Medieval Life from Scratch

Xixia Situolinsuoen was born into a knightly family in gradual decline.

Perhaps, once he came of age, he would marry the daughter of a nouveau riche and spend the rest of his life peacefully at a country estate. That would be the best ending a second son like him could hope for.

He had been a thief hated by all and a desperado in a merchant caravan. All he wanted was to survive in this world.

Mercenary companies submitted to his iron fist, and the nobles feared his ambition. When that haughty lord was forced into a political marriage with him, everyone thought he had reached the end of his road.

Until he led his cavalry to storm the capital and crowned himself atop the corpses of the old nobility.

In this world, only the sword holds sway.