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Chapter 320
Rize and Linne
Atop the intertwined streams of five water dragons stood a woman Ferda knew well.
That woman was the head of Iorga, who represented intellect and reason, so she always lived equipped with both restraint and dignity.
But the one thing Ferda felt upon meeting her was this.
She was someone who suppressed her true nature.
She had been pushed into the position of leader, a Spawn who had spent nearly her entire life repressed.
Е ňûmа̂. іd
They said the scariest moment was when the reins of a woman who had lived nearly her whole life in such a repressed environment began to loosen.
Ferda was witnessing that moment right now.
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Bloodlust in eyes sharpened to a blade, unlike her blunt horns.
Violent wrinkles and shadows.
As if even all light would be swallowed, only her surroundings seemed stained with a dark aura.
That bloodlust wasn't content with just striking Elder Cyprus—it was directed at Ferda too.
Е̊ nu mӑ
A sudden thought crossed his mind.
'Could it be Erica knows my identity too?'
Does she know I'm Godwin?
Ferda didn't lower his guard.
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Erica opened her mouth.
"Erdes."
Е ǹ ũm ӓ. î d̊
What came out wasn't an incantation, but a question.
But that question was more chilling than any incantation.
"Where did that girl go?"
That anger was directed at Erdes.
Erica's eyes had properly flipped.
If he answered even slightly strangely, Ferda would be blown away on the spot.
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"I have a prior engagement with Lucy Philiaz."
"You'd better hope that witch only kills her halfway. Because I'll kill the other half!"
She seemed considerably worked up.
Well, even anticipating the backlash, it was a dangerous attack that could kill you if handled wrong.
'Their dispositions were different from the start, after all.'
They use the same magic, but they're like water and oil.
Еṅ ù m̂а
Erdes who pushes through with force, and Erica who tries to handle things efficiently by utilizing it.
Yet the reason they cooperated was because they had a common goal.
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They'd been together bound by the trust of being Hero Expedition companions, but she'd betrayed that.
No wonder her eyes flipped.
"By the way, it looked like a dangerous situation, right?"
"Yes. That's correct."
Ê n̄ù m ӑ
"The source of that danger—."
Erica flinched.
Then she turned her head toward the direction the five dragons' forms had lunged, raised her hand, and deployed a barrier.
Kwaang!
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The five dragons' heads shattered against the stem and were absorbed.
Not stopping there, they tried to threaten Erica too.
Wе̊bň о́v̈е̂l̂ Е́nũ m̆ а̊
Erica swung her finger wide.
She applied powerful pressure to the water stream flowing from her fingertips, and the hard stem split along the stem's flow.
"These damn water lizard bastards!"
Cyprus's anger exploded.
Erica frowned at Cyprus's form.
"Elder Cyprus... you...!"
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A deep revulsion settled in, momentarily making her forget the long conflict and anger.
"...Have you even abandoned the proud pride of the high elves?"
She disliked elves.
She disliked them, but simultaneously respected them.
Because their haughty behavior was made of pride, and that pride was similar in nature to dragons.
That's why she was deeply enraged.
Ẽ ń ŭ m̃ă . і̊ ď
At how unbelievably ugly and corrupted they'd become with age, she couldn't believe she'd once thought them similar to her kind.
"I'm grateful you came that day! Thanks to that, I gained the realization to reach an even higher place!"
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Cyprus burst into laughter, feeling ecstasy at his own form.
Watching that, Erica opened her mouth again.
"Regent Ferda."
Erica said, suppressing her surging emotions.
Е̊ n u ṁ a
"Yes."
"Mr. Rize is heading to the uppermost section. He needs help."
Here, he wouldn't be of any help anyway.
Erica spared those words, considering Ferda.
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"I'll protect him."
"Thank you."
E.n ù mа̊
"You damn bastards! Did you think I'd just let you go!?"
It rang out clearly.
The sound of tentacles squirming.
At the same time, the sound of his reason gradually collapsing, turning into a monster.
A high elf who was the most pure existence, yet ironically could fall the most deeply.
Even the depth of that fall couldn't be gauged.
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If she didn't give it her all, she'd be the one taken down instead.
Erica opened all the water bottles at her waist.
As the pure water droplets contained in the bottles spread everywhere, the area swelled with water as if a great flood had occurred.
"I'll fight for you, Cyprus. At least I'll bring your death to a noble conclusion!"
