Chapter 313: What Is Gained from Failure (3)

Not even Grand Chamberlain Razmael felt comfortable forming an alliance with someone of the dragons’ bloodline, but he had no other choice.

“…I see that blood never changes.”

The son of Sarnus Dragulia, the oldest dragon.

Danesh Dragulia.

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Razmael’s face twisted as he looked at the letter.

The paper carried the scent of ancient earth and the metallic stench of blood.

The letter sent by the black mage was sealed with an ominous symbol.

“Even after all these years, you still devour one another. zenith Dragulia.”

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— In return, allow me to keep the young dragon.

“Damn lunatics.”

It contained only a few lines.

— I will take care of the affairs in the West as you wish.

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Razmael spat out those words, his face filled with disgust.

Razmael knew perfectly well how House Dragulia had survived for so many years, so he made no attempt to hide the nausea it filled him with.

And now, the most repulsive dragon of them all, who coveted his young nephew.

The oldest dragon, who had prolonged his life by drinking the blood of his own children.

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Razmael threw the letter into the fireplace.

Crackle, crackle.

“…Creatures like you absolutely must disappear from this land.”

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Danesh’s letter slowly blackened in the flames.

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The fireplace burned without its flames wavering in the slightest.

As he watched it burn, a reddish glow appeared in Razmael’s eyes.

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“Come. album Have a seat.”

And on top of that, Emil felt countless unfamiliar gazes clinging to his back.

The pale candles glowed, yet they cast not a single shadow.

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Watching that grotesque scene, Emil became even more aware that this place did not belong to the real world.

Its four legs began walking backward as though it were alive.

It didn’t slide across the floor.

Danesh casually waved a hand, and the chair moved away by itself.

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“You don’t have to be so tense.”

Little by little.

As Danesh turned his back to pour himself some wine, Emil tightened his grip on his sword.

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“…!”

Emil’s footsteps began to waver, leaving afterimages as he advanced toward Danesh.

Without letting the man in front of him notice.

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All of them a pale, sickly blue.

Hundreds of eyes.

Dozens.

The moment those afterimages merged into one, the eyes hidden within Danesh’s shadow followed Emil’s hand.

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Within that room, motionless like a painting, the liquid swayed as though it were alive.

Danesh set a wine glass on the table.

“Now that I think about it, perhaps you’re still too young to drink.”

The dark red wine continued rippling for a long time.

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Though lighter in shade, his golden hair and sharp eyes vaguely resembled his father’s.

“…Who are you?”

Emil stared directly at the man.

He was tall, with a pale face utterly devoid of blood.

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Danesh replied with a smile.

“Didn’t I just tell you?”

“I’m your uncle.”

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At the boy’s blunt words, Danesh shrugged.

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Why did you bring me here?”

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At Emil’s question, Danesh raised the wine glass to his lips.

[Because I want to know what you taste like.]

Clatter!

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A woman’s voice whispered swiftly.

“…I mean, I’m curious to see what kind of dragon you’ll become.”

The moment he heard that chilling voice, Emil unconsciously drew his sword slightly.

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“I was curious what kind of dragon would be born from the brightest dragon.”

Deep crimson lips had appeared on the back of his corpse-pale hand.

“My father isn’t a dragon.”

Danesh struck the back of his hand, and those lips vanished as though they had been crushed.

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“He’s the most honorable Swordmaster in the world.”

Even so, he clenched his teeth and answered firmly.

It would have been a lie to say Emil wasn’t afraid.

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At the boy’s declaration, the darkness surrounding Emil retreated a step.

They were so full of conviction that it seemed impossible to find even the slightest crack through which to slip.

His eyes didn’t waver for even a moment.

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“A Swordmaster…”

“Haha.”

Danesh lowered his head.

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“It’s true. anxiety Your father is truly extraordinary.”

That laughter was mixed with jealousy and envy.

And something far older than all of those emotions.

Admiration and anger.

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“How could he make such a decision?”

Though the laugh was quiet, the entire mansion seemed to tremble.

Within Danesh’s voice, which echoed throughout the room, were mixed the mocking laughs of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people.

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He seemed like a completely different person from the one who had been laughing only moments before.

But his expression immediately turned serious.

Danesh stopped laughing and returned to his cold expression, as though nothing had happened.

“In all of Dragulia’s history, there has never been an anomaly as great as your father. athlete Someone who was born a dragon and refused to become one.”

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The darkness of the mansion began gathering around his feet, as though being drawn into him.

“Why do you want to become a knight when you were born a dragon?”

Danesh stood up and brought his face close to Emil’s.

