Even goblins are dangerous in this other world!

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"Exactly! Screw it! Hey you over there, yeah, the one with the accordion, stop playing love songs, get something more intense!"

"Keep dancing, everyone! Let's dance for those beings in the heavens too!"

"Oh la la~~ Oh le le~~ Oh la oh la oh la!!!"

People actually started dancing, continuing to celebrate today's victory, unwilling to stop.

The musicians at the ball even changed the original elegant repertoire to a more stirring and passionate piece. As people danced under the night sky, the hustle and bustle of the human world truly overwhelmed the divine sounds from the heavens, turning the obscure and unpleasant divine sounds into accompaniment, and the thunder that resounded through the night sky into drumbeats.

"Oh la la~~ Oh le le~~ Oh la oh la oh la!!!"

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"That's why I like Kanriel."

Tata heard people singing and dancing outside the window, their voices filled with laughter.

"To be honest, me too."

Luo Xiu smiled too. Although he had just heard such shocking news, the singing outside the window seemed to bring warmth to the room and make the dim firelight a little brighter.

Although many things in this world are rotten to the core, there are still many people and many events that will make you feel that this journey was truly worthwhile.

"【Demon】, 【God】, and 【Guide】...Could you elaborate?"

Luo Xiu walked to the cabinet next to him, opened the window, and took out a bottle of cider and two glasses, because he saw Tata sit back on the sofa and the tentacle behind her pointed to the window.

"The demon and the god, that's just a legend."

Tata extended a tentacle from behind, took the glass of cider that Luo Xiu handed her, and raised it slightly to clink glasses with the glass in Luo Xiu's other hand.

"Legend has it that in the distant past, perhaps millions of years ago, the entire continent of Gran was flourishing with flowers. Demons and gods ruled over the land, making it an extraordinary place."

"Later, the first generation of [Demons] and [Gods] went to the high heavens, leaving only [Godhood] and [Demonhood] on the continent, thus giving birth to a new generation of gods."

"Later, the next generation of gods also went to the high heavens for unknown reasons. They took away the [divinity] and [demonic position] with them, leaving behind [divinity] and [demonicity] on the continent, and giving birth to a group of descendants called the [God Race] and the [Demon Race].

"The above are all speculations and have no basis in fact."

"But starting with the Gods and Demons, they are real beings, documented in books and passed down orally. More importantly, the Gods and Demons are still alive."

"The Gods and the Demons began a long period of war. The two were evenly matched and the war went on for many years without a clear winner. However, both the Gods and the Demons consisted of multiple races. During this process, some races declined while others rose to prominence."

Luo Xiu listened to Tata's words, took a sip of his cider, and as the cool, slightly sweet liquid went down his throat, he looked at Tata:

"Therefore, we [human beings] are the utterly decadent race."

But Tata shook his head:

"In fact, we [humans] are the race that has completely risen to prominence."

"They just don't want to call themselves 'human' anymore."

"With their wisdom, they suppressed other races and seized most of the [divinity] and [demonicity] of this world. Their bloodlines evolved and sublimated with each successive generation, gradually stripping other [demonic races] and [divine races] of their titles."

"From this day forward, on this continent, only two kinds of humans, two different kinds of humans, are qualified to be called the [Gods] and the [Demons]."

"..."

Tata's words seemed to turn into withered fragments, entwining around Luo Xiu's side, then drifting out the window and being scattered in the gentle evening breeze.

Luo Xiu drank the last drop of wine from his glass and understood the process.

The Gods and Demons were originally species born from divinity and demonic nature, respectively. Those who possess divinity are Gods, and those who absorb demonic nature are Demons.

But in the chaos of war, humans who absorbed divine power and those who absorbed demonic power gradually became powerful and suppressed other races.

Because they absorbed too much of the divine and demonic essence, their bloodline was elevated to the extreme, and they changed their name from "human" to "gods" and "demons".

From then on, there was only one race for both gods and demons.

"What about us?"

Luo Xiu smiled. For some reason, when he heard Tata reveal such a surprising truth, he felt that it made sense. It seemed that in the legends of the previous world, the human species would also steal the fire of the gods and bring back souls that had entered the underworld.

This is a race that can use its wisdom to find ways to survive in various predicaments, and it possesses terrifying weapons that most races do not have.

Greed.

Greed and wisdom, when they collide, can produce miracles, whether destruction or rebirth.

“We… are abandoned humans. If we have to classify them, we should be considered as humans from the [God Race] side.”

Tata's calm words carried a hint of bitterness, but it vanished in an instant, and she returned to her usual composure:

"What happened next was my teacher's guess."

"This continent is not like in fairy tales, where a line is drawn in the middle, with one half being gods and the other half demons."

"Whether it's the [Gods] or the [Demons], their distribution is generally opposite. The Gods are located in the north of the Gran Continent, while the Demons are located in the south."

"But there are always exceptions. In the course of years of war, there are always some unexpected situations. Perhaps we are a group of prisoners captured by the Demon Clan, or perhaps we are a group of people left behind in the south when the God Clan migrated north."

"My teacher believes that the most likely scenario is that we are among those who were abandoned."

"The teacher has read many ancient books and traveled to many places. He finally deduced that a group of gods once took root in this place and eventually chose to move north. Another group of people, because they were inefficient at absorbing divinity and had poor talent, were eventually abandoned and expelled from the ranks of the gods. They remained in this place, and eventually the area near this land was occupied by the demons."

