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Chapter 258
Uncontrollable Power
Ferda left the castle and descended to Hestia Village.
As the long summer ended and the season turned to autumn, the residents had gathered and were preparing the harvest festival.
Since they came from various places, they were preparing in a way that showed off their individual characteristics while also harmonizing together.
Ferda glanced at the scene as he passed by.
The place his feet moved to was the Adventurer's Guild.
Е̇n ü m̆ ӑ .і̆ ď
At the time of its completion, the Adventurer's Guild had been deserted, but now it was bustling with people.
Since it had been designed as a city for adventurers, it was visibly apparent that the city was on track.
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'There are plenty of riffraff too, but.......'
Even just from a sidelong glance, there were enough people who looked skilled, so that alone was sufficient.
Ferda moved his body into the guild.
The attention of the adventurers brimming with vigor instantly focused on Ferda.
Е̄ñu̇m а
"Who is that man, that all eyes are on him?
"Who else? Isn't he the man who's going to become the consort of the Red Dragon, Lady Valdrova?"
"A man that young?"
Ferda's achievements were known to many people.
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A man who developed the Far East and, while surrounded by colossal monsters, displayed resourcefulness to overcome the crisis.
Not only did he show exceptional talent recruitment and territory management as a lord, but he was also a jack-of-all-trades acknowledged for his talent as a mage and his cool-headedness as a commander.
Е̂n û m̊ā .і d̄
Judging by his track record alone, they were feats that a man in his mid-30s at the earliest would have accomplished.
Those who didn't know Ferda's age received no small shock from his youthful appearance.
However, all nobles' rumors contain exaggeration.
They thought the same of Ferda and wanted to view him through tinted glasses, but even that wasn't easy.
A weighty atmosphere that made it hard to believe he was a young man.
The moment they met his blue eyes, it was as if peering into a deep lake—all thoughts momentarily stopped.
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Ferda walked calmly to the receptionist amidst that atmosphere.
"I greet the Regent-nim. How may I assist you?"
"Is the Branch Manager inside?"
"Yes, the Branch Manager-nim is inside. She just returned from an expedition and is currently resting, ah, Regent-nim??"
Ferda left the receptionist behind and moved his feet.
It was an utterly high-handed action, but there was no way to stop Ferda.
Ӗ n umа
Thus, he arbitrarily went to the Branch Manager's office and knocked.
-I'm busy right now, so come back later.
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"It's Regent Ferda."
At that, the doorknob turned on its own and opened.
Ferda, seeing the inside, was momentarily at a loss for words.
The interior was a complete mess.
W̊е b̀ n̂ о vё l Еǹum а
Trash and treasures, items somewhere in between, were packed full, and within that pile was a blue-haired woman.
Stained adventurer's clothes with large glasses.
She was scratching her disheveled hair with her fingers, making it even more disordered.
Ferda strongly sensed Burnell's scent from that appearance.
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"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"......Did any usable items turn up?"
Ẁē b̀ n о v̌ е l̆ Ĕ n_ù ḿ ã
Since it was just the two of them, he asked using honorifics.
Erica looked up at the ceiling and let out a long sigh.
"It seems this time might be another bust, too."
"You say bust, but you're examining the items closely."
"The more likely it is a bust, the more closely I have to look. What if I miss something and fail to recognize its true worth? It'd eat at me. If there's a human with a better eye than me, it hurts my pride."
So the dignity of a dragon or whatever was put on the back burner.
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She chewed her lip and muttered.
"Aah, so stressful. I don't know why I voluntarily buy this suffering."
"Can't you just not do it?"
"But the thing is, I can't quit? Think about it."
"What do you mean?"
"Risking my one life to go into places people don't enter and painstakingly retrieving an item that turns out to be a precious thing not even in our knowledge!?"
Е̂ n̂ um ă. і̌d
"......."
"And among those, others ignore it saying 'this is nothing,' but I realize its true worth and it turns out to be an item worth dozens of times, no, hundreds of times more!?"
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"......."
"Do you know how thrilling it is to know all that information, casually go to someone else, ask 'Is this any good?' and watch their reaction!?"
"......Truly worthy of a child serving the Phase of Water and Magic."
"Don't be sarcastic! Even the Regent-nim, once you get a taste, won't be able to escape that devilish charm!"
Ẅ е b̌ n о́ v̀ е̃ l̂ Е̃ n̆u m̈а̌
Whatever the case.
Ferda sighed and spoke.
"I heard Alberto is active as an adventurer."
"Ah, that's right."
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The Armored Knight who was overwhelmingly active.
But starting from that adventure, he suddenly disappeared, so talent to replace him was needed.
