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"Ora!　Die, shinne, shinne."

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　He says these words while thrusting his spear, the weapon in his hand, over and over again.

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　I joined the Mercenaries of Marshel, and not too long after that, I went into battle.

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　My first real battle was nerve-wracking.

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　It was nothing like the labyrinth.

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　Many people divided into friend and foe, killing each other.

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　At first, the atmosphere of the battlefield made me feel a bit nervous.

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　But I soon changed my mind and was able to fight.

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　Probably because I had killed them in the labyrinth.

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　I also understood that if I hesitated to kill their soldiers, I would die soon too.

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　If you don't kill them, they will kill you.

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　After all, mercenaries hired for money were often thrown into harsh battlefields.

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　I had no idea how dangerous it was to go into battle for money.

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　Well, I was later told by a member of the mercenary company that it made sense.

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　He told me that people who hire mercenary workers like us with no where to go and make them fight basically try to force them into dangerous positions.

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　They are useful pieces that can be replaced in any number of ways.

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　That's how mercenaries were treated.

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　That's why they were sent to the most battleground areas.

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　But the reward for risking one's life is just enough money to live out one's days, not much money at all.

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　At least for all of us to be able to eat, we always have to be employed somewhere and go out to the battlefield.

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　The Marshel Mercenaries, of which I was a member, went from place to place like that.

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　The only saving grace is that there were some smart guys in the Marshel Mercenaries.

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　There were smart enough to negotiate to avoid being sent to dangerous places, and smart enough to know who to hire.

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　It is said that this mercenary company exists thanks to that man who founded the mercenary company together with the leader.

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　Well, the leader was strong but not very smart from my point of view.

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　In such a mercenary group, I was active to a certain extent.

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　I was still thin, but I had the power of "rigidity" and "penetration" that I had collected from them.

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　Thanks to this power, just sticking out my spear was effective.

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　I think it was also a good thing that I had the [enhanced healing power].

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　Some injuries were healed and my strength recovered faster than usual.

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　So, I worked hard.

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　I just kept on trying, just kept on trying, just kept on putting my spear right in front of him.

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　I was born in the labyrinth town and have lived there all my life, so I didn't know anything about the outside world.

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　I learned many things little by little by having others teach me.

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　I heard that there are frequent wars outside the city.

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　I heard that the mercenaries' work never stops because there are wars here and there.

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　I guess it was true.

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　I fought in many places and against many people.

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　Or rather, I fought so many battles that I didn't even know where I was and who I was fighting.

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　After many years of such a life, I heard a rumor on the wind.

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　I heard that Labyrinth Town had been attacked.

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　I heard that it had fallen in a flash, defeated by a not so numerous force that had swooped in from afar.

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　Suck on that.

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　That's the word that came to me spontaneously when I heard that story.

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　I don't know who you are, but you did a good job, I thought.

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　I felt a little bit better.

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　But I could no longer be so optimistic.

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　The Commander was dead.

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　The leader who was so strong died so easily.

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　He was just too strong.

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　The strong one won and the leader was weak.

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　That was all.

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　After the death of the leader, the treatment of the mercenaries by their employers seems to have gradually changed.

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　The successor of the Commander was a man whom I thought was a wise man.

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　I had been told that his advice had kept us from crossing dangerous paths.

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　But I was wrong.

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　What really mattered was that the leader was strong.

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　From then on, little by little, the Mercenaries of Marshel were sent to ever more dangerous battlefields.

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　It seems that smarts were not enough to stop this trend.

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　You have to be strong.

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　As soon as they think we are weak, they take advantage of us.

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　We have to be stronger than this.

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　So I just killed them.

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　I killed everyone I saw.

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　I killed and killed, and from the occasional knight I met on the battlefield, I collected power and grew stronger.

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　And then, before I knew it, I was the leader.

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　Everyone in the group listened to me more than the smart ones.

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　I knew that being strong makes a difference.

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　You have to be strong.

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　They listened to me because I was strong.

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　So I kept killing to become stronger.

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　And I killed the king.

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　I don't know why I was there.

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　But I was in King's Landing when I was hired as a mercenary.

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　Memento's men rushed into King's Landing and started looting.

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　But my Mercenaries of Marshel were told to guard the outskirts of the city and were driven to the fringes.

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　Then, among those who tried to flee the city, there was the king.

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　His clothes were not so luxurious.

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　But I came across a man with a belly that looked like he ate good food all the time, and a white skin that had never been tanned before, as if he had never worked in the fields.

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　Kill anyone who tries to run away.

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　That's what I was told, so I killed him.

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　Then I got magic.

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　The magic to make salt.

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　I got the king's magic.

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　And at the same time my magic power increased tremendously.

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　More magic than all the knights in the land.

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　I'm what you might call the master of the kingdom.

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　No, I've gained such strength that I might even be more than a master.

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　I'm stronger.

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　More than a knight. More than a lord of a noble house.

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　Then I should have something to match my strength.

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　Land.

