The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 178

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 178

Radis, who had been walking like flying through the Duke’s Mansion corridor carpeted with red rugs, stopped in front of the kitchen.

In front of the wide-open kitchen door, familiar large sacks were piled up.

“Lady Radis! Good morning.”

Allen, who had been looking into the sacks, smiled brightly when he saw her.

“These are cherries brought from the farm. Today’s cherries are exceptionally excellent. I think His Grace will be very pleased.”

Inside the sacks were fresh cherries that sparkled like rubies, emitting a refreshing fragrance.

Seeing this, Radis also nodded with a pleased smile.

“They really look good.”

How could she not be pleased when these pretty cherries were selling like hotcakes and earning her a fortune?

The first thing she did after receiving her title and gaining funds was to invest in the Pioneer Settlement’s farms.

Of course, what she focused on most was the cherry farm, which was guaranteed to be a huge success.

However, while touring the farms, she realized that the Pioneer Settlement’s farmlands had much more investment value than she had thought, so she started a business altogether.

This year was the first year that investment business turned a profit.

Currently, all the cherry farms near the capital had trees infected with disease, leaving the cherries completely dried up.

The only survivors were the farms in the Pioneer Settlement, which were completely separated from the farmlands.

Judging from the news that all the trees in the farms near the capital had withered and died, the Pioneer Settlement’s cherries would become a steady source of income for the next few years.

It wasn’t just cherries that had bright prospects.

The Pioneer Settlement’s farmland, which had never been cultivated before, was fertile, and the mines were rich with various resources.

The reason they couldn’t utilize this until now was because of the monsters.

To farm, farmers needed to settle down and live there, but until now that had been difficult because of the monsters.

Moreover, even if the pioneer village successfully established itself, transporting crops to sell them was also difficult.

Now there were no such worries.

“Lady Radis, hello.”

A tall elf with pointed ears looked at Radis while setting down a sack of cherries.

“Akut, good morning.”

The monsters newly born in the garden that Radis managed were learning how to get along with humans.

Especially the elves, who had originally been excellent at getting along with humans, were a great help.

They were also excellent at growing crops, and were even managing several farms.

However, there were some problems with communication.

Akut spoke calmly.

“It is a morning filled with red fruit created by warm sunlight and the fragrant morning dew that moistened it. And the moment Lady Radis said it was a good morning, I realized that all of it was good.”

Radis opened her mouth slightly and then closed it.

‘I shouldn’t have asked Teacher Daniel to educate the elves…’

Before being tainted by magic, elves were originally beings close to spirits and seemed to have very rich sensitivity.

The elves also had voices as beautiful as birds, so when they spoke in Elvish, it sounded like beautiful songs.

Moved by those songs, Radis’s teacher Daniel said this:

‘Aren’t you curious about what they’re saying? I want to have conversations with them. Let me try teaching them Imperial language.’

As a result of mixing the elves’ rich sensitivity with Daniel’s Imperial language education, a terrible hybrid… no, countless bards were born.

Radis smiled awkwardly and said.

“I… see. I’m glad it’s good. Well, I’m busy so I’ll be going…”

Akut stopped Radis as she tried to leave.

“Lady Radis, are you perhaps going to see Lord Ban?”

“Ah, that’s right.”

Akut held out one sack of cherries.

“This is both the fruit grown by our brothers who took root in the earth and the pinnacle of time. I have no doubt it will be able to make Lord Ban happy.”

“…You mean Ban will like it? Alright. I’ll take it to him.”

Radis quickly grabbed the cherry sack before Akut could blink his beautiful eyes and compose a poem thanking her for her hard work.

And she ran away like an arrow.

Going down the stairs, Radis encountered Berry and Alice.

The estate’s maids, who had seemed like mere girls, had now grown into proper young ladies.

However, in Radis’s eyes, they still looked like little girls.

Radis gave them each a handful of cherries and greeted them.

“Berry, Alice. Good morning!”

Berry quickly responded.

“Lady Radis, have a good day…!”

Alice also responded with a gentle smile.

“Lady Radis, take care.”

On the ring finger of Alice’s left hand, who was waving at Radis with a clear face without a shadow of worry, was an engagement ring.

Alice had recently gotten engaged to a young man from a knight family through her aunt’s introduction, and she said that although he looked blunt on the outside, he had a very warm heart.

Leaving the Ducal Mansion, Radis headed toward a forest not far from the mansion.

That forest belonged to the Russel family, and because public access had been prohibited for a long time, there wasn’t even a proper path.