Remembering and forgetting that ugly end alone.
That was the last mercy Erica could bestow.
W̃ ё b̊ṅ о̀ vе l Е̇ n ùm̃ ȧ
* * *
While Erica dealt with Elder Cyprus, Ferda climbed the stairs along the wall.
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'Damn it...'
He didn't have much mana so he had to move with his body, but his body was trash so he was out of breath after just a few steps.
Climbing up here on his own power in time looked impossible.
Even so, he had to move.
Е̂ n.ům а.
Then at least he could persuade Rize more to keep him from doing something stupid.
-Rize's subordinate!
-Lackey!
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Spirits circling around, spouting cheeky voices.
'World Tree's Nightmare.'
Е̂ n u m̊ ȧ. і̂ ḋ
Three spirit entities circling around Rize.
-Rize is scared.
-Go save him quick!
-Save him! Save him!
Ferda answered their frantic cries.
"With this body, I can't get to Mr. Rize quickly."
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When he appealed his condition, the spirits grumbled.
-Pathetic.
-Pathetic!
-Pathetic! Pathetic!
-But I'll help!
-Because he's Rize's subordinate!
Е n ü.m a .і̃d
The three spirit entities gathered in one place and a terrifying giant form appeared before Ferda.
The baby-like babbling voices vanished without a trace, and the heavy beast spoke thus.
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-Takes to Rize.
It grabbed Ferda in its large hand and climbed the wall swiftly.
Watching that form recreate itself several times, Ferda had to admit.
'A form that's nothing short of a true nightmare.'
Ěǹ u mā
Reaching the uppermost section took but a moment.
A familiar long corridor unfolded before his eyes, and there a frail woman was wrapping her arms around herself, trembling.
It was Rize.
"Mr. Rize."
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"Fe, Ferda Regent-nim?"
Rize's complexion had turned pale and he was sweating cold sweat.
Е̇ n u ṁ а
Ferda took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat.
Rize spoke with a face looks like he'd burst into tears.
"Mother is... screaming."
"Because she's dying."
"No. This is... the sound of a mother who lost her child."
Rize pointed to the end of the opposite corridor.
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"Be, beyond that... I have to go... but I can't."
It was the first time Ferda had seen Rize trembling with fear like this.
He was an elf who'd been flexible and solid enough to be everyone's support in the Far East exploration team, and Ferda had only seen that side of him.
"Are you going to give up here?"
Ferda asked him.
Not a coercion to stop, but a pure question.
Е n ů m̃ӑ
As if whatever he did was in his hands.
Rize heard those words, unfurled his tightly clenched hand, and pressed it against the wall.
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"I have to go."
No matter what result unfolds, he had to.
Ferda moved with him, and thus opened the closed door.
It was the High Elves' Grand Hall.
W ӗ b̊ ǹо̇ v̇е́ l Е̌ nu̇ ḿ а̃
Originally it was the most sacred area, a beautiful place where they'd all close their eyes, converse, and sing together.
But now even the traces of that had completely vanished.
A scene of slaughter splattering blood unfolded before them.
"Die, you despicable things! What! What eternal life!?"
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Singing hatred at that slaughter scene was one woman.
A Dark Elf, Linne.
Еnûṁа . і̃ ď
"Rather than living dirty and ugly like you lot, it's better if you all just die!"
She drove a dagger into the hearts of high elves who'd already lost the strength to resist, again and again.
The blood on that dagger would be intertwined with everyone's.
Even Rize, whose stomach had strengthened, dry-heaved at the sight.
A monster's corpse and a kin's corpse couldn't be the same.
"Geueueu..."
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A wind sound flowed from the mouth of the elf being mutilated.
Still alive.
Obsessed with that thought, Rize threw himself in.
"Stop it!!"
It was a truly foolish act.
Linne, eyes flipped, noticed Rize's figure and turned her head.
Ŵ ӗ b̆ nо vеl Еn̈u m̂ à
"Lightning Bolt."
Before he could become a fine target, Ferda disrupted Linne's movement with an attack spell.
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"Tch!"
Linne had no choice but to retreat, and Rize tried to draw a healing rune on the last remaining high elf's body to repair the wounds.
"Please...! Please!"
His desperate cry spread mournfully.
W е̂b̃ ṅ öv̆ е̂l Е.n̆umа̌
Ferda quietly stood before Linne.
