Knights and Magic Wand
Chapter 432 - 432 203 Betrayal and Exile

432: Chapter 203 Betrayal and Exile 432: Chapter 203 Betrayal and Exile “Are all the demons in the Spirit Realm transformed from the Lorelettians?” Leon was shocked.

Mass demonization?

Have the Lorelettians gone mad!?

Lola shook her head: “Not all of them.

In the Spirit Realm, there are countless original beings born from the thoughts of myriad worlds.

Besides, not only the Lorelettians can embrace the power of the Spirit Realm.

My kinsmen are merely one of them; they are different from the demons born from the original chaos.”

Leon took note silently, then continued to ask in confusion: “Why would they willingly become such inhuman, ghostly creatures?”

Miss Mage spread her sleeves as if it were only natural: “Immortality, powerful forces at your fingertips, boundless knowledge, endless pleasure and desires…

Anything really, the reasons one could have are countless.”

To ordinary people and mages alike, if the price is merely a transformation into the non-human, and all they need to do is indulge the emotions surging in their souls, they can have all they once could never touch, most would not hesitate.

At this point, she sighed deeply: “In the end, the price we see is nothing compared to what the Fallen will gain.”

Leon still found it unreasonable.

Power and longevity are worthy only if they have a purpose, but the Spirit Realm—just look at that half-corroded semi-spiritual field, and you’ll know it’s a godforsaken place.

“Even if they obtain all that, what’s the point if they can only be trapped in the Spirit Realm, unable to return to reality?”

The moment he finished speaking, Leon saw a bittersweet smile emerge on Lola’s face.

“You think they are the ones trapped?”

Leon frowned and said: “Aren’t they…

only able to descend upon this world through the semi-spiritual field that lies between reality and the Spirit Realm?”

Lola extended her finger and pointed at the ground.

“Your perspective on this matter is wrong…

It’s like this Mage Tower, now shrouded in a Magic Veil.

Do you think that the people living outside are trapped by us inside the tower?”

Leon’s eyes gradually widened, and his back began to prickle.

He instinctively thought the demons were sealed in the Spirit Realm and unable to come to this world.

But according to what Lola said…

isn’t it that the demons aren’t trapped in the Spirit Realm, rather this world itself has found a way to keep out the chaos of demons?

Lola looked at the shock on his face and nodded.

“The Spirit Realm is a part of the endless Void, an infinite domain composed of the sparks of intelligence bursting from countless souls.

It’s not that the demons are trapped in the Spirit Realm, unable to get to this world, but rather the ground beneath our feet is temporarily making use of some great power to keep out things from the Spirit Realm.”

“Wait, you said it’s temporary, will they truly return?” Leon’s heart lurched, realizing his wild speculations upon learning of the Dwarves’ departure were coming true.

No wonder the Elves and Dwarves fled early.

From the tip of the iceberg revealed in the books of the Mage Tower about the Lorelettian civilization, if this civilization of Ancient Mages who collectively underwent demonization were to return to this world, it would indeed be no different from the apocalypse—who wouldn’t run from that?

Leon immediately grew anxious.

He thought he had crossed into “The Song of Ice and Fire,” but now he was being told that he had actually arrived on the set of “The End Times”?

“How long will this temporary state last, how much time is there?” He pressed down on the unease in his heart and asked earnestly.

“It can last until…

the day when the sacred Holy Sun extinguishes.”

“The sun extinguishes?”

Leon was stunned at this.

But, just in case, he still cautiously asked for clarification: “That…

if I may ask, Lola, because back in my homeland, the sun is actually somewhat long-lived.”

“In this world, how long can that Holy Sun above our heads…

continue to burn?”

Miss Mage thought for a moment, then answered: “According to the Orland Calendar you’re now familiar with, there are about 9.6 billion years left.”

“Cough cough…” Leon almost choked on the air: “…

I thought, well, no need to worry then…”

Almost 9.6 billion years.

The local sun has nearly double the remaining lifespan of the one on Earth.

You know, this temporary…

is indeed quite temporary.

Lola looked at him, relieved, and reminded with her arms crossed: “Feeling secure?

Don’t get too happy too soon, have you forgotten about the semi-spiritual field?

Even if time is chaotic in the Spirit Realm, my Fallen kinsfolk won’t really have the patience to wait until the day the Holy Sun extinguishes, to step foot on a barren and depleted land that might not even exist by then.”

Leon felt curious upon hearing this.

“But according to you, Lola, your kinsfolk who became demons of the Spirit Realm, after entering the Spirit Realm, isn’t it as vast as the ocean and sky for them?

Why are they so fixated on this world?

Since you said the Spirit Realm connects to the infinite Void, there are countless stars in the sky, why insist on returning to wreak havoc on the world that once birthed them.”

In response to his question, a touch of sadness appeared in Lola’s golden eyes: “Because the initial Fallen did not enter the Spirit Realm willingly.”

“Before this land completely became a demonic realm of the Spirit Realm, two of the five Popes who had not fallen, along with their past allies, tore the entire Lorelette Kingdom and its land from this world and threw it into the Spirit Realm.

Ever since then, my kin ‘exiled’ to the Abyss of the Spirit Realm have been ceaselessly longing to return to this land, to destroy everything protected by us ‘betrayers,’ to wash away the disgrace and hatred of their banishment…

time and again…”