"So that's what the Lesser Calamity Era meant..."
Mu You frowned at the illusory book before him.
The account in this essay did not actually match the history of the Fools he had learned from the game.
In the opening backstory of Fool, the Fools were a group of people who "could not cast magic," and Wizards therefore mockingly called them Fools. The Wizards' Association refused to share the world with the Fools, so it launched a war, built the "Great Wall," and sealed the Fools in the Land of Forgetting.
Yet according to this essay, the Fools had not been born unable to cast magic. Rather, they had lost that ability for some reason after returning from Above the High Heavens.
Nor had "Fool" been a derogatory name given to them by the Wizards. It was what they had always called themselves. In fact, the original meaning of "Fool" was evident from the description of his Fool Card: someone with an "adventurous spirit," not someone unable to use magic.
Furthermore, the Wizards' Association had not started the war out of arrogance, looking down on the Fools and considering them ignorant. It had done so out of fear-fear that the Fools would recover their strength, send Sky City soaring again, and bring disaster to the continent. That was why it had sought to exterminate them...
In short, this essay and the game's backstory were almost diametrically opposed.
Of the two, Mu You naturally found the essay more credible.
The most obvious point was that the game claimed the Fool Ancestors could not cast magic, yet in reality, every player who entered the game could learn and cast magic normally.
Moreover, the natives of the Star Spirit World had never expressed any confusion about the Fools' ability to cast spells. This