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VELVET POV
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Once, I was very angry, being incompetent, being played in this world, and I should be outraged for my failure to protect the people around me. Like a shell, filled with hatred, self-loathing, and responsibility. When the goal is completed, I no longer need to live, I used to think so. But some people tell me that some people will be sad because of this, some people are waiting for me, some people say that I just don't have enough courage to live anymore. I survived time and time again under the favor of these nosy people. I think, I still can't hate this world, because, in this world, I met these people.
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Standing here at the moment, I saw the man who once made me angry--Tartarus. When invading his base system and liberating the prisoners, I probably expected that he would find us and meet us soon. It may be a lucky encounter at the last level but not in the initial stage instead.
His light and unruly confident expression made me think Everything may still be within his expectations. It is his vicious interest to destroy the opponent when the victim thinks he is about to achieve his goal. Tartarus looks over here with a suspicious smile.
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What makes him hate everything in the world so extreme? I think it's just because he didn't realize that he was loved.
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Everything has been suspicious and unpleasant since I arrived on this floor. The surroundings of this space became the Scarlet night in my memory. The nightmare-like memories suddenly came to mind. On that night, my brother-in-law protected me and told me not to give up. On another Scarlet night, he pierced my brother's body and sacrificed him to the forbidden Empyrean. Having failed to prevent everything from happening, I was cut off and turned into a therion. I was kept in the dark and started an inhuman life imprisoned for three years. Scarlet Night is like a nightmare in my life, things become like this and it is indispensable that Tartarus captured Sorey and Edna on Scarlet Night. If he hadn't done this at the beginning, I would let myself die, and I won’t fight him, we would not have any cross, and I would die as an unknown traveler in a foreign land when the era has nothing to do with me.
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This despicable man seemed to know my past from the earthpulse through the Earthen Historia. He did not see all of it, since once he thought that I would become his companion. The Scarlet Night scene that appeared here may have been done deliberately by him. The Scarlet Night was a nightmare turning point in life for me and him. From then on, I embarked on the path of becoming a Lord of Calamity, and he lost everything as a human being and started to hate human beings. We also hate something, but the biggest difference should be what we feel. I hated when I was betrayed because of my deep love. His reason should be that he thought he didn't get any rewards for his efforts. So as long as he knows that his efforts are being seen, can he weaken his hatred? I'm afraid it's very difficult. After all, it's hard to accept something completely contrary to your perception.
Although the entire venue can see the red sky and the moon outside, I don't feel that it is like an outdoor element. There is no fresh air in the space where noise and breeze do not exist. It is obvious that we are walking down from the control room but we can't see the ceiling. Alleged that this scene is a false existence.
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"You finally escaped from the collar and then you came back. Are you missing me? My dear hound." He sneered at our existence as if unchanged.
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"How is it possible. I'm here---" As soon as the words reached my throat, I abruptly stopped the word and swallowed it back into my stomach. Before I say anything, I must think, there is no need to irritate the opponent now, it will only make the situation worse at this moment. Being unable to fight(or say I don’t get permission to fight), I must be more careful if I want to live in an unfavorable situation.
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"To stop you.".. . I admit that I am too accustomed to using more offensive words and can't come up with better words. Sorey and Eleanor are better at doing this kind of thing. The opponent in front of me is very powerful, and even 8 people can not easily defeat him. I can't underestimate his strength, and I can't allow myself to make any moves that will lead to our defeat.
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"Stop me? By such tiny party?" Tartarus arrogantly provoke us, but what he said is true. The opponents that 8 people cannot fight together cannot be stopped by the three of us alone.
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"You are right. Before the battle, let’s talk.” I guess that Edna and Zaveid should come down to support soon after the cell above is unlocked. I think the best action to improve the chance of survival at this moment is to delay the time.
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“Oh? You? Want to talk with me?" Tartarus seemed surprised by my attitude, even the usual provocation and hostile tone did not appear, as if willing to talk to me.
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"Yes, before the fight, I want to know why you want to destroy the world.” Speaking of which, since I was always angry with him and felt very angry with him and the similarities to me, I was instinctively rejecting him, and now it is a fresh feeling to start a conversation peacefully.
