The First Transgression
The First Transgression occurred two years after the Establishment of the Tower. It began when Victor the Third, king of the Kingdom of Lindsey, rejected the Peace Treaty of Hope and attempted to retake the lands Lindsey had lost after the Demon War. His campaign was an attempt to undo the settlement that had made the Eterna Mountains demon territory and placed them under the Tower’s protection.
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Overview
The First Transgression occurred two years after the Establishment of the Tower. It began when Victor the Third, king of the Kingdom of Lindsey, rejected the Peace Treaty of Hope and attempted to retake the lands Lindsey had lost after the Demon War. His campaign was an attempt to undo the settlement that had made the Eterna Mountains demon territory and placed them under the Tower’s protection.
The episode established the Tower Lord as a continental deterrent. It also showed the difference between an attack on treaty territory and a political intervention: the human kingdoms blamed Lindsey for breaking the peace, while the Lord suffered no stated consequence.
March on Eterna
Victor spent months preparing an army of thirty thousand and led it toward the Tower and the surrounding Eterna Mountains. As the force moved through the mountain passes, an elderly messenger dressed as a butler met it and warned that further advance would violate the treaty and bring the Tower Lord’s full defense. Victor dismissed the warning as the bluff of a frightened demon and continued.
Battle and collapse
The Lord of the Tower then appeared alone before a national army and prevailed; Victor died in the battle. The loss left Lindsey vulnerable. The neighboring Kingdom of Agabah and Kingdom of Helio formed a coalition, declared war on Lindsey for breaking the treaty and threatening the human–demon peace, overwhelmed it on two fronts, and divided its lands.
Consequences
The event’s consequences extended beyond Victor’s death. Lindsey had lost its king and committed its army to an unsuccessful attack, leaving it exposed to its neighbours. Helio and Agabah justified their coalition against Lindsey by its rejection of the treaty and its threat to the peace between humans and demons. Their two-front war erased Lindsey as a kingdom and divided its territory between them.
The destruction of Lindsey demonstrated the Tower Lord’s strength and persuaded the remaining human kingdoms not to challenge him or abandon the treaty. They placed the blame on Lindsey rather than on the Lord, who suffered no consequence for this first major transgression. The event fixed the Tower’s deterrent power in public memory while preserving the treaty’s political order.
Shun Sato is identified with the Lord of the Tower in Volume I. Zero is also recorded as connected to this event. Volume I does not state a fuller role, but Chapter 20 of Volume II attaches the warning to him directly: the guards of a Hikari royal embassy recognise him on sight from tavern stories about the immaculate servant who delivered a final warning to the foolish king of Lindsey before his kingdom was erased from the map. The title those stories give him is **the Harbinger of Ill Omens**.