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A long whistling, powerful but also sad, it is a hawk, I can hear, must be somewhere near.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Yn0ZXNr7X
In Cambria Caverns, right now, there is an old man waiting for his last moment.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34YItwqFSZ
Feeling the drops on my face, I opened my eyelids slowly. As the focus of my eyes recovered gradually, I see the water dripping from stalactite.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacBCFI1z0L
I can still feel the temperature from the drops, I can still feel my heartbeats, I am still living.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2e7LKFzjr
I have worried that my eyelids would not able to be opened again and my eyes would not able to see again, it happened that I worry too much.
How laughable is that……..for thought from a Mayvin. For a man explored countless ruins, read the numberless stories, lived innumerable ages, the man who passed the true history down.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYn32eCOlN
Ah, numberless is too exaggerated, but yeah, I lived too long. I even don’t know my specific age myself. In fact, I didn’t count after it started exceeding a hundred.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhtczUAVLa
Huh, it is appropriate to say I am forgotten by the years.
Haha…..ha…cough....cough19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNArfvIQBx
Well, why would my body start coughing, for a body not even able to say a sentence now, sarcastic, right?
I had made an oath, an oath to stay long-living.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5NItct4rbQ
Mere life is senseless existence to me, now this body had already become inhumane things staying far from death, lives of others or myself would be meaningless.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgx2aBoTOrg
My job is to pass on the story, apart from that are none of my business. This is the rule within Mayvin, not to interfere in the world.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPqF20Xl03
In no way I will be disturbed by my own so-called life crisis, to cause my mind shaken.
Death need not be commiserated.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVA6SWN6Yu
Death need not be depressed.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUGe9AQ0Oq
Death need not be grieved.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BmRujwY0y
Death need not be angered.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGf3lCUTXd
It is all the fate, a normal thing to life.
That’s me, the observer wandering in the world.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoK3d5CE9X
An old man whose mind like water, calm and splash less, straying to explore, read stories one after one and then get old enough but still not died yet, the old man Mayvin.
Could my legs still walk? Could my hands still hold anythings?19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TDDfrC2JB
I think I can but it is uncertain.
What is the ‘person’ I met? who and what, mysteries all around him. My partner seraph is just taken away, I escaped miserably all the way to here…..At least I have stolen a memory fragment from him, Although it is still foggy after reading it. Now I feel sorry every time I remember it happened.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5k8hAGLiTn
Shouldn’t I throw away my partner and escape?19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnuqkwcmLy
If so, maybe I can save my partner, and I can understand what else from the man.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNY6qo2miIw
And there is no need to worry every night, but to wait for the fate to come.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuW8qEMwMKV
Or to end my life earlier, that man may kill me ignoring my oath, I have such feeling, my dying wounds are the best proof for this.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEuovNg43x
...........However, it is impossible. My partner would do the same things as I did. She must capable to escape, nevertheless she is carefree to live.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtL6qqht4om
After all, she always comes and goes like a shadow, and everything doesn't matter to her, just like the mirror of my reflection. She and I have long wanted to escape from him the first time when facing the person. She is sure to escape by her illusion. I am believed in that, Ophelia is a seraph like that. If not, she and I would not be friends.
What makes me curious is that she is very familiar with Mayvin's history. Together with the history of Asgard Period, which is already lost, she is not a very old Seraphim. Is there a relationship between her and Mayvin? Doesn’t matter to me.
It has been weeks for me to live in such condition, would that happen that I am afraid of death now despite being indifferent to it all the time?19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zR29JlHke
Why did I escape?19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgzuc8qxcI
I don’t have the enthusiasm of other ordinary people for their dreams, the enthusiasm for contributing to the world.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXx04xzvHTp
Yes, the old man has no enthusiasm to live, no.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaSGL6awqM
In my way, the heart is useless. Emotional resentment is useless.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6K7HBAfSC
I am just watching the observer of fate, not the mediator.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjAiglBmOD
But I also want to read more stories…..such greedy….and there are things remained unfinished.
Then, I can’t wait here for death, not at least to hand out the fragment to the fateful one.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlt9SVDGBr
That’s what the man said:19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYqCJaIKVp
“Oh? Still not died? And you stole something from me…...Very well, I will give it to you…........ just struggle on whilst at death’s door and pass a message for me, Mayvin. ---------The Dark Age will fall again.”
