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“I don’t know from which perspective I should speak, so I’ll speak from the viewpoint of the humans. By the way, just to set the stage… Lullus, do you realize you’re part of the second generation?”

“Yes. However, I don’t know what happened with the previous generation. But I clearly remember being cautious of people.”

If that was the case, I suspected that Lullus might have had some inkling of what had happened. Still, to keep the story clear, I chose to speak as if she knew nothing. I began talking about human karma, their habitual behaviors, things that might not sound particularly compelling.

“The generation before yours also consisted of six regulators. While you and the other spirits now appear as spheres of light, your predecessors took on human form. God’s intention, apparently, was for them to blend in with humanity and join forces to protect the world. I’ll spare you the details. What you need to know is that they looked human. In terms of strength, they were a bit weaker than you and the others are now, but they radiated a powerful presence. People gathered around them, built settlements, established nations, and thrived.”

Peace lasted for a long time. That was because Lullus’ six predecessors got along and people willingly followed them. It resembled a utopia ruled by a good and eternal king, one that made you believe peace could last forever.

I had never heard of such an outcome before, and there was no such thing as eternity when everything had an end. Still, Lullus’ predecessors had achieved something remarkably close.

“As life became easier, the human population grew. Eventually, it grew to a point where the nations could no longer support it. The people back then consumed the world far faster than your predecessors could sustain it. When disparity appears, so does wealth; when there’s not enough food, frustration follows. I’m sure there were other reasons, but that was a major one. And then came the fear. The kings ruling over them didn’t eat, didn’t age, and wielded strange powers. Can such unnatural beings truly be trusted to lead? Isn’t the current food shortage their fault?”

That was what people began to believe. It might seem irrational, but that’s how people are. And the situation escalates quickly when someone steps in to shape their thinking.

I believed this was no different in any world; people feared what they couldn’t understand. And then they tried to eliminate it. Once that fire was sparked, everyone joined in for the spectacle.

When people grew uncertain of the future and anxious about what lay ahead, all it took was someone with ambition to whisper doubt. And so they turned on the very beings who had protected them. I didn’t know if this played out in other worlds, but it certainly happened here.

“Eventually, the people overthrew and destroyed the long-standing rulers, the untouchable figures. From another perspective, your predecessors couldn’t bring themselves to fight back against the humans. After all, they had lived among them. In the end, although they had no intention of harming humans, the humans killed them.”

“That’s not the end of the story, is it?”

“Of course not. If it were, you and the others would never have been captured. I believe God took that incident very seriously, which is why you and the other spirits appear as you do now. In the end, the people defeated five of the six kings; only one survived. That lone survivor became the world’s first Demon Lord. His power was immense, and no one in this world could oppose him. That’s when the first heroes appeared.”

“So you’re saying the heroes listened to those people and defeated the Demon Lord?”

Lullus asked with a bewildered expression, likely shocked at how short-sighted those heroes must have been. But that was simply how the world worked. By the time the first heroes arrived, countless lives had already been lost to the Demon Lord. There wasn’t time to sit back and find alternatives to killing him.

“Exactly. But that battle threw the world into disarray. Only a few habitable regions remained, and people seemed ready to fight over them. War didn’t erupt only because the presence of the heroes acted as a deterrent. Still, just when things were about to fall apart, they stumbled upon the perfect solution.”

“And that solution was us, wasn’t it? Why is everything so complicated?”

“Yeah. Who knows how long it would’ve taken for the land to become livable again if you and the other spirits had been allowed to work as usual?”

“A few decades at least.”

“That might be fine for the elves, but for humans, a few decades was a long time, too long to wait patiently. Though I can see where you’re coming from, Lullus.”

After all, this whole thing only happened because humans had killed the original regulators of the world. And now, Lullus and the others had to spend decades trying to fix the damage caused by that. Especially when, to spirits like Lullus, those decades probably felt like mere months.

“To handle the growing conflict among the people, the heroes captured the spirits and forced them to use their power to build the foundations of the new nations.”
“I’ve got a lot I want to say about that, but who were those heroes to begin with?”
“I don’t know much about the heroes of the past, but they were probably beings who had already saved the world they came from before.”

They were what one would truly call heroes. Given that they were beings with the strength to defeat the Demon Lord, it wasn’t out of the question that they could also subdue Lullus and the other spirits.

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