Kingdom of Horn/History

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### 100 years ago

Horn had a territory in the North that was invaved by Yulong, this resulted in the end of all diplomatic relations with them and a devesive pact with Felsen.

During the next 100 years they kept taking care of their fields while being isolated from the world.

### pre King and prince death

As the kingdom was kept isolated and they without even incorporating anything from Felsen, the prince and the King understood the potential dangers of this mentality.

The prince proposed to open the kingdom to the world wanting to incorporate things from other countries but the king didn't aprove such radical reform, as they were driving a wedge between them. As both of them were stubborn men they used to argue frequently.

### Sucession dispute

The Prince died in a carriage accident at the age of 21.

One week later the King had an abrupt death leaving the Kingdom without a leader.

Time after the Prime Minister took the throne, the king's brother objected that something was wrong and that the prime minister's family had conspired to usurp the power.

As the King and the prince were in conflict about traditions, one wanted to keep the country as the previous ages, and the other wanted to open the country into new fields and approaches.

Ganossa declared that the king wanted to remove the prince due to his "dangerous" way of thinking and that he should take the throne while the Prime Minister declared that even when the king and the prince often argued they knew they were thinking in the nation and tried to be open minded with each other coming to have understandings throughout their lives

As neither Ganossa and the Prime Minister reach an agreement a civil war was about to break out

After Yulong's fall, some refugees flew to Horn resulting in different problems as them becoming criminals, some of them becoming gangs that attack farming fields. Tsubaki stated that Yulong planned to invade Horn and Hannock and that they despised their population as inferior and uncivilized. She also proposed that Yulong spy division might be behind Horn's conflict, as all of them went to the country after their nation's fall.

The prime minister stated that the king wanted to make amends with his son and never sugested to remove him from his sucesion rights.

Time later the prime minister and Ganossa decided to have a formal meeting with Felsen representatives as mediators with the participation of Touya Mochizuki and Ramissh Pope.

### Meeting with Felsen's representatives

The Pope, the King of Felsen and Touya with Yae and Sakura sitting at his side whule serving as his guards were on a carriage that departed from Felsen to Horn, they were also accompanied by Felsen kights and Ramissh Templair Knights as their guards, there the King of Felsen started to explain the events that happened after the prime minister and Ganossa arranged the meeting.

* The Prince died in a carriage accident on a rainy day, when his carriage fell from a cliff at the age of 21.
* One week later the King died, some people said that it was due to the stress of the work and the lost of his son while others said that it was the result of a decline in his physical health.
* As the prince's son was the sole sucessor of the throne, the Prime Minister ended up taking the throne, Ganossa ended up objecting that something was wrong and that the prime minister's family had conspired to usurp the power, he said that as the King and the prince were in conflict, the king wanted to remove the prince the sucession riths due to his "dangerous" way of thinking and that he should take the throne.
* The Prime Minister declared that even when the king and the prince often argued the king wanted to fix their relation and refuted the idea that he had given Ganossa the sucession rights.

They departed from Felsen to Railmin, Horn's capital; they were heading to Horn's castle, the king of Felsen wanted to find the one that can be lying as they wanted to prevent a civil war and asked Touya to watch over any possible magic interference.

When they arrived the castle they were greeted by Tauren Hanoi, who explaied to Touya who were the Four Great Marquesses that rule over large tracts of land. While the north and west marquesse support Ganossa the east and south marquesse support the prime minister.

They were guided to the conference room, Touya noticed that the room was enchanted with silence, a magic barrier that blocks teleport and a shield spell that generates on all the people inside the room. They sitted in the north side of the table with their guards standing behind them, at their left there was the prime minister, Tauren and Nabyteo Schellmin, the North Marquis with a really nervous attitude; at their right where Ganossa, the kings brother; Hawkes Manius, the North Marquis and Seylia Swill, the West Marquise.

While they were arguing the Pope told Touya that none of them were lying, or at least they believed that they were right, some time later the King of Felsen decided that they should take a break, after they talked about what happened before they heard a maid scream making everyone to run where she was. After they arrived they found Nabyteo Schellmin death with some blod in the floor under him and a cup next to him, he used search for any toxic substance and found one in the Marquis cup, then a maid told them that it was originally the prime minister room but the Marquis asked him a room change as he prefered smaller places.

While the pope said a short prayed for the marquis, Sakura and Yae told Touya that Sakura's ears seemed to have improved due to Touya's divinity, and that she heard something falling and that a window was oppened, he went to the room and looked at the window where he found some wood chips, then Yae told him that the East and West Marquises were arguing.

Ganossa said that they could stay to sleep in the castle hoping that the situation will be solved soon, after this the Pope asked if they were directly or indirectly responsible for the Marquis death, after they were taken to the imperial guests room, after everyone left Touya casted silence and asked the Pope if she had discovered something, she told them that the East Marquis had lied.

