A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 296

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 296

 

Dark clouds had gathered in the sky before anyone noticed.

 

In the darkened forest, Mel burst into an eerie laugh.

 

“As expected of the World Tree’s offspring, Astie.”

 

Tie’s eyes widened.

 

Mel continued speaking.

 

“You must have thought I ran away.”

 

As he grinned wickedly, the remnants scattered around began to writhe once more.

 

“But I simply needed time. I had to prepare. For that person, to prepare to stop you right here.”

 

Mel pressed down on the ground.

 

Then the remnants from all directions flowed beneath his feet, growing in size.

 

Tesetan gritted his teeth.

 

“So then. Were those hideous eyeballs your doing too?”

 

“Eyeballs?”

 

Mel burst into laughter.

 

“Yes, that was also my masterpiece.”

 

Mel slid smoothly across the remnants.

 

“Do you remember? The underground laboratory you bastards destroyed.”

 

His lips twisted.

 

“The damp stone walls, the air soaked with the smell of chemicals. That quiet and peaceful place where even the sounds of repentance from the prayer room couldn’t be heard.”

 

Mel faced Tesetan.

 

“That was my home. It was my world, my everything. But.”

 

Mel’s eyes became bloodshot.

 

“You destroyed that place! How many masterpieces I completed there! How meticulously I prepared to make that person perfect—!”

 

Mel turned his gaze to Astie.

 

“But you have the face of someone who knows nothing. As if you haven’t realized at all what a great sin you’ve committed…”

 

He continued in a calm voice.

 

“I truly covet that ignorance of yours, Astie.”

 

“…”

 

“How beautifully the world must look to you. Those eyes haven’t been touched by pain, despair, or betrayal yet. But, do you know what?”

 

As Mel inhaled, his voice trembled with excitement.

 

“I want to tear apart that ignorance of yours. I want to shatter your purity and cultivate a new form within it! So… yes, that’s right. That would be best after all.”

 

The corners of his mouth twisted grotesquely.

 

“I’ve made up my mind. First, I’ll kill everyone here…”

 

Remnants began rapidly gathering around him.

 

“Then I’ll make you into my new masterpiece—!”

 

Bang!

 

An entire uprooted tree struck where the unit members had been standing.

 

Basto gasped for breath as he looked up.

 

Before his eyes was a monster with skin dripping down, swinging the uprooted tree around.

 

Meanwhile.

 

“Aleric! Try something!”

 

On the other side, Aleric poured his magic power into the arm of a monster trying to throw rocks at the unit members.

 

Cold air covered the surroundings and the monster’s arm froze solid.

 

But that was only momentary.

 

“Aleric!”

 

The monster’s arm writhed and black liquid spurted out in all directions.

 

The ice shattered completely and fragments poured down like thorns.

 

“Ugh—!”

 

Enzo, whose right arm was cut by an ice fragment, fell to his knees.

 

“Enzo!”

 

Raul quickly checked his condition.

 

But Raul was equally covered in blood.

 

“…Damn it, this is just a war of attrition!”

 

Back to back with Livia, Veil swallowed dryly.

 

Mel’s monsters regenerated no matter how much they were cut down.

 

They had tried bursting them with Basto’s warhammer, but the creatures wouldn’t disappear.

 

They would just flow across the ground as sticky liquid before being reborn in new forms.

 

“Right. No one can endure like this.”

 

Livia gripped her curved sword tighter with a tense expression.

 

In the distance, she could see Astie fighting the monsters alongside the Paladins.

 

Under Tesetan’s cover, Astie continued summoning skeletons and spirits around him.

 

However.

 

“That bastard Mel! What the hell did he create!”

 

Unlike the eyeballs, the monsters they were currently facing showed no apparent weaknesses.

 

“Fall back, Veil! Livia!”

 

At that moment, Basto’s warhammer struck down between them.

 

The monster that had been attacking Veil and Livia from above burst with a splashing sound.

 

“Ugh, damn it!”

 

Veil, covered in remnants all over his body, let out a groan.

 

He wiped his eyes with his slippery hands and spoke quickly.

 

“How about we find Mel instead?! He’s the one controlling these monsters after all!”

 

Basto nodded.

 

“Right, you’re correct. But how…”

 

“Think about that later! Another one’s coming from behind!”

