Alleria, nine cities stand side by side.
For a long time, a generation of influential figures maintained a delicate balance and prevented city-states from colliding with each other.
Adrian Wren has been dormant for many years. He is young, gentle, resourceful and naturally makes people want to follow him. He memorizes the names of ordinary soldiers and can chat and joke with clerks; he steps into a hostile city alone and still takes it calmly, as if everyone in the city can be a comrade. He can always describe the distant future within reach.
The world fell in love with him because of this.
But this desire of the people may be his most dangerous weapon.
A well-planned murder case broke out in the palace, and the long-maintained balance of the Nine Cities was shaken. The dispute that Adrian had been waiting for half his life began.
Princes, generals, heirs of aristocratic families, people who are well versed in power gathered in the center of the whirlpool. Among this group of people, he noticed a figure that should have been inconspicuous.
Elara Ven.
A low-level clerical historian wearing a plain gray robe. There seems to be something hidden behind the self-reliance.
The storm hit, and Alleria's rift spread.
Black stars cover the sky, and the generation that grew up in the old era is about to define what the new world will look like.
There is a kind of love that is extremely dangerous, and future generations cannot determine whether it will save a country, or whether it will permanently tamper with the origin of the country.
Purpose: If power has already shaped your desires, can choice still be called freedom?