against the Sassanid triumvirate" Spoke Belphegor.
Lucifer understood what Belphegor intended to do and issued new orders to his generals: "If Belphegor is right and he certainly is, it might be a good idea to extend the frontline and eliminate Bahram and his backers before they become a threat, therefore send a message to emperor Alex and tell him that my war will extend to his front as well and explain everything about the Elves' use of divine tier magic and weapons"
Belphagor decided to volunteer as a messenger to explain Lucifer's intentions to the Roman Emperor even when he was known among his peers as being the reincarnation of the sin of Sloth.
Rome, January 437:
Alex and his wife were enjoying a fanciful night in bed but at midnight, a messenger interrupted them by telling the emperor that a messenger from Lucifer had come to meet him.
Alex didn't appreciate the interruption but he told his wife that he had to meet him and see what the demon lord was, and then he left the bed to meet the messenger.
When the emperor arrived at the throne hall alone, he saw the demon messenger and requested that he get straight to the point and skip formalities.
"My name is Belphegor, well my lord wants to join the Persian civil war on your side and eliminate both Bahram and the dwarves because they informed them about our weakness" spoke the demon messenger.
Alex looked at him and said: "If my memory serves me right, the dwarves aren't the ones backing the elves but what you are fighting are divine creatures favored by Goddess Athena for their wisdom".
The panicked demon messenger was about to teleport to his lord, but the emperor prevented him because he wanted to join him in Atil city.
Atil, January 437:
Alex teleported alongside Belphegor to Lucifer, the demon emperor was excited to see his true master and explained everything to him thinking that he would be glad that he got help.
Unfortunately, he only got bad news about the origins of the elves but at least it explained why the stalemate in the frontline.
"But what should we do? If they are Athena's favorite creatures, she will prevent me from conquering their lands" Asked Lucifer with concern for the possibility of defeat.
"Idiot, she is helping them because of your war tactics of killing anything that moves, she aims to prevent the extinction of her species, now if I am correct she will seek to make peace and use this chance to pressure her. Never mind, let me help you but you will help me". Alex spoke with confidence and Lucifer immediately accepted to follow his lord's plan.
Just as the Roman emperor expected, Athena descended from Olympus to start peace negotiations.
When she saw Alex she knew something was off and asked about their relations but the Roman emperor ignored her and asked her what she desired.
"I desire for peace, here it is my terms; since the lands of the former Lorian empire can't stay divided for long, the Khazar empire will agree to allow the elves to keep their autonomy and more importantly their lives".
Alex agreed in place of Lucifer and this is when Athena realized what was going on:" I see that you brought the demons and now made one of the largest empires in this world, your puppet as if you are the true demon lord and not Lucifer".
The demon emperor agreed and both shook hands and then announced peace to their sides, both people celebrated peace as the humans no longer suffered from this war and the demons celebrated peace.
Lucifer wasn't happy about the treaty and wanted an explanation from his master as to why he forced the treaty on him.
"It's because I doubt that you can afford to piss off the gods for far too long, heck even I'm careful these days about pissing off the gods because I haven't killed anything that moves" Alex spoke calmly while teaching his servant a lesson about running a state.
He then left for Rome to check what was going on.
Rome, February 437:
In the early morning of the first day of the new month, Alex arrived at the imperial palace noticing a messenger was waiting for him.
he took the letter from him and read it:" So far after multiple fighting, were only able to conquer Madai, Tabaristan, Devshi Kavir region, and Pars but they were with huge cost as the entire undead army that you let me use got destroyed in the battle of Kerman which halted our advances".
Alex was livid at the news: "one more such victory and we are undone, I have to send the full capacity of the army and a competent general to fight."
He then wrote a letter recalling Majorian from the battle to somewhere else and sent a letter requesting the current governor of Egypt Diocletian to command the Roman intervention while ordering to mobilize seventy thousand troops to be prepared within five months.
Persian Civil War, frontline March 437:
In the Sassanid war camp, everyone realized that this might be the moment when the war could be ended for both sides.
They sent a letter to Bahram requesting a battle at Hormizdagan in Khuzestan province, they were hoping that he would agree to the request.
Fortunately, Bahram's faction agreed, saying in their response that they are confident that they will win.
Right before the battle, Diocletian met with the Sassanid generals Shahrbaraz and Rostam and explained his plan, and told everyone to follow it carefully.
The Sassanids accepted and prepared their forces alongside the Roman army and went to Hormizdagan.
Battle of Hormizdagan, March 437:
After a week, both armies arrived in Hormizdagan and they were massive as Bahram amassed his entire forces to win the battle.
Diocletian's heart sank because his enemy brought One hundred and fifty thousand troops against their eighty thousand but decided to stay and get a victory for his emperor.
