# E10 - The Lord of the Rust Mountains
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**[00:14] Valacirca**
So weak...
**[00:34] Valacirca**
Welcome to my bedchamber.
***SIGN*** The Faraway Paladin
***SIGN*** The Lord of the Rust Mountains
***SIGN*** The Lord of the Rust Mountains
**[02:26] Valacirca**
Weak one...
**[02:28] Valacirca**
One destined to die...
**[02:32] Valacirca**
I ask your name.
**[02:40] Valacirca**
What is the matter?
**[02:43] Valacirca**
Will you not give your name?
**[02:47] Valacirca**
Can you not even speak?
**[02:52] Will**
*This is...*
**[02:53] Will**
*an overwhelming predator...*
**[03:13] (Flashback) Mary**
You may try to deny feelings
like fear and anxiety,
**[03:16] (Flashback) Mary**
but it won't make them go away.
**[03:18] (Flashback) Mary**
What you need in order to
be confident is not pride,
**[03:23] (Flashback) Mary**
and what you need in order to be
courageous is not false bravado.
**[03:32] (Flashback) Mary**
Everything begins with acceptance.
**[03:50] Will**
If you're going to ask someone's name,
**[03:52] Will**
should you not give your own first?
**[03:55] Valacirca**
Ah...
**[03:58] Valacirca**
It would seem that
**[04:00] Valacirca**
you are not one of the lowly rabble
who merely seek to plunder.
**[04:07] Valacirca**
Then I shall give you my name.
**[04:10] Valacirca**
I am the sickle of the gods:
Calamity's Sickle.
**[04:15] Valacirca**
I was born with the last flicker of a star,
**[04:18] Valacirca**
and my life is eternal.
**[04:22] Valacirca**
I am the lord of miasma and sulfur,
**[04:24] Valacirca**
and brother of the lava...
**[04:28] Valacirca**
Valacirca.
**[04:34] Valacirca**
Now, answer me, small one.
**[04:43] Will**
My grandfather was the Wandering Sage.
**[04:45] Will**
One of my parents, my father,
was the War Ogre of the star of Leo,
**[04:50] Will**
and my mother was the beloved
daughter of Mater.
**[04:53] Will**
I am known as the Light of the Hinterlands,
**[04:55] Will**
the Faraway Paladin,
**[04:57] Will**
disciple of Gracefeel, the goddess of flux:
**[05:00] Will**
William G. Maryblood.
**[05:02] Will**
It is an honor to make your acquaintance,
dragon of the age of gods.
**[05:13] Valacirca**
What serendipity!
**[05:16] Valacirca**
Those names fill me with nostalgia.
**[05:19] Will**
Nostalgia?
**[05:20] Valacirca**
Had they called on me
before the demons did,
**[05:26] Valacirca**
perhaps we may have fought side by side.
**[05:34] Valacirca**
I detect a faint hint of the god
of the undead's scent on you,
**[05:37] Valacirca**
and you proclaim yourself a disciple
of the goddess of light.
**[05:41] Valacirca**
I see.
**[05:43] Valacirca**
That explains the age disparity.
**[05:48] Valacirca**
Now, I believe that concludes our
introductions and inquiries.
**[05:53] Will**
Yes.
**[06:09] Valacirca**
Faraway Paladin...
**[06:13] Valacirca**
Do you wish to take me as your servant?
**[06:18] Valacirca**
Why does that surprise you so?
**[06:21] Valacirca**
You and your companions
destroyed the demons.
**[06:25] Valacirca**
You are a danger even to me,
and that is inconvenient.
**[06:29] Valacirca**
So it is only natural that I would
seek something new to depend upon.
**[06:37] Valacirca**
I do have my ulterior motives, of course.
**[06:42] Valacirca**
I will seek appropriate compensation.
**[06:50] Valacirca**
Have no fear.
**[06:53] Valacirca**
I do not wish to fight a brave
warrior such as yourself.
**[06:57] Will**
Yet in a few decades,
**[06:59] Will**
you'll kill me, destroy everything,
and change loyalties again.
**[07:04] Will**
That's how you operate.
**[07:19] Valacirca**
Splendid! Splendid! You are correct!
**[07:31] Valacirca**
But it is not such a bad deal, is it?
**[07:39] Will**
*He's right.*
**[07:41] Will**
* If I accept, I won't have to*
* fight a losing battle now.*
**[07:45] Valacirca**
What reason do you have to fight me?
**[07:50] Valacirca**
It is because you perceive me
as a threat to innocent people
**[07:54] Valacirca**
that you came to me armed with spear
and determination, is it not?
