A weary historian dies and finds himself in a different world awakened in a life as the notorious young Duke of a southern state. His nation is weakened, his army underfed, and his neighbors revolve around his lands menacingly. No one believes his land is going to hold out until winter.

But this newfound duke is no naive simpleton his enemies recollect. He carries with him the experience of centuries of war and empire, of starting and ending monarchies. From Caesar to Napoleon, from the Mongols to world wars, he has learned from each of them—and his strategy is to make history his very own arms.

He organizes his smashed levies into well-trained formations, rebuilds his castles, and turns his villages into supply centers. Where others see defeat, he senses opportunity. As he triumphs, rumors spread: of a pennant red as winter snow that shall not go to ground, of a bloody duke who writes his name in gore and flame.

Is he a savior who's constructing a new empire, or a tyrant who's going to bring the world to endless war?

Days had passed since that fateful day, Justinian and Maria were still staying in the town, just in case the wretch had returned.


But nothing, absolutely nothing had happened, even the town itself had now begun to rebuild and recover from the massacre that had happened.


It was as if... the wretch itself had just disappeared.


"D-Do you think the stranger might have taken care of it?" Maria cautiously asked.


While Jiang Chen itself was powerful, he was still mortal, and even as a vessel of the heavenly dragons, he wasn't immune to the presence of the void, only resistant to it.


Even in the spin-off itself, when he found himself fighting creatures of the void, he wasn't alone; he required the support of other characters to fend off another wretch.


But... it was absolutely undeniable that the presence of the void had begun to disappear, so maybe Jiang Chen did actually manage to kill it.


Chapter 129 - The Calm Before the Storm