A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 188

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 188

 

“Lord Luminen! Be careful!”

 

Ardiana’s shout echoed through the tunnel.

 

As Leonardo kicked off the wall and lowered his body, a thick tree root slammed into where he had been standing with a crack.

 

Leonardo panted heavily.

 

“Is the escape route ready yet!”

 

Ardiana shook her head while swinging her sword.

 

Originally, the underground passage beneath the clock tower should have been connected to five different paths.

 

But perhaps due to the collapse.

 

“Most of them are blocked!”

 

A proper exit from the underground plaza was nowhere to be seen.

 

More problematic were the roots that didn’t even give them time to look around.

 

Leonardo caught his breath and thought.

 

‘I’ve seen many mastones before.’

 

But there had never been a mastone that directly attacked people like this.

 

“Urgh!”

 

Leonardo groaned as he was cut by another sharp root.

 

At the same time, the severed plants that were still writhing were crawling toward the center of the underground plaza.

 

Toward the pulsating, unidentified mass that Ardiana had called a heart.

 

“I have an idea! Please provide cover!”

 

Ardiana shouted.

 

Leonardo nodded at her determined expression.

 

As soon as he closed the distance with her, new roots rushed toward the two of them.

 

Leonardo channeled his holy power to create a barrier.

 

And he cut down most of them at once.

 

Meanwhile, Ardiana plunged the dagger Veil had given her deep into the heart in the middle of the plaza.

 

“…Urgh!”

 

She frowned at the scorching heat she felt as soon as she stabbed the sword.

 

Soon after, the surface of the pulsating heart trembled weakly,

 

“Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-!”

 

Ear-splitting screams came from all directions.

 

Blood trickled down Leonardo’s earlobes.

 

Ardiana also suffered damage to her eardrums but didn’t back down.

 

“Continue providing cover…!”

 

She gestured toward the roots that were writhing more fiercely than before.

 

Leonardo gripped his sword tighter.

 

He cut down the roots rushing toward Ardiana, and cut them down again.

 

However,

 

“Your Highness!”

 

One thin root he couldn’t block pierced Ardiana’s left shoulder like a metal skewer.

 

“Ah!”

 

A short groan burst from Ardiana’s lips.

 

But she gritted her teeth and didn’t loosen her grip until the end.

 

‘Just a little more!’

 

Thump- Thump-

 

As time passed, the heart’s pulsation was growing weaker.

 

If her guess was correct, the main body of those roots was definitely this heart.

 

Ardiana desperately shouted.

 

“Hold on, Sir! Just a little more!”

 

“More importantly, Your Highness’s hands!”

 

Only then did Ardiana look down at her own hands instead of the heart.

 

Purple veins were bulging on the backs of both hands gripping the dagger.

 

“…Ha.”

 

Every time the heart beat, her hands twitched along with it.

 

The magic energy flowing from the heart was definitely seeping into her body.

 

“This won’t do! Let go of that!”

 

Leonardo shouted, covering his nose and mouth with his left hand.

 

Ardiana shook her head.

 

“No! Just a little, just a little more and…!”

 

Looking around, she could see many root fragments that had stopped regenerating and were hanging motionless.

 

The roots that Leonardo was newly cutting down also no longer moved.

 

Ardiana panted as she watched the magic energy spreading across her skin’s surface.

 

‘Is this magic poison?’

 

She had resistance to most poisons.

 

But even she wasn’t confident she could withstand magic poison.

 

“Your Highness!”

 

Leonardo shouted again while dealing with the few remaining roots.

 

Instead of answering, Ardiana swayed greatly where she stood.

 

“Hah, urgh…”

 

It was almost done.

 

The strength was gradually leaving her hands.

 

Despair crossed her face.

 

The heart was the mastone’s vital point.

 

That meant if she lost, the Allied Forces would lose too.

 

Then what about Tesetan trapped somewhere here, the innocent unit members, the young Sorcerer King…

 

Just as the strength was about to leave her hands completely.

 

[Don’t let go!]

 

Something cool supported her hands that felt like they were burning up.

 

Ardiana exhaled the breath that had been stuck and opened her eyes that had been closed.

 

It was light.

 

Definitely light, but black and dark light.

 

Red eyes wrapped in pitch-black scales like a cloak flashed.

