The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 110

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 110

The path she had walked was never smooth.

Beneath her feet was a quagmire where her feet sank deep, and whenever she tried to move forward, fierce winds would surge and keep pushing her body back, back.

Still, she continued walking.

At some point, the fierce wind became a blade-like wind, making it difficult to even open her eyes.

The quagmire beneath her feet transformed into thorny bushes that tightly wrapped around her ankles.

When she gritted her teeth and shook off the thorny bushes, the sharp thorns tore through her skin, spraying blood like raindrops.

There was no time to tend to her wounds.

Birds that caught the scent of blood came flying with their hooked claws extended.

Running frantically to avoid those sharp claws, blood flowed steadily from her entire body.

‘Pitiful, so pitiful.’

In front of her, now covered in blood, a woman equally bloodied was saying those words.

‘Stop now. You’ve done enough. Put down your sword, kneel, and say you were wrong. You just need to be servile once. You have a place to return to, don’t you?’

Radis opened her eyes wide and looked at the woman.

The woman’s appearance was horrific.

She had long red and black hair hanging down, and that hair had become thorny bushes tightly wrapping around her body.

Every time she moved, bright red blood flowed down like tears.

‘You are weak. Just because you’ve become stronger than your past self after going round and round, did you think you truly became strong? Even a three-year-old naturally walks better today than yesterday, how truly pathetic, pathetic…!’

The woman who had been giggling suddenly shouted in a stern voice.

‘Go back, you weak little child! If you come forward from here, you won’t be able to return!’

Radis was slightly irritated by being called a weak little child, but she didn’t get angry.

The woman’s condition was too horrific to get angry over word games.

The woman continued speaking.

‘After going through such hardship once, why don’t you understand? If you try to fight, life becomes miserable. Enemies appear endlessly, and if you’re lucky enough to somehow deal with the final enemy and turn around, what you treasured most will stab you.’

The woman whispered as if sobbing.

‘You have a place to return to. You have people who cherish you. They won’t care whether you put down your sword or kneel before these big men. Rather, they’ll say you did well…’

Radis stood in front of the woman without hesitation.

And looking into her black eyes, she said.

‘I know the future. Someday, a very powerful monster will appear right here. And countless people will lose their lives.’

The woman’s eyes trembled greatly.

Radis continued speaking.

‘It’s not just here. After that monster disappears, a dragon will appear from the Monster Forest. Then everything will be over.’

‘…’

Radis took another step forward.

‘There are people I want to protect. I feel that if I put down my sword here, I won’t be able to do that.’

They stood there for a while, looking at each other with their eyes meeting.

After a long time, the woman slowly closed her eyes and nodded.

‘I see. So that’s how it is.’

The woman opened her eyes again and said.

‘If that’s really how you feel… keep going.’

Suddenly she stretched out her arm.

Her pitch-black fingernail poked Radis’s forehead.

She felt a sharp pain, then soon felt that finger pierce through her forehead and stir inside her head.

Radis almost screamed.

“Gasp…!”

When she came to her senses, she was still confronting Claudio.

‘What was that?’

It seemed like she had seen a momentary vision.

‘What did I see? No, what is that?’

Radis squeezed her eyes shut and opened them.

She could see glowing characters arranged along the blade of the great sword Claudio held.

She realized.

‘A technique? Is sword energy also a technique?’

Somehow she felt like she could understand those characters.

She looked at Claudio’s great sword and moved her mana following that technique.

Then the mana surrounding her sword disappeared with a pop sound.

At that moment, Claudio moved.

His sword fell with momentum that seemed like it would tear both sky and earth.

“Radis!”

Daniel screamed.

Daniel convulsively shook off the Emperor’s hand and drew the sword of a knight standing beside him.

Just as he was about to intervene between Radis and Claudio.

“Wow.”

A white aura formed at the tip of Radis’s sword.

Radis raised her sword tip upward.

It was truly a gesture of pure admiration.

Her eyes were not looking at Claudio.

At the sword tip, the characters of the technique were popping out as she wove them.

Everything was a manifestation of consciousness.

It could become anything.

The tip of her raised sword split Claudio’s sword energy.

White light shattered and scattered like spring flower petals.

