Chapter 117: The advantage of a high profile partner is you can find out about them through the media
Although I could pretty much read the book with ease, I still needed a dictionary by my side, because some words were still obscured for me. I also jotted down some notes so I wouldn’t forget about them and could revise it anytime.
For what it was worth, the book was surprisingly pretty neutral in giving out the history of the realm, unlike the content of the materials read by Valmeier in the human realm.
Although, to be fair, he was a clergy, so...I guessed fanaticism was in the package.
The school book was milder, written from an observer’s point of view with as much neutrality as one could exercise as a demon talking about other realms. Perhaps that was why the demons--at least the demons here, in the realm of greed who grow up with this book--had a more open mind than humans about other races.
It started with what I already knew from the prequel and listening to Zia; about how there used to be One Primordial God who created this world, and later on, vanished without a reason--or at least, without a reason that the mortals knew. And then the world, which was supposed to be in harmony under the rule of the three Gods, became segregated instead.
The book didn’t go into detail about what happened during those times; the struggle of wars until the three main races settled on their own territories--perhaps because it was a student book that would be read by adolescents. The book dove straight into focusing on the demon realms, explaining about the Demon King as the apostle, and the seven Demon Lords as the ruler of the seven realms under demon territory.
What I was searching for, of course, was the elaboration on the Demon Lords throughout history. Eruha told me, that writing or talking about the Demon King was not allowed, but that wasn’t the case with Demon Lords. Of course, to write and talk about all Demon Lords would be boring for adolescents’ minds, so the book only highlighted the most notable Lords in history.
It wasn’t necessarily for their accomplishments, but also for their foolishness, or even eccentricity. There was this one Demon Lord who challenged an ice dragon just because they wanted to use the ice dragon’s nest as food storage--you know, like a natural refrigerator. There was also a Demon Lord who could reign for hundreds of years just by...sleeping, somehow.
Just from the short mentioned in this book, I already wanted to read about each Demon Lord in detail. I bet there was at least one book dedicated to each Demon Lord, looking at their shenanigans. Perhaps because these Lords had full authority over their own realm, they could do whatever they pleased. Essentially, as long as they kept the realm intact, His Majesty wouldn’t bother with how they ran their place.
Every time I encountered an interesting tale, I asked Eruha to prepare the books talking about them so I could read them later on once I increased my proficiency.
And of course, what I wanted to read the most, was the section talking about Natha. For this, I made sure to check the words I didn’t know with the dictionary, instead of trying to understand it from the context alone. My notebook was on the ready, and Eruha was there to help me unravel some long sentences with difficult structures.