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Ch42 The followers of Precursors
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The full moon hung in the starry sky, spraying the great wall and the vast battlefield with a gloomy azure glow. The moonlight highlight the oddness in the atmosphere at this night with the long shadows cast by the surviving trees around.
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Today's wind is a bit noisy, irregular wind brushes on the rough surface of the great wall barrier. A nightjar’s cry and the beat of wings interrupt the steady wind rush abruptly. Someone is standing on the top of the great wall, the moonlight casting on the person showing an abstractly obsessive female body outline, probably a beauty.
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The person hangs up the elbow as she heard the sound as if she is welcoming the sudden visitor. So are the nightjar, naturally landed on the extended elbow, it is certainly not a stranger to the standing person.
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The eyes of the nightjar shine like obsidian, the darkness of night couldn’t cast a mist before its night vision, it doesn’t miss anything among its vision.
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“Got it, thanks, here, you may go now.”
It looks like the person receives information from the little messenger, she feeds the nightjar and let it go.
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“Now I have got your position clearly too, Tartarus.” The person murmured under the starry sky, doesn’t seem to enjoy the night view but she sounds like having an ambitious vision.
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The lone field is then disturbed by scratching noise, a visitor comes.
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“Not planning to rest, don’t you? What’s your doing, Rose?” the Yasha samurai asked.
“It’s not the time, I just got the actual location of the facility of Tartarus, plus the information of entrances, we at least get a chance.” Rose answered.
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“Humm. Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.” Rokurou smirks. “Well, we may have a fight tomorrow, why don’t give it a break now, the wine is here, then drink while you can.”
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The ring is then ringed when the glass bottle is placed on the stone pathway, the female chuckles when she knows someone brings a wine here. The hellion probably planned to admire the moon with his wine brought along, he always knows the way to relax even before an important battle. Even for a battle maniac, he is a wise one too.
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“I wish I didn’t disturb your night.＂
“It’s never a bad thing to get drunk with someone.” Rokurou smiled.
“I don’t plan to get drunk though, one of your collections?”
“Yep.”
“As you share it, I won’t insist then.”
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They sit on the edge of the wall, the Yasha pours her some wine and Rose takes the glass.
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“A chance to win huh...” Rokurou murmured.
“Well, we have got our reliable companions.”
“Even for Velvet?” Rokurou asked tentatively, Rose smirked as she heard, she should know that Rokurou is curious with her actual thought about his old friend.
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“Of course, she is willing to struggle, that’s enough to call her reliable.”
For all moments Rose has observed Velvet, she sees many of her human sides. A saint, a good person, both of them hard to be defined among humans, and it is hard to believe in them while they are not working for themselves but others. There is always a selfish part in humans, a deal is built on satisfying the selfish wish of each other, and so is trust. Therefore, for a person like Velvet, she has her selfish side, certainly not a bad person, also she cares about others, these three things of human sides are already enough to persuade Rose to believe in her. In addition, Velvet has stated her aim, a mutual direction with a mutual person they cared, there is nothing telling Rose not to trust Velvet.
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“Heh, that’s her strength,” Rokurou smirked, he is glad that Rose has trusted Velvet, and he knows Velvet has her way to make the others believe in her.
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Rose stared into the starry sky, thinking of the two people have entered the earthpulse to get the last secret power from the Empyrean blessed to human.
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The Former Calamity and Former Grand Shepherd left Magiland with their companions, they started a trip to get the last power boost. Rose has faith in them, whether trust as a former squire of Sorey in the completed journey or trust as the President in Magiland from her observations. Sorey attained powers from the 4 trials of Hyanoa, Musiphe, Eumacia and Amenoch in his last journey, Rose knew he can also make it this time. The admission and spiritual power of the 4 trials stay with Sorey’s being, to aid him to face the danger in this Era. Velvet is also a trustworthy person for Rose. After what Rose observed, heard from Velvet and after watching the battle record attained from the CROW, Rose knows the former Lord of Calamity possesses both strength and intelligence, also her loyalty to friends. Even when they are more like strangers, Rose thinks they are the most reliable alliance.
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However, something is in her mind. By the overwork of tiredness, Sorey and his squires fell down before they purify any of the dragon corpses. Yet, those dragons just disappeared after all they died. The storm disappeared along with the disappeared with the corpse of dragons. Without leaving a trace and malevolence, things they fought hard faded without a notice. The fighter noticed but not like they know anything about it.
They only know they should be glad that they have a chance to stand against these evil creatures.
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When now the information of location and the information of the housing of a large number of seraphim reveal, no safe promised.
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“I wonder when will be the next wave?” When they don’t have the Shepherd and the former Calamity here, Rose could only pray they could have the typical armatus soon so the people can fight for themselves to live even under another attack in the near future.
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“You should worry about it tomorrow, we have prepared enough for it.”
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“Right.”
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Drinking all the wine in his glass, Rokurou put down it in deep thought. It is not like he could forget all the worry with the wine like he has said, he understands the reason for Rose’s worry. After all, it is more like they won the last battle by luck if there were not Sorey’s and Velvet’s team to fight them. There is no assurance they may fight enemies like that with armatus but only by themselves.
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“.....I’ll go see the progress of Ophelia if you worry.” Rokurou sighed and smiled, he can’t say about Rose as he worries too.
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“I would gladly receive your kindness, by the way, thanks for the wine, it is a good way to calm my head down.” Rose smiled, she just noticed herself trapped in the anxiety for the battle and that’s making other worries.
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“heheh, I have always said wine is good.” Rokurou brings away the empty bottle and glasses and swings his hand while get going.
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“...I guess I would go see others doing too.”
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The birds are squeaking, not feeling loud, but making the space closer to nature.