I shall send the message, I shall not die.
Given time for me, it’s for my fate.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo23ao0vRyj
As long as my hand can still move, I will climb and go back.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOgeplIJRE
Because I am the inheritor of Mayvin, even if this world will be turned into hell, I will continue to pass on the stories.
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The place is still surrounded by caves and caverns while part of it becomes exposed for the controlled mining and the extension of village, now that they can see the sea now. Guess there may be a trading port there, despite it is doubted that there is any resource for trading. Well, by the fact that virtual things and services can be traded, it is not surprised that Rose had found her way to build up the village with economic prosperity with the whole guild behind her.
Being in the upper part at the village entrance, They can see the sea view there and they can not see the whole village at all, given that the scale of the village is comparable to a town but still not a town yet. It is felt like the village is building along cliffs with the cliffs and caves surrounded as the natural barrier, it is an appropriate place as a natural hide-out. Many windmills built on the rooftop of the house, no except for the hostel Sorey’s group is staying, apparently, the residents rely on the wind power to make their life easier, it may not be possible for the Gododdin before, but now they have the sea breeze to make this possible.
Inside the hostel they are, several drawings are hung to decorate the living, some illustrations are drawing women that look alike Lailah and Magilou by some coincidence. Normally, Sorey and Bienfu will talk about it to explore the things in the village, but now there are more important things for them to concern, so they all concentrated for things right now.
The man known as a Mayvin is now resting in a bed. Bienfu is worried about the fact that a Mayvin is attacked. Everyone noticed it is a serious condition they should be prepared.
Sorey asked for Bienfu’s concern.
“Mayvin is always the people greatly desire in knowledge and story in an extent that they are willing to form a pact for long life and resonance. They are mostly pacifism, so normally they avoid any dispute and not to get involved in the great activities happening in the world. There is seldom chance they get attacked, not to mention that they are strong enough to defend themselves with the seraphim formed a pact with them.” Bienfu explained in a serious tone, no more casual tone in his voice. The change in his attitude let everyone in the room noticed the severity of the incident just happened.
“So we may approach a strong enemy in the future,” Edna concluded.
“The Mayvin seems coming back without a seraph, will that be possible it related to the disappearance of seraphim?” Sorey wondered after collecting all the clues together.
“Both are possible, we should prepare for the worst.” Velvet stated.
“You said you are not going to help, Velvet.” Edna teased.
“It is just self-defense now.” Velvet explained.
“Then you are going to help?” Sorey asked.
“.......not really, apart from defending, we are not sure for anything right now.” Velvet looked away.
“I see…..” Sorey sighed.
“It’s too early to conclude when everything is uncertain,” Edna stated.
“We shall just wait for the Mayvin awake,” Sorey stated.
The cracking sound of the firewood fills up the room with the burning flame animation shows on the old-radiator-simulation screen in the modern heater. It is supposed to heat the air and the sound may cause a relaxing effect theoretically, but it is useless now.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4weTGeF9z5
It failed to heat the cold air brought by fear and restlessness, it also failed to loosen the tensed air. Sorey, Velvet, Edna and Bienfu all sit on the sofa in the hostel common room to wait for the awake of the Mayvin. They may do other things to spend the time, but no one did since the atmosphere is too heavy. They each lost in thought, thinking about the effective strategy to respond to this situation.
After a while, the doctor comes out with the healer seraph and state that the man has just woke up.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5D5HKqhJ1r
They quickly approach him and ask for the condition of Mayvin.
“You are...Shepherd Sorey and the first Lord of Calamity, Velvet Crowe.” the man said after a while of recognition as his focus of eyes recovered.
He never thought to see these people in person. At a moment, he thought that he died so he saw these people. However, hardly the Mayvin can die unless they break the oath or the oath effect has reached the limit. He guessed they are the fateful people he should meet before he truly dies. Right, significant enough to call them fateful one.
“You know us?!” Both of them surprised.
“Well, I have seen a lot of story from Earthen Historia, and I heard stories from the past Mayvin.” the man explained.
“Just what is happening?” Edna asked.
“Seems that a new Lord of Calamity raised and unfortunately the Shepherd in this Age is disappeared. I…..got attacked by a man, he grasped away the seraphim with me.” The old man spoke with worry when remembering the scene.
