Byzantium, March 416:
Before the leaders of every warring nation came to the Byzantine Imperial Palace, preparations were intense as cooks kept preparing a good banquet while the staff kept preparing the tables and a perfect room to please all the guests.
The emperor entered his room and kept reading a book about Roman history, and how magic appeared after the empire collapsed in the year 235, he kept reading until he was interrupted when the Staff reported that the preparations were done.
The next day, all guests teleported in front of the imperial palace and were allowed in by the guard while the staff guided them to the designated room for the peace negotiations to start.
Emperor Alex came late after waiting for all the leaders to come. The moment he entered, everyone, even Kahn, noticed his different appearance, his hair color changing to black and red eyes.
"So it seems you got greedy and let the magic of the gods merge with your soul, the outcome of your actions will be tragic." Alex laughed at his friend's warning and ignored it, so he proceeded to start the negotiations.
Every leader started to argue and the Parthian Emperor Darius the Tenth threw an apple at the elven empress Lorna. Meanwhile, the Byzantine emperor and the Gallic emperor kept watching and enjoying themselves.
"Are you children done?! Behave like leaders of countries for once!" Screamed Kahn at the guests and was angry at them all but his friend calmed him, everyone relaxed after their pity fight and proceeded with the negotiations, and the Lorian empress Lorna became friends with the Byzantine emperor after he defended Hispanian independence and opposed his ally's desire to reintegrate it.
Zagrios was watching the negotiations with great interest, he noticed that the friendship with Gaul is about to collapse due to his student's attitude toward him and treating him as a puppet.
After several hours, a peace treaty was signed, and before the attendees left the imperial palace. Alex told the Hispanic king Honorius the first to come to his private room and he accepted.
Imperial Palace, Emperor's room:
When both emperors entered Alex immediately told him the reason for the meeting and that it was an offer to become a vassal of the Eastern Roman Empire.
"I refuse to give up our hard-earned independence!" Said the Elven king with enthusiasm.
"OK I appreciate the enthusiasm but I got a probably angry teen itching to reconquer his lost province that is your nation, and by becoming my vassal state or feudatory, the Kingdom of Sicily is prospering despite being my vassal, or if you refuse, there is a girl that controls the entire province of Roman Africa, that wants your lands and with my order, she can defeat you with ease."
The Hispanic king had no choice but to agree to the offer and officially became a vassal state to the Byzantine Empire.
Samantha entered after the Hispanic king left, surprising the emperor.
"I'm impressed Alex, you have done what I wanted to do way before I began." She pushed him into his fancy bed and tried to undress the emperor but he stopped her: "Well you made yourself the governor of Africa and moved to Southern Italy without my authorization but..."
"You would have punished me if I had made a bad decision but my move benefited you and the elites in Byzantium who are stuck in bureaucracy and fighting corruption, I bet they advised you to not punish me and let me do whatever you want."
Alex proved her guess true and she was impressed because he was intelligent and a tolerant ruler and together they spent the night in his room.
Olympian panthéon:
The Olympians held their annual meeting to see what was going on in the mortal world.
The sisters of fate reported that Kahn was angry and that Alex had a crazy plan on his mind.
"IS HE NUTS? I mean thinking about creating a demon state and ending an entire empire is a sure way to collapse the balance of power"
Hades laughed at the plan, he told his older brother that he should not interfere and that both of their students must compete to see who builds a strong state with a good army and a strong economy.
All the gods agreed, and they also decided that they would work hard to stop both of their students from going to war with each other.
"I' am going to meet both of them in Sparta and I hope they reconcile and be friends again"
Byzantium, July 416, imperial palace:
The next day, Alex immediately had a meeting with the state officials to discuss economic matters, one of the decisions that the council had voted on was to militarize the borders with Parthia, Arabia, and the Illyrio Italian borders.
"OK guys, in one of your discussions, you mentioned that the Senate was dissolved and replaced with the state council, am I right?"
