Overestimating So-Called Humanity

The sight before Riezel and the others was, without a doubt, a battlefield.

A real war. A real battlefield.

One army was attacking the city while another defended it. With the city gate and walls as their positions, and the plain before the city as their field, the two sides waged a brutal slaughter. Blood, roars, war horns, screams, and the clash of weapons continuously filled the air, creating an atmosphere of grim bloodshed.

Riezel and the others looked out over the scene in silence for a long time.

"...That looks like the Luke Kingdom's army, doesn't it?"

Evie was the first to break the silence and start the conversation.

"Are you sure?"

Riezel already had an idea, but he still asked.

"The flag with swords and flames intertwined is undoubtedly the flag of the Luke Kingdom."

Evie pointed toward the rear of the attacking army. A flag indeed stood there, bearing a burning flame with patterns of swords within it.

"So the Luke Kingdom sent an army to attack Queen Tistis's Kingdom's border?" Leo frowned and said with some irritation, "Just as the priests said, people from the continent are utterly foolish."

This was an opinion born from the continent's current situation, as well as a common understanding shared by everyone in the Hidden World who knew of Akasha Continent's present state.

When they had been at the Franzer Family, Evie and Leo had told Riezel the same thing.

"In the distant past, the continent had only one king and no so-called nations, because humanity was one whole at the time. Their only enemies were monsters, not one another."

"After eleven thousand years of development, the Hidden World is no longer as sparsely populated as it once was. But we have never gone to war, because our enemies are