The Abagozen Purification Zone is reinforced by troops waiting on the Sirdovian mainland. 20,000 troops are shipped across the Great Central Passage.
The attacking force of the Golden Army of the Red Messiah is reinforced by 13,000 troops from the Abagozen Purification Zone, bringing the attacking force's numbers to 20,850.
The following message is sent to the Diamond government:
HOLY DECREE #97
YEAR OF OUR LORD, 348
HEAR the Word of our MESSIAH
GRANTED to us through the HOLY PROPHET
By HIS Decree
THE Golden Army of the RED MESSIAH sends the following message:
MEN and Saurians of Diamond! REDEMPTION approaches!
THE armies of SALVATION advance! By HIS Mercy, not one more Man or Saurian need perish!
IF certain conditions are met, the lives of all citizens of Diamond, Human and Saurian, are to be spared. Any soldier of OUR LORD who takes the life of any law-abiding citizen of Diamond shall be burned at the stake as a heretic against HIS WORD.
FURTHERMORE, all Saurians under the authority of the DIVINE IMPERIAL FEDERATION OF SIRDOVIA are to be granted passage to the People's Republic of Asagon or the Republic of Alledon. This includes all Saurians in Diamond and the Abagozen Purification Zone.
OUR LORD offers this gift on the following conditions:
ALL territory of Diamond is to be surrendered to the Golden Army of the RED MESSIAH, in the name of the SAVIOUR OF MAN, effective immediately.
ALL Humans of Diamond are to hear the WORD of OUR LORD, and dedicate themselves to HIS GLORIOUS NAME under the leadership of the Divine Church of the CRIMSON HAND.
IF HIS MERCY is refused, Diamond will be considered a HERETIC-STATE, and the entire nation shall be put to the flame in a TOTAL PURGE. The nation shall be cleansed, with no mercy spared for any fighting Man or any Saurian.
THE Golden Army of the RED MESSIAH urges Diamond to surrender themselves to the DIVINE IMPERIAL FEDERATION OF SIRDOVIA, to prevent this massacre from occuring, for the mutual prosperity of Diamond and the DIVINE IMPERIAL FEDERATION OF SIRDOVIA, and to ensure the safety of the Saurian population of Abagozen.
NOT one more citizen of Diamond need die! The Golden Army of the RED MESSIAH hereby takes a HOLY OATH before OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR that, should these conditions be accepted by Diamond, not a single citizen of Diamond shall be killed at the hands of any soldier of the RED MESSIAH, on pain of death.
LET it be so.
For the GLORY of the RED MESSIAH, SAVIOUR OF MEN, LORD OF LORDS MOST HIGH.
DIVINE CHURCH OF THE CRIMSON HAND