Ple-Sen
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—Not exactly. To put it briefly, there was one country, not a hegemon like Welfern, but extremely developed compared to its neighbors, both in science and in magic, especially in the latter. It was a republic, although one specific, very cunning and deceitful person managed to gain power in the senate... This is actually why I don't like democracies; such power is a breeding ground for intrigues and corruption, which are practically impossible to overcome without an iron fist. This person initiated one grand project, and when enemies attacked the country, he got scared and decided to launch it without conducting final tests. His argument was: we built it for such cases, who knows what we haven't finished, I know better! Well, and that's it, you can guess what happened next. The leakage of infinite mana turned the city and a large area around it into a wasteland... But not the whole world, and not even the whole country, the problem is that all this had unlimited potential for growth, and what happened to my world centuries later, frankly, I don't know. I once had ambitions to stop that device, but I failed, unfortunately.
—Actually, I'm all for it, as soon as a suitable opportunity arises. I've already mentioned that the more people become interested in my homeland, the easier it will be to start its restoration. It's just a pity that I didn't pay enough attention to my native culture at the time. —added the knight, not wanting to distort someone else's setting with his fantasies any more than he already had.