2nd Dark Lord War

About
The 2nd Dark Lord War was the second major conflict which took place from LP7 to LP8 between the forces of the Monster Realm and the Human Race, being the focus of Rance X.

The War of Factions
At the beginning of the LP Era, a unusual situation has happened. The new Demon King summoned by Demon King Gi, Miki Kurusu refused to lead the Monster Realm as Little Princess and proceed to wander the continent searching for a way to return to her dimension.

As a result of this decision, two factions emerged about what to do. The Kayblis Faction led by Kayblis the strongest Dark Lord decided to seize his chance to kill Miki and become the Demon King himself. The Hornet Faction led by Supreme Dark Lord Hornet decided to uphold her father last wishes by protecting Miki. This turn of event led to the first civil war of the Monster Realm in thousands of years. The Kayblis Faction managed to rally the majority of the Dark Lords and monsters, annoyed by the policies of Gi regarding the Human Realm and his overall passivity. Despite their numerical advantage, they lack teamwork because they follow Kayblis by interest and as such, Hornet was able to match Kayblis.

During the LP Era, both factions interfered with the Human Realm in order to gain an edge and break the stalemate, the 7th Helman-Leazas War and the Collapse of Zeth being exemples.

Unified Monster Realm
By LP7, both factions are still at stalemate and have been weakened by years of wars and their respective operations in the Human Realm. Kayblis lost Dark Lords La Saizel, Sieg, Kite and Elite Dark Lord Camilla while Hornet Faction lost Dark Lords Ithere and Noce.

Two events end up breaking this balance. Dark Lord Satella disappear during an adventure with the adventurer Rance and Kayblis forcefully enrolling Warg, a reclusive Dark Lord with the power to put to sleep every being next to her.

The tides of the war are tipped in favor of Kayblis, who proceed to score multiples wins against Hornet.which ended up in an assault in Hornet's castle resulting in Dark Lord Meglass being killed and Silky, La Hawzel and Hornet herself being captured cementing Kayblis as the ruler of the Monster Realm.

Following this victory, Kayblis set his sights on the Human Realm desiring to recover the territories Gi gave up to humanity. Using the legendary territory of Shangri-La previously seized by Medusa located in the center of the Continent and coercing Dark Lords Silky and La Hawzel into joining his side by threatening Hornet' safety, Kayblis began to stage his attack.

The Beginning of the War
​Using the Kinami Desert which borders almost every countries, the Monster Realm launches a devastating surprise attack on the Human Realm.

An army of 600 000 monsters besieged Parapara Fortress on Leazas' border and managed to took it over. The army then split into two to assault Free Cities and Leazas. Leazas managed to contain the attack thanks to Queen Lia' swift decisions and the deployment of its armies. Free Cities owing to its lack of a centralized power only manage to muster 30 000 soldiers to meet the Monster Army 300 000 and was unable to prevent them from entering its territory.

Another army of 300 000 monsters invaded Helman, forcing the nation to call most of its 2nd Army from Fort Banra to contain the threat as Fort Banra is bordering Hornet's territory which has been relatively peaceful for years. However, a second army of 300 000 came from Fort Banra at the same time which caught the remnants of the 2nd Army off-guard killing their general Bodu.

Finally, Zeth was attacked by 600 000 monsters split into 3 fronts while another army of 200 000 monsters simultanously tried to break through Maginot Line. The reason for this amount of troops was to free Camilla which has been detained in Zeth ever since the Collapse. One of the three armies that attacked Zeth was forced to retreated by Anise Sawatari's magic which led to this army going to assault Crystal Forest.

Adding to the numbers of monsters, Dark Lords have also been deployed in countries, where Lexington, Silky and La Hawzel assaulted Leazas, Pi-R and Lei were in Free Cities, Babolat and Kesselring striked in Helman and Medusa and Galtia attacked Zeth. These powerhouses protected by the Invincibility Field only made the situation bleaker for the humans as they are immune to normal attacks.

Unified Human Army
Despite this ominous situation and more than 3 millions of people have been killed in a month by the Monster Army, the countries didn't managed to unite themselves because of conflicts. This situation changed in October LP07 where the adventurer Rance, wielder of Chaos returned from his last adventure, having been frozen for 5 months. Upon being notified of the situation by Pope Crook Mofus, he is persuaded by Oda Kou to act a diplomat between the countries, owing to the fact that he saved most of them and he is deeply acquainted with theirs rulers. A summit is then organized in Rance Castle with the purpose of uniting the countries as one, but it appeared doomed to failure. Rance, annoyed by this situation make the bold statement of offering to vassalize every countries in exchange of defeating the Monster Army. While it was seen as a bad tasted joke by most of the people present at the summit, Crook assured them that he will be able to unite the countries, and is proven right when Helman, JAPAN, Leazas, Zeth and the Free Cities accepted his terms.

The ensuing union managed to maximize the organisation of the army in each country. This fact added with reinforcements from JAPAN, managed to make humanity resistance against the monsters a lot better, postponing the original expectations of total defeat from a month to three. However, the Dark Lords remained the main problem, as no Hero had appeared to fight them.

To solve this situation, Rance was able to form as specialized squad made up of humanity’s finest warriors designed to fight against and defeat each of the Dark Lords invading human territories. Titled the Dark Lord Extermination Squad, the action of this team was the cornerstone of the Unified Human Army.