Lore

Fall of the Royal Capital

王都陥落

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Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer: with Cocytus as supreme commander, the Sorcerer Kingdom stormed the Re-Estize capital and killed nearly all of its residents; everything but the royal palace was burned to the ground, and the Kingdom fell.

Before the decisive battle, the Kingdom gathered the nobles near the capital, prisoners, and others into a 400,000-strong army, which commander Cocytus and his second, Mare, annihilated about an hour after acting regent Zanac was killed by traitors
A few days later, the Sorcerer Kingdom's army deployed before the capital; the next day, Shalltear was ordered to evacuate 1,000 Eight Fingers associates
Brain had sent the orphans he had taken in away with a caravan headed toward the Council State and declined the Blue Roses' invitation to flee with them; he meant to challenge the Sorcerer King to single combat, but on the way he dueled Cocytus, who was attacking the capital, and died; on Cocytus's orders, a Frost Virgin froze his body, and his katana was taken as a trophy
Aura and her beasts defeated Vesture and his top pupils; the Blue Roses escaped the capital by teleportation
King Ramposa III died in the throne room; Climb fought the Sorcerer King and died, and was later revived in Nazarick by Pestonya; Renner formally joined Nazarick
After the battle, Guren was ordered to burn everything in the capital except the royal palace, and the Sorcerer Kingdom's army advanced to destroy what remained of the Kingdom's territory; Marquis Raeven and the nobles of his faction were received by the Sorcerer King in the capital