Rome, December 439:
As the morning began, Alex became anxious about the incoming war. He ordered Kahn to contact the demons and prepare for war against the Asgardians by attacking their Finnish lands, the moment Odin started his offensive operations.
Heraclius the grandmaster of the Sinope guild came to the emperor and told him that his services would be needed.
"Alright, I need your guild to infiltrate and wreak havoc on two targets: go to Asgard and sabotage the forts near the Karelo Suomi borders to make it easier for the demon armies to fight in the Asgardian Province of Finland and the Scarlet Empire because they will attack us" Spoke Alex while Heraclius was taking notes but before leaving, the guild of darkness master who noticed concern in his emperor spoke: "My lord, this strategy of yours proves that you're worried that this war will exhaust the empire and you desire to weaken your enemies before the war starts".
Alex looked at him and answered with one word: "Correct" and he signaled him to leave.
The guild master obeyed and went back to Sinope to discuss the plans of the operations with his guild members.
Sinope, December 439:
Around 8 am, the members of the darkness guild assembled for an emergency meeting to discuss the emperor's plan.
Each member noticed that the strategy of the emperor was good. Still, one spoke: "All of this started the moment he brought the demon race to the mortal world but it's ok because so far the demons proved to be allies and Athena is far more dangerous I agree to help".
The guild agreed to the plan and would start the attacks while the empire prepared massive armies for war while the guild members went to do their mission.
Scandinavian province of Suomi and Karelia, December 439:
After completing their fortification, the Asgardian forces slept at night not expecting trouble.
At night, several explosions were heard as three dark guild members who infiltrated the military checkpoint between Suomi and Karelia with the help of the Human Garrison that serves the Khazar demons, began destroying one fort after the other killing twenty soldiers while injuring thirty soldiers immediately dragged to the field hospitals.
Panic spread as the border guards thought they were under attack but they were surprised because they found no demon soldiers and they requested reinforcements.
After the attacks, Half-demon and lord of Karelia Vladimir Izalov sent a twenty human soldiers detachment to reinforce the dark guild and told them to sow chaos in the Asgardian lands.
"If I am correct, the emperor is worried that his empire can't handle a fight with Asgard so he wants to force them to withdraw some of their troops from their part of Caledonia and reduce their naval presence for him to invade Impressive strategy but there is a high chance of failure". Vladimir spoke while laughing at the idea, unaware of the fact that this was exactly Alex's plan.
Meanwhile, the dark guild after receiving reinforcement from the demons started expanding their operations and launching random attacks in Suomi, and this time they targeted civilian houses and guilds causing chaos and killing twenty people including entire families.
The Asgardian security forces dispatched to deal with this threat had failed and even lost twenty soldiers and had to request the Asgardian army to finally intervene.
Noticing the seriousness of the situation, Odin was forced to send fifty thousand troops from the garrison of Caledonia and reduce the garrison to only ten thousand.
Rome and Britannia, January 440:
Hearing the news of the success of his secret plan, Alexandros ordered an invasion of Asgardian Caledonia.
Governor Gaius Messius obeyed and immediately prepared his forty thousand troops for war and attacked his enemy.
He followed Gallianus' tactics and unleashed poison on every Asgardian-occupied city in Caledonia killing a massive amount of Asgardian civilians but did little against Asgardian troops as only fifty men were killed by the poison gas.
Now using this tactic, the Romans kept advancing and the Asgardians were overwhelmed by both the numbers and the powerful offensive that devastated their cities. However, when Odin heard what happened in Britannia, he ordered thirty thousand troops as reinforcements and focused on Britannia.
Naval battle in the North Sea, January 440:
The Roman fleet composed of seventy Ships, was blockading the Asgardian-occupied Caledonia as per orders of the emperor.
As the Asgardian reinforcements were on the way, they were intercepted and the transport ships were forced to avoid the northern sea and went to safety, and a fierce naval battle started.
Both fleets exchanged fire but kept missing, finally after two days of wasting both ammunition and magic energy. One of the Roman fleets scored a fatal hit on two Asgardian ships sinking them.
