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Chapter 190
Mental Preparation
"I shall explain about the Devil's Land."
After cleaning up the situation that nearly escalated, Erica explained the information on the operation document.
"As you all know, the Devil's Land is the base of the race called demons and monsters that Godwin created. A massive amount of demonic energy still lingers there."
The biggest reason the Devil's Land couldn't be conquered was precisely that demonic energy.
"Demonic energy serves as great nutrition for demons and monsters, but for people like us, it's an existence like poison that disrupts the flow of life."
Ѐ ǹ ū m̈ a . і d̈
"You don't look any different from us, so is there a way to solve that?
"Of course."
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Erica pulled out a charm and showed it.
"This is an item supported by the Blue Eye, who sponsor our Adventurer Guild. I hear it's called an Anti-Demon Charm."
"Is it an item that purifies demonic energy?"
"No. Its role is to push out demonic energy from within the charm. It creates a space where we can breathe."
Ẃe bn̂ о̄ v̀ ẽ l̊ Ӗ ň u.m̀ а
"Then if we just have the charms, there's nothing to worry about!"
If the story had flowed that easily, there would've been nothing to hope for, but Erica's expression said otherwise.
"Unfortunately, they say pushing out all demonic energy is impossible. The efficiency drops depending on the concentration of demonic energy, so it can't be called a cure-all."
"That's a shame."
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"I heard the Blue Eye is the best in magic, but I guess that's just old fame."
"...Well, that may be true, but I don't think badmouthing our sponsors is a good idea?"
W̌ е b̃ňо̀ vе̌ l̀ Е̃ ň ú.m а
"Ugh... I'm sorry."
The adventurer tucked his tail at Erica's words.
That bastard who spouted that crap probably doesn't even know how lucky he is that his head didn't fly off.
"Anyway, then that means we're in a state of being exposed to demonic energy, so we have to shoulder the risk?"
"There's nothing to worry about too much. It blocks 95% of demonic energy."
"How much time do we have?"
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"The safe level is 24 hours. Even if we take the risk, we just need to get out of the Demon Land within 48 hours."
"If we want to do it safely, the time is awfully tight."
"May I ask where exactly the place we're going is?"
"I'll show you on the map."
Erica spread out a large map on the table.
Pointing to a mark indicated in red, she spoke.
Ẇ еbń о̇ ṽel̀ Е n ūm а̄_
"We plan to explore this place. According to what we found out by requesting Escolea, it was once a place called Gyeonghui Palace."
"Do you think there's treasure here?"
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"In the East, they wielded magic in a form called 'Do', and this is a place where they trained in that Do. So it's close to a magic training hall."
"There'll be magic tools."
In their eyes, a mountain of gold coins seemed visible.
Magic tools are more precious and valuable than simple gold, silver, and jewels.
Eń u m а́_
But it wasn't something to just be excited about.
On the other hand, there was also the risk they had to shoulder.
As seasoned adventurers, their estimates were solid.
"This absolutely won't end in a single day."
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"Is this a job where we absolutely must shoulder the risk?"
Their common question was one.
W̄ ė b.ǹо́_v е̊ĺ Éňũ mа
Is this an exploration that can be resolved within 24 hours, trusting only in one Anti-Demon Charm?
If it doesn't end in a day, pulling out is the cost-effective choice.
That was also within Erica's calculations.
"That's why I prepared a means to shorten the travel time."
She pulled out a scroll, pushed it onto the table, and unfurled it.
It looked a bit unfamiliar to everyone, but Ferda recognized it at once.
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"We'll use a transport tool called a mana automobile."
"Mana automobile?"
"Think of it as a wagon that moves using mana stones made by condensing and refining demonic energy."
They'd thought about attaching Anti-Demon Charms to horses and moving, but the demonic energy constantly stimulated their survival instincts, so they'd get scared and run away after going just a little further, ending in failure.
"How much time can you shorten with that mana automobile?"
"After a test drive to check the speed, 2 hours is enough."
Е̃n̆ u̇ mа̄
"2 hours!"
They couldn't help but be shocked.
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Marching takes at least 6 hours, and even riding horses barely gets it down to 2 hours, doesn't it?
Cutting it down to 1/3 within the risk of 'demonic energy' is no ordinary feat.
"But there's one problem."
But as always, it couldn't be all good news.
Еn̊ùm̃_а . і̇ d̂
"Originally, we tried to make it so we could replace the mana stones detachably to use it longer, but they said that's not possible."
"May I ask the reason?"
"Since it's an item made by condensing and refining demonic energy, it easily loses its essence when it touches demonic energy. With a mere 95% block rate like ours, it can't exert its true performance. So it'll be integrated and only used when transporting us."
"That means the mana automobile is disposable. How many hours does it operate?"
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"2 hours. We can conserve energy going to Gyeonghui Palace, but instead, we have to walk back."
"Hmm..."
Ŵe b̆_ńо v êl E n̂ umä
It was a subtle reaction, but still better than at first.
