Crowley Invasion of the British Commonwealth

The Crowley Invasion of the British Commonwealth is a global conflict which began on December 11th in the current year of the story timeline.

Following the attack on Aleister Crowley by Coronzon after his defeat by Kamijou Touma in the Windowless Building, the alternative possibilities which were bound to his body branched out and manifested across the world as the Crowley's Hazards - a disaster bearing Aleister Crowley's name. The billion-strong army subsequently began an attack on the 53 countries of the British Commonwealth, in response to Coronzon's actions and claims.

Aleister Crowley
On December 1st 1947, with his pursuers closing on him in the British countryside  and in accordance with the rules he had set when he had destroyed the Golden Dawn and cursed its members, Aleister Crowley turned his own blade on himself, and received the curse, collapsing like a burst bag. To most of the world, this was where he died. However, Aleister was actually saved by Heaven Canceller, who sewed him back together and sheltered him from the United Kingdom.

Afterwards, Aleister secretly came to Japan and took advantage of the situation to establish an institution in western Tokyo in the name of educational and technological recovery, creating Academy City. For the next sixty or so years, Aleister would operate from the shadows, working to bring his master plan to eliminate the phases and magic to fruition.

Crowley's Hazards
At some point during this time, Aleister brought 1,083,092,867 of his alternative possibilities into the world, without having thought it through, and ended up having to bind all of these other selves to his body, with his life-support system being used to prevent them from diffusing. Due to Aleister leaving his life-support system earlier, they had already started to branch out and would have eventually diffused, even without the intervention of Kamijou Touma and Coronzon.

These parallel Crowleys, which in the subsequent events would be called the Crowley's Hazards (クロウリーズ・ハザード) - being a disaster which bore Aleister's name, possessed varying appearances and abilities, some still being relatively human while others had abandoned their humanity and possessed monstrous forms. Some of them had mastered magic like the prime Aleister while others had given up on it altogether. However, none of them were truly normal possibilities, as they were Aleister Crowley after all. Although they had been brought forth through abnormal means and branched out from many "what if" possibilities, their existences would not be negated by the Imagine Breaker. The prime Aleister was capable of guiding the bizarre Crowleys to a certain extent though he wasn't able to fully control them.

Some of the manifested Crowleys which would be involved in these events included:

Anti-Crowley Measures
While acting as Archbishop of Necessarius, Coronzon secretly created a number of anti-Crowley defenses which were intended to be used against him should he return to British soil:

United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth
In October, the United Kingdom had experienced a coup d'état attempt led by Second Princess Carissa, wielding the Curtana Original and with the support of the Knights of England, which would later be called the British Halloween. Its forces were also involved in World War III.

At the time of the invasion, Princess Carissa and William Orwell were still incarcerated in the Tower of London, while the Knight Leader was operating in his position as commander of the knights.

Initial Manifestation
On December 11th, Aleister Crowley made an attempt to destroy the phases but failed due to the efforts of Kamijou Touma's group and was knocked out by Touma. Having infiltrated the Windowless Building, Coronzon took the opportunity to stab him with the Sword of Damocles. As the wounded Aleister regained consciousness, Coronzon mocked him with claims of having possessed his daughter Lola before infesting the Board Chairman's body, intending to use this new avatar to make a toy out of Academy City. At that point however, the alternative possibilities which Aleister had previously bound to his body diffused and manifested across the world. Guided by the prime Aleister's will to get back at the demon and take back his daughter, the Crowleys immediately began a simultaneous attack on the 53 countries of the British Commonwealth.

When Coronzon was first contacted by one of her subordinate as the Archbishop, and first learned of the invasion, largescale attacks were underway in Canada, Australia and the other Commonwealth nations, with Britain itself also having taken some damage. The knights were holding it back but the outskirts of London had apparently already fallen, with the defenders seeing the likelihood of a long-term battle if the enemy constructed a base.

Revealing what had happened to Coronzon through the mouths of several possibilities manifested in the Windowless Building, the prime Aleister's consciousness shifted into one of his alternate selves, a young girl in a witch's hat, who manifested and saved Touma from falling after being blown out of the hole in the building by the earlier attack. Before Coronzon could escape, Aleister launched the Windowless Building into space to delay the demon. Aiwass's actions would further delay Coronzon and although he was eventually defeated without an avatar, he ensured that Coronzon would be shifted into the 'new world' on the return trip due to relativistic effects, where she was subsequently set upon by the Magic Gods. While this was happening, Aleister sought out Coronzon's secondary avatar, A. O. Francisca, who was attempting to seize the latest iteration of Academy City's Bank, the Processor Suit. At the same time, he discovered that his first daughter Lilith had been returned to the world through Aiwass's actions.

By the time Coronzon managed to claw her way back from the 'new world', dragging Nephthys and Niang-Niang along with way, Aleister had excised A. O. Francisca and used the parts of the Processor Suit to transmit a potent virus through the Bank to shut down Academy City and its cooperative institutions, denying the demon the prize of the city's scientific knowledge and technology. Aleister then proceeded to temporarily seal Coronzon using a city-scale Banner of the West. With the evacuation of Academy City underway, Aleister and Touma's group set off after Coronzon's achilles heel in the United Kingdom while the demon was trapped.

Invasion of the United Kingdom
By the time Aleister and Touma's group reached Egypt, where they left Lilith Crowley under the protection of Mina Mathers in an RV in the desert, had already fallen and Crowley's Hazards across Europe were converging to cross the Strait of Dover. The group subsequently crossed the Mediterranean to reach Greece and subsequently traveled to France in order to make the crossing themselves, seeking Coronzon's achilles heel hidden in the United Kingdom. The initial attackers in the outskirts of London had apparently been neutralized by then, with the Anglicans and the knights scrambling to mount a defense of the coastline to prevent the invaders from the continent from reaching the island.

At some point after the Crowley's Hazards manifested and began their attack, with Coronzon no longer in control of the situation, the Qliphah Puzzle 545 activated and set about its business as a Crowley Killer. Spreading the madness of war and influencing the defenders, the demon secretly infested and hid in the body of Kanzaki Kaori.