E11 - The Evil Dragon and the Goddess

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[00:00] Will
    This dragon has fought every kind of
    Word on every kind of battlefield,
[00:05] Will
    and defeated them all.
[00:08] Will
    This...
[00:10] Will
    This is... a dragon.
SIGN    The Faraway Paladin
SIGN    The Lord of the Rust Mountains
SIGN    The Evil Dragon and the Goddess
[01:46] Valacirca
    Well, now, Faraway Paladin...
[01:50] Valacirca
    You have fought bravely. I commend you.
[01:55] Valacirca
    Out of respect for the
    fight you have put up,
[01:58] Valacirca
    I offer you this proposal.
[02:03] Valacirca
    Have you any interest in serving me?
[02:10] Valacirca
    I see that you are wise to my intentions.
[02:13] Valacirca
    I am prepared to give you justification.
[02:18] Valacirca
    Should you refuse to accept my proposal,
[02:20] Valacirca
    I will burn your companions'
    very bones and souls to ashes.
[02:27] Valacirca
    Thus threatened, you had no choice
    but to capitulate to the dragon
[02:30] Valacirca
    in order to save your companions' lives.
[02:33] Valacirca
    Well? It serves as an appropriate
    excuse, does it not?
[02:41] Valacirca
    I have seen many humans with
    that very look in their eyes.
[02:46] Valacirca
    Even if I threaten to burn
    you to ashes yourself,
[02:49] Valacirca
    you will not bend or falter.
[02:53] Valacirca
    You are still trying to ensure that
    your companions do not catch on
[02:57] Valacirca
    as you continue to search for a
    way out of this predicament.
[03:01] Valacirca
    But no matter how hard you try,
    your effort is in vain.
[03:07] Valacirca
    Am I wrong?
[03:10] Valacirca
    No... There is one way
[03:14] Valacirca
    for you to avoid giving in to me.
[03:20] Valacirca
    You need only kill yourself.
[03:25] Valacirca
    You are loved by the goddess
    of flux, are you not?
[03:28] Valacirca
    Simply cut off your own head.
[03:32] Valacirca
    After all, the next world awaits you, yes?
[03:35] Valacirca
    And the next one after that?
[03:38] Valacirca
    And after that, and after that—
    you have infinite chances, do you not?
[03:45] Valacirca
    If you wish to prevent tragedy,
[03:47] Valacirca
    simply end your life, as you would throw
    a game board if you could not win.
[03:52] Valacirca
    Tell yourself, "Not here. Next time.
    This is not the time for me to fight."
[03:58] Will
    I won't choose that.
[04:01] Valacirca
    Very well, then.
[04:03] Valacirca
    One who sees his own life as
    no more valuable than that
[04:07] Valacirca
    is not worth having in my service.
[04:11] Valacirca
    Choose, then.
[04:14] Valacirca
    Will you side with me,
[04:16] Valacirca
    or will you fight me and die?
[04:19] Will
    I can well imagine what would
    happen if I sided with you.
[04:23] Will
    I cannot bow to you.
[04:26] Valacirca
    Your companions will die.
[04:28] Will
    We came here prepared for that possibility.
[04:32] Will
    If any of us are lost,
[04:34] Will
    so long as just one of us survives to put
    a blade to your throat, that's enough.
[04:39] Valacirca
    But surely you see that you
    have no chance of winning.
[04:44] Will
    I do.
[04:46] Will
    If I hit you thousands—millions—
    of times with this blade, I will win.
[04:53] Will
    Am I wrong?
[04:57] Valacirca
    Perhaps after many thousands of miracles.
[05:02] Will
    It doesn't matter how many thousands,
    millions, or billions it takes.
[05:06] Will
    If I have a chance at winning,
    at keeping my promise,
[05:10] Will
    I will bet on it.
[05:12] Will
    You're about to see how stubborn I can be.
[05:18] Will
    Evil dragon Valacirca!
[05:21] Valacirca
    Faraway Paladin.
[05:23] Will
    I will slay you!
[05:30] Valacirca
    I will strike you down before you can!
SIGN    Strong Life
[05:33] Will
    Fortis Vita!
[05:37] Will
    Acceleratio!
