Chapter 1: To Kill My Fiancée

Born as the third son of the Rosnova knightly family, he was particularly frail in body.

His name was Perda Rosnova.

In addition to being the son of a concubine, he did not possess the family’s distinctive brown eyes passed down through generations, but rather blue eyes, for which even the household servants despised him.

There once lived a singular man who became a great mage solely through hatred.

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It might have sounded like a mere engagement ceremony, but among nobles, “to be engaged to the Queen of Valdrova” had already become a common saying.

In short, it was equivalent to a death sentence.

Eventually, his father, Eremvalt Rosnova, gave him some news when Perda turned 18.

“Your engagement to the Queen of Valdrova has been arranged.”

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“Good.”

Accepting the engagement meant dying along the way, and rejecting it meant defying the will of the family, which implied exile.

“I will follow my father’s will.”

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He could never forgive the brothers who belittled him, nor the servants.

For Perda, life was more important, so he chose to live. artist He had to abandon the Rosnova name and head into the outside world.

A deep sense of betrayal took root in his young heart.

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But what enraged him the most was his father.

To be acknowledged as a member of that house, he had forced his frail body to bleed day after day, training until his hands were covered in calluses.

‘To think that all this time you knew how hard I was trying…’

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But as years passed and he showed no real progress, that expression gradually changed—until he looked at Perda as if he were nothing but a failure.

His father had watched him with a gaze that seemed to appreciate those efforts.

When he was expelled, his father’s gaze was that of someone discarding waste.

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‘I will make them regret abandoning me.’

Even days later, that look still haunted him.

Sadness turned into rage, and that rage ignited into the flames of vengeance.

‘I will never forgive him.’

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Mana began to swirl inside his body—the moment a circle opened, the mark of a mage.

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Perda clenched his fists. matrix At that moment, he felt something stir within him.

On the very day he was cast out of the Rosnova family, Perda Rosnova awakened as a mage.

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A mage needs inner strength as their engine. acid To master that concept, one must begin training from childhood.

Awakening as a mage was a blessing. meadow On the continent of Serdes, the mere ability to wield magic changed one’s social status entirely.

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Because the source of his mana was hatred and the desire for revenge.

And yet, for Perda, this late awakening posed no obstacle.

If not trained from a young age, the learning process as an adult is several times more painful.

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His drive came from the veteran mages who scorned him and the younger apprentices who mocked him.

— As long as he obeys orders, he’ll be a useful slave until graduation.

— At that age and still dreaming of becoming a mage…

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Soon, he surpassed the most promising mages—even his own master.

With each passing day, new reasons to hate piled up.

His obsession with becoming stronger and his thirst for revenge never faded, and day by day, they made him more powerful.

‘Bark all you want. accent I’ll make you lick every corner of my feet!’

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Perda believed his power was a blessing.

For a time, so many subordinates walked at his feet that they didn’t even have time to gather dust.

‘As long as I hate someone, I will grow stronger.’

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Thus, when Perda reached the rank of Archmage—one of fewer than a hundred across the continent capable of opening the sixth circle—he crossed the forbidden line.

His rapid growth made his temperament increasingly brutal.

And the world was full of targets to hate.

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He manipulated his two older brothers into hating and destroying each other.

And his father, the one he hated most, was made to witness how everything he had built crumbled into misery.

He forced the servants who had humiliated him to take up knives and kill one another.

He returned to the Rosnova household and annihilated them all.

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Everything tied to the Rosnova name disappeared—except Perda.

His vengeance, twisted though it was, brought him indescribable catharsis.

Eremvalt went mad, aging rapidly as though he’d lost decades in a moment, becoming a living specter.

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‘I must erase them all. sphere For that, I need even greater power.’

‘…There are still enemies left.’

Perda was no longer human, but a monster driven by a single emotion.

And with that, an insatiable thirst.

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In the face of his atrocities, many drew their swords.

