Monthly Eclage

It seems like there are too many types of items. Let's try again after reducing the number of types.

It seems like my possessions are too heavy. Let's try again after lightening the load.

I see a plain-looking journal. It seems to deal with third-rate gossip stories.

---Eclage Monthly---

(Shocking! Birth of Eclage Special)

This must be the one that Clever talked about. Extreme articles are faded out.

This isn't a history document. It's just a third-rate magazine. Let's look through the table of contents.

Doesn't seem very interesting.

Chapter 1. Land of Despair

Is there a problem in Yggdrasil? A smell of death began to fill the peaceful land.

Polluted gardens, dried lands, attack of various mutant life forms. A huge change is found in Laphine's place of life.

(I flip through various faded out pages.)

Laphine's leaders did not doubt that this is the best place for Yggdrasil's guardian. Because of the Elder Assemblly's pressure to establish at such a barren land, it is now difficult to control Laphine citizens.

Cursed times passed with many families and friends suffering through multiple diseases and attacks by indigenous life forms.

(The rest of it is faded out significantly, so it is hard to tell.)

Chapter 2. Elder Assembly's Scheme

Elder Assembly continued to blame the Laphine leaders for ongoing failures.

Upon hearing that the land has been selected incorrectly, they internally decided to move the capital to the southern areas where the area is flourishing with forests.

(I flip a ripped page.)

The scouts sent south found the shocking truth. The forests in the south could not be close to being safe. 90% of the scouts sent were eliminated by an unknown monstrous figure.

However, the Elder Assembly insisted that the area was our destiny and continued to delegate scouting teams. It was a ridiculous decision.

As for the leaders, they needed something drastic to oppose Elder Assembly's ridiculous demands. The elders were just too old and ambitious to think practically.

At this point, two Donas, Etran and Robert, suggested large-scale restorative efforts to the leaders. These were individuals of greatest restorative abilities and authority among the Laphines.

The leaders began to listen to the strategies suggested by the experts of nature restoration who lived out the principles of restoration all their lives.

The suggestions made by the two Dona were crystal clear. It was to create an enormous home tree to directly fellowship with Yggdrasil and to restore the land all at once.

As expected, Elder Assembly completely undermines their suggestion. In order to create home tree, it was necessary to drain the life force from the land.

As such, creating a home tree to restore the land could be an obstacle instead. The Elder Assembly argued that the process would be impossible.

And they continued to say that for everyone to live, it would be better to move to the south than to restore the barren land. That was their ploy to begin with.

(Pages were ripped after this.)

(There are many ink stains that seem to purposely block out the writing here.)

If it is unfolded carefully, it may reveal the page.

There is a page of reflections by Laphine readers. It might be that they were anonymous, but the comments were written aggressively.

RE:Who ruined this part here? This is the only copy left!! I love this story.

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RE-RE:: I have another copy that I made. If you want it, let me know.

RE:Hey guys, do you know this? The Elder Assembly at first completely opposed the building of home tree. But it says in the history books that they're the ones that came up with the idea. Isn't that weird? Who's right?

RE:If you are a Laphine with a wing span greater than 180cm, I'll consider dating you.

<- Anais likes this.

RE-RE:: How did you come up with that?

RE:I heard this from my father, but to fight against Elder Assembly's decisions, Etran and Robert argued one another in front of the elders on purpose. Is that true?

RE-RE:: I heard that too. To make sure they seem authentic, they started arguing each other a bit by bit from a few days before the meeting. That's the most controversial topic among historians.

RE:There are more idiots that believe this stuff. Hey kids, Eclage Monthly is a third-rate gossip magazine. Don't confuse it with history.

RE-RE:: Oh I see. Thank you so much for your wisdom. I guess if you leave comments like that on a third-rate magazine, you just look incredibly smart.

RE:I'll be running with the high profile photo of Mayor Jun in undies. I'll give it to the first one to claim it!

RE-RE:: I'll take the photo. I'll put you on our editorial staff.

(You've gathered information about the two Donas, Etran and Robert. Take a note of this and ask Clever about it)

The book must be damaged. I can't really open it.