The first day of the new year, January 1st, Year 1073 of the Eternal Era.
In the northern part of the Segis Continent, the Maniya Highlands where the Eternal Holy City Mania stood also welcomed the first snowfall of winter.
The sky was a hazy gray, goose-feather snowflakes drifting down in great profusion, dark and cold.
However, Maniya City was unusually bustling today.
At the very center of the city lay the Holy Square.
This gigantic square, covering over two million square meters and situated where the Eternal Holy Temple, the Imperial Palace, and the Grey Castle Parliament Building intersected, had long since been filled with people.
Cold and merciless Judgement Knights and burly City Guard soldiers maintained order on the scene, roughly driving the curious commoners away from the center of the square, while in the middle of the square, a huge high platform had already been erected.
