A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 204

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 204

 

‘…Gasp!’

 

Tesetan’s eyes snapped wide open.

 

An unbearable chill immediately rushed over him.

 

‘Tie!’

 

Not knowing what had happened, he first called out for Tie.

 

But there was no answer in return.

 

Feeling his heart pounding, he frantically looked around.

 

‘What the….’

 

Astie was gone.

 

Marbas, who had been making a fuss beside him, had also disappeared.

 

The golden eyes that had been floating in the air, and the moss that had covered the floor.

 

‘….’

 

And himself as well.

 

He blinked his eyes.

 

No, he tried to, but couldn’t.

 

Because he had no substance, he couldn’t do anything.

 

Then someone quickly rushed past him and shouted.

 

“Tesetan! Get away!”

 

Golden hair covered in filth and blood.

 

Through it, a familiar face was revealed.

 

Blue eyes resembling a clear sky.

 

Eyes filled with terror.

 

It was Ardiana.

 

“Ah…!”

 

At that moment, a root that flew through the air grazed Ardiana’s right arm.

 

Red blood immediately spread over her brown robe.

 

‘Ardiana!’

 

He shouted, but no sound came out.

 

Ardiana staggered in place.

 

From the opposite side, another root shot toward her as if to pierce through her.

 

“Get down!”

 

Another figure that entered his vision grabbed Ardiana’s arm and rolled across the floor.

 

He quickly got up and swung the greatsword he was holding, cutting down the surrounding roots all at once.

 

‘…Me?’

 

It was Tesetan himself.

 

But unlike his current self, it was himself with substance, alive and moving.

 

Tesetan stared blankly at himself.

 

Feeling like a shadow.

 

Like a soul looking at its shell.

 

“Escape that way!”

 

His living, moving self supported Ardiana.

 

He took her to a relatively safe-looking place.

 

Only then could he gradually see his surroundings.

 

Wet dirt floor.

 

Walls covered with stone.

 

Pillars supporting all sides and the Imperial Palace emblems carved above them.

 

‘The Royal Palace…?’

 

This was definitely the Royal Palace.

 

Specifically, the underground passages of the Royal Palace.

 

The place where he and Astie had been before being dragged to South Korea.

 

“Stop the bleeding first! Drink the antidote!”

 

His other self handed Ardiana a torn leather pouch.

 

Then he rushed forward again and began dealing with the roots threatening him and Ardiana.

 

By then, he had no choice but to realize.

 

‘…The Clocktower Mastone?’

 

Ardiana and himself were attacking the Clocktower Mastone.

 

Specifically, they were facing the main body of the mastone that had been located underground, its heart.

 

The roots flickering with mana.

 

The pillars in the underground space were definitely things that had been in the Royal Palace tunnels.

 

‘But the Clocktower Mastone siege is already over?’

 

He had seen with his own eyes Ardiana pierce and kill the heart while enduring the erosion of mana poison.

 

But why were he and Ardiana attacking that mastone again?

 

As if they had returned to a different situation from that moment.

 

‘…Where is Leonardo, where is my brother?’

 

Tesetan, sensing something strange, looked around.

 

‘Where are Astie, Aleric and Livia.’

 

He was looking for the other unit members who had been nearby during the mastone siege.

 

But.

 

“Tesetan! Cover me!”

 

In the space he was observing, there were only Ardiana and Tesetan.

 

No one else besides the two could be seen.

 

“It’s dangerous! If you carelessly approach the heart…!”

 

Ardiana began running somewhere.

 

In her hand was a sharp dagger gripped tightly.

 

The place she was heading toward was the center of the underground space, where the heart of the mastone was.

 

A root barely grazed her.

 

A handful of hair was cut off and the glittering golden hair fell into the mud.

 

“Don’t come!”

 

The next moment, Ardiana plunged the dagger into the heart.

 

Simultaneously, a grotesque scream filled the underground space.

 

“Kieeeeeek-!”

 

An enormous amount of mana erupted from the heart of the mastone.

 

The mana began spreading rapidly along Ardiana’s hands and arms.

 

Dark red veins bulged over her exposed skin, and the movement of the roots Tesetan had been fighting slowed down.

 

“Ardiana!”

 

Tesetan ran toward Ardiana.

 

Ardiana was gripping the dagger with both hands while enduring the mana with her entire body.

 

“Don’t come closer!”

 

Ardiana glared at Tesetan with wide eyes.

 

“Go and bring the unit members….”

 

Her lips trembled.