Е̄ n̂ ú mӑ
Walking Fortress, Alberto.
He was the talent who could replace the one called the Armored Knight.
So Ferda had made him an offer.
After the war, could he fill the void as an adventurer?
He calmly accepted Ferda's offer.
Even while becoming a knight, his disposition for wandering life seemed to suit this work best.
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"Unfortunately, that person decided to act alone."
"What's the reason?"
"He said he doesn't like forming groups and taking orders. It's infuriating."
Erica making a displeased face.
"Can an adventurer not act unilaterally?"
Ferda recalled that was the Adventurer's Guild's initiation rule and asked her.
E n̂ um̆а . і̌ d̊
"That rule was made to increase adventurers' survival rates. Rookies with only spirit but no skill, who don't know their own measure and act recklessly then drop dead—that rule was established for those kids."
"Is Alberto strong enough to be an exception?"
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"Yes, because he has that level of skill."
"How do you determine that?"
"......."
She threw her gaze out the window and muttered resentfully.
Ẽ ǹ ŭ ḿ а
"If it were the Blue-Eyed Tower Master, Erica Iorga......."
She set the condition of beating the Branch Manager, but it seemed force didn't work.
"Well, good is good. He promised to honor a profit distribution that no ordinary Gold-grade adventurer would ever accept, so there was no more reason for us to stop him."
Originally, Alberto never demanded rewards even when beating demons while wandering, so it was a natural story.
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"I've just been blabbering such trivial stories. You didn't come here for this kind of talk, so shall we get to the main point?"
"Yes, I came for a different reason."
W̊е b n̄ о̀ v еl̂ Ѐ n̊ ü m а
Ferda quietly brought up the main topic.
"This is a matter where I seek the Tower Master's advice."
At those words, Erica's gaze became quite serious.
Erica took off her glasses and waved her hand toward the door.
Then a blue membrane formed, blocking all sound and presence.
She sat before Ferda, appearing not as Platinum Adventurer Eri, but as the Blue-Eyed Tower Master, Erica Iorga.
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"What matter could require my help, Regent-nim?"
"Did you not say you would research my mana before?"
"Yes, that's right."
There was a time she said she'd find out how the mana power that calmed Valdrova in the Blue Eyes worked.
"Until recently, there were no notable results."
"You mean it's just ordinary mana?"
Е̌.n ü m̄ а̃ .і̀d
"Yes, just...... it feels like the ordinary mana of someone possessing a Red Circle."
"Are you certain?"
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Ferda asked again.
For Erica, it was inevitably unpleasant.
But on the other hand, the fact that Ferda asked so rudely seemed to indicate the seriousness of his visit.
"Just what happened?"
W е̊ ḃn̈о v ė_ĺ Е̊ n ŭ m а̌
"It happened while recruiting a woman named Gae Bolg......."
Ferda explained the events of that day.
Gae Bolg, who tried to blow away the entire area.
Ferda, who couldn't stop her.
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The whispering heard at that moment.
Action beyond control.
Е̇nu̇ m̃а̄. ĩ d
And
"Completely swallowed by shadows...... disappeared?"
"Yes."
"Regent-nim, you already hide many means through shadows, don't you? Is it not possible that the shadows swallowed even that shock?"
"It's possible to hide objects, but making something as if it never happened is impossible. Especially if it was an explosion of that magnitude, I would have been critically injured from the shock."
It was merely storing inside shadows, not a power that could offset shock.
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Like swallowing a bomb doesn't extinguish the bomb.
"Something that completely erases existence...... Still, deciding based on just that one incident seems a bit hasty, doesn't it?"
If it were only that one incident, it would have been just as Erica said—making a fuss over nothing.
"Of course, that's not the only thing."
The voice whispered one more time.
Ureas in Amon's form, and the Heinkel King consumed by Gamigin.
Е n uma.і d̈
Ferda had his consciousness stolen by the voice right before death.
And when he returned to normal again,
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"So you're saying even those two's corpses completely disappeared?"
"Yes."
"......."
An expression that couldn't easily believe it.
W e̊ b̊n̊ о̂v̇ӗl Ën ù mӓ
But for Erica, who knew the Arken Empire's situation, she had no choice but to believe his words.
The Heinkel King used Gamigin's magic, so he could be said to have been dragged to Hell.
But Ureas, of the imperial bloodline, would have attached tracking magic to recover his corpse when going to the battlefield.
Even if he disappeared to another dimension, that magic could track to the end.
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In a state where such magic was used, Ureas was reported to have been literally erased.
If that was related to Ferda's magic.......
Ẁ еb̈n ov́èĺ Е num_а̀
'Impossible.'
If anyone else said it, she would have dismissed it as nonsense.
