하켄 게이트 대치 사건

Steam powered Erebonian tanks approach the Haken Gate

The Haken Gate Standoff was a brief encounter between the 하켄 게이트 of the Royal Army and the 에레보니아 제국군's 3rd Armored Division. Affected by the 도력 정지 현상, the Erebonian Army decided to take matters into their own hands by invading 리벨 again, as they were helpless against the 리벨 아크.

Negotiations were mainly conducted by Princess 클로디아 폰 아우슬레제, representing Liberl, and Prince 올리발트 라이제 아르노르, representing the Empire. In result, the Empire gives Liberl three days to resolve the crisis, or the army will step in with ten more army divisions.

Prelude

Royal Army forces had just blunted an assault on 그란셀 지방, due in no small part of the arrival of the former Special Ops Battalion under 앨런 리샤르 and 카노네 아마르티어's command. This unit was reformed as a penal unit, serving their time in the defense of the motherland as atonement. The unit's expertise in hand-to-hand combat made short work of the 우로보로스 forces terrorizing the capital.

By the battle's end, Richard received shocking news of an Erebonian Army armored division massing outside the Haken Gate. Kloe, who now fully embraces her rights as heir to the royal throne, steps up and requests to be accompanied to the Haken Gate with Estelle's group to settle the matter peacefully. They rushed northward through 그뤼네 게이트.

The Standoff

As the Haken Gate garrison prepared for battle despite their orbal guns not working, the Erebonian Army's 3rd Armored Division swept through the open plains. The force consisted of roughly 20 steam tanks and no less than a hundred riflemen (presumably armed with gunpowder rifles). At the helm of the vanguard was General 젝스 반다르, known as "One-Eyed Zechs" for his eyepatch, one of the Empire's most capable military officers. Vander parleyed with General 모건 and his entourage, the latter demanding a valid reason to come knocking on Liberl's doorstep.

Princess Klaudia and her bracer entourage arrived to ask the Imperial Army to stand down and allow the kingdom to handle the Orbal Shutdown Phenomenon. But much to the group's surprise, present in the vanguard was Olivier Lenheim, revealing himself as Prince Olivert Reise Arnor of the ruling Imperial family. He stressed that Erebonia is just as affected by the phenomenon as Liberl and wish for the Empire to take matters into their own hands.

Princess Klaudia feared that Erebonia's march into Liberl, despite not being under the pretenses of another invasion, will not be well-received due to the Hundred Days War ten years prior.

An irritated Estelle stepped in to represent the Bracer Guild as a third party, but she couldn't answer all of the prince's questions.

Moments later, 카시우스 브라이트 arrived with the 아르세이유, equipped with its own Zero Field Generator to withstand the phenomenon. This fact convinced Prince Olivert to order General Vander to withdraw his forces to 팔름 시. But the general warned the prince that ten more divisions would be on their way to the border in three days' time.

Estelle's group boarded the Arseille after the standoff heading for the floating city above Valleria Lake. Cassius remained at Haken Gate to monitor the situation at the border, praying for his children's safety.