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Chapter 324
Deformed Child (Illustration)
-Krrrr.......
The red-eyed wolf, whether it was Yubel or Emilia, bared its teeth and lunged at Gokma again.
"A gaze that scatters all mana within its line of sight."
Gokma also knew of the existence of the Red-Eyed Tribe.
"It seems even the Holy Nation's work isn't perfect."
Ŵ ёb.n õ v̌ѐ l En̆ ů m̆ a
Despite being cornered, Gokma couldn't contain his interest.
Gokma was a demon, but also a mage.
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In an environment where a mage cannot use magic, they are overwhelmingly disadvantaged.
He shouldn't be able to escape, so how could he be so leisurely?
In reality, most of Gokma's techniques were being blocked in that fight.
He occasionally unleashed attacks that escaped that gaze, but they didn't lead to fatal wounds that would kill in one blow.
Ë num̊a. ĩd́
A dishonest fight with honesty.
An honest fight soon led to cruelty.
A bloodbath of cutting each other's flesh and taking blood.
It was a race to stab each other's chests with knives while their hands were bound, killing the other first.
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"As expected...... it's too much for me."
Gokma's regenerative power had noticeably decreased.
Ӗ n um̈ a
Now wounds were beginning to form.
Now Yubel had the advantage.
"Now 'you' need to help out a bit."
Gokma pressed his hands together reverently.
At that moment, the situation flipped once more.
-Keureuk!?
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Something like chains erupted from the wolf's neck and pinned it to the floor.
Yubel, who had been moving relentlessly as the Beast of Destruction, couldn't budge an inch.
She had been subdued by Gokma's technique.
'The Red-Eyed Tribe's eyes don't work.'
The Red-Eyed Tribe's eyes are a power that disintegrates mana before it can manifest.
The reason ordinary mages can't exert power against the Red-Eyed Tribe is because they must go through that process.
Ën̄ ù m̌ а .і̃ ď
The ability binding her wasn't mere magic.
It was probably divine power.
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'Divine Authority.......'
That name was the most fitting power.
-Keureuk! Keureuk!!
Unable to move, the floor pierced by the chains turned black.
E.n̆ u ḿӑ . і̆ d̃
New chains extended from the floor, piercing through Yubel's body and tightening.
Tuduk!
-Kuraaak!
The sound of bones breaking rang out, interfering with Yubel's regeneration.
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The situation tried to flip in Gokma's favor.
It was only natural that Ferda had no way to help.
Ёn ŭm̄ а̀ . íd
But while continuing to watch that darkness, he felt a sense of déjà vu.
'That darkness...... it's not unfamiliar.'
He felt that darkness was similar to what constituted him.
Following his instinct, he beckoned toward it.
Then, surprisingly, the chains that had been disabling Yubel unraveled one by one.
As if they had been part of Ferda, he untied them and gave Yubel freedom.
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-Keureuk...... eureuk.......
The wolf's form, shabby with most of its scales gone.
She stood up limping and glared at the enemy.
'At her limit, yet her hostility remains.'
Yubel was at her limit.
She unsparingly used desperate measures like breaking her own neck and crushing her own flesh, but if she were whole, that would be excessive greed.
Ѐ n̊_u̇ m̈а́.іd̂
"Truly...... this becomes troublesome."
Gokma was in a similar state.
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He thought he'd suppressed her with Divine Authority, but Ferda interfered with that, so now he had no clever moves either.
"Shall we see the end? Regent?"
He asked that.
Of course, there was nothing Ferda could do.
Е̇ǹ um а. і́.d
Fighting him was entirely Yubel's role.
Even with her neck broken and flesh torn away, she didn't lose her wildness, focusing only on biting the enemy.
An act treating her own body as nothing but a consumable.
'If she abandons her life, she can kill him.'
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As Angrem said, she can catch Gokma.
Ferda agreed with those words too.
Ėnu̇m̃а́ . і̇d̆
That's why he answered.
"Let's stop."
-Keureuk?
Not only Yubel but Gokma too showed surprise at Ferda's decision.
"Here?"
"Yeah. Since we could both die, I'm saying let's stop now."
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"......This is wartime, Regent. Will you ruin things because of emotion?"
"Do you want to die that badly?"
It was a funny thing.
He acted like a human who would use any means to kill himself, but when it came time to sacrifice, he wasn't doing so.
"I hope you have no regrets about that decision."
Gokma withdrew politely.
W̌ eb̀ǹ õ v̈ е́ l Е̄nǔ m а̄
Even Yubel had a face that couldn't understand that decision.
Yubel, who had been in beast form, returned to a woman's form and knelt before Ferda.
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"Sak! Sak!"
She screams to kill that thing.
But he couldn't grant that woman's wish.
"I promised my knight."
Е̌ n ù ḿ а.і̂ d̀
"......."
"That I'd help find you."
Valdemar was used like a donkey for the empire his whole life.