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"How to start...You have seen my past, haven't you?" Tartarus's tone is surprisingly smooth and calm. The anger presents in words, but sorrow filled the words enough to cover the anger. Maybe he was similar to me in that we were both filled with anger, yet the humanity part still left in us. The fact that he is talking peacefully to me is proving this, which may also be his weakness. Now that he mentioned about I have seen his past, I am sure that he showed his past to me some time ago. Which I used to irritate and beat him last time by the presence of Claudin's sword.
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I nodded silently after I read through all his memory to manage to integrate them into one piece, I can say I realized what he had run through.
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"Then you should know, there is no place for me in the world, whoever in the world all want me disappear, the only thing I obtain is suffering." He stated somehow in sorrow.
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In his past I saw him betrayed by villagers, isolated by seraphim, it is not hard to understand his conclusion.
“...So I am going to shape the world I want, into a place I can be.”
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To hear his conclusion I can not help but wanna smirk, but I restrained myself from wanting to criticize him immediately.
"Yes, I can see the tragedy that happened to you. People are always so fickle, full of lies, and a very selfish species. I admit your hatred." Whether it is to take off his guard or in terms of facts, I will also admit his hatred and hatred for those who reject him for no reason. In my eyes, those people are the same. It’s wrong, because of their extreme judgments, this person began to resent, despise, hate, and hate everything in this world.
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"Yet, I doubt the world truly has no place for you?"
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In my heart, a certain part realized he just wanted a home. He wanted others to look at him, want to be recognized, to be recognized as another equal existence. However, like an autistic child, he expresses his aspirations in a way that ordinary people think is wrong. I know that accusations are useless, so this time I tried to use a more gentle tone to ask.
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"...what do you mean?" He sounded a little angry. He should think I don’t understand his experience. That’s natural. I haven’t experienced his life. There is only a similar experience between us: the resonance of misfortune and being deemed a disaster. I met his eyes, and in that hostile sight, there was endless malice, mixed with incomprehensible complex feelings.
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"Unfortunate maybe the only thing you recognized, thus you had ignored what you owned."
Claudin maybe somehow idealistic, but he wasn't wrong, we are similar and so I may understand his nature.
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"I only own power."
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"No," I stated, gazed at him straightly. He is standing in the middle of the wilderness, his distorted expression has ugly malice and the obsession to live desperately. The
one who gave him this kind of obsession was the person who had given him love before himself.
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If his whole life is just to accept and bear malice, you will turn this pain into common sense, and you will not feel pain, and you will not want revenge.
Pain is only caused when there is a difference in perception.
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"I admit your resentment of those villagers and the seraphim in the heavenly realm, the hatred of wanting revenge on them. "Just like my obsession with revenge against Altorius, I admit that it exists. As an Avenger, I can only recognize his hatred and be qualified to talk about hatred with him. At least he thinks so, so he never killed me while releasing his maliciousness onto me. That's why I was allowed to talk to him, even though our strengths difference is huge.
I hate Tartarus, because he is very similar to me, and I privately think that he seems to reflect my malice like a mirror, an existence to accuse my countless crimes and know no repentance. I want to refuse to admit that we are similar. Even if my friends all deny that we are the same, we are indeed similar. If I continue to refuse to accept this, I and those who refuse to look straight at Tartarus. Then I will be no different to those people who accused Tartarus as evil, as cursed, as forbidden for no reason in the first place.
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As Avenger, only I can understand that he also does not hate because he wanted to, and he does not despair because he wanted to, and our anger is probably will only be subdued after the revenge is completed, even if nothingness is left at the end of the revenge.
Unfortunately, I cannot allow him to complete his revenge, because the person I love lives in this world, rests in peace in this world, and can't let him disturb them anymore.
Then at least let his resentment be subdued by means other than complete revenge. This is what I think of the so-called "possibility to save him".
"Before you recognize the malice, you must first recognize goodwill. Thus you understood the nature of evil."
Even I felt incredible. I'm doing things like Sorey and Eleanor, like what a Shepherd would do.
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"And even for why you survived, and why I decided to talk to you like this, it is because of someone's kindness to you."
I didn't clearly state the identity of ‘someone’, the man who was once Altorius’s teacher, the hero king. I am sarcastically saying these things as a former Lord of Calamity, but there is nothing more bizarre than the ancestor of the Shepherd asking a request from the Lord of Calamity!
Still, I am saved, even though I don’t think I deserve it. Thus I will do this unreasonable action, implement and follow through the will of these fools.