"Is it my birthday today? Even the damn bastard who blew out my eyes came here."
Drunk on blood, Linne brushed back her hair.
'Another grudge, huh...'
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Cyprus was an arm.
And this woman was an eye.
Ẁ_ѐ b̀nо̊.ve l̈ Е̇ n̂ u m а̌
Feels like everything's coming back like karma.
"What are you doing here?"
"What am I doing? I'm fulfilling my life's wish."
She said, waving her dagger.
"I didn't like these damn noble bastards. My dream was to kill them all."
Ferda noticed that dream was similar in nature to someone he knew.
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He could understand a little why that woman had appeared here.
"...Lucy Philiaz helped you."
"Right. That woman helped. Our goals aligned."
The incident of Lucy Philiaz attacking the World Tree is famous.
But no one properly knew the inside story.
Only that the branches her lightning dwelled in became a means to use Reverse Heaven-defying Lightning, and that rarity was loved—that was all that mattered.
Е n ũ_ḿ а̇
It was a subtle feeling.
The woman who helped him when he was on the verge of dying by Erdes's hand.
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And the woman who helped bring about this tragedy.
Could those two women be the same person?
A witch is a being more cruel and capricious than benevolent.
By doing so, making women appear frightening was the Philiaz clan's cause.
Е̄ ńu m̌а̌ . ì d
The Big Sister who doesn't show emotions was the same.
"That woman loved a high elf. The high elves didn't accept it. They treated the one who abandoned all privileges and left as a traitor and sent assassins to kill her. They act all noble, but they're more cruel than anyone."
"Like you?"
"I'm small fry. Looking at it this way, maybe not?"
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Covered in blood from head to toe, she looked at her own hand and chuckled.
"Would've been nice to kill them in my right mind, but they were all already out of their minds, just empty shells. All I could do was vent."
Е̊ nu̇m а
Wondered if it was a cheap trick to lessen her guilt, but judging by the situation, it wasn't.
With the Great Chieftain subdued and no one to control them, it became an environment where corruption could run rampant.
Cyprus must have turned everyone into puppets in that gap.
"No..."
Rize's desperate sound rang mournfully.
He tried with all his might, but couldn't rekindle the already extinguished flame of life.
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Linne sneered at that sight.
"Too bad? Little lady. With this, the only high elves left are you and that old geezer?"
"Why..."
Rize asked her.
"Why are you doing this?"
"Why?"
Е̌n̊u ṁ ã. і̀.d̄
Linne answered simply.
"Because this is what I wanted. It's the reason I had to survive struggling ugly."
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"Was it worth it?"
"Yeah. Of course."
Catharsis from achieving her life's wish.
Ferda knew what that emotion was.
Wё b n̄ оv̆е̄ l̃ Еn úmа̇
Knowing what pleasure that woman felt, a revolting emotion seemed to rise from his chest.
"Such revenge only brings emptiness. You'll regret your actions for the rest of your life!"
"That damn preaching... you have no right to do it unless you've been me!"
"Right, how would that pure elf know your feelings?"
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Ferda held out his staff before her.
"If you've achieved your wish, then just die cleanly."
Ŵ е̌ b n о́ vel Е n̆ü m̆ á
Red lightning gathered on the staff.
-Rize's enemy! I'll scold them!
The World Tree's Nightmare also stepped forward, empathizing with Rize's emotions.
Linne was in an overwhelmingly disadvantageous situation.
"Unfortunately, my wish still remains."
Linne's eyes were unusual.
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She seemed to have a trump card.
Where is that sense of incongruity coming from?
Ferda's eyes quickly scanned Linne's attire.
What caught his eye was an empty medicine bottle.
He saw the trace remaining ever so faintly.
The color of that solution was purple.
Е́n_umа̄ . їd̈
The purple solution and the incongruity combined to produce a name of three syllables.
Killer Queen.
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How did that end up in that woman's hands?
"You clueless elf. I already knew you'd jump at that old man."
With a dreadful suspicion, Ferda looked at the high elf's corpse Rize had set down.
It wasn't a simple misunderstanding.
E nu m а́
From below the chest, the skin was turning purple.
That woman has malice.
The price of underestimating that malice was huge.
"Mr. Rize! Deploy a barrier!"
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Ferda shouted urgently.
Rize, tempered by expedition experience, quickly executed the command.
