A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 263

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 263

 

The banquet was rather simple.

 

Throughout the banquet, the Pope barely touched his food and only occasionally glanced at Tie, taking no other particular actions.

 

After he left the banquet hall, a long, long wait followed.

 

Around the time when the sun that had risen to the very top of the sky began to set.

 

Cardinal Mel, who had guided the mercenary group from the port to this place, approached.

 

“You will stay at the Pilgrimage Hall until you move to the garrison.”

 

“Pilgrimage Hall?”

 

Mel nodded slightly to Veil, who asked back.

 

“Yes. Because it hasn’t been decided yet where you will be deployed.”

 

Basto frowned.

 

Veil let out a hollow laugh as if dumbfounded.

 

“What kind of nonsense is that? You called us all the way here and the battle sites aren’t even organized yet… Does that make sense?”

 

However, Mel didn’t even blink.

 

“Everything is God’s will. Wait until the situation is assessed and His Holiness gives orders.”

 

Mel turned around sharply and left the banquet hall.

 

Three priests who had been waiting behind approached with orderly steps and said.

 

“We will guide you to the Pilgrimage Hall.”

 

Pilgrimage Hall.

 

The massive wooden door on the 1st floor closed with a thud.

 

Only after confirming that all the priests had left the building did Tie quickly sit up from the bed.

 

“…They’re gone!”

 

When she exclaimed quietly, her subordinates echoed Tie’s words.

 

[They’re gone.]

 

[Gone. Completely left.]

 

Tie took a small breath.

 

Then she carefully got down from the bed and placed her hand on the floor.

 

Magic spread along her fingertips, and she felt Father’s presence in the next room.

 

The priests had assigned one room each to every mercenary group member.

 

Just in case, she asked if she could share a room with Father, but the response was silence.

 

Tie, who was concentrating on the magic she had extended, muttered.

 

“Grandfather and uncles are far away…”

 

The presence of Valentis and the uncles was felt from a place far from the Pilgrimage Hall.

 

It seemed they were guided through the back door after the banquet ended, and as expected, they were assigned to different accommodations from the mercenary group.

 

Tie got up from her spot and headed to the open window.

 

The Grand Cathedral with the sunset was somehow quiet and eerie.

 

Not a single breeze blowing made it feel like the night before a storm hits.

 

At that moment.

 

Something appeared faintly in the distance, then a weak gust of wind brushed past Tie’s hair.

 

What appeared before her eyes was Lucalion.

 

“…Kamang!”

 

Tie exclaimed, unable to hide her joy.

 

The young dragon that flew in slowly changed into human form.

 

Hair as black as the night sky.

 

Ruby-colored eyes that always sparkled.

 

“Tie.”

 

Lucalion, who murmured Astie’s name, pulled Tie into a tight embrace.

 

“I was worried. In case that guy might detect your presence…”

 

Tie patted Lucalion’s back gently with her cheek pressed against him.

 

“No, Kamang, Tie is fine!”

 

The sound of Lucalion’s violently beating heart was transmitted directly.

 

Of course, it wasn’t that Tie had no worries either.

 

She had been anxious the whole time that Luciano might read the World Tree’s presence from Tie.

 

However,

 

“The Pope doesn’t know anything!”

 

Tie, who had separated herself from Lucalion, whispered.

 

“Since I’m a child, he ignored Tie. I could see that he thought I was weak and stupid!”

 

Luciano seemed unable to find any peculiarities from Tie.

 

Thinking about that reminded her of the chilling incident in the audience hall.

 

“Kamang. The Pope’s holy power is strange.”

 

That power that thoroughly examined Tie’s entire body, like a demon’s tongue.

 

Though she didn’t show it, Tie felt all of it completely.

 

Also, there was something strange about Luciano’s twisted holy power.

 

“It’s different from Grandfather’s, uncles’, and Father’s.”

 

After manifesting holy power following magic.

 

Tie became able to sense others’ holy power.

 

A representative example was being able to physically feel and detect her family’s holy power.

 

‘Grandfather’s is like a big, wide lake. Calm and warm.’

 

‘Really? Then what about mine?’

