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Chapter 193
Trauma
"Wait a moment."
Ferd said, looking at the two walking ahead.
"While you two scout the path, would it be alright if I examine that room over there?"
Ferd pointed to the room and asked them.
The two glanced at the room Ferd wanted to inspect.
Ӗ n um а ..і̄ d
All that was there were a few desks and bookshelves filled with books.
Just from the general layout, one could guess what kind of room it was.
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"It seems like a study used with guests... At any rate, there don't appear to be any traps."
The adventurers, having surveyed the whole area, exchanged glances and nodded.
"Then please do so."
"Anyway, there's no benefit to you staying here right this instant..."
Еn umä .іd
The adventurers didn't bother stopping Ferd's arbitrary action.
To them, it was rather a good thing.
As an adventurer, Ferd was a novice, so he was bound to be a variable.
Thinking he might as well unload another burden while at it, he asked the Armor Knight standing beside him.
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"Sir Knight, please accompany Regent Ferd as well."
*Nod nod.*
Е nu m а
The Armor Knight obediently stuck to Ferd's side.
"Wait."
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Ferd's expression hardened as he spoke to him.
"Don't stick too close. I'd prefer you maintain some distance."
...*Nod.*
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A look of disappointment.
That disappointment gave him goosebumps.
What's a grown man doing acting like that?
"We'll return in 10 minutes."
"Sure."
Ferd suppressed that feeling and, regardless of whether the knight was there or not, pulled out a book from the shelf.
Ë n̆ ū m а̀.. і̄d
But he immediately had to frown.
'The script is different.'
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It's not runes, nor is it the commonly used Imperial language.
As befits a little-known land, its script was also uniquely its own.
Fortunately, Erica knew this one, so it could be interpreted.
Ferd first gathered a few samples spread widely across the study.
W̌ê b̄ ň о́v е̇ l Е̌ ǹ ù m̊а̀
If there were books on cultivation methods or emotions among these, it would be a decent haul for Ferd.
While searching for information like this, Ferd realized one fact.
"It's been well over 10 minutes..."
It was time to call Ferd and the Armor Knight back, but they didn't return.
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'A trap to lure me out?'
Ferd reflexively suspected them.
E nû mа̄.іd
'...No, that can't be.'
From their attitude, it was clearly visible they found it bothersome.
Nothing more than the burden of having to babysit rookies.
If it were a trap, they would have acted even more kindly.
"Then conversely, it's possible they fell into a trap instead."
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The Armor Knight reacted violently.
He turned his head toward the door they had entered through.
"Let's go check for now."
*Nod!*
A motivated-looking gait.
But Ferd didn't like that motivation.
Е n̂.ů m̆а. іd̄.
"Wait."
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"Follow behind me. If it's magic, I'll check first."
*Nod.*
But since he obeyed so readily, it wasn't all bad.
Ferd carefully moved, following their tracks.
Ẁ ėb n ǒ v e.l Е̃.ñ um а
A path continuing in a straight line appeared, then branched off to the right.
Ferd didn't need to ponder which way to go.
From the straight path, a groaning sound was heard.
Following the sound, an adventurer was there.
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"Ughhhhh..."
He was looking somewhere, suffering terribly.
Ё ń umа̊_. і̄ d́
Ferd held his breath and signaled the Armor Knight to stop.
Ferd walked up first to check the spot.
"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to do this. Please..."
The adventurer was confessing his sins while looking somewhere, begging for salvation.
'Illusion magic?'
Is a demon lying in wait?
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Ferd's eyes began to glow faintly.
He tried to shatter the source of the illusion with mana detection.
But what reflected in his eyes was surprising.
'Magic is faintly felt... but this much can't be called being caught in an illusion.'
If it were magic, there should be a mana aura wrapping the head or eyes.
If you do haeju, you can wake up.
Еn̈ u m̃ а̄.
But the mana is rising from the heart and danjeon, and the amount is minuscule.