"Last emperor dissolved the senate due to their corruption and moral bankruptcy"
Alex kept thinking about what to do, he noticed Zagrios' absence and decided to tell the council: "Alright guys, I might have fucked up our relations with Gallia when I prevented them from retaking Hispania, now before you call me an idiot child for which I admit I am, I think it is time to end the Scarlet empire and replace them with our proxy forces"
Every council member representing each noble clan was shocked but kept their mouths shut and let their emperor continue:" As you know, I am capable of using divine magic that is darkness and death, I decided to summon the demons and settle them in Germany, so any question?"
Count Flavius Theodosius Junior asked:" I know I am also an outsider as our clan was founded in Hispania, but we settled in here and like our current empire, so my question is; are you trying to create a demon king that could do our bidding and protect us from threats such as the Elves?"
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Alex told him that he was right and that he needed a buffer against the elves.
"More like screw over the Elves, Gallia, Vampires, and Orcs." everyone looked at the council member that interrupted the emperor, surprisingly he also agreed with his statement.
In July 416, in Aurora Parisium, Kahn was unable to conquer Hispania. This caused him to become very upset and he spent a whole month meditating and practicing lightning magic. Once the new month began, he emerged from his seclusion and resumed governing his empire. One of his first actions was to fortify the borders with Italy and Germania. Additionally, he implemented the Justice Act, which greatly reduced the power of noble clans and established absolute power for himself. The following day, he visited his friend to demand an explanation for preventing the reconquest of Hispania.
On the last day of July to August 416, in the imperial palace of Byzantium, there were reports of a revolt led by dwarves in the Levant regions. The reports specifically mentioned the Greater Syria region. Despite being advised to find out the demands of the rebels, the emperor ordered the troops to mobilize. Later, a messenger from the dwarf rebels arrived, explaining their actions and their demands.
He bowed to the emperor: "Our uprising is just small, we just want equality and an end to segregation and reforms for the welfare of the dwarven community, and before you think of a genocide, we will disarm and will never do it again"
Alex kept thinking because he was itching to kill the messenger but Theodosius and the other ministers around him urged their emperor to calm down and accept their demands while telling the messenger to wait for two days before he got his answer.
Two days later, the Imperial government accepted their demands and the Dwarves stopped their small rebellion.
Kahn arrived and found the palace chaotic and was wondering what was going on and even asked one of the Staff members to tell him that there was a massive crisis near the Balkans.
Lorian empire, Loria the capital July the 5th 416:
The demi-humans, a race suffering from massive discrimination, were treated badly and were enslaved by both the humans and the Elves.
Today after two years of preparations, the Ajun liberation army launched their revolution and it caught the elves by surprise as it captured the surrounding areas of the capital.
In the following days, the Lorian empire exploded into a two-way civil war as the brother of Empress Lorna rebelled against his sister and a peasant rebellion started.
This month was devastating for the elves as battles were bloody and thousands flocked to each faction which made the civil war even more destructive, refugees tried to immigrate to the Scarlet Empire and Mordor Empire but they were assaulted and were directed toward the Eastern Roman Empire.
Byzantium:
Kahn decided to abandon the reason he came and decided to help his friend, he barged in the council room and asked why is the palace chaotic.
"Kahn, my friend it isn't the time to have our talks"
"It is the time!"
"Alright, there is a massive influx of refugees, the governor of Moesia allowed thirty thousand people to come and enter his province and some state officials split them into several provinces but they are getting too much and we don't know why"
The Gallic emperor was surprised because this crisis was a bad one and asked: "why didn't you expand your intelligence network to Elven lands? I mean it is basic for any emperor to build a spy network in enemy lands"
"Brother, I am 16 years old and still inexperienced so I forgot to do it"
Kahn suggested that he go meet the refugees and try to get an explanation, he suggested that he pick one of his nobles to go with him and he picked Theodosius and his brother Arcadius.
Moesia:
Both emperors and Roman nobles got to the province and went straight to the border guard and got an elven merchant to talk with him.
