Inside Kines Castle in the province of Lazania.

Hans was preparing a meal for the residents as usual.

The broth boiled in a large pot as smoke rose in the kitchen.

“Phew…”

Honestly, whatever he was making couldn’t be called cooking.

It was just chopped radish and cabbage being boiled in a pot.

The Queen of Thorns Alice was raising the citizens of the kingdom as livestock, so there was a fundamental limit to the food ingredients Hans could obtain and use.

“I want to at least make some fish soup to feed everyone...”

As a chef, he always wanted to entertain people with food.

But he was currently boiling this unappetizing soup that couldn’t be called ‘food’.

“I should’ve run away to the Lydia Kingdom back then...”

When the Queen of Thorns first appeared, he only thought of her as merely a new monster like any other.

This world would often update itself. Because of these updates, previously nonexistent ruins would spawn and the system would modify itself.

However, the people originating from the Eeth Continent did not find these changes odd.

They just thought of it as the gods intervening in the world.

"I can’t see the light of hope."

A hundred...