The Spirit Kingdom, Lucretio.
In the past, there was a country that was called like that.
It was said that that was the country that the race known as Elents who believed in the God of Darkness Dagulas lived in.
Unlike the other races of mankind, the Elents did not possess bodies of flesh.
It was said that they had immaterial bodies that were composed with magical power, which were called magical power bodies.
Maybe due to that, Elents were extraordinarily proficient with magical power techniques.
A Golem Creation technique.
A technique to dwell in things like armor and move them as if it were their own body.
A technique to increase the concentration of their own magical power and strengthen various abilities, which could be called Strengthening Magic.
They were able to handle various magics and abilities that the other races couldnt use.
They always had freedom.
Due to possessing lifespans that were longer than any other race, there was no need for them live in a rush.
Due to not being bound to bodies of flesh, they could easily fly through even the sky.
Due to being extraordinarily susceptible to the influences of magical power, their bodies were changed to fire and water as well.
If there was any problems at all, it was the fact that their population size was small. And then, due to the fact that they did not possess flesh bodies, it was inconvenient to interact with other races.
However, the Elents considered those problems to be trivial and didnt mind them.
For them, they had a long ti.
They thought that there was a great number of things that could be resolved during that ti.
But, that calm attitude of theirs was seen as arrogance to the other races.
The Elents did things that they themselves couldnt do, and could go to places that they themselves couldnt reach.
Moreover, they didnt even have to work hard to carry out those things.
No, they were scorning their efforts.
That sort of jealousy had created a crack within mankind which should have had equality under the Gods.
And then, at the sa ti, fear was also born within the other mbers of mankind.
The Elents possessed power similar to the Gods.
With that power, wouldnt they eventually bring about harm to us?
If they were to attack, would we be able to oppose them?
They look down on us.
No, theres no mistake that they feel that they already rule over us.
Co to think of it, I heard rumors that they killed soone that ruined their mood.
Ahh, how scary.
The rumors that ca from such fear spread, and gradually, the Elents beca sothing to avoid within mankind.
So were openly obsequious with them, so would raise screams the mont they t them, while others devotedly fell prostrate to them.
It was at this ti that the Elents started to harbor a sense of impending crisis.
However, there was no one that would tell them just what in the world was going on.
Even so, the Elents desperately thought.
They didnt know the reason, but they were alienated.
Just what in the world did they do wrong?
They didnt flashily break anything, nor did they hurt anyone.
In that case, just what was the cause?
They desperately thought, but the answer didnt co to them.
They didnt consider at all that it had started from trivial jealousy.
It was because the Elents were long unrelated from that sort of emotion.
However, even so, they thought.
First, they decided to endeavor in communicating with the other races more than ever beforehowever, there was no one that would open their hearts to them.
How about inventing useful magic and trying to spread thatThey were suspected of having so sort of ulterior motive, so the magic didnt spread.
Going in that case, the Elents went to various places, and set out to solve various problems.
The people that had their problems solved were delighted, and the Elents were convinced that this was it.
However, the ones that were grateful to them were only a handful of people.
The great majority of people that were unrelated to them feared that the Elents had finally started their invasion of them.
A mountain of protests ca to the Elents from the upper echelons of every nation.
Saying that if they continued interfering with the dostic affairs of other countries anymore than this, they would send their armies.
The Elents reluctantly stopped solving the problems of other countries.
There was no longer anything that they could do.
There was no longer anything that they should do.
And so, they gave up and stopped interacting with the other mbers of mankind.
For them who didnt possess bodies of flesh to begin with, that wasnt even a hard blow to them.
Even for the faint voices that reached them seeking help, they no longer responded.
Even the people that said their thanks to them had forgotten those debts of gratitude before they knew it, and ended up supporting the irresponsible gossip.
Finally, it started to beco a trend to push the causes of bad events all onto the Elents.
And then, ti flowed, and the Spirit Kingdom Lucretio broke into an era of a single young queen.
The Spirit King Ystia.
The Elents were delighted at the birth of the young queen that was overflowing with talent and had received strong divine protection from the God of Darkness Dagulas.
However, the Elents hadnt even noticed.
That the birth of the Spirit King Ystia was the start of their end.
For them, who let the races other than themselves precipitate to the bottom of their hearts, and had severed their relationship to others and to emotions that could seethe and boil like magma, there was no way they would notice.
And then, at this ti, not even the God of Darkness Dagulas had noticed.
No, there was no way he could notice.
It was because he was also a being unrelated to that sort of emotion.
Just what in the world happened?
Gordy calmly asked that.
She understood the dissension between the Elents and the other races of mankind.
Even what would happen after this, she could sohow imagine it.
But, like this, it should still not be enough.
Now that they were thinking of killing and eradicating the Elents, there should have been so sort of decisive cue.
Vermudol answered that question that had that sort of aning put into it.
It was a plague. It seems that sothing considerably nasty was spread.
The plague had its nace flourish in the Shutaia Continent of those days, attacked those that possessed bodies of flesh, and altogether led them to death.
The spread of the plague was quick, and with there being many countries that could no longer attain an effective counterasure on their own, the many nations took on harmonic attitudes and strove to eradicate the plague.
