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Chapter 236
The Creator's Mistake
Ferda thought at Ureas's scream-like sound.
'Olivia, is it?'
Ferda had never once thought of Olivia that way.
That was why he thought Olivia was the same.
Olivia, who received favor from all men, and received just as many filthy gazes.
Ëňúma . і̀d̆
For Ferda, the very idea of her loving someone was incomprehensible.
-Even that admired Grand Duke Golt! Alexander! And even me! That child wants her so desperately, so why don't you!
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Ureas continued speaking.
"....."
-If you created desire, it's only natural it ends up in the hands of those who follow that desire! How can the heavens be so indifferent!
His lamenting cry was brief, his eyes burning with hatred once more.
E nú.m а̄ .i d̂
-I'll kill you and Olivia will be mine. This castle will be mine too, and everything will be mine...!
Ferda was certain.
'He's been exposed to Trauma.'
Trauma brainwashes by turning a human's regret into joy, but Ferda knew what Gokma had said.
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He'd said the Trauma at the place Ferda visited was special.
If that specialty maximizes this persecutory delusions like this, it makes sense.
W̃ ӗb n̊ о̀v ē l̄ Еnu m̀ а
Ferda reached a conclusion.
Now that he's changed like this, he's no longer an element Olivia can control.
An uncontrollable tool has only one fate left.
'Eliminate him.'
At the same time, a question arose.
Can I even catch this bastard?
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Looking at that black body, one might think he's become a demon, but that burning body was unusual.
I've never heard of a demon like that.
Could it really be his true form, as he says?
If so, this is an unknown entity to Ferda, and there's no certainty of winning against the unknown.
'If worst comes to worst, I'll just use the last resort.'
Ferda is a mage.
Ĕ ňu m а̄
A mage always keeps a last resort that can turn the tables close to their heart.
That was when it happened.
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From behind Ferda, cold air surged.
But since it wasn't aimed at his body, he stayed still.
What flew from behind his back was an arrow tinged with silver.
-Kuaaaak!!
W е́ bńо̊ v е̄l̃ Е̂n ŭ m.а̃
He used a bow with such tension it pushed back the monster Ureas's body.
Ferda turned his head to see where the arrow came from.
There were knights bearing the Imperial Army's emblem, and in their center stood a commander tall and proud.
The man carrying a massive greatsword on his back was Oldin Rooster.
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He walks over.
And glancing at Ferda, he passes right by, offering Ureas a polite greeting.
Ӗ n̂ ū m̂ а̂
"Greetings, Prince Ureas."
-Rooster... You bastard, you knew me and still attacked!!
As Ureas vented his rage, the flames grew even fiercer.
He drove the nail in himself so he couldn't even make the excuse he mistook him for a demon.
"Grand Duke Golt asked me to relay these words."
Count Rooster said, drawing his greatsword.
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"No malice. Everything is for the Empire."
-Roooooster!!!
"Everyone, attack!"
And so the all-out assault on Ureas began.
Ferda, now out of the spotlight, quietly stepped back.
'He planned this from the start.'
Е ǹ u̇ m а .і̄ d̂
Attacking Heinkel Kingdom was a pretext to gather in one place.
They meant to eliminate Ureas amidst the chaos in the inner castle.
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When that would be was for them to decide.
He'd diverted Ureas's attention, but for some reason, a chill ran down his spine.
Common enemy or not, is this man really my ally?
Ferda kept that in mind and supported Count Rooster.
Ŵ ěb̆ ṅ о̄ v̆е l̂ Е̂n̆úmа̊
Either way, Ureas had to be eliminated right here.
* * *
The audience chamber, deepest in the inner castle.
"Everything is proceeding as intended."
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The Heinkel King spoke, watching the entire situation.
"Though King Hudret received Odograsado's protection and escaped... Rather, it's turned out even better. My revenge can be realized."
Ě n u mа̌_
"It is truly joyous that things went as intended."
Gokma said, lightly patting the Heinkel King's shoulder.
"I've done this much for you, so I'll trust you'll do work for me in return."
"Of course. Even if my revenge fails, I'll sacrifice myself for you first."
"Pleasant words to hear."
Gokma tried to leave.
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The Heinkel King belatedly threw a question.
"May I ask one thing?"
"Speak."
"Ureas... what is that man?"
Ureas Arken.
The target of the Heinkel King's revenge; the man he wanted to kill second only to Hudret.
E.n um ӑ..і d̈
Unlike Hudret, Gokma didn't leave him be.
