A King is Born on the Road

Prologue

Is morality influenced by law?

Iris Lepos, Queen of Luwan, was now lost in meaningless thoughts to forget her fear.

The war that took place on this continent was on its way to the final chapter.

It was a war triggered by religion.
It was the five ethnic groups of the two countries, Luwan and Siere, that were involved in this war.

There are two countries and five separate ethnic groups because even if the kings of the two countries claimed the borders, they could not control all the land.

The Kahif people of the central desert, the Kawat people in the mountainous south, and the people of the northern alpine region, overlapping the two countries, could not be ruled by either king.

Everyone served their own gods.
However, the Luwans, who did not allow paganism, sometimes mocked and killed the pagans who entered the land of Luwan in search of a way to live.

When the Luwans killed the pagans in Luwan, there were many people who did not even consider it a sin because there was no law to punish them.

Born and raised in such a country, Iris’s husband, Sid Lepos, despised the people of the three lands that he could not control.

He asserted that no pagans were needed in this war, and as a result, Luwan lost the war.

The land of Luwan was covered with pagans.

In the royal castle from where everyone fled, the king’s office.

The queen, who always sat on the right side of the king, moved to the empty throne.

Although her learning was late and she still did not know the world, she was certain that someone should protect the throne.

It was because she thought that there should be someone to face the head of the enemy country, whether it was to negotiate or surrender.
Only then will this war end.

Her red skirt swayed to and fro in the cool winter wind while waiting for the enemy.

In the empire, the king and the moon were inseparable.
Therefore, the king’s office had windows facing the moon.

There, Iris was thinking that if there had been a decree punishing those who killed pagans, Luwan would not have been so disastrously defeated.

Then she heard footsteps.

In the maze-like royal castle, the king’s space was laid down within a corridor, where the loud sound of footsteps reverberated.

The king would sit in the office and learn to gauge the weight of the footsteps.
But Iris had never been raised as an heir to the throne, so she hadn’t learned such things, and all she could do was keep her shaking hands on her lap.

Who could it be?

Is it the head of the enemy country?

Or is it the desert people who are known for their brutality?

Iris had never met any of the people of the three lands who considered themselves neither Luwan nor Siere.

So she thought of them as just barbarians, but she hoped for them to be more gentlemanly, the generals of the enemy country.

In front of Iris, there were knights who were from Luwan.

“Ah…”

Iris sighed in relief as she relaxed.

Although she didn’t know their faces, she recognized the blue waves of the Knights of Tejas painted on their sword sheaths.

For a very long time, they have waged a long war with bizarre beings in the farthest land that humans can enter.

Everyone knew that they were indispensable to Luwan, but Iris, who has lived in the royal castle for more than six years, did not hear any praise, to the extent that she knew none of their faces.

Even so, she could recognize only one.

He was the younger brother of Sid Lepos, the king who fled to save his own life, and the commander of the Knights of Tejas, Hayer Asheri.

Iris Lepos was the hidden child of Princess Celios, whom the king forbade from giving birth to.

She grew up in a convent from birth until she wa