'Which means...'
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Ferd suddenly recalled his time with Ruri.
Her confessed past and regrets.
The pain coming from that.
Having grasped the situation, Ferd checks where his gaze is directed.
W е́_b̈nоvё l̃ Е̊ n̂ um̌а
However, he doesn't look there himself.
Instead, he draws his staff.
"Lightning Spear."
*Crackle!*
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Red lightning flew toward the end of the gaze.
*Crunch!*
Е̇.n ū m̆ a
The sound of it piercing flesh and exploding is heard.
Green blood and purple flesh scatter.
At the same time, the eyes of the adventurer who had been captured by something returned.
"Huh, what? What just..."
"Are you alright?"
"Huh? Ah, yes..."
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"Where's the other one?"
"Th-that's... more importantly, how did you get here...?"
His mind returned, but he was babbling from the aftereffects.
"No time. You likely fell for the same thing. Want to watch him die?"
"Ah! I'm sorry! Probably... he went into the fork in the road before we got here!"
Ferd looked at the Armor Knight.
Ĕnů m̂а
'If this guy gets entranced by that thing, it becomes more of a problem.'
"Armor Knight."
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*Nod?*
"I'm entrusting this adventurer to you. No matter where he points, even if he says look there, absolutely do not look there."
*Nod.*
At least the reply is refreshing.
Е nûm̂ а̇. іd
Whether he's trustworthy is a separate matter, but for now, Ferd had no other way.
Since the Flint Expedition is the starting point, he had to show how meaningful this adventure's results would be.
Among those, no casualties occurring is the core.
Since it's a city built for the Eastern Conquest, survivors are extremely important to Ferd.
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Ferd ran toward the place the adventurer described.
Retracing the way they came and turning at the fork, similar groaning sounds could be heard from there too.
Ën̈ ǔm̆ а. і_d̊
The situation was worse than the first adventurer.
The sight of an adventurer embracing some lump came into view.
Ferd reflexively covered his eyes.
It was already too late, but thanks to that, he learned one piece of information.
'Just seeing the outline seems to be fine.'
Meaning the core part of the illusion is separate.
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Ferd decided to rescue the adventurer first.
Unlike the adventurer who had suffered in pain, he wore an incredibly happy face.
"Sandra... I'm coming... Please, this time, I'll be with you. I'll never let you go..."
It was felt.
Right now, he is being saved in this moment.
But now is the time to part.
E ń úm̀ ӑ
"Lightning Bolt."
A red lightning bullet flew in a straight line and struck the lump.
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*Crunch!*
Several black hands emerged from Ferd's sleeve and grabbed the adventurer's body.
With no light at all, the power of shadow was strong, and he could tear him away from the lump.
"Ah, aaaah!!"
Е̌ n̆ ü mа̂
Wounds covered the adventurer's body.
He was bleeding profusely, but he didn't care.
"Sandra...! My love, where did you go!?"
"Snap out of it."
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"Sandra...! Sandra! Let go!"
Ferd forcibly dragged the man back as he tried to rush toward the lump again.
Е̇n̈ u m а
"Let go, I said!"
The man stabs Ferd's shadow with a dagger.
"Ugh!"
Even if it's a shadow, the pain it feels is vividly transmitted.
Ferd recognizes the pain felt from those nerves as an illusion and quickly pulls away.
Everything is an unfavorable environment.
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Thick demonic energy makes him feel unpleasant, and brief pain creates a momentary lapse.
Because of that, he ended up seeing what the struggling man was looking at.
Just for a split second, but Ferd saw it clearly.
The large eyes that lump possessed.
'Damn it!'
In the blink of an eye, the form completely changed.
W е b̄ n о́ v̊ e ĺ Е́n̂ úm̈ а̄
"Val... drova?"
Two pairs of horns and beautiful features.
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A figure displaying healthy femininity unbefitting the word 'Violent Dragon'.
