A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 384

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 384

‘But… why?’

However, the next question soon filled Tie’s mind completely.

Croa was not a power that just anyone could handle.

It was a dangerous and sensitive power, permitted only to the chosen ones.

If one coveted such Croa, it was natural for their body to break down or go berserk.

Tie lowered her gaze and pondered for a moment.

‘Why did the Yellow Belt Baron do such a thing?’

To conquer this world like Luciano?

Or to become immortal?

But no matter how much she thought about it, no answer came.

Tie shook her head to dispel her thoughts.

Then she sprang up from her spot and asked Berte.

“Hammer, then where is that machine?”

First, she needed to see the device that the baron had used to extract Croa from the Pompoms.

That was the priority.

But Berte didn’t readily answer.

Instead, he widened his eyes, hesitated, and moved his lips nervously.

“Th, the device the mages used? Why are you suddenly asking about that?”

Tie’s eyes became serious.

The child quickly raised one hand and answered.

“Well, first I need to know where that machine is to find the Yellow Belt Baron…”

“No, no, child.”

At that moment, Berte hurriedly shook his head.

Then he looked at Tie beyond the iron bars with a worried expression.

“You’re not thinking of going there now, are you?”

Tie’s eyes widened as he hit the mark.

Berte continued.

“That place is dangerous! I don’t know who you are, but it’s already a miracle that you made it down here safely! If the soldiers catch you…”

“Be quiet.”

Then, a cold voice cut through the air.

Berte, who unconsciously turned his head toward where the sound came from, screamed and collapsed to the floor.

Red mist was rising around the child.

The mist transformed into a tall man with flowing white hair, who looked down at Berte with cold eyes.

“How dare you worry about someone when you’re bound by iron bars? There’s only one thing you need to do right now. Tell us the location of the device.”

Cold sweat dripped from Berte’s forehead under the overwhelming pressure emanating from the man.

The man pressed him once more.

“Don’t think about making things more complicated. We don’t have time. Where is the device?”

Then the child tugged at the man’s clothes.

“What are you doing, Ppupppu. You shouldn’t scare Hammer.”

“But Mother. I cannot just leave alone those who doubt Mother.”

Berte barely managed to steady his breathing.

The situation before his eyes was equally bewildering, but now one thing was certain.

‘Mother… Indeed, this is no ordinary child.’

If it were, she wouldn’t have been able to get this far in the first place.

Berte, who had been holding his head and groaning for a moment, looked up.

Then he reluctantly opened his lips to the mysterious man.

“Fi, first go around that corner and take the left passage. There’s a door there, and if you go inside, there was a device on a wide altar!”

The man who had been bickering with the child turned his head.

“Are there mages stationed there?”

“Well, from what I saw, there seemed to always be about two to three staying there.”

Perhaps it was because he had been in the iron cage for so long.

At some point, he had become able to estimate the number of people coming and going through the passage just by footsteps and sounds.

“There’s one who stays near the altar at all times, and about two others who take turns going in and out…”

“Good.”

The red mist swirling around the man vibrated faintly.

At the same time, the child stepped forward to the iron bars.

“Hammer, thank you!”

Berte swallowed his saliva as he met the child’s green eyes that were clearly visible in the darkness.

Before he could give any answer.

“Then Tie will be back soon!”

The child who shouted this turned around energetically.

Tie quickened her steps while holding her breath.

As Berte had said, when she turned the corner and headed toward the left passage, the air became even more humid.

Water droplets dripped from the ceiling, and old soot marks remained on the stone walls.

“Ugh, it’s like the underground prison I saw in the Central Continent.”

When the child drooped her eyes, Marbas nodded.

Then he answered in a serious voice.

“There’s no place better than underground for plotting evil deeds. People’s eyes can’t reach, and even loud sounds don’t easily leak outside.”

That’s when it happened.

“Oh! Master.”

Marbas jumped on Tie’s shoulder.

“I can feel vibrations from inside!”

Tie gulped and stopped walking.

‘Marul is right.’

The aura of monsters she had felt in the Logging District.

That tingling feeling in her heart was getting stronger as she headed deeper into the passage.

“Mother. It’s the door.”

Krazaru, who had transformed into mist and was surrounding Tie, also whispered.

At the end of the passage, there really was a door.

It looked like an ordinary stone door, but Tie could tell immediately.

“It’s a barrier!”

There was an invisible barrier on the door.

However, the strange thing was,

“…How should I put it, it seems like a very crude barrier?”

As Marbas said, the barrier was very weak and simple.

Krazaru nodded.

“What a sloppy human in every way. To cause such trouble and yet be full of holes.”

With one gesture from Krazaru, mist extending from his hand surrounded the door.

And the next moment, the door opened with a creaking sound.

Krazaru, who had become mist to scout beyond and returned, said.

“There’s no one inside, Mother. The place where I sense human presence is deeper.”

Tie took a deep breath.

Then she carefully stepped through the open door.

Inside, a space wider than expected spread out.

A high ceiling and magic circles glowing faintly here and there on the floor.

That’s when it happened.

“Shh.”

Krazaru’s mist surrounded Tie.

At the same time, the surroundings became hazy and two robed mages walked out from the opposite side of the vast chamber.

“Not a chance. At this rate, when will we ever fill all the cores the Baron gave us?”

“I gave up long ago.”

Within the concealment barrier that Krazaru had provided, Tie covered her mouth tightly with both hands alongside Marbas.

The mages passed dangerously close in front of the child.

“Let’s not think about the future. We just do what we’re told and get paid properly, that’s enough.”

“Honestly, I don’t even need the payment. If it weren’t for the Baron’s request, I wouldn’t have come this far.”

Inside the barrier, the gazes of Tie, Krazaru, and Marbas met.

“Isn’t Baron Norbert quite a good person? I only became a mage thanks to him in the first place.”

“Now that you mention it, yes. I heard others talking about owing favors to the Baron too.”

“Tell me about it.”

One mage patted the other mage’s back.

“Just look at how crowded this frontier is with people – doesn’t that give you the answer? It shows how wholeheartedly the Baron has cared for his fiefdom all this time.”

“Hmm.”

“I heard he opened the family’s private coffers whenever the fiefdom was in trouble. The people know this, so they stay instead of leaving.”

“Well, that’s true. Even though reconstruction is so delayed, they’re still setting up barracks in the square…”

The mages passed through the stone door and disappeared.

Their voices naturally faded away as well.

Only after the surroundings became quiet did Krazaru lift the barrier.

Then he looked around and said.

“Mother. If you’re going inside, now that the mages have left is the right time.”

“That’s right! This way! The device seems to be here!”

Marbas, who had already gone far ahead, bounced on the floor and shouted.

Tie, who had been pondering the mages’ conversation, finally snapped her head up and rushed forward.

Then she finally discovered the device and opened her mouth wide.

“Gasp… there really is a device!”

On the altar that Berte had mentioned.

One massive device stood there in an imposing manner.

And below it,

“Hmm, so the core meant an artificial core.”

As Krazaru said, an amulet about the size of Tie’s index finger was floating in mid-air, emitting light.

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