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Chapter 391
Everything of the Nightmare
"Are you alright?"
Erica asked, her gaze not leaving the spot where Erdes had flown off to.
"Yes, thanks to you."
"You have somewhere to go, right? There's no reason for you to be stuck here."
"That's right."
En̂ u ṁ а
-Ericaaaa!!!
Kugugeung!
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The earth shakes and buildings collapse.
Something rose into the air from within the dust clouds.
It formed a barrier in a sphere shape, preventing the dust from reaching that spot.
"Run in a straight line. I'll cover you. Do you trust me?"
Ёnû m а
"It's the best operation."
Erica signaled with her eyes for Ferda to go.
"You think I'll let you get away?!"
Erdes's staff tilted toward Ferda.
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Multiple magic circles deployed, and from them countless tendrils flew toward Ferda.
"Now!"
Е̄num а.і̂d̄
A veil formed, deflecting every single attack aimed at Ferda.
Erica deliberately touched an empty building, collapsing it.
Kururung!!
Dust clouds spread thickly, and magical power dispersed bleakly.
By the time the dust and magical power settled, Ferda was no longer caught in Erdes's detection.
The killing intent directed at Ferda now turned toward Erica.
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"How much... how much do you have to interfere with me to feel satisfied?!"
"It's simply something that was bound to explode eventually."
"What?!"
Erica brushed off the dust and spoke.
"Erdes... I felt it when I first met you. That someday, a day would come when I'd fight you once."
Cold eyes.
W ėb̊ nоv еl Е̌n̂ ûm̈a.
As a veteran mage, she knew what meaning dwelled in those eyes.
Erdes didn't rampage any longer either.
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It meant she had to face her opponent that seriously.
"Is that so? I felt no need to go as far as a fight. Arrogant bastards like you always knew their end."
"That would've been true in the past, but not now."
Erdes scoffed in disbelief.
W̊ ěb́ńòv е̌l Еnum̀ а̊
"I already heard the rumors. You got excommunicated from the Iorga Tower, didn't you?"
"Yes, I won't be able to use the former Master's magic from now on."
She pulled out her water flask.
A water flask containing Iorga's magic.
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"That's why this is the last."
She threw it into the well without hesitation.
W̆ ӗ b n оv̌ӗ l Е́ñ ů_ṁ а̄
Kururung!!
With a massive vibration from within the well, a water column surged up.
It became nine dragons, and Erica stood atop the highest head.
"And since I'm not the Tower Master anymore, I'll drop honorifics. You shorty brat."
Erica's always-calm expression completely changed.
If anyone saw it, they'd call it a split personality, such cheap speech it was.
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"I've been waiting for this day, you bitch."
She poured out all her pent-up emotions.
Erdes received it as if it wasn't surprising at all.
"Oh my, now you're showing your true colors?"
"True colors my ass. From the moment I first saw you, I don't know how many times I wanted to throw curses at you."
"Look at you talking big, you think I can't swear, you lizard lackey bastard?!"
Е n ŭmа .і d̈
"I'll shove the respect you sold off along with your height right into that empty head of yours!"
Erdes extended her middle finger and unleashed a torrent of curses.
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"Eat this shit!"
"You eat a lot yourself!"
After a truly childish verbal spat ended, the water dragons intertwined with Erdes's main body.
The fight between two war heroes began.
W̆ëb́_n о̇vеl Ѐ n ům a
* * *
In the meantime, Ferda drew closer to the Imperial Palace.
-Kieeek! Kiek! Ferda Regent!
The demons recognized Ferda and charged,
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"It's Ferda Regent!"
"Black mage! Attack without hesitation!"
Е̌ñ u m̄а̂. i d
The mages also tried to prioritize attacking Ferda.
Even though Ferda specialized in stealth and wasn't easy to find, they somehow tracked him down.
Since the defensive war, Ferda had reached the 6th Circle.
The Shadow Circle within him had also grown overwhelmingly, nearing the 7th Circle.
At that level, he was a talent capable of blowing away an entire country by himself.
Yet he had to conserve his strength.
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He couldn't afford to exhaust himself before reaching the Golden Palace.
That was when.
Abnormal heat and smell thickened throughout the Empire.
-Kill them all! Make this place Gamigin-nim's territory!
-Burn it to ashes, khehehe!!
Amon and Gamigin's subordinates pour out.
Wе̃b̆ nӧ v ё.l Enum̈а_
It was a scheme to maximize their own gain in this chaos.
"Knights! Cohesion! We must resist those demons!"
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The knights' momentum, which had tried to gain the upper hand, visibly faltered.
At this rate, the Empire would become the demons' playground.