He positioned the cavalry forces on both left and right flanks while positioning the archers in front of his forces while the infantry was right behind the archers and the mages were next to the archers.
Vishtam and Bahram ordered their army to advance, this forced Diocletian to retreat while ordering the horse archers and cataphracts to harass the advancing Parthian army.
Bahram countered the attack by ordering his own cataphracts and horse archers to protect his flank, this made a cavalry battle start as both sides sought to beat the other while Diocletian kept running away and harassing the larger Parthian forces with continued mage attacks that caused morals to collapse due to losses.
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"Damn, the sassanids want to grind our army's strength, my Shah we should stop chasing them otherwise they might defeat us" spoke Vishtam and Bahram listened, ordering his forces.
Diocletian also realized that forcing the Parthians to chase them would no longer work and chose to stand his ground and fight.
As both sides geared for war, they started advancing while exchanging magic attacks until the melee started.
for hours and hours, the battle lasted as it became fiercer but no one won despite the numerical advantage of the Parthians.
On the second day, the Sassanids were the ones to initiate the attack and after a difficult struggle they destroyed the Parthian right flank units they started shooting arrows and firing arrows at their enemy and that inflicted huge losses as the Parthian infantry couldn't block the Sassanid cavalry and even got slaughtered by the Sassanid cataphracts and were routed.
Meanwhile, the Sassanid infantry after a bloody battle defeated the Parthians and routed two infantry units.
Seeing that the battle is lost for Bahram, Vishtam decides to do the unthinkable and goes to his tent, kills him, and then sends his head to the sassanids.
Seeing the head of their king, all Parthian armies except Vishtam's forces who stayed loyal disintegrated and lost all their will to fight.
After Vishtam offered amnesty in exchange for loyalty, Narseh and Peroz accepted it. They declared victory against the Parthian rebellion and reunited all of Eranshahr under Sassanid rule once again.
Just as the victorious Sassanid army started to return to Ctesiphon, a new power struggle started and at night, Narseh and Peroz were both found dead after brutal injuries their divine core got destroyed but they didn't found out who was the assassin except for some traces of demonic magic.
Rome, April 437:
News of the victory reached the Roman emperor and that made him happy but once he heard the news of the assassinations both Alex and Kahn were shocked because the demons wouldn't dare pull such moves.
To clear his doubts, Alex summoned Azmodeus and asked him who killed the two brothers Narseh and Peroz.
"It was one of my assassins my lord, and they were contacted by the third brother Khosrow Anushirvan who wanted to monopolize all power for himself and eliminate the triumvirate system but before you start worrying about yourself, we don't attack Hades' students cause our existence depend on your will ". replied the Khazar prince with calmness and confidence.
The Emperor told the demon prince to leave and requested to have a private conversation with Kahn so everyone left except him.
"This is dangerous and this has never happened before, no fellow students killed each other..." spoke Kahn with panic and was too shocked.
Alex kept his cold face while noticing an invisible presence near him and said: "I suspected something like this would happen, and now I believe someone from Olympus is visiting us hello Zeus you never visited me before but why now" spoke Alex as he was curious to why did the king of gods visit him.
"This event forced me to make this unfortunate visit and I do not want to stay next to someone so evil like you but I came here because the sisters of fate were shocked at this twist as Khosrow was a kind man, now I believe they told me to come here to tell you that all the answers that you're looking for lies in your wife Shahrazad, oh and both of your secrets might be exposed one day." Zeus left as quickly as he could as he hated Alex and didn't want to stay next to him anymore.
Both Kahn and Alex requested Shahrazad's presence and she came as quickly as possible, they told her about what happened and she seemed happy about it telling them about the sexual assault attempt that both Narseh and Peroz made on her but failed due to Khosrow.
They thanked her for her information and they realized that Khosrow can be dangerous and friendly at the same time.
"Hahaha, I like him so much, this guy took vengeance for his sister's honor and was scheming to get power at the same time" Alex spoke with a sarcastic expression.
He was interrupted by a report of Diocletian's return from the east and he immediately awarded his general the title of Parthicus maximus and gave him a lot of gold.
Alex congratulated the general for his victory after the rewards he had given him and then told him to go back to Egypt.
He then went to the imperial palace to receive reports on the state of the imperial economy and he was happy with the news, he also went to the senate to check how the senators are doing.
The senate Curia, April 437:
Once the emperor arrived, he found an intense debate over a financial law proposed so he asked Trajan Decius what was going on and he said that the senate was bickering among themselves over the reform of the taxation system and the removal of the Urine tax that was set up in the first century.
Once he heard the news, he laughed and ordered that the taxation of urine be removed entirely and establish a new taxation system that is based on individual income, a new tax on land, and new tax on the patrician class, and a tax on merchants that will be dependent on local governments in each province
The senators were protesting the new taxation system but Decius reminded them that they either support it and write down the new taxation order or they would get arrested.