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　The mercenaries made a good name for themselves when I became strong... but they'll always be lowly.

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　They don't underestimate you if you're strong.

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　But they still look down on me just because I'm a mercenary.

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　Then I'll own land.

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　Weaker knights and nobles than me rule the land.

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　They control the land and its inhabitants with magic.

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　So I've decided to take the land myself.

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　What?

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　It's not so hard after all.

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　I attacked a reasonable knight's estate and took his lands.

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　I fought a knight from a neighboring noble house and won.

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　You can do it.

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　And when I got the land I realized something.

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　The higher-ranking ones have more magic power, and killing them [collects] more power for me.

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　And it wasn't only knights and nobles.

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　One time I happened to have an argument with a church priest and killed him.

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　We were having a private discussion, and the corpse was collected so quickly that it wasn't easily discovered.

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　And that's when I realized...

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　If I [collected] power from a priest of the church, I could become as strong as if I [collected] power from a nobleman, or even stronger.

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　And priests are weak.

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　He doesn't think that he will be attacked, so he can definitely win if he gets close enough to attack.

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　That's not all.

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　When I [collected] power from the priest, I got something completely different.

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　It's a way to give power to everyone in the group but me.

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　I have the power to allow the entire Mercenaries of Marshel to use my magic.

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　From then on, I was winning at breakneck speed.

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　After we took the knight's lands we pushed back the other knights and the noblemen who came to take them back.

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　The knights of the neighboring noble lands attacked us, but we defeated them too.

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　So he also took the church in the newly acquired strategic place.

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　I want to be stronger and more powerful.

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　But then things started to go wrong.

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　The members who had been following me became somewhat distant.

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　Some of them even started to talk insubordination.

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　I tried to keep them from rebelling by showing them my power, but the atmosphere gradually became strange.

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　And to make matters worse, the church started to recognize them as enemies of God or something.

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　And they even put a bounty on me and the other leaders of the mercenary group.

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　What the hell is this?

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　I just got my own land by myself, why do they keep interfering?

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　The church has made the mercenaries more and more isolated.

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　Some of them tried to escape, so I killed them.

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　Then they all quietly followed me.

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　That's right.

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　I wish I had more power.

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　So does the church.

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　If they knew I was more powerful, they wouldn't try anything.

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　That's when I thought.

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　I killed a beast.

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　It was the same one that the northern army used when they won the labyrinth town. The guy who owned it said that it could do magic if it had horns.

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　So I collected from him.

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　And now I can use some interesting powers.

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　Sharing.

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　I don't know what it is, but when I used [Sharing], I could use more magic than before, and I could use a magic called [Light of Judgment].

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　I used the new power I had acquired on a neighboring town where a nobleman lived.

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　I don't need an explanation to understand how to use it.

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　All you have to do is reach out your hand toward a visible place and say "Light of Judgment".

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　Then a pillar of light appeared in the nobleman's city that seemed to soar to the heavens, and the next moment, the city disappeared.

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　All that remained was pure white salt.

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　It's strong.

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　Very strong.

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　Moreover, he was able to "collect" power from all the people in the city he killed with this "Light of Judgment".

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　Maybe from the nobles and knights in the city and the priests in the church.

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　This magic will make me stronger.

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　I can become even stronger.

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　I can become the strongest of all.

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　Then no one will complain about what I do anymore.

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　First we have to silence the church.

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　But there are churches everywhere.

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　It would be too much trouble to destroy all of them.

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　Then, let's cut off the source.

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　We can destroy the Holy City where the headquarters of the church is located.

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　With that in mind, I set out for the Holy City with the Mercenaries of Marshel in tow.

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　As a reward for the journey, I used the Light of Judgment to turn all the towns along the way, and all the armies that stood in my way, into my power.

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　And then, at last, I saw it.

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　The Holy City.

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　If I destroy it, everyone will listen to me.

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The light of judgment.

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　He reaches out his hand toward the Holy City and says these words.

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　The next moment, a pillar of light rises into the sky from the Holy City.

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　And when the light disappeared, all the buildings in the Holy City disappeared, and I became stronger than ever.

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"What?"

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　But then something strange happened.

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　The pillar of light disappeared, leaving only white salt, and a black blur-like substance rose up over the land.

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　...... Is that magic?

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　Black magic.

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　A strange colored magic spread and it was encroaching more and more on the surroundings.

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"Is it rotten?"

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　Everything the black magic touched was in a state of decay.

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　The ground, the salt there, everything.

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　Seeing this, a voice arose from among the mercenaries.

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　An immortal, the king of the immortals.

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　Then, he turns his eyes toward the direction to which the man points.

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　And there he is.

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　A shadow stood in the place where the magic like a black blur was spreading and the surroundings were rotting.

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　A chill ran down my spine the moment I saw him.

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　What was that?

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　Just by being there, they make the viewer aware of their mortality.

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　There was the ominous presence known as the King of the Immortals.

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　And then, he steps toward us.

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　As if to deny everything in this world, he approached us, defiling the world with his unholy magic.

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