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The D∴G Cult Extermination (D∴G教団殲滅作戦(きょうだんせんめつさくせん)) was an international collaborative operation conducted throughout Zemuria. Its aims were to exterminate the D∴G cult in its entirety.

Background

Harold and Sophia Hayworth, who had taken custody of Renne, finding their friends' place in Calvard burnt down. They could not locate Renne among the corpses since she, unbeknown to them, had been abducted.

During the S.1190s, authorities started to receive reports about young children around the age of 5 being kidnapped. The incidents were most common in Calvard.

International investigation team

Authorities decided to establish an international investigation team to find a common cause in the cases of Calvard and its neighbouring nations. The investigation team consisted of the police department and army of each nation as well as representatives of the Bracer Guild and the Gralsritter of the Septian Church.

The investigation team was led by the then-A-rank bracer Cassius Bright, supreme commander for the operation, assisted by Calvardian bracer Zin Vathek.

D∴G Cult

Guy Bannings saving a debilitated Tio Plato from the lodge in Altair, Calvard.

They found that the kidnappings were carried out by a cult that referred itself as D∴G and that it was using Gnosis for a greater purpose, since "D∴G" means literally "D therefore Gnosis." They also concluded that it involved dozens of children spread over more than ten lodges, where they experimented with artifacts, summoned devils, and experimented on living people, all surrounding the drug Gnosis.

D∴G cult notebook found in the drawer of Joachim Guenter's office at St. Ursula Medical College.

On behalf of the Crossbell Police Department, Arios MacLaine, Sergei Lou, and Guy Bannings were in charge of the lodge near Altair, a border city between Crossbell and Calvard. Guy Bannings managed to rescue Tio Plato, 8 years old at the time, who was debilitated but still in a far better shape than children in other lodges who had been repeatedly exposed to experiments. Many could no longer be saved.

Gunther Barkhorn, Eighth Dominion of the Gralsritter, led the Septian Church's contribution to the operation, and in one raid he rescued a 14-year-old Van Arkride from the clutches of the cult and helped the young man recover from his ordeal.

Discoveries

D∴G cult notebook found in the drawer of Joachim Guenter's office at St. Ursula Medical College.

Although each lodge required its own approach from the operation, the outcome of each raid would be consistent. The majority of the arrested cult members committed suicide, and the rest suffered major mental breakdowns. The investigation team also discovered a vast amount of heavily mutilated corpses of children that was experimented on in the name of a "ceremony."

The operation successfully managed to exterminate the body of the cult. Some cultists managed to escape, however, and awaited their chance for the cult's revival from the shadows.

Leonhardt and Joshua Astray infiltrating "Paradise."

Other extermination attempts

Separately from the D∴G Cult Extermination mission, there have been other efforts to exterminate the cult. In S.1196, on behalf of Ouroboros, Leonhardt and Joshua Astray raided the lodge named Paradise, where they found Renne Hayworth and took her in.

Kevin Graham in the Altair Lodge in S.1204 per request of Arios MacLaine.

As a recently appointed Gralsritter, Kevin Graham also infiltrated a lodge where he found a boy named Elmer that was beyond salvation. Kevin had to put him out of his misery.

Aftermath

The mission itself was locked away as a top-secret mission because of its sensitive contents.

In recognition of his efforts as the commander and leader of the extermination, Cassius Bright was promoted to the coveted bracer rank of S; by S.1202, he had been one of only 4 S-ranked Bracers in the continent.

Joachim Guenter managed to escape the extermination attempts but was later killed after an unsuccessful attempt to kill the SSS in S.1204.

Soon before the extermination efforts, a cult Prince named Gerard Dantès had managed to successfully extract and claim the powers of a diabolic core extracted from one of the cult victims. He used this power to escape and survive the extermination operations by both Ouroboros and Cassius. However, unlike Joachim, Gerard held no particular affinity for the cult, and decided to join a mafia organization after it was destroyed to seek out power on his own.

Following the cult's extermination, Ouroboros's Fourth Anguis Ellroy Harwood facilitated its remnants merging with the remnants of another recently destroyed organization, the Order of the Moonlight Horse, to form the Gardens. Two children Gerard fathered while in the cult were taken in by and raised in the Gardens.

Organisation

The D∴G Cult Extermination team, with Cassius Bright in the middle.

Overall

• Cassius Bright, Supreme Commander
• Zin Vathek, assisting bracer in Calvard
• Gunther Barkhorn

Crossbell

• Sergei Lou
• Guy Bannings
• Arios MacLaine

Calvard

• Chloe Lanster
• Dominique Lanster
• Roy Gramheart, Calvardian government and military liaison

Victims

• 
  Renne Hayworth
• 
  Tio Plato

There were dozens of victims reported. All of them young children of approximately 5 years of age, but some older, the majority already dead and/or heavily mutilated.

• Renne Hayworth
• Tio Plato
• Elmer
• Ennea
• Van Arkride
• Quatre Salision