Extraordinary in Reality Through Magic Games

217: Chapter 215 The Beginning of the Feud Between Ragu and LakeAs previously mentioned.

All living beings on the Saul Continent—humans, elves, dwarves, and so on—harbor a certain degree of doubt regarding the existence of gods.

At most, however, it is just doubt; no one dares to beat their chest and declare that there are no gods on the Saul Continent.

The fundamental reason for this lies entirely in ”miracles.”

What is a miracle?

Something that mortals cannot achieve no matter how hard they try is a miracle.

The Silent Forest belongs to this category.

If it were any Kingdom other than those two, they would likely be utterly bewildered to learn that Lagu had traveled such a great distance, risking the destruction of its entire army to cross a mountain range teeming with magical beasts just to attack Lake.

Is it really worth it?

If one wanted to expand their territory, there were plenty of Kingdoms bordering Lagu that were much weaker than Lake.

Fighting them would be convenient and consume fewer resources, so why would Lagu go through all that trouble to attack Lake?

But for the people of these two nations, it was easy to understand.

Damu felt that the matter had to be traced back to when the grudge between the Lake Kingdom and the Lagu Kingdom first began.

Long ago, the Silent Forest did not exist in reality; between Lagu and Lake stretched a long border.

Perhaps humans everywhere possess a predatory nature.

Although mandatory regulations from the Church suppressed killing and bloodshed to some extent, smoke from the fires of war still rose across the Saul Continent.

The current Laike Royal Family, having fled to this place where city-states were scattered, used the foundations of the former First Empire to establish a foothold, subsequently unifying the surrounding independent city-states to form the United Kingdom of Lake.

At the beginning, Lagu didn’t know the background of this newly emerged power next door.

But having been entrenched there for a long time, it understood very well how chaotic the neighboring area was.

Cities fought one another, and if a powerful city occasionally stood out, it would immediately be besieged by everyone else.

In this kind of regional dynamic, the rise and fall of powers happened frequently and with extremely short cycles.

Lagu had once been wary; after all, no Kingdom wanted a tough guy living right across the street.

But the chaos lasted too long.

Lagu became numbed by the sight that remained unchanged for centuries, and thus didn’t pay much attention to Lake.

By the time they noticed something was wrong—that the many cities seemed to show signs of being integrated—and wanted to intervene to stir up trouble again, it was already too late.

When the army set out from the Lagu capital and reached the border, what awaited them was no longer a collection of independent city-states, but the unified Lake Kingdom.

Seeing the legions standing quietly on the other side of the border, having proactively stepped out of the cities as a show of force, Lagu couldn’t help themselves.

In the past, whenever they came over, hadn’t these cowards always cowered inside their cities?

Now they think they’re capable and dare to provoke me?

Thus, the King of Lagu at the time commanded his great army to boldly cross the border.

However, on this trip, the King of Lagu, the generals, and even the Soldiers were not psychologically prepared for war.

They only intended to do what they had always done: take a lap around, support the weaker cities, and keep everyone’s strength at the same level.

Coupled with the fact that their understanding of Lake was basically zero, the outcome of a crushing defeat in the campaign was already predestined from the moment they crossed the border.

As for Lake, they didn’t actually need to adopt such a hardline stance.

The Kingdom was newly established, internal stability hadn’t been fully achieved, and the Soldiers hadn’t been trained for long.

The best choice would have been to stay behind closed doors and show weakness.

But the Laike Royal Family of that time did not have the same mindset as the current one.

The latter thinks—my ancestors were once great.

The former thought—I am the ancestor.

As the royal family of the First Empire, although their nation had been destroyed due to being targeted by the Church and they had fled under assumed names, they were not some trash that anyone could bully.

And so, the two sides clashed on the open plains.