Crown on Ashes

Kyle has always felt that the life of a mercenary is actually very simple. Get money, do errands, and come back alive. As for why the kingdom and the empire went to war, and what the nobles were fighting over, that was something the big shots should worry about. Until the First Mercenary Regiment accepted an ordinary commission - to find a missing caravan. The goods were not robbed. The body was hidden in the wilderness. All traces point to the elites of the empire who should not be here. Kyle soon realized they were seeing something they weren't supposed to see. At the other end of the Great Plains, a girl who lost her guard and remained anonymous was also avoiding the pursuit of the same group of people. No one knows why the war actually started. No one knows exactly what the Empire is looking for. No one thought that the people who would decide the fate of this continent a few years later were just a group of little people who just wanted to survive. When the crown falls into the fire and remains among the embers, how many things are worth protecting?