 

‘Youngest uncle is like water drops dripping from a spring!’

 

‘Hahaha, then look at my holy power too, niece.’

 

Valentis, Alexander, and other members of the Luminen Family.

 

Those who manifested holy power each had different auras.

 

However, essentially, all of it was the same power, and what Tie possessed was also similar within the big picture.

 

But.

 

“Luciano’s power is…”

 

Tie wrinkled her nose bridge, recalling the incident in the audience hall.

 

“It smells bad.”

 

How could she describe that smell?

 

The smell of dead fish rotting?

 

The fishy smell of blood?

 

She recalled the World Tree’s words that Luciano couldn’t handle the power he stole from her.

 

“That’s probably what ‘unable to handle’ meant.”

 

She could see Lucalion’s eyes looking at her.

 

“Inside his body, the holy power keeps rotting away.”

 

Silence fell.

 

Tie firmly grasped Lucalion’s hand.

 

“So, Kamang. Tie made a plan!”

 

Luciano’s power was indeed tremendous.

 

Even if it gave off a bad smell, it certainly meant it was strong.

 

However, Tie could see the most vulnerable part of the power Luciano possessed.

 

“The Pope’s holy power keeps moving around restlessly among itself, you know? Like it’s about to explode.”

 

Luciano’s holy power was not stable.

 

And Tie knew exactly one more person who had unstable holy power.

 

‘Father.’

 

That was Tesetan.

 

Was it because he wore a golden restraint on his heart when he was young?

 

Father’s holy power was always unstable.

 

The magic power and holy power mixed within his body were always in tense opposition, and then one time…

 

‘The day of the sword duel.’

 

Because of that, I also saw Father go berserk.

 

Tie’s face became gloomy.

 

That day, Father survived purely thanks to Tie absorbing Father’s power for him.

 

But that wasn’t what was important.

 

‘What’s important is that Luciano’s power writhes much more and more often than Father’s.’

 

So couldn’t his power also go berserk like Father’s power?

 

If it went berserk, Luciano wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

 

‘I need to find a way to make Luciano go berserk.’

 

Tie, who had been pondering, hesitated.

 

In that moment, another question suddenly came to mind.

 

“But Kamang. How has the Pope managed to endure until now?”

 

It doesn’t seem like there hasn’t been a single rampage until now.

 

Tie’s expression became serious.

 

“Hey, could what the World Tree said be about that? About the Pope devouring souls!”

 

In order to contain uncontrollable power within his body.

 

The Pope absorbs innocent souls, she said.

 

Strengthening his flesh that way, and thanks to that, monopolizing the World Tree’s power.

 

“Come to think of it, we haven’t found where the children the Pope kidnapped are.”

 

Tie stamped her feet.

 

“We need to save the children!”

 

She had asked the bone friends underground long ago, but the whereabouts of the kidnapped children were unknown.

 

Luciano had definitely hidden that location very well.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“You’re right.”

 

Lucalion, who had been silent, whispered.

 

“We need to find those children first. If Luciano is really suppressing his rampage, that method is definitely related to the children that villain has kidnapped so far. So.”

 

Lucalion’s voice became even lower.

 

“While you were dealing with Luciano, I thoroughly examined this vicinity. I thought it would be good to explore in advance when there was an opportunity.”

 

Tie nodded.

 

Actually, Lucalion’s role had already been decided.

 

That was why Lucalion’s name wasn’t officially on the expedition roster.

 

And now that Tie had confirmed that Luciano couldn’t read the World Tree’s energy.

 

Now was exactly when Lucalion could go around various parts of the Grand Cathedral and explore the surroundings.

 

“…I did find one suspicious place.”

 

Tie’s eyes widened.

 

“Luciano’s holy power surrounds the entire Sercanoss Grand Cathedral like a thin membrane. But… I feel a strange flow at one point.”

 

“A strange flow?”

 

“Yeah, something is absorbing that villain’s holy power and spewing it back out.”

 

Tie opened her mouth.

 

Something was absorbing the musty-smelling holy power and spewing it back out?

 

Tie, who had become serious, said urgently.

 

“Gasp! It’s an air purifier!”

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