The Economics of Prophecy

"Noon's in the curator's office. Speaking of which, I've been deaf lately, and I can't beat the annual wave that stops by."

When Fulsey gives me the inventory, I head to the back door early enough that I don't think he's an old man.

"I watch the entrance on the library side. I can't deal with being accidentally opened the door. We need to keep an eye on the library."

"Claudia. We haven't had much opportunity to talk to each other before, while being close to Master Alfina. May I join you?"

"Ooh. Right."

When Claudia greets him with Luitzer, he heads to the library side door.... How much do you escort while chatting, albeit within the college?

"Can't anybody help me?"

I snapped in the dim library. By the way, Meer is talking about Central Garden, Inc., and he should be on his way to Alliance headquarters with Lilka and Sherry. I'm ready to join Giverney and Kenwell in explaining the new city and transportation standards to the Chancellor.

"I'll help you"

Hold my little fist tight, Alfina said.

"It's very helpful, to be honest."

It's not what you ask of a princess, but it's something to do with Alfina. Plus, well, I'm pretty sure it's a lot more fun with girls because it's plain work.

"Pfft. It's been a long time since I've been here."

Alfina smiled at the table one day, beside the light removal window. Speaking of which, you used to read here. She was isolated. I can't imagine now.

"They use the library a lot more often."

Libraries are often used, for example, for study groups sponsored by Alfina.

"Thanks to Ricardo and the others for everything."

"Well, I don't think so."

Except for complicated birth, there is no element in Alfina that people hate. It's very natural that people are gathering around Alfina right now.

"Ricardo always...... What can I help you with today?"

You look a little troubled, Alfina, but when I put an inventory on the table, you switch with a serious face.

"It's not a very good story, but I want to find out as much as possible about the catastrophe that happened in the old days"

"Disaster... Is it like it appears on a crystal?"

"That's what happens. Alfina relies on old cathedral records, etc."

"There's also a unique rhetoric. Leave it to me."

What we're doing in the lab right now is research to find out more about the demonic pulse at some point. But given the unusual fluctuations in the demon pulse yesterday and the origin of the deep red demon crystal I heard from Mayteel, I want a longer period of time record. The past seventy years of the annual wheel are likely not enough.

In order to learn about longer demonic pulse fluctuations, it is necessary to suppress past events that serve as a reference. Speaking on Earth, it's like volcanic ash left over from a volcanic eruption, or the collision of a great meteorite increases iridium.

"I mean, from the record of the disaster, would you say that it creates a landmark for the time when the anomaly of the Great Old Devil's Vein occurred"

"Yes, but I don't have any idea of a sample that could get a longer record than an annual wheel."

Earth would have had a 3,000-year-old level tree like Rope Cedar, but I don't know about it this way. The red forest trees are untouched, but they didn't seem to live that long. It doesn't seem like a cida plant or the annual wheel itself.

"It's always amazing what Ricardo thinks"

Alfina sees me with respect. It's not me that's amazing, I'm the one who thought about this in his previous life.

"... Anyway, let's collect the inventory books made by the curator"

When I decided to share with Alfina, I headed to the bookshelf lined up in the library. Old records are not well organized. There may be more books stacked on a rattled bookshelf, which is not dangerous. To prevent dust, cloth may hang, but I wonder if this will accumulate humidity instead.

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"Three hundred years seems to be the limit to the exact record of kingdom history."

I opened one of the books I had piled up at the table, which was thick, I said. Although the kingdom is supposed to have been founded about 450 years ago, it is dazzling to see the descriptions of that period. It's half a myth. If the description is correct, the ancestors of Alfina must have angel wings on their backs. Well, even if you don't have wings, Alfina is an angel...

"Ricardo?

I was unexpectedly seen on the side of a beautiful girl illuminated by the light from the window.

"No, an objective assessment"

Alfina puts a small neck on it.

"Damn, it means that records that can be judged as objective facts are important. For example, this map would be unnatural."

I pointed to one of the maps in the book. It seems to be a map of the kingdom at its inception, but it has been a current print for more than 400 years. But in those days, for example, Felbach, Alfina's mother's home, should still have been independent.

Looking at the records, there is a line of records that suppressed the local insurgency from about 400 to 300 years ago. In fact, it is natural to assume that some 300 years ago the "unity” of the south of the Great River was achieved by the nation that was the source of the present kingdom. The rewriting of this hand's record was both ancient and now east-west normal on Earth. Past frontiers could be drawn back to war, or "for war”.

That's why everything isn't a lie, and it often reflects in some way what actually happened. And in the first place, an object called information exists as an interaction between the sender and the receiver.

Well, fortunately, this time it's more an event that influenced that history than history itself. For example, what is the connection between the founding of the kingdom? As far as kingdom records are concerned, the founding of the Empire is at the same time as the kingdom.

The point is that speech can make sense in two countries. Does it feel like the great powers that used to be divided into many countries for some reason, which gradually unified and made the Great River a kingdom and an empire at its borders?

In that case, there will have been ”something” that led to the collapse of the old great nation. It could be a purely man-made problem, institutional fatigue, but it should nevertheless require a hang-up.

If we believe that 300 years ago, the founding of the Kingdom in its present form, and 450 years ago, the nation from which the Kingdom was founded was born, the cause of the collapse of the great state that preceded it will be even more so.

"So far events a little before 450 years are the aim...... Dear Alfina?"

"... Oh, I'm sorry. Watch this."

What Alfina was looking at was an old book. A single picture is drawn using the opening. It's a rough chisel painting with a fairy tale tone. A city burned by flames from the sky? Is it the dragon flying in the sky?

"I remember a fairy tale my mother told me."

"Oh, I see. If you don't behave, the dragon can fly out of the sky and eat it."

"Wow, I wasn't that badly behaved."

"Even so. … by the way, what kind of failure did you make"

The cheek-dyed alfina was cute and stuck in. Then Alfina covered her face with both hands and shook her head as she sifted. Oh, I stepped on a mine.

"... well, speaking of which, I've heard the same story before. When it comes to being passed on to various regions, there may have been a wide range of events. Yeah, a little later than 300 years ago on the record..."

Crownheight's sixth generation king is described as having fought a herd of dragons. In my view, he is the son of a fifth generation king, a substantial founder. It's newer than the record you're looking for, but much older than it was seventy years ago. That could be useful.

"............... Ricardo. Actually, my mother said it was more of an old story."

But when Alfina looked over here, she dropped her voice. Long eyelashes light out the window and cheeks come in front of me that have not yet shed their red flavor.... No, no, calm down. The reason why Alfina lurks her voice is clear.

"Could it have been a long time before 300 years?"

"Yes......"

It seems that Alfina's maternal ancestor, a hero who also passed it on to his home ancestors, fought a herd of dragons.

When Alfina's paternal ancestor Crownheight and his maternal ancestor Felbach were the lords of separate nations, they each fought against a widespread Warcraft disaster. It's a possible story.

No, this isn't even zero possibility that this is what caused the collapse of the old great state.

"It could be a good landmark. Thank you to Alfina's mother."

"... Good for you"

If you look into it, you do find similar records in various regions. Periods and descriptions look fragmented, but there is a common denominator of a terrible monster attacked from the sky.

Wow, this book is independently of my hand on top of eight feathers. The monster of Mayan civilization, is Ketzalkoattle, I wonder if it resembles. Was there too much fear? Sweet, I've got a legend of snakes with eight heads in my last life.

"Time to clean up"

I spoke to Alfina when I ran out of material. Around Claudia, you can worry about the rest of my rationality.