The place for the two people is not a luxury place, because it is an arsenal, and naturally, there will not be too many windows, and some are only in the skylights that bring outdoor sunlight. In order to store more collectibles, this place is set as A two-story warehouse that connects the underground and the upper layer with a black iron staircase, and no columns occupy the space in the middle. The light-colored and visually penetrating design makes the space look very large. Although it is an arsenal, it doesn't make people feel too cold and too functional in overall. Just ordinary concrete floors, wooden doors, wooden ceilings and white walls in present. It is very simple but not tedious, a down-to-earth design.
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The neatly arranged weapon racks list Rokurou’s collections over the years. Regardless of whether they are beautifully decorated, Rokurou just displays them equally. Although they don’t remember when they first met Rokurou as a person who likes to collect, the collection here The way of display also tells them that Rokurou is not obsessed with collecting, but the existence of this place also says that he has not cherished every weapon.
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The cozy sense of tranquility in this place is reminiscent of the posture that Rokurou sometimes sits here cross-legged to sharpen his sword and sharpen his sword because it is so relaxing that some people even want to start entertainment.
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“Place, audience, tools all the things required are here, let’s start watching the live broadcast.” The pretty old seraph with around-20-year-old outlook extended her arm to express her amusement to the wide and free space given to them. Rokurou’s Arsenal is a simple space, there is nothing other than weapons, not even odds and ends. In a certain mean, it is very clean. There will be no one bother them here, like a secret base those boys always dreamed to have one, maybe it is just a little childish wish by Rokurou, to have his little secret base. Some always said ‘Boy will never gonna grow up’ , isn’t it? Now, such space is absolutely the best workplace for some secret magic works that are going to happen here, and it is also the best environment for the female seraphim in other means.
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“It could be a cinema if there are comfortable seats.” Ophelia said.
“Cinema?” Laphicet is confused by the new noun mentioned.
“You could think of it as a place to watch filmed drama in modern. Nowadays, people create stories and film them into movies, ‘Cinema’ is a place people watch movies.” The female seraph kindly explained.
“I see, but we have works to do here.”
“Okay, okay, then let’s set up the place, we will watch the broadcast until we need to accumulate mana for the works.”
Ophelia helplessly threw up her hands, agreeing to Maotelus. She knew how significant their role in the plan, so she will stop her little shitty joke here. It is not like she can stay away and let her living place disappear. That’s a thing she cares about.
The plan to give armatus to normal people is a gamble, it is a powerful and decisive weapon in this game, it should be very obvious when old man Melchior didn’t succeed to let the product be applied without the sacrifice of the user’s life, and it is not allowed to cause endanger the user’s life this time. It may sound very naive to allow no sacrifice in this time since all successes are constructed with many failures. However, they can’t fail again this time, since there were already enough sacrificing to remain them what are the factors, it is their job to achieve it while preventing themselves to repeat the same mistakes.
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“So, let’s start.”
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It’s very big here. In fact, it has enough space to accommodate the body of Maotelus--a silver dragon. Although this does not include the space for him to stretch his body, Maotelus can also give up the action of a huge body and use the rebuilt body to move. That is to use magic to condense into another body. An individual like a terminal can carry his consciousness, and he has used this form to participate in the activities of everyone several times, including that ridiculous hot spring experience. But these are not used in combat, so the limitation of the body to use power does not become very obvious. If he wants to purify all weapons placed here at once, he must use the power of the body.
Many of the weapons displayed here are very old, with natural contamination and pollution caused by the complaints of their own users. The reason why this place is so clean is thanks to the suppression of the enchantment of Grimoirh. And now she may have to take refuge to liberate the enchantment. That’s why they better reduce the malevolence at a moment.
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Maotelus sits in the warehouse with his coiled dragon body, he closed dragon eyes, monitor his breath and empties his mind, concentrates his spirit and mana steps by steps.
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He took a deep breath as a self-intimation of turning on the ‘spiritual circuit’ and a quick concentration of mana. The space suddenly filled with a low temperature with a light pressure-- the existence of domain.
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“-------------” Then, Maotelus opens his eyes and blows out the silver flame at a moment, letting his purifying flame winds around all weapons in the room, greatly reduce the malevolence in a sudden.
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At the same time, Ophelia is extracting the stored arte formula in the sacred weapons and accessory given to her.
“Expand.”
She spells the same word as Grimoire did to visual artes stored in Velvet’s body. That’s an ancient and lost technique to visualize and modify seraphic artes and it is the basic technique for all beginners to learn to create artes. After all, we need to learn the elements and structures of something before we imagine and create things. Although Magilou cursed Melchior the way he treated her, she never forgot the techniques he has taught her, even when she reincarnated as a seraph, she somehow wants to pass on the things and the will Melchior has once taught her, the things in an original way before twisted.
“Visualize structure.”
The fundamental seraphic artes to construct armatus are visualized in the mid-air, all need to do is to combine them into one before insert into any weapon.
“Visualize elements.”
She analyzes the elements in the seraphic artes so as to proceed the connection smoothly, as a wrong connection may cause conflict in mana transfer and arte operation, and that will take the user’s life as the cost to stabilize the arte eventually, which is totally the opposite to the concept ‘arte aid user’.
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“Elemental convert, connect” By converting some outermost element to neutral without affecting the properties in a whole, the combine may initiate.
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“Lock.”
Now the armatus arte has completed, thanks to all the works done by the past generations, Ophelia only needs to connect the artes to have the armatus arte, but the next step is the most cumbersome and boring works -- inserting the artes into each weapon manually here. It is not like that they may copy and paste the arte with a command like a computer. The field of magic is always less convenient than the field of science, we may see it from how the beginner learn. The beginner in the field of magic need to learn from zero, and gain strength by practical experience but in the field of science, after they learn all the things from zero, they move forward with aid of computer, contribute the great speed of advancement, which is also the reason why magic would tend to be long-lost and become a tale of fantasy among typical humans.
