A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 12

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 12

Hot heat suddenly swept across her face.

Unlike Tie who had frozen stiff, Nordics Grandfather moved quickly.

He grabbed his bag and staff and shouted.

“Run!”

Then he pushed Tie’s back forcefully.

Though her mind went blank, Tie began to run.

It was because she had seen the monster that emerged from behind Grandfather.

The ground was slippery with wet soil, fallen leaves, and protruding tree roots, but Tie hugged her bag and ran with all her might.

‘What Uncle Basto said was really true.’

Her heart pounded loudly.

The monster chasing her really did resemble a Tyrannosaurus.

“Keep running! Faster! I’ll lure it away!”

Father’s words overlapped with the fortune teller Grandfather’s voice.

‘Never let your guard down.’

Now she finally understood what that meant.

The forest had been so quiet that not even bird sounds could be heard.

The fortune teller Grandfather had been dozing, and just moments ago stars were twinkling in the sky.

Suddenly a fireball crashed into the tent and a dinosaur-like monster came chasing after Tie!

She was so scared that her whole body felt stiff.

Only after running without even thinking to look back and realizing the monster’s footsteps had disappeared did Tie press her body against a large tree.

Then she quickly entered nearby bushes and hid.

In the distance, she could see the Elm Tree where they had pitched their tent burning brightly.

Strange howling sounds came from various places, and she couldn’t find any sign of Grandfather.

Tie looked toward the opposite side with a terrified face.

Without realizing it, she had run toward the cave, and not far away she could see the entrance to the cave that Basto and Veil had entered.

Tie’s lips parted slightly as she observed that place.

The surroundings were bright from the forest fire.

Someone was escaping from the cave.

It was none other than Basto, clutching his bleeding shoulder.

Then another person came running out of the cave.

‘Brother Veil?’

As Veil emerged from the cave, he was fighting something that was chasing him from behind.

It was several monsters that looked like dinosaurs, smaller than the one that had chased Tie earlier.

Her mouth went dry.

‘No, no…’

The situation was not good.

Basto was injured.

Veil, who was engaged in bloody combat with the monsters, kept being pushed back.

Tie’s complexion became even more pale.

“Ugh-!”

It was because a scream burst from Veil’s mouth as he was attacked by a monster.

When Veil’s thigh, slashed by the monster’s claws, turned red, Tie unconsciously burst out of the bushes.

Her green eyes, gripped by fear, trembled finely.

At this moment, everything seemed to be moving slowly.

The scene of Basto, who had been running, collapsing to the ground.

The monsters rushing toward him as if they had been waiting.

They had forms that Tie had never seen before.

Perhaps they were a hundred times more frightening than the dinosaurs she had seen in books.

Gleaming eyes reflecting the flames.

Sharp teeth inside their gaping mouths.

Even their long, glinting claws.

‘…Uncle Basto is going to die.’

Dry saliva went down her throat.

Perhaps Brother Veil and the disappeared fortune teller Grandfather might die too.

Father’s belongings box that she had received in Jongno-gu flashed before her eyes.

Death separates everything.

It makes it so you can never see the people you loved again, and colors even joyful and happy memories entirely with sadness.

And within that, Tie,

‘I can never do anything, nothing…’

Tears unknowingly fell down her cheeks drop by drop.

Tie squeezed her eyes shut.

‘Please, please I beg you.’

If there is a god, please hear Tie’s prayer.

I don’t want to part with anyone anymore.

Tie just wanted to meet Father again, even if just once…

At that moment.

Whoooong-

A cold energy rippled from her chest.

When she opened her eyes, she saw pure white light completely surrounding her.

“Wh-what is this…?”

The light was emanating from none other than Tie’s body and hands.

Veil gritted his teeth as he felt pain piercing through his thigh.

Behind him, he could see Basto collapsed and fighting the monsters.

“Damn bastards-!”

Basto was holding on by shoving his hammer into a monster’s snout, but it didn’t look like he had a chance of winning.

Veil was in the same situation.

“Kuk!”

