“Karl and Wilhelmina have joined forces. There’s no turning back now.” With the emperor and the imperial princess working together to keep Reinald off the throne, Karen has to teleport to the stronghold city of Estaverde to warn him. However, when the teleport spell goes astray, Karen ends up not in Reinald’s camp on the outskirts of the city, but in the middle of the city itself, where magic is prohibited and punishable by death. Worse yet, she’s teleported right at the feet of the clan c...

After decades of war, Dias returns home as a hero and is rewarded with his own domain. When he arrives at his new lands, however, they turn out to be little more than endless grassy plains without even a single subject.Literally put out to pasture, Dias is stumped as to how to live any life other than a soldier’s. But when a horned girl named Alna crosses his path, Dias takes his first steps to being the lord of a not-so-empty frontier.

A blizzard hits Iluk, forcing everybody to stay indoors while it runs its course. The twins, bored out of their minds, demand Dias entertain them with a story. Dias thus regales them with a tale from the war, a tale that—unbeknownst to the man himself—has become legend. It is an epic of battles and strategy, of good versus evil, and of a small, unassuming hamlet grown into the famed “Golden Lowlands” with more than a little help from Dias himself.

Iluk Village gets itself a new resident in the form of Sahhi, a falconkin hunter looking to slay a dragon for his family’s honor. It also sees an influx of baar residents, inspiring Uncle Ben to start thinking more seriously about the temple he longs to build. At the same time, Hubert decides it’s time Dias expanded his domain to better secure a vital salt supply. Easier said than done! The nearby salt plains are protected by a very strange power eerily similar to that of Dias’s battle-ax…...

Dias’s plate is full! With winter on its way, the villagers of Iluk Village should be thinking about their winter stockpile, but there’s too much else going on for them to even get started. First a pregnant baar arrives looking for her lost husband. Then Eldan decides to visit with his entire entourage in tow, just as Peijin-Octad arrives with a band of traveling performers. And as if that weren’t enough, there are bandits lurking east of Baarbadal, and another god in the wasteland ready t...

When a trip to the forest leads to a meeting with a mysterious cavekin, Iluk Village suddenly finds itself with three new cavekin residents! The family of blacksmiths decides to join Dias to fulfill an ancient promise and immediately starts on building a furnace. But what good is a furnace without the magic stones to fuel it? To rectify this oversight, the cavekin and Dias embark on a hunting expedition into dangerous monster territory!

With the mystery of Felicia’s stalker resolved, Shiori and Alec can focus on the songstress’s performance at the Nativity Festival. However, Shiori’s illusion magic is about to draw more attention than she ever could have imagined! And to complicate matters further, on a visit to the bookstore, Shiori accidentally pieces together Alec’s true identity! Can Alec muster his determination and allay his lover’s worries as they look to take the next step in their relationship?

When two starving wild baars arrive in Iluk asking for food, Dias’s newly appointed civil servant, Hubert, proposes a deal: food and shelter in return for wool. This arrangement proves even more successful than expected, so Hubert decides it’s high time for Iluk to make its first forays into dedicated trade with Mahati. But while Ellie is away bartering, a deadly flame dragon is spotted heading for Iluk! Dias, the onikin, and the residents of Iluk must prepare for battle with what may be t...

With the Nezrose Domain expanding, Dias realizes that he needs to prepare for winter, which means a more stable and self-sufficient food supply. He decides to try his hand at cultivating farmland, but he’s about to find out that nothing grows on the grassy plains except for, well, grass. Unbeknownst to Dias, however, some kind of force is at work upon the soil, and the twins Senai and Ayhan hold the key to making the land fertile once more.

A new year is fast approaching, and so is trouble! Baarbadal begins its winter preparations and food stockpiling, but Dias doesn’t have the time to help out. He’s got a whole host of other tasks on his hands! There’s a new mine to inspect, a farming industry at the western border station to grow, and pregnant baars to look after. But all of that gets thrown into disarray when political unrest in the neighboring Beastland Kingdom threatens to spill into Baarbadal!

Dias’s attempts at farming are finally paying off (thanks to Senai and Ayhan’s secret forestkin magic!) but he won’t be able to rest on his laurels just yet. The village needs to work out a more effective form of governance; meanwhile, the dogkin arrive with a literally monstrous surprise in tow. And outside the Nezrose domain lurks a burgeoning threat: a vengeful Princess Diane dreaming of conquest. Oh, and in the midst of all this, guard captain Klaus falls in love!

Dias is getting used to life on the plains with his new wife—er, fiancée—Alna, and they even have actual subjects now: Dias’s old war buddy Klaus, and a group of refugees fleeing a civil uprising in the neighboring Kasdesk domain.Dias is desperate to raise the population in Nezrose without resorting to slavery, but he’s about to get a visit from none other than the lord of the Kasdesk domain himself, an infamous womanizer always accompanied by a harem of slaves. Dias will soon lear...