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By the time Ophelia completed the connection, Maotelus has also completed the Age-identification for weapons here, filtered the weapons that could not apply the armatus stably.
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Inserting the artes would take precise and complicated process, Maotelus decided to use his formed spirit terminal to do the works with Ophelia. Although his ability would be halved, that is enough for the works. By the precise and complicated process and also the high concentration needed, the time flies fast. The final step they needed to do is to pour in the mana to fix and stabilize the inserted arte in all weapons.
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“How’s the progress?” The master of the arsenal came here to visit, he has brought some pastries here as a refreshment of two magi. Although being a daemon, he has a considerate side.
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“We are doing well, only the last step left.” Maotelus answer with a smile.
“Those are for us? We are planning to play the live broadcast!” Ophelia sees the pastries Rokurou has brought, she is excited as everything has done, she extends her back with her arm raised up, she can’t wait to see this anymore, the sentence is overwhelmed with excitement.
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“I haven’t suggested, you seem very excited, Ophelia.” Maotelus released a sheepish smile, but it would be a lie if he said he is not excited.
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“Velvet’s reaction never let me down,” Ophelia smirked.
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“You would be eaten alive if she possessed the claw,” Rokurou smirked.
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“Magikazam~~”
Now the image is projected on a large wall, the team is walking inside the earthpulse passage. Seeing a maple forest that not suppose to be there, Velvet seems to receive much shock from it, there is a trace of surprise and wish, she moves faster and faster to it, eventually dashes forward in speed the mechanic dove can’t catch up immediately.
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It is exactly what Maotelus want to see, but he holds his concern there. Since the place was Velvet’s hometown, though it is nostalgic, it was also the place of sadness. The first time he went here with Velvet, it was a trap from Melchior by manipulating Velvet’s regret to produce a happy dream, it was a dream so real. And Maotelus knew Velvet killed all her dear neighbours here, including her important and dear friend Niko.
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Maotelus knew this may be a large shade to Velvet deep down, it was a wound that exist till now. The scabbed wound will be a scar forever stay inside heart, seeing this place may touch that wound again.
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“You want to go with her, don’t you? Your eyes almost drop out, why did you stay?” Rokurou asked.
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“I have said it before, the place needs me, but maybe that’s not the only reason. I…. want to create a chance for them.” Maotelus said.
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“A Chance? Hmm~?” Ophelia released a meaningful smile.
“....maybe it is what you are thinking.”
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Even when he knew the place has a contradictory meaning to Velvet, Maotelus didn’t go with Velvet. In the past, he would go with her and said he would protect her, now he would pass the mission to Sorey and Eleanor. He knows Velvet would stay away from bad memory with these two people as they don’t want to see her feeling sad too.
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The stories told among the 500-year slumber with the communication are letting Maotelus to know about Sorey. He is a person who is pure, willing to accept different opinions and existences, a tender and strong person. Sorey will not turn into someone like Artorius, sometime Maotelus thought he is similar to himself and sometimes he thought he is similar to Eleanor. Such similarly raise his impression to Sorey and it is also the reason he requested Sorey to look over Velvet when they both awaken. Maotelus thought Sorey could help Velvet, he knows himself couldn’t stay side by side with Velvet as an Empyrean so he has to request someone he believes to help him.
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Edna, Zaveid and Magilou said Maotelus is still young, for an Empyrean only lived 1500 years, he is the youngest among 5 empyreans. Yet, ages let people grow, let people to see through things. He could tell the Epics of heroes in the thousand-year because he witnessed their growth and he witnessed their fall. More he talked with humans, walked through with humans, he experienced much more things then some seraphim lived longer than him.
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As he memorized the daemon who named him and he decided to told Sorey about that person, he realized the meaning of her last decision. It was very simple, she even mentioned that she dug her own grave. She didn’t plan to live at the beginning, she even punishes herself with the forever seal like a living-dead. She held her last hope to the world, yet she held nothing to her own future life.
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Things happened as Maotelus has expected, after around a month from the day they awoke, Sorey and Velvet came. Velvet came to him with the expression of nostalgia and joy, but he couldn’t find a trace of the will to live. That flame inside Velvet’s eyes weak like the flame of a remnant in the wind, it may disappear at any time not paying attention. There was a death desire inside Velvet, she was willing to die anytime if there is no longer a target.
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Also as expected, Sorey tried his best to help Velvet, he dragged her from the despair she was drowning. The growth environment made Sorey a good Shepherd, the journey shaped him well, letting him to be able to help people like Velvet. Even when he made a similar choice like Velvet in the end of his journey, to save the future with the sacrifice of his own future, Maotelus knew Sorey will live after awoken, because he has friends waiting for him outside. Humans always have the will to live for they have something to rely on.
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Well, the only thing Maotelus doesn’t expect that Sorey and Velvet become that close, he can’t deny he is a bit jealous. It became obvious in the bath-house farce, he should know that he is the one letting Sorey meet Velvet and Velvet almost thinks of himself as a little brother. Feelings are always sudden and unreasonable. He wishes to see Velvet’s shy reaction react to him but Sorey is the one causing such reaction in the hot spring, even when Edna is the actual one inside Sorey’s body at that time. Especially when Edna acted those ‘intriguing’ actions and Velvet gave out those uncertain reactions….
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He can’t exclude the possibility that Velvet like Sorey. Velvet didn’t notice Mao’s feelings towards her and she didn’t notice her own feeling even, for now, he would say she is really an idiot in this field. He is not resigned to this, but he doesn’t want to control Velvet, she is never belonging to anyone. Velvet has her will and Maotelus will respect her, he hopes she could find her happiness.
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“If Velvet has an interest in Sorey, I would grab the chance to let it develop. I don’t want Velvet to miss her feeling.”
