Chirius

**Chirius** is a frigid place, a world beset by ice and snow in the northernmost tip of Philades Continent.

## Location

Chirius is located in the northernmost region of the Philades Continent with full ice and snow, which hardly melted, even in the first days of summer. The sun was especially bright, much like the first day of summer, and the big rivers of the area were even bigger thanks to runoff from melted ice and snow. It was deep in the valley created by the Gua-Chirius mountains that extend to the land of Chirius slumbered the “Diamond of Ice.”

## Chronology

### Great Race-Demon War Arc

This clan was led in the land of Chirius by a dwarf named Fijje thousands of years ago. They mined gold, mithril, and other metals in the Gua-Chirius mountains. By extracting the massive amounts of wealth from the mountains, this clan of dwarves found their spot above the rest of the dwarves and established themselves as the ruling dynasty of a new dwarf kingdom called the Gua-Chirius Kingdom.

When Demon Lord Nosgorath came, the dwarf kingdom succumbed to the onslaught of demons. Hope largely vanished when Fijje fought to the bitter end in the valiant fight against the Demon Lord's Army. The Gua-Chirius Kingdom was destroyed. Kijje was being left all alone in his ruined kingdom to be the sole defender of the land for three years.

Three years passed, the Demon Lord's Army reached the land of Chirius again after the Demon Lord's Army had been chased throughout the western coastline by the Emissaries of the Sun God from the Philades Continent Western Battle for nine months. The Red Dragon stopped in its tracks and shook violently before deploying its gravitational shield. The gravity acting on the bodies of the ogres and Nosgorath sharply rose. When they felt that something had come towards them, they looked towards a large lump of ice and immediately felt confused. The lump of ice that stopped midair was then destroyed by another one that came flying in. The succeeding lump, partially damaged by the collision, as if not affected by the gravitational shield, descended on Nosgorath.

While it seemed that the Red Dragon was invincible against single attacks, by aggravating all forces towards stopping singular objects, it could not divert attention to other succeeding objects, causing holes in the gravitational shield to appear. On the other hand, Nosgorath realized that he had to re-examine the Red Dragon’s ability. He decided to prioritize the stopping of the lumps of ice hurled at them. He protected the Red Dragon and ordered the Blue Ogre and the White Ogre to find and stop whatever it was hurling those ice lumps at them. Releasing themselves from the shield of the Red Dragon, the two ogres hurried up the foot of the still snow-covered mountain.

At the same time, Fleet Commander Kasai Ryuuken watched the situation of the Demon Lord and his minions from afar. All of a sudden, they were beset by lumps of ice flung from somewhere. The lumps of ice were huge, around 2m in diameter. Countless boulders of ice hurled from the same spot spectacularly descended on the Red Dragon one after the other. Furthermore, immediately after the first lump of ice was destroyed by the second, shards of ice assailed the Demon Lord as if they were knives. Even the attack relentlessly continued.

Kasai wondered who was launching the enormous lumps of ice, which could be hurled easily without the help of a catapult. Alliance Commander Galeos confirmed a person as he was looking at the foot of the mountain with a pair of binoculars. Kasai quickly pointed his pair of binoculars towards the foot of the Gua-Chirius mountain, where the dwarf ruined settlements around. He immediately ordered Army Division Commander Sagara to provide support with the light tanks where the ogres headed south for the dwarf.

2nd Armored Battalion Commander Tasaki shouted at the crew members of the Type 95 light tanks through the radio to stop chasing the Demon Lord's Army until they secured the person from the mountain, who attacked them. The Type 95 light tanks scraped the earth as they began running to spout their infamous exploding lumps of iron. The Blue Ogre and the White Ogre were heading straight for the dwarf, but now they were forced to divert and run from the light tanks. As the four light tanks commenced their attack, the following two light tanks joined in. Accompanied by infantry that filled in the gaps, the ogres were relentlessly showered in a storm of bullets.

After clashing with the Japanese forces countless times in their journey north, the two ogres decided they mustn’t stay in the relentless bombardment from the Type 95 light tanks. They were so close to the dwarf, but they suffered punching with the lumps of iron. Letting off a farewell remark, the Blue Ogre ran back to the safety of the Red Dragon.

While Demon Lord Nosgorath and his demon troops were the first ones to notice who was flinging the boulders of ice, Sagara and the Japanese forces acted at roughly the same time. The decisiveness and mobility of the Japanese forces bridged the gap. The Blue Ogre and the White Ogre decided to run away from them. Seeing that the ogres were now far away, Sagara and Tasaki disembarked from their tanks and went to try and make contact with brave dwarf Kijje that was hurling those boulders of ice.

After losing more demon troops to attacks from the lumps of ice and emissaries, the Demon Lord and the remains of his army had escaped the land of Chirius.