The knights and mages of the Wizard World had always exercised a subtle, ingrained suppression over sea folk creatures.
Perhaps this stemmed from land creatures' innate distrust of ocean creatures.
The sea folk were also members of the Wizard World and had already joined the Wizard Alliance. At the level of rules, they enjoyed rights nearly equal to those of the Wizard World's humans.
But was that really possible?
The Wizard World's Dominator-class powerhouse, Mermaid King Avril, had long pursued a greater voice for the mermaid race and the sea folk within Wizard Civilization.
From one perspective, Avril had succeeded.
The sea folk's ability to join the Wizard Alliance and become one of the Alliance's upper-tier vested-interest groups had been achieved through Avril's efforts. Her contribution was immeasurable.
But from another perspective, the sea folk had never truly succeeded.
These ocean-dwelling creatures had never been completely accepted by the humans on land.
Perhaps it was because, in the ancient histories passed down through Wizard Civilization, during the even more distant Ancient Era, a war between sea and land had once erupted—a war for planar hegemony.
The sea folk's status today was clearly the result of their defeat.
And toward the defeated, the victorious side of the Wizard World would never show excessive mercy.
However, in this new era, the development of all things had to keep pace with the tide of the times.
Even those Alliance Planes that merely relied on Wizard Civilization could sit in the shade beneath the Wizard Alliance's big tree.
There was no reason for the sea folk, fellow natives of this plane, to remain excluded forever.
The sea folk's development over the past hundred thousand years had actually been quite impressive.
The birth of Dominator-class powerhouses, the proliferation of vast populations, the accumulation of boundless