My Daddy Hides His Power - Chapter 219

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Father hides his strength
Chapter 219
I watched Leon disappear into the distance and swallowed hard.
I’d been separated from Leon.
But.
‘That’s… actually good.’
Was I sorry for blindsiding myself with this unexpected turn of events?
Fortunately, fate had granted me at least a small advantage.
‘With everyone’s attention divided trying to save others, there’s barely anyone watching Leon’s back. Kyle at most.’
If I’d tried to save Leon and drawn the notice of multiple people?
If it had been a situation strange enough to raise even slight suspicion?
‘I’d have had to manipulate every single one of their memories!’
I—who had already accounted for the Life Force that such an act would demand—felt genuine relief wash over me.
If I’d reached the point of tampering with Ability Users’ minds, it would have been the ‘worst-case scenario’ I’d anticipated.
“Stop wasting time—let’s go!”
I grabbed Gem’s hand.
And then… I thought of the Blue Sun-shaped Amulet that had been dangling from Leon’s sword hilt as he rode away.
‘Thank goodness he’s wearing it.’
“Big brother, I made this for you!”
“Really? You made it yourself?”
“I made it while praying you wouldn’t get hurt and would come back safe!”
A keepsake I’d given Leon before the expedition.
“Ha! Don’t worry about me getting hurt! I’ll come back in one piece, so stop fretting, little one!”
“You absolutely can’t die! You have to come back alive no matter what!”
After seven years of wielding Primera’s power, I’d learned quite a few truths.
Leon had no idea, but that amulet was actually…
a device that let me use my own Life Force with maximum efficiency.
“Hurry, we need to run! Commander, stop standing there—move!”
I pulled Alfredo—who stood frozen in shock at Leon’s departure—and we began racing away at full speed.
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A military horse cutting through the Gorge.
And behind it, Demon Beasts in pursuit.
The Glept’r, enraged by their offspring’s death, were closing in at tremendous speed toward their target.
Whoosh—!
From atop his horse, Leon swung his blade and unleashed a Sword Aura toward the gorge floor.
Screech—!
A young Glept’r let out a feeble cry and fell lifeless.
‘At this rate, they’ll focus on me now.’
He was cutting down the young ones as they appeared, all to make himself the primary target.
“I’m… I’m so sorry…”
Leon glanced down at Kyle, who trembled and murmured against his chest.
Kyle Luden Dorf.
He knew who this boy was.
Lilis’s half-brother.
‘Sigh. What fault of yours is any of this?’
Leon swallowed a breath of resignation.
Then he felt the Glept’r drawing close behind him again.
Leon glanced back and frowned.
‘Why are there so few of them?’
About thirty had been chasing him at first.
Having cut them down sporadically as he fled—each time his Sword Aura gathered—only three remained.
‘They should be converging from all four battle zones, so only thirty total? There must be more coming behind them.’
As he thought this, Kyle squirmed in his arms.
The boy seemed to be attempting something.
Boom—!
He thrust his head stubbornly out past Leon’s grip on the reins and unleashed a torrent of blue flame.
‘This kid…’
It was admirable, the way he was desperately trying to be useful.
Leon looked back.
Between the charging Glept’r, blue flames erupted.
‘Damn, they’re fast. Really fast. Seriously, their speed is—’
The Glept’r darted away with nimble agility.
‘…I can’t get a single spell off.’
Tsk.
Unfortunately, not a single effective blow had landed.
Good stats, zero real combat experience—the classic profile of a green child soldier.
“Hey, hey!”
“Yes, yes!”
Worse, he didn’t even know how to ration his Mana efficiently, just kept unleashing Grade-A Attack Magic in mindless volleys.
Even someone like Dos would burn through their reserves at this rate.
“Stop wasting it—conserve your Mana!”
Leon, who had called out the warning, twisted his upper body with effort and slashed his sword once.
Shrieeek—!
His razor-edged Sword Aura caught the leg of the Glept’r that had clung to his back, and the massive creature tumbled heavily across the stone.
Two left now.
—Raaaaagh!
One of the Glept’r pressed tight behind Leon clamped its jaws, lunging to sink its teeth into his shoulder.
“Gahh!”
“Damn it!”
He dodged by a hair’s breadth.
“Shield—put a shield on me! I’m about to get killed here! You know how to do a Grade-A Fluid Shield, don’t you?!”
“…….”
At Leon’s desperate plea, Kyle looked up at him, his lips barely moving.
“You….”
Seeing the troubled look on Kyle’s face, Leon understood.
“…You went all-in on offense.”
Yeah, that made sense.
A Grade-A shield.
That wasn’t something anyone could conjure. It took months just to memorize the Magic Formula.
A child who’d never even set foot on a battlefield until now.
‘Still, he should’ve had at least a month of combat training. This bastard must’ve spent all that time drilling nothing but Offensive Magic Formulas.’
He apparently hadn’t managed to master high-tier Defensive Magic yet.
“Whoa, hold on!”
Then.