 

Livia shouted.

 

Veil and Basto simultaneously turned around and took combat stances.

 

As Livia said, another massive monster was charging toward them from behind.

 

Basto raised his warhammer high.

 

Veil also lowered his stance while gripping his sword in one hand.

 

But just before their weapons could pierce the monster’s body.

 

Gurgle—

 

The monster hesitated with a strange sound.

 

Then,

 

“…What?”

 

With a splattering sound, its form slowly began to collapse.

 

“This is…”

 

Basto muttered with a frown.

 

In a brief moment, the monster had completely disappeared.

 

All that remained before them was a puddle covered in sticky liquid like oil.

 

And this wasn’t something that happened only in front of them.

 

“Th-they’ve disappeared!”

 

The Paladins shouted from the distance.

 

“Don’t let your guard down! They might be trying to regenerate!”

 

The Luminen nobles watched their surroundings with anxious faces.

 

However, nothing particular happened for several seconds, or even minutes.

 

“This is the end? That can’t be right. Something’s strange!”

 

“Could it be that bastard Mel ran away again? Maybe he used too much power regenerating the monsters…”

 

The unit members engaged in urgent conversation while covered in residue on their faces and bodies.

 

Valentis, who had been surveying the situation, asked in a serious voice.

 

“Tie, do you sense anything?”

 

Tie shook her head with drooping eyebrows.

 

Lucalion beside her also muttered.

 

“Same here. All presence suddenly disappeared.”

 

“Kyut!”

 

“Hmm. For now, wouldn’t it be most reasonable to assume Mel has escaped?!”

 

At Marbas’s words, Valentis’s face darkened.

 

‘Then. Should we retreat from this position first?’

 

Everyone in the expedition was exhausted from the consecutive battles.

 

So if they moved to a safe place now and prepared to camp…

 

“Victor!”

 

At that moment, Livia’s urgent cry could be heard from afar.

 

Tie and the Paladins exchanged glances and quickly ran in that direction.

 

However, they froze in place after discovering Victor.

 

“Urgh…!”

 

Victor was groaning with his longsword stabbed into the ground.

 

But something was strange.

 

“On his body, e-eyes…”

 

Victor’s body.

 

More precisely, the spots where the monster’s residue had been.

 

Dozens of unidentifiable eyes were sprouting from his skin.

 

“Aaaahhh-!”

 

Victor let out a scream.

 

His strength gave out as he collapsed heavily to the ground.

 

His unfocused pupils shook aimlessly.

 

Soon, a faint voice leaked out between his parched lips.

 

“No, no Rose… don’t go, don’t go…”

 

“Rose? You said Rose…?”

 

Livia muttered as if she couldn’t believe it.

 

Then she looked around at the unit members with frightened eyes.

 

“Th-this is strange. If it’s Rose, she’s Victor’s fiancée! She died before he joined Trevaga, that’s what he told me…”

 

Silence fell.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

Thud-

 

This time, the sound of something heavy falling could be heard from behind.

 

“Basto!”

 

Seeing the warhammer sprawled on the ground, Veil hurriedly ran to Basto.

 

Basto had dropped his warhammer and was hanging his head.

 

“E… ve… Lilia…”

 

Eve, and Lilia.

 

This time they were names everyone knew well.

 

Basto’s wife and daughter, who had passed away in a monster attack.

 

“It’s hallucinations.”

 

Aleric muttered in a trembling voice.

 

“Look at their pupils. They’re all seeing something! Mel is causing hallucinations…!”

 

At the same time, Livia screamed from behind.

 

Eyes were sprouting from her skin as she too knelt on the ground.

 

“M-Mom, Dad… don’t go. Don’t leave me alone, please-!”

 

Everyone’s faces filled with terror at the sound mixed with screams and sobs.

 

Edmund staggered and spoke.

 

“Mel never intended to engage in close combat from the beginning.”

 

He gasped for breath.

 

“He’s been, hah, injecting contamination into all of us. Using the monsters…”

 

“Edmund!”

 

At the sight of Edmund collapsing, Valentis hurriedly supported him.

 

However, Edmund’s pupils were likewise losing focus.

 

Hot tears flowed down his eyes.

 

“Moth-Mother…”

 

The expressions of the Luminen Family, including Tesetan, hardened.

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