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"You're an outsider too? From another Barrier?" Diabolo was startled. He hadn't expected news of another region so suddenly.
"Barrier?" The Ancestor of the Witch Tree gave a wry smile. "I'm afraid you've misunderstood, my lord. I came from elsewhere, but that place was once part of the Northern Frontier."
An image slowly appeared before Diabolo. The scenery within it shifted rapidly, passing over the central Northern Frontier before settling deep in its heart, upon a world of ice and snow.
"This is..."
"I come from the deepest reaches of the Northern Frontier, the isolated region known as the Forbidden Land!"
"In the Ancient Era, Ice Emperor Yanusi, the greatest king of magical beasts amid the chaotic energies, was defeated by the Wizard God. He led the surviving magical beasts and the Wizards who had joined him into the depths of the Northern Frontier. There, he carved out his own domain, crowned himself king, and turned that region into another Microcosm!"
"And I was born human in that prisonlike place. Around ten thousand years ago, I escaped here. The Wizard God had just died, so I took the opportunity to usher in the era of the Highland Wizards in the Northern Frontier. It lasted until your arrival, Lord Demon God!"
"As for the Barriers you mentioned, those other Wizard regions exist only in legend. I've encountered plenty of outsiders over the past ten thousand years, but never a Wizard from another Barrier!"
The Ancestor of the Witch Tree spoke slowly, revealing a few secrets that were not particularly well hidden.
"Ice Emperor Yanusi?" Diabolo recalled