Mankind gathered all of the knowledge they possessed, but even with that, the plague didnt settle down so easily.
At that ti when anyone would despair, the one who saved the people was a single wise man.
Having visited a certain small village, that wise man was said to have been a single knight that wore full-bodied armor and mantle and even their face was unknown.
The knight taught the villagers a single secret formula and several counterasures, and had them put it into practice.
And then, it was said that he left behind words saying that the plague would settle down if they were to spread those and then he left.
The secret formula and counterasures that the knight left behind suppressed the plagues spread and eradicated it.
The many nations rejoiced at the end of the plague uproar, and praised the wise mans achievents.
But however, there was a country that wasnt included in those many nations.
The country of those that didnt even possess bodies of flesh that the plague would attack.
The country that avoided relations with any other country, and also didnt try to hold any interactions with other country.
It was the country of the Elents, which had ended up being called the Cursed Country Lucretio by those of the other countries.
Everyone feared that country, and even stories saying that the Elents werent a part of mankind started to appear.
The Elents were beings that possessed techniques that they themselves couldnt understand, and didnt possess bodies of flesh.
They were different from them.
Wouldnt that make them enemies of mankind?
And then, after the plague uproar had ended, a rumor that sounded plausible started to spread amongst the people.
That this plague was an experint done by the Elents of the Cursed Country.
That preposterous rumor rushed through every country in a flash, and exaggerations were gradually attached to it.
This tis case wasnt actually a plague, but heresy that the Elents developed.
According to the wise knight, the Elents are wicked beings planning to kill mankind.
The wise knight was the figure of a manifested God who was saddened by the Elents tyranny.
Everything was contrary to fact, and were groundless rumors.
If the aforentioned villagers had observed closely as well, they would have noticed the knights unnaturalness.
That there was nothing within the full-bodied armor knights helt.
They should have reached the conclusion that that knight was an Elent, who feared being said to have interfered with the dostic affairs of another country but couldnt overlook the dilemma of the other mbers of mankind and acted like a Human.
But unfortunately, no one had pointed out that possibility.
Now, the Elents were wicked beings to the other mbers of mankind, and there was no way there would be anyone that would connect them to the wise knight who was their benefactor.
Even if there was anyone that noticed that fact, they feared that it would be taken as slander against the wise knight, and so they probably kept their mouths shut.
And then, what was a disaster to the Elents was that the true identity of the wise knight was their young queen Ystia.
Due to her not yet feeling that mankind was hopeless, she moved to save her fellow mbers of mankind.
Normally, the queens virtuousness would have been an action to be praised.
However, the situation had already surpassed the stage of being called normal.
There was no telling which country it was. It might have been one of the current four major countries, or it might have been so other country. However, so country had made a suggestion.
Naly, it was the suggestion that they should eradicate the main cause of this tis plague.
In order to prevent the next tragedy, they should destroy the Cursed Country Lucretio with all of mankinds efforts.
The citizens of every nation raised voices of support towards this invitation.
Now was the ti for a sacred war.
Mankind had their hearts beco one, and it was a ti for them to cooperate.
The holy war that happened like this was no longer sothing that could be called a fight.
The Elents had a small number to begin with.
Even if they had the magic techniques that they excelled in, even if there were Golems that possessed strength that surpassed that of the normal person, none of it mattered.
Even if they didnt have bodies of flesh, there were many ways to annihilate them.
The Elents had believed that they were fellow mbers of mankind, and they were originally not proficient in fighting techniques.
The Elents were abnormally weak. The people who were exhilarated with fighting spirit didnt even notice this fact.
Rather, they perceived that to be sothing due to the blessings of the Gods and due to justice.
The victory song of mankinds allied forces reverberated throughout the blazing streets of Lucretio, and the streets were also filled with the voices of grief and resentnt of the Elents.
Even the Spirit King Ystia, who tried to reconcile with mankind right to the very end, was attacked, and the allied forces invaded her castle.
The allied forces discovered research docunts in the Spirit King Ystias private room that she had made in order to eradicate the plague, and they had taken this as proof that the Elents had sothing to do with the plague.
They should have understood that it was a misunderstanding if they had done a bit of checking, but naturally, no such investigation was made.
What they needed was proof of evil, and anything other than that was unnecessary.
And so, the Elents perished.
Both Ichika and Gordy had no words to say.
It was because they knew that any words they could say would be useless.
Words would be nothing more than a criticism of the past, and even if they, who werent even mber of mankind, were to say sothing, it wouldnt save the Elents.
Now then, here is the question. Why do you think I talked about this final queenabout Ystia?
So that, is how it is. That iswhat you are saying.
As if to affirm the answer that Gordy deduced, Vermudol nodded.
Right, thats exactly it. The Goddess of Lifes first victim, the Spirit King YstiaThat is Ykslaass true identity.
Does shedoes Ykslaas know?
Of course she knows. I had induced her to after all.
Saying that, Vermudol took an unprocessed docunt into his hand.
It was the docunt related to the Demon King Castles restoration project that Ykslaas had submitted.
Flipping through it, Vermudol nodded looking satisfied.
Although she looks like that, Ykslaas is a capable person. If possibleI want to construct a favorable relationship with her.
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