Tartarus hasn’t made any actions yet, has no intention to attack as if to continue to wait for me to speak. This may be a good start for a conversation.
"Goodwill?" He asked.
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"Yes, you may not have noticed that you have received kindness from birth. You may even hate your mother because she has brought you into this unreasonable world." To my remarks, he silently nodded and admitted, he hates even his mother.
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"She is a stupid person," Tartarus said so, but he saw no sarcasm, but rather sad. Even if he thought she was stupid, his mother was different for him than other human beings. In the end, he thought that his mother was a stupid woman who only looked at the non-existent father, but he didn't understand that his mother had been looking at him all the time. Raising a kid on her own is hard work, I doubt his mum only raise him for a person who left long.
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"Maybe it is, she may also be aware of his hatred for her, but even so, she insists on raising you alone in poverty. This is the kindness you received from birth that had always been around, and she was also one of the many humans you hate.”
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In my opinion, family members will never betray their family. Even if they betray me, they cannot change the facts they are important to me. Even now, I still value my family very much, and I can see from his memory that he also values his family.
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"But she finally left me with a peaceful face and left this world forever," Tartarus said deeply indignantly. He always felt that his mother was waiting for his father to greet him.
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"Yes, I can't tell what she was thinking in the end, but she must love you. You receive more than just this kindness. After your mother's death, after you avenged the village, a seraph, Chaos, liberated you from the cross and took you to the heavenly realm.
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"This person took me to hell, there is no way he was kind."
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"Goodwill is just the other one's sincere intentions. It is the intention imposed on others as much as malicious does, and the result is another thing. He saved you when it was unnecessary for him, and took you to the heavenly realm. Ignore the people around him who oppose taking you in. All of this is not goodwill that you should take as granted. "
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Goodwill does not necessarily bring the right results, just like my brother sacrificed himself to give me a better world. It was the kindness of rationally and effectively using his life, but for me, it is the most crippling forbearance. The so-called kindness is just one person’s arbitrariness and imposing on the other’s kindness, and the result is not necessarily good.
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"That person left me and my mother for so long..."
"Sure enough, you also think that he was your father, but even so, his kindness should not be taken for granted. The only fact is that you were living in the heavenly realm with his kind help, and he is one of the seraphim you hate. And even not counting the kindness of your parents, you still received the third kindness."
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"Wait, don't you mean to say---"
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"...Yes, the person you seem to hate him so much, the first who accepted your existence other than your parent, the one who kept you alive to this day, and ask me to save you.”
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I still haven’t mentioned his name, I just want to convey the information he needs to know before he goes crazy. I used the existence of Claudin to made him crazy, which made him expose his flaws last time, but now I have to make him understand that he is not the object he should hate. If it succeeds, this will no longer be his flaw. I will personally erase his only flaw at the moment. It is a ridiculous fate.
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Yet I have already decided to save him. If I don't devote my heart and soul to the speech, I'm afraid I won't be able to succeed, then I can't have the idea of retaining a flaw.
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"How silly is it that a good person will always show kindness to the person who wants to kill him, to the person who always hates him... Whether it is him or your mother is a fool."
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He silenced for a while, digesting my words, I only hope it was in a good way.
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“Funny enough, the first time you wanted to destroy the world, it was for him.” I pointed it out.
In the memory of the story Claudin told me, Tartarus valued Claudin and felt anger to humans that not being grateful but holding fear to Claudin because of his power.
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"...?!"
"You hated humans saved by him when you saw the people saw him as a monster."
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"Yet he tried to stop me and he sealed me away."
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"Yeah, he still wanted to protect his people, and it would have solved things easily if he just killed you that time. That was the rational way to prevent anything happen to humans in the future if he was only thinking to save human
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“So, you have had a place in this world already."
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"Shut up, shut up, no they left me alone, and so are you! Disappear!" Tartarus shook his head, refused to accept all the things I mentioned which are opposite to his recognization or he was refusing to accept the fact that his anger and vengeance were for nothing. Like the time when I knew the truth, I despaired and felt the meaning of all kinds of things lost.
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A glyph appears above us, casting lighting, I was pulled backward immediately.
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“An outstanding speech.” Eleanor praised as she pulled me backward.
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“Not at all, but one of the most effort-paying ones I agree. Sadly, he doesn't want to listen and believe the fact someone accepted him."
