Expansion Restrictions Lifted

"It still won't work. That demon said far too much; I simply can't match it up."

Fran put away the gray crystal and sighed. She had originally wanted to slowly coax the demon into recounting events she could compare against the stone tablet, then see whether she could decipher a few characters.

Unfortunately, once the demon started talking about it, the details became so extensive that she had no idea how to summarize them.

"I'll just treat it as hearing a story. I never expected the demons' version of that war to be so fascinating."

Originally, that battle had been a war of justice for the entire continent. Whether it was The Alliance or the continent's other powers, all had portrayed it as a righteous war.

Yet from the demon's perspective, she found the whole thing rather absurd.

According to The Alliance's records, the Abyss Mouth War had begun because of a detestable betrayal. However, The Alliance only recorded that this betrayal had occurred in the Kingdom of Puos, where the Abyss Mouth had been located at the time.

The Alliance had not recorded many details about that betrayal.

But from the demon, Fran learned a version of the truth whose reliability was far from guaranteed.

Apparently, the traitor had been a somewhat well-known noble in the Kingdom of Puos. Of course, his reputation had not been a good one.

That noble had committed every imaginable evil. Not only had he mistreated the commoners under his rule, but he had also deceived friends from the same noble class, seduced other men's wives, pretended to be a bandit to rob people...

It just so happened that the kingdom had been in chaos at the time, and order had collapsed in the provinces. The noble's territory was breached before anyone else's, forcing