"Hello sir, I need an explanation of what's going on?"
The merchant was terrified but eventually started explaining everything, such as the political system of the Lorian Empire and how the demi-humans were treated badly by the elites that governed the empire.
"Theodosius, didn't we have a similar situation with the dwarves?"
Theodosius confirmed his emperor's guess and told him that it was smart to accept their demands.
The merchant also told him that the brother of the empress rebelled and was trying to Usurp the throne, this news, made both emperors concerned as it meant a massive flow of refugees into the Balkan provinces.
Kahn suggested splitting the immigrants per every province and settling them in regions that are suffering from population shortage which are the Africa and Levant provinces and Alex ordered his officials to do as his friend said.
The governors of the Balkan provinces obeyed the imperial order and started the process of separating immigrants from each other and splitting them in each province of the empire. All families were assembled and moved to different provinces.
Moesia, August:
All governors sent letters stating that the massive flow of immigrants is becoming more problematic, one of them suggested that we order the mages to kill the immigrants.
"This idea will be a stain in our relations with the Elven kingdoms, forever and I mean it is immoral," said Theodosius while begging the emperor to not do it.
Ignoring the advice, Alex authorized the operation: "It is necessary to be immoral, to do evil things and even in this case kill the immigrants who are trying to flood our nation, therefore it is necessary to do it and end this issue once and for all"
The generals smiled and they went to do as their emperor said.
The Eastern Roman armies of the Balkans had been spending months killing elven immigrants left and right and when August officially ended, 30 thousand elven citizens including women and children.
Africa, Carthage, September 416:
The first day of September was a happy day in the African province as it had recovered from the aftermath of the two years of great war, Governor Samantha ran the province with great leadership.
One of her spies reported what was going on in the Balkans and the rest of the empire.
"IS THE EMPEROR MAD? Sorry I screamed, I hope the imperial order to censor the news regarding the massacre succeeds otherwise we will have to engage in a nationwide extermination of the Elves and we might lose our Hispanic vassals" Just after she said it, news of the elven king declaring independence from Eastern Rome reached Samantha's ears and she immediately came to Moesia province.
Moesia, imperial camp:
Samantha interrupted both emperors while they were laughing and enjoying a good banquet.
"Samantha, can't you see we are eating?" Said Alex while eating a well-cooked chicken.
"Ok ok, so you start exterminating Elves while ignoring the consequences, we have lost Hispania"
Alex stopped her and turned toward his friend:" Kahn, do you still desire your province back, please stop eating for now we will continue later"
The Gallic emperor ignored his friend and kept eating, then he told a soldier to bring a pen and paper for him.
The soldier obeyed and after several minutes, he brought the pen and paper Kahn requested.
"To all Gallic state officials and generals:
I, your emperor Kahn order you to prepare for war against the rebellious province of Hispania and I permit you to use whatever means necessary especially genocide" After writing in the paper, Kahn told the Byzantine soldier in front of him to go to Aurora parisium and deliver the message while he kept enjoying the food infront of him.
Both Theodosius and Samantha were livid because Kahn had just gained his lost lands with ease, they think that the emperor is inexperienced while not knowing that Alex wants to keep his relationship with Gallia alive because he is afraid of the gods intervening in his realm.
After Kahn left, Alex explained everything including Zagrios' absence and how it is possibly related to the gods.
Loria:
The civil war had taken a toll on the empire, the empress focused on her treacherous brother and spent the entire August trying to eliminate him and his forces.
In the beginning, she failed and when August ended, she received news that her brother was killed by his general who surrendered in exchange for amnesty and demanded that he fight the demi-humans.
News of the genocide reached her and she was shocked but was unable to do anything, the demi-humans heard about the genocide committed by the Byzantine empire and offered eternal peace in exchange for ending discrimination and establishing a just system.
"If I accept, this two-month civil war will end and I will recover so it is good I am sad that the Byzantine emperor chose genocide instead of good faith, and for every action there are consequences"