Clang! Clang!

"It feels like the world’s going crazy these days."

In a remote mine on the continent, a bearded man, the mine manager, grumbled as sharp sounds of metal clashed chaotically around him.

It was a common complaint anyone might have about the state of the world, and the thin man across from him nodded in agreement.

"Everyone seems to think so."

It had been about a year since strange phenomena began appearing all over the continent.

A count's daughter who had escaped from slavery went missing. A specter appeared, massacring innocent people. A new mage tower master, filling …