While Levi was advertising his new business on the Black Slime Board to attract only those with serious money, the ones he had already antagonized were heavily invested in the livestream of their patronage's collapse.
Hundreds of kilometers north of House Targon's territory in the Eight Sky Province, beyond several Barony domains, lay a Count House whose territory dwarfed every neighboring Noble House by nearly tenfold.
At the heart of this vast nation stood an otherworldly tower shaped like a colossal candle... its towering tip crowned by a black flame that had burned without extinguishing ever since the House was founded.
The entire tower was sculpted from pure white and pitch-black wax... hardened and polished until it shone like glass, with dark droplets running down its pale exterior like frozen trails of melted wax.
