The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 175

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 175

The White Knights who realized the situation was dire and stood to block the monster’s path, and even Claudio, the vice-captain of the White Knights who led those knights, met their deaths.

As the blood of his cherished disciples poured down like rain, Carno, the captain of the White Knights, stood to block the monster’s path.

He fought the monster with his life on the line, but even the Empire’s strongest knight could not stop the monster.

The monster that defeated Carno spread its three pairs of black wings.

And slowly took flight.

From where the monster passed, darkness began and monsters poured forth.

Thus everyone died.

Emperor Claude Arpend of the Empire, who guarded the imperial throne until the end, Empress Adrianne, who frantically fled in a carriage, and Crown Prince Charle, who hid behind her screaming, all died.

Even the 3rd Prince Olivier, who looked down at the burning Imperial Capital with endlessly cold eyes.

“All of you fall to hell.”

With those words as his last, he met his death.

Monsters crawled out before the eyes of nobles who had escaped the Imperial Capital and felt relieved.

The same happened behind the citizens of the Empire who were looking at the burning Imperial Capital in horror.

The place where the monsters, who had been charging forward with the momentum to destroy the world, stopped was near Potter Hill, which crossed between the capital Ellarion and the provincial capital Duras.

Someone who survived that hell said this:

“Suddenly, a brilliant multicolored light appeared from somewhere and pierced through the heart of the winged monster.”

After hesitating, he also added this:

“It’s truly joyful that such a terrifying monster disappeared. So it might sound really strange to say this, but… that light. I had never seen such sad light in my life.”

In some future, the story of Berard and Alexis came to an end like that.

Robert looked into the eyes of his half-brother Heron and said this:

“You shouldn’t have gone that far.”

Heron could not give any answer to those words.

Because Robert’s greatsword was already embedded in his chest.

However, an answer was not actually necessary.

An apology was the same.

Most of the Extermination Corps members lost their lives caught up in Heron’s schemes, and Radis died the same way.

No matter what excuses Heron made or apologies he offered, the dead would not return.

Robert realized as he watched the light fade from Heron’s pupils.

That now nothing remained for him.

The people he had cherished, all those who had become a ray of light in his lonely life, had died because of himself.

Radis, who had felt closer than blood relatives and whom he had wanted to treat preciously, was no longer by his side.

He had taken revenge on Heron, the source of all those events, and burned down the Rodric Family, but doing so brought nothing back.

Only regret remained.

A certain rumor reached his wandering ears.

“A dragon has appeared from the Monster Forest.”

“The capital has become ruins, the royal family is all dead, and now such a terrible monster has appeared – isn’t the world really going to end?”

“Why wouldn’t it? Haven’t you heard the rumor that monsters are pouring out from where the Emperor used the black flames? Now there’s nowhere to flee on earth, whether south or north.”

Robert went to find a place to die like that.

Before the horde of monsters that filled the horizon, Robert realized that everything had truly ended.

However, he could not let go and die.

‘Radis, you also fought until the end.’

When he reached the dragon after cutting through the monsters surging like waves, Robert’s appearance could no longer be called that of a living person.

Still, he did not give up.

‘Radis, you wouldn’t have given up either. You would have continued fighting to save even a single member.’

His body was dying, but his mind was clearer than ever.

At that moment, dazzling radiance began pouring from his sword stained with monster blood.

It was sword energy.

The realm he had tried to reach his entire life was at the crossroads of life and death.

The moment he disregarded life and death and burned only his fighting spirit, he was finally able to surpass his limits.

A faint smile appeared on his lips.

‘Radis, I want to show you.’

What kind of reaction would she show?

Would she be amazed?

Would she be proud of him?

He would probably never know.

The smile that had appeared on his lips was erased and his mouth set firmly.

He said.

“Come.”

The giant monster that saw the dazzling light extending from his sword turned its head toward him.

The dragon’s body was as massive as a fortress, and its entire body was covered with multicolored scales that deflected everything.

Robert watched the dragon’s movements.

The dragon was slow in its movements due to its massive size.

He realized that the dragon was hiding the nape of its neck below its jaw that looked solid enough to crush mountains.

There was a single black scale there.

Robert raised his sword.

He could tell.

That his life would end here today.

