War was cruel, yet this year's Pioneer Order war had gone almost too smoothly.
After the knightly orders attacked the Lush Corridor, most of the Eagle Kingdom lords they swept through either shut their castle gates in advance and hid away in the countryside, or simply opened their gates to welcome the royal army, changing sides and becoming part of the invaders.
Some lords had even packed up every resource in their castles, waiting only for the knightly orders to arrive so they could board ship after ship and set out for the Flame Kingdom. Some were reluctant to abandon too many supplies and had even arranged for their serfs to be taken away directly with the knights.
There were not many battles that truly required a charge.
Hidden at the material boundary, Liszt watched this scene and could not help sighing. "It looks like the Eagle Kingdom has basically abandoned its coastal hinterlands. These lords have given up on themselves as well... Since the Eagle Kingdom is being so generous, I'll have the knights work a little harder—after sweeping through the Lush Corridor, we'll make a trip to the Gulf of Aden too."
Adonis Moonlight Silver and his knights could not defend this land or protect their own people. As a result, mercenary bands ran rampant, serfs were sold at will, and commoners lived lives where they could not know whether they would see tomorrow.
So Liszt would take his place and relocate every commoner here to Flame Island.
There, on Flame Island, they could begin new lives. They would no longer need to fear attacks by mercenaries, nor worry about having no guarantee of survival—as a lord, Liszt might not possess such lofty ideas as equality for all or democracy and freedom, but he had always upheld one