W̌.еb̀ nо̊ v е̄l̃ Е n̈ǔm̊ ã
"Bye, you fools."
Linne let a small spark fall to the floor.
The destabilized substances caused a chain reaction, becoming a giant bomb.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!
A huge explosion erupted from the floor, covering all directions.
"Kyaak!"
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Along with Rize's scream, the floor gave way.
The barrier couldn't even defy the flow of gravity.
His concentration broke, and Rize and Ferda's bodies began to fall below.
-Save Rize!
-Save subordinate too!
The World Tree's Nightmare fell toward the falling Rize and Ferda.
Ŵ éb n̊ о̂ v еl̄. Ӗ ň ū m̄а̂.
But the spirits reacted too late, saving both was impossible.
"Mr. Rize, a barrier to absorb the impact..."
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Impossible.
Rize had taken the recoil from blocking Killer Queen head-on and fainted.
By the time he woke up, the situation would already be over.
'Think, Ferda.'
Е̌num.а̂ . i.d́
Is there a way to break through this situation with the mana left?
'No.'
There's no way for both to survive safely.
But one person can live.
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'If I throw Mr. Rize's body toward the floor...'
The recoil would give Ferda a way to survive.
Е́ n̂u mа .і̂d
"Mr. Rize."
Ferda's shadow hand grabbed his body.
"Survive."
Ferda threw Rize's body diagonally upward.
The descending World Tree's Nightmare succeeded in catching Rize's body.
Ferda didn't look down at the floor.
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He thought to himself.
If I die, at least let me die completely.
Thus he arrived at the destination gravity led him to.
Kwajik.
* * *
Ferda called himself this.
Е ǹ ů mа̊
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A damn fool.
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You really did a damn foolish thing, Ferda Valdrova.
You too, in the end, do all sorts of things because you want to live.
Did you think if you threw diagonally to guide your body to the wall and slow the speed with shadow hands, you'd somehow survive?
If you'd used Rize, you wouldn't have ended up like this.
Е̌n u m̆á
Rize is just a stranger.
What did you gain by saving such a stranger?
Ferda answered.
"At least I'm still alive..."
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A completely unhelpful positive remark.
He couldn't know how he survived.
W̃е̄ b̃ ǹǒ v е l_ .Ӗ n u̇m̂ӑ
As if his body responded, pain surged.
As if telling him not to think useless thoughts.
Did he hurt his spine?
Strength won't enter his body.
Whatever it was, he needed to put his body back to normal first.
'I need to reassemble.'
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He deceives himself.
Shadows have no bones; they become a form he can shape at will.
A misaligned spine or two could be put back in place that way.
But even that wasn't easy.
Ferda didn't have much mana, and his head wasn't working enough to deceive himself into thinking it was shadow.
His painful body just screamed that it was wrecked.
Е̃n ú mа̊.і d̂
Even his vision blurs now.
Ferda instinctively sensed danger.
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Following his blurring vision, something was climbing up Ferda's face.
Like soft hands climbing up to cover his two eyes...
'No.'
I must not be consumed by that.
W̄ ӗ b_n̄о̇_v̀ еl Ѐn̊ũ m̂ а
His mind struggles to shake off those hands.
But that only delays being consumed, can't avoid it.
That was when.
Ferda felt a presence.
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Don't know if enemy or ally.
For Ferda, this situation wasn't welcome.
En̈_û m̀а
'I have to move.'
He mocked his own self-given command.
How does he expect me to move?
Ferda didn't have a body great enough to match his mental strength.
His useless body rejected Ferda's command, and soon the presence headed this way.
In Ferda's head, he could only roll scenarios.
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Rize who was above coming down again and finding him.
'That's the best case.'
He has magic to heal Ferda.
If he can just move, a way will open up somehow.
Second is meeting Jed and Garnet who should've infiltrated first.
'That's the second best.'
Е̃ ǹ um̌ a
They won't have recovery potions right now, but if he can just give orders, they'll put his spine back in place and help him run his circles.
And right now, that was the most likely scenario.
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Ferda believed they would come.
But life doesn't go as one wishes, and that's why it's interesting, they said.
"Wondered what happened with the ceiling suddenly collapsing..."
But Ferda couldn't have a more unfunny worst case.
W ē b̄ n o v̆ еl̄ Е n̈ u ḿ а̄
The one who appeared before his eyes was the worst case.
"Ferda Regent, I see."
It was Valdemar Golt.
