as they venture further north, they eventually reach the kingdom of sforzando, one of the most powerful nations of their world, renowned for their magi-knight corps, their healing magic, and the strongest woman alive, queen horn. while at sforzando, they meet the head priest of sforzando, they greatest magic user in all of their kingdom, who immediately takes a dislike to hamel. it is revealed that flute, the victim of hamel's humiliating antics was actually the only princess of sforzando, who was unfortunately abandoned as a baby in order to increase her chance of survival when sforzando was besieged in a dreadful war many years ago. reunited with her estranged mother, flute tries to deal with many pent up emotions while hamel is sent out in order to seek out a man capable of fixing his magical violin. unfortunately, during hamel and raiel's absence, sforzando is besieged yet again by the armies of hell. leading them are dragon king drum and king of the beasts guitar, both extremely strong and one of the 4 lords of hell. a fierce battle ensues, where both powerful forces collide and tens of thousands of both sides perish. in the end, hamel and raiel return after meeting vi olin and having the violin fixed in order to finish their foes off. in a last-ditch effort with everyone attacking at the same time, they manage to subdue the dragon king drum who had turned into a 48 headed hydra.