Chapter 1: Daily Intelligence System
The biting cold wind rustled, carrying ice and snow that beat against the dead tree trunks by the roadside.
Vaerik sat in a shaky carriage, the wheels grinding over the frozen soil with a dull creaking sound.
He looked down at the Northern Lord's pioneering certificate bearing the royal seal in his hand and gave a bitter smile.
Three months ago, he was hit by a dump truck and transported to another world, directly possessing the body of the Duke's son—Vaerik Tudor.
However, after being reborn as a noble, he hadn't enjoyed a single good day before being appointed as a pioneering baron, required to venture to the Northern territory to develop his own land.
This was not a good thing.
The North was frozen year-round, barren and desolate, and faced the threat of glacier giants from the north—it was no place for humans to live.
Although the empire nominally controlled the North, many areas were still under the control of the Snow Country natives.
Even two years ago, a large-scale rebellion almost caused the North to completely break away from the empire, and it took tremendous sacrifice to suppress it.
The empire thus realized that relying solely on the Northern nobility would not maintain stability in the long run.
So the emperor ordered the sons of major noble families to go to the North as pioneering lords, exchanging territory for their strength to stabilize the frontier.