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump.
“W-w-wait just a second! Mercy! I haven’t even drawn my Sword Aura yet!”
One of the Glept’r began to accelerate, starting to gallop alongside Leon’s horse.
‘We’re screwed.’
Instinctively sensing what attack was coming next, Leon dropped the reins and wrapped his arms tightly around Kyle.
Just as he’d predicted, the Glept’r swung its tail—blunt as a club.
“Ugh!”
Leon was struck across the lower back while cradling Kyle and flew through the air.
Both of them crashed hard onto the jagged stone floor of the Gorge, tumbling several times over. Throughout it all, Leon held Kyle against his chest with all his strength, shielding him.
“Grrgh…. Damn….”
It hurt like hell. So much it nearly made his vision swim.
Even so, Leon quickly checked Kyle’s condition.
“Hey! You alright?”
“Y-yes…. Huff, huff.”
Thank God—aside from a few scrapes on his face, he seemed intact.
With a relieved Leon gritting his teeth, he pushed himself up. Then he took off in the opposite direction, leaving Kyle behind.
“Stay there! Don’t follow!”
Two Glept’r remained.
Having slaughtered the young ones relentlessly on the way here, the beasts had now fixed their sights on Leon instead of Kyle, charging after him.
Shrieeek—!
One was caught by his Sword Aura.
But the other was a problem.
Noticing the gaps between Leon’s Sword Aura strikes, the beast seized its chance and lashed its tail.
“Hack!”
Leon was sent flying helplessly into the wall of the Gorge.
‘Damn… this….’
The moment his back hit the solid rock wall.
Leon felt it.
A critical blow.
Every bone in his body screamed as if shattered.
The state of his abdomen where Glept’r’s tail had struck him squarely was equally wrong.
Without knowing for certain, a few of his organs had probably ruptured.
“Cough, ugh….”
Blood surged from his mouth in a violent wave.
—Screech!
The demon beast gave him no opening. The Glept’r that had drawn close wrenched its jaws wide.
“Please! Back off, now!”
Leon squeezed out his last reserves of strength and drove his sword into that gaping maw.
Thud!
The blade he’d thrust upward pierced through Glept’r’s head. But dozens of teeth had already clamped down on Leon’s arm.
“Aaaahhhhh!!!”
Horrible agony.
When the dead Glept’r collapsed, Leon released his sword and yanked his arm free.
His right arm, half-severed and drenched in blood, had gone numb.
“Hah, hah. Ugh….”
His vision blurred.
In the dimming twilight of his sight, he saw Kyle—trembling violently—running toward him.
“Ah, ah….”
Seeing Leon’s mangled state, Kyle froze for a moment before hurrying to kneel beside him.
Then, without hesitation, he seized Leon’s grievously wounded right arm.
Kyle shook pathologically.
In this moment, the compulsion to do something—anything—seemed to overwhelm him.
…….
A faint trickle of mana seeped into the wound on his right arm.
With no sign of improvement, it was likely only Grade-E Healing Magic.
“You….”
“Uh, cough….”
“Did you, cough, really dump everything into offense…?”
“I’m so sorry. I’m truly sorry….”
“No, it’s fine….”
Leon smiled weakly.
“I, I’m so sorry I can’t do anything. Really sorry, sob, I’m sorry….”
“No… it’s really okay. We didn’t have much time anyway… you even memorized an Offensive Magic Formula, that’s incredible…. If everyone could do everything alone like that… why would we split into units and, cough, work together….”
“Sob. Sniff….”
“I also found memorizing Magic Formulas… way too hard and frustrating… so I picked up a sword instead….”
Speaking with difficulty, Leon barely managed to move his eyes, scanning his surroundings.
In his flight, he had somehow reached the far end of the Gorge.
Distant and small, a village came into view.
‘This can’t be all the Glept’r. There’s definitely more coming.’
Leon gritted his teeth and raised his still-functioning left arm, pulling open his collar.
Click—two Military Dog Tags snapped free.
“Hey, listen…. You see that village over there, right?”
“Yes, yes!”
Kyle wiped his nose and nodded hard.
“The others probably scattered that way too. You need to… run as fast as you can. Escape….”
“What?”
“Quickly….”
Saying this, Leon pressed the two Military Dog Tags he’d been holding into Kyle’s hands.
[Magic Swordmaster Order
83-17003528
Leon Antrace]
Military Dog Tags were used on the battlefield to identify the dead.
But.
‘If Glept’r comes, there won’t even be a body left for me. I’ll just be consumed.’
So Leon thought—at the very least, he should leave some trace of himself for the people he cared about.
“Listen, with this…. One of them, give to Theo… my twin….”
It hurt, and yet even through the pain, Leon felt tears threatening to spill.
“I made this while praying you wouldn’t get hurt—that you’d come back safe!”
“You can’t die! You have to come back alive—you have to!”
“The other one is….”
What do I do, Lilis.
I don’t think I can keep this promise.
“Tell my… sister. Tell Lilis….”

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