 

“Bring the unit members! If you get eroded too right now, it’s over!”

 

At her desperate voice, Tesetan stepped back.

 

His face, gripping his sword handle as if to break it, contorted in pain.

 

“…It won’t take long.”

 

Then he turned his back toward the secured escape route.

 

Tesetan watched his retreating figure and then stared at Ardiana again.

 

Among the roots scattered on the floor, Ardiana was gasping for breath.

 

Her skin was gradually turning darker and more reddish.

 

From the heart pierced by the dagger, dark purple mana gushed out in waves.

 

“…I can’t die.”

 

Ardiana muttered in a voice that seemed about to fade away.

 

“I can’t die now.”

 

However, that hoarse and cracked voice grew quieter and quieter.

 

Ardiana was speaking to herself as if casting a spell.

 

“Something like this, I can handle it easily…”

 

But in the end, her arms lost their strength.

 

Her hand fell away from the dagger and dropped to the floor with a thud.

 

Her head drooped forward, and tears formed beneath her trembling eyelids.

 

“I…”

 

Red blood poured from between her lips.

 

Along with the mana flowing from the Heart of the Mana Stone.

 

Ardiana’s life was finally coming to an end.

 

“Not like this…”

 

However, just before her voice completely faded.

 

A faint golden light flowed from between the heart where the dagger had pierced.

 

The light rose up in front of Ardiana, who had closed her eyes,

 

“…!”

 

And pierced into her heart as if seeping in.

 

Just like it had flown and pierced into Tie’s chest right before crossing over to this world.

 

Then something strange happened.

 

“Huh…?”

 

The mana that had risen up to her chin began to leave Ardiana’s body.

 

Like a receding tide, as if demons were fleeing from the sun.

 

“How…”

 

Ardiana looked down in disbelief.

 

She placed her trembling hands on her chest.

 

Below her collarbone, an unidentifiable light was sparkling.

 

“Ardiana!”

 

At that moment, Tesetan, who had disappeared, appeared again.

 

“Found her! We found the Association Leader!”

 

Livia.

 

“What are you all doing! Bring a stretcher right now!”

 

Victor, whose entire body was covered in blood as if he had just finished battling demons.

 

“Association Leader! Are you alright?!”

 

Even Aleric, who had suffered severe injuries to one arm.

 

“…Ardiana.”

 

Tesetan pulled Ardiana into his arms.

 

“You…!”

 

As if he couldn’t believe it, he repeatedly stroked her cheek, which had regained its vitality.

 

Ardiana looked down while being held in Tesetan’s embrace.

 

The light that had been sparkling inside her body had disappeared at some point.

 

She managed to speak with difficulty.

 

“Te, Tesetan. Suddenly from the Heart of the Mana Stone… something strange…”

 

Tesetan looked at the Heart of the Mana Stone.

 

The heart was already turning to ash and crumbling away.

 

Tesetan, who had furrowed his brow, stood up from his position.

 

He lifted Ardiana up and held her in his arms.

 

“…Give me a blanket.”

 

Taking the blanket from Victor, he covered Ardiana’s face.

 

He began moving forward, pushing through the Trevaga unit members who were splitting left and right.

 

“Are the communication devices working again?”

 

“I just tried it and it seems to be working!”

 

“Then contact the stronghold and have the paladins on standby, and just in case, tell them to prepare antidotes.”

 

From inside the blanket, Ardiana poked her face out.

 

“Tesetan. The demons outside…”

 

“They’re gone.”

 

Ardiana closed her mouth.

 

Tesetan let out a sigh.

 

Then he spoke with a voice filled with complex emotions.

 

“Thanks to you.”

 

Ardiana couldn’t respond.

 

Instead of words, she quietly rested her head against Tesetan’s chest.

 

At that moment.

 

A wave-like ripple appeared over the two people’s figures.

 

Tesetan, who had been observing the entire scene, finally regained consciousness.

 

At the same time, the scene began playing rapidly.

 

One day, two days.

 

And several years flashed by like a panorama.

 

At some point, the flowing time stopped abruptly at one moment.

 

“…I’m sorry.”

 

Tesetan drew a short breath at the changed scene.

 

Thick tears were falling continuously down her sunken cheeks.

 

With a gaunt face, Ardiana lifted her head.

 

“I can’t raise it.”

 

She slowly looked down.

 

She was holding something very small in her arms.

 

“Don’t come looking for me anymore.”

 

It was Astie.

 

Astie, who carried in his chest a faint golden light that only he could see at this moment.

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