It was during the war of 1025 IC , three years after the beginning of the war a problem became very evident, the lack of man power.
Though they were the ones on the attacking end of the conflict , this was also a strategy to decide the location of thebattlefield .
Though it may seem like the forest was more advantageous to them such an advantage was destroyed in the fires of the second year of the conflict.
The wouldn't have made much of a difference if not for the fact that the society was unraveling on itself putting a lot of strain on the governing party.
The credibility that had Long been deteriating due to the unreasonable cast system and long line of incompetent leaders further took a huge blow when corruption and exploitation were exposed.
Yet just as the war was about to be won , a variable appeared in the form of unknown allies which ruined all previous work as this new enemy had larger numbers than the elves with higher level combatants than us humans.
The new enemy was the 'orc races' that prided themselves in being almost equal to the beastmen in combat.
This new enemy was attacking us in east as we attacked the elves in the south and due to this we had to pull some men from the elves frontier to the orc borderline.
Just as we managed to control both battlefields using chemical warfare on the orcs and sabotage and espionage on the elves.
Things took a harsher turn when even the vian races from the west attacked though the fact that such an event was expected reduced the shock of fighting on three different fronts.
The avian races were held back thanks to the traps that had been set during the last conflict with them .this a long with the long distance mages delayed the avian races.
As for the allies in the form of the beastmen , it turns that they really thought of everything including our allies.
The beastmen were being held back by the mermen in the north and the scaled beasts in the east and the orc races in the west of the continent.
As for the weaker allies , some had apparently been forced to change sides due to threats and Coercion against children, elderly and women.such tactics truly disgusted the public upon being revealed.
It was in such a situation that the 'knight 'project was completed and revised.a project that had gone on for more than ten years of combined research involving Ana, Az and sunny.
The aim of the project was to make the non mage population in to a potent battle power Worthy of the time placed in to them. After all with the speed at which they processed data comparing them to supercomputers wouldn't do them justice.
At the beginning of the fourth year of the 'world war' as the paper released by a brilliant up and coming genius mage and philosopher Sunders Mors coined it , a huge military force appeared out of no where.
This military force was by the empress and wife to the current emperor Silvia the storm.this came as a surprise as it was common knowledge that she'd had her mind sea damaged during an attempted assassination of the emperor as she saved him .
This force of knights as they were called were apparently made up of once ordinary human was underestimated, right before Silvia arrived on the elven front lines and simply smashed through.
The knig were master's of close combat though that didn't mean they lacked in long distance department as most mastered the bow as well or simply had crossbows.
The fact that there bodies could withstand spells right below their rank sent shivers down people's spines.
The physical strength they wielded was even above the orc races and the beastmen.
The fact that the could wield a rougher form of mana made them deadlier foes on the battlefield.
With in a year, the elven races were defeated and out under imperial rule. As though that weren't enough , the knights were then deployed to other battlefields where upon numerous lives they reaped.
Most of the mages were deployed to the avian races where they released all their frustration . even the emperor joined said battlefield where he gained the monickers heartless monarch and bloody hand Darius.
With his wife receiving blood stained silver, the two seemed like a match made in heaven.