 

“Hold on! Don’t let go!”

 

“A summon…?”

 

The young dragon with red eyes slowly transformed into human form.

 

Lucalion unleashed tremendous magical power and surrounded the dagger she was gripping.

 

“Kieeeeeeeeek-!”

 

A scream louder than before shook the tunnel.

 

Lucalion’s face contorted, and Ardiana panted while covered in blood.

 

Thump! Thump-!

 

The heart’s pulsation, which had intensified one last time, suddenly stopped.

 

And,

 

“…It’s done!”

 

The heart began to crumble from the edges.

 

“Your Highness!”

 

Leonardo came running.

 

Basto and Veil, who had joined from the opposite side, also appeared.

 

Ardiana knelt down and finally released the dagger from her hands.

 

Clang-

 

The dagger fell to the dirt floor.

 

The rumbling from above ground had disappeared, and the purple magical energy that had filled the tunnel was also fading.

 

“What’s happening?!”

 

Ardiana heard Veil’s voice as she placed both hands on her knees.

 

Tremendous pain coursed through her tattered hands and arms.

 

Her heart rate had soared to its limit, making everything before her eyes turn red.

 

“Your Majesty, can you hear me?”

 

Leonardo urgently supported her.

 

She barely managed to open her mouth to respond.

 

And slowly drew in a breath, but,

 

Rumble-

 

This time, the wall on the far side of the tunnel vibrated slightly.

 

Everyone’s gaze turned in that direction.

 

“…Aleric?”

 

Then clear, clean water burst forth from between the stones, wetting everyone’s ankles.

 

What emerged from the collapsed wall was Aleric.

 

“Aleric? Then…”

 

Veil turned his body in that direction.

 

Ardiana gasped for breath as she stared ahead.

 

Beyond the collapsed wall, four people were standing.

 

Aleric and Livia. And,

 

“Both of them…”

 

A faint smile spread across Ardiana’s lips.

 

Tesetan was holding Astie in his arms while looking at her.

 

Fortunately, both of them were unharmed and fine.

 

On the other hand, Tesetan’s eyes widened when he confirmed Ardiana’s condition.

 

Carrying the Sorcerer King, he immediately ran to her.

 

Ardiana also pressed against the ground to stand up.

 

However, as soon as she touched the ground, another ominous vibration was felt.

 

When she turned her head, she could see the left side had somehow become bright.

 

The place where the Heart of the Mana Stone had been.

 

There, something that hadn’t been there before was shining like the sun.

 

“…Astie!”

 

In the unfolding situation, there was no time to figure out what it was.

 

From the center of the light, a small diamond-shaped object shot out like an arrow.

 

“Child-!”

 

Then it flew straight toward Tie’s chest and was absorbed into it.

 

Ardiana stared at the surreal scene that unfolded afterward.

 

Space was being distorted.

 

Tesetan and Astie, who had been about ten steps away, instantly became incredibly distant from the others.

 

“Tie!”

 

Basto, who had rushed over, grabbed Tesetan’s arm in the stretching space.

 

Livia and Aleric, who had been standing beside them, also reached out toward them.

 

However,

 

“Uncle Basto! Brother Veil!”

 

Tie, who had lost her balance in Tesetan’s arms, floated up into the air.

 

Tesetan quickly grabbed Tie’s arm with his other hand that wasn’t holding Basto.

 

But the space continued to stretch endlessly, and,

 

“Ah!”

 

Eventually, Tie lost her grip on Tesetan’s hand.

 

With Tie being sucked into the far side of space behind him, Tesetan looked at Ardiana once.

 

And after also looking once at Basto who was holding onto him.

 

“Tesetan…!”

 

He made the same choice again.

 

He let go of Basto’s hand and threw himself after Tie.

 

As soon as it devoured the two people, the dimensional space closed in the blink of an eye.

 

In the darkened tunnel, a period of silence flowed.

 

“…This.”

 

What broke the silence was Livia, who suddenly drew her sword.

 

She approached Ardiana with a murderous expression.

 

Then,

 

“This is your doing, isn’t it? This is all your doing!”

 

She pointed her sword tip at Lucalion, who was beside Ardiana.

 

“What did you do to the young lady! I remember everything now, it was you that day too! At Elderin Plains, you annihilated us…!”

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