Fast forward to June, and the vegetation along the long coastline of the west coast of Mobigas turns a deep blue.

People are dressed in looser and more breathable clothes, fishermen begin to catch and marinate salted fish in large quantities during this season, golden ears of wheat in the fields everywhere have crushed the tips of the branches, and most of the activities of building new buildings are in full swing at this time.

In summer, both the natural and human worlds are in a state of vigorous prosperity.

Crossing the Soladin Heights, let's take the camera off the Sage and his party for a moment. Instead of going south, but a little further north, a change was quietly unfolding somewhere behind them where they passed, which had previously been overlooked by our vision.

-- This is a war. After the fall of Duke Monroe of the Kingdom of Crane in the Five Kingdoms, the battle for the succession of the provinces that began in April this year was like a bloody storm that came in advance, quickly sweeping through all parts of the country.

It's just a small place, but the territory of Krant is divided into three forces, the power was originally second only to the duke and the royal family of a group of big nobles formed an alliance and openly raised the flag of rebellion, the greed of the royal family made these people worried, the feeling of death prompted these people who originally supported the Krant royal family to stand on the opposite side, the royal capital guards the knights in name only, even if there are still a few noble heirs who have not left, fearing that they may assassinate their own King Krant also directly put the knights under house arrest for various reasons.

The elite forces were lost, but the royal family, which still had a large number of ordinary troops, was still capable of competing with the League of Nobles - but nothing unique about it, for any country on the West Coast. This kind of aristocratic fighting aristocrats to compete for the world is normal.

This dispute is the most unique place. It is the existence of a third force.

We mentioned earlier, at the time of the Monroe incident. A large number of the city's inhabitants fled to the province of Xilin. And the royal family of Crant, who were busy fighting for this big cake, chose to let them fend for themselves, like all nobles who do not take commoners seriously.

Having just left their homeland, it was almost the season of storms, and the living conditions were poor and miserable, because the nobles had all the labor force to fight, and there was no one to harvest the crops that were almost ripe.

When people are hungry, they get emotional.

When these civilians finally decide that they have had enough of it, men and women. They raised whatever weapon they could find. Some of the little nobles who knew that they couldn't get a piece of the cake hit it off with them, and with the mercenaries who wanted to make war money, this third army, which was a mixture of fish and dragons, unknowingly developed into the largest of the three forces.

The reluctant civilians raised the flag of anti-rebellion, but the results were not very rosy. In front of the elite soldiers of the well-equipped major nobles, these ordinary people and even the minor nobles at the rank of the sergeant have no ability to resist at all, and if they resist, they will be punished, and with this lofty idea, both the royal family and the noble alliance have launched a brutal massacre against their own people.

This incident is like adding fuel to the fire. It provoked a revolt from more commoners who had intended to turn a blind eye to it, which in turn led to more massacres, and so on, and so on, and so on, and the infighting between the aristocratic alliance and the royal family -

Crane, it's messed up.

And its neighbors. Didn't miss this opportunity.

192 years in the Avenella calendar, 176 years in the Kranti calendar, 340 years in the Sivalier calendar. In the summer of 1330 in the Divine Calendar. This tiny kingdom, founded less than 200 years ago, like Avenella, where our story begins, has endured a stormy civil strife. Under the iron hooves of the invaders, they perished in pieces.

History always has a striking similarity. After the Five Nations region became the Shikoku region, Boyce, a neighbor of Krand, was captured and became the target of public criticism again.

This battle for the dominance of a single province turned into a battle for the territory of a country after bringing about the destruction of an entire country, and suddenly turned the local war that had been maintained by the entire five-nation region into a large-scale all-out war. The Knife Sharpening Hoho people were terrified, and the refugees poured in all directions, many of them fleeing directly to the forest, some of them becoming bait for monsters and beasts, while many more survived, trying to rebuild their homes without being disturbed.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

We've been on a long journey with the Sage and the Roan Maiden to the south of the West Coast, but let us continue our vision north, beyond the toothy and clawed dinosaurs and dragon lizards of the Ridella Wetlands, to where it all began.

The changes in Avenella in the past six months have been the most enormous.

If you're a common bald eagle on the west coast and you've flown in from afar to feed for the first time in half a year, you'll find that the strange upright creatures that are busy on the ground live in a white line.

It was used by a constant stream of carriages and travelers, making it extremely convenient for the inhabitants to move and to transport supplies - a road built by Edward, a road made of stone slabs in all directions.

Muddy dirt roads are often unusable in times of wind and rain, and soft mud can still cause the carriage to roll over and damage the axle even in relatively sunny weather, while the sturdy stone slabs are much better than the sturdy stone slabs, even rain or shine.

The stonemasons of Avenella now surpassed the status of blacksmiths and became a sought-after profession, and the stones mined from the mountains behind the holy city of Vavasika were constantly pulled by ox carts to the workshops at the gates of the Ehrenchefort to be beaten, and the forests on this side were cut down extensively, and houses, wells, and artisans' shops were built one after another, and the first roads to be built by Vawasika led to Ashnir and through Ashinir. Roads are gradually connecting to other places.

The sturdy and straight stone pavement, the advantage of not worrying about the weather and being able to move forward quickly allowed Avenella's business to flourish even further. Workers who go up to the mountains to mine, mercenaries and hunters who hunt, craftsmen who make these. Within half a year, the roads had become more accessible, and the alliance with the Ottoro Empire had brought unprecedented prosperity to this tiny kingdom with a population of only two million.

