- The Second Battle to Suppress the Dreihart Rebellion (1)

Calix and Zarha emerged from their meeting as the ‘Black Masks’—no, the Bloodkin—watched them from afar.

They watched Calix without hiding the hatred in their eyes behind their masks.

“Is that Calix?”

“Yes, Lord Kir. That is the lord who killed our brethren.”

Kir was the captain of ‘Valharim,’ a southern Bloodkin unit deployed to carry out the 『Sacred Mission』.

Their mission was to divide and weaken the Empire, and they pursued it by aiding the slaves’ rebellion and increasing the suppression army’s casualties.

That mission also included assassinating Lord Calix, who had recently been rising at an astonishing rate.

“They say that bastard brutally killed three of our brethren with a paring knife.”

“Nonsense!”

Kir thundered at his subordinate Yan’s words...