The Topa Kingdom was situated on a small strip of land that connected the Philades and Grameus continents, surrounded by water on both sides. It was the place where the four great heroes, who went with the Red Army of Heaven to seal away the demon lord, now rested. From the Age of Gods, men of Topa have guarded the entrance to Philades as the shield of humanity at the fortress known as "The Gate of the World", to prevent invasion by demonic beings. Very few demonic beings had been sighted in the last 10 years, the most being ten.
It was peaceful, until one day, the demon lord's army reappeared.
Topa Kingdom
Gate of the World
One week before the Parpaldian raid on Fenn
"Hm? What are those? Over there, in the white plains, there's a lot of black dots moving."
"Those are goblins! That's one huge swarm!"
"And there's orcs too! There must be some high-level being that is rallying them!"
"C-Could it be…? The Demon Lord Nosgorath has returned…?"
Just then, two towering ogres, red and blue, appeared.
"Ohhh SHIT! Aren't those the lieutenants of the demon lord according to the ancient tales?! We need to report this immediately!"
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"Captain, we have sighted an army of demons! They are led by the red and blue ogre, presumably headed by the demon lord!"
"Moah, I am ordering you to Tormis to inform the government. We will hold them back for as long as we can."
"But I can't just leave everyone here!"
"And Gai, as a mercenary, my new job for you is to get Moah out of here! And for the rest of us, we will give our lives to hold back the demon army!"
"I would hope you two are wrong, but we cannot risk it."
A knight burst through the door.
"Terrible news! The Gate of the World has been breached! The garrison stationed there has been annihilated and demons are pouring into Topa!"
"Shit, shit, shit, SHIT! I'm going to redistribute our forces to bolster the defense of Tormis!"
Demon Lord Army
"It seems while I was sealed, the humans have multiplied a lot. They thought the land belonged to them. We will teach those lower lifeforms a lesson by exterminating them. This whole world belongs to the Ravernal Empire and the Mage Emperor!"
The red ogre spoke. "O Great Demon Lord, the last time we tried to push out, the Red Army of Heaven was summoned when we reached the southern continent. I still remember their iron dragons and magic explosions. We were destroyed. I thought that if we angered the gods again, they would be summoned…"
"GAHAHAHAHA! Don't worry about them! The Red Army is nothing compared to the great Mage Emperor! The empire's sky ships are faster than sound, while the Red Army's are only half that. The iron dragons would be destroyed by the bullets of light! We will crush the Topanese first and destroy the gods when the Mage Emperor returns!"
Parpaldia Empire
Third Foreign Affairs Office
Three days before the raid on Fenn
"So, Ambassador of Topa, what brings you here today? Do forgive me for taking a meal during our meeting, my schedule is extremely tight today."
"The Demon Lord has been revived and the Gate of the World has fallen. We request-"
"Oh, that demon lord in your history? Our research indicates that is a synthesized beast from the ancient empire."
"We request that every country sends some soldiers, particularly yours, since you possess magic cannons that would be very effective."
"I assume that since you want an immediate answer, I will give it. And that answer is no."
"Lord Kaios-"
"We will deal with it when we need to. Parpaldia has many pressing matters, such as subjugating a country that offended us a few times too many. We have ordered the deployment of the oversight army now. We won't let your country's sacrifice be in vain, though."
Usea, Moscow
Now, 2 weeks after the revival of the Demon Lord.
"So you are saying that there is a demon lord that leads an enormous army of ogres and goblins to consume humans and destroy civilizations? It seems rather far-fetched, but given the nature of this world, it does make sense demons exist. Considering the nature of their attacks, we can defeat them easily. Alright, we will offer support…Actually, we can just do it entirely on our own."
"Thank you so very much. We don't know how to repay you for this immense help."
"Ah, don't worry about it. It'll be fun for our men."
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The 22nd and 64th Mechanized Battalions, 6th Artillery Regiment, 161st Air Assault Division,18th Long-Range Bomber Division, and Northern Fleet were assigned to destroy the demons. At their disposal, they had:
- 6 Tu-163
- 14 Tu-160M2
- 8 Tu-95MSM
The above are deployed from Usea.
- 16 Su-57K
- 28 Su-75K
- 50 Su-44
- 15 Mi-35SV
- 24 Mi-28NM
- 20 T-14B
- 36 T-14
- 10 TOS-2M
- 16 2S35
- 30 BMP-5
- 42 BMP-4
The above were sent to Topa, the aircraft and helicopters deploying from improvised airfields and carriers.
A squadron of Su-57Ks from the carrier Shtorm flew high over the demon army, which was camped at the destroyed Gate of the World, filling most of it.
