"umm? Is my question too weird?"
I asked in confusion. It seemed like only Flora was giving me information without giving a strange look. I thought about that and Flora's value in my heart increased drastically.
"It's not strange, it's just that, not many people want to deal with the church. If I had to say it, they are the most dominant force on the Luminara continent.
Many of its followers could go crazy if we do anything bad to them."
Hey, I haven't said I want to do anything bad have I? This queen is already thinking bad things about me.
"Wait a minute, your highness. That's not what I meant. I don't have any bad plans about them. I don't have any grudges with them. I just want to know about a few things. Is that okay?"
I said that to defuse the situation. Then, is this princess also part of the church people? I couldn't help but think that way.
"Ah, I see... I'm sorry I'm not accusing you, it's just a warning for you not to ask that carelessly. I'm not part of the church so I can warn you. It's just that, there are many humans out there who are faithful followers of their teachings. Then, what do you want to know?"
I see. Perhaps I can conclude that the church has great influence and controls many people.
It looks like I have to be careful in the future regarding them.
"I want to know about light magic and about summoning people from the other world"
When I said that, everyone looked at me with shocked faces. It was then that the Duke and Queen began to understand my origins. One question that opened up all the veils of mystery about me.
"I see, with all this nonsense, I can understand that Mr. Rio is a human from another world. The question that was nagging at my heart is now answered."
Ah, it seems like they keep guessing my identity huh? Actually, I have no intention of hiding my identity because it's useless to hide my identity because it will definitely be found out. I also have the confidence to protect myself and Rika.
"Well, that's the way it is. I didn't mean to hide that either. I wonder if your highness knows about light magic and about summoning humans from other worlds?"
I said that again and the queen began to close her eyes. She seemed to be thinking about something.
"Alright, I understand. I'll tell you what I know. Maybe the Duke doesn't know about this either. This is a secret that the royal family died for."
The Queen said that and we were all surprised by her seriousness. Perhaps it was more appropriate to describe the atmosphere.
"It all started when my grandfather's grandfather was still in power. Long ago, the Luminara Empire was still called the Heart Kingdom. Before it was unified, the kingdoms on the Luminara continent consisted of four major kingdoms.
They were the Heart kingdom, the Beast kingdom, the Niflheim kingdom, and the Stone kingdom. That's where every race was. Living in their respective kingdoms and fighting each other between kingdoms. The church as a place for humans to lean on was still very open and comfortable.
It all started when there was an invasion from another continent. They were a demon race from the Black continent. The demon race oversees many other races such as Dark Elves, Beastfolk, and titans. They have powers that exceed all of us on the continent of Luminara. The invasion started from the demon forest in the North of the whisperwood forest.
What prevented them from invading was the high chasm in the whisperwood forest. Actually, the chasm was only a separator because there was an invisible wall blocking their movement.
That's the area controlled by the Demon race. I heard from the stories, they fled from the Black continent for a special reason that I don't know about."
That, why is the matter getting complicated? I immediately thought of the high cliff behind my current house. Didn't the dwarves make that their base? Is it dangerous? I need to investigate further.
"Originally they wanted to invade the Luminara Continent but were thwarted with the cooperation of all races. The church facilitated with light magic. Combining all the power of the races and light magic, the church managed to summon Humans from other worlds.
This is where the emergence of humans from other worlds began. Their names are Albert and Nina. Then, with Albert's crazy skills, they pushed the devil and his allies to the end of the continent and were sealed there. Albert with his monster-control skills and Nina with her invisible fortress skills made humans, elves, beastmen and dwarves win.
That's how the story of humans from another world began. They did not appear just because of light magic but there was a contribution from the four races of the Luminara Continent. Because of the victory against the demons, they named this continent the Luminara Continent. It means a luminous land illuminated by subtle light."
So the point is that humans from other worlds can be summoned with that method. This is very valuable information.
Another problem was Rika's powers, which were similar to those of the first humans from other worlds, and my house, which also had the abilities of otherworldly humans. Only I have a different ability. What does that mean? This is giving me a headache. This is too much of a departure from my original intention.
That means there's a possibility that our arrival in this world was also due to a special mission. If this was just a coincidence, there's no way Rika would have the same strength as the first human in this world.
I can't know or analyze this. It will probably take time to solve this mystery.
While thinking that, the queen continued her story.
Hopefully, there won't be many other big pieces of information. This is beyond my expectations.