A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 390

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 390

“You communed with it? With that thing?”

Veil asked with wide eyes.

Tie nodded with a bewildered expression.

“Uh-huh, when Tie put her hand like this…”

The child paused mid-sentence.

Come to think of it, before all this happened.

The reason she had gotten separated from the members and went down to the basement alone in the first place…

“Pompom told Tie to follow!”

The surroundings grew quiet.

Tie swallowed and continued speaking.

“Pompom blinked its light at Tie, so Tie followed it…!”

The child’s gaze turned toward the monster.

Black smoke was still rising from the monster’s body.

People were busy running away in fear, but somehow it looked different to Tie’s eyes.

“It said it hurt, that it needed help!”

Tie looked at Father desperately and continued speaking.

“Really! It asked Tie for help, but then soldiers suddenly came in and it got startled and became like that!”

When she turned her head, she could see Baron Norbert sprawled on the ground in the distance.

He had been caught up in Krazaru’s mist and dragged up to the surface, and hadn’t regained consciousness since.

“…Alright.”

Tesetan stood up and spoke as if he had made a decision.

“Aleric. From now on, you command the imperial army. You have far more experience dealing with monsters than they do.”

Aleric nodded.

Tesetan’s words didn’t end there.

“The important thing is that we need to buy as much time as possible. Don’t rashly kill it, hold out until we find a way to purify that thing. Of course.”

A faint tension appeared on Tesetan’s face.

“If things don’t go as planned, we might have to change our strategy.”

Tesetan scooped up Tie.

Then, leaving the monster and imperial army behind, he began running toward the north side of the square that the butler had mentioned.

“Then we have no time, so hurry!”

The surroundings became busy at that shout.

Tie’s eyes widened.

“This is the statue?”

At the north side of the square they had finally reached, there was indeed a statue of quite considerable size.

Behind it, the branches of a towering ancient tree swayed in the dreary wind.

“Where is the butler?”

At Tesetan’s words, Veil gestured somewhere.

There, Basto was walking toward them, half-carrying the baron’s butler.

“Did the baron bring the core here?”

As soon as Basto set the butler down, Tesetan asked.

The butler nodded earnestly while unable to meet Tesetan’s gaze.

“Yes, yes.”

“You don’t know exactly where it’s stored?”

The butler looked up restlessly.

“That much… I too only heard that my master moved the core to this place…”

“Isn’t it over there?”

It was at that moment that Tie stepped forward.

Tie pointed to the chest area of the statue.

Marbas, who was beside her, jumped up and stepped forward.

“This can’t be! Can you see it too, Master?!”

Then he continued urgently.

“You can also see the barrier surrounding the core, right?”

Tie swallowed and nodded earnestly.

“Uh-huh!”

As Marbas said, the core’s energy that was faintly seeping out was being blocked by something.

“As expected!”

Marbas kept jumping on top of Tie’s head.

“It seems like the work of mages! The problem is, this barrier is quite sophisticated unlike the stone door underground, so I wonder if Krazaru or I can break through it…!”

“Huh… Even if Ppupppu can’t break it, can’t these guys break it?”

At that moment, another familiar voice was heard.

When she turned her head, Livia was standing there breathing heavily, leading a bunch of mages.

“The humans who installed that barrier. It’s these mages, right? I caught them red-handed trying to secretly escape the baron’s domain!”

Veil made an incredulous expression.

“Crazy… I knew you weren’t in your right mind, but even so, you could subdue all those mages at once?”

Livia shouted angrily.

“I didn’t subdue them by force! I know how to persuade too!”

She ruffled her hair and looked back at the mages.

“I just said that after causing such trouble, could they really sleep peacefully if they ran away? The opponent is the Talochium Empire, so if a wanted order is issued, they’ll be hunted until they die. No, even after death…”

Tie made a “huh” sound.

Then she carefully approached Livia and said.

“Aunt. That’s not persuasion.”

“What?”

The child puffed out her chest and added as if reminding her of a very important fact.

“We decided to call that blackmail.”

Then she looked back at Tesetan with a serious face.

“But it’s fortunate, Father! Now we can take the core out of the statue!”

At Tie’s spirited appearance, a smile finally appeared on Tesetan’s lips, who had been tense the whole time.

He nodded affectionately, then erased his expression and stared at the mages.

“Dispel the barrier.”

Then he added in an even lower voice.

“From now on, how fast your hands become and how accurately you carry out the orders I give.”

“…”

“Will determine your sentences going forward.”

After a brief silence that followed.

“Wh-what are you all doing! Move quickly!”

“Get out of the way! I’ll do the incantation!”

The mages who had been standing around reading the situation all rushed to the front of the statue without exception.

Incomprehensible incantations continued.

Dozens of magic circles rose around the statue, and blue light rippled along with them.

“…They seem to be more capable mages than expected!”

Marbas, who had been watching the scene, whispered in Tie’s ear.

“When I saw them underground, they seemed like such worthless fellows that I underestimated them. Perhaps this level of magic is possible because they gathered their magical power together…”

Meanwhile, Tie focused her gaze on the mages.

As Marbas said, the barrier the mages had deployed was very sophisticated and complex.

‘Though it’s weaker than the barrier Tie made long ago…’

Krazaru, who still maintained human form, muttered in a listless voice.

“But I can’t figure out what that statue is supposed to mean.”

At those words, all the members’ gazes turned to Krazaru at once.

Krazaru snorted dismissively at their stares and narrowed his eyes.

“Only the overall shape looks human, but the eyes, nose, and mouth are blurred. And it’s wearing a robe that covers the entire body…”

“Now that you mention it.”

Veil nodded.

“It is a strange statue. Wait. Didn’t the Previous Baron worship the World Tree in the first place? So why did he sculpt a human? He should have sculpted a tree instead.”

“Good grief, Veil, are you stupid? There’s already an ancient tree behind it. How ridiculous would it be to have another tree in front of a tree?”

“Livia, why are you picking a fight again? Don’t you know this is a serious situation? Huh?!”

Tie watched Livia and Veil bickering again and fell into thought.

‘That’s really true, isn’t it?’

Looking back, there were many strange things about the statue.

“Why really doesn’t it have a face? Why did the Yellow Belt Baron bring the core there?”

Tie covered her forehead with both hands.

Then she groaned and fell into even deeper contemplation.

“If he was going to offer the core to the World Tree, he could have just taken it to the Central Continent instead…”

“About that.”

The butler, who had been sitting a little distance away, spoke with a lonely expression.

“The Previous Baron worshipped the World Tree, but the Current Baron—that is, my master—worshipped someone else.”

Tie looked back at the butler with a surprised face.

The butler looked at Tie.

“I don’t know if Your Highness is aware, but for the past 12 years, a certain rumor has been circulating in the North.”

Veil and Livia closed their mouths.

Basto and Tesetan also focused on the butler’s words.

“That it wasn’t actually the World Tree who ended the war with the demons. That the one who saved us was, in fact, a human like ourselves.”

Tesetan’s eyebrows twitched.

“They said killing the Red Pope was the result of that Nameless Mortal sacrificing himself. Furthermore, his holy power was so immense that there was talk of no disease in the world that he couldn’t heal.”

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