My Daddy Hides His Power - Chapter 218

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Father hides his strength
Chapter 218
“E-everyone….”
Gem screamed with bloodshot eyes.
“Everyone, scatter!!!”
A tremendous roar.
Terror unlike anything before, etched across his face.
“If you want to live, run! Don’t look back!!!”
The Ability Users scrambled to obey Gem’s orders, fleeing in haste.
* * *
North of the Monster Habitat.
The Second Battle Zone.
It was the sector where Gerard Schmidt, of the Paladin Order, had been stationed as commander.
―Krraaaagh!
―Grrrrr…….
Roars filled the entire battlefield.
A Demon Beast with a massive body three meters across lashed its tail.
“Damn it.”
Gerard barely held his ground and unleashed a blue Sword Aura in return.
It was chaos, as expected.
Powerful muscular hind legs that tore and trampled, sharp claws that raked.
Dozens of teeth boasting tremendous bite force gnawed and tore, while a thick tail swung opponents through the air.
A Grebter.
Though it possessed no magical abilities and was purely physical in nature, its destructive force earned it a classification of Grade A.
“Rear guard, mages! Reinforce your defensive formation!”
Gerard, having issued the order, increased the distance between himself and the Grebter that pursued him at high speed.
Then.
Abruptly, the footsteps of the pursuing Demon Beast ceased.
‘What?’
Gerard turned to look.
Dozens of Grebters that had been locked in combat all froze simultaneously.
Their heads raised toward the sky.
Soon after, their pale yellow pupils flooded crimson.
Slash, slash, slash, slash—
And then every massive head turned in the same direction.
A chilling sight.
Everyone nearby held their breath.
“What the—!!!”
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
The pack of Grebters immediately began charging toward a single location at a speed incomparable to anything before.
‘This reaction….’
Something had happened to the offspring.
“You, you damn fool! Did you fire the signal flare?”
Gerard, his face drained of color, turned sharply to the Holy Knight mage covering him and shouted.
The forward guard hadn’t even sent a signal that their expedition was complete—there was no way they could have disturbed the offspring from the rear.
“No, Commander! Surely you don’t think I made such a mistake?”
Yet the Holy Knight mage protested his innocence.
“And only when all four fronts—north, south, east, west—send up signal flares should the rear guard begin hunting the offspring. Even if someone fired a flare by mistake, there’s no way our entire sector could have been so careless!”
Yes, he was right.
Gerard regained the grip on his reason, momentarily shaken by the sudden crisis.
“Then, could it be….”
“The rear made the mistake. They touched the offspring. From the direction, it’s the western rear—the Fifth Battle Zone.”
Gerard’s vision whited out.
The rear had no forces capable of handling an agitated pack of Grebters.
If that was the case, then surely….
Many deaths would….
occur.
“Should we pursue?!”
Gerard, who had been standing listlessly, shook his head hard and snapped back to attention.
He had to issue orders as quickly as possible.
“Leave the ones who’ve broken ranks!”
Gerard tracked the Grebters retreating from the battlefield with his eyes, shouting orders.
Those who had already slipped beyond reach had to be abandoned without hesitation.
“Do whatever it takes to stop the rest! Don’t let them escape!”
* * *
“Everyone, fall back! Get as far from here as you can! Now!”
Alfredo, his face drained of color, pointed toward the exit and barked the retreat order to the Ability Users.
The battlefield had descended into chaos in an instant.
“Come on, hurry! You too!”
Gem grabbed my shoulder.
“Move it!!!”
“Yeah, okay!”
Kyle seemed bewildered by the sudden command, frozen between action and paralysis.
I reached out to him.
“You! Get moving, quick—!”
“Leave him!”
Gem twisted Kyle’s collar and wrenched him away from me, then slammed him hard against the wall.
“Ugh!”
“Idiot! What’s wrong with you? Didn’t anyone teach you? When you’re subjugating Grebters, you always kill the offspring last!”
“I—wait, I didn’t know—I didn’t realize he was one of the—”
“Shut it!”
Gem hesitated for the briefest moment.
Then he bit his lip and forced Kyle to his knees.
“…Die alone.”
“What?”
“Stay here and die! If you follow us, we’re all wiped out!!!”
Just then, Alfredo pushed forward, having helped cover the army’s retreat.
“He’s right. You’ll remain here.”
“I…”
At the coldness in those words, Kyle began to tremble with fear.
I, startled and rattled, couldn’t help wondering why they were doing this to Kyle, what on earth was happening—
‘Right!’
—and then I remembered what Cheshire had taught me about Demon Beasts’ characteristics.
“Grebters have exceptionally keen empathy. They sense everything—the offspring’s emotions and pain at the moment of death, even traces of whoever killed the cub.”
“If you accidentally kill an offspring before the Adult Monster has been subjugated,”
the Demon Beasts will come charging toward this place.
They’ll recognize who killed the cub and swarm in, attacking anyone connected to that killer.
“If you don’t have the force to handle all the Adults that converge, you leave behind only the one who attacked the cub, then scatter as fast and as far as possible.”
‘Kyle has just drawn the aggression of hundreds of Demon Beasts.’
He had become a living bomb.