Nosgorath looked up with interest. "Those resemble empire aircraft. Perhaps they have returned already? I didn't see any sign of their return though, nor do I sense magic in these crafts...This world doesn't have anyone even remotely advanced as the empire either."
Shortly after, a black flying wing appeared from behind a cloud. "That's strange, the empire had nothing that looked like that…"
Then, two large objects fell out of the aircraft's belly, tumbling toward the demon army. Nosgorath, sensing danger, hastily erected a dense magic shield, but it was only large enough to protect himself and a small group of orcs around him. "What power! It's nowhere near core magic, but that was the absolute pinnacle of explosive power! Who could possibly have done this?!"
Two FOABs, dropped from a Tu-163, evaporated much of the demon army's advance force and the fort. The shield broke almost instantly after the blast, all eight enormous crates of magic gems and all of the demon lord's own reserves drained of mana. He could still feel the flames charring his skin. Shortly after, the TOS-2Ms began rocketing the remainders of the fort from 8 kilometers away, Nosgorath barely managing to support a tiny, thin shield to protect himself. Even then, he was getting burned from the blasts and flaming shrapnel, bruised from the pressure. The pain was indescribable, the raw burn wounds continually assaulted by metal shards and the burning air.
He had never faced such power before, not even with his defeat by the Red Army. Here, he was getting beaten back without any way or opportunity to retaliate, while he had been able to inflict damage on the heavenly army. He hobble-ran from the fort while the remainder of the advance force was destroyed.
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Forward Observation Point
Gai whistled. "Moah, would you look at that! The demon lord has run away!"
Moah nodded. "Indeed, these Useans are incredibly powerful. That flying craft delivered such an immense explosion! Only the demon lord's shield could block it! Those explosive light arrows are quite strong too! But the power they possess, the markings on their iron dragons, could it be that Usea is the country of the Red Army? They are a transferred nation after all…"
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Nearby, Mirishial intelligence officer Rydorka could only watch in dumbfounded wonder.
Grameus Continent, Demon Lord Army, Main Camp
"Master! What happened?" The red ogre asked.
Nosgorath stumbled into the command chamber, collapsed into his throne, and waved at the ogres to leave, too mentally and physically exhausted and injured to speak. Some unknown entity possessed enough power to be a threat to the Magus Empire, and he did not have the power to stop them. Could the Red Army still be around, after all these millennia, developing and building weapons that might pose a threat to the creators? The mage fighters could easily fly at nearly twice the speed of sound, some faster, while the ones that had appeared were only approaching the sound barrier. However, he had a sinking feeling that these aircraft were not flying anywhere near their top speed.
As he sat in deep thought to try to make sense of the attackers and drew on a crate of magic gems to replenish his reserves and heal himself, a rumbling began. It was the result of the carpet bombing of the compound conducted by a flight of Tu-160s, to clear out the masses of goblins and orcs that made up much of the demon army. Then, as Nosgorath and his lieutenants looked out of the command post, partly buried in a hillside, they saw Su-44s fully loaded for ground attack unleashing their payloads of unguided rockets and antipersonnel cluster bombs. A few of them, armed with special railgun pods, dived in and fired at the command center. The projectiles punched clean through the thick earthen ceiling and erased the red ogre, shocking Nosgorath and the blue ogre.
The demon lord poured his energy into erecting another shield, giving the remaining forces a respite from the unrelenting assault of rockets, bombs, and missiles. The tanks on the ground and the helicopters arrived and joined the shelling, many of the vehicles' crews blasting Doom music because it was the most appropriate thing to do while slaughtering demons. The shield shrank rapidly as Nosgorath's enormous supplies of magic gems in the compound were being depleted at unbelievable rates, crate after crate of colorful mana-loaded gems turning into useless clear crystals in a futile effort to maintain the shield. The reexposed forces almost instantly turned into red mist by the sheer amount of lead and explosives. He then noticed the red star painted on the nearest helicopter.
"It's the Red Army!? But they are so immeasurably more powerful now!"
Then, the black wing of doom reappeared right as his shield flickered out, and the shelling stopped shortly after. Nosgorath watched the vehicles withdraw. As he looked up, the last thing he saw was a large barrel falling on him, the inscription "It's no BFG, but it is a BFB" scrawled on the tip.
On November 11th, 1639, the demon lord and the last remainders of the demon army vanished in a colossal explosion from one of the first magic gem-augmented bombs, fittingly named "Big Fucking Bomb".
The only trace of the demon army that remained was the heavily cratered and scorched landscape.