Duchy of Tis, Blood Port.
By now, all of Blood Port had almost completely changed.
Yami carried a bag in his hand and looked at the newly fenced-off construction sites lining both sides of the road, unable to stop himself from sighing.
He had been attending classes these past days.
He had started in a literacy class, only to be pulled into a new course after just a few days.
They said the course had something to do with his talent for counting, but he truly could not feel the connection.
If he had to say something, subjects like geometry felt more like drawing and were boring as hell. Only calculus held a bit of interest.
The one teaching him was a dark-haired youth. He was very young, yet seemed to know everything. Yami later learned that he was none other than the lord of Castel.
To be honest, Yami was rather curious why this lord had come all the way from Castel to Blood Port instead of staying in his own territory—so Yami asked him directly. Theus answered that he was here to help with the construction.
That answer was highly convincing. Construction in Blood Port had hardly ever stopped.
First came the docks. Blood Port had naturally possessed an old dock as a port, but it had been completely destroyed during the Mother Goddess Church's rebellion.
He had heard that the final battle had taken place at the docks, where the giant beasts flying through the sky had plowed the ground with bombs.
Other places could still be called ruins, but the docks had been blasted directly into enormous craters.
Blood Port was a harbor, so the docks naturally had to be rebuilt. Yami had thought he might find work there after finishing the literacy class, but reality