Holocaust Scripture

**Holocaust Scripture** (火滅 (かめつ) 聖典) is one of the Six Scriptures of the Slane Theocracy. Their job is conducting assassinations, guerrilla warfare, and counter-terrorism.

 Background

The Holocaust Scripture is a military unit tasked with the role of protecting the home soil of the Theocracy.

Given their name and elemental significance to the Six Great Gods and the Six Scriptures, it's likely that the Holocaust Scripture follows the teachings of the God of Fire.

According to the records in the Theocracy, the Holocaust Scripture was once made up of hero class members—a hundred years ago but were nearly eliminated by the Elf King’s strength.

In the recent past, the Scripture used to have a member who reached the Realm of Heroes, but was transferred to the Black Scripture.

 Chronology

### The Craftsman of Dwarf Arc

*Main article: The Craftsman of Dwarf Arc*
The Holocaust Scripture had been deployed by the Theocracy to assist in the war against the Elf Country, to help speed up their advance. Due to the elves being masters in forest warfare, they initially
severely impeded the Theocracy's advance in the Great Forest of Evasha and holding the line. The elves were able to successfully prolong the war's progress longer than the Theocracy's expected at first until
the Holocaust Scripture was deployed. Upon the Holocaust Scripture being dispatched by the Theocracy, the war's progress rapidly shifted back to their homeland's side and the elves have now been gradually losing
ground as a result.

### The Half Elf God-kin Arc

*Main article: The Half Elf God-kin I* *and* *The Half Elf God-kin II Arc*
A four man team lead by vice captain Schoen was dispatched on a mission to eliminate an obstruction blocking the Theocracy’s advance. They were sent to scout ahead of the main Theocracy force of 40,000 soldiers that were
being hindered by a single young elven child who used a magic bow to rain a shower of many arrows over the army. To eliminate the obstacle to the elven capital, the team under the cover of invisibility,
then used [Magic Arrows] to snipe the girl to death. Schoen was just about to loot the corpse of the magic bow, when the Scripture's primary target, Decem Hougan, arrived and informed him that the girl was
his child. Though his child laid dead at his feet, the elf cared naught for her demise and only wanted to retrieve his bow and quiver he lent her. Despite their concealment magic, the elf was still able to see,
and while he did not wish to avenge the death of his worthless child, Decem believed that killing them would relieve his boredom and so summoned Behemot to attack the team. Schoen
seeing that he was the closest to the Elf King and wishing to save his subordinates, sacrificed himself to buy them time. Though the vice captain attempted to block the summon's attacks, he was still beaten to a pulp.

After the death of the vice captain, the Holocaust Scripture was order to withdraw from the battlefield by the Supreme Executive Council. Officially the Scripture was assigned a new mission, but General Valerian Ein Obinie in charge of the war theater with elves, suspected that was not the case. He surmised that the upper echelons pulled the Scripture back so that the soldiers in the army could gain battle experience with the aid of the Scripture. Despite the potential losses they hoped that the surviving soldiers would acquire professions of rangers and hunters as those job classes would be useful to the Theocracy when they move their citizens to the forest in the coming war against the Sorcerer Kingdom.

## Strength

The Holocaust Scripture is specialized in assassination, guerrilla warfare, and counter-terrorism. Though nothing is known about this group's strength, their power speaks volume for themselves as they were assigned the role of defending the Theocracy. Particularly, their primary defensive military force was dedicated for their homeland.

Their abilities as counter-assassins and anti-guerrilla warfare specialists are also seen during their deployment against the Elf Country. The Holocaust Scripture showed their proficiency in this specialty during the apparent deadlock in the Theocracy's advance to the elf capital. This was where after they officially entered into the battle, their contributions immediately increased their conquest's progress by a considerably greater margin than ever before. Further emphasizing the Scripture's skill in covert, guerrilla tactics to be superior to the Elves.

Furthermore, there was a member of the Scripture who had advanced into the realm of heroes. However that member was transferred to the Black Scripture. While currently there were no hero level members in the Holocaust Scripture, one of the main specialties of the Scripture was eliminating those who reached the realm of heroes through working as a team.

Holocaust Scripture was entrusted with assassination and counter-terrorism work that required them to be flexible. Their teams consisted of at least four members, each with different jobs, similar to the adventurers' tactics in the Kingdom and the Empire.

Furthermore, all members of the Scripture are magic casters and are required to have the job class Arcane Devotee.

## Known Members

* Schoen (*Vice-Captain*)
* 3rd Seat of the Black Scripture (*Formerly*)

## Trivia

* The name known as "Holocaust" written for this scripture group could refer to either destruction by definition or real life, historical event that had horribly transpired in Germany.
* It is more likely, however, given that "Holocaust" itself translates as "wholly-burnt" from the Greek 'holos' ("whole," "entire") + 'caustos' ("burned," from 'kaiein', "burn") and its origins in Biblical convention to describe holy sacrifices purged in fire, that this Scripture group is concerned with the element of fire.
* In the English publication of the Light Novel, Holocaust Scripture's name was translated as Firestorm Scripture.
* Due to the Adventurer's Guilds were in fact created secretly by the Theocracy, and the adventurers used similar tactics to the Holocaust Scripture, it could be said that both organizations were brothers-in-arms.

## References

1. ↑ *Overlord Volume 11 Intermission*
2. ↑ *Overlord Volume 15 Chapter 2: The Travelling Scenery in Nazarick*
3. ↑ *Overlord Volume 16 Chapter 5: Kill Steal*