Gauss

**Gauss** is a dragon knight and commander of the Dragon Knights of the Parpaldia Empire's Duro Defense Force in the industrial city, Duro.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War

After the Esthirant Air Strike and the Great Naval Battle of Esthirant, Gauss was the first appearance at the regular executive meeting with imperial army general Brem, commanding officer Strim, and Imperial Navy Eastern Fleet commander Lutos at the Duro Defense Force's Imperial Army Base in Duro. During the meeting, Gauss was surprised to hear the emergency report from a communication officer that the Japanese attacked the imperial capital Esthirant and destroyed the Imperial Army Base of the Capital Defense Force.

Gauss heard their discussion of Lutos' opinion and analysis that Japan should be assumed to have more weapons and equipment than Mu. He also heard from the communication officer's eyewitness reports of Japan’s fantastical weapons. He learned the utmost caution about Japanese mechanical planes being unbelievably fast with their weapon, including thunderclaps and magical guided bullets. Knowing the high performance of Japanese weapons, Brem advised Strim to shift to stage 2 alert for the entire army. On this day, Duro moved to a higher alert level.

After the meeting was adjourned, 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 11th Dragon Knights' 2nd Flight, known as Magne Flight, flew up in the sky for early warning patrol.

When the Duro Air Strike began, JASDF F-2 fighters flying at incredible speeds showed up in the airspace above Duro, destroying ten wyvern lords in an extremely short time before disappearing into the skies. Gauss was in an emergency meeting with the commanders of the Duro Defense Force to discuss strategies against the Japanese. He witnessed Japan's aircraft and weapons that far exceeded Mu's weapons. Gauss wore the darkest expression at the meeting after he had lost his dragon knights. He stated that the Japanese aircraft were far more dangerous than Mu's mechanical aircraft. He thought they possessed a power that was far beyond even the superpowers or worse if the Parpaldia Empire fought the Ravernal Empire's dreaded floating ships of the heavens. Brem calmly decided that should be more attacks coming as a full-scale invasion. Brem asked Strim permission to use the one magical anti-aircraft gun from the Holy Milishial Empire, which was smuggled from the research facility. Strim approved Brem’s request to deploy the magical anti-aircraft gun for combat.

After the F-2 fighter destroyed the magical anti-aircraft gun with 20mm bullets, the F-15 and F-2 fighters flew ahead of the BP-3C Orion bombers to intercept them, easily dispersing and exploding a dozen squadrons of dragon knights by the missiles across the city of Duro endlessly. When the BP-3C Orion bombers finally reached the skies above them, they dropped hundreds of bombs. The bombs erupted into enormous explosions as soon as they hit the industrial areas, causing tremendous earthquakes to close the Imperial Army Base. As the bombs reached the base at long last, the flurry of explosions followed suit, leveling everything and everyone that was still standing under a blanket of hellfire, killing Gauss and other commanders of the Duro Defense Force.

## Trivia

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