The story diverges into two threads: just as the war in the Northern Peninsula of Rhenia comes to a pause, with the Chaos Fiends being shattered and entering a pursuit skirmish phase, the Kato area, hit by a Merfolk attack, is far from peaceful.
As early as the outbreak of the Black Disaster on the Ligurian Peninsula, this area had been placed under military administration by the Exploration Corps, and local industries, under the Cape Family's leadership, entered a wartime support mode, with several factories fully committed to producing war materials for self-sufficiency. As a result, not only did they avoid trouble, but the increase in orders even led to a wave of "prosperity".
Especially for the workers; although they had to work overtime, they were satisfied because they earned more.
