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Chapter 188
To the Demon's Land
A dim meeting room.
Inside, where even each other's identities couldn't be gauged, the only knowable information was that everyone here was a demon follower.
"Rumors about the Doppler have spread across the entire continent."
The one who threw out the topic spoke in a displeased voice.
Doppler.
Еñ u m̄â. ǐ d
Not something that merely mimics humans like a simple doppelganger, but an infiltration-type disguise that actually becomes that person.
Dopplers had been deployed since 10 years ago, and until their identities were revealed, absolutely no one noticed.
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Those who clumsily claimed to be body doubles proved physical characteristics only that person possessed, and conversely had their necks sliced off.
"As the chief commander, do you have nothing to say?"
Someone brought up responsibility and focused their gaze.
The man sitting in the chief commander's seat had excessively white skin.
Ӗ ǹ ŭm a . i̇d̂
"What would I have to say?"
"Unexpected actions have occurred several times now, so shouldn't there be countermeasures or something for that?"
At that, the white man chuckled.
"Unexpected actions, you say? How disappointing. I already knew."
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"You knew?"
An uncomfortable current flowed in the dark room.
E ň ũ m̆а
Thinking there might have been a misunderstanding, but the man continued speaking.
"Yes. That Regent Ferda would find the Doppler and devise a strategy based on it as well."
"That means... it's not wrong to say you stood by and watched?"
A follower lunged at him in a challenging tone.
The white man tilted his head and asked him.
"Didn't you swear loyalty for Godwin? For that, you're getting worked up over something awfully trivial."
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"I don't care what becomes of this continent. Since I'm someone who follows Godwin. But it's not like we're cooperating on this to turn all the merits we've built up into futility."
"Is that so?"
The white man raised his hand.
Then the speaker's arm twisted in an instant.
Bang!
Crack!
W̌ e b̊ n̄ оv̌ ё l̊ Enum.ӑ
"Kyaaaak!"
With a weak shockwave, his hand twisted and bones shattered.
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The pain of severed nerves rang out in screams.
He was a mage who used space distortion magic, Gokma.
Gokma approached that man in an instant and drew a dagger.
No, that wasn't a dagger.
Е n üṁ а. і̌ d̆
If you'd ever set foot in a kitchen, you'd call it a kitchen knife.
Thwack!
Gokma drove the kitchen knife into the remaining arm.
"Kyaaaaah!"
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He slowly moved the deeply embedded kitchen knife.
The uneven blade, not properly forged, tore along the grain of the flesh.
Ên̊ ǔ m̈ а̊ .і̂d̂
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Only agonizing screams endlessly rang out.
Five minutes of merciless violence continued, then he opened his mouth again.
"Do you have anything to say?"
"Sp, spare me..."
"Why try to live? You'll die anyway when time passes, so isn't dying quickly better?"
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"Please..."
The man broken by pain begged Gokma.
Gokma pulled out the kitchen knife as if bored and tossed him away.
He turned his head toward the conference hall.
"Do you all think you'll be any different?"
The blood-stained kitchen knife pointed at them.
Еnū m̈ а̀ . і d̂
"You shout that you follow our Father's nothingness, that you're not afraid of death, but in the end when you stand before death you'll tuck your tails. Know why I'm so sure?"
"....."
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"Because you're all just losers who fled here trembling in fear of this life."
"....."
"Defeated pig bastards who've eaten their fill all this time, and now that it's slaughter time you're whining about why the date wasn't told to you. It's absurd."
At Gokma's words, the venue fell silent as if frozen.
Е̊ǹ um а̄
Gokma wiped the blood splattered on his face with his finger.
He spoke while still seated at the table.
"Let me make this clear right now. I knew that Regent Ferda was prepared to be framed by the Empire to screen out demons. And it's also true I didn't inform Joseph Faust's body double who was pre-infiltrated."
He started wiping his kitchen knife on the clothes of the man sitting next to him.
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"Although the existence called Doppler was exposed, how is the Empire's situation right now? They've started doubting the identities of nobles and priests, and it's chaotic. They're trying to calm that chaos by deflecting it outward. Not just demon followers, but capable loyal subjects will also get caught in the aftermath and die."
"...That seems right."
Ẅе b ňо̂v̂ e l Е̃ n̆ u̇ mа
"Understood."
It was radical, but not an incomprehensible plan.
Right now, with the Empire's solid foundation shaking, there was sufficient opportunity.
"Before returning to nothingness, enjoy yourselves well. Once you become the same as demons, you'll realize how trivial the joys you knew were."
Gokma waved his hand dismissively, and the secret parliament disbanded just like that.
Thus, only he remained alone in that dark space.
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"Do you trust them?"
No, a man who had been standing still in the darkness stepped forward and asked.
Gokma sneered.
"What would I do trusting those things? Didn't you see just now?"
"Right, can't trust them."
"Still, I believe their fear is trivial."
