Ending Maker

Chapter 122: Resolution (2)

Ehehe…late post. This chapter concludes the battle in the wild lands. Next chapters will be about the post-war events before the conclusion of the wild lands arc.

Arthur Chase.

The current Count Chase who was also the Tower Master of the Red Dawn Tower.

Red Wind was having a war of nerves with Lucas but flinched and became stiff at his appearance.

‘He’s not an ordinary person!’

She could tell it the moment she met him.

It wasn’t just because of his height and appearance that would make people believe that he was a first-class warrior rather than a wizard.

It wasn’t because of his handsome face that embodied sternness and seriousness.

The Phoenix was telling her.

The man in front of her was someone who was loved by fire.

He was a flame wizard who had scaled great heights.

He wasn’t a spirit. He didn’t even control spirits.

But the strong power of fire that she felt in him was similar to that of a wild god’s.

“Ah.”

Lena was also impressed.

She had met several wizards after the tragedy of the Paragon Kingdom, but the man in front of her now was the best.

Her intuition told her the moment she met him that he was talented and a high level of ability.

‘It’s like I’m seeing Fran.’

Druid Fran was one of the five heroes.

He also had a large and robust body that resembled a warrior, and an immense magical power based on an elemental force, so he resembled Count Chase in many ways.

‘And the look on his face.’

Fran also had a face that was like the embodiment of sternness and seriousness.

But his real personality was completely different.

“Dad! I-I mean…Father. Please allow me to introduce you to the Holy Angel, Lena Ainsburg.”

It had been at that moment.

Adelia had blocked Count Chase who had been heading towards Jude and Cordelia, and urgently said.

Because she couldn’t just leave Lena standing there.

“Holy Angel-nim?”

“Yes, Lena-nim.”

Adelia widely smiled and directed his attention to Lena. Count Chase quickly turned to Lena and modestly greeted her.

“Arthur Chase greets the hero of the Paragon Kingdom.”

“Lena Ainsburg greets Count Chase, the Tower Master of the Red Dawn Tower.”

When Lena politely greeted him, Count Chase looked somewhat surprised, while Cordelia and Adelia were greatly pleased.

‘As expected of my dad!’

Lena mentioned the Red Dawn Tower even though they didn’t inform her about it.

In other words, she had roughly known about Count Chase even before she met him today.

“How could I not know about Red Storm, the pride of the S?len Kingdom.”

It was Count Chase’s nickname.

After all, it was something natural.

Count Chase was such a great man.

He was one of the Northern Sagang and one of the most powerful battle mages across the entire continent.

His fame was also widely known in foreign countries because he had accumulated a lot of war achievements in his youth.

“Ahem, ahem, I am deeply honored.”

Count Chase coughed and politely spoke, but Adelia could tell.

That the corners of her father’s mouth went up.

Lena softly smiled and said.

“Count Chase, you don’t have to be so polite to me.”

When it came to their ages, Count Chase was older than Lena by ten years.

But Count Chase shook his head.

“No, how can I not be polite to Lena-nim?”

It wasn’t because she was one of the five heroes who ended the tragedy of the Paragon Kingdom.

Lena was someone who had reached the level of an archwizard at a young age.

“I see, I think I now understand why I admire Lady Cordelia every time I see her.”

“I am flattered.”

After they exchanged warm compliments, Lena stepped back.

Because she didn’t want delay Count Chase from his business for a long time.

Count Chase replied in silence at Lena’s consideration, and then turned to Jude and Cordelia.

“Jude, you particularly look weak and frail today.”

It wasn’t his usual spotting faults and making excuses.

The current Jude had a pale face and dark rings under his eyes, making him look like a real patient.

“That is…”

“It’s not Jude’s fault! It’s because I used Mana Drain on Jude!”

Cordelia quickly stepped forward and shouted. Count Chase slightly frowned at the sight of her stretching her arms wide open as if to protect Jude.

He liked that the love between the two was deep, but he disliked the fact that Cordelia was protecting Jude.

And one more thing.

“Cordelia, did you say ?”

“Eh? Uh…yes.”

When Cordelia flinched and answered, Count Chase clicked his tongue.

“It must be a witch’s spell.”

“…Yes.”

The fact that Cordelia had acquired the power of a witch had already been reported by Lucas.