We shortened a whopping 4 hours, and during those 2 hours of travel, we don't need to consume stamina.
So the energy we can focus on the exploration itself has increased that much, and the risk burden has also decreased a lot.
The reckless act of walking into death became a challenge worth trying.
It lit a fire in the adventurers' hearts.
Erica enjoyed that reaction and continued speaking.
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"From now on, I'll explain the operation overview."
They spent time discussing the details for exploring the Devil's Land.
Over 3 hours of discussion, they fleshed out the outlined operation into a decent framework.
The rest were parts that had to be substituted with the adventurers' flexibility.
"Then we'll depart in three days. Is there anyone with suggestions?"
At Erica's question, someone raised a hand.
Ĕ n ũ m̀а .î d̄
It was a large hand that could be identified without even lowering one's head.
"Speak, Jonathan."
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"Eri Captain. I think we need to sort out the ranking, what do you think?"
"Sort out the ranking..."
"They say there can't be two suns under the sky, right?"
Jonathan Sina said, chinning toward the Armor Knight.
W̌ е̊ b̊n ö v ӗl̃ Enùm̌ а
"Shouldn't we compete to see who's the strength of this expedition?"
Jonathan Sina, from the Northern Great Warrior lineage, one of the 12-Person Expedition, bearing the name Man of Herculean Strength.
His descendant, the current Jonathan, had also established himself as the synonym for monstrous strength and was making great strides.
They said he doesn't get pushed back at all even in a strength contest with a ferocious ogre, and his strength keeps growing stronger as he ages.
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The venue was instantly dyed with interest.
Useless competitive spirit should be reprimanded, but
W̊eb̊n̆_о̂v̈ е̊l̊ Ě n ŭm̃ã
"If there's mutual consent, we'll proceed."
Erica was also inwardly curious.
What would happen if Jonathan Sina and the Armor Knight went at it?
'I know Jonathan's potential and current strength.'
She knew the lineage of the past Jonathan Sina and the current Jonathan Sina's exploits thoroughly.
But the Armor Knight?
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'Unknown.'
She'd seen the realm that was someone's limit, but she felt even that wasn't the limit.
Thanks to the belligerent Sina family's provocation, it was a moment she could verify with her own eyes.
What would the Armor Knight do?
She thought the possibility of refusal was higher.
But the Armor Knight's reaction seemed rather positive.
Еn um̆а̌. і̌ d̂
'Finally getting to do this arm wrestling thing!'
Valdrova was extremely delighted by this proposal.
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Arm wrestling is a means often used by men to show off their masculinity, and construction workers did it often too.
She always had to just watch arm wrestling.
It was a natural thing.
Who could beat her lifting logs?
Е̂ n ûmа̀
Valdrova, unaware of that fact, was terribly upset at being excluded.
Valdrova gladly clasped that pot-lid-sized hand.
Even though the armor was made significantly larger than a normal adult male, her hand looked like a baby's hand.
"Then... start!"
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With Erica's signal, vicious veins bulged on Jonathan's hand.
Thud!
Wе̃ b́n о vѐ l Е́n̄ u ḿ а̄
Clothes couldn't withstand the muscle expansion and tore.
Crunch!
The sturdy old-wood table couldn't properly withstand the weight.
"Haaaaah!"
Jonathan's battle cry and its aftermath made the table tremble.
Valdrova also admired.
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'This person's strong.'
The power felt from the hand was hard to believe was human.
She even wondered if he could easily win fighting Dragon Spawns alone.
'He really is strong, but...'
That was only by the standards of monsters on this earth.
The one he's facing right now is a dragon.
Ẇ е ḃ n̊о vе ĺ Еn̆ um̊_а
Among them, Valdrova, who loses to no one in strength, is the Phase of Power.
For Valdrova, the weight class difference was so severe it was like arm wrestling a three-year-old toddler.
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'So that's why no one wanted to do it...'
Actually doing it, she felt a sense of deflation.
"Ooh...! As expected of the Northern Great Warrior bloodline!"
"It's truly a fight between a dragon and a tiger!"
E n̈ ů m а
She hears people making a fuss.
With reactions like they couldn't predict an inch ahead, Jonathan burned.
"Hup!"
Every time he exerted strength, the bulging veins finally surged up to his head, looking like they'd burst.
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Now it was getting scary.
She worried the veins bulging on his head might kill him like that.
Ẇ ѐ.b̌nоṽ ѐ l̊_ Е̃ nũ ḿа̊
'If I win like this, won't he resent me?'
Valdrova didn't particularly want to win.
Beating this person would only give him a sense of humiliation.
That's why Valdrova chose.
Tap—.
To lose on purpose.
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The taut contact point ended in an instant, and cheers praising Jonathan erupted.
"Ooh! The Northern Great Warrior won!"
"As expected of the Ogre Slayer!"
If someone could be happy, that was enough.
Valdrova thought so, but it didn't resolve easily.
Jonathan's eyes, the very person involved, were glaring at Valdrova unusually.
Е ǹ ù ḿ а
"What was that just now?"
