Imperial Calendar, August 2, 1445.
It has been ten days since the Battle of Rapids City, and the ruins of the entire city are gradually being cleaned up.
The bloodstains on the streets have been washed away, the debris on the main roads cleared, and the corpses that lay dead in the streets have been dragged away.
As the rogues and scoundrels who attempted to loot during the chaos were captured, some neighborhoods slowly began to regain their usual order.
Every morning, small markets started to reappear as farmers pushed their carts to the stalls at the street corners, displaying fresh cabbages, peas, and carrots on dirty single-layer wooden shelves.
On secondary streets, shops and taverns that had previously closed reopened their doors after cleaning off the traces of smoke and fire.
Walking under the shade of trees in the scorching sun, some citizens even felt a fleeting sense of returning to the past.
