Petrice, a cold and inhospitable wasteland which sits on the Westernmost peak of the Kingdom. A bulwark against which rages a seemingly never-ending horde of grotesque monsters, their tide only stemmed by the might of The Flamberges, Monster Hunters of the finest order. As the province steadily descends further and further into poverty, the old King passes, and his young heir proposes a brilliant scheme: to gather the Kingdom's best and brightest young minds, and to disperse them out amongst the poorest of his realms, those in the most dire need. One of these bright young minds is Niklas, the shamefully diminutive son of the proud knight, Baron Kaiser van der Leigh. Foremost student of stewardship and economics in his class, no sooner had his graduation ended than did his marriage begin. Now he is being shipped away to that very same cold and inhospitable land of Petrice, and he truly wonders if he can survive this strange and far-off land, its unfriendly people, its deadly beasts, and most dangerous of all: his new wife, the giantess Monster Countess Uldred.