"?"
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"You damn bastard!"
"??"
What returned with a face flushed bright red was rage.
As he tried to stand up and grab the Armor Knight by the collar, the adventurers barely held him back.
Ẁӗ ḃ_nо̇ v́e l Е nu̇ ṁȧ
Jonathan shouted.
"Did you think I'd like it if you threw the match on purpose!? Do it again!"
Valdrova couldn't understand.
He was dying to win, so she let him win, why wasn't that good?
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Jonathan screamed his lungs out telling her to come at him with full power several times, but in the end, it fizzled out with Erica's mediation.
Valdrova still couldn't understand his feelings.
Е̄ n̈ û ṁ а_
* * *
The day of the Devil's Land conquest, in the cave beneath Valdrova Castle, Valdrova finished preparing to go to the expedition.
'There won't be any problem.'
Now all that's needed is preparation of the mind.
Valdrova sat in place and quietly gathered her heart.
'Those monsters appeared yesterday, so it should be fine for a while.'
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If worst comes to worst, I can just go back.
'Then... many people would be surprised, right?'
Valdrova couldn't gauge how they'd react.
Whether they'd be happy combined with the Armor Knight's fame
Or feel betrayed that she was just an evil dragon.
Valdrova had that heavy heart remaining.
Е n̂ um̃ӓ .і̄ d
Valdrova stopped thinking about that problem.
Anyway, the biggest problem was separate.
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-Why are you trying to go to that land?
She lifts her head at the voice coming.
There, a man's form existed.
Valdrova knows.
E̊ n̄ ũm̌а́_
That man is nothing but weakness created from her own heart.
That weakness's name was this.
"Godwin..."
Black Dragon Godwin.
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The one who already died and disappeared had assimilated with this darkness and was pushing his head into Valdrova.
Valdrova unconsciously placed her hand on her chest.
Ӗ nu̇ m̊а̄.і̊d̀
Her heart was pounding thump-thump.
-You know too, don't you? If you go there, I'll show myself.
He spoke softly as if it was nothing.
That stimulates Valdrova's emotions.
"Yes..."
-Anger toward me becomes great power for you.
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"It will."
-But if you can't get angry, you'll repeat the mistake of that time.
"..."
-Look. Valdrova.
At his words, something revealed its form beside her.
It was Ferda.
Еnùm̄ а̀
A man kind to a fault.
A man giving her love she thinks she shouldn't receive no matter how she thinks about it.
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-Valdrova. Who is this?
"..."
-Don't think I won't know just because you don't answer. I'm nothing but a fantasy you arbitrarily created.
True words.
Е ṅ.umа . i d̀
All the spirits she sees are just things she created.
-What would it be like if this man died by your hand?
"..."
-Or if my children killed this man?
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"..."
-Would you get angry at me?
Ẽnü m̂ а̌
"..."
-Or would you just watch like that time?
That time.
Valdrova knew when that time was.
Godwin killed the humans Valdrova cherished.
What Valdrova felt was despair.
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And anger.
Godwin was hateful, his spawn were hateful, everything of his disturbing the continent was hateful.
Yet she couldn't get angry.
Because her power was too enormous.
Because she already knew what result her anger would bring, she couldn't do anything.
"If Ferda... dies..."
W е̄b̈ n̆ȯv e.l̊ Èń um а́
Ferda's form overlaps with the corpses she'd seen.
Valdrova's eyebrows trembled.
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Her head became heavy as a thousand muscles and dropped.
She tries to avert her eyes from that sight.
"Godwin."
But she didn't shake it off.
Ŵе̄ bnо̌ v е̊ l Е nú m̃ ã
She lifted her head and looked at Godwin.
The butchered Ferda's form returned to its original state.
And scatters.
"I'm scared of you. But even so, I can't step back."
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-So you're saying it doesn't matter if this man dies?
"Ferda... did a lot for me."
Wе̇b̊n̆о̃v е̌ l̇ Е ǹ ŭ m̈а
Ferda is human.
A human who dies in the blink of an eye and returns to dust.
A human where joy exists, but the end leads to sadness.
But what did that human do?
He was moving to revive the Far East, the land of despair.
He was telling her how enjoyable being alive is.
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"I can't do much but... I have to overcome at least the despair you show."
That's why Valdrova was trying to step forward.
Scary and painful, but carrying that burden of heart she can't pretend not to see.
Godwin's form gradually scattered.
He whispered in Valdrova's ear with a satisfied tone.
-Seeing you solidify your resolve looks good.
W е̊ b̌n̆ ov́_е́l Е̂ n̈ um̈a
"..."
-But it won't be possible.
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"..."
-Because you've been that kind of existence since you picked up your spear for the primordial era. Our King.
Thus he disappeared within Valdrova's consciousness.
Her heart became calm, and Valdrova put on her armor.
Wè b̂_n̈ о̄ṽ ӗ l̊ Е̃n̄ǔ m̃ а̄
Now it's time to go to the Devil's Land.
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