SIGN    Accelerate
SIGN    Falling Spiderweb
[05:41] Will
    Cadere Araneum!
[05:54] Will
    I need to try to keep them out of this!
SIGN    Words Fly
[05:59] Will
    Verba Volanto!
SIGN    Thunder
[06:01] Will
    Tonitrus!
SIGN    Devastate
[06:16] Will
    Vastare!
SIGN    Accelerate
[06:38] Will
    Acceleratio!
[06:57] Will
    Pale Moon...
[07:06] Will
    Valacirca is wounded all over, too.
[07:09] Will
    If I can just get Overeater into him
    somewhere and extract his life force...
[07:14] Valacirca
    Truly a shame.
[07:27] Valacirca
    I am familiar with that demonblade.
[07:31] Valacirca
    It is quite a threat, indeed.
[07:36] Valacirca
    It is said to have been
    forged by a demon king
[07:41] Valacirca
    in order to confront and kill
    the sword-obsessed High King.
[07:48] Valacirca
    But if one knows how it works,
[07:51] Valacirca
    it can be defeated.
[07:53] Valacirca
    Much like this.
[08:01] Will
    I guess he has no intention of
    fighting at close range anymore.
[08:06] Valacirca
    While it has been entertaining,
[08:08] Valacirca
    I never dreamed a mere human could
    make a fight so difficult,
[08:16] Valacirca
    Faraway Paladin, William G. Maryblood.
[08:22] Will
    My mana's already...
[08:24] Valacirca
    I commend you for giving me so many wounds.
[08:30] Valacirca
    Were we merely testing each other's skills,
[08:34] Valacirca
    I might have placed a wreath
    of victory on your head
[08:38] Valacirca
    for putting up such a
    fight against a dragon.
[08:41] Valacirca
    Your strength rivals that of the
    heroes of the age of gods.
[08:46] Valacirca
    You are a true man of power—
[08:50] Valacirca
    a hero of the present age!
[08:53] Valacirca
    However...
[08:55] Valacirca
    This is a battle to the death!
[09:02] Valacirca
    I will not make you suffer.
[09:05] Valacirca
    At the very least, you can...
[09:07] Valacirca
    die quickly!
[09:11] Will
    I swore an oath to the goddess!
[09:24] Valacirca
    A Herald? Too weak to send an Echo, then?
[09:28] Valacirca
    A wasted effort, goddess of light!
[09:45] Will
    Goddess...
[09:49] Valacirca
    You value your hero's life that much?
[09:54] Valacirca
    But the intervention of a mere Herald
    from a single god changes nothing!
[10:14] Valacirca
    Paladin...
[10:16] Valacirca
    You have proven yourself
    worthy to die by my breath.
[10:21] Valacirca
    I will hold your image within my memory,
[10:25] Valacirca
    but I will burn you to ash,
    body and soul, down to the last bone!
[10:30] Stagnate
    No, no. I can't have that.
[10:33] Valacirca
    Who goes there?!
[10:45] Stagnate
    This hero is my prey. My enemy.
[10:50] Stagnate
    I am certain of that
    after seeing him fight.
[10:54] Stagnate
    And I won't have him defeated by
    another right in front of me.
[10:58] Valacirca
    The god of the undead, Stagnate?!
[11:07] Stagnate
    Well, now, evil dragon Valacirca...
[11:12] Stagnate
    I believe you said the intervention of a
    mere Herald from a single god changes nothing.
[11:21] Stagnate
    You are right.
[11:23] Stagnate
    That is the prophecy I gave him, as well.
[11:26] Stagnate
    Heroes are insufficient,
[11:28] Stagnate
    and heroes with the goddess of light
    on their side are still insufficient.
[11:32] Stagnate
    They stand no chance of slaying the
    evil dragon, Calamity's Sickle.
[11:37] Stagnate
    But come to think of it,
[11:38] Stagnate
    I didn't consider what the intervention 
    of two gods could do.
[11:42] Stagnate
    I wonder what would change.
[11:45] Stagnate
    Would these heroes have
    a chance of winning?
[11:48] Stagnate
    I believe they would have at
    least some chance, Valacirca.
[11:54] Valacirca
    You are as loquacious as ever,
    god of the undead.
[11:58] Stagnate
    You and I are two of a kind.
