The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 113

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 113

At her response, the Emperor suddenly burst into laughter.

“Hahahahaha!”

He pounded the stone wall of the underground stairs with his fist while cackling loudly.

He laughed so violently that the Emperor’s face was turning purple.

He even sat down on the stairs with his reddened face.

The attendants rushed over urgently, placing a cushion under his bottom and pouring him strong liquor to calm him down.

“Oh my, oh my!”

The Emperor patted his chest while giggling.

Radis looked at the Emperor with pitying eyes.

After drinking a few sips of alcohol, the Emperor’s complexion returned to normal.

The Emperor wiped the tears that had gathered in his eyes and said.

“I think I’ve fallen for your wit. If receiving two gias is so frightening, how about becoming a member of Baekryeong? If you swear to completely sever ties with Lord Russel, I’ll retract my words about destroying your mana core and place only one gias on you.”

Radis carefully chose her words to respond.

“I’ll accept the gias for learning imperial swordsmanship, so if you unconditionally release my teacher’s gias, I think I’ll fall for Your Majesty’s magnanimity as well.”

At those words, the Emperor sat down on the stairs once again.

“Kyahahaha!”

Radis pressed her forehead and sighed.

She thought Olivier was the only person in the world who laughed so excessively at her words, but it seemed Emperor Claude was the same.

‘I guess they really are father and son.’

Radis didn’t voice that thought aloud.

Somehow she felt that both Olivier and Emperor Claude wouldn’t like hearing that.

After a while, the Emperor, who had finally calmed down after drinking strong liquor repeatedly, continued speaking haltingly.

“That… obviously can’t be done…!”

Radis politely spoke while barely hiding her rising irritation.

“I’ll just accept two gias then. However, if Your Majesty doesn’t want me to die immediately, please don’t demand loyalty to Your Majesty.”

Emperor Claude followed with wide eyes as Radis walked steadily down the stairs.

“I’ve seen countless knights in my life, but this is the first time I’ve met a child like you.”

“Thank you.”

“My goodness, where did a child like you come from?”

“…”

“Huh, I really like you. I promise not to be stingy with your treatment so you won’t regret making this courageous decision.”

“…”

Before they knew it, they had reached the end of the long, long staircase.

A massive door appeared before their eyes.

The Emperor’s attendants who had gone down to the basement first opened the door for them.

The Emperor spoke proudly.

“You’ve probably never been here before. This is the White Jade Knight Order’s Archive.”

What could be seen beyond the door was a gray space.

In the center was a circular wide clearing, from which massive libraries extended radially.

The Emperor pointed to the libraries lined up in rows and spoke proudly.

“Excluding Laphal’s Mage Tower, this is probably the only place that has this much material on mana and spells.”

Radis, who had struggled quite a bit to find books about mana and spells, narrowed her eyes and glared at the Emperor.

It seemed the Emperor had designated all magic-related books as forbidden texts and was hoarding them all here by himself.

“Well, that’s not what’s important right now though.”

The Emperor walked toward the center of the clearing.

There, a large hexagonal object sat alone.

Emperor Claude spoke proudly.

“It’s a magical device called Umbra (Womb). It’s a precious treasure, the only one of its kind in the Empire.”

Radis slowly walked up to it and looked up at the magical device.

The structure of the magical device was simple.

Inside a hexagonal metal frame that gleamed bronze, there was just one thing that looked like a giant soap bubble hanging there.

Radis reached out her hand to touch the soap bubble-like thing.

The transparent wall neither burst nor pushed her hand away.

Her finger passed right through the transparent wall.

She felt a sensation like putting her hand into lukewarm water.

Right after that, something began pulling at her finger.

Surprised by the unexpected suction force, Radis flinched and pulled her hand back out.

‘Is it a barrier?’

It felt similar to the barrier surrounding the Makai Tree that she had seen in the Forbidden Zone.

However, if that barrier had been rejecting external intrusion, this one seemed to be pulling things in.

She raised her head to examine the entire magical device.

Spells were densely carved into the metal frame.

There were two types of spells.

Those carved in relief and those carved in intaglio.

The two spells intersected in a very complex manner, making it difficult to tell what they were at a glance.

Emperor Claude said.