Count Chase frowned again, but he wasn’t angry.

Mana Drain was obviously an effective and efficient magic, but it was also a dark magic.

It was a spell that forcibly took life energy and converted it into mana.

‘It’s too bad, but this must be fate.’

She already had that power. It would be reckless to suppress it.

But it was at that moment.

“Father, this is my fault. I’m the one who asked Cordelia to use Mana Drain.”

Jude said as he stepped forward again, and Cordelia was startled at his declaration, so she pulled Jude in a hurry.

“N-no! I’m the one who insisted! Jude did nothing wrong! Please don’t punish him!”

Everyone felt similar emotions when they saw the desperate cry of the two – or at least that of Cordelia.

Touching.

Cute.

Adorable.

And at the same time, annoying.

A couple who were trying to protect each other by saying it was their fault and not the other.

“Well, good. If you’re weak, I’ll make sure that you won’t remain weak.”

As he said so, Count Chase put down his bags, and Jude’s eyes began to shine.

But at that moment.

“Maybe not now.”

Count Chase said in a small voice.

It was because of the situation in the battlefield.

Though the Jackdaws were pushing the Angry Bull tribe, the battle had yet to end.

The fate of countless people may change depending on Count Chase’s participation in the battle, so now was not the time for him to relax here.

“Ga?l, Adelia.”

“Yes, father.”

“Yes, dad.”

He looked at the faces of the two after they answered, and they seemed to already know what he wanted to say.

Therefore, Count Chase straightforwardly said.

“Protect Jude and Cordelia. I will be back.”

“Yes, father.”

“Yes, dad.”

As soon as the two replied, Count Chase bowed to Lena again before flying back into the air.

“I’ll be right back.”

He then headed towards the Jackdaws.

When Count Chase was gone, Cordelia unconsciously sighed in relief while Jude seemed to stagger for a moment before falling on Cordelia’s arms.

“Ju-Jude?!”

“I apologize, my legs had weakened.”

“Don’t push yourself. Let’s lie you down again. I’ll give you a knee pillow.”

Cordelia carefully lowered her posture as she held Jude in her arms and gave him a knee pillow as she had said.

“How is it, are you all right?”

“Uh…it’s perfect. Thank you.”

At Cordelia’s question that was full of worries, Jude gently replied before closing his eyes.

‘You’re so kind.’

Whenever he was sick or in pain, Cordelia would become unusually kind to him.

‘This is so nice …’

It was paradise.

While Jude was enjoying the situation in complete bliss again, Adelia narrowed her eyes.

Because in her eyes, she could completely see Jude’s dark desires and him deceiving the kind and innocent Cordelia.

‘You, you. You’re completely a trickster.’

But saying what she wanted to say was awkward. Because Ga?l was right next to her.

‘He’s really something.’

Ga?l immediately figured out Jude’s true intentions more than Adelia. He bitterly smiled and looked around the battlefield, while Lucas and Red Wind started a fight with their eyes again.

And after a half hour or so.

When the war turned to the point where the Jackdaws began to chase the defeated troops of the Angry Bull tribe – no, when the battle had in fact been over, Count Chase came back to them.

“Are you still weak?”

Count Chase clicked his tongue and opened his bag, and everyone’s gaze focused on the bag at that moment.

‘As expected of father.’

What kind of things did he bring today?

Jude was full of expectations, and Count Chase didn’t fail him.

“Eat this. It’s not much, but it will help you recover your strength.”

“Heok-”

Jude received the item he threw before he widely opened his eyes in surprise, and so did Cordelia.

‘Isn’t this Baraman’s Elixir?’

‘That’s right! It is!’

It was a rare item that not only increased physical strength, but also the absolute limit of one’s strength.

It appeared only after the middle part in the original game, so it was extremely difficult to obtain it at this point.

“Hmph, this one’s not much too. Take this as a bonus.”

And he threw an item again.

The eyes of Jude and Cordelia sparkled again. Because it was the Will of Steel, which when eaten, hardened one’s bones like that of steel. This was also a rare item that one could not obtain in the beginning of the game, even if they wanted to.

“Fa-father. Fa-father.”

Jude’s eyes were filled with respect, gratitude, and love, while Cordelia was excited too.

But there was one person who didn’t.

“Dad, wait a second.”