"If I consume you even knowing you're that person, I'd be no different from the things I loathed."
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"......."
Yubel's eyes were sorrowful.
Ê n̈ ū m̆а̇
She simply didn't understand the fact that she wasn't consumed.
But as if respecting that heart too, she carefully rubbed her cheek against Ferda's hand.
Kugugung!
The World Tree rings out greatly once more.
The light that had held blue light gradually began to turn red.
An alien color was always said to be a sign of anxiety.
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Ferda could know.
Rize failed.
And the end of the war is approaching.
* * *
Meanwhile, Gae Bolg and Penelope.
Buwaaaang!!
E n û m̌ â
"Uhyeoooot!"
"Kkieeek!"
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The engine sound of the runaway car where maniacal laughter and screams rang out simultaneously.
Kwa-gwang!
Bomb sounds ringing out everywhere.
With purple light, smoke erupted everywhere.
Е̌.n̄ uḿа
It was Echidna's dolls being destroyed and exploding.
"That crazy woman's stuff performs well. It suits mine perfectly."
Originally, they were dolls made as smoke screens to shake off demons.
But as the World Tree's roots tried to track and eliminate everything that moved, they succeeded in dispersing the World Tree's mind as well.
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Echidna's dolls had done more than enough with just that.
"Then shall we go pick them up now?"
Е ń u m ȧ. і.d̄
As if he'd enjoyed himself thoroughly, he moved the runaway mana automobile toward the World Tree.
The infiltrated inside was filled with corpses and traces of battle, but they moved as if it had nothing to do with them.
Like that, they arrived at the promised location where they were to bring Garnet and Jed. The two of them.
"Huh? Where'd they go?"
Gae Bolg looked around, but there wasn't a trace of those two.
"Ah, maybe they haven't come yet?"
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"Hmm......."
One of Gae Bolg's eyebrows shot up.
With a displeased face, he stared at that spot silently.
It was no different from asking to be killed, stopping even briefly when they should be moving frantically.
"Hey, Gae Bolg-ssi?"
"......."
Wёb̂ n̈о v̂_ёl̃ Ë ň ú m̂а̃
"It seems they don't intend to come out, but shouldn't we get going soon?"
Penelope asked with a servile expression.
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She only wanted to escape this place even a second sooner.
'Those two are a bit worrying, but that's only within the bounds of my safety!'
My own nose is three feet long (I have my own problems).
All Penelope did was sit there, but she felt like she'd skipped 30 years of time.
Е n̂ũm а
"Hmm......!"
A voice full of conviction rose from Gae Bolg's throat.
"Good!"
It was definitely not good for Penelope.
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"Good means we're going back now, right?"
"......."
E n̂ u m̃а̄ . і̀ ď
"......We're going back, right?"
What returned was maniacal laughter and an engine sound that could burst eardrums.
Buuuung!!
"Operation SSS!"
Gae Bolg, gripping the steering wheel tightly, accelerated.
"Doing whatever the hell I want!!"
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The place Gae Bolg headed was neither the exit nor the entrance.
"I hate it! I don't want to go! I don't want to go anymooore!!!"
Along with Penelope's strange scream, they swept through the World Tree once more.
* * *
The upper floors inside the World Tree.
A place permitted only to High Elves.
Е́ǹu må_
Right now, Linne was in the assembly hall that had become a mess with the floor caved in.
Linne was a High Elf.
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And she was also the High Elf who hated High Elves the most.
She knew that they, who lived brainwashing others that they were the most pure and noble existences, actually harbored ugly desires.
'Eternal life.'
No one wants death.
Е̌ ṅ ũ mа̄ . і̌ d̂
The long-lived races who had lived tiresomely were the same.
Whether they lived a few hundred years or lost their teeth, the wish to live forever was endless.
So they couldn't discard their souls outside and trapped them in the World Tree, rolling their descendants for reincarnation.
Their lives were never short.
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They lived several times longer than humans, experienced many more seasonal changes, and the world changed.
Elves try not to change.
Е n ú ḿ а
Among them, High Elves were the most severe.
For them, there were no exceptions, and being different meant heresy.
Linne was a woman straddling the fence dividing heresy and tradition.
She could cut and connect the High Elves' unique ability to forcibly link minds at will.
As the ability to sustain connections and the innovation that change must be accepted emerged, Linne took on the role of receiving and processing outside information.
Despite holding an important role, she was a lowly existence among High Elves.
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Because she could cut mental connections and was contaminated by outside information.
Linne didn't care.
'In my eyes, you guys were stupid too.'
Not frogs in a well, but frogs in a pot.
Stupid bastards just staying in the water without even knowing they're slowly being cooked.
Linne studied pharmacology and alchemy, spending her time exploring magics rooted in the world.
Ŵ е́b ñо̃ v̂ е̃ l Е̂ n̆ů m̄ ȧ
One day, such a Linne became pregnant.
Everything flipped upside down.