Е̂ numӑ. і d
Humans fear the unknown, and surrender to fear.
They'd already crossed a river of no return by cooperating with demons.
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The only way to survive was to be even more loyal to demons.
"Then is the plan still intact?"
"It is."
"Even with that variable Ferda running rampant?"
Wе b nov е̂ĺ È n u m̀ а̊
Ferda Valdrova.
Now that the identity of the Doppler, where secrecy was paramount, had been exposed, people would be keeping the Doppler in mind.
It wouldn't be easy to deploy them carelessly anymore.
"They say he blew off Elder Cyprus's arm."
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"That Elder wouldn't be a rash elf to be careless, but he did a splendid job."
"It's not splendid. It's dangerous."
Е̊n̂ u mа.i ď
Words of complete agreement.
But even so, it wasn't a problem for Gokma.
"No need to respond."
"Why?"
"That guy will become our King."
"He'll become the Demon King?"
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The black giant reacted as if he didn't know.
Gokma looked at that reaction and asked.
"Have you never seen the Demon King?"
"Never seen him."
Once called the East, at the end of that land, the Demon King's Castle.
Excluding the demons created early on, those who had seen that Demon King's face were rare.
E ñ um ã .іd̄
Anyway, the important thing wasn't the Demon King but Father, Godwin, so the Demon King's existence was only special to humans.
"That guy decided to become the Demon King after his beloved wife died."
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"Trivial."
"It's an awfully trivial matter to us. But that emotion ultimately made him into an existence that even we, called Monstrous Stars, cannot surpass."
Gokma smiled faintly.
"I believe in that power. The despair that love brings."
Ẁ е̇ b̃ňо́ v̆.ёl Ĕ n̈ u m̆_ȧ
"Impossible for now."
"Right, impossible for now."
Gokma looked down at the map on the table.
"An opportunity will come to us someday. So we just slowly do what we need to do."
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"So what do you plan to do from now?"
"They say demons reach out to desperate humans."
E ǹ ùm а̃.і d
Gokma stabbed a spot on the Serdes Continent map with his kitchen knife.
It was a place recently in a tense standoff with the Arken Kingdom.
[Heinkel Kingdom]
"Before demons make the first move, let's take it ourselves."
* * *
Valdrova Castle.
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"This is a copy of the journal you requested earlier."
Rize handed over a copy she'd spent days interpreting and transcribing to Ferda.
"Is this the only one?"
"I delivered the same content to Eri-nim, no, to Erika-nim."
Eri and Erika.
The names of the Blue-Eyed Magic Tower Master and the Eastern Adventurer Guild Branch Master still weren't familiar, so he seemed confused.
Ӗ nüm̃а̂ .ї d
"Good work. I'll review it well."
"Yes, yes..."
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Ferda checked the roster section of the journal first.
[Project: Erosion Participant List]
'Quite a lot.'
Not just high nobles, but even nameless commoners were specifically written with their locations.
W̆ eb n̄о vе l Е ñ ǔ_m å
Ferda was looking for only one name.
But as expected, it wasn't there.
'Valdemar Golt isn't a demon.'
Imperial nobles appeared here and there too, but they weren't ones who could strike Valdemar.
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There was no justification to raid or corner him.
Interest quickly cooled.
È n̈u m̌ a.
Ferda read through the rest of the list and thought.
'What should I do with these bastards...'
Cleaning them up refreshingly would be good, but that would only leave an escape route for demons to flee.
The most ideal picture is when a rat bastard carries bait back to its nest.
That way, you can burn all the rat bastards in the rat hole.
While Ferda was thinking of a plan for that, Rize suddenly caught his eye again.
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His hesitant movements.
Even a three-year-old would know he had something left to say.
"Um..."
"Yes."
"What should I do now?"
Rize asked with a serious face.
Е̌n.ũ ḿ а̀
"What do you mean what should you do..."
"I have so many questions. Why I can read that elf Linne's unique characters is a question, whether Father knew this fact too, and why you didn't tell me either."
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"....."
"So I thought about it a bit. The more I thought, the only possibilities were ones I didn't want."
Rize's face was full of guilt.
"The most likely reason I can read unique characters is that I'm one who inherited that blood."
Е ǹùmа̌
Dark Elf, Linne's bloodline.
The possibility of being her daughter, no, her son.
"Is that so?"
"Yes..."
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"Then why the face so full of guilt?"
"Well... the person who becomes my mother killed so many lives, and lost the things she experimented on... I wonder if I can even hold my head up. And besides..."
W е̄b̊n̂ӧ v̆ е̌ l Ĕn̈ū mа
Rize couldn't continue, but Ferda could tell.
Linne betrayed her clan and fled the World Tree.
It was the Great Chieftain's order, but Rize had ultimately turned her back on her clan too.
Rize feared she might be walking the same path as her.
"Only blood connects you; ultimately you're strangers. There's no guarantee you'll walk the same path as the Dark Elf Linne."