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"I believe that won't be futile. Now, stay in the back!" Eleanor said like an order.
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"Yes, ma 'am, I shouldn't be surprised that you were planning to fight him on your own...I would call Edna and Zaveid to come support."
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"Good enough."
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Edna & Zaveid side---Zaveid POV
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As we discovered the cells and decided to rescue the prisoners here, two hot-headed idiots went straight down the area, and we were left to wait for her e until they open the cells. Velvet said she is releasing the prisoners here to be our force but that was not gonna happen easily in the beginning. I bet she left us here not just to wait, but to make this happening.
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"Edna, what do you plan to do until the doors open?” I turned and asked.
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Wait, of course.” Said the lady steps on the ground and makes a small rock pop up, she then sat still on the rock.
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“Very well, no surprise.." I smirked and walked to one of the jails.
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"Hey bro, we are going to free you guys, but before that, I wanna make a duel."
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"...?!...Who are you ?" The prisoner seems surprised, this place is supposed to be secret and he thought no one will come.
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"Zaveid, a kind wind seraph. I came with my companion on the way to beat the owner of the facility. We would be glad if you and your friends here come to help us out."
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"We are barely useful…." said the man sat back in his corner.
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"Oh, come on."
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"How do you plan to free us?" Another prisoner came close and asked curiously.
"My friends are on their way to the control room, they should be able to open all the doors here. We would get all of you to the lowest level to reach the teleporting arte glyph and get outside. However, we need you guys to join and help us clear the way out."
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"Talking about how?"
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"...Maybe like attacking the person we are after."
"Hardly a fight to win." he pessimistically concluded.
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"You are fighting for justice!"
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"Why should I risk my life for your silly ideal?"
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"I understand, but are you going to left your chance to escape then?"
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"..........."
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"And you know what, there is a common justice for all us men in the world."
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".......what is it."
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"Look out the window for yourself."
He looks out the window in the jail, some other curious people are also lookout.
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"See, how lovely the girl in front of you is! Looking at her petite but firm will, she is waiting for your response, fighting together, even if the result is not ideal, she will still fight to save you guys. Such a cute and petite girl stands on the front line and fights, don't you feel ashamed as men?!" I exaggeratedly described Edna who is sitting, and Edna was looking at them with the look of "looking at a pig". She must have felt helpless and confused about this.
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"Zaveid...what the hell are you doing?" Edna said facepalmed. Look at me with contempt, and then I hear the prisoners behind exclaims, may I add, they exclaim like enjoyment. Presumably, the desperate cell makes them very sensitive to external stimuli. Seeing a cute girl will naturally lead them to feel excited several times high than it should be. And it seems that everyone here is Masochism, a pervert who likes to be scolded.
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"I'm bargaining for them to help. There is no guarantee that if we save them, they will help us."
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"It turns out that humans are selfish. They choose not to help to protect themselves, but you dare to use me to achieve your goals without my authorization.”
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"Sorry, sorry, I am just showing you your charm, you see, everyone is charmed by you. "
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"They are just a bunch of perverts, aren't they?" As soon as the ironic tone came out, a lot of enjoyable voices came from behind. Eizen, at this moment, he should immediately want to kill me, even if he is dead.
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"Well, men are such simple-minded creatures. The beautiful things that attract them will fight desperately for them. In this case, your cuteness is recognized. "
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“Speaking of which, you can't take advantage of her, or you will be miserable to death!" I added for her and my safety.
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"Oh, I want to charge you for my portrait rights."
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"It's a pity that it's not free, let's make a price."
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"Be my servant after winning the battle until I let you go." "
"Use my freedom to exchange it?" It's a big price, but if it's with the cute Edna here, I'd love it. "
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For the Wind seraph who yearn for freedom, the loss of freedom may be the biggest price. But for Zaveid, it may not be a big deal. After all, he is a person who keeps his promises and has long been accustomed to being bound by various promises. He is willing to choose this way of living. Edna’s request is just one of his many promises. She opened a seemingly expensive but invaluable price like it is free.
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Soon afterward, the door opened with a bang. The base broadcast an unexplained self-destruct declaration, sirens sounded, and flashes of red light everywhere.
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"Eleanor and Velvet did it, then everyone came out and gathered here in an orderly manner. "
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When the prisoners were almost assembled, Edna and Zaveid received a communication from their pact channel. Velvet informed them about their location and the situation on the scene and hoped that they would be there as soon as possible to support.