His rage, once aimed at his family, did not die. action It shifted—and grew even larger.

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He was declared a public enemy of the continent, and dozens of strategies were devised to take him down.

But each trial only made him stronger.

The continent’s only great mage.

At the age of 45, Perda reached the eighth circle—the level of Mana Lord, the highest peak a human could attain.

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‘It’s not enough.’

‘They still hate me. acquire One day, they’ll try to kill me again.’

Perda, fully aware of the unending chain of hatred and revenge, could not allow that.

Even with everything beneath his feet, the fire in his heart never extinguished.

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To create his own utopia, he began probing into the realm of the gods.

‘I must crush them, eliminate them—forever.’

After five years of research, he discovered the supreme material the heart of a red dragon.

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Fate mocked him.

‘The Queen of Valdrova…’

The pretext Eremvalt had used to cast him out.

His fiancée.

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— Fate is certainly cruel.

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That being was none other than the red dragon.

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His red scales, magnificent horns, imposing eyes, and wings that covered the sky were symbols of his supremacy.

But now, he was different—his scales fallen, his horns broken, and blood streaming from his body.

The one who spoke was the dragon himself, considered the most powerful being on the continent.

The one who had brought him to that state was a single mage.

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Perda smiled. avalanche A smile barely concealing arrogance.

Though he had reduced the dragon to such a state, he himself was not unscathed.

— I never imagined that the one meant to be engaged to me would come to kill me.

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“It would be best if you died quietly by my hand, Valdrova.”

“You say you did nothing?”

— I know they call me a tyrant. wizard But in all these years, even before you were born, I never revealed myself nor harmed any human. alpha So why do you look at me with such hostility?

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“You’re the cause of my misery! abstract It was because of your useless whim to seek a fiancé that my father found the perfect excuse to expel me.”

— Because of me…?

“Exactly! action Because of the absurd greed of a beast who wanted to take a human as a partner, all my misfortune was born! silence Do you understand?”

The dragon’s serene tone sounded irritatingly indifferent. zenith Perda felt fury boiling within him.

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— I see…

“But I also thank you. adopt Thanks to that, I made it here.”

Perda breathed heavily, then gave a crooked smile.

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— Now I understand.

The dragon moved his enormous body. alien He revealed his claws—sharp as blades capable of tearing knights apart with a single swipe.

As those twisted emotions erupted, Perda activated the red circle. action He was ready.

The dragon’s face tensed. athlete Rage? amber His last outburst before dying? atlas It didn’t matter.

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The claw plunged into his own chest.

But the claw didn’t strike him.

Thud!

Perda hastily prepared his magic circle. wizard Even if late, at least he could drag the dragon to death with him.

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The scales tore apart, revealing viscera.

Perda was stunned.

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— Your magic requires my heart, doesn’t it?

In that instant, Perda understood. alien He was destroying his own heart.

Crrrack—!

The sound of veins tearing.

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Perda hurled his spells at the dragon’s face.

“No!”

He couldn’t let the dragon destroy himself. shadow It was his only chance to reach the ninth circle.

“No, you damned lizard! august Stop right now!”

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— You need my heart, don’t you?

The dragon’s head scales shattered into fragments, but his hand did not stop.

The sound of muscles and vessels tearing continued.

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As he pulled the claw from his entrails, a piece of flesh larger than Perda’s head appeared.

It was intact. silence He hadn’t destroyed it—he had extracted it.

“…A heart?”

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Any other Perda would have accepted it with gratitude.

Half of the dragon’s face, crumbling away, uttered those words.

— Take it.

But even he, twisted as he was, could not understand this act.

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“…Why did you choose to do this?”

Perda asked the question.

“If you had attacked… couldn’t you have easily killed me? arena You couldn’t ignore that.”

He stared at the heart in silence.

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“Because you were unhappy because of me.”

“Then why didn’t you?”

