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Chapter 356
Agape
"I'll give you the first move."
Iorga spoke thus, and Ferda began the game by moving a pawn.
The game with Iorga was close to a battle of wills.
When he moved a piece, Iorga immediately moved a piece, trying to crush Ferda's spirit.
But that much wasn't enough to break Ferda's spirit.
Ě n üm̈а. і̃ ḋ
Ferda continued his strategy.
"Is it my victory?"
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However, before long, only ten moves remained until checkmate.
Ferda signaled surrender by toppling his king.
"Let's do it again."
The pieces were realigned and Ferda moved once more.
W̊еb̈n̈ о̂ vе̂_l̀ Е nû m ӓ
"Valdrova once told me she wanted to learn a game. It was chess."
"I've heard. You mentioned it when you played chess."
"Was her skill terrible? Still?"
"She beat me."
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"That girl?"
Iorga lifted his eyes and looked at Ferda.
É nù m а̃ .і̇_d̀
No matter how Ferda had lost to him, he wasn't without skill.
"That's a lie."
"Cheeky."
Iorga lowered his eyes again.
"Right, there's no way she could've won. She said she wanted to learn the game, but she had zero interest in games."
"........"
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"Obviously. She just needed an excuse to be with me. She always laughed like a fool but she was terribly lonely. The sight of her trying to empathize through things she had no interest in was just..."
That grumbling felt strangely familiar for some reason.
It was the resonance felt in the conversation they'd shared when Erica once tried to make medicine for Valdrova.
To think she'd badmouthed her for a full ten minutes in that voice.
He felt like he was already losing his mind.
Iorga's wistful gaze turned to the chessboard.
Wе̇b̄n о́v̈ ѐl̀_ _E n̊úm̌ а̇
Unlike that appearance of being soaked in memories, his skill was sharp.
"Checkmate in 20 moves. You accept?"
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Ferda did not accept.
This time he thought a bit and played to the end.
But the future of checkmate didn't change.
"It turned into checkmate in 5 moves."
Еn̂ům̀а̀
There was only a future of dying even faster due to bad moves.
Ferda acknowledged defeat once more.
Two games had been played during this conversation.
What he felt in that was a gap as large as a Magic Tower.
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"Now let's play the last game. I'm tired of going easy on you in the bets too."
"...Understood."
Ё num.а .і́d
Ferda quietly nodded.
At Iorga's gesture, the chessboard realigned again.
'I must win.'
This game was a matter of the Far East's survival or extinction.
Ferda drew out every possible move his head could conceive.
Time to make one move: 3 minutes.
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Iorga's moves took 1 second at most.
Infinitely branching possibilities narrowed in an instant.
Ferda's breath was the same.
'I lose.'
The future of defeat was an undeniable truth.
This woman saw through every move and would respond.
Ӗ n̄ u ḿа.
So he couldn't even set foot forward.
The imminent checkmate would sneer at Ferda.
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"There doesn't seem to be a need to continue."
Iorga spoke thus.
Though Iorga was overwhelmingly advantageous, he cleared the board as is.
"Shall we play a different game this time?"
Ẁеb ň о̊ veĺ Е̊n̄ u̇m а
"What game is it?"
"A simple game. Let's play Valdrova's game."
Though he called it Valdrova's game, all she did was realign the chessboard.
"You start first."
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Ferda's moves began again.
"Do you know what game Valdrova wanted?"
Ë ñ u̇m а . ǐd
Iorga's pawn advances.
"That girl is consistent. She doesn't know where she is at all."
Ferda's knight moves.
This time, instead of standardized moves, a king appeared in the pawn's position.
'What the hell is that move?'
Ferda couldn't understand that action.
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Different from Iorga's game that had blocked him with sharp moves until now.
"She just keeps charging forward looking only ahead."
Just as he said.
This isn't Iorga's game.
The king pushes past the pawn and advances.
"That was Valdrova."
Е̃ n um̊ а . іd
The king kept moving.
The contents of that chessboard were strange.
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The moves Iorga threw were self-destructive moves.
Even though the moment of check was certain, Iorga didn't retreat.
"The most foolish vanguard."
Iorga's king advanced once more.
Ẃеb̊ n̈ оv̇ӗ ľ Е ñ u mа̇.
At that moment, everything on the chessboard began to look different to Ferda.
Ferda felt his insides churn and his vision shake.
He felt the black thing below his danjeon that he didn't want to be conscious of stirring wildly on its own, trying to infiltrate his brain.
An ominous feeling.
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But it was different from when Sierra arbitrarily encroached.
It seemed like Godwin wanted to whisper a story Ferda didn't know.
Ė ñ u m̆а . і̀ ď
So he lent his ear to that voice.
"The only hope."
King.
That king charging forward looking only ahead began to look like the red-haired woman Ferda knew.
"That's why our king."
Ferda's soul rode a rapids and flowed somewhere.
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* * *
When Ferda opened his eyes again, it was an extremely ominous place.
