Dungeon Defense (WN)

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Laura was always trained to protect her pride. Even when the family was doomed, even when she was enslaved, and forced to learn all sorts of nasty things from her body, she did not forget much pride. Life wasn't long anyway, she thought.

One day, while walking through the family garden, she was lost in thought. I could feel the maids grumbling as they looked at me. When I looked at her, I made fun of the broom as if she was working on cleaning, but I could see Laura. Laughter in the eye.

Ever since I was a kid. As soon as I looked at the person's eyes, I realized what they were thinking. The rumors about Farnese 'bizarre infamy', a tactical book or provocation stuck in a room without going to the ball or social gathering, were as well known to Laura, who was deaf to the outside news. Although he was the second heir to the family, it was a title that remained only leather.

‘Reputation is useless. ’

Laura looks at the green denaturation in the garden. The volcanic flurries are shaken slightly by the breeze.

‘Everything flows. ’

Not long ago, a wizard from the Petersburg Academy gave an interesting lecture at the school. It was a lecture titled 'How to Make the Right Judgment about Nature with Life.' The wizard ultimately criticized the concept of 'stop’ as wrong. Everything flows. If a human feels that something has stopped in nature with life, the wizard has insisted that it is simply a human illusion.

‘sensation, exercise, how fast you feel about something is entirely up to your pulse rate. The faster the pulse, the faster you can perceive the world. For example, a hare beats four times faster than a cow, so it feels four times faster than a cow in the same amount of time. You can do it four times as fast, and you'll do it four times as much. In short, the hare experiences four times more time than the cow…… humans and many other species of sub-race, animal species, run at different speeds in the same space-time continuum. Suppose that the pulse, perception, and mental flow of the human species were greatly slowed or greatly accelerated! Throughout childhood, adulthood and old age, if you think that human life is reduced to a thousandth of what it used to be, a month, and his pulse beats a thousand times faster -- people will be able to watch the flying arrows very casually! ’

The old wizard ran around like a child in a gang.

‘What if life is once again limited to a thousandth of a thousand, for example, about 40 minutes? You're going to feel that the grass and flowers are immovable, just as the mountains look like that to us now. As much or as little as we recognize about the geological shifts on the continent in our lifetime as a budding blossom. You'll never see rabbit movements, deer steps, frog jumps, anything like that. They're too slow! At best, we can infer the stag's footsteps, just as we can infer the movements of the planets far away today. What if life was slower? …… we might even hear the sound of sunlight. Now, let's imagine the opposite. For example, a thousand times slower pulse? Our lives are going to last 80,000 years if we're good, and we're going to do eight or nine hours of experience over the course of a year. ’

The wizard whispers something small. Then a fire broke out in his right hand. It was simple fireball magic.

‘Then we will see that in four hours the snow of winter melts away, the ground melts, the grass and flowers bud, the leaves bloom, yielding fruits and all kinds of vegetation seeds again…… Day and night will turn around like a bright minute and a dark minute, and the sun will run across the sky at the speed of arrows. What if life is a thousand times slower than this again? …… the difference between day and night will be completely eliminated! The sun will illuminate in real time as if it were a fireball. Dear Rombodia Students, This is the Wizard's Perspective. Everything that seems to exist to us is actually completely immersed in time. Everything is swallowed up by the rough flow of production. Survival, suspension and nonstop are the delusions that come from our human limitations. A perfect illusion…… a beautiful welcome. ’

The lecture impressed Laura deeply. Everything flows. This way of thinking, expressed in a concise proposition, matched Laura's life as well. Reputations of others, hatred for others, resentment, vengeance, love, everything just happens for a moment and then vanishes. The pride of nobles against slavery, the system of nations, and even the sanctuary. After all, every human being who will live on earth in a hundred years is a completely different human being.

If I know for sure that everything is flowing, all I can do is greet death someday with dignity.

Laura believed that.

‘Ha, fuck. Look at all this cheekiness. Huh-huh.I can smell it on you. ’

‘Miss, aren't your eyes a joke? Huh? We're very interested in how long we can go on stealing. The employer ordered us to do it right, but, ha, we don't know the word "right." I can't learn.'

‘There's only one thing I know how to do, huh. I'll teach you that from now on. Please pray that you are a good student. ’

After his body was handed over to a slaver, there was an abuse of education every night. I didn't lose my virginity because I had to protect the merchantability. Except virgins, however, all parts of the flesh were defiled. She was amazed that any part of the human body could be used for 'such' purposes.

Shining eyes in the dark.

Laura laughs a little. In fact, I laughed several times during 'education'. Each time, mercenaries treat themselves more harshly. One day I was too funny to not say a word.

Do you expect me to fall like a kitten? Good work, Cheonmin. Let's not get our hopes up and just covet what you can get out of life. ’

That day was tormented from night until dawn. Of course Laura doesn't flinch. The mercenaries realized that she was no ordinary nobleman. They harassed Laura while the pills were spreading, and they hired a lesbian whore on purpose. I confronted Red on purpose. Sometimes I called my colleagues to watch the action. In the world of mercenaries, the situation of the royal diet being raped by the Red was quite high, as it was a requirement of attention.

Nevertheless, Laura is firm.

‘Ugh, that bitch……. ’

‘This is what all the bitches called the nobles look like. Damn it.’

Even if you try to summon a spear, you must have a fighting tool to get excited. The mercenaries wither first because they never succumb. They merely formalized a minimum amount of training. A man hovering on his back feels far away from Laura.

Everything flows.