“And you’re the same, Emil Aureo.”

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Like an enormous curtain descending.

Like a black carpet rolling in upon itself.

All the darkness covering the mansion was absorbed into Danesh’s shadow.

“Why do you refuse to live according to the nature you were born with?”

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“A knight instead of a dragon.”

Before it were hundreds of wine barrels stacked together.

Then a dark bluish wall covered in bloodstains was revealed.

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The mansion had vanished completely.

“Honor instead of perfection.”

Danesh walked between the twisting barrels.

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The barrels, piled up like coffins, expanded and contracted as though they were breathing.

The space stretched as far as the eye could see.

Now they stood in an underground cellar filled with damp air and the ancient stench of blood.

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Then he lightly tapped the nearest barrel with his fingertips.

“I like it. adjust It’s an admirable choice.”

Danesh turned toward Emil.

“Though I cannot understand it.”

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Ratatatat!

— Let me out!

— Aaaaaaagh!

— Get me out of here!

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With a single gesture from Danesh, the entire cellar began to howl.

The dragons who had already died screamed desperately, begging to be released.

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“Unfortunately, they’ve all been reduced to nothing more than a handful of blood.”

Danesh gently stroked one of the wine barrels with a sorrowful expression.

“If they had also been given the chance to choose, would they have ended up like you?”

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“All of this happened because they had the wrong father.”

The sharp sound of fingernails scraping against wood caused Emil’s eyes to narrow.

Skeletal handprints began pressing outward from inside the barrels, as though they were about to burst through.

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Slash!

Danesh turned his back on Emil.

At that instant, a silver line cut through the darkness of the cellar.

“Not everyone can have a father as extraordinary as yours.”

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A sword blade had sunk into his neck far more deeply than anyone could have expected.

Emil was still sitting in the chair.

Danesh’s words were abruptly cut short.

“…Not bad.”

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“You talk too much, old man.”

The real Emil had already passed behind Danesh.

Drip.

Yet that figure began to ripple like a reflection on the surface of water.

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Danesh’s tilted head detached from his neck and rolled across the floor.

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A dark crimson liquid began to flow from Danesh’s neck.

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It rolled.

The severed head opened its mouth.

“…Well done.”

Yet when it reached Emil’s feet, that face was still smiling.

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“You didn’t run away or scream.”

“…!”

Danesh’s headless body slowly bent down.

Emil immediately stepped back.

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“That’s how it should be. artist If you’re a Dragulia, that’s exactly how you should act.”

With both hands, he carefully picked up his own head from the floor as though it were an object of immense value.

Those threads began reconnecting the severed head to the neck, stitching the wound together as they writhed.

Dark crimson blood rose in fine strands.

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Bang, bang, bang!

Bang!

At the same time, the lids of hundreds of barrels began to rise in unison.

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— Give it back!

— Give me back my blood!

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Skeletal arms emerged from the barrels.

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“Damn it!”

Beings born from desire and dead because of desire.

Even after death, they still coveted what they had never been able to obtain, stretching their rotting hands toward it.

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The boy fled into even deeper darkness, weaving through the shadows.

“Why the hell are there so many?!”

As he cut down the countless black hands lunging at him one after another, Emil broke into a run.

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“That’s right.”

Meanwhile, the dark crimson liquid spilled across the cellar floor had already spread like a sea.

Like an endless nightmare.

Behind the glow of his golden hair, which shone like a lone torch, the corpses that had crawled out of the barrels pursued him.

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Danesh’s eyes curved into a smile.

“Just as I expected, you wouldn’t spill even a single drop.”

“Even if you had to keep everyone here inside yourself.”

Watching Emil’s figure disappear into the distance, Danesh stroked his neck.

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“Emil! atlas Emil!”

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“Damn it! acquire Wake up already, brat!”

Zuber slapped the unconscious boy’s cheeks.

No matter how much he shook him, Emil wouldn’t open his eyes.

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The curse woven through black magic immediately reappeared, pressing down on Emil’s eyes once more.

“Arbas, get a hold of yourself!”

Those black fingers were still pressing firmly against his eyelids.

Although Zuber used aura to push them away, he could only manage it for a brief moment.

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“…My apologies, Countess.”

While Zuber did everything he could to wake Emil, Charles hurriedly organized the mages.

“What the hell happened?!”

“Ugh…”

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The Leviathan bones surrounding the tower.

Arbas barely managed to stand before pressing a hand to his forehead with a dejected expression.

Someone had clearly discovered in advance their intention of using the dragon’s remains as a catalyst to establish a long-distance connection.

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“It was a trap. harbor Someone reversed my spell.”

