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Chapter 129
A Wretched World
The noble son who had departed in the middle of the night had fainted when the carriage broke apart.
But not long after, he rose again.
"Mmm......."
He came to his senses once more.
His body ached from the impact, and he let out a groan.
Ė n̂ u m а̌.ǐ d́
"Uugh...... what is this?"
Both his hands were bound to the armrests, and his neck was also tied to the backrest, forcing him to stare straight ahead.
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What entered his vision was a single candle.
And on the opposite side sat a gray-haired man exuding a gloomy atmosphere.
He was resting his face on both hands, looking this way.
Those deep blue eyes, like a deep lake, seemed to emit light.
En̂umа.i̊ d
The man knew who this man was.
It was Ferda Valdrova.
The man understood the situation at once.
Or rather, he wasn't sure if he understood.
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He chuckled and spoke to the man across from him.
"How about saying something? You kidnapped a person and haven't said a word."
Ẅеb̆ ṅ о̇ v̂ е́ l̂ En̄_uṁ a
Only then did Ferda open his mouth.
"To be honest, I was scared."
"Scared?"
"I wondered if I was making a mistake. What would happen if I kidnapped an innocent person and killed them?"
Ferda untied his hands and leaned back against the backrest.
"But it was the right answer."
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He spat out the name of the culprit who had called Valdrova a murderer.
"Marcus Urey."
The eldest son and heir of the Urey Duchy.
He was the very auditory hallucination of Valdrova.
"I believe you know yourself why you were dragged here."
"Yeah, I know."
Ӗn̈u mа̀ .ïd̈
Marcus Urey looked up at Ferda with hollow eyes and sneered.
"Her Highness the Grand Duke seems to have heard that well? I thought she'd ignore the voice of the people."
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"Such a lowly human who doesn't even know his place......."
Ruri flared up and tried to step forward.
Ferda quietly stopped Ruri.
Ruri obediently followed Ferda's words.
Ẽ n̈uḿа̊
Ferda was no less angry.
"......Why did you do it?"
"Why? Isn't the reason sufficient?"
He let out a laugh like a madman.
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"My father is a war criminal now, and people are swarming to tear our ducal house apart. Aren't you also sucking the lifeblood out of our territory with refugees?"
"Isn't that because you lot are stupid?"
Еñ ü m a
Ferda retorted aggressively.
"Your father clumsily requested mediation and caused that mess, so what were we supposed to do?"
"Shouldn't you just return the refugees?"
"Stay quiet in winter, then speak when spring comes? You're saying something utterly shameless."
"Right. It is shameless. Since you treated us like a free soup kitchen."
He grinned.
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As if he'd caught something good.
"But isn't your side just as shameless?"
"......."
"It's been 150 years since the Dragon-Demon War broke out. How many people did the Grand Duke kill in that time? Because you killed so many, you decided to reflect and live on, didn't you?"
He added in a low voice.
"If you're a murderer, act like one and crawl inside."
Ӗ n̆ um ӑ..і̆ d̆
At that, Marcus, whose whole body was bound, fell backward.
It wasn't Ruri who pounced on him.
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It was Ferda who had lost his reason.
Instead of magic, he clenched his fist tight and beat Marcus's face.
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Merciless beating.
Е ṅu mä.і d
Ferda struck Marcus's face with all his might.
Crack!
A terribly shattering sound.
What shattered wasn't Marcus's face.
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As evidence, Ferda's wrist lost strength and became ragged.
Marcus's face was only slightly swollen.
Е̌n̊ u m a
"Kekeke...... The Regent's fist is truly frail, unable to even burst a nosebleed."
"Shut up."
Ferda knew this would happen.
Even knowing that, he couldn't hold back.
Because he wanted to smash that bastard's face with his own hands, not magic.
"Your right hand is broken, so will you beat him with your left now? Why don't you try?"
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Marcus ceaselessly mocked Ferda.
Ferda grabbed his collar and said.
"Don't be so hasty. This is only the beginning."
Ferda knew how to make a person neither dead nor alive.
He would mobilize all that knowledge and gift this man a cruel life.
Marcus chuckled and laughed maniacally.
Е̊nůmȧ
"The beginning? Who said I'd let you start as you please?"
"Why? Do you think I'll follow those great nobles' rules? Or do you plan to die before I can even torment you? If you're confident, go ahead and die. But you won't be able to. As long as you're in my hands, whether to kill you or keep you alive is up to me."
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Ferda tried to overwhelm him with his gaze.
Even so, there was not the slightest sign of fear.
Ferda could tell.
That he had a trick left.
Ё ǹ u̇ m̊ а̄ . їd
"Ferda Regent, welcome to the vicious world."
At the end of those words, an afterimage seemed to show at his neck, and space distorted.
Crack! Crunch!
Marcus's neck bent in a zigzag and twisted completely.
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He died instantly right there.
The sudden silence turned into a bewildered atmosphere.
Еn̂ ū ṁ а
Ruri, who had watched everything, called his name.
"Ferda-nim?"
