The Elf Journey In The Western Fantasy World-Chapter 160: The Truth Behind the War

"Sebastian also told me that long ago, the war wasn’t like this at all. The once-every-fifty-years war originally existed to maintain balance across the world. But starting from five hundred years ago, the entire meaning behind the agreement slowly changed. When the previous Demon King was still around, the agreement was carried out properly. And during that time, the Demon Realm was shining with countless stars—every individual was incredibly powerful, unlike now."

"Besides, the reason of ’maintaining balance’ was always just a fancy excuse. The real reason behind the war... was personal vendettas."

Illiya patiently listened to Anos’s rant, nodding unconsciously.

He had read about these things before in the elven archives.

The demon race really was such an absurd existence.

But what intrigued him more was the "true reason" Anos had mentioned.

The commonly accepted version on the world claimed there was a deep blood feud between the races, while the ancient records in the elven books described it as a war meant to maintain balance.

So why was the Demon King saying there was another reason?

Anos wore a bitter expression, a look of despair spreading across his face. "Yes, there’s actually another, much more real reason behind all of it."

"To put it plainly, it was mostly just personal revenge. After all, the previous Demon King married the person who, back then, was publicly acknowledged as the ’white moonlight’ of the world. The Demon King agreed to the war just so he could show off every few decades. That’s all."

Illiya: ????

Illiya, who was normally calm and composed, completely broke at that sentence.

His entire elf self just stopped functioning.

The calm expression on his face began to crack.

He pinched his own ears, starting to question whether he had misheard something. freewёbnoνel.com

But Anos crushed all hope of misunderstanding with the words that followed. "Yes, it really was just to show off. A thousand years ago, people from the world would come every fifty years to start a war, just to give the Demon King a hard time. Isn’t that utterly ridiculous? I’ve never seen such an immature reason to start a war!"

Illiya was utterly speechless. He truly hadn’t expected the real reason to be like this. But it did explain why nothing about it was recorded in the books.

How could you even write something like this down in an official record?!

That said, what was written in the books wasn’t entirely wrong either.

Stealing someone’s white moonlight = a deep blood feud

From a certain perspective... it wasn’t entirely incorrect.

Illiya felt that he could no longer view that era of "dazzling stars" with any reverence ever again.

So in the end, the true nature of all races... was just plain immaturity, huh?

He was tired. Let the world burn.

Illiya had originally thought there couldn’t possibly be anything more ridiculous than this—but reality was quick to humble him.

Because just then, the Book of Elves, which had remained silent in his spiritual sea for quite a while, suddenly flipped open to the second page.

And on the second page, the character it displayed was none other than the former Demon King—Phenex Marchosias.

Illiya: ???

Thank you very much, but I really didn’t need the Book of Elves to be activated like this.

After the second page of the Book of Elves in his spiritual sea was activated, Illiya—as an elf—was utterly undone.

Even before leaving the Elven Forest, he had already anticipated that reactivating the Book of Elves would be extremely difficult.

He had mentally prepared himself for the possibility that even after traveling the entire continent, the book still wouldn’t activate again.

But in the end, his luck proved to be better than expected.

While he was still in Haneulseong City, he successfully activated the first page of the Book of Elves.

At the time, he had occasionally wondered when the second page might be activated, though he didn’t force the matter—he left it entirely to fate.

What he never expected was that the second page of the Book of Elves would be activated under such absurd circumstances.

Illiya truly couldn’t understand why the second page of the Book of Elves would display Demon King Phenex.

Phenex Marchpsias was the previous Demon King of the Demon Realm.

There were many legends about him across the continent.

Although most races didn’t have particularly good relations with him, there wasn’t a single person who would deny his overwhelming strength.

A thousand years ago, the continent had entered a dazzling age of stars, an era where many remarkable figures emerged. Yet even in such a time, Phenex still shone the brightest among them all.

No one could outshine his brilliance—not even the gods could ignore his existence.

One could say that this Demon King was the number one beneath the gods themselves.

There were even rumors claiming that his strength was enough to battle against the gods, though there had never been any official documentation to confirm such claims.

There were plenty of materials on the continent describing His Majesty the Demon King, but most of those records were filled with praise and admiration. And now, from the mouth of the current Demon King—Anos—Illiya had heard an entirely different version.

A version that utterly upended everything he had believed.

The former Demon King of the Demon Realm, Phenex, was apparently nothing like how the outside world portrayed him.

On the contrary, he was a person with a rather peculiar personality.

That was the conclusion Illiya came to after listening to Anos’s explanation.

It seemed like the only way to describe His Majesty’s personality was with the word "eccentric."

Not in the sense that he was cold, antisocial, or bizarre, but more that his personality was unpredictable—his thought patterns and logic were often strange and hard for others to follow.

Under the leadership of this Demon King, the Demon Realm had once been invincible.

It could be said that during that time, the overall strength of the Demon Realm had reached its peak.

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