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“Aww aww~~” Ophelia smirked
“You are too nice, Laphicet. I respect you as a man.” Rokurou sighed and raised a glass of wine to Maotelus, probably his way to express his respect.
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“I want Velvet to be happy, and to find one to grip. That’s all.”
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“So you are determined to do it, we will also help you with this. Right? Ophelia?” Rokurou turned his head to Ophelia.
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“Interesting, count me in this….oh, look! the Coo-coo trick we all wait so long, after a thousand-year. Edna, good job!”
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“That’s long coming, I didn’t expect this, but this is interesting when every time I see.” Rokurou laughed.
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“I am glad that you wanna help….You would make Velvet angry, Ophelia.”
Maotelus shows a sheepish smile to Ophelia’s reaction, he is sure that that’s the reason she always irritates Velvet and she likes to do it no matter as Magilou or Ophelia.
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“No problem, she is mad every time but she never really devour me since the longing past, so I would continue to tease her.”
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“Well, a problematic thought.” Rokurou chuckled.
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“And yeah, to see her eyes burn once more as Magilou has seen, I would like to do something to help.”
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“Really?”
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“Oh, your doubtful eyes hurt me. If there is anything you don’t understand, ask. I would answer you honestly today.” Ophelia pretends to cry.
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“Why would you follow Velvet?”
“Oh, an ancient question. Okay, as I said I will be honest, then I will.” Ophelia sighed and shook her head slightly.
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“I felt I am different from others when I was a human, I feel nothing to many things even to a human. I hate the world after Melchior’s examination, I was trapped in the Titania. One day, someone releases all the sinners there, not based on any sympathy, but an action to achieve her own purpose. When I saw her eyes, I knew there would be an interesting thing to see. I followed her all the way until we saw her hometown. She did something I can’t did in my examination and seeing her standing against everything at the edge of breaking, I was impressed, I want to see how would she end up. I realized that I like to see the process and the ending of humans’ stories in her journey. Human history is ugly but beautiful, I fight and live to see their stories. That’s also the reason why I work around Rose now, cause it is a good chance to observe humans closely. Velvet is someone who may create an interesting story, and I am her loyal fans, it is clear that I am keen on seeing her end even for now. Thus I pay my own effort, for one day I may witness the story created by Velvet and her end.”
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Magilou is not a good person, Maotelus knew that long ago, but he knew about her mind behind until she talked it out. He may say she is a jerk somehow, but he knows she would help them as a reliable companion, so he would accept her like the other thing he accepted.
There are always good and bad sides of people, he sees both sides of her.
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“I see, then I am relying on you, my friend, let’s witness their after story together.” Maotelus smiled.
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(another side of the defensive wall)
Alpha’s POV
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I am here standing with the people who decided to fight Tartarus.
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Maybe I would give up to fight Tartarus if I was still my old self. The action to escape cost me everything, I was powerless, I felt all the things I know are ridiculous, like myself as a twist in the world. The day I lost to Tartarus, I saw my seraphim companion who fights with me turned into dragons, they bite and tear each other. I gripped Lailah, who fainted because of the excessive malevolence, ran all the way to escape from Tartarus, abandoned the rest of my companion who turned into dragons. I don’t want Lailah to be sacrificed because of me, especially when the rest of my companion sacrificed.
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When I escaped, a clip of memories flash, it was about a raven-hair woman who fell into a hole and broke the seal of something, a man in the memory didn’t succeed to save the woman. That was not my memory but probably the memory of my origin. It is because I consisted of Earthen Historia, I possess the memory of my origin. The woman looks similar to Lailah, maybe all things related, that’s we call fate. I was not related to either the woman or the past of Lailah but I feel like I need to protect her. She was the final hope in the world for the period Maotelus in slumber. I promised to burden the world but I believed I had to break the promise at that time. I started to release malevolence, a piece of evidence that convince me that I was turning into a hellion. I cut off the pact with Lailah, abandoned my final companion.
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I abandoned the responsibility as a Shepherd and wandering without aims, running away from responsibility, running away from death, running away from life, waiting for the day I finally become a hellion completely. Longer I have been running away, those strange memory flowing out like waves to let me know my origin--a fail Shepherd and I was the same as my origin. I wander until I met the contradictory woman.
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That contradictory woman has raven hair like the one in my memory of origin, yet they are very different. That raven hair woman has a seraph follower, that seraph destructed a small village with thunder strike. I thought that’s was the idea of that woman but the woman went to save people in the village. Her desperate image is still very impressive in my mind.
The smile expressed unconsciously on her face when she found the first survivor induced me to believe that she was not a bad person, it makes me want to help her. That’s a part I’ve forgotten since my abandon to myself, yet, I didn’t meet her, I kept my distance to observe her, once again I took no action to save or help, for a foolish reason: I was no longer a Shepherd.
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We met again in the periphery of Ladylake, I recognize her appearance clearly, she is mostly identical to Beta’s appearance. This woman was the origin of Beta, the woman who killed my origin, the woman who was used to be his little-sister-in-law. As she has discovered my existence, I showed up and asked her about everything. She was also a victim but she didn’t choose to give up, desperately struggles against fate, which’s very imposing as a living human. The punch she struck on me was like yesterday, the pain remains unforgotten, woke me from my self-absorbed abandon. She told me to fight, to treasure my ‘family’, and she told me to live. I never thought she would give me such an encouraging speech, even when she did bad things and she doesn’t seem to have the desire of life. Her words are powerful enough to save me in that time, to become my courage to live.