"You said it yourself. That Ureas is a fine horse."
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"That's right."
"At first... I thought you'd make him a demon and use him."
Ureas's figure fighting Count Rooster's army vividly filled the Heinkel King's vision.
The more his rage grew, the more his form twisted.
E n um̂ a . і̊ d̃
The Heinkel King knew the process of how Ureas changed like this.
When he entered the inner castle, he'd only cast a light hallucination spell on him.
Ureas fell for the hallucination easily.
The induced location was Trauma.
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Linne said it was a room waiting with an Improved Trauma on a completely different dimension from the others.
Ureas was exposed to Trauma's hypnosis in that room.
Ẁе b ńоv е̌l̊ Е̄n̂ú m̂ӑ
That was all.
His form changed after that.
"Does that Trauma make them into demons?"
"I'll ask you. Do you think what Ureas became is a demon?"
The Heinkel King recalled what he'd felt and shook his head.
"It's not. It was a different grain from the demons made here."
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"Yes. As you guessed, it's not a demon."
"Then what on earth...?"
Gokma spoke.
"The Arken Empire holds a great secret. An empire that large having many secrets is only natural. One of them is a secret pact with dragons."
"A secret pact... you say?"
"All the monsters that tried to strike this empire died. By Silverwind's descendant and Storeus. You know that, right?"
Wе b̃.ňŏ v éĺ En̊ ŭ_m̆а̄
"Yes. It's a known story."
"Why would great dragons suddenly interfere in human affairs? Beings who rarely step forward. Making promises with humans who are more sensitive to time's flow than anyone would be nothing but a trivial amusement."
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Thinking calmly, it was certainly strange.
Silverwind are a clan uninterested in anything but Far North matters.
Storeus is capricious; him helping someone is as rare as a bolt from the blue.
One thing's certain: hiring them as fixers for any amount of money is impossible.
Е n_u ḿ.а . і̊ d̀_
"Because it's not a promise, but a chain."
"What kind of chain?"
Gokma answered with a smile.
"One must call it the Creator's mistake against his creation."
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"So that's related to Ureas's current appearance."
"Yes."
Е̇ ṅ ǔ mа̊. і d
Just listening, he felt something was seriously wrong.
The Heinkel King focused on Ureas's form.
"I see. I understand."
Then he could grasp what Gokma was saying.
At first he thought it was simply a parent-child relationship, but the more the twisting continued, the more the words Creator and creation fit.
"Isn't what's commonly used as Arken Empire propaganda called Golden Blood?"
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"That's right."
Golden Blood.
Gokma, uttering that word again, let out a laugh of disbelief.
"Truly ironic. The most noble blood flows in those at the highest positions, yet they don't know the most lowly, despised blood flows alongside it."
* * *
The army led by Count Rooster poured out attacks without hesitation to kill Ureas.
Еǹ u m̆ а̂.і̆ d
Ureas was unmistakably on the defensive.
Whenever he tried to move, his movement was blocked, and his limbs were severed by Count Rooster's greatsword again and again.
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-Aaaak! Aaaaak!!
Painful screams didn't cease.
-I'll kill you all! Every last one! I'll kill you all!!
A curse spat out unbroken by despair.
Wè b̆ nо̂v̀ ёĺ È n̈üm а
And amazingly, the more he spat that curse, the more Count Rooster's army was pushed back.
A heart stabbed over a thousand times.
Limbs severed dozens of times.
Cut and slashed, regenerating repeatedly, his form gradually drifted from human shape, molded into a specific form.
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"What the hell is that...?"
Archers and mages voiced their fear at the sight.
Е̄ num а̊
It was a fully understandable form.
Ferda too initially only thought he'd become one of the demons.
'A dragon...?'
The form changing like shedding skin resembled a dragon.
The 1/4 remaining face split open, becoming an elongated snout with lizard-like eyes.
Wings sprouted on his back, spilling bright red lava.
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'No. It's not...'
It certainly looks like a dragon, but it's not a dragon.
Ureas's form was crude, something dragons would call an insult.
'Sacrilege.'
Ferda latched onto that word.
Right, this is a form that sacrileges dragons.
Е̄ n u ḿа̇ . ī d.
Thinking that, all the puzzle pieces clicked, and Ferda could identify it.
'Amon.'
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Among the Seven Great Demons of Hell, the Demon of Fire and Destruction, Amon.
He despises dragons ruling the earth, and to sacrilege them, makes all his kin into forms similar to dragons.