“What is the man look like?” Sorey asked.
“...........I can’t really see him clearly, there is always black aura around him but it is not like malevolence. He has a heavy and scornful voice. That is all I know.”
“If we don’t do something, there is more seraphim under threat.” Sorey concerned.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxcBKgM7LL
“There is just not enough information for us to traced the enemy,” Edna stated the fact in an unpleasant tone, she is unpleased by the fact she can’t do a thing.
“The man told me to send a message--The Dark Age will fall again. That’s all.”
Velvet is silent, no one knows what is she thinking, and she doesn’t state a word. She gazed at Edna and Sorey for a moment and then look down the ground again. She felt guilty around Edna as if she causes her brother turning into a dragon but she managed to change her focus. She thinks she has to do something to protect Edna from the capture too, just as a compensation. Her feeling to Sorey is unclear, but she could not let the one who saved her and accepted her killed by the hand of others. As the situation comes to meet her prediction in early, they are involved in something big, something they cannot control. Therefore, she would do whatever she could to protect her friends now, she just doesn’t want to lose all the one she cared for again.
“Here something I shall give it to you.” The Mayvin gave a silver fragment to Sorey.
“What’s it?” Sorey asked.
“It is a piece of memory I stole from the man, I got nothing clear from it, but I hope that it may help you,” Mayvin said.
“Thank you. May you say about the seraphim with you?” Sorey asked as he wanted to help Mayvin saving his seraph friend.
“I can’t really describe her, because she is a master of illusion and she can just change her appearance. Things for sure are that she always wears a necklace with a golden eye ornament hanging on it so that I can recognize her. Oh, yeah, she is a female seraph, called Ophelia. I am sure that she escaped successfully.”
“Ophelia? We certainly met a seraph called Ophelia in the Lost Tower.” Sorey said.
“Hmm, I see, it is indeed a good place to hide. Thanks for the news, I will go find her later.”
Leaving the room with the fragmental piece given to Sorey, they sit in the living room again and trying to find a way to read the memory fragment. Suddenly, they entered a scene like they have triggered something.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeT8jPpPklm
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The memory played in the first-person perspective to Sorey, Velvet, Edna, and Bienfu.
The so-called hell must be the world itself.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAH5bm2TRdl
Inside the flame, I can see the people smile madly, for the death of mum and me.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AV2GYG8zW
“Die! Witch! Die! The Forbidden one!”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZUfY7VRNbA
Not showing a single kindness to a neighbor had lived in the same village for almost ten years, is this what the human being is?19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPRdu1vVRA1
………………
The scene of flame changed to another scene, and Sorey doesn’t know how it ended up with.
“You are the observer for this proposal, let’s see how it ended up with. Oh, yeah, you have no right to refuse. Dirt will return to dirt, you won’t earn a proper position here but to doom with the human.” Someone said to the belonger of the memory.
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It appeared to be a mission but they can’t figure out what is it as there is too few information given by the fragment, the scene then changed into another scene again.
“I had hoped that we can understand each other, but it appears not. Sorry, it is the only way to stop you.” A man standing in front of the belonger of the memory said, like saying words to a friend, it looks like that he casts an exorcist arte to the belonger of the memory.
“Damn it! I will break the seal one day! That you will regret not killing me. Claudin!” the belonger of the memory said.
“Maybe, I hope there is a person to stop you at that time then. Goodbye, my friend.” The man who is called Claudin says with fondness like a farewell to a friend.
“Claudin!!-----------” The cry ended the scene with darkness and this is all the content from the memory fragment.
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Looks like that the belonger of the memory was a friend of Claudin and he is sealed away by an arte, so it means the seal is broken now by the fact that they are seeing this memory.
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“......Wow, you all see that?” Sorey asked after he returned his consciousness to reality.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXfUtidgKH1
“Sure, what a mess I see,” Edna commented.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBZ3KzxA6e
“......At least we can confirm he is related to Claudin.” Velvet said.
“Would he be a being that has lived in the Dark Era? He has exclaimed to raise it again.” Sorey speculated.
“......You know I am not familiar with history.” Velvet sighed.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelhJNcEm6g
“Apparently, he was a being lived an Era before I live,” Edna said.
“...Doesn’t matter when since he lives, maybe we should think of another part in it.” Velvet suggested.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulK8CzLGgg
“He is called a forbidden one…….why?” Sorey wondered.