    A detestable kind.
[12:02] Stagnate
    I feel we have similar tastes.
[12:05] Valacirca
    My taste is not as bad as yours.
[12:08] Valacirca
    A life—a soul—only has value if
    it burns out with a final twinkle.
[12:14] Valacirca
    What is the point of living
    forever, you worldly fool?
[12:19] Stagnate
    That itself is poor taste.
[12:21] Stagnate
    Beautiful things should last forever.
[12:24] Stagnate
    That is natural. You only seek to destroy.
[12:29] Valacirca
    What a lady killer you are, paladin.
[12:33] Valacirca
    Even in the age of gods,
    I never saw the like.
[12:36] Valacirca
    Imagine! Two goddesses rushing to 
    your side when you are in peril!
[12:40] Will
    Goddess?
[12:43] Stagnate
    Does it matter whether I
    am a god or a goddess?
[12:48] Stagnate
    To a god, gender is only decorative. Right?
[12:55] Stagnate
    Don't be so angry, Gracefeel.
[12:58] Stagnate
    Where's the harm in enjoying
    a little perk like this?
[13:02] Stagnate
    "Why now?" you ask?
[13:06] Stagnate
    After seeing such a furious battle,
[13:09] Stagnate
    I would regret not intervening much more.
[13:12] Valacirca
    You would interfere in the great Valacirca's
    fight for a reason like that?
[13:19] Valacirca
    You hero-obsessed hedonist!
[13:22] Stagnate
    Precisely.
[13:23] Stagnate
    This hero, this strange paladin,
    is worth going mad for.
[13:30] Stagnate
    Now, this battle is not yet over.
[13:34] Stagnate
    Do you have the will to fight once more,
[13:37] Stagnate
    William G. Maryblood?
[13:39] Stagnate
    My foolish yet clever enemy,
[13:42] Stagnate
    paladin of the light...
[13:44] Stagnate
    Uphold your vow and hold your
    conviction in your heart.
[13:47] Stagnate
    You stated that you would fight until
    the moment you fell over dead.
[13:52] Stagnate
    Surely that was not a lie, was it?
[13:57] Will
    I can't get out of doing this, can I?
[14:01] Will
    Valacirca!
[14:03] Valacirca
    What?
[14:05] Will
    Remember when I said you were about
    to see how stubborn I can be?
[14:12] Valacirca
    Indeed, you are dreadfully stubborn!
[14:16] Valacirca
    Was it this persistence that set
    the gods in action at last?
[14:20] Valacirca
    You truly are a hero!
[14:23] Valacirca
    Very well.
[14:25] Valacirca
    The gods have given you their
    utmost blessings and protection,
[14:28] Valacirca
    allowing a man and a dragon
    to stand as equals.
[14:32] Valacirca
    And burning the hero lauded by the gods
[14:36] Valacirca
    is what makes me a dragon!
[14:39] Valacirca
    Now, merciful goddesses
    who oversee the soul!
[14:44] Valacirca
    Lovely maidens who have lost
    the protection of war!
[14:47] Valacirca
    What protections will you give this hero?
[14:50] Valacirca
    How will you kill me?
[14:52] Stagnate
    I won't give him any.
[14:56] Stagnate
    This man is my enemy.
[14:59] Stagnate
    He declared that he always would be.
[15:02] Stagnate
    I have no reason to grant
    him any protection.
[15:05] Valacirca
    Oh?
[15:07] Stagnate
    But surely you haven't
    forgotten, Valacirca,
[15:11] Stagnate
    where you are right now?
[15:14] Stagnate
    Yes! This is the Iron Country!
[15:17] Stagnate
    The mountains where the regretful souls
    of the warriors of flame reside!
[15:22] Stagnate
    Now is the time to return!
[15:25] Stagnate
    Your compatriots,
    your descendants, have come back!
[15:29] Stagnate
    They have brought one who
    is undeniably a hero
[15:32] Stagnate
    to defeat the demons, challenge the dragon,
[15:35] Stagnate
    and take back the mountains they call home!
[15:39] Stagnate
    A warrior should not wander about, asleep,
    and merely observe such an event!
[15:43] Stagnate
    Now, take up the sword of vengeance!
