A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 280

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 280

 

Roxe Forest outskirts.

 

In the middle of the forest where thick fog had settled.

 

Luciano, who had been kneeling before the fallen World Tree, slowly raised his head.

 

At some sign he had just detected, his golden eyes trembled with ecstasy.

 

“…So that’s how it was. That’s what it was.”

 

A smile bloomed at the corners of his mouth.

 

It was an expression as if the pain and hunger he had endured for so long had finally come to an end.

 

“It was already awakened. It was already prepared.”

 

Luciano’s face twisted.

 

“My sacrifice, my body, my… new heart.”

 

Luciano’s fingertips touched the ground.

 

Thoom-

 

A deep vibration that shook the earth spread throughout all of Roxe Forest.

 

In an instant.

 

From behind, a figure in a gray cloak hurriedly revealed himself between the trees.

 

“Huff, gasp…! Your Holiness!”

 

It was Cardinal Mel, who had just escaped from the laboratory.

 

Without even turning his head, Luciano muttered.

 

“You’re late, Mel.”

 

Bewilderment spread across Mel’s face.

 

After catching his breath, he urgently knelt on the ground.

 

“T-the matter of the Commander King, I, no. I couldn’t prepare it as a sacrifice, but…”

 

Mel’s voice trembled.

 

He squeezed his eyes shut.

 

“At least I found out that child’s identity! The Commander King possesses ‘holy power’! Pure, uncorrupted, as if!”

 

“Yes. A power like that of the World Tree.”

 

Luciano slowly turned around.

 

His gaze had already seen through everything.

 

“Remarkably stable, and also self-sustaining.”

 

Mel looked up at him with blank eyes.

 

“Surely, Your Holiness… you’ve already seen it?”

 

Instead of answering, Luciano raised one hand.

 

As he clenched his fist, golden rays of light spread in all directions from beneath his feet.

 

All of Roxe Forest pulsed once more, even greater.

 

“I can feel it without seeing.”

 

Luciano gazed at Mel.

 

“In the underground labyrinth. That the power I’ve been searching for so long has finally revealed itself.”

 

“Y-Your Holiness…”

 

With Mel prostrating on the ground below.

 

Luciano’s body slowly rose into the air.

 

Mel swallowed his trembling breath, overwhelmed with awe.

 

“Don’t be afraid, Mel. Nothing changes. The new god will surely descend upon the earth tonight.”

 

Luciano’s voice continued low and clear.

 

“…Until then, you too have not fulfilled your usefulness.”

 

Mel flinched and raised his gaze.

 

At that moment, his vision flashed.

 

When he raised his head, the sky was splitting apart.

 

From this horizon to that horizon, something that had been enveloping the world burst apart in an instant.

 

Boom-!

 

A thunderous sound belatedly struck the surroundings.

 

Mel stared blankly at the scene before his eyes.

 

The existence that had troubled the Order for decades.

 

The ‘barrier’ that suppressed the activity of mastones and monsters during the day, reducing their combat power.

 

That transparent dome shattered into pieces like enormous glass.

 

“Now the distinction between night and day will disappear forever.”

 

Luciano smiled.

 

The barrier was a shell of suppression left behind by the World Tree’s last strength.

 

A kind of seal that confined monsters to only be active at night.

 

That seal became golden powder and scattered in the sky.

 

“I’ve wanted to destroy it for so long.”

 

Boom-! Boom-! Boom-!

 

Beyond Luciano’s voice, explosive sounds rang out in succession.

 

“But I couldn’t. Breaking the barrier completely required far too much power.”

 

The method Luciano chose was one.

 

A way to temporarily nullify the barrier whenever needed.

 

It couldn’t be maintained for more than three days, but on such occasions, monsters were as active during the day as at night.

 

People called that day the ‘Day of Destruction.’

 

Luciano quietly looked down at his fingertips.

 

Sure enough, his fingertips were tinged with a faint gray from the aftermath of destroying the barrier moments ago.

 

“It’s still too much, indeed.”

 

At his muttering appearance, Mel restlessly approached Luciano.

 

However, Luciano raised one hand to stop Mel.

 

“No need to make a fuss. Such imbalance can no longer be a problem for me now.”

 

He clenched his fist with his other hand.

 

Then at the forest outskirts.

 

From very far away, boom-! boom-! vibrations were transmitted through the earth again.

 

“The World Tree’s seed. The moment I take that child, the curse will be lifted anyway.”

 

Luciano raised his head.

 

In the distance.

