Lee Jacques

**Lee Jacques** is a lieutenant general of the Parpaldia Imperial Army and a commander of the Hyperion Base of the Altaran colonial government.

## Appearance

In the manga version, Lee Jacques is a middle-aged man with balding bangs and a beard down to his temples. His outfit resembles a sort of Napoleonic military uniform with epaulettes.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldia War Arc

After seizing and occupying the capital Le Brias, the victorious imperial army that defeated and overthrew the Altaras Kingdom then proceeded eastward to attack and invade the Fenn Kingdom and Japan. They had 20 ships of the line stationed at the naval port east of the capital Le Brias, 2,000 men and 20 wyvern lords at an imperial army base next to it, and another 2,000 men garrisoned at another imperial army base situated 40km north of the capital.

At the beginning of the Battle of Altaras Kingdom, Lieutenant General Lee Jacques of the Imperial Army was gazing over the capital from the rooftop of his temporary command center of the Hyperion Base in the outskirts of the capital. He stood next to the army captain, who served as his staff officer. He spoke to the army captain that he wondered why the imperial army at Fenn Kingdom suffered losses nearing annihilation. The army captain still couldn't believe that the imperial army was defeated but conjectured perhaps the enemy had thousands upon thousands of ships to attack them. However, Lee Jacques doubted that the horde of uncivilized barbarians was to come together and build a fleet of ships that numbered in the thousands to oppose them. The army captain believed simply unimaginable that the Parpaldia Empire had an overwhelming advantage in their capacity to achieve air superiority and that their warships had powerful, long-reaching guns. But when Lee Jacques turned towards the ocean to the east with a grim expression, he suspects that the defeat of the imperial army at Fenn Kingdom was a conspiracy by Mu. The army captain shivered fearfully when he imagined the worst-case scenario. Lee Jacques highly doubted it, which he certainly knew that Mu hadn’t yet accomplished if they tried to grab a stake in the Third Civilization Area under their grip, giving the army captain agreed after hearing that the state of affairs in the Second Civilization Area was unstable as of late.

Lee Jacques and the army captain left the base and walked in less than five minutes towards the port. They talked about runways for use by wyvern lords, which any ordinary flat ground wasn’t enough on the hilly land. Upon reaching the port, they happened across their imperial ships of the line moored neatly along the wharf. They were an impressive sight. The Japanese attack began while Lee Jacques was gawking at the 100-gun ship of the line *Spall*. Then, the *Spall* exploded into flames and split the ship in half before sinking underneath the waves of the harbor. The ships-of-the-line anchored at the ported all sunk one after another. Lee Jacques and the army captain escaped back to their temporary command center, receiving multiple incoming calls and reports of the attacks spread quickly, but by the time they finished preparing for battle, the naval port was completely destroyed, and all 20 ships of the line sinking at the bottom of the harbor.

The JASDF F-2 fighters dropped the bomb at the Hyperion Base, engulfing in the raging fireballs of multiple explosions erupting all over. The force of the blasts knocked Lee Jacques down onto the floor. When he looked up, the roof had disappeared, giving him a blurry, dusty view of the sky above. He caught the mechanical aircraft with red circles on the wings cruising through the skies at unbelievable speeds. He rapidly got up from the floor and reached the communications room. He instructed his communications officer to inform the Japanese attacks on all bases and the colonial government across the island through the emergency channels. The communications officer removed pieces of the fallen roof from the magi-feed broadcast, which was still in functioning order, and frantically repeated Lee Jacques’ statement. All imperial manacomms across the island received the message, listening to it on Parpaldian emergency channels. However, as soon as the communications officer sent out the message, Lee Jacques was killed with subordinates in the room when they saw a blinding burst of light generated again by the bombing of the F-2 fighters.

By the way, the Parpaldia Empire army bases other than Hyperion base also had become a devastating state in all of the Japan Self-Defense Forces attack within 20 minutes from the beginning of combat, in receiving the distress message from Lee Jacques, the test sailing dragon carrier *Veronia* of belonging elite wyvern overlord unit, but Denis and Gio witnessed the destruction of the army bases. The dragon riders dejected from spotting neither surviving comrade nor enemy and returned to the *Veronia*.

## Trivia

* In the web version, his name is Rejak.
* In the manga version, Lee Jacques suspects that the defeat of the imperial army at Fenn Kingdom was a conspiracy by Mu. But suddenly, the Hyperion Base is bombed by JASDF F-2 fighters and collapses, killing the communications officer and subordinates. He gets up from the floor, but his head is wounded. He reaches the communications room of the Hyperion Naval Base, calling the communications officer. However, he doesn't find the communication officer and looks around the ruins of the room and magi-feed broadcasts. He raises the barely magi-feed broadcast, which is still in functioning order, and uses it to send out an emergency message himself. After sending the message out, he lies down in the ruins of the communications room. He is badly injured but still alive, feeling defeated after witnessing the destruction of the headquarters, ships, and wyvern lords.