Schemes X Schemes

『Lenas』, a house of the Northern Grand Duke's faction in the East.

This domain supplied the North with vast quantities of food and was one of the domains the Northern Grand Duke paid special attention to.

Following the Northern Grand Duke's policy of favoring the strong and the nobility, it exploited its people with merciless severity.

The peasants here had to pay 80% of their crops in taxes, and whenever a freeman fled, the authorities would kill one member of the fugitive's family as an example.

Under normal circumstances, such conduct would have drawn a rebuke even from the Platinum Council, but the domain was left alone thanks to the Northern Grand Duke's backing and its geographical advantage, which made outside invasion difficult.

The people of the domain groaned in agony and waited for someone to save them.

To them, the southern paradise called ‘Kron,’ which they heard of in bards' songs, was heaven itself and a beacon of hope.

The people living in Lenas prayed to God several times a day.

They prayed again and again for the house ruling them to become Kron.

Had their prayers reached God...