A demon unforgivable by dragons, whether Guardian Dragons or Evil Dragons, precisely because he sacrileges them.
'Strange.'
W̌ ěb̂ n ó ṽ e̊ l̈ Е ň ú mа
Ferda wondered why he hadn't noticed faster.
He should've realized at that bizarre horn shape and when he spewed lava.
But there was a reason he couldn't.
'No sulfur smell.'
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One who uses Hell's magic would've been touched by a demon, and if touched by a demon, a faint sulfur scent would linger.
Yet Ureas had Amon's form without that scent.
Еň ū ṁа́ . і.d̄_
Like a freshly caught fish with no fishy smell, an alien feeling.
So that's it.
'But what's even stranger...'
Was Count Rooster.
Judging by his reaction, he seemed to have guessed Ureas would become like this someday.
Ferda himself didn't know, so how did Count Rooster know?
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'No, that bastard wouldn't know either.'
The one who knows all the circumstances is definitely Grand Duke Golt.
If I'm going to question this, I need to question Grand Duke Golt.
"Don't stop! The Empire is at your backs!"
Those who thought Ureas Prince might still be somewhere inside no longer thought so.
They just hoped that damn demon would die quickly.
Е̂n ǔ m а
Ureas's resistance grew fiercer.
After holy power corroded him repeatedly, a verdict was finally reached.
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Count Rooster drove a holy relic into Ureas's chest, putting an end to it.
The blazing flames gradually faded into embers, and his movements stiffened accordingly.
-Aah...
Ureas muttered as if heartbroken.
Ёn̈ u̇m̈a. ìd
-Everything should've been in these hands... these hands... Why...
He raised both arms, bone and muscle exposed, to the sky.
-Aah... Olivia...!
Those were Ureas's last words.
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Ureas's body turned to stone, then fragments, then sand dust.
Just like every demon's end.
Ѐṅû m̄.а́ .і̆d
Watching Ureas vanish like a nightmare, everyone caught their breath.
Ferda tried to catch his breath along with the soldiers.
That was when it happened.
Ferda instinctively felt a chill.
Count Rooster, who'd fought at the very front, slightly turned his head.
His eyes turned to Ferda.
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No, not Ferda—the mage beside him.
"Bind!"
At the command, the mage tried to bind Ferda's body with binding magic without a shred of hesitation.
But that mana didn't reach Ferda.
Since he never considered them allies to begin with, he easily slipped free.
An allied mage attacked Regent Ferda.
Еǹ_u m а̌ . їd̃
Without thinking, soldiers immediately aimed weapons at Ferda.
Ferda asked.
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"What did Grand Duke Golt say to tell me?"
"Unfortunately, he said nothing regarding Regent Ferda. Our mission was to eliminate the calamity disturbing the Empire, and that target was Ureas alone."
"So you confessed to instigating royal murder. Think you can return to the Empire?"
"Not a chance. We came here to bury our bones today. The Duke wished for victory, and that victory will end with our deaths."
Е̄ ǹŭ m̆ а̀
"Then why not just burn me? Why pick a fight with me?"
"Isn't the reason obvious?"
Count Rooster rested his greatsword's hilt on his shoulder and looked at Ferda.
It's palpable.
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He was businesslike when killing Ureas, but now he's emotional.
"Because you are the Duke's enemy."
Ẁ е b̌ñӧ v̌ е.l̇ Ӗ n̈u_mа
No sooner had the malice ended than new malice confronted him.
"My final loyalty ends with tearing out your throat, Regent."
Ferda calculated inwardly.
How can I survive and return?
Looking at eyes unwearied even after a fierce battle with Ureas, taking a few of them as companions to the afterlife seemed the only hope.
That was when.
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Kururung—.
The entire ground shook violently.
This place was a space created by the Heinkel King's magic.
The sudden quake meant this space was collapsing, that someone had reached the magic's source and removed it.
Space compresses.
But the anomaly wasn't only in space.
Е̇ ǹú m̀а
Something began wriggling from within Ureas's ash heap.
At the same time, a thick sulfur smell began to waft.
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"H-how!?"
"He definitely turned to ash...?"
Only the flame's color wasn't red, but a fluorescent green-based hue.
That ominously colored flame belongs to Gamigin.
Е̂ňůmа̂ . іd
A phrase flashed through the minds of those standing there.
When humans are at their most desperate, demons appear.
It was exactly Ureas's current situation.
Obsession with life and rage.
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Even as his flesh crumbled, he refused to let go, transcending death to manifest once more.
