[Machine Translation] In order to gain experience in actual combat, the imperial knights, Ikuta and his men, set out on an expedition to the northern region of the empire. The goal was to reach the northern region of Zhentai, a military base protected by the Great Arafatra Mountains, which has never allowed an invasion by foreign enemies in the nine hundred year history of the Katovana Empire. It was the northernmost base of the empire, and was rumored to be generally idle except for dealing with bandits and monitoring the mountain tribe of Sinaiq. However, what awaited them, somewhat in a training mood, was a real battlefield, more harsh and fierce than they had imagined....