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The High Elves asked whose child it was, but Linne thoroughly hid the father's identity.
They persistently pried, but each time Linne protected her secret by not connecting minds, and finally gave birth.
The end of childbirth became kindling that heightened new conflict.
Despite being a High Elf's child, the child couldn't properly inherit the mind link.
Е n̈ ù m̂ ӓ. і d
The High Elves poured out personal attacks and criticism.
-Rolling around like a whore with noble blood!
-A worm-like bitch finally gave birth to a mongrel!
-Oh, Mother. Please forgive our sins.
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Linne hid it to the end.
But as long as dissatisfaction remained, she couldn't be free.
Е́n u ṁ_а
Eventually, someone drew a sword.
Deciding all disputes among High Elves was one person's role.
And he chose.
He chose to tear out one mother's heart for the community.
'Great Chieftain.......'
The man who killed my child.
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That's why the thirst in Linne's heart hadn't yet subsided.
'I'll definitely kill you.'
Linne had lived on that anger alone.
She used all the elves she led as nothing but shields and stepping stones, and completely erased the edges of her conscience from this world.
Barely holding her dizzy mind from the shockwave, she climbed the stairs.
Now, past these stairs was the Great Chieftain.
Eñ u̇ ḿa
She would kill him and end it.
"Sto...... p!"
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A frail voice came up through the passage.
What was visible there was an incredibly beautiful girl.
Even with blood flowing on her head, she held her head high and looked straight at Linne.
-Rize, stop.
Еnu mä
-Rize, you mustn't move.
As if letting the spirits' chatter pass by her ears, she stepped onto the spiral staircase.
"Such a persistent brat......."
But there was no leisure to devote mind and time to that girl.
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Even now, she would quickly kill that man and destroy this World Tree.
That's why Linne leaned on the wall and climbed the stairs with difficulty.
Е̃n û ma
Kung!!
But at the Tower's sudden ringing, Linne misstepped.
"This fuck......!"
She struggled to find her balance but instead lost her center more and her body tilted outside the stairs.
'No......!'
She hoped her last outstretched hand could grab the stairs.
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But that too betrayed her expectations as if it were nothing.
As if all her karma was guiding her into the abyss.
'I want to live.'
I don't want to die here.
There's still something I must do.
At the end of such ugly, ugly struggling, gravity disappeared.
W̊ е̂_b ñоv̀е̊l̄ Е̌ṅũ m å
Someone had grabbed her arm.
Not something she caught herself, but an unmistakable someone's salvation.
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"Eut...... eueut......!"
The one who gave that salvation was the girl who had been chasing her.
"Are you...... alright?"
She asked that.
Е́n u_m а .і̊ď
"You......."
Linne couldn't bear it at that action and ended up asking.
"Are you a retard?"
"Eut......."
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She didn't answer.
The look in her eyes desperately trying to pull her up irritated Linne.
Е num а̄.і d
"Even after seeing what I did, knowing what I said, you grabbed me?"
"Of course......!"
"You do a foolish thing like saving a bastard like that?! You've really gone beyond just being stupid!"
"That's because!"
She poured out the voice tied in her heart.
"Because I'm angry at you!"
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A voice soaked in resentment burst out.
"I know how you lived. What you thought, what emotions you had, I know it all!"
"Why can't you tell your emotions to someone else?!"
Rize shouted with every ounce of strength.
"So you mustn't die! You......! You have to live."
What an absurd sound?
Ėn ŭ m a .і̂d̂
But that appeal made one think she truly felt those emotions.
That can't be.
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This girl was a kid she was seeing for the first time today.
"How much do you know about me to say that?!"
"I saw the entire journal you wrote!"
Journal.
W e b̃nо̆vѐ l̈ Е̂n̊u m̆ȧ
At those words, Linne's eyes grew as big as the moon.
"You...... saw my journal?"
"Yes! The emotions you felt while writing! The experiences! I know them all!"
The High Elves' language is a personal language. Even elders can't see it; only the Great Chieftain can view it—it was the High Elves' language with perfect security.
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Linne naturally thought the Great Chieftain had translated that journal.
But for another High Elf to see her journal.
É n̆u m a
Possibilities flash through Linne's mind.
What makes that possible is oneself.
Or the closest blood relative to oneself.
'Don't tell me.......'
She tried to deny her thought.
But Rize's scream wouldn't even allow that denial.
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"So live! Please live! And atone for those who've died!"
Looking at the girl spouting such foolish words, Linne opened her mouth with difficulty.
"You...... are you a boy?"
"Yes, what......? No, I'm obviously a boy!"
"That can't be......."
Linne muttered very quietly so Rize couldn't hear.
Е̌ ṅūm̆а
Linne, who had the constitution to cut mental connections.
The cursed deformed child made that way.
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She suddenly recalled what the childhood of the person she loved was like.
"That can't be......."
The deformed child she believed had been disposed of was right before her eyes now.