"Why are you here...?"
It's impossible.
Her being here is impossible.
Е̌ n̈ů ḿа̊ . і̃ď
Yet she is here.
"Ferd..."
Her beautiful voice called him desperately.
'Can't focus.'
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Every time he looks at that thing, he comes to believe she is here.
She should be under Valdrova Castle right now.
Ên̂um̂ a. і d
He forcibly discards emotion and puts logic first.
A mana bullet barely formed in Ferd's hand pierced Valdrova's form.
*Puh-shuck!*
Head snapping back greatly.
He thought if the form shattered, it would naturally scatter back to its original appearance, and Ferd would also escape what had captured him.
But it wasn't so.
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"Why... do you attack me?"
Valdrova raised her head again and looked at Ferd.
Her appearance with half her head blown off.
The remaining single eye sheds tears endlessly.
Ferd knows that appearance.
Even though she's human now, when she was a dragon, she looked like that.
Ӗ ń u̇ m̃ а .і̀ d
Ferd constantly self-hypnotizes.
That's not Valdrova.
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"Ah, I see... I... am not needed..."
That's not Valdrova.
"Hehe... sorry, I had another weird delusion and caused trouble for Ferd..."
That thing.
Еn um̊a
"What Ferd needed was this, right?"
*Puh-shuck!*
Valdrova.
"I'll give it to you."
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She ripped out her own heart and held it out.
Reason collapses, and the air of despair pierces Ferd's lungs.
W̃ê.ḃ nо̂v е l̄ Е̃ n̆ um а̄
She staggered toward Ferd.
"I'm..."
Despair becomes regret.
Regret rolls Ferd's deep darkness.
"I'm... sorry."
That was when.
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Valdrova's figure suddenly shot upward.
The spot where she had ripped out her heart was pierced once more.
What stood tall there was a steel gauntlet.
What it held was a large heart.
It ripped out the heart it had held and crushed it outright.
"Ah...!"
Ẽn̆ũṁå . i̇d
With the peak of regret, Ferd felt something that had captured his mind release.
He closes his eyes and opens them again.
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Where Valdrova should have been, some lumps were limp.
Green blood and purple flesh. Definitely monsters.
And there were two of them.
One was where Ferd had fed the mana bullet.
W èb̌ n̆ö ṽ е l Ën̂u mӓ
And the other was what the Armor Knight just pierced.
Ferd slowly recalls what he saw and assesses the situation.
Another monster replaced Valdrova's spot where her brow was pierced, continuing the illusion.
It made them think they killed it, but it didn't die in the end and tormented them further.
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It was a splendid trick, enough for Ferd to acknowledge.
'So this is what Ruri saw...'
Е̊ n̄ ù.ḿа̌
Certainly makes you lose your mind.
There was no sign of magic being cast, so countering with magic is hard too.
What's certain is that a countermeasure against that thing is needed.
But above all, what's most needed right now is stability.
"Ugh..."
The Shadow Circle was spinning like crazy.
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It was on the verge of exploding and killing Ferd.
The Armor Knight carefully reached a hand toward his face.
That intention was undoubtedly worry for Ferd.
That is kindness.
That kindness once again shaped Valdrova's form before his eyes.
"Get lost!"
W ё b ṅ оv̌е̃l Е́nü mă
Ferd roughly shook off that hand.
Valdrova's form returned to the Armor Knight.
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He flinched, withdrew his hand, and carefully stepped back.
A beast is sharpest when its weakness is exposed.
Ferd is showing his weakness right now.
That won't do.
Е̂ñům̄ а̃
In this land of despair, despair is easy prey.
Ferd steadied his breathing and replied politely.
"Sorry, but... please stay away."
...*Nod.*
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Reluctantly understanding, he carefully hoisted the adventurer's body and took the lead.
Ferd followed behind him.
Wе b̊ñ о̇vе l Еṅ u mӓ
For some reason, that back kept looking like Valdrova.
