The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 14

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 14

Radis stared intently at the unconscious Hover.

She knew he was a mana crystal smuggler.

However, she had never imagined that his smuggling operation would be of this scale.

No, even seeing it with her own eyes, she couldn’t believe it.

“This much…? Even if the Imperial Monster Hunting Corps roamed the Monster Forest for an entire year, it would be difficult to collect this amount.”

Radis mindlessly picked up a yellow mana crystal.

“…!”

Again.

It happened again.

The yellow energy that had been rippling inside the mana crystal disappeared as if a candle had been extinguished.

Just like before, the mana crystal that lost its light soon turned to dust.

Radis picked up another mana crystal. This time with her left hand. It was the same.

She placed two on her palm simultaneously. It was the same.

Radis repeatedly picked up mana crystals as if entranced, turning them to dust again and again.

After a while, having turned almost all the mana crystals to dust, Radis was stunned.

She couldn’t believe it.

‘What on earth is happening?’

Radis wrapped her hands with the hem of her dress and carefully picked up the last, largest red mana crystal in Hover’s Secret Warehouse, about the size of a thumbnail.

This time, the light didn’t disappear.

She calmed her breathing that had become rough from confusion and settled her heart.

Then she focused all her senses on her fingertips.

After that, she slowly brought her fingertips to the mana crystal.

As her touch reached it, the light rippling inside the red mana crystal gradually grew larger.

She felt a warm energy at her fingertips.

And something, a very warm and nostalgic feeling, began to spread from where it touched the mana crystal.

This time she felt it clearly.

A feeling like her whole body was burning as if she had been running for a long time.

A vivid sensation as if every bone, every muscle was cheering and awakening.

A fulfilling elation as if she could reach the Sky if she stretched out her hand.

“…Mana.”

Woom woom.

The mana absorbed from the mana crystal into her made her whole body tremble with a familiar yet nostalgic, strange resonance.

“How?”

She couldn’t believe it.

Mana wasn’t obtained this way.

As far as she knew, mana was something like the essence of power that could only be obtained through a dizzyingly long and arduous training process of training the body over a long time through painstaking effort, then recognizing the mana existing within oneself through mana training, and accepting nature’s mana through endless practice.

On her palm, the red mana crystal that had given her all its mana slowly turned gray.

Then it cracked with a crackling sound and turned into mere dust.

Radis rubbed the dust with her fingertips.

It was soft like ash left after burning.

It was truly nothing but dust.

“This can’t be…”

It was impossible.

What was contained in mana crystals was the mana of ‘monsters’, that is, demonic energy.

Just as humans cannot gain the power of lightning by reaching toward it, and striking flint to create sparks doesn’t mean having the power of flames, humans cannot use monster mana.

Just as a person touched by lightning gets electrocuted and a person touched by flames gets burned, monster mana acts as poison to humans.

That’s why people fear demonic energy, and wasn’t that why she had died from demonic energy poisoning?

Radis felt the mana that had heated her entire body slowly being stored deep within her body.

She slowly raised her hand and placed it below her chest, at the center of her body.

Probably a mana core that hadn’t existed in the original sixteen-year-old Radis’s body had been created there.

One with tremendous power at that.

“This is ridiculous.”

In her previous life, she had also succeeded in creating a mana core.

It happened when she was twenty-four.

Even that was nothing short of a miracle.

Even knights who had trained in mana for a long time couldn’t handle it their entire lives if they lacked the aptitude.

On the other hand, Radis didn’t even know proper mana training methods.

Her creation of a mana core was truly a coincidence.

When her body was collapsing due to demonic energy poisoning, she felt a strange pounding along with some resonance within her body.

A feeling as if she had two hearts.

That resonance allowed her, who was dying from demonic energy poisoning, to stand up again.

It felt like a furnace had formed in her chest.

That furnace burned the demonic energy to create another power that kept her alive.

She could instinctively feel that it was mana.

Even then, Radis couldn’t believe that fact.

Creating a mana core was a great achievement, and knights who became mana users were recognized for their abilities as Mage Knights rather than ordinary knights, but she didn’t reveal that she had become a mana user.

Because she instinctively felt that it wasn’t a normal method.

To awaken abilities by sensing mana from demonic energy.

‘That was strange then too, but this is really… impossible.

Absorbing demonic energy from mana crystals and converting it to mana?’

Radis’s body began trembling uncontrollably.

“This is impossible. It’s an impossible thing.”

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