Vol 1 Chapter 13 (1/2)

Chapter 1, Part 3

He put down his quill pen and breathed a heavy sigh

Not even thirty minutes into today’s work, and Konrad Steinmetz was already worn out He still hadn’t shaken off the fatigue from yesterday, so it was only natural

At the entrance to his office was a dresser and hat rack When he turned his gaze to theback at hiedthat his hairline above his ear had recently begun to recede; it probably wouldn’t be too long before he was completely bald

“By the way…”

His female aide Karen Bombardier called out to him from the other side of the official documents that haddown his pen had signaled to her that he had decided to take a breather She continued to speak in a deadpan voice while with one finger she pushed up the glasses that crossed the center of her tense-looking face

“Pertaining to the aforementioned matter…”

“And which one ht that be?”

Konrad was fifty-eight years old He was still able to boast of his stronghim to remember all of the “aforementioned matters” that were added by the dozens to his workload every day was asking too much

Konrad and Karen were a part of a post-war reconstruction agency known as “Kleeman”, and the number of issues that piled upon them in succession made the word incredibly stressful

For better or for worse, the end of the wars had brought about change in the continent of Verbist There was no way around the differences in values of an era where wars had been commonplace and an era where none existed Politics, econoed

In particular, the statesmen who had championed the war under the banner of “justice”, especially the nobility, now had to take a long, hard look about how to run the kingdom from here on out

‘We’re in a war right now Don’t be selfish’

‘If we lose the e lose everything Is that really okay with you all?’

They were no longer able to use words like this to redirect the spear of the masses’ dissatisfaction towards an enemy

Proble up in every country

Everyone had believed that all their anxiety and unhappiness would end with the hen peace came at last, and it was this belief that had carried theh the harshness of the wars However, the period of conflict had been so drawn-out that by the time it was over, no one knehat “peace” really entailed

So the nobility had no choice but to change their way of thinking

Of course, there were nobles that adapted to the new era with no proble coercive tactics to rule the people, and they received a rude awakening The masses’ expectations had swelled in anticipation of this “peace” that they knew nothing about, but when it finally came and they were just as bad off as they had been, they became discontent

The result of all this was—rebellions and riots were cropping up all over the continent of Verbist

The knights’ swords that they had wielded to protect their country were now pointed in the direction of their own people

Naturally, even the nobility thought this was a bad situation

It wasn’t like all the regions and districts in Verbist were having issues, though Whether by happenstance or by pure ability to rule, there were some areas that had been able to find their own definition of “peace” without much trouble at all Better still, some had even been able to jump-start their own economical prospects and come into quite a bit of wealth as a result

Atte to iing inforroup of wizards that had once been disain eic users had been reborn

For those several hundred years of war, politics and econoain at an incredible speed Of course, this sudden onslaught of infor and disorderly In order to keep the disorder to a ulate that information, so the countries all coency

That was the post-war reconstruction agency, Klee idealaid to all of them