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Battle of the Great Wall was the start of a massive false-flag attack by the Sorcerer Kingdom against the Roble Holy Kingdom, where Demiurge using his "Jaldabaoth" persona to lead a massive Demi-Human Alliance into attacking the Kingdom and destroying its Great Wall. It was also the single largest breach of the Great Wall in the history of the Roble Holy Kingdom and marks the beginning of the end of the Holy Kingdom's status as an independent state.
Background[]
Demiurge having designs on the Holy Kingdom to further Ainz Ooal Gown's goal for world domination, used his identity as the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth to conquer the neighboring Abelion Hills. Using his might and demons, the Floor Guardian subjugated the warring demi-human tribes in the region either through fear or coercion, turning them into a coherent army of warrior slaves. When the Sorcerer Kingdom was built on top of E-Rantel, Demiurge merely waited for his boss Ainz's permission to have him initiate the attack, but the attack was postponed because of the Imperial Colosseum Incident and the Sorcerer King's diplomatic journey to the Dwarf Kingdom. Once Ainz returned from the Dwarven nation, Demiurge immediately asked for his approval for the invasion. Ainz approved all of it, and Demiurge went to lead his Demi-Human army to attack the Holy Kingdom right after. [1][2]
The attack on the Great Wall happened abruptly just after sundown. The demi-humans using the cover of darkness marched their armies towards the fortress line from the western foothills, and were eventually sighted by the defenders who are manning the section of the wall at the central fortress. The demi-humans stood about four-hundred meters away from the Great Wall. Atop of the wall were the commanding officers at the fortress, among which were two of the Nine Colors, Pabel Baraja and Orlando Campano, who readied their men for battle. Initially only sighting snakemen, the soldiers on the wall soon realized that the demi-humans forces were composed of not just snakemen, but also from twenty different races as well. Thinking it was the start of a big invasion and possibly the start of a second great war in the Kingdom, the officers at the wall also came to a sudden realization as the purpose of why the demi-humans revealed themselves. It was assumed that the demi-humans were being overconfident at believing they could overwhelm the fortress which contained at least twenty percent of the kingdom's military strength.
Battle[]
While the demi-humans formed before the Great Wall, Demiurge stepped forward out of the formation. While some of Pabel's men believe him to be the commander and wished to shoot him from afar, Pabel delayed the action until the he gave the signal. The demon approached the wall until he was fifty meters out from his forces. Pabel called out to Demiurge to halt his advance and mistook him as a Demi-Human. However, much to his shock, he introduced himself as Jaldabaoth, a familiar name to the men at the wall, as news of Jaldabaoth's attack on the faraway Re-Estize Kingdom's Royal Capital reached them.
The general and soldiers believed that the demon sought to target their nation after his failure in the Re-Estize Kingdom, which Jaldabaoth admits. He claims that he came to them as he was driven out by a fearsome human warrior and wanted to see if there is a human as strong as him in the Holy Kingdom, then happily declared that he intended to turn their nation into a living hell for the millions of inhabitants that dwelled within. The general and soldiers were angered by the declaration, holding firm that their first line of defense would protect the people. Seeing that talks were over, Jaldabaoth promised to never accept a surrender from the likes of them and invited them to entertain him. Archers within Pabel's unit then made their move and loosed fifty one enchanted arrows at the Demon Emperor. The magically imbued arrows of lightning, divine, ice, flame and acid all struck the demon, only for the attacks to do nothing, confusing the archers briefly. From that point on, the battle was no longer a battle but an all-out massacre.
Before the archers could launch a second volley, Jaldabaoth decide to demonstrate his power with a 10th tier spell, [Meteor Fall]. From aboves a gigantic heated rock approached the fortress at an unavoidable speed, cutting through the sky and shattering the wall, killing Pabel Baraja in the process. Jaldabaoth after dusting himself, planned to follow-up with an attack to cause more confusion from the human side, allowing the demi-human's assault to become a complete rout. The surviving soldiers started a counter-attack as they were desperately trying to regroup and collect information. Meanwhile, the Demon Emperor seeing that the humans were in disarray, turned to walk back to his Demi-Human warriors, only to be momentarily distracted when one of the survivors, Orlando Campano, jumped down from the remaining intact walls to fight Jaldabaoth in revenge of his friend and rival's death. This proves to be futile, as Jaldabaoth regarded him as nothing more than a mere worm and casually used his [Command Mantra] ability to order Orlando to stab himself in the throat. The man died from his own self-inflicted injury and was dragged by the demon back to his armies as a souvenir.
With the forces of defending the Great Wall in disarray, Jaldabaoth took the opportunity to instill fear amongst the gathered tribal representatives, starting from savagely ripping the skin off one of the representatives and reminding them not to be tardy. Afterwards, the demon orders his forces to begin the attack and not to sustain that many losses. Jaldabaoth then began his next step and summoned a vast quantity of his demons to support the demi-humans in their efforts. He instructed them to limit their pursuit of humans, but also make sure not one fled the ruins of the fortress alive.
Demiurge and his forces effortlessly killed nearly everyone defending the Great Wall and breached it with minimal causalities, and quickly made their way into devastating the Northern Holy Kingdom.
Aftermath[]
News of the Demi-Human Alliance crushing the strongest central fortress and its soldiers and subsequently crossing the wall had begun spreading throughout the Holy Kingdom. Hearing this Holy Queen Calca Bessarez issued a general mobilization order to the entire nation with both the Northern and Southern Holy Kingdoms forming into two armies to combat the threat of the invasion.[3]
References[]
- ↑ Overlord Volume 10 Epilogue
- ↑ Overlord Volume 11 Chapter 5: Frost Dragon Lord
- ↑ Overlord Volume 12 Chapter 1: Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth