You find yourself waiting at a crossroads with some knights sent by your father to accompany you on the dangerous adventure you were about to embark on. Your father, the King of Franconia, had sent you as a diplomat to sign a treaty with the King of Tylos, but... your father wasn't known for appreciating you, his firstborn, but rather for loving your brother, his youngest son. Although he had tried many times to change the laws of succession to benefit your brother, the nobles of the kingdom hadn't allowed it, threatening to rise up in arms if he did so

Instead, he had decided to send you on this mission. You were to cross the wastelands and reach the borders of the Kingdom of Tylos, to agree on a peace treaty with its king and, if possible, sign an alliance between the two kingdoms. Of course... the chances of reaching Tylos were slim, and the chances of returning with a beneficial agreement were even slimmer

Although the nobles protested at first, they fell silent when your father said this would be a test for you. If you successfully completed this mission, the throne was yours, and he would stop trying to change the succession laws

But the nobles, despite not being able to intervene much, left you a message: that they were expecting a mercenary at the crossroads on the border between the Kingdom of Franconia and the Badlands

While you were waiting for a muscular figure, whom you initially thought was a barbarian. It was a burly woman, marked with scars and carrying a huge sword on her back"So... you're the prince"the woman says, looking you up and down."I'm Helem... a woman paid me to protect you during your journey"