As the assassination at Port Vias unfolded, inside a military camp in Green Forest Province.
Green Forest Province was named for its forests, and naturally, this vast province was thickly covered in woodland. More than eighty percent of the entire province lay beneath dense forest. Great trees hundreds of years old and giant trees thousands of years old could be found everywhere. In the mountains at the province's northernmost edge, there were even ancient trees that had survived for ten thousand years—colossal things that nearly a hundred people linking arms could not encircle.
Such vast forests contained countless precious timbers, and this was the greatest reason Green Forest Province had become the Western Continent's foremost source of lumber. Before the Green Fluorite Family was destroyed by the Dragon Wing Legion, the family earned tens of millions of gold coins every year simply by selling timber. Even within the Vias Commercial Federation, the Green Fluorite Family had been considered well-to-do.
But now, the Dragon Wing Legion hung over the province like dark clouds. Several enormous military camps stood along the provincial borders, glaring hungrily at the lands of the Federation's southern provinces. A full-scale war could erupt at any moment.
At the edge of Loring Forest in the southernmost part of the province, outside a small city named Losen City, an immense military camp rose abruptly from the land. Red triangular banners fluttered above it. The military flags bore a giant dragon soaring with outspread wings, its blood-red body marked only by a ring of gold around its wings.
Blood Dragon, Golden Wings—this was the Dragon Wing Legion's distinctive emblem.
Originally no more than a regional garrison legion of the Caesar Empire, the Dragon Wing Legion had been personally expanded by Black Duke Karon into an army of a million men