Adelia took a step forward as her eyes narrowed when she looked at the items in Jude’s hands, before she turned to Count Chase.

“Dad, isn’t that too much?”

Count Chase cleared his throat at her short words that implied the obvious.

“Ahem… That…”

“It’s too much. Isn’t this discrimination?”

“I… Lady Adelia.”

“Lord Ga?l, please just stay still.”

Adelia dissuaded Ga?l from going forward, and then looked at Count Chase who coughed again.

As Adelia said, he in fact, did discriminate between the two.

If the items given to Ga?l were high-grade items, the items that were given to Jude were the highest-grade items.

The reason was simple – it was a difference in preparation time.

Unlike Jude whom he had been preparing items for a long time, Ga?l’s items had indeed been urgently prepared.

So it was natural that there was a difference in quality.

There was one more reason.

“Unnie, my Jude is in his growing period. He’s still growing up now.”

Cordelia opened fire when she sensed the crisis that Jude’s share might be taken if she stayed still.

She was her Jude one way or another.

How could she let her position as Princess Maker – no, Jude Maker, be taken away?

Adelia had a sharp look when Cordelia went into battle mode.

She never thought her adorable sister would change like this. She felt betrayed.

“Hey, what are you saying? And my Ga?l still has room for further growth too, okay?”

“No, ahem, ahem. Lady Adelia.”

Ga?l was already in his late twenties. He wouldn’t grow bigger anymore.

“Why not? You can build your muscles, eat something good for your body, and also make your body better.”

Adelia cut off Ga?l’s dissuasion as she glared at Cordelia again, and Cordelia had a serious expression as if she wouldn’t lose to her.

And their battle between ‘their’ Jude and ‘their’ Ga?l continued.

Jude and Ga?l were both embarrassed and satisfied, but Count Chase clicked his tongue and released his magic.

The release of his powerful magical power shook the surrounding air, and when Cordelia and Adelia flinched, he immediately spoke.

“That’s enough. I will take more care next time.”

“No…”

“That’s enough.”

Count Chase ordered in a low voice, and Adelia closed her mouth and stepped back while Cordelia sighed in relief.

‘I won.’

She somehow kept it.

Cordelia turned to Jude with a very small smile, and Jude praised Cordelia with his eyes after trying to hold back his laughter.

“Anyway, I’ll continue.”

He had to give out the things he brought.

When Count Chase put his hand back into the bag, everyone’s eyes focused on the bag again, but Count Chase instantly frowned when he half took out the item from the bag.

‘Hmm, this isn’t good.’

It was the highest-grade sexual stamina supplement he found in Lankebuste.

He had inadvertently bought it, but it was not yet the time. It was too early. It was simply too early.

But he had already taken out half of it.

When he tried to put it back in, Cordelia didn’t let it slide.

“Daaaad, what is that? Why are you putting it in? Aren’t you going to give it to my Jude?”

He would eventually give it to him.

However…

“Huu, it can’t be helped.”

Count Chase quietly spoke and then threw the nicely packed sexual stamina supplement to Jude while using magic at the same time.

[Eat it in a year. I won’t forgive you if you eat it now. No, not after a year. After the wedding. You understand, okay? Do you understand?]

Jude automatically nodded at his terrifying and forceful words, and he hid the item in his bosom.

Cordelia asked what it was as her eyes sparkled, but he couldn’t rashly answer.

And thus, a dozen minutes later.

Count Chase had a satisfied look on his face as he finally handed over an empty bag to store all the items he had given out, while Cordelia also had a bright smile.

And then someone arrived at that moment.

“It’s noisy.”

Count Hr?svelgr.

The atmosphere changed when he appeared on his black war horse.

He wasn’t particularly hostile, but he was a man who could change the atmosphere just by appearing.

“Father.”

Lucas tried to say something, but he stopped talking when his father looked at him. The count then turned his gaze towards Jude and Cordelia.

“Indeed, you’re a fantasy couple.”

His gaze, expression, and voice were all plain, but Jude and Cordelia uncontrollably gulped in nervousness.

Because of their guilty conscience on all the sins they had done so far.

But Count Hr?svelgr’s pressure did not last long.

In the first place, Count Chase was also here so he did not intend to scold the two, but there were new arrivals too.

“Jude, Cordelia.”

Great Storm appeared with his wild god powers still emanating.