"......I didn't do it."
When Ferda answered, Ruri asked worriedly.
"Could it be that you lost your reason and lost control......?"
"No, it's not that."
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He was angry, but there wasn't that overwhelming rage he'd felt with Eremvalt.
Ferda calmly examined Marcus's neck area.
"Look."
There, traces of a black magic-type magic circle remained.
"He must have set it so that chanting the trigger word would automatically twist his neck."
"Then that greeting was the trigger word."
Еn̄ ǔ má.і̀d̂
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Ruri, who had thought he lost his reason, immediately apologized.
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"I apologize. For shallowly doubting Ferda-nim......."
"No, it's not something to apologize for."
She looked at Ferda with a face asking what he meant.
"Just as you doubted me, won't others see it that way too?"
Ӗṅ ù m̄а.
Ferda viewed this situation from a step back.
What was certain was that his appearance was one sunk in a swamp.
"Ruri."
"Yes."
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"You said you attacked the carriage and brought him?"
She nodded.
En̈u m̃ а
"That's right. I suppressed the urge to slaughter them all and brought only this damn thing."
"Are you sure they don't know it was you?"
"Few people have seen my face...... but if they try to find out, they'll find out somehow."
She had even unleashed Dragon Fear to prevent needless slaughter, so it was certain.
'The problem is whether to go report this, or return to the castle.......'
Right now it was unknown, but either way the situation wasn't good.
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If the former, Duke Urey would interrogate and it would blow up into a bigger issue.
If the latter, they'd have to recover the corpse of Marcus Urey with his severed neck.
Right now, this situation looked like nothing but Ferda killing the Urey Duke's son in a fit of rage after he insulted Valdrova.
"You yourself admitted you insulted the Grand Duke, didn't you?"
"Since it wasn't public, it doesn't count."
He had muttered so only Valdrova, with her good hearing, could hear. It was intentional.
Е̇ñu m̌ a .і̆d
Ferda knew.
That trying to prove it would also be a problem.
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'Black magic will definitely be mentioned.'
The reason Marcus Urey died was black magic.
If black magic comes up, the focus will stick there, and the narrative will turn to Ferda using black magic.
He knew this because the past Ferda had done so.
Ẇе́b́ n̊ о̊_vel̀ Ẽṅ ü m̌ а̌
Black magic was a stigma, and they had been desperate to kill Ferda with it.
Young Master Marcus's death had already plunged Ferda into a sticky swamp.
'Who benefits from this death?'
The first to come to Ferda's mind was Duke Urey.
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Duke Urey was a human who branded refugees as rebel scum and made examples of them before his own knights.
Using his own son as a stepping stone was a sufficiently plausible story.
Е̂ n̈ um̀ а̄
"What will you do with the corpse?"
Ferda looked down at the Urey Duke's son with his twisted neck.
There were various disposal methods.
He could bury it somewhere, feed it to monsters, or burn it completely to erase it.
The old Ferda could have easily chosen those options, but not now.
He was the Regent leading the Grand Duchy,
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The acting lord of Hestia Village,
And Valdrova's fiancé.
"......Vicious."
Ferda muttered that.
That was when.
Someone burst open the interrogation room door and entered.
Е̃ nú.m̀ â
"Ferda Regent-nim. The Tower Master-nim has contacted......."
Isabella stopped speaking when she saw the corpse with its twisted neck.
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"Just what is this situation?"
"It's complicated to explain properly, but just know he paid for the crime of insulting the Grand Duke."
"Hmm."
As a dragon spawn, Isabella quickly accepted the death of the irreverent one.
W̌ѐ b̂ñ оvel̄ Е̃nú ḿа
At the same time, as an administrator, she made a complex face at a noble's death.
Ruri reprimanded her intrusion.
"How can you enter without even knocking?"
"I know I've been rude, but it's that important."
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Isabella showed the crystal orb she was holding to Ferda.
"The Tower Master-nim contacted us urgently. Please connect right now."
Eǹ_ŭ m а̌ .î ḋ
"Understood."
Ferda connected his mind to the crystal orb Isabella brought.
-Regent. I'll skip the greetings since you're busy.
Erica said with a flustered voice.
-Are you in the middle of enjoying the Spring Festival?
"No."
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-Then has the Spring Festival ended?
"Nominally it has ended, but many still remain in the castle."
-The young lords and ladies haven't left yet, right?
"Some departed in the middle of the night."
-If they've gone far there's nothing we can do, but gather as many as you can for now!
Erica explained why she was this flustered.
Ŵ еb̃ń о v́ ё l̃ Ë n̆ ù mӓ
-Right now, the Grand Duchy has been occupied by monsters! If you move now, you'll all die without being able to do anything!
* * *
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A state of emergency was declared across the entire peaceful Grand Duchy of Valdrova.
Not just Hestia Village which bordered the Demon Land, but all nobles under his rule.
Ferda created a map of the current situation with Isabella and Ruri's cooperation.
Looking at the completed map, Ferda said this.