"Thank you for saying that, but I can't just live pretending not to know."
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Rize took a deep breath.
I thought his earnest personality was holding him back, but what rose on his face crushed by weight was resolve.
"So what I've thought is, I want to join the expedition led by Erika-nim."
"The expedition?"
Rize nodded.
"Yes. No matter how much Dark Elves are treated as heretics, the root is the same in the end."
Еñ u m̃а̂.і̆d
Color returned to Rize's face.
"I've longed for it for a long time. Isn't there an elf among the expedition members too?"
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"Veinhof. A famous Forest Elf marksman."
"Yes. I can't handle a bow well... but I can use magic, so I want to try doing things I couldn't do while inside the World Tree through this!"
Watching him, he looked less like a spirited man and more like a girl with surging adventurous spirit.
Worry reflexively came first.
Е n̊u m̃ а . i d
"What magic do you use?"
"I can't use flashy attack magic like Eri-nim... how should I explain this..."
"Show me directly and I'll judge."
"Ah, yes!"
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Rize quietly drew runes and cast magic.
Watching the magic he listed, Ferda was certain.
Ë nǔm̄ ӑ
"You focus on healing and protection magic."
"I learned it helping sick people since long ago. Is it pathetic?"
Pathetic?
'Talent they'd be dying to recruit.'
Priests leaving on pilgrimage pretext for adventure are common.
Most struggle with healing at 2nd-3rd Circle, and 4th Circle is when they start settling in.
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5th Circle goes without saying.
Without massive donations to the Order, using high-level personnel is a pipe dream.
She was around a 4th Circle veteran priest level in human terms.
'Plus she has affinity with spirits too.'
Elves have stronger communion and affinity with spirits than other races.
But strong as it is, among them only the truly exceptional can befriend the World Tree's Nightmare, rough and scary, and eat friends.
Wё b nо̌ṽе̇ l Еn ú m̊ а
'Not just friendly, she controls them.'
If you have magical knowledge, you can call that control.
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Rize was controlling spirits.
'Meaning this elf's mental strength is that flexible.'
Flexible means unbreakable.
The most necessary element in the expedition.
Е ň um̀ а̀. і̂d̂
In the expedition, ability matters, but composure that doesn't yield in any situation is needed.
That composure can't be the same for a hundred or ten thousand years.
A place to lean on temporarily is needed, and a deep-rooted pillar to lean on must become Rize's role.
"I think it's fine, but the final decision is by Tower Master Erika, so I can't interfere."
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"Really? Will Erika-nim not dislike me?"
The conflict between High Elves and Iorga weighs on Rize's mind.
W ё b̀nоṽ е̊ l̂ E̊n u m̆a.
To Ferda, it was a needless worry.
"Even if you say 'water lizard bastards' to her face, she'll let it slide."
"Gasp. How could I say such harsh words..."
Rize's face turned pale blue and he floundered.
Leaving his appearance behind, Ferda also fell into thought.
'The Devil's Land, huh...'
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Beyond the Far East border.
Originally, Ferda's role was to watch from behind and support.
That was more comfortable for both Erika and Ferda.
'Beyond that border is something that can erase my anxiety.'
The Great Chieftain said Demon King's mana flows in Ferda.
The Demon King loved someone and was rejected, completing his existence through that heartbreak.
Е̂núm ӓ.
Ferda is no different.
Ferda already knows how terrifying the emotion of a trivial snowball rolling down and forming a huge boulder can be.
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'She loves this continent.'
I can't leave her with pain again, her who loves this continent.
So even if such sorrow comes, a method to not wound her was needed.
That's why Ferda decided to join that expedition too.
Е n̆ û m ǎ
* * *
Valdrova was preparing to go out.
She was more tense than usual.
Yesterday, while working at the construction site, hornless Erika approached and said this.
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-Tomorrow I plan to brief the Devil's Land expedition members. Please clear your schedule and attend.
Devil's Land Expedition.
Е̊ nũ m а̄.i d
Excitement and anxiety at meeting new people as an Armor Knight constricted her chest.
She knows why she feels this way.
Just, right now she didn't want to think about it.
She forcibly ignored that emotion and forced a bright expression.
"Ruri-ya, I'm going out?"
"Go safely."
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The words are dry, but the expression isn't.
That displeased look.
Why don't you maintain the King's dignity, and go out getting caught up in those humans' games, it seems to say.
In the past, she would've been very conscious of it, but Valdrova now was different.
'When I come back, I should buy something delicious.'
Every time I bring something, she says 'Are you trying to bribe me with this?' but always eats deliciously and wags her tail wildly.
W̊ еbñо v̂ él Еn̊ù m̄ а́
To Valdrova, Ruri was nothing but a cute Chihuahua.
'Nothing will happen.'
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Let's not be unnecessarily scared of new things.
Vandrova repeated the phrase in her head and stepped out the front gate.
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