A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 279

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 279

 

The main palace of Serkanos Cathedral.

 

Rumble—

 

As Mel entered the central corridor, the two massive pillars blocking his path began to move.

 

“Now.”

 

Looking down at Astie hanging limply in his arms, Mel smiled wickedly.

 

“Let’s go down.”

 

What was revealed was a massive staircase leading to the underground laboratory.

 

Beneath Serkanos Cathedral.

 

There lay hidden spaces intricately tangled like an ant colony.

 

All the sacrifices to be offered to Luciano were stored there.

 

Astie was no exception.

 

“Your Excellency.”

 

When they reached the bottom of the stairs, one of the Shade Troopers guarding the maze approached.

 

“All the preparations you ordered have been completed.”

 

The masked Shade Trooper’s gaze briefly swept over Tie.

 

Mel nodded with a satisfied expression.

 

Then he began walking along the passage.

 

Following his footsteps, the limp child’s arms swayed.

 

Astie was still unconscious.

 

‘She’s been completely consumed by the Silencium.’

 

When the effects of Silencium began to take hold, most test subjects lost consciousness like Astie.

 

Of course, they could regain consciousness after about two hours, but that was actually meaningless.

 

‘You can’t say those who don’t know who they are or where they are have “consciousness.”‘

 

Several corners appeared before Mel, who wore a bitter smile.

 

Mel walked through the complex maze with familiarity, walking and walking again.

 

When passing through certain sections, footsteps of people could be heard from one floor above.

 

“It’s the Order of the Assassins.”

 

The Shade Trooper walking beside Mel said.

 

“You ordered them to prepare to eliminate Agavert during the night.”

 

“Yes. I did.”

 

Mel answered as if it were nothing.

 

Soon he finally stood before the last door that appeared before his eyes.

 

“Prepare to report to His Holiness as soon as those villains are eliminated.”

 

At this moment, Luciano was entering Roxe Forest.

 

Before the final battle.

 

To absorb every last drop of the rotting World Tree’s essence.

 

“How pleased His Holiness will be.”

 

Mel laid Astie down on a large, flat stone.

 

His lips trembled with excitement.

 

He carefully brushed the child’s hair back with careful hands.

 

A pale forehead beaded with cold sweat.

 

Slow breathing.

 

Even overflowing magical power enough to continue experiments for three days and nights.

 

Mel turned toward the experimental apparatus installed on the wall.

 

When he pulled down the handle attached to the wall, light spread throughout the previously dark room.

 

Patterns on the wall were revealed, and smoke began to rise.

 

As he gazed at that place with an ecstatic face.

 

“…Ugh.”

 

Suddenly, a barely audible small groan brushed past his ear.

 

Mel froze in place for a moment.

 

But soon he slowly turned around.

 

“…”

 

Mel’s pupils dilated.

 

The Shade Trooper who should have been standing guard behind him had vanished without a trace.

 

The only sound in the silence was a brief ringing in his ears.

 

“…Who’s there.”

 

Muttering, he quickly rolled his eyes to scan the laboratory.

 

But there was no one inside.

 

This wasn’t a place just anyone could enter in the first place.

 

It was his perfect and complex maze that only he and a few Shade Troopers knew the way through.

 

In an instant.

 

Rustle—

 

Once again, an unidentifiable noise brushed past his ear.

 

Mel was startled and this time roughly turned his head.

 

Then his pupils began to shake.

 

“What the…!”

 

Astie, who had been laid on the altar, was gone.

 

Mel hurriedly backed away from the altar.

 

And grabbed an ownerless sword leaning against one wall.

 

An ominous premonition arose.

 

Something was definitely going wrong.

 

“Sh-show yourself immediately!”

 

Who could have followed him?

 

How did they follow him?

 

To interfere with the experiment?

 

If not that, then to thwart Luciano’s grand plan?

 

“…How dare.”

 

Mel, having regained his composure, gritted his teeth.

 

As he glared, his priest robes fluttered and a faint pattern appeared on the back of his hand.

 

The name of the pattern that spread as if burning his flesh was stigmata.

 

What he received from Luciano pulsed as if alive, climbing up Mel’s arm.

 

“If you don’t show yourself, I’ll show you what power He has given me!”

 

When he raised his hand and drew through the air, space rang as if being torn.

 

Blue holy light rapidly spread along the ground.

 

Crack! Crack! Crack!

 

A ‘holy formation’ created by weaving sacred language and symbols.

 

It was a drawing only Mel could create, and an absolute resonance field that no one could break through.

 

“Appear before me immediately!”

 

At his shout, the holy formations that had spread like spider webs simultaneously burst with light as if they had been waiting.

 

Bang—!

 

Projectiles made of light shot out as if bouncing into the air.

 

Then they began piercing everywhere, all places where enemies might be.

 

However.

 

Crackle—

 

The next moment, there was a flash right in front of him, and a pure white beam pierced through his holy formation.

