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Li Town was a small town situated on a mountain peak. The town people lived in small wooden huts. Every fireplace was lighted. Small smoke clouds rose from the chimneys. The live in that town was not easy as every year a lot of people died because of the never ending cold that stuck on this mountain. It was cold in the summer and even colder in the winter. Only around a few thousand people lived in this small town. Most of the young leave this town as soon as they could. In their opinion living on this mountain is meaningless. They live to die here sooner or later, because of the never ending cold. That’s why that mountain got named Lonely Mountain by the common folks. As the people living on that mountain are waiting for death. Over the time the mountain was either used by people at the end of their life to live their last few years or by adventurer to train under these harsh conditions the mountain provided.

Li Town was situated in a small scale kingdom called Tenos. The military might of that kingdom was almost none existent. Luckily none of the surrounding kingdoms seemed interested in that small kingdom. The reason for that are the natural boarders of that kingdom. To the south, there was only water that’s it. In the north and east a mountain range cut the other kingdoms from Tenos of. In the west were only barren lands. These natural boarders ensured Tenos viability, but cut of every possibility of trade.

The rescores of Tenos where rather lacking, as most of the land was clad in snow and ice almost all the time of the year. Only in the summer the snow clad land unwillingly reveled what is beneath all this snow.

Tenos could only survive until now because of the rescores it could gain from the few dungeons it had. In total this kingdom had only two dungeons until now. None of this dungeon was anything special. Both were birth Sword Dungeons, the most common Dungeon there is. Birth as a Sword Dungeon just meant that the Dungeon will produce swords more often than other items. One of them had ten floors and the other only had three floors. Both dungeons were situated in the mountain range that shielded the kingdom in the north and east against its enemies.

Both dungeons together only were able to provide the bare minimum the kingdom needed to survive. If the royal family and the nobles could come up with a grand plan the kingdom will die in a few decades.

The strongest adventurer in this kingdom was already an old man, which hit with the peak of Rank E the end of his potential. This old man was called the Lion of Tenos, not because he was the strongest no because his long gray hair looked like a lions mane. His real name was Leon Crane. Since a few years he lived on Lonely Mountain, he was there to either die or make a breakthrough to reach the D Rank. Adventurers were graded in Ranks. The lowest Rank was G and the highest Rank was A. Well it is the highest Rank that can be reached normally the Adventurer Guild can award certain Rank A Adventurer for extremely high merits award this Adventurer with an higher Rank. There were three such special Ranks and they were called S, SS and SSS.

Almost ninety percent of all adventurers were ranked G. There were only around hundred peoples ranked F and to count on the Rank E Adventurers you need at most one hand. A normal small scale kingdom has over thousand Rank E Adventurers and their highest Adventurer were Rank C at last. Every middle scale kingdom had at least a handful of Rank A adventurer. To be called a grand kingdom at least one Rank S Adventurer must be developed by them.

There are rumors that the founding ancestor of the royal bloodline from Tenos was an exiled prince of a middle scale kingdom. The rumors say he was exiled because he conspired against his older brother the crown prince. As the crown prince was a soft-hearted person he only exiled his younger brother for his betrayal instead of killing him. So that prince was sent to one of the barren lands that existed on this continent, where he founded his own kingdom than. People say that exiled prince used to be an adventurer of the peak of Rank B.

One clue that this rumor may be true is the royal emblem, than it is a chained black crow. Of the surrounding kingdoms there are at least four that have a crow on their crest, but none of them are black. That’s why people think the fonder changed the crow of his ancestors to a black one as he was the bad seed. Another clue to this theory is the royal family’s weapon art. Most royal family´s weapon art is a sword-type weapon art. The royal weapon art of the Tenos kingdom is a spear-type weapon art. One of the royal family´s they share the crow with also has a royal spear weapon art.

Another rumor claims that tomb of this founding ancestor of the royal family is located on the graveyard onto of Lonely Mountain. Lonely Mountain was situated rather in the middle of this small kingdom. It is only a travel of around two days away from the Capital of Tenos. Rather funny this Capital doesn’t have a real name, it´s just called Royal City.

What many people didn´t know that Leon Crane is the older brother of the current king. The favorite weapon of Leon Crane is a spear. The spear he is using is a heirloom from the founding king of Tenos. It had an rather impressing name, the weapon was called Sin of the Past. The main reason why he now lives on Lonely Mountain is that he hops his ancestor would grant him a enlightenment so that he could breakthrough to the next Rank.

As this kingdom is so small there is only one building of the Adventurer Guild located on Tenos. The Adventurer Guild is located on the bottom of Lonely Mountain. The reason for that is rather logical as it was possible to reach every town of Tenos from there with a maximum of a six day long travel time with a horse.