It started in a small rural village with a low production mine. The money didn’t circulate, and one by one, the younger population began to leave the village to make money in a port city in the West. If it continued like this, the small village would eventually disappear.

However, as long as there were people living in the village, there would be merchants who would regularly visit to conduct business. They usually visited the village every one to two months, but this time, they were the first to discover the accident. No, this should be called a tragedy, not an accident.

“Wh… what is this? What the hell happened?”

The merchant was devastated by what he saw in front of him — the village had been completely destroyed. The village’s buildings were broken and burnt with corpses everywhere. The merchant looked for any survivors, but it was useless; the small village had been completely destroyed without a single sound or rumor. He immediately went to the nearest supervisor to report the situation. 

Officially, the Northern region was a territory under Duke Sean Palan’s command, but the actual administrative work was done by the officials dispatched from the royal palace. When the official received...