Running away from home! Running away again!
After a period of development, Stormveil Castle had grown more and more prosperous. It was showing signs of returning to the rich state it had enjoyed before the Shattering of the Elden Ring, before it had been ravaged by the evil Demigod Godrick the Grafted.
Things were different now from the days when Godrick the Grafted ruled and the entire Limgrave region wanted revenge on Stormveil. After this period of governance, Stormveil—and a certain great little girl of a queen—had at last won the support of nearly the whole region.
Moreover, after everything that had happened, some so-called Seers and sages believed that while the rest of the Lands Between were busy giving up on one another, Stormveil Castle was entirely different. After a brief period of rest and recovery and a rapid expansion of its strength, it had begun to show the bearing of a true kingdom.
However, the troublesome little girl who ruled it didn't care about such things, and the people in power within Stormveil Castle were just as busy to think about them.
That day, beside the enormous Golden Throne in Stormveil Castle, the Witch Thops was at her desk as usual, handling official business.
Just then, an officer from the Flame-Eyed Knight Legion strode in and respectfully placed a parchment report on her desk.
"Reporting!"
"Lady Thops!"
"This is the quarterly report on the Flame Furnace and the supply inventory. Please review it!"
After setting down the papers and seeing that she had picked them up, the Flame-Eyed Knight officer didn't waste time. He saluted, then turned to leave.
"Hmm?"
"Wait a moment!"
But before he could leave the throne room, Thops called out to him with a slight frown.
"The Flame-Eyed Knight Legion has nearly fifty thousand