The battle grew even fiercer as the Asgardian fleet kept shooting fire spells, they even captured and destroyed three ships and fatally damaged twenty ships that were all destroyed by ramming them all.
Admiral Quintus was shaken when he heard of this bad news but did not decide to retreat and kept fighting for an entire week until he was defeated and forced to retreat to Britannia.
With this first defeat, the Asgardian reinforcement arrived successfully.
Rome, from the last day of January to February 440:
News of the defeat of the Roman fleet in Britannia reached Rome on the last day of January around 7 am.
When the emperor heard the news, he didn't panic and even told his officials that he was expecting this news and decided to check on the mobilization for war.
His centurion reported that three hundred thousand legionnaires were ready and Alexandros summoned four hundred thousand undead soldiers.
He greeted them in the rallying field and decided to give his speech: "The enemies of Rome will pay for defying the emperor of the Sun, none will stay alive if they pick a fight with the invincible warrior, Now Roma Aeterna and eternal glory to the divine empire of Rome" After finishing his speech, he finally instructed Heraclius to go and tell the demons to attack the Suomi province of Asgard while finally closing the gates of hell.
Atil, February 440:
After making sure that the demons were the majority, Lucifer was about to tell his master to close off the gates. Still, when he found out that his master closed off the gates, he didn't care about it as the lands were now filled with four main ethnic groups that are Demons, Half Demon Half Humans, Elves as the majority ethnic groups, and Humans as a minority.
Now when Alex's message reached him, he ordered the four hundred and sixty thousand troops positioned in the borders to initiate the attack that they had been waiting for finally.
The war in Britannia March 440:
The sudden counter-offensive that Asgard started last month, surprised Roman forces as governor Gaius Messius kept getting defeated in one battle after the other and even barely escaping an encirclement made by the army of Valkyrie Hrist and decided to abandon Caledonia to the Asgardians.
He sent a letter to Rome requesting reinforcements informing them that Britannia was under threat as the Asgardians kept trying to advance to Roman britannia.
Warsaw, From March 440 to April 440:
At 3 am, Athena's sleep was interrupted by her friend who woke her up, she asked if she had forgotten her goal to take revenge and Athena immediately woke up and wrote a letter to Wilhelm telling him not to let Alex reinforce the province of Britannia and instructed Palas to go to Berlin as quick as possible to deliver her message.
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Berlin, From March to April 440:
In the last days of March, Wilhelm received Athena's message and ordered his already mobilized armies to be ready to strike the Roman Empire.
Unfortunately for both Athena and Wilhelm, they were unaware of Alex's attention as he was preparing his troops for war.
Gallia, April 440:
After leaving Rome, Alex decided to stop in Catumagos and gave new orders: "Alright, the Roman fleet in Gaul will transport one hundred thousand troops as reinforcement. Now, Admiral Maximus Magnus, you must land on the shores of Britannia as quickly as possible and using only half of your fleet because I expect Wilhelm to send his fleet to prevent the reinforcement, so the transport ships must be protected at all costs'' He then turned to a messenger waiting for him and told him to send a message to the governor of Hispania: "Tell the governor of Hispania to send twenty ships of his fleet and they will have to reinforce the warships that will be fighting Wilhelm's fleet and hold them off or even win against them I don't care, Just make sure the reinforcement army reach their destination".
He then turned to Kahn and assigned him the command of the reinforcing army and told him to win this war while he was commanding the conquest of Germania.
Once everyone left, he received bad news from the front in Suomi land as the demons struggled and the war became fierce.
Olympus, some unknown time:
After that the Asgardians were struggling from her mansion, Palas went to the Olympian council to beg the gods to help the Asgardian people defend their freedom from the demonic threat and she even mentioned how Alex tortured her and told the gods to avenge her Honor.
Helios and Zeus agreed to help the Asgardians while the other gods chose to stay neutral while Hades decided to help his favorite student as his actions benefited him a lot.
