The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 130

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 130

However, unfortunately, his words could only be heard as death throes and screams.

The Emperor, who had been watching this scene, raised both hands and began to applaud.

“Beautiful, truly beautiful!”

Empress Adrianne bowed her head respectfully before speaking.

“Thank you, Your Imperial Majesty.”

“However, Empress, I have many enemies. Though that demon’s weapon is powerful, can it burn through all of them?”

When the Empress gestured, a man wearing a black cloak and white mask slowly walked out from the darkness.

He was holding up a large box with both hands.

White Mask set the box down at the Emperor’s feet and opened the lid.

“Ooh!”

Inside the box were black orbs the size of eggs, packed full.

White Mask spoke.

“Your Imperial Majesty, with this amount of black orbs, you could conquer a castle with just a flick of your finger.”

“How many boxes like this are there?”

White Mask smiled.

“Twenty boxes are prepared. And if Your Majesty desires, we can create even more.”

The Emperor placed his hand on White Mask’s shoulder and laughed heartily.

“Excellent, truly excellent!”

The Emperor laughed heartily as he embraced Rollis’s shoulders.

Rollis also giggled, and the Empress too had a smile playing at her lips.

The Emperor of the Empire, who had returned to the banquet hall, declared.

“Today seems to be the happiest day of my life. I wish to share this joy with my loyal subjects, so listen carefully, loyal subjects of the Empire, to another piece of joyful news! I shall appoint my 1st Prince Charle Arpend as Crown Prince. Moreover, the only woman worthy of the position as his consort is Rollis Relbelloa, this beautiful woman, so I hereby announce their engagement!”

Radis, who had left the banquet hall alone, first went to retrieve Regia that she had left at the armory.

As she had requested, Regia was lying on a soft cushion.

While collecting Regia, Radis realized that the maid was looking at her with a very peculiar expression.

Radis thought she knew why the maid was acting that way.

She was probably the only person in the world who would ask for a sword to be placed on a cushion.

‘Ah, how embarrassing…’

Radis deliberately ignored the maid’s expression full of curiosity and inserted Regia into her belt.

At that moment, Regia’s urgent voice pierced into her mind.

[Radis, Radis!]

‘Yes?’

[It’s Alexis!]

‘What? Where?’

[I faintly sensed her presence! But that wasn’t her. In the direction they came from, she’ll be there.]

‘Let’s go.’

Radis immediately shook off her thoughts and moved in the direction Regia was leading.

After passing secretly like a shadow between the shining buildings, walking through undisclosed dark gardens and unused buildings, she arrived at an abandoned tower.

Regia said.

[I can feel it now. Alexis is down there!]

Looking at the tower shrouded in darkness behind the splendid buildings of the Imperial Capital, Radis felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

‘The story of the secret basement beneath the Imperial Capital…’

The scene she was looking at now reminded her of the ghost story that Daniel had told her in childhood and that she had told to the maids at Lord Russel’s Estate.

‘If you pass through the shining beautiful buildings of the Imperial Capital, in the deepest place there is a tower that doesn’t shine. And in that basement is hidden the darkest secret of the Imperial Capital. That is, a girl who was once called a witch…’

Radis was lightly shocked by the truth that the story she already knew was pointing to.

Daniel had already told her where Alexis was.

‘I see.’

Radis tried to find an entrance while hiding her body in the darkness of the tree shadows.

She didn’t need to search hard.

Because at what seemed to be the entrance to the basement, a group of people were already tangled together, fighting noisily.

‘What’s this?’

Radis watched the situation with puzzled eyes.

They were all wearing black clothes as if they had made a prior agreement, making them difficult to distinguish at first, but upon closer look, one side wore the tight, simple clothing typical of assassins, while the other side was covered in flowing black hoods.

Regia briefly assessed the situation.

[The cloak guys are all going to die…?]

Radis agreed.

The assassins seemed to be very skilled.

Every time their awl-sharp blades gleamed in the darkness, one of the hooded figures fell.

In fact, the hooded figures seemed to be ordinary people who hadn’t even properly learned self-defense.

Regia said hesitantly.

[Master is… just watching people die…]

Radis answered carefully.

‘Regia, if Alexis is here, then whether they’re guarding this place or targeting it, they’re all enemies.’

[Wow, Older Sister…! I respect you!]

Soon all the black-hooded figures fell, and the assassins quickly descended into the basement without looking back.

Radis also immediately got up and entered through the entrance where the assassins had disappeared.

As she slowly descended the stairs while maintaining a certain distance from the assassins, she unconsciously covered her nose and mouth with her hand.

‘Dark magic…?’

