A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 392

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 392

Several magic circles were carved onto the statue.

As the mages’ incantations continued, the magic circles soon began to shine brightly.

The heart of the statue cracked and the solid stone crumbled like sand.

Finally, the object that had been sleeping inside was revealed.

“…It’s the core!”

Tie shouted.

What was inside the statue was truly Croa.

Five essences made by concentrating Croa glowed within the hollowed-out heart of the statue.

“Y-Your Lordship! It’s here.”

The one who appeared to be the leader of the mages hurriedly took out the core and approached.

Tesetan looked down at the core with a stern face.

Then he took it and turned to look at Tie.

“Tie. Can you do it?”

Her heart was pounding, but Tie squeezed her eyes shut and nodded.

“Yes!”

There was only one thought in her mind.

‘Tie has to do it.’

At this moment.

Tie was the only one who could turn that rampaging monster back into Pompoms.

If Tie failed, the imperial army and mercenaries would have no choice but to kill the Pompoms.

Suddenly, she remembered what Lucalion had told her.

‘You know what? Spirits also experience something similar to death.’

‘Really? Weren’t spirits immortal beings?’

‘You could say that’s almost true. Even when spirits reach the end of their lifespan and disappear, they’re quickly reborn. It’s not death, but more like reorganization.’

Spirits were, in short, beings that lived for eternity.

Though they fell into deep sleep once every eon, their lives continued endlessly.

However, there was just one exception.

‘But it’s different if they become corrupted.’

It was different when they were robbed of Croa, which was no different from their life force.

‘Spirits who have their Croa stolen become corrupted into lowly creatures. You saw it 12 years ago.’

Countless spirits died due to Luciano’s terrible plan.

The spirits that managed to survive were only those that Tie had purified during the siege of Mastone.

‘If they die as monsters, a spirit’s life doesn’t begin again. They just fall to the Underworld, to its darkest and deepest place.’

Spirits who died that way could never remember who they had been until the very end.

They wouldn’t know whether they were dead or alive, or whether this place was the living world or the Underworld.

“…How pitiful.”

Tears welled up in Tie’s eyes.

She had defeated Luciano and thought such tragedies would never happen again.

But once again, innocent spirits had become monsters, and people were suffering because of those monsters.

“Tie has to purify them.”

The child who muttered again raised her head.

Before her eyes, the battle was still in full swing.

The imperial soldiers surrounded the monster in a circle with their spears pointed.

However, every time the monster struck the ground with its heavy tail, the number of injured increased one by one.

“Child. We’ll provide cover, so don’t be scared and give it a try!”

Veil, Basto, and Tesetan surrounded Tie in a triangle formation.

It was in preparation for the case where the monster’s attention might focus on Tie.

Tie closed her eyes, feeling the Croa held in both hands.

And she began to pray.

‘World Tree…!’

It was a name she was calling after a very long time.

A name that used to make the power in her heart burn hot just by crying out inwardly.

But for some reason,

‘It’s not working.’

Tie’s eyes wavered.

Perhaps intending not to disturb Tie, Marbas and Krazaru were silently examining the core.

Tie tried hard to concentrate again.

‘World Tree, please, please answer me.’

And return the Croa to the poor Pompoms.

But this time too, there was only silence.

Tie looked down at her hands with a devastated expression.

‘Nothing, I don’t feel anything at all.’

In the past, just calling the World Tree would make the seed in her chest respond immediately.

But now there was no such response.

‘Really… has the World Tree’s seed that was inside Tie’s body disappeared?’

The World Tree had given Tie power as it pleased and asked for help as it pleased.

Had it abandoned Tie once all the important matters were resolved?

Tears welled up.

“Because Luciano is gone… Tie has become useless now too…?”

Her body began to tremble.

Actually, nothing had been okay since losing her power.

She had only pretended to be fine, but that great sense of loss was too painful and agonizing for Tie.

‘I found Father with that power.’

With that power, she had saved the members, and with that power, she had met Mother.

She missed her bone friends and subordinates.

She wanted to feel once more the overwhelming joy of saving people with overflowing holy power.

“Why, why isn’t it working…!”

Tie unknowingly collapsed to the ground.

In her slowly moving vision, she could see Basto, Veil, and Father who had already entered the battle.

Perhaps sensing the aura of Croa, the monster rampaged even more ferociously.

The imperial soldiers were sent flying by the monster’s roar.

The mages chanted incantations and desperately lent their strength, but it wasn’t enough.

“Child! Are you done yet?!”

Veil urged her.

Actually, there was one reason why the battle was difficult.

The condition of having to subdue the monster without killing it was holding everyone back.

“M-Master. Is it not going well…?”

Marbas, who couldn’t bear to watch anymore, approached with a sad expression.

Tie unconsciously pulled Marbas into a tight embrace.

“Marul, I don’t know why, but nothing’s working!”

Tears streamed down her cheeks, which had become grimy with dirt and dust.

“Tie must have really become a fool…!”

Her chest ached.

Why was it that whenever Tie gained something, she always lost something else?

Why couldn’t she have everything?

“The World Tree abandoned Tie. It used Tie as it pleased, and threw me away when I was no longer needed…!”

The World Tree was a cold god.

It wasn’t kind like the Jongno-gu neighbors, nor did it love Tie like Father did.

Even so, Tie had liked that World Tree.

Because he had lived in Tie’s heart.

Whenever Tie was struggling, whenever she was in danger, he had lent her strength from within her heart.

“Even if we weren’t friends, I believed we were allies…!”

The World Tree had taken everything away while Tie had lost her memories.

The betrayal she felt for the first time made it hard to breathe properly.

The reason tears came might have been because she was pathetic for becoming so weak.

“Master…”

Marbas fidgeted restlessly, his own eyes welling up with tears.

Krazaru could only hold Tie quietly, unable to find words to continue.

“Tie! There’s no choice.”

At that moment, Basto, who had rushed over, wiped the corners of Tie’s eyes.

“It’s okay. It’s not your fault.”

He sent a glance toward Krazaru.

Then Krazaru fluttered his long robes, trying to block Tie’s view.

“If it’s hard, you don’t have to watch. It’ll be over soon.”

“Ugh, huu…”

Through Tie’s tear-blurred eyes, she saw Basto’s back as he ran back to the battlefield.

Beyond him, Father was pointing his sword, crackling with sword energy, at the demons—no, at the Pompoms.

Tie unconsciously turned her head away.

And just as she clenched her fists tightly, trying not to look at that scene.

“…Huh?”

Through the gaps in Krazaru’s robes, something in the distance briefly appeared and disappeared.

Tie, who had been sitting collapsed, blinked and stood up.

“M-Master?”

“Mother.”

The child took a step forward, leaving the two surprised spirits behind her.

Then Krazaru’s robes parted, and her view opened wide.

Tie unconsciously opened her mouth.

“Oh God, please, please watch over our domain…!”

The butler of the Marquis Castle was kneeling in prayer before the broken statue.

But that wasn’t all.

“We beg you so earnestly! Please drive those monsters away from our village!”

“My husband injured his arm while working at the reconstruction site! When all this is over, please heal his injury…”

Around the butler, other manor residents had also gathered at some point.

Suddenly.

Over the sound of people’s prayers, the butler’s words from earlier overlapped.

‘You asked why the statue has no face?’

‘It’s because that statue was sculpted of that ‘mortal’ I mentioned.’

With a flash of realization, Tie swallowed hard.

‘Come to think of it…’

The people weren’t speaking to the World Tree.

What the people relied on.

The target of their earnest prayers and wishes at this moment was.

“…Tie.”

Undoubtedly herself.

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