Demon Lord Extermination Army

**Demon Lord Extermination Army** is an interspecies medieval brute military force that formed the last group of the Alliance of the Races with the various races to fight against the Demon Lord's Army in the new world in the Mythic Era thousands of years ago. Within the Demon Lord Extermination Army, the races include humans, elves, dwarves, and beastmen are the principal contributors of warriors, weapons, magic, and strategy. However, they had failed and forcibly retreated to the west of the Grameus continent by the harsh climate and terrain. They were the last surviving people in the world to settle down to build themselves into a nation called Esperanto Kingdom.

## Background

After the Emissaries of the Sun God returned to Earth via whirlpool, the Alliance of the Races devoted their efforts to the restoration of the Topa Kingdom. Firstly, mankind would not have peace without the revival of the kingdom. These past nine months alone saw them dealing with countless attacks from monsters. Demon Lord Nosgorath or Malastras must have likely been sent demons. Having requested manpower from Rodenius to assist in the subjugation of the Demon Lord, Alliance Commander Galeos saw the last forces from Rodenius arrive this morning. It would be the last group the Alliance would make: the 1,000 strong Demon Lord Extermination Army.

## Strength

Elves possess great magical power and complement their ability to cast powerful spells. Beastmen possess exceptional cunning, strength, and agility. Dwarves are second to none in producing high-grade weaponry and in constructing magnificent fortifications. Humans are the most capable of seeing the past, the heat of battle, and managing strategies. Making use of their talents, the minds of the Alliance of the Races are proceeding with their plan to strike back against the Demon Lord.

## Chronology

### Great Race-Demon War Arc

The 1,000 strong soldiers of the last group of the Alliance called the Demon Lord Extermination Army under Commander Esperanto with Ta Lou, Kenshiva, Luca, and Kijje marched towards the wasteland Guradoah. Esperanto and Ta Lou had difficulty with a map of Grameus, according to Luca, their objective lay deep in the treacherous mountains to the Guradoah in the northeast of the Grameus continent when looking from the land of Topa. The journey would take four months by foot, but they naturally couldn’t get their hands on more than 1,000 horses. However, the wild beasts, which used magic in their body to live, were poisonous for them to eat. The problem of food weighs heavily on a 1,000 strong army. It seemed that they’d have to hunt something in the next three days.

Two months later, they march in a wasteland that was unimaginably harsh with the shortage of food and water. Some soldiers who couldn’t bear the harshness of the march started going back one by one. At this point, the number of soldiers around 1,000 was reduced to almost half, getting lost or buried by blizzards. As soon as they went around the first mountain, they laid their eyes on the second. Since they got hungry without food, the season of frostbiting blizzards will come. They didn’t know how many would last up to when they reached the Demon Army’s base. Looking from the perspective of sending Ta Lou and his entourage up to this point, the Demon Lord Extermination Army decided to persuade them to go back to Topa the next time they stop for rest. However, Commander Esperanto refused to back down.

After Ta Lou’s explanation with his judgment, Esperanto and his soldiers broke down in tears after feeling shame and disappointment. Before any of his soldiers needlessly died in the march, Esperanto then decided to go back to Ta Lou and the others and told them that he would take leaving with his 500 soldiers and return to Topa, but the Demon Lord Extermination Army would come and find them if they never return. Esperanto and other 500 soldiers turned the other way and took the path back to Topa. Ta Lou, Kenshiva, Luca, and Kijje took their weapons and baggage and set off. They had divided the fighting amongst themselves, but the monsters, beasts, and enemies that they’ll encounter moving forward will have to be dealt with by their own hands.

Meanwhile, the four fought against the Red Ogre and the White Ogre in the Gurganaff Plain before traveling to the Darelgulla Castle, the Demon Lord Extermination Army were on their way back home when they were caught in a blizzard, forcing them off their route. So that none from the 500 would be lost, they all held hands as they marched on. The direction in which they were supposed to march was south, but they all felt that they were headed west of the Grameus continent, and after getting past the mountains, they found themselves heading northeast.

Two months later, they were in the middle of an extremely cold winter. They ended up in a valley that looked like the foot of a mountain. The valley also contained patches of coniferous forest, and with the 500 soilders clearing away the snow, they were finally able to get some rest. After the other 71 went was missed, Esperanto then started splitting the 429 and assigning the main force the duty of staying at where they slept for the night and building it up while assigning teams that will search the foot of the mountains, gather food, look for the missing 71, and other duties. Later, they found the remains of five and buried them with tombstones over their graves. When spring had finally come with the weather clearing up, they tried sending people southwards, but the expeditions always ended up finding themselves on the coast. Moreover, after thinking of settling on where they camped, Esperanto began tackling the creation of a town. If they didn’t return in a year, the Alliance would send search parties for them anyway. They waited for the option that yielded the best probability of survival.

After two years of waiting without any relief, the soldiers in the army began to wonder if humanity was destroyed by the Demon Lord, whether they were the last surviving people in the world. By that time, they would have no choice, but to build themselves into a nation. After three years of waiting without reply, Commander Esperanto decided to settle the land permanently as humanity’s last bastion. New lives had already been born, and the development and expansion of the settlement continued to press forward step by step.

Thus, the watchtowers were constructed ten years later, the new state was formed as the Esperanto Kingdom twenty years later, and a built castle fortress was completed thirty years later. From that moment forward, the long struggle between the beasts and the people of the Esperanto Kingdom in the west of the Grameus continent would begin.