The Eastern territory of the empire was once considered the most beautiful land. The long Eastern coast was one of the wonders of the empire, and it was famous for the dragons that flew through its sky. It was a rare, and beautiful scenery of nature—until Gerard Gain, the ruler of the East at the time, had stabbed the emperor’s back.

After the incident of His Majesty’s assassination, most of the members of Gerard Gain’s dragon knight order were either killed or had to flee, as they were accused as accomplices. The Eastern territory lost its leader and had become a land that produced the principal offender, thus beginning to be ostracized by the empire.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the forces of the Crack that had crawled in from the north turned most of the Eastern territory into a wasteland. Duke Henna, a native of the East, began to hold them back with the military support she managed to get with difficulty, but the Eastern territory had long since been ruined.

The wind raged and sprayed red dust over the barracks. The messenger sent from the holy city of Torra realized just how devastated the Eastern territory had become by just listening to the sound of the dust storm raging against the barracks.

The young messenger from the holy city of Torra found it hard to believe that this devastated land was once considered to be the empire’s most prosperous land in the past.

The person he was waiting for at the moment was the only one who controlled this vast wasteland by...