A space where the five senses twisted, and even the concepts of front and back, up and down became ambiguous.
Ferda instinctively recalled that name in his head.
'Chaos.'
It is Chaos.
Ŵ е̇ bňо̌ v̂ѐ l̇ Ěǹŭm а
The most vicious nothingness where energy doesn't exist.
A world's providence that mortal bodies could never endure.
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But the reason Ferda could endure it at merely an unpleasant level was also because he didn't have a human body.
Ferda knows the name of this body.
'Godwin.'
Godwin who was kind to everyone.
Ẃе b̊n̂ о̇ v̈е̃.l Е̂ ňũ m̈а̌
Before that name was bestowed, the moment of birth.
Ferda looked up at the one who made him.
He had human form, but was a faceless being.
A great existence unidentifiable with the intellect given to them.
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Born by that existence's hands, and he learned there were 11 others besides himself.
Uniquely, they all looked human.
Ẃ еb n o v̀ el Е̇ n ùm а
No, they wouldn't have been human.
In this world of chaos and Godwin's eyes, they were no different from humans.
It was a simple and clear means of recognition given to them.
The mission given to them was simple.
Bringing order to this land covered in chaos.
There was no doubt they were born for that.
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The faceless being shared all his power with them.
They were sources that could withstand chaos and push it out.
Blancaros managed as the eldest of all.
Iorga handled strategy as the wisest.
Odograsado created warriors by weaving life.
Frontesis produced powerful weapons that could be used and discarded anytime.
Е̃ñum̄ а
Petunia weakened the beings of chaos, and Mesabosk cared for the wounded.
Storeus fought bravely, and Silverwind induced chaos with swift mobility.
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Nekonata and Unistus caught and held the flow of order barely reclaimed.
And Godwin moved secretly, stabbing at chaos's gaps.
'But chaos didn't retreat so easily.'
A great step for the world's awakening.
Ѐ n̊_u mȧ. ĭ d
Chaos didn't even allow taking a step forward for that one step.
It snapped sharp weapons like reeds and gnawed at strong spirits.
The will to fight chaos was gradually being lost.
-It's okay.
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At such times, that woman always said this.
-It'll work out somehow.
Ӗ ñŭ m̄ а .і̆ ď
Her name was Valdrova.
A woman who was optimistic and lively even in a grim world.
She always smiled brightly and lifted everyone's spirits.
But she wasn't simply lively.
She held a gray spear, always stood at the vanguard, and went forward before anyone else.
She went first, but always survived.
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So everyone felt hope when they saw her back.
She was fire.
A lantern and sun lighting everyone's front.
So everyone liked her.
Even Iorga, who hated anti-intellectual aspects, grumbled but was inwardly moved by her positivity.
If she hadn't shown miraculous steps, they should've surrendered to chaos long ago.
Wе b́ṅ о̂ ve ľ Е n̄ u̇_mа̊
Finally, the moment to take a step for creation arrived.
The darkest day with chaos's last struggle.
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Everyone waged all-out war with their granted power.
Many died, many were wounded.
Fear that spilled blood was meaningless also loomed.
Even so, the reason they could endure was because Valdrova was ahead.
W е̂b ńо̀_v̀ е l̀ Ēṅ ú mа̂
Knowing she was there ahead, everyone followed her back.
Castration of fear, a step forward for victory.
But finally chaos retreated from this world.
Blue and ocher separated, found order, and received the name Serdes.
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The end of the mission granted by the faceless creator, and the world's beginning, so everyone rejoiced at this birth.
Except one.
W̆ ë b n̆ о̇v е l̀ Ѐ n u m̌а̇
Valdrova.
She clutched her gray spear tight, broke into cold sweat, and looked back.
Trembling as she took in one by one the horrific scene of death spread behind her.
Only then did everyone realize.
That her foolish optimism was merely acting to lessen everyone's burden.
The reason Valdrova ran first wasn't bravery but that she didn't want to look back.
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That she only wished her death would come before anyone else's.
Yet she kept surviving.
The woman who wanted to be a campfire became the sun by burning herself.
She hid her fragile heart becoming sick from wounds.
Surviving like that became a curse to Valdrova.
There was no more positive Valdrova encouraging that anything would work out.
Wе̃b̄ n о̊v e l̀ Е.n uḿ ǎ
She cried endlessly like a powerless girl.
On that day when everyone could smile, Valdrova completely collapsed.
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Ferda's soul met the rapids again.
Endlessly flowing time passed swiftly.
Dragons watched over things flowing into this land over long time.
Ignorant insignificant beings gained intelligence, gradually created things called forces, and a world similar to now was made.
Ê ṅ ǔ m̄ ä . і̇ d
That world drew dragons' interest, and they intervened in the Serdes Continent in their own ways.
Godwin was one of them.
However, his form was on a different track from other dragons.
If everyone did it for their own benefit and curiosity, his purpose was one.
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'Valdrova.'
She loved this continent.
Ёn̈ u̇ m̀а
So she secluded herself and desired nothing.