**[08:09] Valacirca**
Look. Now I am no threat.
**[08:13] Valacirca**
I lower my head to you.
**[08:21] Will**
*What... is this?*
**[08:24] Valacirca**
Now, make your choice,
**[08:27] Valacirca**
Faraway Paladin, hero of the modern age!
**[08:31] Valacirca**
Show me that you have what
it takes to control me!
**[08:36] Valacirca**
Will you choose peace,
or a battle resulting in your demise?
**[08:41] Valacirca**
I am not a patient creature.
**[08:45] Valacirca**
Choose quickly.
**[08:55] Will**
*What is this?*
**[08:57] Will**
*Should I refuse?*
**[09:00] Will**
*No, if I do that...*
**[09:03] Will**
*What should I do?*
**[09:06] Will**
*What choice should I make?*
**[09:27] Will**
*Someone...*
**[09:49] Will**
*That's right.*
**[09:51] Will**
*I've already been saved... by her.*
**[09:55] Will**
* If courage is something that*
* can take a physical form,*
**[09:59] Will**
*then in my heart now is...*
**[10:02] Will**
Menel, Reystov,
**[10:05] Will**
Al, Ghelreis...
**[10:08] Will**
The outcome of this conversation
will decide everything.
**[10:12] Will**
Be ready!
**[10:18] Valacirca**
Well?
**[10:20] Valacirca**
Have you decided?
**[10:22] Valacirca**
Then choose, Faraway Paladin.
**[10:27] Valacirca**
Will it be peace or death?
**[10:30] Will**
I will not choose.
**[10:31] Will**
It is you who must choose, Valacirca.
**[10:36] Valacirca**
Oh?
**[10:38] Valacirca**
And what choice am I to make?
**[10:41] Will**
Will you mend your ways or not?
**[10:50] Will**
Let's confirm one thing.
**[10:52] Will**
The peace you speak of
**[10:55] Will**
is a limited peace between you and me.
**[10:58] Will**
It is not specifically peace for me,
**[11:00] Will**
or for the innocent people.
**[11:03] Will**
Am I wrong?
**[11:08] Valacirca**
Indeed, you are correct!
**[11:12] Will**
In which case, I have only one condition:
**[11:16] Will**
mend your ways!
**[11:19] Valacirca**
What am I to improve?
**[11:22] Will**
Your extreme enthusiasm for constantly
scheming and seeking conflict.
**[11:27] Will**
If you swear to mend your ways
and truly seek my patronage,
**[11:33] Will**
I will also swear to the goddess
of light that I will protect you.
**[11:37] Will**
For as long as I live, I will defend
you from all who are hostile to you.
**[11:41] Will**
That is how *I* operate.
**[11:45] Will**
Well?
**[11:46] Will**
Will you choose to improve, or to fight?
**[11:49] Will**
I would like your answer, dragon!
**[12:11] Valacirca**
Well done!
**[12:13] Valacirca**
You have successfully answered the
dragon's riddle, Faraway Paladin!
**[12:20] Valacirca**
You are no reckless boy flourishing
his own strength for a lark,
**[12:25] Valacirca**
nor are you cunning for the sake
of protecting your own life.
**[12:29] Valacirca**
You walk the path you consider to be
righteous with valor and wisdom.
**[12:35] Valacirca**
Marvelous!
**[12:38] Valacirca**
You are in every way the successor
to those heroes of old!
**[12:42] Valacirca**
I acknowledge you as a true hero!
**[12:53] Valacirca**
However, I refuse to make the
choice to change my ways!
**[13:10] Valacirca**
I am Valacirca!
**[13:15] Valacirca**
I am the sickle of the gods:
Calamity's Sickle.
**[13:18] Valacirca**
I am the lord of miasma and sulfur,
**[13:21] Valacirca**
and brother of the lava.
**[13:23] Valacirca**
I live only because miasma
poisons and kills,
**[13:27] Valacirca**
and because lava boils hot!
**[13:29] Valacirca**
War, disasters, feats of valor, treasure,
**[13:33] Valacirca**
death, sacrificial maidens, and heroes:
**[13:37] Valacirca**
what is a dragon without any of these?!
**[13:41] Valacirca**
I am Valacirca!
**[13:44] Valacirca**
The oldest and most powerful of dragons,
feared even by the gods:
**[13:48] Valacirca**
Valacirca!
**[14:07] Valacirca**
Hero,
**[14:09] Valacirca**
and warriors led by the hero...
