Just after transmigrating into Damien Rhodes, the First Prince of The Veridian Empire who has guarded the border for five years, he receives an imperial edict ordering his death. With an army of 600,000 at his command, Damien fights his way back to the capital, executes the traitors, and seizes the throne. Only at the very end does he learn that this was all a trial and test orchestrated by his father, Emperor Regis Rhodes, to forge him into a worthy successor.