Meriell

**Meriell** is a mage and commander of the mage force of the Alliance of the Races, who fought against the Demon Lord’s Army in the Mythic Era thousands of years ago.

## Chronology

### Great Race-Demon War Arc

In the Mythic era thousands of years ago, the Alliance of the Races led by commander Orlaxle in the Philades continent could no longer hold out against the Demon Lord's Army, forcing their diminished numbers to cross the great ocean and retreat to their last hold out in the Rodenius continent. The Demon Lord's Army used Charybdis and Kraken sea monsters to cross the great ocean to the Rodenius continent, assembling 15,300 demons to engage the Iwat Valley. With their survival hanging in the balance, the 2,800 defenders had set up a final defense line to fight and stand against the Demon Lord's Army in front of the Iwat Valley.

Entrusted with the command of the infantry force, wolf beastman Orlaxle yelled at them to defend the fortifications to the last man. However, the Demon Lord's Army overran the catapults with their orc dragon knights and the archers and the mages with their heavy orc infantry and goblin bowmen, forcing the alliance army back. Dwarf catapults commander Dorguff noticed the Catapults 5 to 8 had overrun and appealed to the mage commander Meriell to fall back.

Meriell, who was filled up with frustration and bitterness, ordered all the surviving mages to retreat. Dorguff also ordered his engineers to retreat while sending the order to retreat to Orlaxle. The messenger sent by Dorguff navigated through the battlefield towards Orlaxle, who was currently in the heat of fighting. Orlaxle learned from Dorguff that they had been attacked and were falling back. Faced with numerically superior foes, the Alliance of the Races had resorted to tactics and relied on individual strength to fight. He yelled at the soldiers to retreat. The Demon Lord's Army persistently continued their attacks, but the alliance army, who was on the defense, didn’t allow them to exploit any gaps in their formations. As Orlaxle and his wolf beastman vice commander Kenshiva bickered, the force of goblins simultaneously split, taking the soldiers to man the walls along the frontlines by surprise and pushing them back. With their defensive lines overran, Kenshiva shouted at the soldiers to retreat while Orlaxle held them back. Their forces had already successfully escaped a considerable distance from the battlefield, and only Kenshiva and Orlaxle were left. However, Orlaxle internally chose death, letting Kenshiva escape.

After Orlaxle died in one-on-one combat with the Red Ogre, the remaining 900 soldiers of the Alliance's Defense Force, including Kenshiva, Dorguff, and Meriell escaped to the Divine Forest.

After the Imperial Japanese Otherworld Force annihilated the Demon Army’s Rodenius Dispatch Force on the Divine Forest, Meriell participated with the twenty high-ranking personnel from the Alliance of the Races and the Emissaries of the Sun God in the high-level meeting at the sanctuary inside the Divine Forest. He listened to them discussing lots their plan but did not speak.

Right after Vice Admiral Kasai Ryuuken and General Matsushita Takao discussed their plan for invading the southeastern Philades Continent, the formation of their forces decided promptly to split into two that would each take the eastern and western routes. These support units would actively employ those from the Alliance of the Races to strive toward increasing the effectiveness of said units. The mages were especially vital. From the surviving 300 mages left in the alliance, 50 would be attached to each half of the Japanese forces. The remaining 200 would be attached to the supply and engineering support units led by Ilkanresis, Dorguff, and Meriell that enlisted their help in quick repair of damaged or deteriorated Japanese weapons, duplication of supplies when needed, and performing emergency medical aid on fatal wounds. The nineteen ships of the Otherworld Deployment Fleet sailed toward the southeastern Philades Continent.

After Luca, who was an obstinate elven mage living on Mt. Ancald, met Kasai Ryuuken, Galeos, and some officers and decided to join the Alliance of the Races, they returned to the coast through the path and found the destroyer *Sasameyuki* waiting for them as planned. Someday later, as soon as Galeos mentioned Luca’s name to Ilkanresis, he jerked back in fear and surprise. Afterward, just as requested by Luca, they sent forth Meriell from Rodenius continent to tend to Luca’s residence.