Magne

**Magne** is a dragon knight and a commander of the 2nd Flight of 11th Dragon Knights of the Parpaldia Empire's Duro Defense Force in the industrial city, Duro.

## Personality

Magne is a dragon knight with more experienced and skilled who takes charge of the 2nd Flight of the 11th Dragon Knights with twenty dragon knights.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War Arc

After the meeting was adjourned at the Duro Defense Force's Imperial Army Base in Duro, imperial army general Brem advised commanding officer Strim to shift the alert level to stage 2 for the entire army. Dragon knights commander Gauss went to issue orders to his subordinate Magne and instructed him to leave half of the wyvern force here and send the rest to the training airfield to the west. Since they were also expecting an attack from the sea, he gave him to make sure to have each flight have a wyvern fly at an altitude just about the surface of the ocean and another fly at their flight ceiling. Magne didn’t understand why these were his orders, but he promptly disseminated the orders to the rest of the wyvern unit. Twenty wyvern lords of the 11th Dragon Knights' 2nd Flight under commander Magne, known as Magne Flight, flew up in the sky for early warning patrol, including Sarkar, Astall, and Gazar.

Magne and his hot-blooded and young subordinate Sarkar riding on wyvern lords of 2nd Flight's Squadron 1 flew through the sky east of Duro. Sarkar, who finally was so excited to face the Japanese, chatted him up on the manacomms, but Magne sighed at him that he was a youth with more than full of himself through his head. A patrol flight consisting of two wyvern lords wasn’t uncommon, but they were specifically ordered to have one fly ultra high and the other fly ultra-low. Even Magne himself couldn’t help but be confused by this setup. To avoid accidentally crashing into the ocean, Magne, who had the more experienced and skilled, took charge of being the one to fly low. Still flush with unanswered questions, Magne continued on their flight with utmost devotion to his duty.

Sarkar was flying high in the sky far below Magne for the sake of the empire’s protection. Sarkar can’t wait to face these yet unknown enemies. However, he spotted a small object flying far off into the distance and pulled on his wyvern lord in an attempt to fly away. The Type 99 air-to-air missile from the JASDF F-2 fighter behind roughly 100km chased after him. It closed in before he could even report in alone scream on his manacomms. It accurately found its mark on Sarkar’s wyvern lord, blasting an explosion. Sarkar, who still held his empire with high regard, was unceremoniously killed in the blast.

Having heard the sound of an explosion nearby, Magne looked upwards to check on his subordinate Sarkar and to see what had happened. He saw the tattered pieces of Sarkar and his wyvern lord falling out of the sky. Magne spotted some objects flying at an altitude far higher than any of their wyverns could ever reach and at speeds that put even their wyvern overlords to shame. He watched them fly past him, headed towards the direction of Duro. Immediately realizing the long-awaited Japanese attack, he took his manacomm and screamed into it to Astall of Squadron 8 and other dragon knights for an attacking alert, heading towards the 2nd Flight.

After Magne reported it in 3 seconds, he saw Astall of Squadron 8 perished in the blast of an explosion, cutting his wyvern lord off. Magne noticed the fast Type 99 missiles, which were the same ones a while ago, seemed to still fly in the air. He learned they must be targeting the high-flying wyverns. Suddenly, he heard the reports from dragon knights of Squadron 3 and 5 thru their manacomms that the fast-moving objects attacked them. The dragon knight of Squadron 5 also reported to him that Gazar of Squadron 5 was shot down. Magne cursed himself when reports were coming in one after the other.

In a span of less than half a minute, seven of the dragon knights, who felt so helpless, were shot down. As Magne cried out in lamentation, the Type 99 air-to-air missile continued to make circles as hopeless screams continued to erupt from the manacomms. Overcome with a sense of loss and powerlessness, Magne continued to fly around, searching for the Japanese ships.

## Trivia

* Magne only appears as a character in the light novel.