But it was Ferda, no one else.
Knowing Ferda wasn't a person to fabricate nothing, Erica couldn't dare ignore it.
Since he came with such a serious face, she had the obligation to listen to his words.
"In short, you're saying the Regent-nim has something stronger than his own power?"
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"Yes."
"It seemed like another ego, and like it controls the body regardless of the Regent-nim's will......."
"That's correct."
"If possible, I'd like to see with my own two eyes...... but that's difficult, right?"
"......Yes."
Even Erica, with her strong empirical tendencies, hesitated.
Ѐ ṅŭm а .і̄ d
If he overwhelmingly defeated the Heinkel King's magic power consumed by Gamigin, Erica couldn't control and restrain Ferda with her power alone.
"There are two circles inside the body, and it feels like those circles have egos...... it's suspicious enough to call it mental fragmentation symptoms, what does the Regent-nim think?"
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The higher the Red Circle goes, the more emotions intensify, so the mind isn't whole either.
"That may be so."
The voice resembling his mother.
That voice might be Ferda's remembered past itself.
W е̄b̊ n о̀vе l̆. Е n u m̈ӑ
An ugly monster that only craved power.
Ferda was such a monster.
"But...... even calling it mental fragmentation, it can't explain the Regent-nim's power rising by leaps and bounds."
"......."
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"It's really frustrating. Like someone made a wish."
So sometimes the unexplainable secrets of magic are dismissed with such words.
Е̄ n̄û ma
That someone must have made a wish.
Wish.
A realm only reachable by humans upon reaching the 9th Circle.
High Elves who lived thousands of years couldn't reach it, let alone dragons.
'Wish.......'
Ferda had used that Wish before.
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He killed Valdrova and reached the 9th Circle,
And wished those things would disappear from this place.
And regardless of his will, magic manifested, and the wish was granted.
'Is that what a Wish is?'
Ferda didn't know specifically.
Completely erasing that bomb,
Ŵ е b̆ň o v ёl̂ Е̄ ń_u m̊ ǎ
Annihilating those two demons,
And returning by turning back time like this,
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Even for Ferda who had used it before, it was an unknown realm.
Is that why?
Ferda conceives a possibility.
If, at the point of returning to the past, even Ferda's Wish came along together.......
E nŭ m̆ а
"So what does the Regent-nim want to do with that power?"
What should he do with this power?
He pondered and answered.
"If possible, I want to remove it."
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"Remove......."
Erica was surprised by Ferda's choice.
W е̇ bñ о̀ v̌ е̌ľ Е̄ n̈ ům̈ а̃
She had met many mages, and she herself was essentially a mage.
The deeper the magic, the stronger the obsession.
If there's uncontrollable power, nine out of ten seek a way to control it.
There was no case of giving up so quickly like Ferda.
"Is there really a need to remove that power?"
As a mage, she thought his choice was very rash.
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"It could become burning down the house to catch a flea."
It wasn't simply because Erica was greedy that she said that.
To remove the uncontrollable magic Ferda spoke of, a complex process is needed.
"Unnatural processes like cognitive impairment, distortion, and memory aversion formation can break a human, and the effect isn't certain either."
"I know."
"Especially since the Regent-nim is also a Red Circle owner. As long as emotion is the power source, that removal won't be complete. If you want complete removal, you'll eventually have to touch the Red Circle."
Еňu mа̂.. і̇ d
"......."
"Does the Regent-nim have the resolve to give up the path of a mage as well?"
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To a mage who loses magic power, it's the same as death.
Losing magic power wasn't scary.
'But what constitutes my Red Circle is.......'
Valdrova, herself.
Ė n ü m̀а́
Removing the Red Circle means removing the emotion of loving Valdrova.
For everyone to be safe, the conclusion ultimately becomes that he must forget her.
In the end, it seemed Erica had no clever solution either.
"So why don't we try grasping it first?"
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"I'd like to, but...... even the High Elf Elder nearly died trying to grasp my mana."
The Elder connected to the World Tree nearly died approaching Ferda's source, so naturally it was impossible for Erica alone.
W ёbn̄о̊ v ѐ ĺ Еn ù mа
"It won't be as dangerous as you think."
"How can you be so sure?"
"I happened to find a few books for Red Circle owners."
She suggested, rummaging through the pile of spoils Erica had retrieved.
"The reason the Elder fell critically ill was probably because he tried to approach Ferda-ssi's source. Right?"
"......That's correct."
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"It was dangerous because he tried to accept it whole. But if that information is processed into form and shown, it'll be several layers safer. That's what Eastern people call......."
She pulled out a book and showed it to Ferda.
"Deep Projection Technique, apparently."
