The Reception at the Imperial Palace IV

Zyphar Eldraen, the emperor's advisor, was celebrating his 71st birthday this year.

During his long human life, he experienced events so horrific that they transformed the loving man he once was into a schemer bent on the destruction of his own world.

Barely in his forties and starting to make a name for himself, the young baron of that time was forced to watch helplessly as his entire family was slaughtered by other nobles coveting the wealth of the lands granted to him by the lord he served.

He cried out for justice, but no help came, for he was simply insignificant in the eyes of those who could have assisted him at that moment. He wandered from city to city, then from one country to another, always powerless in the face of the misfortunes that seemed drawn to him like a magnet.

The law of the strongest ruled Era's world, and he was often its victim...