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She was the cause for me once again trying to take action to fight and I met another person on the way. He was once the Shepherd I admired, but he seems different from my expectation to a Shepherd. He is no perfect person that may calmly treat all the things, he is not a perfect leader but simply a typical and gentle teenager. He would have a moment of anger and sadness, and those are his gentle emotion for others. Maybe that’s the reason his companions with various characteristics choose to stay with him, and that’s the tenderness for him to have the tolerance to a Lord of Calamity. Same as Velvet, he accepts my existence as a homunculus, he accepted me as his squire to be his follower when I have my own purpose to protect Beta.
If Velvet is like a sea that accommodates everything but is undulating, sometimes calm, and sometimes turbulent, Sorey is like the vast sky to allow the storm to arrive, allow clouds to fly freely, allow rain to moisten the earth, tolerate everything, and silently guide everyone. I was grateful to meet them, for my life starting to change and having new meaning.
“Brother? You are also here? I thought you were with Sorey.”
There, the new meaning of life Velvet indicated to me, Beta smiled and approached me without a doubt.
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“Beta, you come. Yeah, I stay here to protect the town in case, I will worry about you if you stay here alone.”
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It’s not been a long time since I saw her last time, but every time I see her, I always find some new features. Has she lived alone for a long time without me? I feel the power behind her simple smile. Maybe I haven’t seen her in a long time, so I don’t know her completely, but even then she still makes me feel familiar. When I meet her, there will be an illusion that we exist to fight each other. There is also a feeling that we are connected. The heart is indeed beating, and the feeling of why people want to do something in their hearts. Maybe it is only because of their own origins, or it is because of the heart we get in the time we live. There are feelings, but I don’t hate this feeling. I want to thank her for letting me re-recognize that I am indeed a human with my personal feeling.
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Beta, another escaped homunculus apart from me. I saw her as another unrelated person originally, but I noticed that she is my irreplaceable family now. Memorizing longingly, before becoming a Shepherd, the days lived with her was the precious memory that only belongs to me.
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In an experimental accident, a series of incubators exploded in the lab, multiple clones died. On the stack of corpses, she survived by nibbling and eating the corpses of her own kind as food. She was rampaged and she destroyed my incubator in the next room, pulled me out of it, and bit on my arm.
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It hurt! I woke and I struck her without a second thought at that time, after all, she attacked me. I see her grabbed a glass piece deeply in her hand leading her to bleed, meats and blood still sticking on the glass, I am sure she used that to tear out things. She was like a beast yet she woke me. In a room full of corpses, the bell rings, I lost my calm and I unconsciously carried her to escape from the facility.
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I felt I have the responsibility to lead her after escaped, I thought all these are fake feelings induced by our origin. She awoke with a normal status after a while.
Because of her Fake feelings by origin or just fledgling complex, she called me ‘Brother..’, and that’s the first time I feel like having a target in life.
She was not like a human but a doll without emotion, but the traveling time with her was still an unforgettable memory for me.
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6 years I left Beta apart, and finally, I returned as a failed Shepherd and met her again. She was there just like nothing happened to welcome my return, calling me a brother. The emotion I got proved that I didn’t just put her in the same position as I put the homunculus for my same kind, somewhere in my heart treat her as a family member. Thanks to Velvet I have noticed this for myself. To compensate for the separated time with my ‘little sister’, as my meaning of life, I swear to protect her in the future, to protect my only family in the world.
That’s why I chose to stay, to protect the town, to protect her.
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“Thank you, that feels reliable, but I am not alone.” Beta said while Lailah and Zaveid came out behind.
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“Oh, you are here, Alpha. How do you feel about this place?” The seraph without clothes on the upper part asked while approaching me. He places his arm on my shoulder like we are being close and Lailah just stays.
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I take a look around, the steps to transfer goods keep a steady beat, the cracking sound of burning flame in the oven with a steady sound of iron forging. The environment is hot but the people around works here non-stop, it is like the forge to produce weapons and resources to support. The gears turn and the production continues, the full production line is here, they are responsible for the weapons and apple gels for the fighters. The weapon that is produced: the giant crossbow once appeared on the battlefield, it was the main weapon they used to fight against the dragons. Although it is an ancient weapon, all the material required are surrounding the area, the skills required to produce are also simpler than a gun, maybe that’s the reason they choose to use a crossbow. The worker’s expressions remain serious and they don’t forget to help each other when need. That’s a scene enough to surprise me. I heard the people here belong to Beta’s guild, the action they are taking here say that they stay with their ally even if they don’t really see all of them.
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“Tender and passionate atmosphere.” That’s how I see the place with these people here.
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“Great to have such a comment.” Another guest comes, no one in the guild even responds, maybe it is because the people here don’t possess the ability to see seraphim. The guild master plus the president of the town come here to visit.
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“Rose, why do you come?”
“Just to pay a visit, I shall see the progress of work.”
“The only progress will be the apple gel here.” Lailah pointed to the pot around.
“That’s pretty enough for here.”
“Those are the men of our guild, they won’t disappoint you,” Zaveid smirked.
“...That’s why you say Beta is not alone,” I said.
“Yeah, this little kid is stronger than your imagination.”
“I have known it already.”
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“....Don’t say it in front of me, it feels shy!” Beta turned away with redden ears.
“Oh, that has nothing to be shy for,” Zaveid smirked.
“You don’t know what is shy, you walk around without clothes.” Beta pointed out, that’s a point that almost makes me laugh.
“Fine, fine. I have my reason too.” It is an oath after all.
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When Zaveid and Beta taunting each other, Lailah approaches me and said next to my ear: “To have such a reliable and cute little sister and such interesting father, you have a great life, Alpha.”
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“I do….?” That’s a comment I haven’t expected from Lailah, I am shocked and sluggish when receiving the comment.
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“Yes, don’t you think so?”
“Maybe it is.” my lips raised lightly to release an unnoticeable smile.
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“But, when did Zaveid become my dad?”
“Oh? I heard Beta said Zaveid is kind of her dad so I think he is your dad too, you two are siblings.”