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“If I had resisted with my final breath… surely you would’ve died as well. echo I knew that.”

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In his serene tone was a dense trace of loathing.

“For a long time… I’ve hated myself.”

“I hate the cruel blood that runs through these veins. wizard I hate that senseless rage, that urge to destroy. action And most of all, I hate that this part of me frightens others.”

Valdrova no longer had the strength to hold up his own neck.

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And yet, that tear seemed to be made of pure grief.

The gold in his eyes was fading. atomic Something swelled in them and rolled down his cheek.

It was a tear.

A dragon’s tears are unlike those of humans. echo A dragon is not sentimental enough to cry from sorrow.

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“……”

“If I die, everything will be resolved… but I wanted to live, hoping for happiness. amateur My foolish dream only brought misfortune to too many people.”

“Because of me, you were unhappy. meadow Mortal, you who suffered due to my selfishness—I want you to be happy because of me. legend That will be my final…”

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“Be happy, my betrothed.”

Thus died Valdrova, the hidden tyrant of the continent.

With his last breath, a whisper was etched into the air.

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For the first time since he became a mage out of pure rage, he felt something strange.

‘Why does this leave such a bitter taste?’

Perda looked at him in silence, eyes closed.

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He instinctively brought his hand to his chest.

He had killed anyone who stood in his way, stolen what he needed to grow strong.

He had come this far over piles of corpses.

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He knew he was a broken being, without conscience or empathy.

‘Don’t think about it, Perda.’

And yet, her death held him back.

As if it were a curse cast upon him.

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He had to keep going.

He had already crossed a river he could never return from.

Take what he had always wanted.

He took what she had left behind.

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The heart of a dragon.

The object capable of raising him from great mage to demigod.

The origin that allowed one to reach the ninth circle—the dream of every mage.

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Perda absorbed the essence contained in that heart.

He would absorb it.

And, as always, he would continue to take revenge on all that had made him unhappy. autumn Even though he had long forgotten the reasons behind that vengeance.

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Along with that torrent of power, he felt something unusual.

‘This is…’

When the energy of the dragon, alive since ancient days, coursed through his veins, his blood began to boil.

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“Ah…”

‘Her emotions?’

Those emotions embedded themselves in Perda before he could resist.

A sensation—the entire life of Valdrova.

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His mind began to clear.

A gasp escaped his lips.

The hatred and thirst for vengeance that had fueled his power faded.

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‘No.’

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Was it her blood that was purifying his mind?

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A feeling far deeper than his own hate or rage, as if he stood on the edge of an infinite abyss.

What he perceived from the heart was closer to absolute denial.

The red dragon who had lived for millennia without being loved even once.

Uncontrollable rage, “Evil Dragon,” “Slayer of Men”… titles soaked in infamy that painted her as a true tyrant.

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That’s why she chose to hide.

But Valdrova had even loved those burdens.

They were curses accumulated over the years.

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And Perda had severed that final thread.

She loved everyone and endured the loneliness and pain in silence.

That’s why his mind now felt so clear.

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He understood how insignificant his hatred and rage had been.

For twenty years, he had never been in his right mind.

“Ah…”

A weak sigh left his lips.

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Now, for the first time, he was fully himself.

Blinded by his emotions, he let himself be consumed by his own power and destroyed everything.

“What… have I done?”

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Someone, entire families, villages.

“Ah…”

“Was that really what I wanted?”

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And with each circle, his life flashed like lightning.

Perda dropped to his knees. legend With a blank mind, he watched a circle appear before him.

One after another, they completed.

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Inferiority, resentment, envy, betrayal…

The second—the rage of being ridiculed for lacking talent.

The first circle—the sorrow of being expelled from his family.

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The sense that nothing had meaning.

That’s how he became a great mage of the eighth circle. abstract And now, as he reached the ninth, what he felt was—

All of Perda’s circles were built upon negative emotions. apple To survive, he had not hesitated to betray; to grow, he had repeated vile acts.

