Nium

**Nium** is a captain of the Silver-class magic cruiser *Gayjarg*, the flagship of the South Fleet of the Holy Milishial Empire.

## Chronology

### New World War Arc

During the Battle of Folk Strait, at the entrance to the strait located south of Cartalpas, the super-dreadnought battleship *Grade Atlastar* of the Gra Valkas Imperial Judgment Force suddenly appeared with just one ship to form a blockade. While the World Union Fleet took damage from the air by the Sirius dive bombers, they continued heading to the strait. Even though their sailing speed was quite slow, evading attacks and losing formation did not help their progress either.

On the bridge of the Silver-class magic cruiser *Gayjarg*, Commander Pattes looked anguished as he spoke to the Captain Nium beside him, making of the state of battle. Nium felt he never would have imagined that the enemy’s aerial strength could be this formidable. Their newest Alpha-3 fighters had been dropping like flies, and it was unthinkable for even Emor to lose this many wind dragon knights. However, they had been able to shoot down some of the enemy’s dive bombers; the Agartha downed two planes as well, and then Japan’s cruiser also took care of two themselves. He believed that they could sink or drive off the enemy’s battleship *Grade Atlastar*, to prevent it from blockading the strait, there was no doubt that Cartalpas would most likely be razed, so Milishial imperial navy had no choice but to use them to the last man. Commander Pattes had still hard to believe that they were the final wall protecting Cartalpas by a series of misfortunate events.

All while they conversed, reports continued to pour in through the magic comms that twenty-four Gra Valkan Rigel torpedo bombers came into view from above the strait’s western mountain range. The Holy Milishial Empire’s magic cruisers also began to fire into the sky. The Rigel torpedo bombers fired back with their machine guns as they continued to approach the torpedo drop point. The disorganized fleet was still packed relatively close together. Although many Rigel torpedo bombers shot down, they were still able to drop their torpedoes. The torpedoes surged forward, directly for the magic cruiser *Gayjarg* and Japanese patrol ship *Shikishima*. Nium didn’t know what those objects were, but he could tell they were dangerous in some way and ordered his crew to avoid them. The Japanese patrol ship *Shikishima* sailing behind them made to avoid the white torpedoes darting through the ocean. The trail of the torpedoes grazed the front of the cruiser *Gayjarg*, then passed it. Behind them came the sound of explosions on the starboard side of the magic cruiser *Sooze*, beginning to sink.

Pattes heard the report through the magic comms that one of the World Union Fleet had detected near the entrance to the strait. The World Union Fleet looked to the end of the fourteen-kilometer-long strait to lay eyes on the super-dreadnought battleship *Grade Atlastar*. He ordered them to prepare for ship-to-ship combat. The Holy Milishial Empire’s Southern District Forces only had six ships remaining and the rest of the World Union’s fleet, along with Mu’s fleet and Japan’s patrol ship *Shikishima*, quickly left the rest of the countries behind as they headed straight for the enemy ship.

The six ships in the fleet roared noisily on the ocean. They had closed the distance from the battleship *Grade Atlastar* to fifteen kilometers. Commander Pattes kept his eyes peeled as he gave orders to begin preparations for anti-ship warfare. While the crews were already within their cannons’ max range, in a ploy to raise accuracy, he didn’t order them to begin preparing until they were within fifteen kilometers. The mounted cannon tower in the front of the magic cruiser *Gayjarg* lazily turned and began aiming. At Captain Nium’s barked order, the main cannon blasted out a shell with a thunderous boom. Moments later, smoke began to rise from the enemy’s battleship *Grade Atlastar*. Pattes ordered to dodge the enemy’s shot. The fleet desperately took evasive action. An instant later, six huge bursts of water splashed up all around the flagship *Gayjarg*.

All the other cruisers had already begun firing at the battleship *Grade Atlastar*. Suddenly, the *Grade Atlastar* emitted a different kind of black smoke, but the cannons fired again. Captain Nium was floored. A Milishial shell landed directly on a vital part of the *Grade Atlastar*’s superstructure and exploded. However, the battleship’s thick armor had completely warded off the blow. It was incomprehensible for an attack from one of Milishial’s cruisers to be shrugged off in this manner. Pattes and Nium froze in shock.

The battleship *Grade Atlastar*‘s 46cm main cannon fired and hit the front of the flagship *Gayjarg* in an explosion, causing the ship to rock violently, and Pattes smashed his head against a wall. Clouds of smoke streamed into the air at the front of the ship. Pattes only stare and was speechless while blood flowed down his head after his eyes confirmed that mind-boggling report. A massive amount of seawater was surging into the ship’s compartments. He shouted for the crews to abandon the ship. The sailors jumped into the ocean. The magic cruiser *Gayjarg*, along with Pattes, Nium, and the rest of the crews unable to escape in time, sunk into the depths of the sea.