A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 344

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 344

“Tesetan!”

The horse Ardiana rode crossed the portal in an instant.

Several cavalrymen followed behind her, and Ripper, who had been watching the situation, quickly shouted to the remaining troops.

“It’s Idongchin! The portal to the Central Continent has opened!”

As if they had been waiting, the mage corps and spearmen stepped forward.

“Scouts, call for reinforcements! All cavalry, advance into the portal!”

Under Ripper’s command, the imperial army moved swiftly.

Meanwhile, Ardiana carefully surveyed the unfolded battlefield.

The moment her gaze stopped on Luciano atop the altar.

Tesetan, who had rushed over, embraced her tightly.

After catching his breath for a moment, he soon opened his mouth.

“It’s Luciano.”

Ardiana’s eyes widened.

Luciano.

The beginning of all tragedy, and the mastermind who must be defeated to save Astie.

But there was something she needed to confirm first.

“Where is Astie?”

When she asked urgently, Tesetan’s face darkened.

For some reason, when he couldn’t answer, Ardiana frowned.

“Your Majesty. Danzu is…”…”

Aleric stepped forward and spoke in a pained voice.

“He is receiving the holy powers that were bound to Luciano into his body, purifying them, and sending them back to their original places.”

“What?”

Ardiana’s eyebrows trembled slightly.

“…Receiving them into his body and purifying them?”

Aleric bowed his head deeply.

“He said that was the only way to weaken Luciano, to extract Croa from that villain…”

That was when it happened.

“How dare-!”

Luciano’s shout could be heard from afar.

Luciano could be seen on the altar, surrounded by paladins in the distance.

“How dare you defile my sacred altar! Do you not fear death-!”

The massive Croa whip created by Luciano struck the paladins hard.

Several who rolled down from the altar groaned in pain.

However, the knight order did not stop.

“Advance! Keep advancing!”

Leonardo at the front deployed a defensive barrier.

Edmund circled around the altar, cutting down and cutting down again the demons trying to attack from behind.

Valentis sprinkled the little remaining sacred oil of return onto his blade.

Seeing him climb the altar steps one by one, Luciano’s expression hardened.

“…Valentis Luminen.”

Luciano growled.

Purple veins were already appearing one by one on his body.

It was because the rampage he had forcibly suppressed by absorbing Croa had started again due to Tie.

“Do you really intend to betray me?”

Luciano’s voice instantly became gentle.

He continued speaking as if soothing Valentis.

“Your Luminen family has served the church for over 100 years. During all that long time, you have maintained loyalty as God’s shield.”

Luciano’s eyes flashed.

“I remember what choices your ancestors made. On the night of war, even when countless knight orders turned their backs, only Luminen knelt before the constellation. Through that devotion, through that loyalty, this world has been able to maintain itself until now.”

Valentis gripped his sword.

Luciano watched that sight intently and continued whispering.

“I know, Valentis! That blood still flows in your body. A knight of Luminen never betrays God. That is heaven’s will, and your family’s honor…”

“Shut up!”

But at that moment, Valentis cut off Luciano’s words.

“How dare you discuss Luminen’s faith with the mouth of a heretic.”

Valentis’s eyes pierced straight through Luciano’s gaze.

“Luciano. I am the one who remembers those who fell by your hand. The priests, children, knights who were sacrificed to your madness…”

“…”

“And Eleonora.”

For a moment, as if the air had frozen, everything fell into silence.

Valentis’s hand trembled while gripping the sword hilt.

“In life, Eleonora believed in you. She prayed for you and denied your corruption until the end. That faith, how you denied it…”

Memories of the past flashed before Valentis’s eyes like a panorama.

The knights of the Central Continent who took Tesetan away.

The child who returned.

The child in pain.

The rampage that child had to endure at sixteen and the attempt to suppress that rampage…

“-I saw it clearly with these two eyes.”

Luciano’s face contorted.

He stepped back and shouted.

“That was-!”

But there was no time to finish his words.

Light exploded from the tip of Valentis’s sword.

The surrounding air tightened as the raised blade slashed toward Luciano’s chest.

“So don’t you dare think of defiling the name of Luminen!”

An explosion occurred with a bang!

Even though Leonardo’s barrier instantly protected the allies, Valentis was pushed back two steps.

The paladins watched the scene before them, forgetting even to breathe.

Hiss-

Corroded smoke rose from Valentis’s sword.

The blade that had been intact was instantly chipped, and the back of the sword was stained with yellow spots as if touched by something toxic.

However.

“…Cough-“

The next moment, blood gushed from Luciano’s mouth.

His chest had a deep diagonal wound.

Through it, contaminated Croa that must have accumulated in his body for a long time flowed out.

“…You, you finally commit such presumptuous acts.”

Luciano’s bloodshot eyes gleamed.

He raised one hand as if trying to heal the wound.

However,

“Gasp, Croa, the Croa.”

The Croa hovering in the air didn’t flow into his hand even a tiny bit.

Instead,

“That brat, my, my power…”

As if Luciano didn’t exist in the world, it just passed by him and headed toward Tie.

“Gasp, huff…”

Breathing heavily, Luciano surveyed his surroundings.

Then he launched his body toward the opposite side of the altar, intending to hide from Valentis and the Paladins for a moment.

However, Veil and Basto blocked his path.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Veil twisted the sword at his fingertips while raising the corner of his mouth at an angle.

“When things go wrong, can even a god just run away? I guess the god you speak of doesn’t know shame?”

Luciano’s gaze trembled.

‘If only I had a little more power.’

He could have swept away these mere mercenaries with a single gesture.

But now,

there was no Croa left in his body.

Even what little Croa remained was desperately trying to escape his body, perhaps because of the holy oil.

Having no choice, Luciano turned his body once more.

However.

“You piece of trash! Today I’ll finally get my revenge!”

“Because of your greed, my sister died. Among the monsters, when sister tried to protect me…!”

Mercenaries, Imperial Army soldiers, and even Paladins.

Before he knew it, he was completely surrounded on all sides by those who wanted to kill him.

“I am, I am the law of this world.”

Luciano muttered without realizing it.

“I do not die. I am immortal, I am…!”

But at that moment.

“That’s enough now.”

Someone revealed themselves from the opposite side.

White hair.

Gaunt arms holding a staff and a bent back.

“…Nordics.”

Nordics’ eyes sank deeply as he faced Luciano.

“…I have counted every single one of your sins without exception. From the day you beheaded my brothers. And the moment I met Astie, I knew.”

Luciano’s brow trembled.

Nordics took a step forward.

“You may have wanted to become a god, but in the end you will remain as the most miserable human.”

Nordics raised his staff.

Tears formed in his eyes.

“So, mortal who dreamed of immortality.”

Purified holy power began to swirl and be drawn into the staff.

“Now return to dust.”

Tree branches that burst through the earth swallowed Luciano’s altar.

The branches wrapped around the altar and restrained Luciano’s arms and legs.

From all sides, expedition members holding their respective weapons charged at Luciano.

Luciano’s body, which had become merely human after all the Croa had drained away, could not withstand the blades.

Terrible screams echoed through Roxe Forest.

And then.

“…Tie is looking for you.”

Ardiana turned her head at the voice she heard.

There stood Lucalion with an empty expression.

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