A port town within the Rouen Kingdom, the place where Kristoffer and his close companions currently reside.
It's covered by a 30m tall wall in a semi-circle and a moat surrounding it, essentially making it a formidable fort.
A nation of various races and species, it is currently in turmoil due to impending external threats.
The port town of Arkbay is under its rule.
The town's sole baker and current leader of the Silver Mavericks.
A dark elf who is heralded as the Rouen Kingdom's National Hero. Her current whereabouts is unknown except for a select few.
The leader of the notorious Syndicate, she seems to be close with the leaders of the Silver Mavericks and Arkbay's Militia.
She claims to be a halfling but her overall appearance is more akin to a human girl.
A mysterious fellow who gives off a soldier vibe despite his approachable attitude.
He also weilds never seen before weapons that shoots projectiles.
Kristoffer's new baking assistant.
A braineater who currently has a succubus as its host.
She feels indebted to Kristoffer for saving her life.
A group almost fully composed of orphans, they are trained in the arts of combat, espionage, and assassination by the Rouen Kingdom's Hero, Lime.
An underground organization which controls a huge majority of Rouen Kingdom's resources, unbeknownst to most of the country's nobility.
If you like shapeshifter seduction then this novel might be for you.
There's also a succubus that could possess people.
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The story lacks scene descriptions, character descriptions and a calm start.
The first chapter has too many characters who you're apparerntly already supposed to know. I don't know them. The resulting story is confusing as f**k.
Characters are introduced by having someone suddenly start talking to them. Then, during a dialogue, characters are given alternative titles, which feels like the author trying to gently introduce details, but instead it just confuses you on who is in a particular scene.
Scenes themselves are very short and there are a lot of time skips.
After two chapters, I understood that someone (Kristoffer?) runs a bakery, his door got wrecked (somehow?), some small or young guy was supposed to watch an oven but didn't. The small guy apparently read a book, for which another character had a solution.
Then someone else came as a replacement (why?). They're a woman and are called Penelope. We somehow shorten this to Nel, and then there's some hubbub about a melon pan, but the actual object isn't properly described... Or I forgot.
The whole "monster" angle is not there. Characters might be monsters, but we're never told or shown.
TL;DR: story delivers something, it's not what it promises, and it's super confusing.
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