With the noble clans destroyed and the city lord missing, things were finally looking up for us.

Or so I thought until the emperor's hunters starting poking around to see what had happened to the city and the surrounding crystal-rich deposits. Not someone to back away from a fight, we answered in turn by...taking care of the issue. A much greater threat of an entire army swooping down on us loomed overhead, pressing us for time to tie up all loose ends we had in the region, including a raid on t...