‘This is a nobleman. Laura de Farnese! It's a peacock's honor. ’

Even when his temporary master came in last night, Laura stayed calm. It was just that one person came into the wagon with the owner. It was because I had a strange gaze. It was the first time I saw it. It seemed to look at him, but not at the same time. Her curiosity had to be resolved immediately before she was satisfied.

‘What does that look mean? ’

"Yes?"

‘I was curious about the meaning of your gaze. I've never seen that look before. ’

She also thinks the other person is curious about her. I asked the owner to leave for a moment, and there were only two of them left. He indirectly says he wants to own Laura right away.

‘How can I be your master? ’

Laura has never explained her philosophy before. It was annoying because I felt like advertising myself somewhere. It felt messy for some reason. But when the other person asked me a question, I strangely wanted to answer it. She is a little excited by the strange emotions and opens her mouth. It's been a long time since I've had a companion.

Since then, the atmosphere of the man has changed rapidly.

"Girl, that sounds like a plausible way of thinking. According to you, everyone has no master. Humans, from nobles to the people of heaven, must be mortal. Isn't it? ’

It was a sudden infestation, but Laura didn't mind. It was strange to write so much respect to a slave in the first place. He's probably trying to pressure himself by changing his tone. Maybe it was some sort of stunt when he had a temporary owner. I liked it.I had no reason to get involved in the fight. Laura nods without hesitation as if it were a joke.

‘Yes.'

‘Don't you realize you just said contradictions? You claim to be a proud master. However, according to your logic, no one can be their own master. Do you still not understand what I'm saying? Girl, I have a question that can't be solved. ’

The man looks sad.

Why don't you just kill yourself right now? ’

‘ ……! ’

She looks like she got hit in the head. In my mind, the words of the man that I had been expecting, the arguments about him, the arguments about him, the re-arguments about him, the plans all came together and evaporated.

As her head emptied, the scene in front of her was illuminated. The man was watching him. It was the look of looking at something truly pitiful. She is disgraced. Even when sold into slavery, it is not this disgraceful. No, I couldn't compare!

She would rather triumph over death than submit to a man's words. It took a little work to break the tooth. When I bitten my teeth with the strength to cut off my tongue, it was immediately after a man's finger entered my mouth.

The man laughed.

‘You've thought about it, girl. ’

‘ ……! Town! "

‘Death is a child who prides himself on being his own. It really took me a few minutes to dispose of yours. Isn't that right?’

I could smell the blood in my mouth. It was blood flowing from a man's fingers. The man faced her without blinking even though his hand must have been severely injured.

"Yes, your great philosophy has not lasted more than a few minutes!" I call it the will of life that you could never break. There's more to the world than your philosophy can imagine. Do you want to die without knowing it? Just because you don't want to lose to someone? Laura, I'll show you the rest of the world! ’

His eyes glowed brightly. A light completely different from the eyes of the mercenaries.

‘You were not the master of life. He was just a priest who served death as a god. I have been a voluntary slave. I took pride in that and despised everything in the world, and it all turned upside down! You're laughing. How could you not laugh? A foolish clown was standing in front of the water balloon tree. ’

The man's voice is quiet but clear. She looks as if her empty head is once again filled with the words of a man. The irresistible declaration drives her away.

"Listen, once the mind was a god, then a man, and now finally a citizen. The nearest road to the mountain range is from the peak to the peak. To do that, you have to have long legs. However, what is the shorter path? You're not going up the mountain at all, are you? Master and slave are extremes, so even slaves can mistakenly assume that everything above their heads is beneath their feet. ’

The man suddenly unwinds the turban. He has a horn on his back. Laura is frightened. It was the Demon King's horn that only came into the literature. She realizes who her opponent is and is terrified. It was nothing compared to the king of men. In front of him was the Lord of Monsters! In fact, he was talking about her future as if a man had a future.

She was not afraid of such a future, but her gaze and voice became increasingly choking. Her last pride was her lack of respect until the end. But she knew better than anyone that pride was the only skin left.

Will he die? Or will you finally hold on to your life? Work with both of you. Don't underestimate the Demon King's offer! Give me your original wisdom! ’

‘Wisdom……? ’

I could barely pronounce her out of breath. The user smiles at the target and extends out its right hand.

‘You tell me. Life is hard. But why do you take pride in the morning and then resign in the evening? Life is hard. But do not show me such a fragile attitude! No more disguising defeat as victory. Defeat! Defeat in a row! But in the end, if you stand on two feet with Orloth, you will prevail! ’

She is deaf. My mouth is dry. My esophagus tightens. My right hand goes up on its own. You feel like you're being controlled by a rope somewhere. However, his right hand is no longer moving because he has no strength. Seeing that, the other person smiles again.

In the sound of laughter that seems to last forever, she understood only two sentences. Always looking out for yourself. And the man's name was Dantalian.

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The Wizard's lecture in the text actually comes from a speech given in 1860 by a Peterbruck scholar named Von Baehr. Nietzsche refers to this speech in Section 10 of the Die vorplatonischen Philosophen. It's on page 313 of the Nietzsche book in Korea. (The Book World, 2003) I moved it almost exactly the way it was. We also looked at Nietzsche's short phrase in the middle of the Dantalian line. Heh heh. These are my favorite passages.

In a fantasy novel, when I explained Mana to the circle around my heart, I suddenly remembered that phrase. If Mana is fundamental in the fantasy world, the faster the circle rotates, the slower the landscape will shine on the wizard, right? Even if you create the same fireball, the Five Circles Wizard will make it faster than the Four Circles Wizard. That's the setting.