After Flora examined the body and the cup she found that the poison used to kill the marquis was Yuloneifred, a poison that destroyes the internal organs of the ojective and it's made with a yulonish plant found in the northern mountains of the country and rarely found in Xenoahs, Sakura said that that poison is generally used to send messages, leaving the possibility that the East Marquis used Yulong assasins to kill the South Marquis. Flora said that she also found traces of sleep medicine in his blood leaving everyone bewildered.

Five hours later, at the night they found the East Marquis body upside down in the bed with a scar around his neck, the scarf has the West Marquis logo, but she said that she had lost it the day before the meeting. Two hours after they discovered his body he said that he wanted to take a rest and after a maid found his body when she entered the room to ask him about the dinner. flora examined the body and they found that he had died hours after the maid found the body.

After this Touya used his divine sight and found a Qulau assasin imitating a guard and used gravity to trap him, he tied him with some metal wires and used absorb, this canceled the spell the assasing was using making everyone realize what was going on, then he explained that the death time of the East Marquise was from five to six hours ago, meaning that he had died at the same time than the South Marquis meaning that as no one has left the castle there was an imposter person with a magic disguise inside waiting to kill more people.

After touya confirmed that he was a Qulau's member he used hypnotize to force him to split the truth:

* The South Marquise was left unconscious inside a closet afther the meeting.
* He imitated and attended the meeting as him.
* After the break he asked the prime minister for a room change to make it look like a failed attempt to kill him.
* After securing the room he took out the marquis and killed him with poison making him split some blood.
* He scaped from the room by through the window leaving behind some wood chips.
* He descended from the rooftop to the South Marquis and killed hum using the scarf he stole from the West Marquese and imitated him.

They learn that he could use a null magic spell called "mimicry" magic and that he had been infiltrated in the country for a year with the objective to cause discord, being him the main reason for the conlict, and that he had an storage card where he put the South Marquis body after he killed him. He learned that they obtained it from a parallel world refugee that they tortured to death and stole all his belongings, the storage card had more than three thousand gollems similar to the ones found in Isengard, and as Gordian had united with Qulau under a same flag they might have upgraded the new steel batallion with gollem technology being able to contol them remotely

Touya confirmed that the assasin had imitated the deceased king and told Ganossa about his sucession rights, they were aiming to kill and to star a sucession conflict between the prince and Ganossa ut after the prince's death they almost dropped the plan, when they hear that the prime minister wanted to make the prince's son the sucessor they went ahead with the plan and killed the king making it appear as if it was caused by a disease.

Before the prime minister wondered about their objective Touya told them that as both of them had bought a steel batallinon they might have wanted to use it to anihilate their army at the end of the civil letting them a place to install a new Yulong dinasty.

Touya tought that they might have tried to take over the country even after Gordian involved with them, weakening the country by replacing high power positions with Qulau members to take over the kingdom over time. Then he proyected a video of the assasin mixing a small amount of poison in the king's tea dialy

Touya stopped Ganossa when he was about to kill the assasin, telling him that he must be executed publicy after they exposed his crimes, he casted recovery on the assasin who told them that if he didn't report in time Quilau will attack the country using a steel batallion of three thousands steel soldiers and three thousand wooden armored gollems from the north, after that a guard entered the room and told them that some steel giants were attacking the capital.

While Touya selected the steel soldiers inside the capital Yae jumpled through a window and took out Schwertleite, then he used fly to go out the castle and opened a portal under the steel soldiers sending them to a barren field at some distance from the capital, he told Sakura to stay in the castle in case of a second attack, he sent Yae there with a portal and then teleported there.

He told Yae to inmobilize them by cutting off their limbs, after Yae destroyed the leading unit the ones at its command stopped moving, after she destroyed all Touya found a G-cube with a low quality ether liquid and then proceeded to search for the ones commanding them. He found them in a carriage near the capital north door and teleported nex to them, they tried to run over Yae but she ended cutting off the horse reins and a car wheel while Touya shot bullet to the car making it to crash sideways. He used hypnosis to find their hideout and found a prodction facility left by Gordian, he also learned that there was a gollem engeneer alive with a submission collar. He sent them to the castle where the prime minister confined them.

After this Touya searched for the steel soldiers and the wood gollems where he found that there were three thousand twenty one steel soldiers and three thousand one hundred twenty one wood gollems, he proceed to call Regina Babylon and asked her if the Over Gears were ready to deploy he also called Norn and Est.

All Qulau members were brought to Horn where all the elite ones were executed publicy, while the other were sentenced for live to work in the mines.

Kuoh Da Horn was crowned, the prime minster resigned and Ganossa took his position, they started an exchange program with other nations and joined the world[*citation needed*].

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 **Light Novel** Volume 17 Chapter IV.
2. ↑ **Light Novel** Volume 17 Chapter II.
3. ↑ **Light Novel** Volume 17 Chapter III.