The closer she got to the basement, the more intense dark magic she could feel.

It was the thick, damp dark magic that could only be felt in the Forbidden Zone before its transformation.

Moreover, it was much more vivid.

It felt like it would explode if ignited.

From within came the sound of weapons clashing and desperate screams.

Someone’s laughter as well.

“Kahahaha! I’ve finally found it!”

Radis peered slightly into the basement from its entrance.

And she almost let out a groan.

The scene inside was the most bizarre and terrible thing she had ever seen.

Demons trapped in cages along the walls were shrieking, and chunks of meat whose identity she didn’t want to know were scattered everywhere.

In that hellish scene, the attackers and those guarding this place were fighting desperately.

The hooded people and Relbelloa’s knights were surrounding and protecting something that looked like a crude magical device.

One knight shouted.

“If we hold out just a little longer, the knights will come! We must protect the Mana Crystal!”

At that moment, one assassin rushed at him.

The knight blocked his blade with his helmet and thrust his sword into the assassin’s stomach.

However, the assassin didn’t even scream and stabbed his exposed neck.

The two fell together, entangled like that.

The man standing in the center of the assassins walked over the path made of blood and shouted.

“This is the Mana Crystal of Mana Crystals…!”

Radis slowly walked toward the center while hiding her body between the iron cages where the demons were trapped.

The man looked at the object inside the magical device as if enchanted and shouted.

“Hestia!”

Radis saw it too.

Her eyes widened greatly.

She bit her lips so hard that a grinding sound could be heard.

Inside the crude magical device that seemed to be modeled after Umbra, ‘that thing’ existed.

A small, withered mass of thorny bushes, curled up like a young child.

Radis saw that very sharp blades were stuck into those thorny bushes.

From where those blades were inserted, black liquid was dripping drop by drop, collecting in a basin below the magical device.

[Alexis? Alexis…!]

Regia groaned in pain.

[Ah, what on earth did they do to her? Why? Who did this?]

Radis gritted her teeth and drew Regia.

The jet-black blade trembled desperately as it emitted mana red as blood.

“Huh?”

Before her rage, the enemies couldn’t even scream.

Regia moved silently and smoothly.

Each time red light scattered, the assassins, hooded figures, and knights guarding the matogu all fell quietly as if they had been destined to perish here today.

“What are you!”

The man standing before the matogu shouted.

His eyes widened when he saw Radis’s face.

“You, you are? The arena? Why are you here?”

“…”

“Well, whatever. If you’re someone who can use such powerful magic, we can talk.”

The man raised his ringed hand and shouted.

“Look at this!”

Radis looked at the man’s ring with cold eyes. Then she spoke.

“What’s that supposed to be?”

The man’s mouth fell open in bewilderment.

“You, you don’t know? This is the seal of the World Tree that has now vanished! I, I am a mage of the Mage Tower!”

The mage pointed to the mass of thorny bushes inside the matogu and said.

“I came here to move this to its rightful place!”

“Rightful place?”

“Someone of your caliber must have figured out roughly what this thing is, right? This is none other than Hestia’s Mana Stone! Those Cardia Empire bastards are out of their minds. To think they can only utilize such a precious and dangerous mana stone in this pathetic way!”

The mage examined the object inside the matogu excitedly as he spoke passionately.

“As expected, tremendous prohibitions and seals are placed on it. But with our Mage Tower’s technology, we can definitely break them. Once that happens, our Raphal will dominate the entire continent!”

The mage turned his gaze toward Radis and shouted.

“Now do you understand? Where the rightful place for this mana stone should be!”

Radis raised Regia and lightly tapped the mage’s neck with the blade.

“Don’t call her a mana stone.”

“Ack! L-let’s talk this out!”

“Answer me if you don’t want to die. What happens to Alexis when the seals and prohibitions are broken?”

Radis could see the mage’s eyes darting around.

Radis tapped the man’s neck once more and said fiercely.

“I can hear your brain grinding from here? Want me to make it actually roll? Answer quickly, won’t you?”

“Ack! I-I’ll tell you! Th-that object has incredibly complex and solid seals on it. Seals that stop time. It’s truly an amazing spell. But there’s no spell in this world that lasts forever. Over the long passage of time, those seals must have gradually weakened.”

The mage continued rambling.

“And there are prohibitions. Those are actually closer to divine punishment or curses… To break those, more research would be needed. B-but there’s no spell our Mage Tower’s mages can’t break!”

Radis narrowed her eyes and looked at him as she asked.

“How are you planning to take that thing?”

“That’s…”

Just then, a low voice called her name.

“Radis.”

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