**[14:12] Valacirca**
I could kill all of you here
**[14:15] Valacirca**
and add another new page
to my terrifying history,
**[14:20] Valacirca**
or I could be slain by you and be sung of
as a feat of valor until the end of time.
**[14:30] Valacirca**
Now, if you are prepared for the dragon's
flames to burn your body and soul to naught
**[14:34] Valacirca**
and erase you from the cycle
of death and rebirth,
**[14:38] Valacirca**
then I permit you to challenge me!
**[14:44] Will**
* This is the great dragon*
* of the age of the gods...*
**[14:49] Will**
*He's definitely an opponent I can respect.*
**[14:53] Will**
The Faraway Paladin,
William G. Maryblood, is coming for you!
**[15:03] Will**
Acceleratio!
***SIGN*** Accelerate
**[15:13] Will**
Lamina!
***SIGN*** Blade
**[15:19] Will**
*Dragon scales...*
**[15:23] Gus**
* If you do intend to fight him,*
* you'll want to aim for his old wounds.*
**[15:27] Gus**
*Dragon scales are tough.*
**[15:30] Gus**
* I doubt even Blood could cut*
* through them to his flesh.*
**[15:37] Will**
*I can't keep chasing after Blood forever!*
**[15:47] Will**
Acceleratio!
***SIGN*** Accelerate
**[15:59] Valacirca**
You can break through the protection
of a dragon's scales, eh?
**[16:01] Valacirca**
What perfect light exercise
to keep me awake!
**[16:08] Menel**
Hey!
**[16:11] Menel**
Will's not the only one you're fighting!
**[16:42] Valacirca**
I see.
**[16:44] Valacirca**
Impressive teamwork!
***SIGN*** Burn, Flames
**[16:54] Will**
Flammo Ignis!
**[16:58] Menel**
Sylphs, sylphs, maidens of wind!
**[17:27] Will**
Now!
***SIGN*** Be Tied, Knot, Binding
**[17:28] Gus**
Ligatur, Nodus, Obligatio!
**[17:34] Will**
Conciliat, Sequitur!
***SIGN*** Unite, Follow
**[17:42] Valacirca**
Vastare!
***SIGN*** Devastate
**[17:48] Will**
A triple cast! Gus's specialty!
**[17:51] Will**
The trump card of trump cards that
I burned into my eyes that day!
**[17:55] Will**
Pallida Mors Aequo Pulsat Pede...
***SIGN*** Pale Death Kicks Equally
**[18:01] Valacirca**
You would use that in a real battle?!
**[18:03] Will**
Pauperum Tabernas Regumque Turres:
***SIGN*** Both Huts of Paupers and Towers of Kings
**[18:10] Will**
Damnatio Memoriae!
***SIGN*** Damnation of Memory
**[19:07] Al**
Did we win?
**[19:09] Menel**
Looks like it.
**[19:10] Ghelreis**
The moment of victory is
surprisingly... unsatisfying.
**[19:21] Menel**
Will?
**[19:28] Will**
*The dragon is destroyed...*
**[19:31] Will**
*isn't it?*
**[19:34] Will**
*Yet I don't feel certain of our victory.*
**[19:37] Will**
* Not everything is resolved*
* by a battle to the death.*
**[19:40] Will**
*Sometimes, you win by pure chance.*
**[19:44] Will**
*And yet...*
**[19:51] Will**
Is that... wind?
**[19:56] Will**
No! It's not over!
**[20:31] Will**
He... transformed?
**[20:36] Valacirca**
Precisely!
**[20:47] Will**
*Words of Transformation...*
**[20:50] Will**
* Words so risky that humans*
* can't use them...*
**[20:54] Will**
*But that's a good point.*
**[20:56] Will**
* How was a huge beast like Valacirca able*
* to get to this underground country?*
**[21:02] Valacirca**
Have you caught on?
**[21:05] Valacirca**
That's right.
**[21:11] Valacirca**
The Words are all too well-known to us!
**[21:17] Valacirca**
I see.
**[21:18] Valacirca**
With the Words of Obliteration,
you could erase even me...
**[21:24] Valacirca**
if your aim was true, that is.
**[21:34] Will**
* He even knows how to counter*
* the ultimate destructive magic.*
**[21:39] Will**
* No, the result would likely be the same,*
* no matter what magic I chose.*
**[21:44] Will**
* This dragon has fought every kind of*
* Word on every kind of battlefield,*
**[21:49] Will**
*and defeated them all.*
**[21:52] Will**
This...
**[21:54] Will**
This is... a dragon.
***SIGN*** The Evil Dragon and the Goddess