Minotaur Nation Shaken, "Red-Letter Warning"

New Calendar Year 4.

Midwind Month, May 21.

News of the fall of the western border city of "Sossal" swept through the entire Minotaur Nation like a raging gale.

The city had not fallen to an external invasion, but because the slaves within "Sossal" had rebelled and taken the city.

Reports that City Lord Graymore Ghesum's Horn's head had been hung from the city gates, along with a string of other news, were swiftly spread by the Minotaurs who had escaped.

The entire Minotaur Nation was thoroughly shaken. Many Minotaurs had never even heard of the border town of "Sossal," but that did nothing to stop the already hot-tempered Minotaurs from flying into a rage.

No one was angered by Graymore Ghesum's Horn's death. Instead, cries of "trash" and "idiot" rose from every corner of the nation and landed squarely on Graymore Ghesum's Horn's head.

Royal Capital, "Zultan Walla."

In the clean, spacious grand hall of the Royal City, Minotaur ministers, nobles, and generals argued in a chaotic uproar, their clamor seeming ready to tear off the entire roof.

"Graymore Ghesum's Horn? Which family's idiot was that?"

"Ghesum's Horn? That surname seems to come from a branch of the southwestern Emberhorn Family!"

"That piece of trash!!"

"I'm so pissed! He actually died at the hands of slaves. Why didn't he use his own horns to stab himself to death?!"

"Emberhorn! The southwestern autonomous region is actually ruled by such a family? I propose stripping them of their autonomy!"

"To let slaves overthrow their rule and kill them—this is the greatest and most unforgivable disgrace since the founding of the Minotaur Nation!"

Voices burning with rage echoed continuously through the grand hall.

His Majesty the Horn Emperor listened to the noisy voices below. Rarely, he did not speak to stop them,