บท 804: Volume 24, The Beacon Camps, Chapter 15: Refusing to Return Home in Glory

The mottled flagpole stood alone at the onion-shaped top of the castle, signifying that the Lily Flag of the Philip family had been removed some time ago, awaiting the arrival of a new master.

The faces of the people on the streets all bore an indescribable complexity of emotions, with disgust, fear, concern, and enmity, but more than anything, a faint sense of anticipation. A few years ago, no one would have believed that the Ress family's second son, once viewed by the entire city as garbage and leader of the Three Wolves of Cyprus, would make such a comeback.

Aside from a portion of the nobility and traders who fled Cyprus with Philip, the vast majority remained behind closed doors with anxious hearts, watching how the situation unfolded. Those crowding the streets were mostly the urban poor and petite bourgeoisie, driven more by curiosity and a desire for novelty to see how Komer Ress, once driven out of Cyprus, would return, as a conqueror or in a victorious homecoming.