- The Abandoned

Dreihart, freed by Calix, was full of vitality once again today.

The people who had become free citizens worked wherever they wished and received wages commensurate with the work they did.

They no longer wore the painful purple iron chains, and they were free to walk around and meet their families and friends.

The new dueling tournament, UFC, created by Calix, became Dreihart's new claim to fame, drawing countless spectators from across the Empire. Its champions earned enormous prize money and honor, making them the goal of every warrior in Dreihart.

Yet even in this transformed Dreihart, where there was light, there was darkness.

Countless slaves had died during the Dreihart Rebellion, but countless nobles had died as well.

However, some of them had escaped underground, gritting their teeth as they waited to repay the suffering they had endured a hundredfold, a thousandfold, once the army sent to suppress the rebellion had crushed it.

But what they saw after enduring all that was unbelievable.

Calix Kron, who had seized Dreihart, had freed every slave, confiscated the nobles' assets in his capacity as ruler, and used them for the freed slaves and Dreihart.

The surviving nobles were naturally furious, and they took measures such as suing Calix Kron before the Platinum Council...