The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 142

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 142

During the brilliant age of magic, the mages of the Mage Tower were expanding the domain of the World Tree, the source of their power, while pursuing divine strength.

Angered by this, the gods severed the connection between the Human Realm and the Divine Realm.

The World Tree that had connected the three worlds became a passage between the Human Realm and the Demon Realm.

The balance was broken, the gates of the Underworld opened, and demons poured forth.

Providence, taking pity on the humans who now had to live in a world without gods, bestowed upon them one final salvation.

Light to drive away darkness, fire that could burn everything, and time so that life could continue.

Providence’s plan was perfect.

With the power of Ruu, Hestia, and Chronos, the world’s balance began to be restored.

They slaughtered the demons, felled the Makai Trees, and sealed the gates of the Underworld.

Now only two Makai Trees remained.

One was in the Vast Forest at the Center of the Continent, and the other was in the White Sea.

Ruu said.

“I’ve had my followers build ships that can sail the seas. We’ll first seal the rift in the forest, then head to the sea. That will be our final journey.”

She grumbled.

“I really hate the sea. How can people float on water? Just imagining it is terrible.”

Fuir was equally afraid of water.

[If I fall in water, I’m done for…!]

“Fuir, if we fall into the sea, we’ll all be done for, right?”

“…Tell them to build a very large ship so no one will sink. We’ll call it Leviathan.”

After the meeting between the Thrones ended, Dantes caught her as she was turning away.

“Alexis.”

“Prince…!”

“May I ask what you discussed?”

As their journey neared its end, Ruu and Berard began to exclude Dantes.

This was something Alexis couldn’t understand.

Dantes was a precious companion who had brought the Thrones together and shared the long, long journey with them.

However, persuading Ruu and Berard with words was difficult for her.

All she could do was relay the meeting’s contents to Dantes.

“Burn down the continent’s last Makai Tree?”

Dantes’ face darkened.

“Alexis, think carefully. After the connection to the Divine Realm was severed, the World Tree came to be called the Makai Tree, but it’s still the same tree. Something that was once called divine grace. If that disappears, all the mana in the world will vanish, and mages and magical tools will become useless.”

Before Dantes, who was a mage, Alexis couldn’t say anything.

Dantes kissed the back of her hand and said.

“Alexis, Ruu is the son of a god. When this journey ends, he’ll return to the world of the gods. Berard is completely on his side too. But we are human, and we must continue living in this world. There’s something that Ruu, being divine, doesn’t understand. Humans still need hope.”

“Prince…”

“Mana is the source of everything. What do you think will happen to this world if mana completely disappears?”

“But…”

“No, before worrying about the world, think about yourself. What will happen to you if all your power disappears?”

“…!”

The fear she had been desperately avoiding until now overwhelmed her.

She knew the weakness and cruelty of humans.

They worshipped her because she had power.

If all her power disappeared, they would drag her down, bind her with Thorny Bushes, throw her into the river, and spit on her.

To her, frozen with fear, Dantes said.

“Gods are different beings from humans. They severed the connection to the Divine Realm in anger at humans pursuing divine power. They have no interest in the lives of mere humans. Remember your past. God left you to suffer.”

Dantes whispered while embracing her.

“I was the one who saved you.”

Dantes’ lips gently pressed against her tear-wet lips.

She closed her eyes at his kiss, which she had longed for so much.

She couldn’t think of anything anymore.

If everything ended like this, it would seem like the most perfect conclusion.

Showering kisses all over her body, Dantes whispered sweetly.

“Alexis, if you stand on the side of the people, everyone on earth will worship you like a goddess. And I will welcome you as my queen. I promise.”

“But… what about Lady Isabella?”

Dantes had a fiancée.

That’s why Alexis had desperately hidden her feelings of love for him.

Though she didn’t think she had done it very well.

“Alexis, Isabella is just a fiancée chosen by the king. I don’t love her. What I love is you.”

At his confession, she felt all the pain in her heart melting away.

He was her savior, the only person who understood her secret fears, and her only love.

How could she refuse the future he spoke of?