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" Then it is not too late, everyone, here the first job is to be entrusted to everyone. "
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Velvet side
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"Oh, don't even try to come at me? Are these battles making you timid?" Laughed Tartarus sarcastically.
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We are not moving, being the first attacker surely makes things worse. Tartarus is provoking her to attack but the answer remains no, not like she allows herself to affect by anger this time.
" Then you are not gonna complain….THE PAIN!” the loud voice echoed in the room with an attack arrived. The ground cracks suddenly and blasting out purple mana nearly hurts Eleanor.
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She tried to jump and dodge the attack but ended up being stopped by something invisible in the air. With her face smashed, I may tell that's a hard hit by a wall.
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“Looks like something in scene invisible to us.” She said.
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“He made the place looked like outdoor. but there are walls and doors. Lucky enough, we got the map of this floor. Follow my instruction."
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"Sure."
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From the accuracy of his attack not long ago, I believe that he got his way to realize our actual location on the map. Then it is too bad if we continue to keep our distance from him and stay still. In that way, he may attack us but we could only dodge inactively. Probably, our strength would be burnout in that way.
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Eventually, we arrived at the front of our enemy ourselves.
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“Sharp eyes, you do notice the field, don't you?”
“I bear no one won't think the place not suspicious if a place suddenly turns to be outdoor.”
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“Though it takes you long enough to reach here."
"(Eleanor, stop at each place long enough until he attacks you as I told you when we walk.)"
"Right." Eleanor nodded with belief, she certainly understands the reason for asking her to do that.
And she then stands in front of Tartarus in a battle started. Eleanor is not even trying to attack him, but only dodge the magical attack of Tartarus as Velvet asked.
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The attacks are making the room filled with cracks and gravels, making the size and shape of the place gradually revealed to Eleanor. She hasn't directly taken any damage, thanks to Eternal's strengthen arte to her strength and speed, so she has enough dexterity to dodge all attacks.
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"(Edna, Zaveid, we were approximately in the middle of the room on the lowest floor. Is it possible to break your floor to fall on top of his position? It would be great if you guys stay on upper ground.)"
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"(It sounds crazy to me, but certainly a plan of yours. You got it.)"
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Tartarus hasn't noticed our purpose yet, can't make sure he won't in the next moment. The place seems visible enough now, so---
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"It's the time, Eternal, boost the attack."
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There the mana coating on Eleanor's spear becomes bright as flame, the energy filled the edge with power. The lancer performs the spin strike like dance steps, elegantly and perfectly. The sparks of flame glowing strongly each second as she spin, shielding her from the attack and increasing the damage it may make.
She steps towards irregularly in a trace wind and mana, holding in her lance, her lance eventually turns into the lance of sun, all to strike on Tartarus.
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The lancer strike on Tartarus’s mana barrier, sucks in there, with the mana exploded inside the barrier, The flame directly kiss on his face.
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Eleanor jumps backward with her lance, casting a spell while Tartarus's barrier is breaking down.
“Kaleidos Ray!”
As soon as the spell activates, a few mana reflective platforms appear in the form of a great sphere covered Tartarus. The lancer has been inside the ball keeps reflecting and attack him.
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The seraphic artes causing inefficient damage to Tartarus, yet good enough to be a visual disturbing technique.
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“Eternal, shield!” As Velvet ordered, Eleanor grouped with her, and Eternal creates a mana shield around and above them.
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The ‘Sky' is then cracks and falling and rumbled in pieces lands on top of all people here, likely a grand bury. Velvet's group is safe under the scenario with the shield of Eternal while Tartarus is buried below.
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With Tartarus fallen, the seraphic arte no longer activating to disguise the room as a place in Scarlet-night-view, the broken walls and floors revealed eventually.
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“Surely a new way of entrance, incredible.” Zaveid struck as he looked at us from the above floor.
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“Yes, don't let your guard down, I don't think he is dead, Velvet answer with a no-joke tone.
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The sound of moving rubble that had been static sounded again, the huge stone was turned aside, and the annoyingly strong person stood up.
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"Shoot him!" Edna ordered coldly and the seraphim standing the above-ground immediately casting all seraphic arte to shot Tartarus down."
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"Eleanor, if you have any spell need a very long time to cast, use it now, we hardly got another chance."
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"Sure."
