I go into the basement and sit on my chair. I open my notebook made out of large white leaves that Lami told me she found on the east side of the forest on some white trees. I pick up a thin pen-shaped black rock that I use to write in my notebook and spin it on my fingers once. I open another book that was made out of proper paper but was old and rough. I put the book to the left and my leaf notebook on my right.

“Now let's see what I have gathered up until now”.

In the last 3 months, I have come to know a lot about this world and the forest. This was all possible thanks to all the stuff left by the heroes that were summoned here through the hero-summing ritual.

There were books, mangas, small gadgets, and even recordings. The recordings were done with a magic crystal that a Hero, who was known as the Sage, made for his entertainment. Lamina and Lami could only use some of the crystals because most of them had a password on them. Still, the crystals they watched were enough for them to get an idea of how English worked and they could somewhat read thanks to those.

I was lucky enough to find the password in one of the books I was reading. The password was three words that needed to be said in an order. The words were difficult to read and the letters were jumbled up so the others probably could not have solved this. I got the sequence on my second try and started to study the recordings. To understand my current situation, I needed to understand the history of this world. So I began to study all the books and recordings to note down the major events.

This world is called Ariwarsle.

It is a world of swords and magic similar to the ones I have read about in novels and manga. There are 6 major races, that have their own countries, and some minor races. The 6 major races are Humans, Elves, Dragons, Beastmen, Witches, and Demons.

And like in all the stories, the demons were once at war with the other races. They wanted to conquer them and be the only major race with the others under them. The other races were obviously opposed to being slaves and so a Word War began. The humans, being the weakest, proposed an alliance to fight the demons. The Elves and Beastmen accepted while the Dragons refused. They did not want to fight together with inferior races. They considered themselves supreme to others and thought they could fight to own their own.

The Witches were neutral so they too refused the treaty. They helped anyone who offered them money, so the demons did not need to attack them. And the Witches also sided with no one because that way they could profit from both sides.

It was not that the demons didn’t want to conquer them. It was more like if the witches stopped their support to demons and only supported the other races, things could get ugly and the demons might lose the war even when they were stronger compared to the other races. So they wanted to conquer the others first and later the witches. Since the demons were superior in magic power and had better overall abilities, it was just a matter of time before they have the upper hand.

The witches understood the mentality of the demons and only gave them minimal support while giving maximum to the other races. They thought they would stop supporting the demon forces when they started to overwhelm the others and defeat them when enough profit was made. They provided the other races with potions, spell scrolls, gadgets, and many other things. On the other hand, the demons would get low-grade potions and scrolls. Hence a balance was kept for some time with the witches enjoying the riches.

6 years passed with this balanced state when suddenly, the demons started getting an upper hand. They had started gathering the other minor races such as Vampires, Werewolves, and some others to their side and bought better stuff from the witches in large quantities. When the witches noticed this, they got worried and stopped selling to others and joined the alliance. But it was too late and the demons were only getting stronger because their god kept giving them more and more power the more they slaughtered in his name. The witches did not predict the involvement of the minor races and made an error that would make the alliance lose.

When everyone had lost hope, a ray of light came. It was the hero-summing ritual offered to humans by the goddess of light, Alnera.

When the hero summing ritual was introduced, people were doubting the goddess but in 1 year, the hero managed to slay two generals with minimum casualties. People were thrilled and excited.

They finally had a way to end this war.

They finally had their hope, the Hero.

There were two main Goddesses the humans worshiped with some other small Gods. One was Alnera, Goddess of Light And Hope, and the other was Varelia, Goddess of Love and Purity.

Varelia had the biggest religion and Alnera was the second biggest. But when the war began, Alnera’s followers started to grow while Varelia’s started to diminish. The reason was that while Alnera was blessing them with combat abilities and giving them blessed weapons, Varelia could only offer them healing and comfort. The people needed more than just peace of mind, they needed ways to defeat the demons and Alnera gave them that way.

Alnera’s popularity made her religion the number 1 religion all over the world while Varelia was slowly forgotten and one day suddenly disappeared.

In another 5 years, the hero made it to the demon lord's castle. He killed his generals and finally the demon lord with such ease that people were left dumbfounded.

Now that everything was over, the other races wanted to annihilate the demon race completely so no such tragedy could occur again.

But the hero refused.

He instead proposed to make peace with them. All the races were opposed but when the goddess gave her support to the hero's decision, no objections came.

The daughter of the previous demon lord took her father's throne. She had no interest in conquering the others and always called her father stupid for even trying. She was known as the “Lazy Queen” but still kept the other demons in control. The others also followed her since she had the power to rule them and make them listen.

Peace was restored.

The world enjoyed 500 hundred years of peace and it was supposed to continue just like that.

But things changed when the hero summing ritual was performed incorrectly and a different hero came.

Instead of hope, she brought despair.

Instead of a righteous heart, she had a twisted one.

She was known thorough out the world as the “Insane Hero”.