Battle of Tozul

**Battle of Tozul** is a campaign between the Mauli Hanman's rebellion and the Calamique Kingdom in Tozul, the city and capital of Marquis Mauli's domain.

* Archmage Ordo
* Airborne Knight Commander Mesch
* 70 fire birds
* 30 twelve-horned beasts
* 1 lord beast Diobehemoth
* Granmans (details unknown numbers)

**Demon’s Seal Knights and Dragon’s Fang Knights**
* Several granmans casualties
* All Demon’s Seal Knights annihilation
* All Dragon’s Fang Knights annihilation

## Background

### Calamique Kingdom

An emergency meeting was being held in the Archul Castle regarding the uprising of Mauli Hanman had already conducted a massacre at the city of Waizer. Dukes Ioan and Wysk, and nobles had pledged their allegiances to King Brandea in the meeting at the Archul Castle. Duke Ioan, who still had the Dragon’s Fang Knights and the Demon’s Seal Knights under his command, asked King Brandea to allow him to lead his forces in an attack on Maulia's domain. King Brandea granted his authorization that would take command of the punishment of Duke Mauli Hanman sent

When the Calamique Civil War has begun, King Brandea sent the Royal Knights against the rebellion of Mauli Hanman. The royal army under Commander Metzil had approached a high plain roughly 10km south of the city of Tozul. The morale of Duke Ioan’s Dragon’s Fang Knights and Demon’s Seal Knights came with them for aid.

### Mauli Hanman's Rebellion

At the camp, Marquis Mauli Hanman learned the reports of two-thirds of the royal army’s strength and summoned Archmage Ordo for preparing the battle. Ordo stated all forces, including the beast legions, the lord beast Diobehemoth, the 20 Demon Flame Tanks, and the 70 fire birds, were ready, but Mauli Hanman decided to send the beast legions first. Mauli Hanmann was confident in the fight to come.

## Battle

### Tozul Offensive

Commander Metzil of the Royal Knights ordered his ranks to stay in formation as he glared north. At the other end of his glare was Mauli Hanman's Rebellion Army opposing their advance. It was composed of the legendary beasts, which originally cannot be tamed, let alone formed up into the ranks of an army. They moved forward with their preparations.

The Demon’s Seal Knights and Dragon’s Fang Knights were high, matched by the height of the clouds of dust being kicked up from their ranks. The group of more than 400 knights was advancing to land the first blow on Mauli Hanman’s 1,500 strong beast legions.

After the first arrow strike, the Demon’s Seal Knights took action to try to get around the beasts as they readied to continue their onslaught. Making good use of their horses, the attacks continued. Arrows pierced the granman lizards, agitating them as they let out cries of pain and anger. The loose group of granmans readied their spears as they charged into the Demon’s Seal Knights. A portion of the horde of beasts was slashed off.

### Attack of Twelve-Horned Beasts

With Mauli Hanman's command, Archmage Ordo began to spout orders for releasing twelve-horned beasts. Close to the battlefield, 30 twelve-horned beasts came roaring out of holes from the ground. They were all racing towards the mounted knights of Demon’s Seal Knights. They were gaining on them with unprecedented speed. The Demon’s Seal Knights, despite being on horseback, couldn’t run away from the charging beasts. The knights pulled back the bowstrings on their bows and loosed hundreds of arrows, propelling into the air. All of the arrows bounced off of the steel, needle-like tufts of fur on the beasts.

Unable to stop them, the twelve-horned beasts crashed into the Demon’s Seal Knights. The knights in front were all successively thrown out of their horses, crashing down on the knights traveling behind them as a great number of men fell from their horses, stopping the knights in their tracks. Losing their mobility, the Demon’s Seal Knights were instantly surrounded by the lower-class beasts. Covering up for their lack of individual strength against the twelve-horned beasts, the dismounted knights quickly formed up ranks. The twelve-horned beasts once again rammed into the formation, killing many as the formation of the knights gave way. The Demon’s Seal Knights were close to collapse before the Dragon’s Fang Knights were coming to save them.

The Dragon’s Fang Knights mounted on the horses with their lances to face the twelve-horned beasts, which turned and started charging towards them. Hundreds of knights had knocked off their horses. However, they only managed to wound one of the twelve-horned beasts. The Dragon’s Fang Knights began to waver. Mauli Hanman and Ordo were satisfied to see the Demon’s Seal Knights and Dragon’s Fang Knights in the vanguard was collapsed by the twelve-horned beasts, which they didn't need to send in the demon flame tanks or Diobehemoth. Before the Royal Knights have broken out into a run against the twelve-horned beasts to save the Demon’s Seal Knights and Dragon’s Fang Knights, Mauli Hanman had decided to unleash seventy airborne knights to push the Royal Knights to the edge of annihilation.

### Attack of Airborne Knights

The Royal Knights have broken out into a run against the beasts to save Duke Ioan’s forces, which have collapsed. However, there was still some distance left, and despite being on horseback, they were mortifyingly slow against the speed at which developments occur. When commotion ran through the knights, Metzil looked up to the sky and saw seventy airborne knights riding on the fire birds. The airborne knights came within 20 meters above the Royal Knights, unleashing a hail of fireballs at them. Fireballs crashed down on the ground, and the royal army crumbled. Commander Metzil died in the hellfire brought about by the attack of Mauli Hanmann’s airborne knights. 5,600 knights died on the Calamique Royal Army’s side while the remaining 3,400 took flight.

## Aftermath

On that day, a shock ran through the capital Archul. The survival soldiers, who had run away from the battlefield, told them that the Royal Knights collapsed to the attack of seventy airborne knights on the fire birds. The powerful beasts were indeed a threat but far more threatening than those beasts were the conqueror of the skies, the fire birds, being under the command of their enemy. Moreover, there were more than 50 of them an already unthinkable number. If those fire birds were to attack them, they had no way of defending against them. It would be nothing less than a one-sided slaughter. King Brandea struggled to come up with a solution before Mauli Hanman's force invaded the fortress capital of Archul.

In the Wysk Manor, Duke Wysk met Japanese Diplomat Kitamura, who traveled with Muller riding on the wyvern to the Calamique Kingdom and negotiated with him based on establishing diplomatic ties. However, Wysk explained the course of events to him that did not allow him to leave the capital for the time being after Marquis Mauli Hanman attacked the city of Waizer. At the king’s orders, they cannot allow the people to leave or enter the capital to combat spies. Kitamura asked him about the prospect of evacuating by helicopter, but Wysk didn't permit it under a strict situation. So Kitamura reluctantly gave up and was forcefully stuck within the capital Archul.

## Trivia

* The Battle of Tozul only details in the web novel, but the light novel does not exist.