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Ice lance, wind blades, fireballs, flying rocks, all kinds of attacks strike at the point in where Tartarus stands, filling the room with lights, the standing ground is likely to rumble down again. The air is buried by dust and rumble.
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Even I am at the edge of the battlefield, close to the target. I was not able to see through what happens behind the dust screen, but that was the same for our opponent. He shouldn't have the spare time to deal with things other than handling the magical ‘striking rain'.
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"Eternal, boost her attack as you can."
"OK."
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“Outlaw Barrage!”
“Terra Mine!”
“Indignation!”
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The scene is maintained in a dusty state, among the dust, one can vaguely see the shadow of a person, the shadow of a bowed back Vaguely uttered like a wild beast until everyone stopped attacking and waited for the moment when the dust dissipated.
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"Shoo--" The sound of an arrow piercing the air at high speed stimulated my eardrums. I turned my head and looked at the air. The dust in the middle was cut apart into large pieces. Before I had time to see what was cutting the air, I heard the ``metal crashing sound'' one after another, like a chain being thrown out and leaning against the pillar rebounding back. The sound was close at hand, I naturally turned my head and looked at the sound source---the direction where Eleanor was.
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I saw a golden chain on Eleanor's spear, which was enough to make me feel uneasy.
"Ele --" In the next second, Eleanor was dragged and thrown into the air.
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"The dying mice are harassing," Tartarus said disdainfully and threw Eleanor away with resentment.
Eleanor hit the wall at high speed with a large sound, and the pain of the impact made her cough up blood.
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However, Tartarus did not intend to stop, he continued to wave the chain on one end of his hand as if playing, and continued to drag Eleanor. Look at him in his eyes, his next goal seems to be to use her to wipe out the people standing on it.
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When I stared at this happening, he showed me a nasty smile, like sneering, like enjoying, the painful expression shown when humans are struggling.
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"...Eleanor, add gravity to yourself!" I called out the command with all my strength, I believe she heard it, I believe she was not knocked out so easily. Then the one in the air was thrown at high speed. Eleanor’s body was wrapped with a purple Aura. The trajectory of high-speed forward flight suddenly slowed down into a parabola and fell out of the track. The chain that was originally straightened seemed to be soft and curved due to the effect of the speed difference; it can’t pull Eleanor temporarily.
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"Freeze." Eleanor bore her pain and managed to cast a spell to freeze the chain chained her Lance. She then breaks the frozen chain to free herself fully.
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Tartarus saw the prey on his hand break free from him and gave out an unhappy lament.
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"I see you are annoyingly smart enough to interfere in the fight even if you don't participate directly." Tartarus glared at me and murmured.
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He knelt, let his hands touch the ground, and then poured mana into the ground. The cracks spread from his center into a big net, and mana overflowed from the cracks. The complete and flat floor instantly turned into torn fragments, which were divided and pushed apart by mana, scattered around. The floor that was still connected to the building was instantly destroyed. Disintegrated into rubble and lost the traction of magic, the stones have become ordinary stones, pulled down by gravity, and only dozens of plates in the force field are still left in the air. This entire floor can be said to have been It turned into nothing, and it became a veritable outdoor place.
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The huge vibration made everyone lose their original center of gravity. I fell after failing to stabilize the center of gravity, but my back did not touch down. The rotating scenery in front of me made me feel a crisis. I was in danger, I desperately grasped the rock edge that I could reach. It was very difficult to lift the weight of my whole body with two hands. From the original indoor to the outdoor place, which was 3000 meters above sea level, the temperature dropped a lot in an instant, making it a bit difficult to adapt.
The feet under me were swaying under the high winds, as if they could pull me away at any time, I could only allow myself to climb up. The cold wind stabbed against the skin, and my hands and feet were stiff and fragile like popsicles. Even so, I climbed up desperately until I reached the top of the slab.
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I finally got my hand to climb to the top edge of the floating rock with difficulty. The shaking disrupted my plan to pull myself up the land, and the violent shaking almost threw me off the rock. When I was desperately grasping the rock with 10 fingers, I didn’t fall off. It felt like someone jumped on this rock rudely.
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The light coming from above was gradually blocked by the tall shadow on my head. Before I could be sure who was on it, the pain came from my right hand. One foot was stomping hard on my fingers, deliberately moving it left and right as if to wear out my fingers. The One protruded his head, looked at me condescendingly, and smiled happily.