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Oh, that’s a logic I don’t even bother to argue, but I should admit, Zaveid did guide me by his experience.
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“If Zaveid is my dad, then you would be my mum, would you?” I make a joke that I am not sure to call it funny, that’s never my strength.
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“Oh~~?! I have such an old son!” Lailah expressed a surprised expression, apparently, she doesn’t refuse to such a setting.
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“You accept it with less than a second…..” Beta taunted.
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“Oh, I haven’t forgotten that I also have a daughter here!”
“We just met each other, didn’t we?” Beta expressed a helpless face while points out.
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“Mum is sad, the dear daughter doesn’t want mum. Tears on my face, you see a river, Wara Wara running down, sounds of the tear.” Lailah pretends she is crying by taking a piece of tissue to wash away her ‘tear’, now she successfully calls up a speechless moment, and Rose just smiled there to see the farce.
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“It’s okay, I don’t need an explanation, either do us! Now, shall we prepare ourselves to fight at any time?” I don’t know much about human culture, but based on my traveling experience with Lailah, I suppose that’s a bad pun too and I am sure that’s brain-cell-destroying for anyone who tries to realize the bad pun so I would like to put it an end.
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“Good idea, I will go check on our guild and see if I can help.” Beta followed, said like she is ignoring Lailah’s words.
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“Very well, all to sure we have the victory.” Zaveid releases a confident smile.
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“Yeah, let’s win the fight, with the wind on our side.” Lailah released another impressive sentence from her infinite bad pun library.
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“......Right.”
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“Yeah, keep up the good work, I would go back to the north wall to see if anything changes,” Rose said and left.
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GRUMBLE------
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The large sounds of lightning strike caught Rose’s attention when she looks up the sky, a hole opened with purple fog winds around, like what Rose saw in the recording of the last battle. The hole grows bigger with lightning winding its edge as if it is invading the peaceful night. Black mugs like matters with ominous aura flow out from the hole hanging in the sky. That's a bad omen, she accelerates her pace to the defensive wall near the frontline.
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A creature there shocks her----- an adult dragon climbs on the defensive wall and it is gazing at her.
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Crimson eyes glowing brightly at night, the dragon is watching her like prey, it slowly opens its mouth and concentrates its energy.
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-------It is not the time to be in a daze, Rose wakes herself from the shock and cast a defensive barrier to defend against the fire attack. It is a hard time, she is pushed back several miles but she is not hurt. The dragon climb forward aims at Rose, all the way it walks left crumble rocks.
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Rose runs all the way to escape while finding a solution to tackle the dragon on her own, she is not able to spend her sight away from the forward direction. All the surrounding looks blurred and the wind flows straight and slides away on her cheeks.
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At the moment she got an idea, she decided to end this dragon with a series combo. Like the style of the assassin, which was her human career. As she performs a black flip, the wind spun up to follow, forming a sharp wind and slash on the dragon cranium.
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It has no effect, of course, she attacked the hardest position. It does no pain or itch to the strong creature but it still raises the fire of anger in the dragon.
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The dragon rises up its body, scratches to strike down the wind seraph in the air. Yet, Rose disappeared from the air.
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Next second, the dragon howl to cry, for its eyes got serious damage and pain.
Rose is standing on the cranium, out of the sight of the dragon. A pair of draggers respectively pierced into the eyeballs of the dragon, the burn of ash left as a trace of the explosion.
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The storm didn’t stop, it blows in an unnatural way, cutting and lead more blood from the dragon. The wind seraph Rose has attacked the dragon with her wind blades, accurately cutting onto the joint and weak part of the dragon, effectively dismembers the dragon with her skill like she has already known every weak point of the dragon.
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Without its eyes and wings, the dragon struggles, its body releases a great amount of malevolence, and this causes no effect on Rose.
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Lastly, the dragons are killed in the unstoppable storm. The opponent is finished, Rose finally has the spare time to observe the surroundings and consider her next step. One thing she can sure, the howl from the dragon is loud enough to tell the town people what happened-----An attack. She predicts they will come soon.
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Rose walks all along the defensive wall to return to her first position. All the way is ruined when the dragon was running after her, luckily, it is not fully ruined but still being functional. That's the damage brought by a dragon, what happens for a whole group of the dragon come? That's would be a nightmare.
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It is not a situation Rose wants to face, yet, from what shown in Ophelia's recording, that's exactly what happened, and it will happen again.
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Suddenly, the night is painted by crimson red, showing bloody color. Rose raises her head to see what happens. Another dragon is coming out from the hole in the sky. The pressure brought by its domain is completely different from the last dragon. It is bigger, stronger, more imposing. It has crimson shiny hard scales and eyes with the color of the lake, a holy scar engraved on its chest. A familiar collar tied on its neck and a figure is standing on its back.
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Now a dark light beam shoots out from the Hole of the sky, where it sweeps, where a pit, eventually breaking a great breach on the defensive wall. Another dragon came out from the hole, this one a person standing on it.
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“Nice defensive structure, but it is useless in front of my army.”
The person despicably announced while more dragons come out from the hole hanging behind him.
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“Tartarus…..I am not gonna let you destroy here.” Rose announced and cast a high strike on the first dragon arrived, it is a headshot and it faints a while.
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The man on the dragon releases a sheepish and despicable laugh, he points at that dragon, then all the other dragons fly towards the dead dragon, starting to bite-----they are eating their same kind.
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“-------” Rose gasped when seeing the scene, it told two things. First, the man can control the dragon, second, he made the dragon stronger by making them eating their same kind.
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“We don’t need weakling, now, enjoy the bloody party.”
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Dark mud overflow from the sky hole, leading the land tainted with dark purple smog, raising dark particles. The land is now full of malevolence, a fine piece of farm to nurture the flying out the dragon to be stronger.
