How long was a month for anyone who lived for a hundred years? It was a question so subjective that if it was posed to scholars across the world, they probably wouldn’t reach a consensus. Just like how one could hear a man serenading their loved one as a few seconds or a few years, or how an interesting book could feel like a few minutes or a few hours. A month could change a person’s life, or it could pass with nothing happening.

Therefore, an objective measurement was needed if one wanted to measure time. What events could be measured in a month? There was no way to describe the passage of time without an answer to that.

From that perspective, the last month had been a once in a century turning point for Meltor. Elvenheim’s famed neutrality had been broken, a new master had been born, and three of the Seven Swords had perished. The icing on the cake had been the secret talks that Aquilo and Veronica had attended.

After Prince Fermut’s...