Stone pillars encircle the courtyard, as if supporting the heavens and earth, creating a vast space where stairs and hanging corridors intersect, and the staff silently pass by like precise mechanical components driving the high-speed operation of a colossal entity.
This was not Ossana's first encounter with the Order Bureau. Long ago, when she surpassed her siblings and even her elders to inherit the honor of the Duke, she had already negotiated with the Order Bureau.
These true rulers of the Rhine Alliance came one night to confirm the overlap of power with the newly appointed Duke and left silently before sunrise.
The Order Bureau, enigmatic and unpredictable Order Bureau, even living on the same land, Ossana's understanding of them was limited to books and legends.