[15:47] Stagnate
    Set the flames of courage ablaze once more,
[15:51] Stagnate
    dwarven warriors!
[16:17] Will
    You haven't become undead, have you?
[16:20] Menel
    Relax. We're alive.
[16:23] Al
    Yes, as you can see.
[16:25] Reystov
    Cut it pretty close, though.
[16:27] Menel
    That solo battle of yours
    distracted the dragon.
[16:30] Al
    And then, with the protection
    of our ancestral god...
[16:34] Al
    It took a while, since I'm not used
    to it, but I healed us all.
[16:37] Will
    I see.
[16:39] Will
    Al, when you were fighting that demon,
[16:42] Will
    you earned the divine protection
    of Blaze, god of fire.
[16:45] Al
    Yes.
[16:47] Ghelreis
    Sir William, what is this?
[16:50] Will
    They're our allies.
    Reinforcements we can rely on.
[17:14] Al
    Grandfather...
[17:38] Will
    Huh?
[17:40] Will
    Shouldn't you give that to Al?
[18:01] Ghelreis
    Calldawn.
[18:03] Ghelreis
    An enchanted sword handed down among
    the dwarfs since the age of gods,
[18:08] Ghelreis
    and the blade that took
    one of Valacirca's eyes.
[18:11] Aurvangr
    Hero of the light...
[18:14] Aurvangr
    Take care of my grandson...
    and these mountains.
[18:18] Aurvangr
    Please.
[18:24] Al
    Grandfather!
[18:25] Reystov
    Valacirca's flames burn
    everything up, even souls.
[18:29] Al
    No...
[18:31] Gracefeel
    Not yet.
[18:33] Gracefeel
    It's not over yet.
[18:40] Will
    Goddess...
[18:42] Gracefeel
    Hear me, you who cannot
    preserve your souls.
[18:47] Gracefeel
    You who have been burned
    by the dragon's breath
[18:49] Gracefeel
    and cannot return to the cycle of rebirth.
[18:52] Gracefeel
    You who were born into this
    world, who lived well,
[18:55] Gracefeel
    and lived to the fullest.
[18:57] Gracefeel
    I bestow upon you this final blessing.
[19:00] Gracefeel
    If, even in death,
    even after your souls have perished,
[19:03] Gracefeel
    you still wish to pursue
    what is good and right...
[19:06] Gracefeel
    I shall guide you!
[19:08] Gracefeel
    Gather under the heroes who
    live in the present day!
[19:44] Al
    Grandfather...
[19:47] Aurvangr
    I will not apologize.
[19:51] Aurvangr
    My grandson...
[19:53] Aurvangr
    Look after our country,
    and all of our people.
[19:57] Aurvangr
    Please.
[20:04] Al
    I will.
[20:09] Al
    You can count on me.
[20:24] Stagnate
    Sheesh...
[20:26] Stagnate
    I guess she could never
    let me have all the fun.
[20:38] Valacirca
    It seems you are ready,
[20:41] Valacirca
    Faraway Paladin.
[20:43] Will
    You weren't just being nice, were you?
[20:48] Valacirca
    Certainly not. I merely like
    to let my wine age a bit.
[20:54] Valacirca
    Once you have made your preparations
    and gathered all you need,
[20:57] Valacirca
    you, the heroes, come for me filled
    with hope, and I crush you.
[21:03] Valacirca
    The moment your faces distort in despair...
[21:07] Valacirca
    For me, that is the greatest joy!
[21:15] Valacirca
    Now, challenge me once
    more, Faraway Paladin!
[21:20] Valacirca
    Will I kill all of you and add a
    new entry to a history of terror,
[21:25] Valacirca
    or will you slay me and be celebrated
[21:29] Valacirca
    for your tremendous feat
    until the end of time?
[21:33] Valacirca
    Now is the time to finish this battle!
[21:40] Will
    I'm going.
[21:41] Gracefeel
    Yes. I order you once more:
[21:45] Gracefeel
    Go.
[21:46] Gracefeel
    Slay the dragon and keep your promise,
[21:49] Gracefeel
    my knight.
[21:52] Will
    On my sword, on the light,
[21:55] Will
    on the souls of the warriors
    that dwell within my chest...
[21:59] Will
    I will slay the evil dragon!
SIGN    Calldawn