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'So it was you who trying to climb up~"
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As he trampled and ravaged my right hand that grabbed the stone edge while the dust fell a little bit, I couldn't open my eyes to look above, and I felt that there was already warm liquid from my right-hand flow down along my edge of the arm.
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"stop it, leave Velvet-han!"
this lovely and gentle voice of protest. Now I recognize only one person on the stone, suddenly ambivalent feelings at ease and worry. I know Eternal can not afford to confront him.
As expected, the little Normin was immediately kicked away mercilessly by Tartarus, and his tiny body flew from the rock into the air. Originally, I held the edge of the stone with both hands, to save Eternal, I subconsciously stretch the left hand that was not stepped on, reach out my arm, and grabs the normin. Thanks to the Empyrean, I managed to rescue Eternal from the air, but it’s difficult to support the weight of a whole body with only one hand, and that hand is still under someone’s foot.
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"Like a hero huh, then you may just die like a hero as well!" Tartarus sneered and kicked my hand vigorously until my hand could no longer hold the edge and loosened the rock----I started a high-altitude free fall.
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The inertia made me notice my surroundings a little bit before I fall for real. It seemed that some of my companions noticed, they are trying to save me from the trouble. After I started to fall, a golden chain protruded from the bottom of the rock, likely the arte of Zaveid but the length was no longer able to reach my altitude in the air.
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My left hand held Eternal tightly, and the scenery was passing by the bottom of my eyes at a high speed, and I passed through the clouds and wiped the sky. I can no longer see my companions in the sky, nor can I see the building that is currently floating in the sky. There is a great pit left on earth with the building in site ascended. I'm accelerating and falling close to the earth pit under the action of gravity. In a few seconds, I will become a cold corpse fell to the ground, to be badly mangled or mutilated.
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that Everything I did is in vain
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...I don't want it!
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…...I don’t want it to end like this!
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……...I want to...live!
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In this desperate situation, I wholeheartedly believed and called out her real name:
"---------Liwyeamesv Umuabiw---!-"
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Please come and help me, an incurable sinner!
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In the sky above everything buried by the sea of clouds, flew a silver particle towards me, and it hit me at high speed, and then the silver light covered my whole body, like a sacred and warm hug.
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"That's it… live, even for the sake of us, Velvet." At the end of the light, there seemed to be an old man and a man standing. I can see who they are, but I know in my heart that they are the two who gave me this power. The short sentence makes me feel that they have been waiting, and now they got the desired result.
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In the blink of an eye, the silver light put on a new outfit for me, filling me with power, the power of the Void. My body is still falling in the air, but I can feel that I have wings that can fly.
Now, I finally want to fly, It's not because of having wings, or just to fly for predation and alive, but because the companions fly with me.
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I must fly to my companion again.
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I recall how Sorey felt when I was flying with me. Spread my wings, hug the world, dance with the wind, rush into the wild air currents enough to temporarily forget the tension and troubles, become the center of the wild current, and fly to the place I want to go.
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The fall was stopped in an instant, and the flapping wings formed a powerful wind that pushed me into the air.
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"You alright? Eternal?" I asked Normin who was holding it tightly before the fall. Even though he was weak, he didn't hesitate to protect me with his little body.
“You alright? Eternal?”
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"I'm fine, go, I will be responsible for strengthening you." He climbed onto my shoulder and said.
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"Yeah." I nodded and smiled.
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The power overflowed through the body, far more powerful than the first time I armatized with Eleanor, even some difference in the appearance of the armatus revealed.
The armatus was not identical to what I saw when facing Altorius and Innominat at first, there were 2 rings above the head and pairs of large wings behind him. Both were not in the amatus with Eleanor, we didn't get the sacred aura as strong as Altorius either, I thought it was because I was not armatizing with Innominat, so it won't be that powerful.
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Now, it appears it isn't the true reason at all but something was locking the power before, and it is gone just now. After my desperate prayer of survival, the constraint was removed.
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As I recognized, this was the power of emptiness, to devour and suppress, now it feels different.
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“Nothing is Everything, Everything is Nothing. The form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form. (0 is 1).”
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So that's what actually meant in the trial, the power of void, accommodate. . . Void and composition.
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I felt not only Eleanor but also Laphicet, Celica, Seres, even Artorius and Claudin were with me in power. At the moment I felt not empty but peaceful, I had everyone back with me.