Daniel held out a notebook filled with writing.

“The final story is contained here.”

Unlike Alexis’s story, the final story was written in neat handwriting.

Radis opened it.

The demons’ final resistance was fierce.

However, the Thrones succeeded in sealing the rift in the Black Forest at the center of the continent.

The gates of the Underworld that had spread in a circle beneath the roots of the Makai Tree began to close.

Berard, bloodied from blocking all the demons’ attacks, shouted.

“Alexis, bring down the Makai Tree!”

Alexis, also soaked in blood, stood at the edge of the rift.

Before the gates of the Underworld closed, they had to destroy the Makai Tree and send it back to the Underworld along with the other demons.

That would be the perfect seal.

Then someone called her.

“Alexis…!”

Berard turned around.

It was Dantes who had called her name.

He was looking at her with clear intent, shaking his head.

Seeing him like that, Alexis finally let the hand holding Sword drop.

Ruu waited without saying anything.

He was a being for whom the very suspicion that a Throne would refuse a mission given by god was impossible.

Only Berard realized what had happened.

He widened his eyes and shouted.

“Alexis, no!”

The rift disappeared.

However, the Makai Tree was not destroyed and remained in place.

Ruu slowly raised his head to look at her.

“Alexis, why did you do that?”

She was doing her utmost not to look toward where Dantes was.

“Ruu wouldn’t understand, but people need this.”

“Alexis, have you abandoned your mission bestowed upon you by god as a Throne?”

“Mission, mission! I’m sick of it now!”

She shouted.

“What has god ever done for me? This cursed power? If he hadn’t given me this, I would have lived an ordinary life. Yes, that’s what I really wanted!”

A single tear fell from Ruu’s eyes as he looked at her.

“Alexis, you have not only abandoned your mission by falling to temptation, but you have denied god’s love. Since you called it a curse, it will now truly become a curse.”

Her red hair turned jet black and wrapped around her body.

She struggled to break free from it.

Then her hair transformed into Thorny Bushes and began to constrict her.

“Dantes!”

Enraged, Berard rushed over and knocked Dantes down.

“You…! What have you done!”

“Kugh! G-get this off me!”

“There’s no way she would make such a decision of her own will. It must be you! Using her heart that loves you…!”

“Th-the decision was hers!”

Even while they engaged in their wicked quarrel, the curse relentlessly devoured her.

Her skin tore and bright red blood flowed out.

She screamed in unbearable pain and dropped Sword.

She could hear Fuir calling to her from where it had fallen on the floor.

[Alexis, Alexis!]

Ruu spoke.

“Unfortunately, her curse is self-inflicted. Only she herself can break the curse.”

Ruu spoke to Berard.

“Neither humans nor I, an avatar of god, can take her life. Berard, only you can free her from the pain of the flesh.”

“If she’s freed from the pain of the flesh, what happens to her soul?”

“If she dies while cursed, her soul will be dragged to the Underworld to suffer eternally.”

After a long and agonizing silence, Berard slowly approached her while holding Kairos.

Berard slowly knelt before Alexis.

Thorny Bushes had bound even her face, so Alexis couldn’t speak.

Her black eyes were looking up at him.

‘It hurts too much. Please just kill me. I want to end everything now.’

Those eyes were saying that.

Tears filled Berard’s golden eyes.

He caressed her cheek, not caring that his hands were scratched by the Thorny Bushes.

Berard spoke.

“Alexis, I love you. I always will, for eternity.”

He used all the mana he possessed to create a massive spell.

And with it, he closed her eyes.

Her time stopped like that.

Ruu, who had been watching the scene, opened his mouth.

“Fuir, are you watching?”

[Sob, yes, Lord Ruu…!]

“Behold. Humans have will. While we merely move according to Providence’s will, their will has the power to change even that flow.”

A smile of both sadness and admiration appeared on Ruu’s lips.

“That makes them more dignified than spiritual beings who live eternal lives, more than demons with infinite power.”

Fuir, connected to Alexis, lost its light and fell into deep sleep alongside her.

That sword would probably have to wait until someone appeared after a very long time had passed.

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