The eastern forces seemed to have somewhat finished their fight against the monsters on the hill.

And Sun Song stood behind Great Storm.

A tension that couldn’t be hidden rose between Count Hr?svelgr and Sun Song.

Even the bickering of Lucas and Red Wind with their eyes were gone.

The North and the wild lands.

Two forces that had been at odds for many years.

That was why they couldn’t shake each other’s hand quickly.

They had somehow joined forces in this battle, but too much blood had spilled from both sides so they couldn’t laugh and rejoice together.

Jackdaws gathered behind Count Hr?svelgr.

Warriors stood behind Sun Song.

And Great Storm stepped forward.

He looked at Count Hr?svelgr and Count Chase in turn, before he eventually returned his gaze to Jude and Cordelia.

Jude had a rather calm face, but Cordelia was at a loss on what to do with the current situation.

‘Please do something!’

Cordelia’s gaze told him.

Great Storm ended up laughing.

Regardless of their method, the wild lands was saved – no, the future of the wild lands was saved in the end, so he stepped forward for the two.

“I shall declare victory. I shall confer my blessings upon the victorious heroes.”

Great Storm was a wild god.

Count Hr?svelgr and Count Chase paid their respects to his divinity, and Great Storm turned to the warriors of the wild lands. After he also looked at the Jackdaws, he shouted high up into the sky.

“The Hell Gate has been destroyed! The corrupted ones have been annihilated!”

His voice echoed in the sky.

The entire eastern forces on the hill focused on Great Storm, and so did the Jackdaws.

“They were evil demons! They tried to destroy the entire wild lands, but they couldn’t. The guardians of the wild lands, Jude and Cordelia, stopped their plot. The two stopped some of the destruction our enemies had caused, and then destroyed the Hell Gate that they had opened!”

The sky echoed once again.

The wild warriors cheered and cried out the names of Jude and Cordelia.

“Cordelia!”

“Cordelia!”

“Guardians of the wild lands!”

“Jude!”

Even Jude flinched at their thunderous shouts that was beyond imagination.

But it wasn’t bad. He felt a thrill as if the hairs on his entire body stood on end.

So did Cordelia. She felt like the strength in her legs weakened but was overcome with emotions at the same time.

‘But Jude.’

‘Yes?’

‘Isn’t his words a little weird?’

They were the ones who blew up the wild lands, but Great Storm was talking as if Haraken was the one who did it.

‘Just let it be.’

Because it was Great Storm’s consideration and inevitable choice.

How could he tell that the guardians of the wild lands were the ones who blew up all the sanctuaries in the wild lands?

Jude glanced at him, and Great Storm bitterly smiled.

With clenched fists, he declared in a louder voice than before.

“We won! Victory is ours! Glory to the wild lands! Honor be to the Golden Dragon King! Praise be to the guardians of the wild lands!”

“Uwoooooah!”

“Guardians of the wild lands!”

“Jude! Cordelia!”

The entire eastern forces cheered. At their cries that shook the ground, Great Storm glanced at Count Chase and Count Hr?svelgr, who raised his sword. He used Chivalry to raise a loud cry.

“Jackdaws! We destroyed the evil ones! We won! Glory be to the knight and wizard of the north, Jude and Cordelia! Praise be to the victory of the Jackdaws who were braver than anyone else!”

“Oooooooooooh!”

The Jackdaws also cheered with all their might. They felt like they couldn’t lose to the eastern forces’ energy.

This was the measure Great Storm came up with for what had happened today.

It emphasized that Jude and Cordelia were heroes for both sides, so that each side would recognize that they were not enemies, at least at this moment.

“Jude!”

“Cordelia!”

“Jude!”

“Cordelia!”

Cordelia felt dizzy amidst the incessant cheering, She bit her lips with a red face, and she couldn’t calm her wildly beating heart, so she roughly breathed.

She had never experienced something like this before.

Her heart felt like it would burst. Her legs weakened, and it seemed like she would collapse anytime soon.

Jude hugged Cordelia on her waist. He quietly spoke as he held her firmly.

“Just enjoy it.”

This moment.

Proof that what they had been doing so far wasn’t wrong.

“Okay!”

Cordelia widely smiled, and Jude also smiled.

The two enjoyed their victory amidst the enthusiastic cheers.