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Rose is mad, these tricks all seemed to her as despicable means. Seeing that the dragon's army was about to fly over the city walls, she decided to use her secret mystic arte.
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She closes her eyes to keep her spirit and mind into one, to maintain the best and smoothest status for her secret mystic arte.
Rose performs a martial-art squat to keep her posture stable, she turns and pushes the air aside with her hands releasing mana, spinning around and leading the wind spinning with her.
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The action continues, wind blows like buzz through the gritted teeth while Rose slowly takes a deep breath.
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The palm of Rose’s hand waved along the arc. The greater wind was then rolled up, surrounding Rose, entangled with lightning.
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The movement is not fast, but rather very slow, but there is a huge wind pressure around it--a greater wind pressure than that when the dragon flaps its wings. This suppresses the movements of most monsters. During the continuous movement, the wind layers are superimposed to form a typhoon, which turns into a barrier and blocks the enemy from the city.
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She turned herself into a city wall and resisted the army for the town. This is her consciousness as the mayor. But when will such bravery last?
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Alpha side
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The wind blow from the North sounds unnaturally noisy, Zaveid may tell the situation is bad from the wind and howling, it is not optimistic, they better catch up quickly.
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"The war has begun," Zaveid announced quietly.
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"In the north, is it? I can sense strong malevolence." Alpha said.
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"Before we go, someone should inform Maotelus and Ophelia." Lailah indicated.
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"I will be the one, that's the job of normal people, right? Don't worry about me, get going." Beta said.
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"Alright, keep yourself safe."
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"I will, good luck."
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Alpha runs to the north wall at full speed, he sees ruined parts everywhere, with the trace of burning. Far away, he sees a group of people is heading towards the same destination as his target, people have already noticed the situation by the sounds.
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He hopes he is not too late.
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A single person is standing on the defensive wall, millions of hellions and dragons are rejected to enter the area by an invisible force, it would be the contribution from the person.
The sky they see far away is crimson-colored but it is dark when they stand near the wall-----no, it is not the darkness of the sky, it is the darkness consisted of concentrated hellions, dragons, and malevolence. The amount of enemies is great, luckily the town got three sides embraced by cliff and ocean, only the north side is the easiest direction to attack, and that's what showing here now: the enemies are released at North.
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"Rose, this won't stand long, open a jag on your barrier so we may reduce the enemies’ amount," Zaveid suggested, apparently knows well about the mystic arte used by Rose.
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"Northeast side all for me!" Rokurou arrived and requested.
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"I will go to the northwest area," Alisha said.
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"Very well, I am counting on you guys, buy as much time as possible until those idiots back," Rose answered with a smile.
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"There we go! Fethmus Mioma"
Alpha dash forward to fight those infinite monsters.
He swings the ancient great sword with fire waving behind, burn inside the darkness.
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Somehow he looks like Sorey from his back, as he is following the steps of Sorey, imitates his doing. What burning inside his eyes is the real passion he possesses, that's the pure wish like a burning flame, the wish born from what Sorey and Velvet told him.
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He wishes all living being here continues to live and he is fighting for this wish. Even when this wish is naive to say, that's something he shall not give up so easily again.
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The surrounding is embraced by dark smoke, lit only by the flame on the blade. He doesn't escape this time, and he doesn't need anyone to knock some sense into him to make the right decision now.
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He is fighting here to protect the people, to protect the town, and to protect his little sister.
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Trapped here was a week ago, no, maybe even a long time ago. In order to save a former Shepherd, I came here to support, but due to lack of strength, I was caught in turn.
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Sure enough, someone as weak as me should not be on the front line. Maybe I should have listened to my friend's advice. Just this time the rescue operation was successful, and I know this can only comfort me.
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Even in this field, I still have loyalty and trust for the village chief. A few days ago, there were rumors of extinction among the Seraphim. I can't perceive their existence in other places but the village I am in is safe, even if there are so many seraphim gathered here. It can be known that our mayor is capable and determined to protect our people. So Both the people and the seraphim decided to follow her, determined to protect the places where they have lived, and find ways to change the situation.
When Mayor Roose suggested that everyone save a former Shepherd, she didn't explain much, but everyone believed her judgment and believed that there was a reason for her to make this decision. I believe she was not a reckless person, she did not treat everyone's lives as a joke or a sacrifice, and because of this, I joined that rescue operation.
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In terms of results, I failed, but I didn't regret it. This is the right thing, and I don't want to regret it.
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The First day of jail--boring.
The second day---boring
After a week--boring
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The same scenery, limited vision, the smell of rust. Only the sound is slightly changed. Day after day of imprisonment, the information brought by the vision is almost constant darkness, which makes me unable to judge the passage of time. A dark, lonely, and narrow cell is the most effective environment for inspiring people to think negatively.
I couldn't control my thoughts and feelings. I seemed to be going crazy.
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The sound is the only information that provides me with cranky thoughts: sometimes old door-opening sounds, the sound of iron chains dragging on the floor, struggling whine.
I guess some people were brought out, but those people were taken there, and what they did was something I couldn’t imagine. I am afraid every day that the next person I’m taken out of is me. In the mood to go out, I thought, was it really good for me to lose my future? But I can’t regret it. This is my choice, and I don’t want to regret it either.
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It's my prayer to escape and live.
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One day, the door opened, and there was no one in the back. I ran out desperately, never looked back at the facilities behind me or other prison cells that might have closed my companion, and I ran away selfishly. I think this must be my last chance.
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I fled all the way back to the village, and the road unexpectedly passed unimpeded. Even a forest in front of the village entrance was cleared of a wide road. I can say that this was not caused by natural phenomena. What happened to the village during my absence?
