#20. Ria0

… Time flowed on, and since that day it had never stopped, instead sparkling with color from moment to moment or sinking into darkness at times, as if blessing the lives of all creatures on the continent.0

Time had changed the continent, and after the unexpected death of Empress Sophien, Creáto announced her will, a declaration of the Republic.0

It was a book of nearly five hundred pages, a work detailing the reform of the Empire into a Republic, where the basic framework of a house would be maintained for a time, but the class system would remain as a mere formality and be entirely abolished as time passed. This final will of the Empress was published as a book and was read by everyone on the continent.0

This would, by social convention, have been a great upheaval that could never have been accepted. 0

However, Yeriel of the great house Yukline, Sylvia of Iliade, Zeit of Freyden, and even Sophien’s younger sibling Creáto—who should have been the most opposed to it—all gave their active consent, and now, a year...0