In October of the year 460 A.D., excluding the recent catastrophe that had occurred in Hurengel, the land on the west coast of the Saint-Flen Chelsea did not show much remarkable movement at this time in history, but it could not be said to be calm.

As long as the nominal supreme ruler of the Violet Kingdom is His Majesty the King named Bag Fairlandez, the secret game between the nobles over the succession of the kingdom will never cease, and every politician will be ready to move, and every knight - with the possible exception of Sir Roderick, who is known as the Silver Lion in the Valley of the Bright Edge - will probably no longer be as peaceful as the vassals of the previous monarchs' days.

Princess Tifia, who has a strong personality, has never shown weakness to her older brother, Prince Juventus, and younger brother, Prince Koend, even if she did not seek regency from her father, so that the regent nobles seem to be able to see the future from the shoulders of this wheelchair-bound girl.

Even if Prince Juventus is inferior to Princess Tifia in the current situation, he will never give up his inheritance and embark on a private journey to study at the Tower of Babel because he and Tifia's common brother Prince Simon are tired of the power struggle, and the members of the Violet King's party know in their hearts who the de jure heir of the kingdom should be.

So, two months later, when the leaders and members of the regency faction and the royal party were already eyeing the throne under the demented king, the sudden death of His Majesty the king became the fuse of a series of events afterward, and the secret struggle between the nobles finally climbed onto the stage of history and evolved into a open dispute, Prince Juventus preemptively declared that he was the de jure heir of the kingdom, and demanded that Princess Tifia immediately give up the regency in her hands and dissolve the faction. so that his sister may show her loyalty to the new ruler of the kingdom.

Correspondingly, Princess Tifia, who has a strong personality, naturally does not silently endure the pressure on her shoulders from her brother, and immediately explicitly accuses Prince Juventus of being a mad monarch killer, pointing out that the inheritance rights he has have long ceased to have divine authority in the face of morality and ethics, so the prince should be a sinner. The subjects of the kingdom would not allow him to be crowned king by stepping on the corpse of his father.

After that, the famous Violet Civil War broke out, and the vassals of the kingdom threw their private soldiers into battle with each other, but few realized that the Grim Reaper's scythe had been raised from the north.

The deadly death knell rang half a month later, and the black knights of the Hill of Eternal Death rode the skeletal horses under their seats like a flock of dead crows all the way through the northern border of the kingdom, and the corpses were everywhere in the field, the plague was everywhere, and the breath of death floated on the ruins of the kingdom in just half a year.

The prelude to the Demon Tide War officially kicked off at that time.

The humiliation of the human kingdom and the glory of the Dark Alliance began to spread gradually from that time

Of course. At this point in time, the course of history had not yet advanced to the eve of the outbreak of war, so Finn's plan was still in order, and Arroyo and Raymond were not slowing down too much by deliberately gathering information about the movements of the nobles along the way.

Violet was a typical feudal kingdom.

The country's hierarchical feudal system meant that the people who grew up in the land, nobles and commoners, were able to recite a proverb they had long been familiar with: "My vassals are my vassals, but my vassals are not my vassals." ”

This sentence is a bit awkward to say, but the truth is quite easy to understand when it comes to your ears. It is easy for people living in this era to understand that the order of the state is supported by a pyramid of upwards, with the emperor of the empire pressing above the kings and the king pressing on the dukes. The dukes pressed on the marquises, then the counts, the viscounts, the barons, and the knights and lords loyal to the barons, and finally the nobility as a whole oppressed the plebeian class.

This creates a situation in which a very small number of benevolent noble lords are excluded. Whether in the Faentan Empire or the Violet Kingdom, the nobles of this era mostly only turned their mask-like smiles towards other nobles, and turned their faces to cold and self-righteousness. Always looking down on the people living in their fiefdoms, and from time to time they have to be harshly and cruelly oppressed and exploited - you know, everyone, including the commoners, whose ideas are limited by the times, even if some people find this unacceptable, have to acquiesce in their hearts that this is a matter of course.

If the reference is changed to the Sishland Dynasty, which is separated between the coast of St. Flen Sea and the Far East, then this phenomenon will be even more palpitating, because the living environment more ruthless than class oppression has forged the barbaric culture of the desert people, so that the green-shirted people who walk on the sand believe that the slave is the most legitimate servant in the world, and the shackles and skin marks can show the reverence and loyalty of the servant to the master to the greatest extent.

So, when Arroyo and Raymond entered the city called Boenigs with Tina, the young thief at the front of the line noticed the various phenomena that came into his eyes along the way.

Those who were really poor and from humble backgrounds, such as peasants who worked outside the city all year round and a small number of refugees who migrated from the east during this period, had to build simple huts outside the city to survive. Not only are they always hungry and cold, but they also always lack basic security, nocturnal beasts can easily break into their homes and treat them as delicious prey, and it is as easy for bandits to ransack their shacks, which are filled with the smell of animal dung, if there is anything else around them that is worth grabbing.

Passing through the gates of the outer city walls and into the inner part of the city, the streets of Boenigs began to be lined with thatched huts that looked slightly sturdier than the sheds, but those that seemed to be barely "home" were only the residences of the craftsmen.

Apart from the few decent taverns that stand next to the street, all that remains is a behemoth within the inner walls of Boenigs, which is said to be the castle of the city's owner, the nephew of Sir Vilnard the Earl of Andor, and Baron Singler.

When the baron's castle is contrasted with the bandages and thatched huts of the commoners, there seems to be an ironic contrast in the air.

"Arroyo, where are we going next?" Raymond, who has always been short-tempered, looked at all this, and suddenly deliberately restrained the inexplicable anger in his heart, and then looked at the back of the thief young man standing in front of him and the half-fairy little girl and asked out loud. (To be continued.) )