"What?"
Hearing the report from his subordinate, Duke Kane could scarcely believe his ears.
"All aerial forces have been wiped out?! The 4th Armored Division is advancing on the imperial capital?!"
"Yes... Not only that, the troops originally guarding the imperial capital have all ceased operations. They demand that you explain the anomaly in the imperial capital, Duke!"
"Hmph! What is there to explain?!"
Duke Kane gritted his teeth and hurled the communicator in his hand to the floor. Then he turned around and glared viciously behind him—there, the Crown Prince was tied to a chair, and embedded in the wall behind him was a sealed, enormous crimson Mecha.
The Crimson Sefirot.
It had once been the guardian deity of the entire Empire. Two hundred years after the Erebonian Empire was founded, a disaster emerged from beneath the earth. The dark dragon, the Walker of the Void, appeared from the abyss. It was a terrifying demonic dragon radiating black miasma. The miasma it exhaled blanketed the entire imperial capital, turning Heimdall into a city of the dead and controlling the dead as they wandered through its streets. The emperor of that time had no choice but to lead his people away from Heimdall and establish the capital in the south.
A hundred years later, Emperor Hectors I decided to defeat the dark dragon and reclaim the imperial capital. It was then that he encountered some mysterious being—the enormous crimson Mecha, the Crimson Sefirot. In the end, Hectors I piloted the Crimson Sefirot into the demonic capital, defeated the dark dragon, and slew it.
Though the dark dragon had been destroyed, Emperor Hectors I also perished from its foul blood. The Crimson Sefirot was cursed as well, transforming into a "demonic being with weapons numbering in the thousands." To prevent it