The sun was rising in a clear sky.
At the Venrac Empire's military camp, located near the border with the Kingdom of Presial, mages, warriors, swordsmen, and others were coming and going from different directions; some wore troubled expressions.
A tall man wearing silver armor and a white cloak entered the military tent where the senior officers were gathered.
"Superior Commander, many soldiers haven't woken up—I mean, they're fast asleep, and it seems impossible or very difficult to wake them," explained the soldier in silver armor, who was a deputy commander of the army.
The report was only a preliminary one, but Rasgar Relvin, who was the Minister of War and the assigned Superior Commander, muttered:
"It was that demon."
By "the demon," he was referring to the strange, powerful, and fleeting apparition that had alarmed everyone when they all felt the power of Sloth.
