Chapter 199.1
I chewed on the nuts and organized the information in my head. I felt like I had accumulated a lot of information in one day, but only pieces of the puzzle were piled up. And there was no finished picture yet. Its like a blank jigsaw puzzle.
While I was thinking about it with my arms crossed, Lily called out to me.
Did you figure out anything Welner-sama?
To be honest, I only found fragments of information. (Welner)
Lily tilted her head in wonder, and I explained briefly about the two countries, Zermunbeck and Warbach, and their possible connection with Finnoi. I doubt she was interested in war records, but she was listening intently.
I had to put the information together in my head to convey it to others, and in that sense, I was sure it helped me a lot in organizing the information.
So this Zermunbeck is the ancient kingdom?
Thats a possibility, but just to confirm, I brought this volume.
For now, I wanted to confirm what I could in this book, but there were countless limitations with this kind of literature research.
For example, sources may not be reliable and may represent misleading facts about the events. Not all past events can be studied because of the lack of evidence and source materials. It gets more challenging to have research if the events are from a more distant past.
The Bain kingdom was born out of the war of kingdoms that took place after the fall of the ancient kingdom, but strangely there were next to no records of that period. We did not even know how many years that period of warring factions lasted. After the fall of the ancient kingdom, information had become chaotic and scarce. When you think about it, there were so many mysteries.
To be honest, I cant help but feel that Im missing something, leaving me with a strange sense of discomfort. It was like Im holding only an arrow without a bow, or something.
I see Im not sure if I understood everything you said.
Well, its not like you can find out everything in one day, is it?
Yes, thats right.
When it came down to it, I was truly thankful that we were able to throw in the countermeasures against the attack on the royal capital. In terms of priorities, that would be higher, but in terms of authority, I could only offer advice and suggestions.
In the game, the event of the attack on the royal capital occurred even when the barrier was in place, so it probably wouldnt make much sense to leave it as it was. We should do something to improve it.
I was reading books on magic to see if there was any way to do this, but as it turns out, I realized that I wasnt really that well versed in magic.
Well, lets read for a while longer.
Yes.
It was hard to say how much longer that while would be. When I concentrated on reading a book, I often didnt notice that the sand in the hourglass had completely fallen off.
I opened the second volume of the book and Lily seemed to continue reading a mythology book. She seemed to be choosing books with beautiful illustrations. I would ask her to tell me if she noticed anything.
Ignoring the names of people, I skimmed through the second volume. Roughly speaking, at the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the lord of the Finnoi fortress, who was on the Southern Dynastys side, switched to the Norths side with the fortress in hand, and the balance of power collapsed. After that, there were twists and turns, but Zermunbeck of the Northern Dynasty unified the continent.
About 100 years after the unification, the name Kouseki appeared, which seems to be a magic stone. Its complicated, so I was going to convert that name to magic stone in my brain.
It was invented by a genius at a research facility in the Zermunbeck Kingdom, which was located in the northern part of the country, in what was now the middle of the sea, according to my understanding.
I was skipping all the technical explanations as it was filled with jargon. Anyway, that kind of magic stone manufacturing technology was invented. It was a kind of industrial revolution.
In this world, would that mean that we could use nature instead of electricity?
The progress in technology and living environment since then seemed to have been remarkable, but while the northern part of the country became richer, the occupied southern part did not seem to be able to reap the benefits. I wonder if it should be called the North-South gap.
Then the situation began to change. As the author of this book critically writes, as a result of overproduction of magic stones, there was a change in nature. It seemed that environmental destruction had been accelerated, with water drying up and crops becoming harder to grow.
Id say, mankind is a bunch of jerks.
Yes?
Well, you know, its more like there are no limits to our extravagance.
Well, if you want to, you can do it as much as you want.
That wasnt what I meant, but maybe thats one aspect of the truth. For a moment, I wondered about the theory of evolution in this world, but I banished it from my consciousness.
Anyway, as I continued reading, my hand stopped when I saw a strange notation near the end of the book. It said, The world will be improved by pouring power from a neighboring world as a means of restoring a world that had virtually become nothing but abandoned lands.
Wait? WHAT?
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