C211 The Crisis of the Hart Family!

In Kruclas Province, the once grand and stately Hart family estate now lay in ruins, as if a demolition crew had rolled right through it. Walls were toppled and askew, and the occasional moan echoed from the debris.

The ground was littered with the bodies of dozens of burly men, the Hart family's elite bodyguards, now too weak to even stand.

At the heart of the manor