Daigenera Fortress

**Daigenera Fortress** is a mountain fortress built by the Gra Valkas Empire as a military base into Mt. Daigenera, a mountain close to Leiforia’s vicinity in Leifor.

## Description

The Daigenera Fortress is a heavily fortified mountain to the south of the capital Leiforia, in preparation for a siege. It was constructed after Leifor's capitulation to the Gra Valkas Empire to serve as the military base. The fortress is built with double and triple-layered fire doors. The guns are meanwhile currently being accommodated inside the fortress. The fort commander is Colonel Ramball Houliman.

Unlike their other bases, Mt. Daigenera was bigger and more defensible. It was impregnable if not even a siege from a 100,000-strong army could force its capitulation. It could even weather out bombings and artillery bombardment. With Daigenera Fortress, even if the enemy were to take control of Leiforia, Mt. Daigenera will continue to hold out and harass the enemy rear. Due to their excellent camouflage and smart placement of anti-aircraft guns, not even Japan’s bombing could take those out. Not only was it difficult for them to spot the enemy’s well-camouflaged anti-aircraft guns, but the forests on the mountain made it impossible to direct accurate attacks. The fortress’s formidable defenses allow them to be unscathed even in the face of the Holy Mirishial Empire’s magic cannon bombardment. If they were to besiege them for a year, their plentiful supplies and water could keep them fighting.

## Chronology

### New World War Arc

While Gra Valkas Empire force was scattered throughout Leifor as the vast majority of the defenses and supply chains, the Lars Filmyna, were decimated by JASDF air strikes, the Holy Milishial Empire Death Bar Fleet and JMSDF escort fleet reached the offshore of Lars Filmyna. Commander Fantare fell in despair as he realized the 2nd Central Fleet in Irnetia had been destroyed, and the enemy arrived far too soon. He instructed Ramball to retreat the remaining imperial force out of the base toward the fortified Mt. Daigenera in the southern part of Leiforia. Ramball retreated to Mt. Daigenera with Gesta and Cielia, but the information he received from the retreating troops was disastrous. He realized that the Gra Valkas Empire couldn't occupy and maintain the Mu continent.

The combined JSDF and Mu air force bombarded Mt. Daigenera constantly during day and night causing Ramball to be at his wit end. With the supply chain cut off, the scattering of his forces, his defenses repeatedly being desolated and the enemy controlling the sea and the sky, the only thing he could do was to order a guerrilla attack on the JSDF and World Union Forces. To make the matter worse, Gesta gave Ramball further headaches by insisting that he and other non-combatants be evacuated back to the Gra Valkas mainland. Having had enough of Gesta's rambling, he ordered his soldiers to kick Gesta forcefully out of the command room. Cielia then apologized to him for Gesta's behavior.

After Ramball, Gesta, and Cielia left the Daigenera Headquarters to a local collaborator, they witnessed the massive force of 5,000 wyverns of the World Union coming to attack the fortress. The attack of 5,000 wyverns was largely unsuccessful as they could only scorch the surrounding of the fortress while losing 200 wyverns from AA guns. But the sheer amount of enemy forces unsettled him.

As dragon knight commander Dall of the wyvern force was frustrated by the fact that their attack was useless against the sturdy mountain fortress, the giant Lightning Flame Dragon commanded by Yvan, one of Emor Kingdom's top dragon knights, made their presence at the scene. Yvan arrogantly and somewhat idiotically mocked the fortress for being a product of science, which reflected his view that inferior races, especially humans used science as a coping mechanism due to their weak magic. He then commanded the Lightning Flame Dragon to unleash a powerful plasma ball at the fortress.

The Gra Valkan soldiers in the Daigenera fortress were shocked to see a kilometer-sized dragon inbound toward their position. They were unable to use anti-aircraft guns due to the forest fire. They were unaware that the decision to keep the door shut would be a turning point in history. Cielia trembled upon witnessing the dragon, and as the dragon roared, the citizens of Leiforia were also panicking upon witnessing the sight of Emor's dragon. The plasma beam fired from the dragon forms a flame tornado around the mountain upon impact, melting rocks surrounding the three layers of fire doors in the Daigenera fortress. The air inside the fortress was instantly expelled to the outside, causing a sudden change in pressure. The people inside could not withstand this pressure fluctuation and collapsed without breathing, and some of them were lucky to be knocked out due to a lack of air. Ramball, Gesta, and Cielia watched with horror as it leveled the mountain fortress and killed everyone inside with only a single blast.

As the Daigenera fortress had fallen, the Gra Valkas Empire had been completely expelled from the continent, and any of its people left could be executed if they were captured.