“You’re not sure?” Oh Kang-Woo asked.0

“Yes… I-I’m sorry, Sir Kang-Woo,” answered Iris while dragging her feet across the ground with her head lowered as if she had committed a grave sin.0

Kang-Woo clicked his tongue and shook his head. “I mean, it’s nothing worth apologizing for.”0

The first step that they needed to take to revive the empire was to clear out the corrupt nobles that were sucking the citizens dry.0

‘It’s not as easy as it sounds.’0

The Arnan Empire’s current political system was one of a centralized government with the emperor as the centralized power and various nobles managing their respective territories. Kang-Woo was not planning on starting a revolution, so it would be a problem if he just beheaded nobles left and right. 0

An unmanaged territory was far worse than one managed by a corrupt noble. The weak were not virtuous by nature; they would rip each other apart to take charge of the vacancy left by the noble. Considering the nightmare that nations run over by anarchy faced, punishing all nobles in the current imperial system was insane.0

‘I can’t deprive the nobles of all their power either.’0

Back when Kang-Woo had just entered the labor force after just coming out of the orphanage, he had heard a middle-aged man shouting in the...0