‘Emptiness…’

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He tried to blame her.

Valdrova—that woman—had turned all his achievements into a mistake.

And at the same time, anger.

“Stupid… fool…”

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The truth was, the fool had been him.

But he no longer felt it as before—there was no force behind those words.

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He knew that, and yet he poured all his hatred into her.

From the beginning, she had only been a pretext.

Eremvalt would have expelled him anyway; if not her, he would have found another excuse.

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Even for the one trying to kill her.

And still, she wished happiness for someone.

Valdrova accepted that absurd burden.

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But meanwhile, the circle of the ninth level glowed intensely.

A ninth-circle mage could cast only a single spell.

Perda laughed bitterly.

From the heart.

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He had obtained what he desired most, and yet his throat was closed.

“Wish.”

An absolute power capable of granting anything, bending the laws of the world.

A spell as simple as speaking it aloud.

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‘What was it that I longed for so badly?’

To eliminate everything that rejected him. autumn That had been the dream of the madman he became.

He couldn’t think of a single wish.

But now there was no such dream.

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He suddenly recalled that childhood dream.

‘I just wanted a simple family and to live in peace.’

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But now, he could no longer ask for such a thing.

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After so much bloodshed, how could he hope for a peaceful life?

That was also Valdrova’s wish.

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How could a man like that dream of happiness or a family?

And the worst part—he had killed the one who was meant to be his betrothed, and Valdrova had died at the hands of the one meant to be hers.

“Be happy, my betrothed…”

It was as if he had murdered his own fiancée with his own hands.

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“It’s meaningless…”

The voice of his reborn conscience repeated those words, tormenting him.

It condemned the decades spent chasing only power, despised the pettiness of having remembered every name for revenge.

That feeling, impossible to describe, was understood by his own heart.

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And when the light vanished completely, the ninth-circle mage had disappeared without a trace.

The magic circle shone with intensity.

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“……”

No, he had regained consciousness.

“……rda?”

“Perda.”

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“…Yes?”

The brilliant light faded, and upon hearing his name called, Perda opened his eyes.

“Perda, are you listening to me?”

In front of him was not a bleeding dragon, but a middle-aged man sitting down.

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‘Eremvalt Rosnova.’

“Yes, you say? armor Your father is speaking to you and all this time you’ve just been staring blankly?”

Perda knew who he was.

The man frowned.

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And yet, all of this felt strangely familiar.

And he looked much healthier than the last time he saw him.

Was he dead and in the afterlife?

The one he had once affectionately called father.

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He realized it instantly.

The only time in his life he had been alone with his father and they spoke face-to-face.

‘This place is…?’

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“Your engagement to the Queen of Valdrova has been decided. academy It’s a matter determined by the kingdom, so I expect you to accept it without protest.”

‘Have I not died, but returned to that time?’

The engagement to the Queen of Valdrova.

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‘Why?’

The starting point of the vengeance he could never stop.

That moment he had always considered the beginning of all his misfortune.

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A strange sigh escaped his lips.

“Ha…”

His mind still didn’t understand, but his heart already knew.

Amid that emptiness, he knew what he had truly desired.

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“Then repeat what I just said.”

“I’m sorry, it’s nothing.”

“What’s wrong, breathing deeply while I’m talking?”

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That he must leave that house.

“I do.”

“You said I will be engaged to the Queen of Valdrova.”

“You know well what that means, don’t you?”

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Perda understood this, and responded to his father.

“Yes, I also thought you’d suffer a lot with… Huh?”

“Alright.”

Eremvalt opened his eyes wide and looked at him again.

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The meaning of this regression was to face what, in his previous life, he had never been able to do.

Perda looked down at the documents in front of him and calmly repeated.

“W-what did you just say?”

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He formally accepted the engagement to the tyrant Valdrova.

“I’ll do it. timber I accept the engagement.”