“We cannot all die. You two, retreat at once. At the Grebter’s speed, it won’t take more than ten minutes.”
Alfredo was cold, but as commander, he had made the best judgment available.
……
Kyle kept trembling.
Alfredo and Gem had no other choice, they said….
But watching a twelve-year-old child being commanded to die alone was a pain in my chest.
‘Stay calm. Stay calm, Lilis. You can do this.’
I took a deep breath.
Despite anticipating one hundred twenty-eight variables, fate came mocking me with a method I’d never imagined.
I’d considered being attacked by Demon Beasts, I’d thought of sudden earthquakes that might crack the ground open—
‘But I never imagined hundreds of Tyranosaurs all converging with maximum firepower to catch one person!’
Still, I had to stay composed.
There were two things I needed to keep in mind during this battle.
One: don’t reveal my true identity as Lilis Rubinstein.
Two: don’t use abilities that only Primera can use.
I had to move while hiding the existence of ‘Primera’.
Where there were watching eyes, I could only use magic at the same level as ordinary Ability Users.
‘If I were to lift the aggression drawn to Kyle right now?’
There was no such spell.
The ability to control targets—that was something only Primera could do.
Everyone here saw the Grebter cub die just moments ago, yet the adult doesn’t react at all?
It’s practically broadcasting to the whole neighborhood: “There’s a Primera here!”
‘If that’s the case, there’s no avoiding a fight with the dinosaur.’
And right now, Leon, who must be heading this way….
‘He’ll get caught up helping Kyle, who’s drawn the aggro, and things will turn dangerous. I can see it all—I see it all.’
From my position in the rear, where I could have yawned away the hours while the vanguard subjugated the adult and then lazily hunted lizards….
A child soldier with no expedition experience caused a problem.
And it snowballed into a matter of life and death….
‘It’s hardly Kyle’s fault. Anyone looking at this can see it’s just fate playing tricks.’
I decided it had gone better than expected and took a deep breath.
In fact, everything was proceeding exactly as I’d foreseen.
‘Now, if only Leon would arrive….’
That was when.
“…Leon?”
Alfredo narrowed his eyes and murmured in a startled voice.
A war horse thundered toward us, churning up dust.
I recognized him at once—the fluttering golden hair was unmistakable.
‘Yes! Come, fate!’
Neigh—!
Leon yanked the reins and brought his horse to a stop, dropping down with a bewildered look as he surveyed our surroundings.
“What’s going on? What happened?”
Everyone had withdrawn. The battle zone lay desolate.
It would be obvious something had gone wrong.
“Leon? How did you—?”
Alfredo, caught off guard by Leon’s unexpected arrival, quickly bowed at the waist.
“I apologize sincerely. I accidentally killed a Grebter cub. It was my failure. I’ll handle this area, so please, make your escape at once.”
Leon’s eyes went wide as saucers.
I swallowed hard, watching the color drain from his face.
‘Just how terrifying is a Grebter that it shocks even my brother, who’s rolled through battlefields for years?’
I had no experience with them myself, so I couldn’t fathom the terror these soldiers felt. In one sense, perhaps it was a mercy.
“Sir! What are you saying?! This isn’t your fault! That bastard did this on his own!”
Gem glared at Kyle, his voice shaking with fury.
“Why are you taking responsibility for this area?! Stop talking nonsense and run with us! Quickly!”
“No. I’m the commander. I have a duty to bear the responsibility. We don’t have time for this argument—please, flee now.”
A commander cannot abandon his post.
If victory is not achieved, then a commander’s corpse must remain on that battlefield.
It was something Axion had once told me, recounting a near-death experience from his own days as a soldier….
A cruel, and soldierly, duty.
“Did he kill it?”
Then Leon, having assessed the situation, jerked his chin toward the trembling Kyle.
He studied him with an odd expression before asking.
“You’re… are you Kyle? Kyle Luden Dorf?”
At Leon’s question, Kyle nodded, his face contorted with fear.
Leon let out a bitter, hollow laugh, and then his eyes went bloodshot as he shouted into the void.
“For God’s sake!!!”
He ground his teeth in fury.
“I knew this would happen….”
His clenched fists trembled violently.
“Why?! Why are you sending a child who knows nothing into a war zone?!”
The corpse of the dead demon beast cub.
A small child, trembling uncontrollably.
Faced with this desolate scene, Leon clenched his jaw, writhing with anguish.
“Listen up.”
With that, Leon hoisted Kyle into his arms and placed him on his horse. Then he spoke to us.
“Run. Now.”
“Sir?”
Alfredo was bewildered.
“Leon, what are you doing? That child soldier is currently the target of the adult Grebter!”
“I know.”
“You must distance yourselves from him as much as possible!”
Ignoring the startled voice of Commander Alfredo, Leon vaulted onto Kyle’s back and seized the reins.
“If I leave him alone, he’ll just throw his life away. But with me here, maybe—just maybe—we can make it out.”
“Leon!!!”
Leon looked down at us one last time, his voice firm.
“Run for your lives. The opposite way from us. If you want to live, don’t stop. Not for anything.”
Then he drove his heels in.
The horse bearing both of them thundered away in the opposite direction from our escape route.

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