— Of course, the word "purge" is just a term circulating among us. Officially, it would be more accurate to call it another military operation.0

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— A plague has broken out in the slums.0

— The slums…0

— It's West of Rahel. Quite far, isn’t it? I’m not sure if you’ve heard of it. It’s a small city you can only reach after going much deeper past Celia. I looked into it myself. Apparently, it’s a gathering place of all the wanderers with nowhere else to go.0

— It’s hard to describe, but it’s a city that barely functions as one… Since the central authority can't reach it, the Empire more or less abandoned it.1

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— For some reason, it seems to be running a bit more properly lately, but its essence hasn’t changed much. It sits along the border, and the proportion of foreigners is high… no, almost the majority… you get the idea, right? 1

— It’s a lawless zone. All kinds of illegal activities take place there… Drugs, illegal retainers, andd even people from the Federation and the Union of Kingdoms visit it quite often… Naturally, the black market is thriving out in the open. It’s become a dumping ground for powerful figures from the Federation and those nobles from the West.0

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‘Rahel?’0

Of course, I knew that place. It was a small city bordering the Republic and along the Federation. Just as Jung Yoo-Ra had said, a black market was bound to flourish there. 0

There were many reasons Rahel became a rotten city, but the decisive one was that it was located beyond the proper reach...0