The plebeians of Avenella called it "Pantagelet", which means "as vigorous as flowers", and Prince Edward himself was so pleased with this title that he even quoted it in a letter to his father, which was the first time that later historians referred to the "Age of Flowers" appeared in historical records.

The benefits of contact with a vast imperial civilization are staggering.

The first was that the West Valiers could only rely on the side of the West Valiya, and the West Valiya people sold a series of rare products from the rich East through their Varsha port to the rich East, and the benefits of the Avenella were entirely for the Arvenella themselves, and the strong support of the kingdom made the merchants praise Prince Edward rise. This culminated in his announcement that he would pave the way from the Griggley Rift to Ottalo.

Bright, like the rising sun.

After a war between Avenella and Sivalier, although it experienced the threat of the Padrossi Empire, it burst into vigorous vitality step by step, like the Asahi that would definitely come, under the leadership of a capable prince.

A large number of Sivalier artisans began to flee to Avenella, for the sake of wealth, and for the defeat and the loss of an important source of income. The territory of Sivalier has begun to gather clouds.

Blaming Philip II in public was arrested one after another, but either those people were inexplicably re-released, or their deaths led to more opposition.

As the lord of one of the strongest kingdoms on the West Coast, Edward's cousin has a headache, and he wants to govern. However, when the nobles of Sivalier were all wishful thinking, and when they did not see the low-hanging fruit, only a very small number chose to stand behind him.

And that's not the worst. Maximilian, one of the kingdoms bordering Sivaliers, seized the country's internal and external troubles and sent envoys to Avenella by sea. And in May of this year, the alliance between the two countries was initially announced.

-- Even though it is not a friendly country, there are times when there are frictions on the border. However, in the present situation, the declaration of friendship with Avenella is to some extent tantamount to a direct declaration of war against Sivalier.

Philip II was really anxious, the intrigues of the domestic aristocracy and the emptiness of the treasury after the defeat, the voices against him as a king intensified, and the merchants, the commoners, and even the bishops of the White Church, the rhetoric that "Philip II is the most incompetent king in history" in the kingdom became more and more rampant, and it was in this situation that Maximilian announced an alliance with Avenella - an additional threat to others, but not to Philip.

If we go back a little bit back to the beginning of the story, during the invasion of Avenella by Sivalier. Remembering what our Sage had said at that time, it was probably not difficult to guess what was in Philip's mind.

"The Lord shall not be angry and will not be discouraged and cause war. Philip's greatest fault was that, though he was the lord of a country, he did not have any due calmness and reason, but was impulsive like a foolish young man. Although the previous raid on Arvenella was also related to that important text, if he was a calm and rational and talented monarch, he could have used other means to defuse this crisis.

-- or, in other words, if it had been a wise and talented monarch, all this might not have happened in the first place.

Philip II was impulsive and had a blind self-confidence born out of nowhere—like the rest of the West Valiers before the Battle of Acasta, the self-confidence and wealth of the strongest kingdom on the West Coast had always made them proud of the rest of the world, but the ordinary West Valiers, and even some of the nobles who participated in the war, after a great defeat, began to gradually lose that arrogance and sit on the glory and wealth of Philip, who was the lord of a country.

However, I just think it's not a big deal.

The king, who had never been on the front line, did not have much real sense of defeat. His way of thinking was simple and crude, and his self-confidence as the lord of a powerful country led Philip II to see an opportunity, unlike the merchants and nobles who began to feel worried, when the kingdom of Maximilian announced its alliance with Avenella.

The fact that the king did not personally go into battle was one of the areas where the people were dissatisfied, and Sivalier, the country of the strongest knights, lost a war, and was the second place where the people were dissatisfied.

-- Then, this neighboring country, which took the initiative to provoke Sivalier, will personally lead the army to crusade.

The king, who was forty years old and had never experienced a single war, brought the spoils of war with a perfect victory, proving that the country was still the strongest on the West Coast. In times of national crisis, a victory can save the hearts and minds of the people - if our sage in the far south had learned of the king's thoughts, he would have shook his head and sighed.

The god of fate, a bad-hearted god who likes to play pranks.

And he once again made a joke on the world.

On May 15, 340 A.D., Philip II led an army of tens of thousands of nobles to the northeast of the kingdom of Maximilian.

On June 19 of the same year, the day after our sages and their lodge in the midst of the rain, Philip II pursued the vanguard with his army when he encountered the main force of General Barth, the 7,000 men of the Maximilian Southern Seventh Army, including 7,000 men.

King of West Valier, Philip Day Avallister Avalon II, was killed in battle a month and four days after his expedition.

There was an uproar in the kingdom -

When the news reached Avenella on the other side, it immediately caused a political earthquake.

Philip II had no children and no daughters, and the only remaining orthodox heir to the royal family of Avalon in the whole of West Valière, was a young woman of sixteen years of age.

King Ahibon II, who was already salivating over the throne of Sivalier, was said to have jumped up on the seat of the palace in such excitement that the vacant throne made the nobles of Sivalier also want to move, but in this situation, the only legitimate heir, Isabel Day Avalon, who was not favored by anyone, ordered his faithful servants to send a letter when the storm was about to come.

The recipient of this important letter, which had been concealed from the eyes of all the nobles in the country, was-

Edward Chester Shulfaga.

"Click-" The gears turned again.

The whole world is changing, and the sage and the girl of Luo'an who are leisurely traveling do not know it.

Here we go. (To be continued.) )