A long, long time ago...
In ancient times, a prince named Ledin wielded the Holy Sword. After an incredibly fierce battle, he finally crushed the ambitions of Emperor Digos of the Dalsis Empire and resealed the summoned Chaos beneath the earth, setting the stage for peace to return to the world.
Then, time flew by for several centuries...
During that time, the continent of El Sallia remained in a delicate balance between light and darkness.
Countless prosperous nations rose and gradually declined. After one fell, new lives and kingdoms emerged. This cycle repeated every two to three hundred years, and the Kingdom of Bardia—the realm of Prince Ledin, who had vanquished evil—could not escape that eternal law and fate.
However, when the kingdom fell, the royal descendants hid the all-important Holy Sword, making it disappear somewhere across the vast land. Centuries had passed since then.
After the Kingdom of Bardia fell, countless nations both large and small naturally began to emerge across the continent. After all, the world would not stop turning just because a country had fallen. Among them was a small nation harboring ambitions to conquer the continent. It slowly expanded its sphere of influence and kept enlarging its territory.
That country was the famous Rayguard Empire, or simply, the Empire!
Driven by the ambition of its emperor, Bernhardt, the Empire's many legions and soldiers were gradually encroaching upon the surrounding nations.
And today?
For some reason, Lyon, commander of the Empire's Azure Dragon Knights—one of its four great corps—and a general, had led his adjutant, Lieut, along with forty elite light cavalrymen from the Azure Dragon Knights and a hundred infantrymen from the Empire's new recruit barracks. They had sneaked across the border into the neighboring territory of Salrath, with which the Empire had not yet formally