All the senators were horrified after they heard what their fellow senator said but the emperor smiled because he was about to do what Decius said.
"Good guys, you should behave because opposing a direct imperial order from me is bad for your physical health and your family's health," Alex spoke calmly while looking at the senators.
The East, May 437:
After preparing for revenge against the demons for their defeat in the first demon wars of 435, Issik Qagan the successor to his father's throne successfully instigated a rebellion in Demon-occupied central Asia while allying with the Dwarves and the dragons.
The next day, in coordination with the dragons he para-dropped troops from the sky which took the demon troops by surprise while he launched an all-out offensive against the demon forces bordering his lands in central Asia.
The combined Dragonoid Turkish forces attacked the Elven lands, sacking them one by one because they viewed the Elves as cowards for not fighting the demons.
The combined Dragonoid Turkic forces attacked the Elven lands one by one, viewing the elves as cowards for not fighting the demons.
The city of Ashina, May 437:
Issik Qaghan received the news of the success of the attack, he was ecstatic and told the messenger to order his forces to continue his offensive.
After the messenger left, Goddess Athena arrived and said to everyone around her:" All the trouble of your people doesn't come from Atil as the demons are just puppets of someone else, they are the puppets of a guy who is so evil that he is willing to kill anyone in front of him be it men, women, and children and no one would be spared from his evil actions, that man is in Rome and you should eliminate him and all your troubles will be gone."
Issik immediately listened to the goddess sending a group of twenty people, who wanted revenge to infiltrate Roman lands and kill the Roman Emperor or terrorize their people.
Rome, May 437:
On the morning of Tuesday 15th May, the market in central Rome was lively as people started shopping for their daily needs but this day would be tragic as twenty strange people entered the market and started shooting fireballs left and right destroying parts of the market.
It took ten hours before the response force arrived but not after seventy people were killed their corpses were mutilated and a hundred and ten people were injured and kidnapped once the response force arrived at the attack site, they immediately clashed with the attackers.
This clash was so fierce that it spread to the central district of Rome destroying several houses and killing twenty more people.
Attack spells were exchanged and the fighting was intense and bloody as the attackers killed five soldiers but lost half of their group, the battle continued with the soldiers losing another five soldiers until the terrorists were all dead and defeated.
When the news of the events in the central district reached the emperor and the senate, they both came with the senate represented by Decius and Alex personally and they were shocked at the scene and the horrific civilian casualties.
and declared a curfew in the central district with soldiers closing off all entrances to the scene, Zagrios came at the request of his student to teach him something he needed.
"Well I am going to teach you something needed, you will learn how you will interrogate the dead and I will show you" Spoke Zagrios with confidence as he showed the technique of the spell called "inferno".
After following his instructions and realizing it was similar to an infernal fireball attack, he made a small fire appear on his hand and drew a skull on the forehead of the dead terrorist.
The corpse awakened and was zombified and immediately Alex asked: "Who sent you to commit this horrific act?"
"We were sent by the Gokturk Kaghanate, our attack is blessed by Athena and we shall take our revenge".
The corpse spoke with pure arrogance before Alex snapped his fingers and the corpse died again.
His heart sank and his face was grim as he realized this was Athena's revenge for his intervention in the demon wars however he didn't care: "Well if Athena and the other gods think that I care, they will be shocked, maybe it is time to pay a visit to my dear friend Wilhelm von Vanderreich".
The emperor ordered to bury the dead and fix the market.
The Emperor was about to go and see his friend Wilhelm only to see him waiting to have a chat with him.
Alex noticed that he had a grim expression on his face and asked the vampire emperor what was going on. He told him that there was an attack in some markets in Berlin that killed twenty humans and five vampires, and his forces couldn't find the perpetrators.
He also summoned Lucifer and started a meeting in the imperial palace, his first discussions were about Athena but as they were discussing the plans on how to deal with the goddess, Athena appeared: "Greetings everyone, I hope that you will suffer" literally everyone panicked at her appearance but the Roman Emperor expected it and was calm: "Hello Athena, I hope you enjoyed what happened in Rome"
The goddess was livid because she remembered Zeus' reaction when the attack in Rome happened and looked at Alex:" Let's make a truce, I got into nasty trouble and it's not wise to expand it even bigger, now do not destroy the Gokturks or else"
Alex was about to say it was up to Lucifer and pretended to be anxious and scared but Athena saw through his lies and warned him against a war with the gokturks and then she left.
Once the goddess left, Alex told Lucifer to attack the gokturks with all of his strength and crush them and exterminate all their population .
The goddess saw through him and was prepared to get the Turkic Khaganate the victory they needed.
The meeting continued with everyone deciding to declare war on the Gokturk Kaghanate and making an alliance together to ensure victory.