Stepping Stone

Revry and the elders paused for a while before the servant darted in again.

Panting, the servant struggled to speak. He had rushed from the gate to the inner hall without stopping. And because he was simply an ordinary person, it was a challenging task.

"Relax and talk properly," one of the elders said.

"T-The person who arrived claimed to be from a noble family."

"Tch, a mere noble, and he has the guts to wreck havoc at our gates?"

One of the seniors made a sly grin.

But Revry wasn't as arrogant as the elders. If a nobleman had the audacity to cause trouble while knowing the other person was a viscount, it meant the nobleman was up to something.

"Did you inquire about his name?"

"He claimed to be from the Alheim family." The servant spoke fearfully.

"Alheim?" Revry recognized this as a difficult situation right away. Who hadn't heard of the powerful Alheims by this point?

Only a month after receiving the title of baron, Riel Alheim defeated Count Forser and slaughtered all of his num