Emperor Grantodi had been a lecherous man all his life, leaving behind countless sons and descendants. Among all those princes and princesses, both great and small, only the several sons and daughters of Empress Ophelia truly possessed the right of succession. The Silver Queen was the empress's third daughter and was deeply loved by both His Majesty and the empress. In the south of Vonder, under the rule of the Temple of Flames, there were countless princesses among the dozens of nations, great and small. If those princesses were compared to the stars in the night sky, then among the hundreds of millions of lights, there would always be one or two that shone the brightest—like Magdal, the nun princess Brando knew well, and Griffine, the pearl of Eluin. But sixty years ago, the night sky of that era belonged to only one person.
That person was the Silver Princess, Constance—
Constance had been born with a silver spoon in her mouth. As the daughter of Emperor Grantodi and Empress Ophelia, she possessed an incomparably noble birth. As she grew day by day, her beauty gradually became known beyond the empire. Even in Saint Osore, where the Wind Spirits had lived for generations, in Fanzan to the north, and in the Ten Cities Region ruled by free mercenaries and merchants, people discussed the princess of the Cruzian people. Constance was also an Awakened One. From birth, she had possessed part of the Silver bloodline—this was the origin of her title as princess. During her girlhood, Master Jerut, the chief court wizard of the Cruz Empire, had declared that she would become the most outstanding wizard in the empire's future. Like the scholarly girl Shido, Constance's extraordinary talent soon attracted the attention of the Buga people. Ajani, the Wizard Leader of