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I returned to the village with anxiety. I saw the city wall was built outside the village, and the wall broke a big hole, and the ground was covered with black mud. When I stepped on the black mud, I vaguely felt angina pectoris in my chest, and this feeling when I touch malevolence, but anxiety makes me ignore the pain and move towards the gap.
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“------! You... you are back!” What I saw in the gap was a human friend who had persuaded me not to rescue. She saw me coming and happily wanted to come to meet me.
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At this time, the black mud with a few stories height above us rushed to us. I can already predict the end, but unfortunately, I cannot survive, because I am a weak seraph.
At least at the moment, we hugged together. Even if the whole body was in pain, I became no longer myself, I know, you are with me.
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“Hellionize!”
“........We shall let them calm down!”
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It was a nightmare, as in the case of "Trojan horses", sending gifts into the city and launching an invasion from the inside quickly disintegrated the front. If this is Tartarus' trick, Rose will despise him extremely. The mentality of the humans and the Seraphim drops seriously after they saw the scene --The seraph they known turned into a dragon to have devoured their human friends in front of their very eyes. The people around were occupied with fear, slandered, and some were directly demonized. At the same time, the Seraphim that affected by the contract to humans became a dragon. The dark legion increased a lot in a flash. Alpha and Rose alone were not enough to support the front. Rose's enchanting wind enchantment is also quickly dissipated due to the exhaustion of mana. On the contrary, the dark side can easily expand and increase the number. This is an unequal battle, and the victory seems to be far away.
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Under Alpha's proposal, Rose's current strategy is to expand the border but intentionally leave a gap to control the number of enemies and let Alpha knockdown. If Rose, the key, falls, everything will fall down like a domino. Tartarus knew this, so he came to fight the attrition battle, and even our combat power is now used by the enemy, which is extremely unfavorable.
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"The things to be done haven't changed, knock down the enemy, repair the walls, and reorganize the front." Alpha noticed the differences on the front and hurried back to the rear with the wind god to deal with the dragon. The blessed rain of purification flame scorching on his companions and delayed some people's demonization, and he ordered them to retreat and call for support. Finally, the erosion of the dark side was suspended, but only Lailah was dealing with the enemy on the northern front. It is not doubtful of Lailah's strength, but it is very dangerous.
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The mana is lost little by little, Rose must maintain the enchantment even if she wants to drain her magic, Alpha and others try their best to knock down more dragons and demons, but the efforts of them are in the collapsed front seems to be losing effect.
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The flames from the dragon shot hit the wind barrier, and Rose spent a lot of effort to shift the attack path, but already worn this barrier. Now Rose is reluctant to maintain the strength of the barrier. She understands that she will not be able to support it for long, and it will probably be penetrated directly on the next blow.
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“Although insignificant, Rose, uses my mana. Maotelus said that I have huge potential mana inside.” Just paying attention to shield the fire from the front, Rose failed to notice when Beta came to her side.
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"Beta! But!"
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"This place is significant. Then you must protect her by any means."
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"Why are you doing this?"
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If she wants to protect this place, Rose has no choice when she runs out of mana. But she still couldn't let herself use such a kid to continue fighting. She kept watching Beta growing up in the dark and knew that Beta was actually a very young child. Because she is a child, the heart is so pure and it is easy to be distorted. To prevent Beta from having a distorted spirit, Rose should also ask Beta's thoughts even in such an emergency.
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“We are allies. In short, you can use my mana. I want to contribute.” She just wanted to help but made a decision to sacrifice herself. To some extent, this is a twisted mind, but for now, Rose has no time to preach to her and can only accept her kindness.
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"You... Alas, I will be scolded by Zaveid. Now, hold on!"
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Rose touched Beta's cervical spine, where it was the gathering point of the magic circuit, through 'Forbidden arte: Manas-witch' to transfer the magic inside Beta to his body. But soon, Rose felt abnormal, that is, the mana possessed by the child seemed to be infinite, there was a surge of magic in it, and she could feel the pulsation of the earth. Does this child have the ability to connect the earthpulse?
However, thanks to this child, she has enough magic power to continue the battle as it is.
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For a moment, the inflammation of purification covered the front door, and Rose, Alpha, Alisha, Rokurou all felt that their physical strength was restored, which is not what Alpha can do.
"Sorry, I have you guys waited for us a long time. The works have been completed and have been distributed to everyone."
Maotelus and Ophelia arrived at the scene. Behind them were humans like the state of armatus. That is, the army of armatus that was not realized by humans has now been done. Everyone fought up against the hellions and Dragon, melee swordsman, The archers who have been arranged early have dutifully removed the enemies in front of them.
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As for the dragon flying in the sky...
Suddenly a beam of light shot at the dragon, the first time it seemed to cause actual damage to it. Rose turned his head to check the source of the beam --- Mana Compressing Cannon.
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"This is the only thing I can do." Maotelus teleported the mana behind the Canon, providing the huge mana needed.
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The situation began to reverse, but it was too early to be happy, they just got out of the disadvantage. But at least there is a greater chance to wait until Sorey and Velvet come back. The battle has just begun.
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I know that when Velvet develops a relationship with other characters, the first sacrifice is Laphicet. I feel a little sorry about him, after waiting for near a thousand years, yet love is something unreasonable.
Reading the before chapters again, I roughly assessed that I focused on the part of Velvet. Sorey does not look like the protagonist, so I am thinking of supplementing others' descriptions and ideas of Sorey.
Because some parts did not write well before, this chapter pulled them out to re-write, such as the Alpha’s part. Now he is written by me as a sis-con but this is not completed in one day, so I explain the things between them by the way.
I really stuck for a long time in the battle/war part. Although I don’t know how many times I wrote the battle in the story, I feel that I have written poorly and I don’t know how to write attractively. Because it is such a large and grand scale, I can't control the war and picture all people very well, so it has become like this.
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