He believed without doubt that she made that choice because she loved everyone.
Godwin loved such her.
He played the role of balancing that tilted scale for her.
As the Aspect of Darkness, he helped the unprotected weak and punished those who deserved punishment.
He granted the requests of those needing help as a matter of course, without seeking recompense.
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Thus the name attached: Kind Godwin.
A weird guy treated as an eccentric even among dragons.
That love could be defined in one word.
'Agape.'
Knowing it couldn't be fulfilled, he didn't crave to be loved by Valdrova.
He only wished for her to rise above her wounds.
Е̄n ŭmа
No matter what cruel fate struck.
But the world wasn't all kind like him.
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At some point, he discovered a village formed around Valdrova.
They followed Valdrova and showed appearances of cherishing her.
But Godwin couldn't hide his uneasy feelings and examined the village deeply.
What was found there was one man's ambition born from ugly greed.
Е̄n ū m а.
Knowing Valdrova was harmless, he tried to usurp her position to plunder surroundings and gain power.
There was even evidence he deployed people to find magic to control her.
That man proudly unfolded his ambition to Godwin disguised as a noble adventurer.
If he put that stupid dragon under his feet, this world would be his.
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That day, Godwin stopped laughing for the first time.
The kind man raged more cruelly than anyone, and the village forged from ambition shattered and burned in an instant.
Е́ ṅ u ma . і̃d
Around when the blood boiling in his body settled, a woman walking slowly from far away was seen.
A woman like a red rose.
She wept tears of blood, unable to even properly make a sound of crying.
Only then did Godwin realize.
That for her to truly be free, someone had to play the villain.
Birth and death are natural order, and the one leading that order is Valdrova.
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For that, the Dragons' Twilight must begin without fail.
Because he loved her, he doesn't explain.
Erasing the desire to comfort with a forced twisted laugh, he spread his blood-soaked hands.
"Look, Valdrova."
He spoke softly and cruelly.
"This is the sight of what you wanted to protect disappearing."
W ё b̈n_ov̂ ēl È n̄ù m̌ а.
A giant tsunami crashed over Ferda again.
Ferda's soul attached to Godwin was swept by the rapids and moved, and he opened his eyes with a strong shock.
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Snap!
What's before his eyes is a king that entered enemy territory.
Ferda came to his senses and raised his eyes.
He met Iorga's eyes.
Wе̊bnov̀ е̌ l Е̄n̈ u ṁ ã
"Godwin told you, huh?"
"Did I overhear?"
"No way. Just from the look in your eyes watching me, I can tell. Godwin had eyes like yours too."
The sinners who let Valdrova break.
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He was thinking Iorga was one of them too.
"Valdrova's fiancé."
Е nu m̄ а
"Speak."
"Can you do anything for that girl?"
"Of course."
Ferda answered as if no contemplation was needed.
"Even if that girl forgets you and loves another man?"
For a moment, the Red Circle shook violently.
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Similar to the feeling when anger and hatred were gradually lost.
It sounds like a punishment harsher than death.
"Godwin chose self-sacrifice for Valdrova. He abandoned everything for a better future."
"I can throw away my life for her."
"Godwin even accepted her loving another human. Can you do that too?"
Ferda couldn't answer.
Ẅeb̄ n оv́ е l̊ Е̌ ñu m а̄
The emotions in this heart were busy fighting each other.
"Better this way. Marrying a girl like that would do no good. Finding a better person is a way too."
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"You speak as if you've been married. What's so great about you, Iorga-nim?"
Ferda no longer held back his rising anger.
He spat out the circle's boiling agitation through his mouth.
"You're deciding Valdrova can't marry because you couldn't? You're wishing such misfortune because you've concluded that?"
È n̈u ḿ ӑ
"Rough words."
"Don't make me laugh. The one who spoke like shit is you."
At the cheap expression, Iorga's eyes grew fierce.
A look that seemed like he'd tear Ferda to shreds right now.
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But Ferda didn't retreat.
Iorga sighed and stepped back.
E̊ṅu m а.і̀ d̈
"As you said, I killed my fiancé with my own hands. From then I knew. The heart of why immortals are immortals."
His head dropped to the floor.
A man reflected in moistened eyes.
"I thought I always had power, but only fear increased. That's also why I wasn't chosen as king."
He held bitterness in his mouth.
"But the current story is different from that jealousy. Right now is the moment Godwin wanted, when Valdrova can be freed from her curse."
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Iorga raised his eyes and looked at Ferda again.
"If only you're prepared to let that girl go, she can be happy."
Iorga gestured at the chessboard.
All pieces on the chessboard disappear.
Just one.
Except the king piece that kept charging forward recklessly.
W̃_ēb̊ n о̂v̂ е l̂ Еn úm а
That wasn't a simple piece.
He knew it was an object crafted with magic, but the power dwelling within exceeds imagination.
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Ultra-high density mana and power befitting a king's form were hidden within.
A technique only possible because she's the Phase of Magic.
"With the heaviest crown that binds the king.
