Gullveig had only just broken free from the curse. Her body was unbearably weak, and she still needed a long period of rest and recuperation.
Liszt spoke with her for a long time. Although the sea kingdom founded by the mermaids was collapsing and cut off from the world, leaving Gullveig with little information, they still managed to piece together some historical truths.
First.
During the era of the Moon Empire on the Legendary Continent, even the sea knew of the influence wielded by magicians. Second, beyond the Devil Sea lay the Mafa Continent, where there had once been a Sun Empire similar to the Moon Empire, likely another magical civilization founded by humans. The Moon Empire and the Sun Empire had collapsed at roughly the same time.
The conclusion that could be drawn from the available information was that humans and dragons had once fought an earth-shattering war upon the sea.
Combined with the Emerald Dragon's severed hind leg, the Moon-Slayers' legend of slaying the Moon Dragon, the dragon remains in the Dragon Pit Giant Mine on Flame Island, the origins of the Fire Dragon and Smoke Dragon, and the fact that the Curse Dragon had died over the sea and polluted it, it was clear that this earth-shattering war had been the turning point in the collapse of magical civilization.
Afterward, the once-insignificant knight class rose to prominence on the Legendary Continent, while Druid magic, whose practitioners called themselves Children of the Sun, flourished on the Mafa Continent.
With the sea polluted by the Curse Dragon, mermaids, naga, and Fish Ugly were all on the brink of extinction, while fallen monsters gathered in the Devil Sea.
"The strongest rulers among mermaids could fight alongside magicians. We were born as... what you call supernatural creatures. Like your human mages,