In a brief moment, another attack poured down on Veil.

His breath from deflecting attacks had risen to his chin.

The monsters showed no signs of tiring.

When he blocked one side, the other side aimed for Veil’s vital points.

‘This is my limit.’

His legs were trembling.

Until just the day before yesterday, Tenebrium Dungeon had only small magic stones.

So who would have known that a medium magic stone would sprout overnight.

And who would have known it would be right behind the magic stone that Veil and Basto were trying to siege.

Veil swung his sword while searching inside his collar with his other hand.

He felt a small bottle.

It was a deadly poison that would stop his heart the moment he drank it.

Just as he was about to choose a clean death rather than being torn apart alive.

Crack-

With a strange sound, the sky suddenly became dark.

At the same time, the monsters that had been rushing at Veil hesitated.

For some reason, their gazes were directed behind Veil’s back.

He furrowed his brow briefly at the incomprehensible situation.

“…!”

Something swiftly brushed past his forehead.

“Kiaaak-!!!”

Then a horrific shriek erupted right in front of him.

Veil froze in place at the sight before his eyes.

Something whitish that had bound the monster.

That was, unmistakably, bone.

A skeleton had restrained the monster’s neck.

Sharp screams flowed from the mouth of the small monster, Belios.

“Kieek-!!”

It shook its body trying to shake off the skeleton, but it was useless.

Veil stumbled backward and collapsed to the ground.

“Kyaak-!”

Other Belios rushed at the skeleton to save their companion, but,

“Kiek- Kieek!”

Other skeletons that sprouted from the ground wrapped around the remaining creatures’ ankles as well.

Bones covered in clumps of dirt.

Contradictory beings that were dead, yet simultaneously alive.

That was definitely….

“Veil.”

Suddenly, a low whisper came from behind.

Basto had somehow come right up behind him.

“You….”

“Get up, right now!”

Basto roughly grabbed and pulled Veil.

After leading him away from the skeletons, he hardened his expression.

“Are you a mage?”

Veil froze, not understanding those words.

However, he soon answered as if bewildered.

“What nonsense! A mage?”

The two stared side by side at the scene as if entranced.

The fallen Belios.

Even one giant Rickelops that had escaped toward the forest but was now dead at the boundary.

The sight of dozens of bones clinging to the monster’s skin was literally spine-chillingly eerie.

“I, I rather thought you were….”

Veil, who had been stammering, closed his mouth.

Because he had realized.

The one who summoned the skeletons was neither himself nor Basto.

He lowered his gaze.

He saw his blood-soaked thigh.

Where the Belios’s claws had grazed, he could still feel burning pain.

‘If I had been 10 seconds later….’

He would surely have become a soulless lump of meat by now.

“But how?”

A murmur escaped him.

Skeletons had only existed in name until now.

It had to be that way from the beginning.

Because magic that moves the dead had no substance.

Dark attribute magic, necromancy had only been passed down in legends until now.

“But who on earth….”

Bones that sprouted from the ground.

Skeletons that didn’t touch humans but precisely targeted only monsters, dragging them into a swamp of death.

He looked around with trembling eyes.

The one who controlled the creatures of darkness must surely be nearby.

Because the screams of monsters howling from underground proved that presence.

And that bastard would likely be no ordinary person.

Probably an unprecedented, terrifying being who was the first in history to cast dark attribute magic.

So he had to find them.

Just where on earth….

“Uncle Basto! Brother Veil-!”

Suddenly, someone’s footsteps rapidly approached.

Veil and Basto, who turned their heads, froze stiffly in place.

“Y-you’re safe! Huuuung…!”

Astie stopped in front of them with a tear-stained face.

The child was carefully holding something in both hands.

“Tie thought you were both going to die, huhuuung-!”

That was… a skull.

“Thank goodness, really thank goodness!”

When the child wiped away tears, something attached to the skull made a rattling sound and fell to the ground.

What rolled across the floor and stopped at Veil’s feet was a jaw.

A human jawbone, in skeletal state.

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