1 Chapter 1

It was the day that the Continental Alliance finally decided to make their move against the Demon Lord in an attempt to dethrone him and to finally destroy what was felt to be the essence of darkness.

After many centuries of existence, the Demon Lord commanded a mighty army by simply using his powers as a necromancer to control the undead. His empire was not only the strongest military wise, but the land mass was also exponentially bigger as well.

This would be normally unheard of, but the Demon Lord took advantage of the many races who battled for supremacy on the continent, and only fought battles against the weaker races who had no true affiliation.

Due to this entire setup, as the other more powerful races became weaker from battling with each other to the death for many years the Demon Lord's empire continued to prosper until some of the human race's scouts saw how massive their military was becoming.

It still took many years, but for the continuation of existence for humans, they decided to pay heavy sums of collateral to the other races to join them in finally taking down the Demon Lord and to split the resources it brought to them equally. On this massive continent, the Demon Lord's empire was indeed massive and took up the entire eastern section.

If these races were able to defeat the Demon Lord, it would mean that this land which was now also extremely fertile could be used as a protective zone used by the Continental Alliance to trade equally among each other.

The elves who did not want any harm done to the land itself quickly joined the humans along with the treefolk race. Other races such as the spiders, the centaurs, orcs, and minotaurs took longer to convince, but after seeing the three dominant races coming together had no choice but to join them as well.

The humans fought the orcs while the elves and treefolk were constantly at war with the spiders and centaurs. Normally, orcs, spiders, and centaurs would join with the other smaller races to keep their influence strong, but unfortunately, it still wouldn't be enough.

Having an overall goal to bring all of the races under a single banner, the humans chose to strategically recruit other races who's empires were situated in specific sections.

Anything other than joining the fight against the Demon Lord and to receive an equal share of the land associated with them being victorious, was more than enough to convince all the other races to join within the span of only ten years.

As if it was a dream, millions of warriors were now marching on together towards the Demon Lord's empire to lay waste to him and his undead army.

"Sir, what would you wish for us to do? The combined military strength between all of those races is enough to completely wipe us out even if we hold the upper hand and even with us having several days to prepare for them!" one of the Demon Lord's generals asked him while bowing.

The Demon Lord had many generals who each commanded a legion of one hundred thousand undead warriors. Truthfully, the Demon Lord was able to control the generals himself since they were undead warriors themselves.

In his case, it would take thousands of him in order to completely control his armies, so instead, he made sure to incorporate real military ranks into his armies so that he could spend much less strength and to rely on just controlling his higher ups throughout battles.

"Do not worry, as long as we kill enough of them, I can make their fallen warriors my own. If we count the potential reinforcements with my power, we can receive them head on without faltering in the slightest!" another general chimed in.

While making his most powerful warriors, the Demon Lord travelled far and wide throughout the continent and the races he crushed, would have suitable warriors. Over the countless years, picking from the cream of the crop of warriors, the Demon Lord now had over twenty generals all with unique characteristics.

One of which, was able to learn some necromancy techniques herself, which meant that the Demon Lord could rely on this general to control many fallen warriors of his enemies and to use them as reinforcements other than his own.

"Silence." on his throne, the Demon Lord sat with a dark cloud covering his entire figure. Only his dark crimson eyes could be seen from where he sat.

"You are all to summon your individual armies and will be taking a defensive stance against the invaders. It is known that there are many powerful foes who are involved in this all out attack."

"If I were to assume, the massive army heading our way is going to be used as a feint, while these warriors will travel here to my throne room to fight me head on."

"However, those plans will surely change when they see all of my generals are on the front lines. Even if you all perish, try to take at least a single one of those warriors along with you."

"Victory is not necessarily wiping out the invaders, rather, victory is killing off those who are strong enough to oppose me together as a collective." the Demon Lord told his generals before dismissing them.