“Humans have superstitious belief, red hair, red eyes, having monstrous power, all can be the reasons for that. You should have experienced it, Sorey.” Edna added, reminding Sorey of the experience of being treated as a monster when he raised stones from the riverbed as the bridge construction base in front of everyone.
“What about the observer?”
“I have no idea about it.”
“Same here.”
“................”
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At last, Bienfu suggested all people in the room rest as he notices the atmosphere become much heavier as they have no idea from the fragment. He suggested they all go to their room and try to relax.
However, Sorey doesn’t sleep as he can’t really sleep with the issue. He decides to go for a walk around the village and he leaves the hostel in midnight.
He wondered if he should go to investigate to find out the myth of the enemy. Maybe his friends are gonna worry, he wondered if it will be fine to leave them all like this, especially Velvet, given that he was the one who asked her to travel with him. Then it appears that is not a mature decision at all.
“Hey, where are you going? Idiot ex-Shepherd?” A familiar voice reaches Sorey's ear. Sorey finds out Edna follow him out.
“Just go for a walk,” Sorey stated.
“In midnight?” Edna asked.
“Yeah…..I can’t sleep.”
“You know we will get worried if you just disappeared in a night like this.” Edna indicated.
“I have been wondering if I should just leave in the night and go investigate too,” Sorey admitted.
“Where are you planning to start with if you do?” Edna asked.
“I don’t know, anywhere.” Sorey admitted that he has no plan at all.
“Anyway, I am with you. You can’t do many things without a seraph if you approach an enemy.” Edna facepalmed as she heard the ex-shepherd’s word.
“Well, thanks!.”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvwN0OzMMB
“But what about Velvet? You will just leave her here if you are really doing this.” Edna shows her concern about Velvet.
“........That’s why I am still wondering.....She has stated that she won’t help.”
“I doubt it, she may be just being dishonest.” Seeing Velvet has grown concern to them, she supposes Velvet will help if the time comes.
“Is that so………..”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0Hon4LJt6
“...........And have you forgot your promise to her?” Edna remembered that Sorey promised her to be alright.
“No, never, I don’t plan to die.” The boy stated firmly.
“But you are playing with your life to leave alone in such a moment.” Edna criticized Sorey’s stupid act.
“And I am not alone now.” Sorey smiled.
“...............right.” Edna sighed.
“To prevent anything happen, I will reform the pact with you. Now, repeat after me.”
“o..ok!”
“O ye born sacred heart of purity and resolute stubbornness.”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dFe7QqGm9
“O ye born sacred heart of purity…..and resolute ...stubbornness??”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPa8Llns9t
“Don’t mind, just repeat!”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWly4ImS63O
“O ye born sacred heart of purity and resolute stubbornness!”
“Here let our pact be forged, that my unwavering and unlimited stubbornness will may be thy absolute fortification! Shouldst thou accepts this burden.”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiqlQqZWdI
“Here let our pact be forged, that my unwavering ...and unlimited stubbornness will may be thy absolute fortification! Shouldst thou accepts this burden.”
“Now, recite aloud my true name.”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfl2zHocbd
“Now, recite aloud my true name.”
“I mean just say my true name! or you have already forgotten?”19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ciHLuMUy7
“Nope, never. Hephsin Yulind.”
This night, Sorey reformed the pact with Edna.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNzuT7hywV
Everything is fine until the sky is painted in red.
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A.N.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmYk0eyrDS
I get inspiration from the writing style in the beginning in FGO Epic of Remnant 3 Shimosa and I kind of fitting it into this chapter for Mayvin POV...
Hmm, the village is not having a complete setting but yes it is in Gododdin and is merged with features in Taliesin in Berseria. I originally like the place be around Tintagel Ruins, but the fact that Lohgrin is around there and it is certainly not a good position for a place isolated from countries or else the tragedy of Camlann may happen again by the geologic location there. To make it a place good enough for a hide-out, I rather change Gododdin into a different place for it is originally named The Forgotten Village. Thus it may be isolated from the country during the war because it is unnecessary and then both the countries would not want to attack there for not really a resource they can have in the place.
How to transport from Marlind to Gododdin if you ask, by seraphic artes for sure, though I didn’t name it exactly in the story.19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HdVfuU8HZ
