"I came, I saw, I conquered."
Those words could have been forged to describe a single man: the Marquis Mephisto of Hymenoptera.
This noble had distinguished himself through his intelligence and strategies, to the point of becoming the most feared figure in gatherings of high nobility the one whose opinion was as dreaded as it was sought after. But if one had to recall the feat that truly cemented his reputation, anyone would unhesitatingly cite the fall of Invictus, of which he had been the sole architect.
Then merely a count, without land or particular prestige, he had dared what no high-ranking noble had attempted in generations and succeeded where many had once failed. The epic told that he had managed, alone, to set foot upon the human continent, to humiliate their greatest warriors, to seize the treasures of their most powerful empire, and that he had returned not as he had left, but as a Marquis, accompanied by thousands of subjects and bearing royal recognition.
