A modern young man is transported to another world and becomes Field, a neglected baron. Immediately upon arrival, he finds himself facing a city besieged by rotting corpses. Refusing to abandon his slaves, he inspires everyone to fight to the death with silver coins and unexpectedly awakens his lord's talent, discovering that Ashina, a demi-human, is an unawakened Chosen One. Fighting his way out of the perilous city of Kashan, he recaptures strongholds. In the desolate Nightfall Territory, he clears land and builds a city, developing agriculture, animal husbandry, and military strength. Battling the rotting corpses, the Church's conspiracies, and the underhanded schemes of his own family, he rises from a discarded pawn struggling to survive to a leader who builds an army and steadily accumulates power, carving out his own domain in the mist-shrouded northern frontier.