“This was brought from Laphal’s Mage Tower by the first Emperor, Dantes Arpend. Originally, something very important was contained inside this.”

Emperor Claude frowned and shook his head.

“That was stolen a few years ago though. Anyway, because we lost the contents, we were able to research this magical device. Until then, we had simply thought it was a storage container, but it wasn’t.”

The Emperor of the Empire pointed at the magical device with his ringed hand.

“Go inside.”

Radis said.

“Releasing my teacher’s gias comes first.”

The Emperor burst into hearty laughter.

“Sir Tilrod, I am the Emperor of this Cardia. Do you know what that means? I am someone who can buy a castle with a single gold coin. Is that explanation insufficient? Let me say it again. If I were to offer a chick to any king of any country and suggest exchanging it for his queen, that king would have to kneel and agree to do so. I have that kind of power. Do you understand now?”

Though his words were lengthy, in summary it seemed to mean there was nothing that didn’t go his way.

Radis sighed and then nodded.

“But you must keep your promise.”

A fishy smile appeared on the Emperor’s lips.

“Good child.”

Avoiding the Emperor’s hand that was trying to pat her head, Radis thought.

‘What exactly did Teacher see in that insufferable Emperor to accept two gias?’

With a “whatever happens, happens” attitude, she first stuck her head into Umbra’s barrier.

Soon the barrier swallowed her.

Inside the barrier, Radis held her breath and only blinked her eyes.

Something squishy with a texture somewhere between air and water filled the inside of the barrier.

‘What is this?’

Radis opened her mouth intending to say that.

Then a large air bubble escaped from her mouth and the squishy something rushed in.

“Ugh…”

At the unpleasant sensation, Radis widened her eyes.

However, while it felt strange, she didn’t feel like she was suffocating.

‘Wait, do I not need to breathe…?’

She felt like a fish caught in a large current.

Radis tried to move her body, but her body wouldn’t move as she wanted.

The squishy substance inside the barrier seemed to nullify all resistance.

Thinking to try something, she drew up her mana.

Then the flow inside the barrier became turbulent and her body began spinning round and round.

‘Why is this happening?’

As she said that, air bubbles escaped from her mouth instead of her voice.

The Emperor’s face, peering into the barrier, was reflected there and multiplied into dozens.

Large and small faces of the Emperor simultaneously opened and closed their mouths, saying:

“Good. Bring the demon stones.”

The Emperor’s large face shrank to the size of a dot.

“Lord Tilrod, are you still conscious? Amazing! Other people lost consciousness immediately upon entering the barrier.”

The Emperor could be seen climbing up above Umbra on hexagonal-framed stairs while speaking in a booming voice.

“Since you still appear to be conscious, I’ll explain it myself. This magical device has the ability to inject mana contained in demon stones into a person’s body and create restraints with it.”

At the Emperor’s words, Radis’s eyes widened greatly.

“Ububub…?”

“Hahahaha! Surprised, aren’t you? According to records, this magical device was created long ago by the Divine Retainers. They needed powerful warriors to wage war against the monsters of the White Sea, and they created this magical device to produce those warriors. However, Lord Tilrod, such great power requires constraints.”

A maid brought a large box.

It was filled with demon stones.

“I gave it the name Gias.”

Emperor Claude showed her a clock-like device connected to Umbra.

“Do you know what this is? It’s a device that automatically calculates the amount of mana needed to operate the magical device. Doesn’t it give you chills to think this might have been made hundreds of years ago?”

Radis’s eyes widened.

“Ububu…!”

She shook her head vigorously, meaning to tell him not to do it.

‘I… absorb the mana from demon stones? Then what happens?’

The Emperor burst into laughter.

“Even if you’re truly afraid now, it’s already too late!”

The Emperor could be seen grabbing a handful of demon stones and dropping them into Umbra.

Radis screamed.

‘Listen to me!’

Instead of those words, the last air bubble burst out with a pop.

“Ubub!”

The transparent substance surrounding her could be seen glowing white.

Soon the light swallowed her.

“Ho.”

The Emperor standing above Umbra looked at the mana calculation device with an amazed expression.

“Remarkable. I put in quite a few demon stones, but the needle didn’t budge at all. Even when I cast Gias on Lord Carno, it wasn’t to this extent. What a truly promising talent. Bring another demon stone vault.”

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