Radis sheathed her sword and said.

“It was an honor to cross swords with you.”

Claudio answered with a dazed expression.

“The honor was mine…”

‘What on earth happened?’

Daniel’s face was pale beyond white, turning blue.

He knew Radis’s abilities well.

Radis was a sincere and talented student.

That was all.

She didn’t even know how to handle mana, and had never experienced real combat.

Only half a year had passed since he separated from Radis.

It was impossible for her skills to improve this much in that time.

It was an impossible thing.

He grabbed the arm of his student walking toward him and said.

“Let’s go.”

Then he heard clapping sounds from behind him.

“Daniel.”

The Emperor was clapping his thick palms together.

“You truly have a wonderful student. She’s truly a once-in-a-generation genius!”

Daniel shook his head.

“Something is wrong, Your Majesty.”

“Wrong? Right now my heart is stirring with unprecedented joy!”

The Emperor commanded in a booming voice.

“Daniel, bring that child before me.”

Daniel tried not to move from that spot.

Cold sweat began to form on his pale face.

He tightened his grip on Radis’s arm and whispered to her.

“Run.”

Radis realized that his condition was far from normal.

He looked as if he was enduring excruciating pain.

“Teacher?”

“Radis, go. Run without looking back.”

Then Emperor Claude shouted in a booming voice.

“Daniel, do you intend to refuse my command?”

Those words pierced through Daniel like a blade.

Daniel could be seen collapsing forward, unable to endure the pain.

“Teacher…!”

Radis hurriedly supported him, almost embracing him.

‘What… is this?’

Now her eyes could see things that were originally invisible to her.

She could even see the flow of mana coursing through Daniel’s body.

‘It’s a mess…’

She could feel Daniel’s mana failing to flow properly, tangled and boiling everywhere.

The cause was two ominous presences in his chest.

‘That’s the gias.’

Radis unconsciously reached out to grasp it.

However, what she touched was Daniel’s hunched back.

With her hand placed on her teacher’s back, Radis made up her mind.

Radis spoke to Daniel.

“Teacher, I won’t run away.”

“Radis…!”

She walked toward the Emperor, leaving Daniel behind.

The Emperor spoke to her in an oily voice.

“I witnessed your skills well. Remarkable. And that foundation is the Imperial swordsmanship taught by Earl Sheldon.”

Radis bowed her head and said.

“Your Imperial Majesty speaks correctly.”

“Imperial swordsmanship is a technique established over long periods by knights who protect the Empire, and can be called the Imperial Court’s most precious asset, passed down only within the White Lion Knights.”

The Emperor continued speaking as if bestowing the grace of enlightening a child about the ways of the world.

“When one gains great power, one must naturally pay the corresponding price. Are you prepared for that?”

Radis raised her head and said.

“I naturally respect this great swordsmanship and the knights who preserved and passed it down.”

Her black eyes gleamed coldly.

“However, Your Imperial Majesty, I dare make one request.”

The Emperor’s eyebrows rose slightly.

“A request? What might that be?”

“I will receive the gias. In exchange, please free my teacher.”

A moment of silence flowed.

Daniel’s shoulders trembled.

His upright face was distorted with utmost despair.

“Radis, that’s…!”

Then the Emperor burst into laughter.

That roaring laughter was almost like a seizure.

He bent and straightened his body repeatedly, trembling all over and slapping his thigh with his palm while laughing madly.

Behind that laughter, a thin, sobbing-like laugh could be heard overlapping.

It was that woman.

‘A fool, you were a fool!’

Radis closed her eyes.

Then the woman’s presence was felt even more clearly.

She was like a ghost.

A faint mass of mana without substance.

However, unlike a ghost, she had substance.

That red and black, sorrowful presence was calling to Radis intensely from somewhere.

‘I had some expectations, but how disappointing. Truly disappointing…!’

The woman pointed with her black-nailed fingertips at the thorny bushes that wound tightly around her body.

‘You’ll end up like me too!’

Radis opened her eyes.

The Empire’s Emperor was still laughing with cackling sounds.

The sun overhead was brilliant enough to sizzle and burn the skin.

Radis realized that Eve was looking at her.

His face, breathing roughly from running from somewhere, was filled with despair.

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