"As all things evolve and times change, there may be many details and coincidences that we do not know, but this is generally the case."

Tata has finished speaking.

Luo Xiu fell silent.

Indeed, the history of this world, from the beginning of recorded history, is often hundreds of thousands of years old, or even traced back to the distant ancient times, which is much longer than the history of humankind in the world before us. Many things in it can only be speculated upon.

Perhaps what ultimately led to this situation was just a small coincidence.

"Teacher, you said you would tell me about the origin of monsters. What is the specific relationship between monsters and the demon race?"

Luo Xiu already had a guess about this, but he still needed to ask Tata for verification.

"Originally, there were thousands of races of the Demon race. Eventually, the Demon race became one race, while the other races that were stripped of their Demon race title lost the nourishment of demonic nature, their bloodlines gradually degenerated, and they eventually became the demons we see today."

"Some of them have even completely lost the ability to absorb demonic energy, relying entirely on the demons for their enhancement, and eventually becoming nothing more than pets of the demons."

"However, some of them still retain the ability to absorb demonic energy. They are high-end combat forces under the [Demon Race] and are also the main source of damage in the great war against the [God Race]."

"The same goes for the [God Race]. They turned the races that originally belonged to the [God Race] into subordinate races, but their attitude towards those races is relatively mild. They rarely show themselves and only occasionally issue [decrees]."

"The difference in how they are handled may be related to the influence of [divinity] and [demonicity]. The influence of [divinity] is mainly to gradually cause a person to lose their emotions, while the influence of [demonicity] is to gradually make a person's personality become cruel and bloodthirsty."

really.

Luo Xiu understood, which explained why Tata and the others hated the demon race so much.

The demons have been attacking Dorant and feeding on humans. The demon race behind them is completely opposed to the gods who originally belonged to Dorant. In addition, the demons are brutal and bloodthirsty, and have been sending their subordinate demons to attack Dorant. It is only natural that we hate them.

"So what I've been wanting to ask you before is the origin of those dragon-related things in the capital. They should belong to a subordinate race of the [God Race]. In other words, the capital is now able to establish connections with external forces."

Luo Xiu asked.

Tata nodded:

"There are two forces that the capital can contact, both located in the north-central part of the Grand Continent: one is called the Valley of Dragonborn, and the other is called the Great Kanda Elf Tribe."

"Both of these forces are subordinate to the [God Race]. They are very interested in a material called mica crystal from our Dorant region, which seems to be produced only here, so they reached a trade agreement. Of course, this connection is not something that has existed since ancient times; there is a special entity at work behind it."

"[Introducer]"

"What I'm about to tell you is the biggest reason why we, Dorrant, have been able to survive until now."

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"Are you saying that you want to join forces with that person in the south to launch a large-scale attack on those inferior creatures? To destroy this country in one fell swoop?"

Confusion was evident in the Demon Bat Queen's crimson eyes:

"I...I don't quite understand, after all these years, why is it happening so suddenly...I, I absolutely did not mean to oppose you, I just..."

Nightingale looked up at the Demon Bat Queen, who immediately shut her mouth, cold sweat pouring down her back.

"Ha, of course you wouldn't understand."

"What do you understand? A thousand years have passed, and you haven't even managed to take a single city. Damn it, you're such an idiot!!!"

It suddenly flew into a rage, as if it had lost control of its mind. Its teasing tone suddenly turned violent, and it leaped onto the Demon Bat Queen's shoulder. With a single peck, the Demon Bat Queen's shoulder shattered and exploded, sending pieces of blood and flesh flying everywhere.

The Demon Bat Queen let out a muffled groan, suppressing her scream.

Once she cries out, the punishment that awaits her will be far more than just this simple punishment.

"Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!"

"A thousand years, has your brain even started working? Why not just cut your head off and stuff it into a crack in the rock, turn it into liquid, and rub it together..."

In the end, it became so angry that its words became illogical, and half of the Demon Bat Queen's body was stained with blood, making her teeter on the verge of collapse.

It then calmed down, jumped off the Bat Queen's shoulder, landed on the ground, and returned to its original domineering demeanor.

It opened its mouth, spitting out black light spots that landed on the Demon Bat Queen, and those bloody wounds were completely healed in the blink of an eye.

"Thank you, sir."

The Bat Queen prostrated herself on the ground to express her gratitude.

"If I could do it myself, why would I need two useless people like you?"

It murmured, then remembered something even more infuriating:

"And the slimes, they're a bunch of idiots too, damn it, a bunch of stupid pigs! They've kept me stuck in this lousy place for over a thousand years, damn it, over a thousand years, and I still haven't completed my mission!"

"But that's about it."

Its intense emotions suddenly calmed down, and it opened its mouth to look at the Demon Bat Queen and the Mushroom Monster:

"Are you sure you didn't see that person this time?"

The Demon Bat Queen and the Mushroom Monster both shook their heads:

"No, sir, I didn't see that person."

They had all glimpsed the person the nightingale spoke of, in that battle a thousand years ago.

He was tall, wore glasses, dressed like a scholar, and had a gentle smile on his face. Behind him was a group of all sorts of people, each of whom was one of the most gifted among humans.

"Anything similar? Have you seen anything like it?"