A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 187
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 187
Below the clock tower where the ground had been completely overturned.
“Hurry!”
Basto shouted as he lifted away the piled rocks.
From the opposite side, Raul and Enzo came running.
“Lord Basto! They say additional troops have arrived from the north!”
“What good does it do coming now! Tell them to come faster!”
Veil, who was covering Basto’s surroundings, shouted.
His eyes, covered in dust and sweat, were red with bloodshot.
“Can’t you see people are buried! At this rate, really…!”
The shouting was the same on the other side as well.
“Be careful not to collapse it! Remove them one by one from the top!”
Right after the four people including Tie were buried.
Naturally, the siege was suspended.
Leonardo deployed a barrier below the clock tower, and the remaining Paladin forces were putting all their effort into eliminating the surrounding monsters.
“Ha, at this rate, when will we ever…!”
But the work had already been delayed for dozens of minutes.
In case the ground collapsed again, they had to move the pile of rocks one by one by hand.
“Lord Basto! Be careful!”
Basto, who was standing on top of the rock crevice, slipped downward.
A scrape wound formed on his forearm, but Basto stood up from his position without a single groan.
And he began pushing aside the visible debris again.
“Sir. They say there are no mages among the additional troops.”
Leonardo, who had been watching that scene with mixed feelings, turned around at his adjutant’s voice.
“What do you mean? No mages?”
“They say all available mages have been deployed. Since it’s the Day of Destruction…!”
Leonardo clenched his fist.
The Day of Destruction.
That was also part of what made the situation even more serious.
Currently, this wasn’t the only place that had been turned upside down.
Countless mercenaries and Paladins scattered everywhere besieging Mastones.
Even civilians who would have encountered monsters since morning.
“Sir, if I may be so bold…”
The adjutant’s face darkened.
“In the current situation, retreat is correct. If the allied forces suffer even greater damage at this rate…”
Amid the roars of monsters and the shouting of the troops, Leonardo felt his ears becoming muffled.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know.
The four who were key forces had been isolated, and monsters attacked them endlessly.
Above all, there was no guarantee that the pulsation that had collapsed the ground earlier wouldn’t happen again.
“You must order a retreat.”
The adjutant urged, but Leonardo couldn’t answer.
Because his lips simply wouldn’t part.
‘Tesetan.’
And Astie.
He couldn’t know what situation was unfolding below.
It would be fortunate if they were just isolated, but what if one of them had suffered serious injuries?
What if they were in mortal danger unless rescued immediately?
“Damn…”
The moment he muttered a rare curse.
“Commander.”
Someone called him from behind.
When he turned his head, Ardiana stood there with her face covered by a mask.
“…Association Leader.”
“I have a way.”
Ardiana approached with a tense expression.
“The clock tower was built in a straight line from the Imperial Palace Main Building.”
Leonardo’s brow furrowed.
Because he couldn’t understand what the Association Leader was saying right now.
But Ardiana continued speaking.
“…What I mean is, there’s a path underground.”
Leonardo’s pupils dilated slightly.
The path built beneath the Imperial Palace.
He already knew about that too.
But the only ones who knew that maze-like path perfectly were the imperial family.
Originally, the underground passage was built as an escape route for the imperial family in case of emergency.
“How do you know that…”
Ardiana raised her gaze.
Taking a breath, she raised her hand and lowered her mask.
Leonardo’s eyes widened greatly.
Because as a high-ranking nobleman, he had seen her once or twice from afar.
The face of Ardiana, called the abandoned child of the imperial family.
“Your High…”
Ardiana raised one hand to silence him.
She put her mask back on, then continued speaking calmly.
“There’s no time. Leave only a few people to enter the Main Palace basement together and retreat the allied forces.”
Leonardo swallowed dry saliva and froze in place.
But soon he nodded quickly.
“Retreat!”
“Reorganize the stronghold!”
Under the sun, monsters crossed the ground.
Four horses burst out from the retreating formation.
“This way!”
Basto, Veil, and Leonardo followed behind Ardiana who was running at the front.
They passed through the wide-open square and went through the collapsed stone wall.
And they set foot into the densely wooded forest.
The monsters who had lost their prey made horrible sounds, but none of the four slowed their pace.
Ardiana thought as she headed toward the Main Palace.
‘Should I call this fortunate?’
Luckily, the underground passage of the Royal Palace matched the underground passage of the current Imperial Palace.
Because the Empress and Pides had opposed the underground passage construction that was planned on a large scale several years ago.
‘Pides, it’s fine. It’s an underground maze we don’t use much anyway.’
‘Of course I know that too. It’s just that my position becomes awkward because of Ardiana.’
‘What would Ardiana know? Unlike you, she’s a leisurely child. I suppose she has plenty of time to memorize new blueprints.’
At the time, she thought it was absurd.
But as a result, Pides’s complacency had helped her at this moment.
Ardiana stopped her horse at the rear garden of the Main Palace.
Basto, Veil, and Leonardo also stopped behind them in turn.
“This way.”
Fortunately, there weren’t many demons roaming around the main palace.
Most of them had undoubtedly rushed toward the clock tower after hearing the commotion.
Even so, Ardiana moved her steps cautiously.
Since time was short, she wanted to be thoroughly prepared for any potential battle.
The place they reached after taking a complicated route was a small building used as a garden storehouse.
Upon entering, stairs leading underground appeared from behind the wall.
At that moment.
“Grrrrr-”
A low growling sound came from the end of the opposite corridor.
Silence fell among the four people.
Veil approached Ardiana.
“Mark the way with this.”
What he held out was a dagger.
“Basto and I will deal with that thing first and then follow.”
Ardiana glanced once at the giant demon’s shadow cast in the corridor, then nodded.
As she began descending the stairs, Leonardo followed behind, lighting the lantern he had brought.
With a thud, the door that had been open closed.
At the same time, sounds of fierce battle began to be heard from behind.
Several dozen minutes later.
“This is…”
Ardiana, who had reached the underground near the clock tower, stopped in place.
The tip of the dagger in her hand had become quite dull by now.
“…Your Highness Princess.”
Leonardo also spoke with a tense voice.
At this moment, both were looking at the same place.
An underground space that opened up like a square.
Several pillars supported the ceiling from which water dripped steadily.
The problem was that all of it was wrapped in an unidentifiable dark purple magical energy.
When she narrowed her eyes, she could see red roots pulsating through the gaps in the magical energy.
The densely intertwined roots were connected to something unidentifiable in the center of the square.
Ardiana muttered.
“…A heart?”
At the simultaneous whoosh sound, Leonardo lowered his body.
As he straightened up again, a bright red horizontal line appeared on his cheek, and red blood soon trickled down.
At Leonardo’s feet, something that had just barely been struck down was writhing.
It was a root, cut in half, sharp and pointed like a blade.
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