After watching Dragon Vein Warlock Anchino's memories, Punk's gaze could not help growing profound.
Anchino's childhood experiences were practically a collection of strangeness and conspiracies. First of all, the group of "homeless people" in the Life's Praise oasis region, who had appeared from nowhere, was highly suspicious. From beginning to end, no one had known who had silently gathered such a massive group of "refugees," enough to form the population of an entire nation. And why had these "refugees" so obviously possessed strength and disease resistance beyond that of ordinary people?
Most crucially, these "abnormal" commoners had all been brought together in one place, then quickly and orderly formed the equally bizarre Kingdom of Karu.
There was even less need to mention the oddities of that kingdom... If an empire lacked religious forces, it might have been because Legendary powerhouses such as Punk or Ankazan had deliberately resisted them. But for a small kingdom without a Legendary powerhouse to have no religious presence at all was truly horrifying upon reflection.
On top of having no religion, the Kingdom of Karu had deliberately neglected the "national identity" education that no ruler should have overlooked. As a direct result, its citizens only knew that the place where they lived was called "Karu"; after leaving the country for a year or two, they could forget it completely.
Beyond that, all the "miracles" within that oasis gave Punk an indescribable sense of abnormality.
An environment free of natural disasters and eternally fertile land could still be explained as the far-reaching effects of Legendary Magic, but how could one explain the complete absence of even the most common rumor of "magical beasts attacking towns"?
In Anchino's memories of helping her family with farm work, Punk had never even seen the field pest known as the