 

The light of dawn seeped through the broken barrier.

 

At the same time, the roars of monsters reached his ears from various places.

 

“Now the morning I truly desired will finally come.”

 

As if savoring the sunlight streaming down, Luciano closed both eyes.

 

A peaceful smile spread across his face.

 

“Finally.”

 

Serkanos Cathedral.

 

“Raul! This way!’

 

The exit of the underground labyrinth.

 

Morning sunlight was streaming down through the passage where the ceiling had completely collapsed.

 

Basto ran frantically through that gap together with Raul.

 

He was carrying three unconscious children on his shoulders and back.

 

“Lord Basto! The path…!”

 

At that moment, a pile of rocks poured down from the ceiling and struck between Basto and Raul.

 

“Go ahead first! I’ll circle around and exit through the opposite entrance!”

 

Sweat poured down Basto’s forehead like rain.

 

“But the other side should be blocked…!”

 

The countless passages he had seen while passing through the complex maze came to mind like fragments.

 

The maze collapsed and had somehow become a trap.

 

Though they were lucky to escape from the laboratory, the mercenary group was scattered to pieces.

 

Kieeeek-!

 

Just then, the roar of a monster could be heard from not far away.

 

Basto, his heart racing with urgency, quickly set the children down on the ground.

 

And began digging through the gaps between the stones.

 

“Raul! It’s an attack! Be careful!”

 

From the other side came the sounds of something breaking, screams, and the clash of sword blades hitting something.

 

“No, no!”

 

Basto, who had fallen to his knees on the ground, slammed both fists down on the earth.

 

“Raul, damn it!”

 

Raul was also carrying two children he had rescued from the laboratory, just like Basto.

 

More importantly, to Basto, Raul was no different from a child himself.

 

He had only grown in body, but was barely an adult…

 

‘If we get scattered, the most important thing is for each person to go their own way. Got it?’

 

He recalled the words Veil had said while entrusting him with the war hammer.

 

‘You know it too. If you haven’t been wasting your time as a mercenary all this while.’

 

All sounds became distant.

 

‘We can’t save everyone anyway. So when the moment comes that you have to choose.’

 

Basto stood up from his position.

 

And with gritted teeth, he shouldered the children again.

 

His face, covered in dust and blood, was filled with despair.

 

‘Think carefully about what’s important and make your judgment. …You’re too soft-hearted despite your mountain-like build.’

 

The direction Tesetan and Tie had gone was forward.

 

Now that Luciano had summoned monsters, what he needed to do was also to join up with Astie as quickly as possible.

 

But just then.

 

“Hammer! Get down!”

 

Some kind of shout came from above his head.

 

When he looked up, he could see the ceiling was blown open and something was crossing the sky above the portal.

 

“…Astie?”

 

The next moment, something that rapidly descended to the ground gently snatched up the children who had been on Basto’s shoulders.

 

“Yahoo! Tie did it!”

 

Basto stared blankly at Astie, who was moving away into the distance again.

 

“…Tie. What on earth…”

 

Astie was flying through the sky.

 

Riding on something made of multicolored light, so strange that it was covered in fluffy fur.

 

“Hammer! Get down quickly!”

 

The shout rang out above his head once more.

 

Only then did Basto come to his senses.

 

And he quickly hid his body behind a massive boulder in front of him.

 

Then Tie dropped something with a crash onto the pile of rocks that had been blocking the path.

 

Basto slowly blinked his eyes.

 

Before his eyes, three somethings that didn’t match the space rolled across the ground.

 

Three dolls in brown, white, and pink colors.

 

The dolls were each dented on one side, showing how much they had been crammed into Tie’s preschool bag.

 

“Those dolls must be orbs. But why…”

 

The moment he muttered this.

 

The brown bear doll that had been lying there insignificantly twitched.

 

Soon after, the white and pink bear dolls also rose up creaking like resurrected corpses.

 

The bear dolls standing on their short legs simultaneously turned their heads to look toward the pile of rocks.

 

And then.

 

Bang-!

 

In an instant, beams burst forth from three pairs of eyes.

 

The brown one shot red flames.

 

The white one shot sharp frost.

 

Finally, the pink one emitted waves containing an ominous black light.

 

The three elements simultaneously swept through the passage and devoured the pile of rocks.

 

“Father! Tie hit a home run! Home ruuun!”

 

Tie’s voice, sounding more excited than ever before, swept past overhead.

 

Feeling the hot heat, Basto swallowed hard.

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