Suomi land, April 440:
Undead, Demons and monsters alongside the massive number of troops were supposed to scare the Asgardian soldiers and populace but instead, the moment they attacked, Fierce resistance started as every inch of gains in the border regions they lost lots of soldiers.
The Asgardian deep defense tactics forced the demons to retreat from the inner parts of Suomi province and were forced to reduce their operations in the borders.
Meanwhile in the Karelian isthmus, the demons after a bloody battle with Helios' forces and Asgardian units advanced and took the entire region but couldn't advance further due to the intense fire magic that was used by Helios' forces.
Azazel, seeing as some of the gods chose to intervene, chose to send a letter to Alex to inform him of this news and hope that he requests the help of Hades.
Roman Gaul, April to May 440:
In the morning, the governor of Gaul Anthonius Gallianus was walking in the streets of Colonia Agrippina with three soldiers as his bodyguards.
Suddenly they were ambushed by four assassins who after losing one of their men killed his bodyguards and finally killed the governor.
Unfortunately for the assassins, they were caught by Samantha's agents but to escape capture, they screamed: "For Asgard" as they swallowed a poisonous pill that killed him instantly.
Around 8 am, the governor was found crucified in the streets of Colonia Agrippina and after several hours the news spread to the entirety of Gaul and Rome.
Gaul, village of Bonna May 440:
When Azazel's letter reached Alex, he was indifferent: "If the gods want to escalate this just because I love doing genocide and exterminating people then fine I shall escalate it" He was interrupted by Hades who informed him of the gods opposing him, and helping his enemies.
Just to show everyone how serious he is in his intentions, he sends undead messengers to Asgard, Berlin while ordering to scout their strength, and a different message is sent to Atil.
On the way to Bonna May 440:
Just as the army of the Scarlet Empire, composed of Vampires and Humans was near the Roman borders, an undead soldier came to Wilhelm bearing a message and started screaming: "PREPARE YOURSELVES. THE BELLS HAVE TOLD. SHELTER YOUR WEAK, YOUR YOUNG AND YOUR OLD. EACH OF YOU SHALL PAY THE FINAL SUM. CRY FOR MERCY. THE RECKONING HAS COME." and then he quickly left while noticing the total number of the army.
Village of Bonna May 440:
The Roman army was composed of two hundred thousand human soldiers and four hundred thousand undead soldiers finally arrived in the village.
The undead that Alex sent to Wilhelm arrived and reported that the enemy forces' size was three hundred thousand troops and that he delivered his message to Wilhelm.
"Good it means now he will fight fiercely, evacuate all villagers and declare this a military battlefield zone".
The legionnaire soldier obeyed and told the villagers to leave because their land was about to be invaded by a hostile army.
After three days, all the civilians were evacuated to safety and the enemy forces arrived.
Just before the battle started, Alex got a letter from Khosrow Anushirvan stating that the Dwarves of the Gupta empire attacked and their plans were abnormal, and it surprised him.
"I feel like we are baited into something by Athena, but for now I got a genocide to commit after I defeat Wilhelm". Spoke to Alex as he ordered his army to prepare a defensive formation and for his mages to prepare for firing their spells the moment the enemy army advanced.
Meanwhile, on the Scarlet imperial army's side, Wilhelm saw the Roman Emperor and wanted to speak to him and his opponent.
"Alex, stop whatever you are doing, the gods are against you because you were committing too many crimes" Spoke Wilhelm while Urging his opponent to step down to appease the gods.
Before telling Wilhelm that he and the gods were being baited by Athena and that he was about to lose his nation after this battle, both Alex and Hades laughed at him for his stupidity and lack of intelligence.
Wilhelm didn't believe him and went to his army to signal the beginning of the battle for Bonna.
The Roman Emperor ordered the earth mages to build a trench and fill it with holy water in front of them, the vampire emperor realized his intention and tried to interrupt the Romans by ordering the fire mages in his army to fire thousands of fire spells at the earth mages building the trench.
