Climbing to Unimaginable Heights

Having visited this place once before, Riezel had some understanding of Honey Wine, a high-society restaurant open exclusively to nobles.

The first floor consisted of halls specifically for banquets and balls. The second floor held private rooms for lesser nobles such as viscounts and barons, while the third floor contained exclusive private chambers for great nobles like earls, marquises, and dukes. It vividly displayed the strict hierarchy and differing status of medieval nobility, making one clearly feel what privilege meant.

No matter how others might deny it, nobles were privileged people in this world, and the royal family stood even higher above them. Only the strong could overturn the gap between classes and gain recognition from this upper circle. Ordinary commoners had no way of resisting that reality.

If Riezel had been a hot-blooded youth who could not stand privilege, perhaps he might have actively tried to change this situation.

Unfortunately, though there were certainly things he disliked, he understood even more clearly that even without nobles or royalty, so-called privilege would still be everywhere.

Those in power had privilege.

Merchants had privilege.

Capitalists had privilege.

The wealthy had privilege as well.

There was no absolute fairness in this world. Even if the royal family and nobility were overthrown, it would only mean replacing them with another group of people and another form of privilege.

That was why Riezel had never thought of changing any of it.

All he could do was make himself stronger—strong enough to wipe out any malice that came near him and make those who thought they could suppress him with privilege regret it.

And he had done exactly that.

Including the time he had experienced through Dimensional Travel, more than a year had passed since his arrival in this world—nearly two years.

In two years,