The Hated Villainous Noble: Since I Was Exiled, I Decided to Live as I Please.
Ash, the third son of the Verlheim ducal house, was ostracized as the “Villainous Noble” for his cold demeanor and scorned as “incompetent” by the Crown Prince. He advocated for the importance of the lost ancient technology, “Magical Engineering,” but no one understood him.
One day, falsely accused of an attempted assassination of the Saintess, Ash was stripped of everything and exiled to the Vale of Tears, a land overrun with monsters.
However, for him, this was not despair, but rather the beginning of the freedom he had long awaited!
In the barren frontier, Ash unleashed his unique knowledge. Together with companions like elves and dwarves, he began building a super-advanced nation that fused magic and science.
By the time rumors of this spread across the continent, the kingdom that had exiled him was steadily declining. On the brink of ruin, the one they turned to for help as a last resort was the very “incompetent” they had once cast away—