Е̃ nu mа
"......It's become an island."
The monster line was precisely isolating the Far East.
"They're not ordinary monsters. They're colossal monsters. They've gathered centered on colossal monsters of similar size to what Valdrova-nim usually handles."
"How many total?"
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"12."
12 meant 12 legions, and a situation where 12 legions were isolating them.
Е̂ n̄ ù m а .i̇ d̆
Colossal monsters that could smash a castle like nothing if they moved.
Ferda had watched Valdrova fight and confirmed their power.
'If those things move.......'
The territory being devastated was only a matter of time.
"The fortune within misfortune is that those colossals have no mobility."
"Meaning there's no risk of them rushing in all at once."
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"The problem is the colossal monsters' ability."
"What ability?"
"Reproduction. They're birthing monsters and forming legions."
Their role is a monster hatchery.
Making them continuously produce without Gokma separately moving to pour out monsters.
"Dozens of monsters already surround the center of each mother, and they're still birthing monsters right now. If the spawning doesn't stop, they'll become legions of thousands in an instant."
Е̌núm̀ а ..і̄ d
"If it's thousands, that'll become a calamity."
"Hmm......."
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The way to stop continuous force production was a mobile strike.
There was nothing but striking quickly.
"What about Her Highness Valdrova stepping forward......?"
"Of course that would be best, but......."
Е n̈ ům̌.а. і ḋ
Ruri made a troubled expression and pointed to where the Demon Land was.
"Large forces are standing by here. All of them are positioned on the front lines that the Master cannot enter."
The intent was transparent.
"They'll swarm the moment she's absent."
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"That's right."
It was intelligent.
Ě ǹu m а
Valdrova being tied to the Lonely Mountain to protect Hestia Village was inevitable.
That they threw such an intelligent, strategic move meant intent was visible.
'Gokma, it'll be that man.'
With a flick of his finger, a monster popped out from within.
That man who freely manipulated space would have placed those colossal monsters everywhere.
Ferda threw his best move.
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"We have no choice but to request aid from the Empire."
Since the Grand Duchy was an internal Empire matter, the Empire had to intervene.
Ferda immediately made contact.
-This is the Regent of the Grand Duchy of Valdrova, Ferda Valdrova-nim! I am Hans, the Communication Mage of the Great Arken Empire!
"Who is the person in charge of this matter occurring in Imperial territory?"
-The person in charge, you say?
Е̂ n ùmа̇
"Call the highest authority. Monsters are currently invading Imperial territory."
-Ah, yes! Understood! Please wait a moment!
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Judging by the mage named Hans's reaction, the Empire didn't seem to know the situation.
After a moment, he heard noise of the signal changing and the voice changed.
Even the cough to clear his throat dripped with oiliness.
-Crown Prince, Alexander Arken here.
Е̌ ň ù ḿ а̃ .і ḋ
"I greet the Prince."
-Right, I heard. The Empire is in an uproar right now too.
He thought communication might work.
"We need reinforcements. Dispatch Imperial troops to strike as fast as possible.
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-Of course, of course. I'll send reinforcements as much as possible. But it'll take a little time.
"How long?"
Е n̂ ũ m̈а̌ . ї d́
-Two months.
Two months.
Ferda frowned.
Is this pig bastard mocking me right now?
"You mean leave those hulks alone for that time?"
-Don't make such disappointing sounds. We're doing our best too. That's how long it takes even with our best efforts, what can we do?
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Doing their best.
Ferda, not being a fool, could tell.
There was no urgency in the words spilling from Alexander's mouth.
He could sense the scheme to use this crisis of ruin right now.
"Do you want me to bow my head and beg for anything?"
-My! You know that's not it, don't you? War is something that takes a lot of time and money, and following the Empire's laws and protocols makes it! Not an easy task, that's what I'm saying.
W̃еḃ ṅ öv ē l Ĕn̈ ŭ m̊ а̃
In short, if he wanted troop dispatch, he was telling him to offer something that could be profitable.
This despicable pig bastard.
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He wanted to curse at him right away, but the current situation wasn't easy for Ferda.
That weight suppressed Ferda's temper.
"I'll think about it."
Ferda cut the crystal orb connection just like that.
Е n̆ u m а̂ .ï d̊
Suppressing his boiling insides, he asked her.
"What do you think will happen if we leave those monsters alone for two months?"
"If they keep birthing monsters at a steady number, they'll become an army of thousands."
Isabella added to Ruri's words.
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"It's not just the army, the soil is the problem."
Where monsters stay, life dies.
Е̇ń úḿ ӑ. ï d̂
If the land dies, they'd have to dig up that whole area and dump it somewhere.
If the soil dies in a form surrounding the Grand Duchy, even if the situation is resolved, it'll be maintained in the form of an island.
'That's the problem.'
They need to quickly remove them, but the Empire has no will for quick action.
In the end, it was a situation where Ferda had to do it himself.
"Do you think we can pull it off?"
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Ruri revealed her anxiety.
"We can pull it off."
We have to.
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