He thought he was going crazy.
* * *
Everyone didn't gather on time.
Surprisingly, all those who had moved separately had fallen to the exact same monster.
The Right Path group where Ferd was took the most damage.
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"For now, let's name this creature 'Trauma'."
The common trait: it pulls memories from the target's mind and shows those illusions.
Those illusions are the ones they've longed for most while living.
"It seems impossible to block that gaze with mental armor magic. So my guess is it's not magic but hypnosis."
"Hypnosis..."
"Is that possible even without magic?"
W е̌ b́ňо́v е̃l̄ Еn u m̈ á
"My current guess is it might be made in the form of a trap. The kind that activates the moment you make eye contact."
That was Erica's guess.
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If the monster called Trauma casts hypnosis magic, there would be a mana form, and breaking that mana form would let you escape.
"What will you do? Should we not scatter and stick together?"
They saw horrific illusions, enough to be discouraged.
Yet the adventurers who suffered didn't easily suggest grouping up.
W_е̊ bǹǒv е̇ l̇ Ё nũm̊ а́
"There weren't separate traps, and if the biggest trap is just that thing called Trauma..."
"If we're just a little careful, I think it's doable enough..."
They still thought it was an adventure worth trying.
"Then let's move in the same groups as before. This time, we'll do it in a way that avoids eye contact with those things as much as possible. Pairs of two, facing each other."
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"So if one gets caught, the other notices immediately."
"Understood."
W е̄bnо́_v е l̃ Ѐn̊ üm̀ а̃
"Let's proceed with the deep exploration. Any questions before that?"
No one raised a hand.
"Good. Then let's do personal maintenance again and depart. Rest for 10 minutes."
They briefly scattered and checked their gear.
"Captain Eri."
The one who called her separately was Ferd.
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"Speak."
"I found books like these at the place I went."
Ferd secretly handed her a few books.
"They're written in Eastern script. You want me to interpret them?"
"Yes."
"I only memorized a few important characters myself, so for now, hmm..."
Ẅ е́bn ӧ v́е̊ l È ṅů m̂ а́
Erica lightly skimmed the books' contents and asked.
"Did you find all of these in one place?"
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"Yes. It's one location, but I brought them from separate spots."
"But there's one commonality."
"What is it?"
"See this character here?"
W̄е̊_b n̈ о vel̃ Е́n̈ u ṁ ӑ
The character Erica pointed to was in every book, just as she said.
"This character means 'love'."
"Love..."
"I don't know what the books contain, but basically, they're all books related to love."
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Since strong intuition led him there, they were necessary items for Ferd.
It's undoubtedly a place storing grimoires on controlling and operating emotions.
E n̄u m а̇.і d
Most such places have secret passages, and if you go to the deep part, secret grimoires are stored.
"Then we just need to go there."
"Yes, there might be magic tools, and if there's a clue to get what we want, that alone is enough. Is that all?"
"Actually, there's one more thing."
Ferd answered Erica's question.
"Didn't you say the Front Path group got hit too?"
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"...Right."
The ones hit in the Front Path group were Erica and Virgil.
Unlike the Side Path groups who received help from others, Erica tried to break free on her own like Ferd.
And she escaped.
"Back then, what exactly did you see?"
"Do I have to answer?"
Е̃ ń umӓ . і d́
"It doesn't need to be specific. I just want to confirm something."
Erica pressed her lips tightly, then opened her mouth as if she had no choice.
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"What I saw... was the biggest mistake I ever made."
What each saw differs, but the essence is the same.
"How did you overcome it?"
Ferd was curious about that.
E n̂ ú m а
How did she escape that horrible, terrifying thing?
Erica answered as if it were simple.
"Because I realized I can never repeat that mistake twice."
It was the worst answer for Ferd.
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Ferd's Shadow Circle was still spinning.
No, as time passed, it was moving even more violently.
Ӗñum а̌. ї.d̂
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