The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 114

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 114

At the words to bring more mana crystals, the Emperor’s maid jumped up on the spot.

“Your Majesty, how can the needle not move at all like that? Could it be that the magical device is broken?”

“A magical device that hasn’t broken for hundreds of years would break now?”

“Couldn’t that be possible? If the experiment fails, not only Lord Tilrod’s life but all these mana crystals might be wasted. Wouldn’t it be better to stop now?”

The maid was dying of regret watching the mana crystals disappear into Umbra.

Mana crystals were precious to begin with, but the ones in this vault were truly the finest quality.

The value of the mana crystals the Emperor had just casually poured in would be about the annual budget of a small city.

The Emperor gazed at the white currents swirling inside Umbra and said.

“It might fail. But if we take our time leisurely and end up being interfered with by Olivier, nothing would be more uninteresting than that.”

An ominous look appeared on the maid’s face.

The Emperor had a tendency to lose his reason and go on a rampage when it came to anything related to Olivier, the 3rd Prince.

However, all those who pointed out this fact were no longer alive.

The maid had no choice but to bring the mana crystal vault without saying anything.

“Uhahahaha! This seems to be a contest between Lord Tilrod’s talent and my wealth! I cannot lose!”

The mana crystals that had filled the large vault were poured relentlessly over Umbra.

However, the needle of the mana calculation device still didn’t budge.

“How can this be…?”

After emptying the third vault and the device’s needle still wouldn’t move, Emperor Claude realized something was wrong.

The maid’s eyes widened.

He pointed inside Umbra and shouted.

“Your Majesty, look at that!”

Golden particles were scattering inside Umbra, which had been swirling in murky white.

The maid grabbed the Emperor in panic.

“Your Majesty, the magical device’s condition is not normal! You must get away!”

The Emperor was led down the stairs of Umbra by the maid’s hand, lost in a daze.

The contents of Umbra were boiling up in golden light.

Though he had cast Gias on countless knights, this was the first time something like this had happened.

The Emperor’s face began to be stained with disbelief.

“What… what on earth is happening? What is going on?”

Mana continuously surged through the milky white waves.

The flow was murky, sticky, and rough.

All the anger, sorrow, and resentment left in countless incomplete lives that could not be ended even by death were clotted within it.

Someone’s sighs, someone’s tears, screams vomited while clutching their chest, cries that couldn’t even be voiced aloud – all tangled together and rushed like waves that would destroy everything.

They were shouting at her.

‘Foolishly, you too have ended up coming this far!’

‘You could have not come. Is this the future you wanted?’

‘If this was going to happen, why did you come back alive? Saying you would live for yourself?’

‘Who is by your side now? In the end, you gained nothing!’

‘In the end, it’s your fate to be torn apart and die in suffering!’

Radis, who was about to wave her hands to shake them off, realized.

What they were saying was what she had always feared.

It was her own fear that she couldn’t abandon even after living two lives.

At the same time, it was also the common fear that all lives carried like karma.

Realizing this fact, she stretched out both arms and embraced them.

She had no choice but to do so.

The wave surged and struck her.

The flow was too intense.

Everything seemed like it would melt away.

Her skin, nerves, bones, and even her heart were all being torn apart and unraveled like thread, melting into the great flow.

If she relaxed her tension even a little, she felt she would lose consciousness forever.

She endured and endured again.

What came at the end of the long and painful fear was intense temptation.

‘Burn everything.’

Black flames flickered before her eyes, whispering sweetly.

‘Hestia, you can do it. Burn everything. In the purified world, pure and beautiful things will be born anew.’

Radis tried to grit her teeth.

But shattered as she was, she couldn’t even do that.

‘I can’t endure anymore…!’

It was the moment she was about to lose the thread of consciousness.

Peace came.

It was a warmth she had never felt before.

She thought it wouldn’t be bad to disappear like this, turning her back on everything.

Then something sparkled before her eyes.

A necklace.

‘Ah…!’

Her consciousness became clear.

She said.

‘Don’t talk nonsense.’

Radis reached out and grasped the black flames that were flickering before her eyes.

‘What’s born from a place where all precious things have burned can’t be pure and beautiful.’