Above all, the biggest problem was what blocked Ferda's path.
'This is getting really dangerous......'
Еṅu_mа.. і d.
As he made that judgment.
Kururung—.
Thunder roaring from the sky.
He looked up to see a particularly dense cluster of dark clouds gathering, tinged with blue light.
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Anyone looking up at the sky would immediately know what was about to happen.
Kwagakang!!
Ē ňú m̊ а
Lightning strikes continued.
Heavy mass rode the light down, striking the demon blocking Ferda's path.
It burned without a trace, and in its place stood a tall man.
He was one of Storeus's Spawns.
"Go on. We'll handle things here."
To think I'd live to see even Storeus's Spawn helping out.
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Ferda nodded and kept moving.
Shortly after, a new Gate opened and a demon jumped out.
-Kiiik! Good you came! Hurry up and get those things... kiek!?
A trident pierced the belly of the demon giving orders, thinking they were reinforcements.
-Kiiik!? Why!?
-Sorry, you're just too ugly.
Е n ũ_m̈ ӑ. і̆d
-J-just for that reason...?
-Think of it as a woman's whim.
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It was Sitri's army.
However, contrary to the intention of occupying this place, they were fighting Amon and Gamigin's armies.
Sitri kept her promise.
'But she's not visible.'
W е b ǹо̀ v̈ ӗl Е̌ ṅ ŭ m á
The opponent is an Archdemon.
She must have gone to the Golden Palace to secure Olivia.
Since I ordered her not to touch a single hair, she won't recklessly interfere.
Anyway, I need to move quickly.
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Ferda thus reached the Golden Palace.
He thought he'd face off against Imperial Knights in golden armor.
Еn̊um̈ а
But the moment he crossed that main gate, his thoughts changed.
It felt like a completely separate space.
That place was different from the outside, burning and filled with screams.
From the moment he crossed that gate, only a terrible silence circulated.
As if this space didn't permit life.
Ferda walked into that land of death.
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The first thing greeting him in the Golden Palace was the smell of blood.
All the maids and servants inside were dead.
Walking further, paladins and Imperial Knights,
And nobles and priests.
The traces of those who moved with justification and those who fought for authority remained terribly.
Ferda followed that path.
W̃ ѐb n o v еl Е nüm̃а̃
The blood-connected path led to one place, and that would undoubtedly be Olivia's detention site.
Of course, there was no certainty.
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But the person who could give that answer stood in the center of the corridor.
"You've come."
He was a gaunt middle-aged man, wearing heavy clothes as if to forcibly hide his body.
Yet he didn't seem weak.
Е_ń u mа
He dominated this corridor, and was trying to dominate even Ferda.
His spirit spoke.
I am the master of this Empire, Godfrey Arken.
"I pay my respects to His Majesty the Emperor."
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He throws a greeting first, trying to hide his emotions.
"Let's dispense with such formalities."
Е n̂um̈ а̂..і d
He was a skilled mage, and tried to shake Ferda.
"Did you come to fetch your daughter?"
"Yes."
"For what reason? You're no longer a person of the Empire."
"I made a promise. That if the moment came when this Empire collapses, I would stand as her guardian."
"You speak nonsense."
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"Do you think I cannot bring down His Majesty the Emperor?"
"No, I'm saying there's a contradiction in those words."
He kicked the corpse lying beside him with his foot.
"For the Empire to fall, the entire Arken family must die. Olivia is a member of the Arken family. As long as that child lives, the Empire will stand."
He moved his finger.
Ferda, focusing all five senses, felt all his information flood into his mind.
É n u mӓ . і d
"That is the fundamental truth. Fate engraved in the fundamentals cannot be erased."
To not be struck, he must prepare.
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Without him knowing,
Without even himself knowing.
"Are you afraid?"
He asked.
È n̆.u̇ m а́
"Why would I be afraid? You're someone who has never experienced the element that is me, not even once."
"That's bluster."
Godfrey sharply saw through it.
Ferda smiled bitterly.
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"Correct. It would be a lie to say I'm not afraid. It's my first time fighting your kind."
Godfrey laughed silently.
Wе̇ bǹ о̃ vе̊l Е̌ ñ ǔm̃ а́
He didn't have the leisure to analyze the meaning of that laughter.
There was one thing Ferda knew.
Something is starting.
He prepares every possible move to respond to that something.
"I'll bet everything on a single strike."
He said, raising his index finger.
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"If you're a genius, you'll get to see my full hand today."
And that finger moved.
"Won't you?"
That was when.
An abnormal sign appeared.
Magical power
E ǹūm̄ ӓ
Ferda moved his head almost to the breaking point.
Pang!!
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A shockwave violently struck where his head had been.