 

The holy formation crumbled with a crackling sound.

 

“My, my holy formation…!”

 

Mel’s pupils dilated enormously.

 

However, that wasn’t the end.

 

Starting with the first beam, second, third, and fourth beams struck him down.

 

Bang-! Bang-! Bang-!

 

Consecutive explosions covered the space.

 

Watching the hazy smoke rising, Mel closed his mouth.

 

Even seeing it with his own eyes, he couldn’t believe it.

 

“How, how….”

 

What struck down from the ceiling of the sealed space was unmistakably lightning.

 

Kwagwang-!

 

At the belated lightning strike, Mel finally dropped his sword.

 

Right in front of frozen Mel’s nose.

 

Something slowly rippled, then a thin crack appeared in the air.

 

In the middle of silver smoke rising from the crack.

 

Someone walked out.

 

“You, you…!”

 

Mel’s eyes widened.

 

What appeared in his vision was unmistakably Astie.

 

“How on earth!”

 

Mel stepped backward.

 

He hurriedly ran to the corner of the laboratory.

 

Then he pulled a rope installed there and shouted.

 

“Shade Troopers! Sh, Shade Troopers!”

 

It was because he had realized it perfectly in that brief moment.

 

Astie, the Commander King was powerful.

 

So much so that Mel’s power could never break him.

 

“I need support! Right now, right now support…!”

 

“No one’s coming.”

 

However, a young voice cut off his words.

 

The Commander King was looking at him with a sunken expression.

 

“Everyone’s busy fighting outside.”

 

“…Fighting?”

 

Only then did small commotion reach Mel’s ears as he furrowed his brow in disbelief.

 

Rumbling sounds coming from a place even higher than where they were.

 

“…Retreat!”

 

“The escape route….”

 

Words to retreat.

 

Words that the escape route was blocked.

 

Mel, breathing shakily, swallowed his saliva.

 

“You’re not… alone.”

 

Astie wasn’t alone.

 

Without him knowing.

 

Agavert Members had snuck into the underground labyrinth.

 

They seemed to be engaged in chaotic battle with the Shade Troopers, and the side that had gained the upper hand was,

 

“Ha, hahaha….”

 

Finally, hollow laughter burst from his mouth.

 

He looked directly at Tie with trembling eyes.

 

“Silencium… has it already been detoxified?”

 

“….”

 

“That can’t be. You definitely showed a reaction to the drug. For the past few days, I saw with my own eyes you gradually getting poisoned!”

 

Blood vessels bulged in his eyes.

 

Just one step would have been enough.

 

Just one more step and he could have prepared Astie as a perfect test subject.

 

Then Luciano would have gained several more months of stability with the power absorbed from Astie, and after that, everything would have been over.

 

Mel, who had kept his mouth tightly shut, smiled bitterly.

 

“Right… you were never poisoned from the beginning.”

 

His pupils rippled blue.

 

In the end, our suspicions were correct. That power of yours.”

 

Crackle- Crackle-

 

Even now, something fierce was surging around Astie.

 

A power with a different nature from the magic he had felt from Astie so far.

 

Something with different waves, different form.

 

Something very stable and clean,

 

“You had divine power. You. Divine power.”

 

The stigma that had bulged on Mel’s hand became even clearer.

 

Astie frowned.

 

It was when the child, sensing an ominous sign, stepped forward.

 

One of the patterns on the laboratory wall shook slightly.

 

At the same time, Mel’s body began to fade from his toes.

 

“You will regret it.”

 

Tie’s eyes grew wide.

 

“Today, not obediently becoming that person’s sacrifice.”

 

The last smoke rose around Mel.

 

Bang-!

 

The next moment, the ceiling collapsed.

 

Several shadows jumped down through the falling debris.

 

“Tie!”

 

Tesetan, who was at the front, ran over and embraced Astie.

 

“Child!”

 

“Danzu!”

 

Other Members who had returned after dealing with the Shade Troopers also landed near Astie.

 

Veil grabbed Tie’s shoulder.

 

“Are you okay?! That disgusting bastard didn’t do anything to you, did he?! Huh?!”

 

Tie drooped her eyebrows.

 

“Tie is fine. But…!”

 

The child made a tearful face and stamped her feet.

 

“When I tried to catch him using the pom-poms, he ran away!”

 

Basto turned his head with a serious face.

 

Indeed, Mel was nowhere to be seen in the laboratory.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“It’s okay. He left traces.”

 

The laboratory door opened and Lucalion appeared.

 

Behind him were Ppupppu, Marbas, and Eloa.

 

“Kamang! Eloa!”

 

Tie ran over and hugged Eloa.

 

Meanwhile, Lucalion, who had checked the energy where Mel disappeared, said.

 

“Roxe Forest.”

 

Then he looked around at the Members and quietly added.

 

“…He went to meet Luciano.”

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