Interlude 1 - Checkmate

I'm heavily wounded and bleeding. They managed to get through everything I could manage as a defense. My demon knights fought to their last breath, but it was all for naught. They were the last of the elites. The last of the men from the demon race. Highly leveled armor and HP, but lacked in MP for none of them ever once had experience with magic. I knew most of them since the very start of my reign, and so before. They were good men, all of them, and so none remains of the existence of the demon race except me. As your queen, I shall make sure their sacrifices will not be in vain.

I am Arika Tenevris Aineura, the 2nd Demon Lord of the Ainuera Demon Empire. I was just a peaceful ruler of the 9th tower, with no wars, no famine, and no deaths under my regime. Progress and prosperity among the last 300 people of the demon race in this world. My domain over the Charon Archipelago was absolute, all the demons would follow me to their demise and the extent of their honor. Even with my race as the demons, it did not prevent me from making peace with most of the other tower empires. The Toratoga Island States and West Cardavenia Empire to the West, The Elven Reach of the East, and The Norden Sky Federation of the Dragons of the North all became my allies. Their magical technology is beyond our nation's dreams, but we still bested them in raw power and natural resources that most of them require sustaining themselves. We had treaties, we were allies! Then why? Why must it end like this? Why did all of them betray us?

“Say… these… words… on… the… platform.. as.. you… press… the… power… button… on… the… monolith…” Damn, from the paper they called a 'manual', their language is difficult to understand but all of it is done now. I have activated the fortress’ untold power, only time remains before this ancient weapon can destroy all they created.

“Etxecue Armgorp: GicnetaM. Aazuihtontroi: Auaenir”

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Listening...
“< Etxecue Armgorp: GicnetaM. Aazuihtontroi: Auaenir >”
(Execute Program: Magicnet. Authorization: Aineura)

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No one of these traitors would have caught on to that language unknown to theirs. That damn Petrel surely would not know anything I have just done on this so-called “computer”. This fortress was apparently the weapon my ancestors managed to create in their prime. The glyphics that suddenly appeared on the magical tablet I found within the vault of my ancestors showed how to understand their buried language. It showed me samples of the technological marvels of my ancestors, how they created angels that would fly above our skies and how more of these clockworks were stored in hidden caches all around the world. I was desperate to find a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of the war, my ancestors did not disappoint.

“You can’t stop it now. It will awaken soon and soon shall it consume you too.” As I spoke, they all took off and ran away like the cowards they are.

All of it is done now, I cannot keep up with this. I eventually started to lose consciousness from the bleeding, but my HP Recovery Skill is still trying its best to heal me. I snapped out of that nonsense and returned to my senses. There were lights all around the room where I activated this weapon, but nothing seems to have come out.

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Alas, I heard metallic noises coming from the other rooms along with the ceiling of my room, which startled me. I tried to then attract their attention if anybody was even there. It was apparently supposed to live, but I do not know how. I could not understand anything the computer was writing on that panel. It would have been convenient for me to learn the language in the future, but it doesn't matter now.

"Hello, can anyone hear me? Are you there? Is anyone there? Hello? Helloooo?" I shouted as I looked around for anyone to appear in front of me. There I only hoped it did not fail to activate. I am the last of my kind, let alone the queen. If this thing does not work, then all the demon race has endured until the end would have been for naught.