Ferda's body swayed greatly.
Part of his head feels empty and cold.
But no abnormality in thought is felt.
W e bṅо̌ v̂ ӗ l Ě n um̌ӓ.
It definitely grazed past.
His one strike failed.
Ferda put strength in his eyes and looked at him.
The target: his heart.
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From Ferda's hand, something that fit perfectly in one grip, its beating clearly felt.
At the same time, Godfrey felt something wrong inside his body.
Wе̊b̌ n̄ о́v é l̊ .Ě n ǔm.а̌
From where his body was, twisting continued,
And finally burst.
Kwajik!
Ferda felt it clearly.
Because it was his other hand that twisted that heart.
But he didn't lower his guard.
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The opponent's magic was ultimate magic without process.
Before he could do anything, he had to respond.
Godfrey Arken knelt just like that.
"Keuleok......"
What burst from Godfrey's mouth was blood.
That signaled the conclusion.
Ẇ ӗ b̈ n о̃v е̊ l̂ Е_n um̃ a
Even seeing with both eyes, even feeling with his hand, it was unbelievable.
Did he really meet his end?
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Or am I seeing a hallucination?
The gap between the truth before his two eyes was so great he questioned it several times before finally opening his mouth.
"Why... why didn't you dodge?"
He answered.
Ŵ е̊b̀ ńо v̇ēl Ӗ n u ma
"Didn't I say? I'd bet everything on one strike. And you dodged it. Then I lost."
"Just for that reason?"
"It's not 'just'."
Godfrey untied the string at his chest.
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The heavy coat came loose and sprawled on the floor.
"I lived my life perfectly. Everyone praised and feared me as a superhuman, but reality wasn't so. I simply had overwhelmingly more time than others. What was equal with others......"
Ӗn̈ü.ḿ а . іd̆
Godfrey looked up at Ferda.
"Was only the moment I faced you. I learned my reality while facing you."
"Really... is that the end?"
He couldn't understand accepting death for such a reason.
"You don't seem to understand me."
"That's right."
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"I saw only a bright future when I became Emperor. But it was all an illusion. Until that child was born."
That child.
Ferda recalled one of their many conversations.
Olivia had never met her father, not even once.
She was born, and Godfrey never left his bedroom.
"That child... is it Olivia?"
Ẅ ѐ.b ǹ о̆v̌ ĕ l Е̄ ṅum ӑ
"Right. Strangely, once Olivia was born, there was only one ending."
This is a story of a future that doesn't exist now.
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Perhaps this is something Ferda also knows.
"...The Empire burns."
He nodded slightly.
"I struggled to escape that dream, but never succeeded even once. Olivia is... that pretty child is everything of my nightmare."
Е n umå .і̀d̆
His eyes seem to see the future he's seen countless times.
The helplessness he'd felt countless times was conveyed to Ferda.
He looked up at Ferda.
The eyes of a worn-out human.
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As if finding a single ray of light within them, a smile spread across his face.
"But thanks to you, one thing changed."
Е n̈um а̇ ..і̇d
"....."
"I died so many times by Olivia's hand, but my death has finally escaped from Olivia's grasp. So surely you can break the nightmare I saw."
Keuleok keuleok!
He vomited blood again.
In a few seconds, he dies.
He felt it himself, and Ferda felt it too.
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"I'm sorry, but I have one request."
Godfrey said.
"Free Olivia."
"From what?"
"From the fate that eats away at herself."
He squeezed out his remaining strength to speak.
W е̌ b n о̂ v e l Е̄ ñu̇ m а
"I couldn't escape it, and my sons and daughter all couldn't escape it either. And that child is... tightly bound. At least... if someone who escaped my nightmare is one who escaped fate, couldn't they save at least one person?"
With his last breath, he said this.
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"That's what I think."
That was the end.
Emperor Godfrey Arken met his end like that.
Ferda quietly looked down at that sight.
Е n̄ ũ m а
Ferda doesn't know much about him.
So he'd built his shell from the rumors he heard.
Now, in this moment, all of that peeled away.
Whether they shout him as a kinslayer,
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Or shout him as a great Emperor,
The words from a moment ago sounded only as the story of one head of a household,
Е num̂ а̊. і̇ d̃
As a father's story.
Ferda stepped over that corpse.
He didn't say he'd grant that request.
Right now he doesn't know what's happening, and the priority has always been just one thing.
'Olivia.'
Ferda headed for Olivia's chambers.
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Ferda senses her presence.
Then, at the edge of his senses, something anxious caught.
As he walked there, it became clearer.
The moment to fight again has come.
From there, an Archdemon's energy was crawling out uncontrollably.
