Two months later.
Rune Highlands.
An improvised adventure group, consisting of several hundred people, is exploring a misty mountainous area.
Within the team, Leonard Churchill and Nether Peacock disguised themselves as ordinary adventurers, following a pioneering team nominally belonging to the "Redwood Earl" to survey the terrain.
That's right!
The redwood forest area in the southwestern corner of the Rune Highlands had now become the private land of a second-rate Earl named "Icamel Ross".
Over the past year, the Old Continent has already undergone great changes.
Not just this second-rate Earl, but in the vicinity of the Rune Highlands, there are already more than a dozen nobles who have staked their claims.
Clearing new lands is the prime time for a change in class hierarchy.
All sorts of declining nobles who have lost their territories in the Southern Continent, or who did not have much land, have emerged.