The black flames screamed.

The temptation disappeared helplessly in her hands.

But the flow didn’t stop.

She vaguely realized that if she stayed here longer, she might become something other than herself.

‘I need to get out of here… But how…?’

Then the locket of the necklace clicked open and golden particles began to flow out.

The golden particles melted into the milky white liquid inside the barrier, transforming the surroundings into another world.

Within it, some form wrapped in radiance appeared.

-Hestia.

The light was too bright, so Radis couldn’t look at him properly.

‘Who…?’

-I am Ruu. Son of Providence and Throne of Light.

When he raised his hand, the flow inside the barrier stopped as if by magic.

Radis, who had barely regained consciousness, asked.

‘Regia too, and why do you all call me Hestia? Hestia, Chronos, Throne… What are those things exactly?’

She could see the figure of a man with white hair flowing like clouds and golden-brown skin beyond the brilliant golden light.

He said.

-That is the name of your spirit and the name of the balance weight that maintains the equilibrium of three worlds. At the same time, it is also the power of purification that Providence gifted for humans who must live in a world without gods.

Radis, who had been listening to his words with her mouth closed, spoke honestly.

‘I’m sorry, but I don’t really understand what you’re saying…’

With a fragrant sigh, Ruu reached out and touched her forehead.

-You must have met Alexis. She was the previous Hestia. She was a hero who saved a world that was being devoured by demons. Though she is suffering now…

Radis recalled the woman who had been wrapped in black thorny bushes, bleeding.

‘Ah…!’

Ruu continued speaking.

-What Providence desires is for the three divided worlds to maintain balance. The Throne exists to maintain that. The messenger must have already told you how a world with disturbed balance is destroyed.

‘…!’

She realized that what Ruu was talking about was the future that Robert had conveyed to her.

The desperate future where demons appearing in the Imperial Capital would devastate the capital, and dragons that became masters of the forest would lead demons to trample the South.

Radis closed her eyes and thought of the things she had to protect.

She opened her mouth.

‘What do I need to do?’

Ruu raised both hands.

At some point, the black gleaming Regia was held in his hands.

-You remember the enchantment that captivated you just now. Alexis is also fighting against that same thing.

‘…!’

-And you are the only one who can save her.

While maintaining eye contact with Ruu, Radis slowly extended her hand.

The golden whirlwind inside the magical device disappeared and the flow subsided.

The next moment, something pitch black protruded out of the barrier and split it open.

“Aaaah…!”

People who thought it would explode screamed and stepped back.

However, the barrier disappeared without making a sound.

That was all.

The liquids inside the barrier that came into contact with the air also vanished like vapor.

From within, Radis slowly walked down.

Though there was no wind, her red hair was flowing like clouds.

From her body, flame-like mana that hadn’t yet been contained within was visibly rising like wisps of smoke.

“My magical device…!”

The Emperor’s mouth fell open in shock.

However, the Emperor quickly hid his surprise.

What was lost was lost, and now placing a gias on her came first.

The Emperor clapped his thick palms together and shouted.

“Truly magnificent, Lord Tilrod! No one has ever walked out of there unharmed until now!”

Radis raised her head to look at Umbra.

Now she could naturally understand the formulas carved around Umbra’s edges.

It was a formula that Ruu’s minions had used hundreds of years ago to create berserkers similar to golems.

Emperor Claude had been using that magical device to place gias on his knights.

After confirming the contents of the formula, Radis couldn’t help but be shocked.

‘He was placing restraints on his own knights using a magical device meant to create berserkers?’

She glared at the Emperor with eyes full of disillusionment.

Then the Emperor shouted in a booming voice.

“Lord Tilrod, come to me, kneel, and receive the gias!”

She moved her steps toward the direction where the Emperor stood.

The Emperor continued shouting.

“I bestow upon you a sacred mission. First, you shall be loyal to the Empire. And second, you shall protect me, Claude Arpend, Emperor of the Empire!”

Radis approached the Emperor.

And then she walked past him and continued walking.

The Emperor’s eyes widened as he glared at her retreating figure.

A flustered maid rushed out and blocked her path.

“Obey His Imperial Majesty’s command!”

Radis said.

“Move aside.”

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