The undead mages reacted and started their defensive shield around the mages, it repelled all the attacks and this forced the Vampire emperor to order his army to advance.
Just as the Roman legionnaires prepared for battle, suddenly the enemy forces retreated, and this surprised the Emperor as he was sure that Wilhelm wanted to fight him till he got a letter from a messenger that arrived from his wife in Rome with a nameless letter with no address written on it just the subject: "Wilhelm will die this time, he and his empire will be eliminated, you know who I' am very well".
Alex laughed and told everyone: "Our advance must now start fast before our main rival conquers the Scarlet Empire!".
Scarlet Zapadoslavic and Rome War May 440:
Under orders of Empress Athena, A massive army composed of a hundred hundred thousand troops started a massive bombardment of the Scarlet Empire's forts and cities with all kinds of elemental spells
After the lines of defense of their enemy softened, Athena ordered a three-frontal assault attack and followed the same brutality as her rival Alex.
One city after the other in Eastern Germania began to fall to Athena's forces as these cities chose to surrender after what happened when the entirety of the Pomeranian province got raised to the ground.
Meanwhile, Roman forces destroyed the Frisian clan, Saxon clans and forced the Franks to surrender after a display of brutality and savagery that scared them to submission when they saw their population impaled by pikes created by Earth element mages.
Finally, all of the Scarlet Empire lost due to Rome's invasion from the west and Athena's betrayal. Wilhelm chose to kill himself to prevent Athena from killing him.
Meanwhile, in the western part of Germania, the Romans then announced the restoration of the province of Germania Antiqua, unlike the first time when the province was established during the reign of Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus however, unlike the first time, this time Alexandros decreed the establishment of a military administration and emergency law till the province becomes easy to rule.
The East, May to June 440:
After hearing about Athena's betrayal of the Anti-Roman alliance, Khosrow Anushirvan immediately launched his invasion of the dwarven kingdoms after the collapse and disintegration of the Gupta Empire.
His army destroyed the kingdom of Alchonia massacring half of its inhabitants within three days and started advancing toward the inner part of India after taking over the kingdoms of Sind, Zabulia, and the entirety of the Indus River tribal kingdoms.
Hearing of the massacre, all Indian kingdoms agreed to the request of the king of the Agnikush kingdom ruling the entirety of the Bengal region, Narendra Agnikush the First, and they all united and mobilized three hundred thousand troops to stop the invasion of the Sassanid empire.
Meanwhile, the Sassanid army started their second advance toward the kingdom of Gujarat, and in fifteen days they took over half of the kingdom but were now stuck in the siege of the capital Gujarat for three months.
Gujarat, August 440:
Every time the Sassanid army entered Gujarat, they kept failing to take even the walls due to magical traps and an Anti magic knight squad that kept slaughtering hundreds of Sassanid mages whenever they spotted them inside the city.
General Vishtam who was the commander decided to abandon the siege as he sensed that there was a reason why the Gujarati soldiers were resisting fiercely and went to.
He was proven right when his scouts reported that three hundred thousand troops and a hundred war elephants were coming toward their location.
"I suggest we meet them in the fields of Sind" Spoke the Satrap of Sogodia and the cousin of Shahanshah Khosrow the first Jamasp.
Vishtam agreed and immediately went there expecting the enemy to follow him.
Finally, after three days of traveling, both armies arrived in front of each other.
However, instead of a clash, Narendra Agnikush and two other kings who discussed with each other chose to negotiate and approached the Sassanid army.
"We demand to speak to your king" demanded both kings.
Khosrow who just decided to sneak into the army to see how his general managed the operations decided to appear and spoke: "I am here, now may I ask what you want?"
After thirteen minutes of discussion, Narendra spoke:" I come here to bring peace, now as for my demands, we shall accept your full ownership of the Sind kingdom up till Karnataka kingdom and we shall recognize your gains from Tokharistan, Kashmir, Zabulia and Taanka kingdoms in the north of the Indian subcontinents however no further advances"
Khosrow accepted and shook hands with the Shah and ordered his forces to return to the sassanid domains.