Surprisingly, in that secret forest was a gate connected to the Gloria Marquis Mansion.

To be precise, it was connected to the Forbidden Zone, and had been created by Berard Russel in the past.

Berard Russel had created this gate so his descendants could safely reach the Forbidden Zone.

However, a very long time ago, an earthquake destroyed the underground passage and the spell lost its function.

After that, the Russel family members used the underground passage with the spell carved into it as a simple path.

The underground passage that Radis had used to go to the Forbidden Zone was exactly that.

It was Ban, the new Chronos, who restored the broken gate.

It was something Ban had done for her after learning that Radis was staying at the Ducal Mansion.

The restored gate was in the form of a door in the trunk of a giant ancient tree.

On both sides of the door, golems formed by intertwined tree trunks were guarding the door.

The golems, sensing a presence, slowly opened their eyes and looked at her.

It was a mystical sight.

Radis cleared her throat and said.

“It’s me.”

At her words, the golems made creaking sounds as they stretched out their arms to open the door for her.

It was clearly a door in a tree trunk, but the scenery inside the door was a blindingly beautiful forest.

Radis passed through the door without hesitation and stepped into the forest on the other side.

The door closed behind her.

She looked around with fresh eyes.

“Really, the Forbidden Zone has changed tremendously too.”

In the Forbidden Zone now, you couldn’t find any trace of magic even if you searched with your eyes wide open.

What filled the Forbidden Zone instead of the toxic magic was clear air rich with magical power.

It was refreshing and sweet, like the fragrance you could smell when putting your nose to a freshly opened bottle of apple wine.

It was thanks to Ban.

From the moment a master with complete power was born in the Monster Forest that had remained contaminated with magic, the forest began to be purified.

Although monsters tainted with magic still remained on the opposite side of the forest, when Ban grew more, they would naturally lose their power.

Radis walked on the ivory-white roots of the World Tree.

Below the roots she walked on was an area where young monsters lived under protection.

Recently, perhaps because it was the werewolves’ breeding season, many young wolves could be seen.

Below the white roots, in every spot where sunlight shone well, young wolves were curled up in circles, sleeping soundly without a care in the world.

Water also flowed below the roots.

In the water so clear you could see through it, young river mermaids and undines were dancing together.

At the center of that beautiful forest was the Gloria Marquis Mansion.

Radis climbed the beautiful stairs made of the World Tree’s roots.

Passing through the entrance made of intertwined roots, an artificial garden created by the dryads, forest spirits, for Ban was revealed.

On the ground, instead of grass, soft and fluffy moss was spread like a carpet.

That moss was brought from the dryads’ domain, and at night it emitted a faint light, illuminating the entire mansion.

Not only that, it also generated abundant magical power, supplying magic to the monsters inside the mansion.

The dryads had decorated the garden by bringing all sorts of mysterious plants that grew only in their domain, in addition to the moss.

From eternally fragrant wisteria to trees inhabited by spirits, to flowers that shone more brilliantly than chandeliers.

Meanwhile, the undines, who were water spirits, had created ponds however they pleased, and they were so whimsical that some had water columns stretching endlessly upward while others floated in mid-air.

Radis was beyond amazed and almost bewildered by the estate’s changing appearance each time she visited, but now she had come to accept it.

She passed through the foyer carved directly from gem-studded rock and entered the estate.

Lord Russel’s estate was so magnificent that even the Emperor’s castle probably couldn’t compare.

Every brick, pillar, and stone slab beneath her feet was decorative without exception.

All of it had been crafted with blood, sweat, and tears by dwarven craftsmen to satisfy Ban’s exacting tastes, which never let anything slide.

Radis passed through corridors filled with luxurious decorations offered by the dwarves and stood before a massive door.

The enormous door carved from white marble, which an ordinary person wouldn’t even think to open, had the image of a gigantic wolf-like monster engraved on it.

Radis opened the door and called the name of the room’s owner.

“Ban!”

In the banquet hall-sized room, a nest-like bed filled one entire wall.

On the bed lay Fenrir, a gigantic wolf-like monster identical to the one carved on the door, snoring like thunder.

“Ban?”

Radis approached Ban stealthily and looked up at him with enchanted eyes.

Ban was sleeping deeply with his body curled halfway into a ball.

His nose was as big as a large pumpkin, and despite his massive size, it had a slight pink tinge mixed with black due to his young age.

Radis carefully reached out her hand and gently stroked that enormous nose.

His nose, dried from sleep, was warm and squishy.

Radis screamed internally.

‘So cute…!’

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