A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 1

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 1

Talochium Empire.

The entrance to a small magic stone crack rising high above the earth.

“Huff, hah…”

Rio, a mercenary from the small island of Modewut, wiped his neck with trembling hands.

“Damn it, damn it.”

Bright red blood came pouring out all over his palm.

“Kerrrruk-“

Right in front of him, a dragon-type monster ‘Rikelops’ tilted its head and stared at him.

His scattered comrades were already all dead.

Forty members of the mercenary group excluding Rio had been wiped out by three Rikelops.

“Keruk-“

Rio desperately gripped his broken sword with his weakened hand.

Suddenly, the last image of his mother he saw when leaving his hometown flashed through his mind.

If he had known it would come to this, he would have given her a proper hug.

Soon the Rikelops bared their teeth.

It was a signal that they would attack Rio.

He swallowed his rising breath and closed both eyes.

He was ready to give up everything, but just then.

[Get a grip. If you want to live.]

A strange voice came from the air.

When he looked up, he saw something black circling in the air with the moonlight behind it.

“Oh my, excuse me.”

Then people who appeared from nowhere pushed Rio aside and stepped forward.

Rio stared at their fluttering cloaks and froze.

“Agabelt…?”

A new mercenary group, Agabelt, that appeared like a comet one day and quickly made its name known across the continent.

Those who travel around the world writing new history each time, but strangely engrave a bizarre-looking pink dwarf on their uniforms, raising questions.

“Young man, are you alright?”

Rio stared blankly at the approaching elder.

The elder wearing Agabelt’s uniform clicked his tongue and began examining the wound on Rio’s neck.

Meanwhile, an argument was breaking out in front.

“Veil. Come out. It’s my turn to show Tie this time.”

“What are you talking about! I’ve already seen you swaggering around with that hammer more than a hundred times, haven’t I? You’re in the way, so get lost. This time I’ll show my real skills.”

“…Honestly, you’re still terrible.”

“That’s what you think, you pig whose brain is also made of muscle!”

“Ha, really! Please stop fighting. If the leader sees this, we’ll be in big trouble!”

Even as the elder poured disinfectant on his wound, Rio couldn’t move.

He couldn’t believe the situation before his eyes.

‘Is this… even possible?’

The Agabelt members were arguing loudly while deflecting Rikelops attacks with one hand.

Every time the monster’s teeth clacked together in the air, Rio’s body flinched.

Rikelops are not easy monsters.

They had just wiped out Rio’s forty-member mercenary group.

But they were deflecting attacks from such creatures like they were batting away toys…

But that wasn’t the end of it.

“Stooooop!”

At that moment, something suddenly popped out of the grass and rushed past Rio.

Seeing that figure, his mouth fell slightly open.

Small stature.

Fluffy light-colored blonde hair.

Even a pink backpack on the back.

‘…A child?’

A child completely out of place in this space put hands on hips.

“Everyone promised not to fight! If you do that, Tie will kick you out of Agabelt!”

The bickering members stopped abruptly.

The biggest man, roughly gripping the neck of one Rikelops, asked.

“Kick us out, Tie. What do you mean by that.”

“You should be catching monsters, not fighting each other! There’s even an injured person?! The only one here who deserves a ‘well done’ sticker is Nordics Grandfather!”

At those words, the big man’s expression turned pale.

The other members also cleared their throats and avoided the child’s gaze.

The child pouted and muttered.

“Always always fighting… How are we going to gather twenty members like this? Twenty minus five is fifteen, so there’s still so many left! We need to gather them quickly to go to the registration office and become a large-scale mercenary group…”

But before the child could finish speaking, one of the fallen Rikelops suddenly got up.

The monster bared its teeth, tilted its head, then began charging toward the smallest target.

The Agabelt members exchanged alarmed glances.

Rio also reflexively stood up.

He quickly reached out toward the child, but couldn’t block the Rikelops that had broken through.

“Run away-!”

Just as Rio shouted urgently.

“Geez. Because you keep wasting time, this happens again.”

A strange gleam flashed in the sighing child’s eyes.

Then,

Rustle-

Something began rapidly rising through the dirt floor wet with night dew.

Rio gaped at the scene that followed.

What emerged from the ground were white bones with not a scrap of flesh attached.

‘One, no, two, three, five, ten…’

Cold sweat ran down the back of his neck.

Dozens of bones that appeared writhing from the ground instantly grabbed the running Rikelops’ legs and knocked it down.

Then they began pulling the monster’s thighs and torso down into the torn earth.

As the clouds that had covered the moonlight thinned, the screams of the monster being buried alive in the forest echoed loudly.

“Oh my.”

Only when it had completely disappeared underground did the little one turn toward Rio.

Then, stroking the chest, said.

“It would have been big trouble without the bone friends.”

Rio’s eyes widened briefly at the absurd name for skeletons.

“Mister, hello!”

The little one approached Rio, politely greeted first, then showed two fingers with a quite serious face.

“From now on, mister can choose one of two things. First, forget everything that happened here and go home. You must be sad about losing all your comrades, but that’s life…”

The elder who had treated Rio nodded from the side.

“And second is joining Tie’s mercenary group, Agabelt!”

Rio’s eyes wavered.

Agabelt, so these people really were Agabelt.

But that little one.

Didn’t they just call Agabelt their own mercenary group?

‘The owner of Agabelt must definitely be the Sorcerer King, right?’

Could those rumors going around really be true?

Rio asked as if he couldn’t believe it.

“You’re the Sorcerer King?”

A bright smile formed at the corners of the child’s mouth.

“Yes! That’s Tie!”

His heart sank.

The great mage Sorcerer King who appeared suddenly one day.

He was the strongest necromancer in history.

Everyone on the continent, no, in the world was curious about him.

The 【Agabelt】 established by the Sorcerer King reached the top ranking across the entire continent in just two months and achieved a 100% magic stone conquest rate.

However, no one had known the true identity of the Sorcerer King shrouded in mystery until now.

‘But…’

Rio gulped as he looked at the child.

Magic stones sprouting up all over the world was already quite an old story.

Cracks constantly occurred around the magic stones, and magical beasts emerged from within them.

When those creatures began invading settlements and city centers, the world entered the great age of mercenaries.

Knights and central armies alone couldn’t handle the magic stones that had sprouted even in city centers.

A world that needed strong mercenaries.

It was natural for attention to focus on the monster-like Sorcerer King and his mercenary group.

“Mister, won’t you join our guild too? Our uniforms are really pretty. I asked them to put Tanifang right here!”

Rio’s heart began beating more and more violently.

‘So that pink dwarf embroidered on the uniform was named Tanifang?’

He hadn’t expected something like this.

Still, one thing was certain.

Why no one had known the Sorcerer King’s identity until now.

“Of course, it’s okay if you don’t want to! Tie will erase mister’s memory and then take you to a settlement.”

Freely manipulating necromancy to summon souls and raise corpses.

The great mercenary Sorcerer King who was conquering magic stones around the world like swatting flies,

“Oh! And if you join our mercenary group, you can sleep in sometimes! Good, right?”

“…Why?”

“I have to go to Tie’s tutoring from ten in the morning until four… We only work at night. Hehe.”

Was really a child.

One who looked to be only about five years old at that.

And to explain this entire story, we would have to go back two months.

Exactly two months ago.

To Jongno-gu in South Korea.

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