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“Let's go.” I flew toward the sky to the facility in the air, breaking all clouds along, flipping my wings to fly high.
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As soon as I detected the aura of Tartarus, I swung the greatsword with a backspin. The floating rock is broken into pieces, his foothold vanished and this is not gonna stop until my sword cut him.
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“....?!” As if I can hear his breath of astonishment, but it won't stop me a second in the attack. I would keep swinging my sword until it hit him.
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“cough!” He is likely struck to fly into the air by my unstoppable slashing. He may fly several miles away if the golden chains have not chained him now.
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“Thanks, Zaveid.” I went on to swing my sword again, releasing my maximum amount of mana to one attack. Mana turned into frame engulf him
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I stayed in the air and watched him as he was burning and falling, like falling stone burns with dark dense smoke, drawing a line of flame and black smoke in the air.
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Although he self-destructed his own ‘believers' by making them into hellions and causing his power to disappear, I always feel that he is too weak. He was knocked down too easily while I haven’t applied the true power in this form of armatus.
I continued to watch him, just in case he did anything again.
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The blood-red spear that suddenly fell from the sky pierced his body without deviation and stood on the ground, and the flame extended from the spear to the ground. Geometric patterns were drawn on the ground by flame, and the whole earth was shaking.
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Something will happen, yet by the time I plan to stop it, it is too late.
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The magic circle was formed on the ground, and the entire space was in fierce turbulence, and we received this shock, both physically and mentally.
The space was distorted in front of the magic circle, forming a black hole. Like how the hole dug in the sky and dark mug overflowed from it when the ‘war’ began.
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A roar that hits the forehead came out from inside, like all the lives that have passed away are wailing, the cry of the guy inside that hole is heartbreaking and shocking. Only the part of the body, like the tip of the iceberg, is slightly exposed. Though it is dozens of feet away from me, I felt the extremely strong sense of malevolence, what comes out of it is like a collection of all malevolence, like a malevolence carrier formed by a collection of countless lives, I can feel it carrying tens of thousands of souls and the result of grief, in the shock of this power.
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It is the monster that Tartarus has cultivated behind all his actions--- capturing the seraphim, cultivating hellions and malevolence, and letting it devour countless lives and malevolence by making several cities devastated, and even ruining the believers he had created. Now the most powerful dragon descended.
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The dragon flying out of the distorted space of the magic circle directly swallowed Tartarus on the stabbing giant spear, but he was still smiling until the end.
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The dragon flew straight to me, and I couldn't respond, I watched it open its mouth wide, and immediately before it swallowed me, I immediately threw Eternity to the nearest floating ground, grabbed the giant sword in my hand, and kept my fighting posture while being eaten motionlessly.
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“Velvet!!!!”
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Until darkness enveloped me, but I am sure that this is not the end.
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A.N.
Although I want to finish everything in one chapter...It seems that this last battle has to write a few chapters, which is harder to write than any previous one. (And I still write even I know readers are likely to skip it when I am too)
I mentioned before ‘to save Tartarus’ with Sorey’s and Velvet’s words but I have never thought of how to save, I blindly let him appear in the form of a typical bad guy, and blindly added a bunch of tragic background to him. I was distressed when I thought about how to save him. This was not my strong point.
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But thanks to the setting of Tartarus, half of it is an extreme extension of my own, so I finally found some breakthroughs, so it came out to be the opening dialogue in this chapter. In fact, it is not a dialogue, Velvet is talking unilaterally. While originally she is a character who talks less (laughs). But at this time I really can't think of how Tartarus can respond to Velvet, because when I am usually scolded, I am either rebutting or quieting...There is no suitable experience that can be applied.
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For this illustration, I drew the Velvet(Void armatus) for the first time, and I don’t know if anyone noticed it. I originally planned to copy Rose’s Armatus costume directly, but I found it weird( those lace, and fuwa fuwa elements are too cute, don’t you agree?). Because the animation team has designed the Armatus costume for Alisha, and that is different from Rose, so I think the armatus of Velvet will not be the same. The overall design is close to Alisha’s design, but I think it is too noble and to not being Velvet’s style, I have to consider her fighting style. So in the end I came up with the design of culottes that look like short skirts, sharp metal edges, and asymmetrical and flame-like clothing decorations.
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