Just as the Retirement Preview had foreseen—after a brush with death, Wendy finally awoke from her obsession with power.
Inside a simple stone-and-wood cottage, a flickering candle illuminated the dim interior. Wendy sat quietly at a table, her expression serene as she calmly recounted intelligence about the Northern Lands to Wang Xi.
Among the details was a mention of Wang Xi's former fiancée, Lady Sierra.
When Sierra had failed to bring him back, her father, Count Bato, flew into a rage. No one knew what kind of internal struggle Sierra endured, but she ultimately broke off the engagement, refusing to marry into the distant Northern Lands. This indirectly caused the peace talks to collapse, and the Northern People launched a major offensive against the Northern Kingdom that winter.
Of course, this was just the public excuse.
As a Yatar under the Great Chief, Wendy knew the inside story.
