Dawn's Hope

Andara Kingdom.

The appearance of the Black Swan Assassins had thrown the entire kingdom into panic. The nobles cowered inside their castles, too afraid to emerge, yet even so, quite a few noble lords had been killed. The Black Swan Assassins could be said to hate the nobles of the Andara Kingdom to the bone.

"We never should have betrayed them."

Inside Baron Kent's castle, the baron stared at the shadows untouched by sunlight, gripped by overwhelming fear that a Black Swan might emerge from them and kill him.

He regretted it. He regretted following the King in betraying the Faith of Dawn. Now retribution had finally come. It was not merely the assassinations by the Black Swan Assassins; within the kingdom, Dawn Believers had already gathered together. In the name of the Lord of Dawn, they were preparing to make the traitors atone.

The flames had not yet reached the nobles, but they had already filled them with terror.

"Perhaps... I should have gone to the Sera Kingdom back then too."

The Sera Kingdom and the Andara Kingdom had a long history of grievances. It could be said that most nobles in the Sera Kingdom had complicated ties to the nobles of the Andara Kingdom.

Especially those nobles who had fled from the Andara Kingdom to the Sera Kingdom. It was said that they had recently been frantically annexing the lands left behind by nobles of Carlos bloodline, and every one of their territories was larger than what they had possessed in the Andara Kingdom.

For the kingdom's nobles, these few short years had truly turned the world upside down.

They had endured war, slaughter, and death, but what had the result been? The nobles of the Andara Kingdom were still suffering terribly, while the Sera Kingdom had stabilized.