“Cough!”

After coughing up blood, Arbas spoke with difficulty.

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The overpowering smell of blood.

His entire body trembled violently as he spoke.

The sinister aura of death.

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All of it still clung to Arbas’s body.

“The caster of the spell… is already dead.”

And a cold capable of freezing one’s bones.

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“And… it’s a dragon.”

“A dragon?”

He clenched his trembling hand tightly before continuing.

The moment his spell had been seized, Arbas had desperately tried to sense the presence hidden beyond the darkness.

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Without question, they belonged to a dragon.

Vertical pupils.

The only thing he managed to distinguish were a pair of icy blue eyes.

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At Charles’s suggestion to summon a priest, Arbas slowly shook his head.

“To undo a binding of this level would require far greater power. voyage In my opinion, we’d need at least a bishop…”

“…What about the Church? abstract Could the power of faith work?”

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Not even an ordinary priest could approach it.

“Damn it! echo Is there really no other way?”

But unfortunately, there wasn’t a bishop in Trinova.

It was an exceptionally high-level curse.

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The boy’s face was growing paler by the second.

“……”

Charles’s breathing also began to grow erratic.

Zuber desperately held Emil in his arms.

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All she could see was the blond-haired boy slowly growing colder in Zuber’s arms.

“Countess!”

A persistent ringing filled her ears.

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“Haa… haa…”

Charles turned toward the voice that finally managed to break through the ringing.

“Countess! meadow Countess Charles Lavnoma!”

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His appearance was disheveled.

“…Lord Peter?”

Only then did she notice the old man gripping her shoulders.

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His unkempt hair and beard were tangled by the wind.

Yet his eyes still shone with unwavering intensity.

The exhaustion of many long years was etched across his face.

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“If you fall apart here as well, then everything will truly be over.”

“Pull yourself together.”

Peter looked her straight in the eye.

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As Charles met the old man’s steady gaze, her narrowing field of vision gradually returned to normal.

“…What must I do, Lord Peter?”

The unshakable composure forged over an entire lifetime.

“If you stand where you are meant to stand, then do what must be done, Countess Lavnoma.”

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“Can that device amplify anything?”

Although she had regained her composure, the young countess still couldn’t see the path forward.

Peter looked up at the gigantic iron tower.

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Hearing his voice, Arbas raised his head.

Vulcanu, who had remained exhausted until now, slowly rose to his feet as he met Peter’s gaze.

“Is it capable of connecting to anything?”

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Peter looked at Trinova’s tower, which was still glowing with a bluish light.

“In theory, yes.”

He also looked at the Leviathan skull, now completely closed.

“If that’s the case, then I know of a way.”

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“Sir Zuber, what was my son like?”

The two retired knights met each other’s eyes.

After saying that, Peter turned toward Zuber.

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The one speaking was the former head of House Bayezid.

He was addressing the man who had once trampled on the name of Bayezid.

Whether, even after death, he had remained Joseph Bayezid.

He wanted to know whether the soul Zuber had seen truly was his son.

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“Your son remained Joseph Bayezid until the very end. antenna And…”

Replied the knight who had once known nothing of honor.

“Of course, Lord Peter.”

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And now, at another crossroads, the black-haired young man who had waited for him back then appeared before him once more.

Hearing Zuber’s answer, Peter silently closed his eyes.

Twenty years earlier, Zuber had abandoned his own name during the Duel of Honor at Deirmar.

“He was undoubtedly a great knight who protected that boy.”

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Flap!

How desperately he had longed to hear those words.

A long, deep sigh slowly escaped his lips.

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The cloak rose into Trinova’s sky, which was gradually darkening.

Peter removed the cloak draped over his shoulders and cast it into the air.

“…Lord Peter.”

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The intricate designs ran across his arms, spread over his back, and reached all the way to his neck.

“I always wanted to show them to my wife.”

Then the strange tattoos covering both of his forearms were revealed.

Though the symbols were unfamiliar, Charles knew exactly where they had come from.

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A dagger had appeared in the old man’s hand.

Peter smiled sadly at Charles’s astonished expression.

“Oksana was always searching for Joseph.”

They were the tribal tattoos borne only by the barbarian warriors beyond the Northern Frontier.

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The sharp dagger pierced straight through the palm of his hand.

And after saying those words, he did not hesitate.

Thunk!

“She only wanted one more chance to see him again.”

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Sorrow.

Together with regret.

Dark crimson blood began to run down his wrist.

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The blood of Bayezid dripping from his hand began to stain the blond-haired boy’s head red.

And the dried tears he had never been able to shed.