"Actually, it's because Alchemy City owes the Elf Tribe a large sum of money. In recent years, Alchemy City has been borrowing large amounts abroad, and we, as neighbors, lent them a significant amount of resources and Gold. Who could have imagined that Alchemy City would be destroyed overnight? To ensure the interests of our Elf Tribe, we had to take up arms and retrieve what belongs to us from this land."
The secret of the magic addiction disease must not be exposed, so a plausible excuse was necessary, and the Elves had prepared this in advance.
Since Alchemy City was already gone, whether they really owed money or not was for the Elves to decide, and there was no way for others to verify it.
"Is that the reason?"
Hoffman Ironfist did not ponder deeply; it was a fact that Alchemy City was facing a severe economic crisis before its destruction.
