For some reason, although Xu Nan had not used Touch of Idiocy, Evelyn quickly accepted this explanation.
She naturally began sharing her intelligence with Xu Nan—
It turned out that Mulu Viscount had always been a pawn planted in the north by the Military Department's ministers, meant to launch a war when the right moment came!
And that war was naturally aimed farther north, at that wondrous land brimming with exotic charm—the mysterious land untouched even by the gods, Ephalia!
Back then, under the gods' coercion, the northern nations had fought Ephalia's civilization for a long time. The fighting had been fierce, and both sides had been severely weakened. The northern nations had gained little; later, after the gods set their sights on Earth, those northern nations had retreated from the battlefield faster than anyone else.
Although some countries coveted Ephalia's unique climate and environment compared to the northern continent, the Ephalians' fierce determination to defend their territory frightened off those greedy invaders.
Peace had lasted for a very, very long time.
But Xu Nan also understood that peace would never be the central theme of human existence.
Struggle was!
Over the past few years, the Eastern Kingdom had recuperated and grown stronger, swallowing up many small nations in the south. Though it could not be called the ruler of the northern continent, it had attained a certain standing. Otherwise, Evelyn's father, the current king of the Rhine Kingdom, would never have married a woman bearing the Caesar surname.
Now, the Eastern Kingdom's internal situation was rather delicate. According to ancestral custom, every legitimate prince and princess was qualified to compete for the throne as king or queen, Evelyn included. Yet among the kingdom's four heirs, she was the least favored.
All this seemed unrelated to Mulu Viscount, but in