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On the Eternal Night Continent, the citizens walked out of their homes and stood in the streets, staring blankly at the scene overhead. This unexpected turn had suddenly given them a glimpse of their domain lord's daily life.

A Stone House, a cave, a wooden bed, dumplings.

For a moment.

Quite a few citizens even felt their eyes redden.

The homes they lived in now had all been built for them by the Logistics Pavilion, and were much better than their old homes. They had assumed the domain lord's home would be better still—not some outrageously extravagant palace, perhaps.

But surely it shouldn't have been a cave?

As for why it was a cave.

They could more or less guess. Naturally, it was because it sat at the very center of Nameless Mountain, allowing him to handle the Mortal Domain's affairs immediately. Large buildings weren't permitted inside Nameless Mountain's gorge; the available space imposed limits.

With the Mortal Domain's resources and construction speed, building a palace outside Nameless Mountain would have been effortless, but it might have slightly slowed the domain lord's handling of the Mortal Domain's affairs.

That wooden bed.

It was probably a constant reminder that he had begun in humble circumstances, that victory had not yet been won, and that he could not let down his guard.

Especially those dumplings.

A merchant saw what the domain lord usually ate, then thought about his own meals, and felt his face burn with shame. He insisted on three dishes and a soup with every meal, yet the domain lord didn't even eat as well as he did.

How could he bear that?

And over the past year, the domain lord's life.

Could essentially be summed up in five phrases.

"Military stockpiling, technological upgrades, territorial expansion, infrastructure construction, resource