He had no regrets.

Though it could not be called a blessed life, he had always done his best in his position.

Though this end could not be called good either, this was enough.

He had met one person.

That was more than enough.

Luks, the captain of the Russel Manor’s Extermination Corps, shouted.

“The dragon, the dragon has fallen!”

A smile was blooming across his face as he yelled like that.

Ardon, the captain of the Russel Manor Black Lion Knights, was dumbfounded.

It was because he was speechless.

A monster’s arm was stuck in Luks’s side, dangling there.

The moment that came out, Luks would die.

“That idiot…!”

Even in this desperate situation, Luks was shouting that the dragon was dead and genuinely rejoicing.

And he was diving back into the monsters to burn what little life he had left to kill even one more monster.

From behind such Ardon, a low metallic voice was heard.

“Advance.”

It was Eve Russel, the head of the Russel Manor.

Under the hair that hung down to his nose bridge, what was reflected in his golden pupils was hell itself.

Even if the dragon had fallen, nothing changed.

The south was already completely occupied by monsters, and monsters were endlessly pouring out from passages to the demon realm that had opened throughout the continent.

A world without even a shred of hope was captured in his clouded pupils.

That scene reminded him of the hell he had experienced in childhood.

In childhood, he experienced hell in the Forbidden Zone at the center of the Monster Forest, dragged there by his uncle’s hand.

His desire to survive moved Chronos, and because of that, everyone except him died.

In the Forbidden Zone, he was nothing more than fresh prey.

The monsters fought to claim him, who was half out of his mind.

And what finally claimed him was a giant spider.

However, for reasons unknown, Arachne did not devour him.

Perhaps it thought of him as reserve food.

Until the knights of the Russel Manor came to the Forbidden Zone and found him days later, he had to be trapped in Arachne’s nest.

In the mist of the Forbidden Zone that drove people mad, only a thin wall woven from spider webs separated him from the monsters that prowled following his scent.

There, he had lost even his last human desire—the urge to live.

What moved him was only the self-destructive spell of not wanting to fail.

That’s why even at this moment, he felt no particular despair.

As death, which had always hazily filled his space, became tangibly clear within his grasp, he even felt a sense of relief.

Eve Russel said.

“Today we will die in this place.”

Thus, the last knights defending the South leaped into the black tsunami created by the demons.

In the chaos, flames burst forth and engulfed them.

Eve Russel thought.

‘It’s the end.’

The flames hotly embraced him.

As his consciousness faded, past memories flashed by like a revolving lantern.

All of them were dark and terrible.

He turned his head away from his own life.

Then some vision he had never experienced rose like a mirage.

“…?”

Amidst scattering pure white petals, someone was looking up at him with a bright smile.

Her hair was red like flames, and those black eyes held a warmth he had never possessed before.

Swept up in some intense emotion he had never felt before, he kissed her.

After the brief kiss, he looked at her and whispered.

‘Promise me.’

Then she looked up at him with those black eyes and said.

‘No matter when or where I go, I will always return to Eve’s side in the end.’

Eve Russel realized.

Her existence.

That she was the one meaning he had searched for his entire life but could never find.

He died longing for someone he had never met.

“Kuhuk!”

Eve Russel opened his eyes and looked around in all directions.

There was only terrible darkness.

“Damn it.”

He tore off the eyepatch he was wearing on his face and threw it away.

Only then did the scene of the room with a small candle burning come into view.

“Phew….”

He rubbed his face with both hands and dry-washed it.

The terribly vivid dream had made him lose his sense of reality.

In the midst of this, the empty space beside him felt stark.

“Radis?”

As he called her name and looked around, memories of last night hazily returned to his mind.

‘I don’t like it.’

‘Eve. I understand that you don’t like it and that you’re worried. But please listen to me. There’s really no need to worry, okay? Ban will go with me.’

‘I still don’t like it!’

When Eve hugged his pillow and turned his body away sharply, Radis lost her words for a moment and stared at his back.

Then she hit his side once with a thud and shouted.

‘That’s petty!’

‘That’s right! I’m Eve Petty Russel!’

In the end, angry Radis stomped out of the bedroom, and Eve, clutching his aching side and groaning, fell asleep just like that.

“…Ah, we fought.”

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