The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 39

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 39

She felt chills run down her spine.

Radis unconsciously took a step back.

Monster eggs, naturally, give birth to monsters.

Moreover, just by looking at the appearance of these eggs, there was no way to guess what would be born from them.

Something truly horrific might emerge.

Any sane person would never even touch such things.

Furthermore, monster eggs attract monsters.

Radis realized what Gors’s method had been.

He had used monster eggs stolen from the Monster Forest to lure monsters.

That way, he threatened the Pioneer Settlement and received payment for hunting the monsters.

“What is this one?”

An egg emitting light.

The eggshell was a bright ivory color.

Faint patterns were carved across the entire egg as if it were cracked, and a gentle light was seeping through.

The light changed to various colors over time, making it impossible to define what color it actually was.

Radis had seen monster eggs several times before, but this was the first time she had seen one that glowed like this.

This one looked suspicious just by looking at it.

Just then, sounds came from outside the door.

“You said let’s drink heavily, but how can we do that without bringing money? You stupid bastard!”

“It’s because you talked about spiders!”

Sp-spiders! Uhehheueueu!”

“Ehhhhhh… Huh? Why is the handle like this?”

Luke pulled open the door with the broken handle.

Inside the room stood a stranger.

It was a red-haired youth wearing a short cloak.

‘No, a woman?’

Due to the clothing and the dirty iron club stuck in the belt, at first glance it looked like a man, but looking at the face, it was definitely a woman.

And one he had met before.

Luke shouted.

“The auction house!”

“How did you know about this place…!”

Radis turned her head to look at Gors and Luke and spoke.

“I came to ask you something.”

“…!”

“First. Have you ever killed anyone doing this stuff?”

Gors and Luke stared at Radis with confused faces, their mouths hanging open.

“Second. Monster eggs are in the Forbidden Zone, so how did pathetic guys like you get there?”

Radis picked up the glowing egg from inside the chest.

“Lastly, what is this?”

Luke, who had been standing there with a blank face for a moment, was startled and drew a sharp blade while shouting.

“Is that bastard crazy and wants to die? Put that down!”

Gors, who had been quiet until now, stepped forward and spoke.

“Hey you! Don’t think we’ll go easy on you just because you’re from the Countess’ Mansion. I don’t know what you’re relying on to come here alone, but if you put that down quietly, we’ll at least spare your life!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Gors reached out toward Radis.

He seemed to be thinking of grabbing her hair, but to Radis, it was just laughable.

Radis easily avoided that hand and tried to grab Gors’s hair… but unfortunately, there wasn’t even a single strand of fuzz on Gors’s shiny bald head.

Instead, Radis grabbed Gors’s handful of chin whiskers and asked.

“You’d better think carefully. Will you just talk, or talk after getting beaten?”

Gors, whose chin whiskers were grabbed, staggered and clenched his fist while shouting indignantly.

“You bitch!”

Radis sighed.

“Alright, let’s start with a beating first.”

In her previous life, the status of the Imperial Monster Hunting Corps gradually rose thanks to Robert and Radis’s achievements, but it wasn’t like that in the beginning.

There weren’t many cases like Radis who volunteered to join the Extermination Corps.

The Imperial Monster Hunting Corps had more people sent to die than volunteers.

Thierry killed a high-ranking opponent in a duel, and Tess was caught smuggling, wasn’t it?

Laszlo was a guy who was dragged in for thievery.

There was only one way to discipline such a ragtag bunch.

Knock, and it shall be opened.

If it still doesn’t open, keep knocking.

Until it opens.

But if they die from the beating, all the hard work of beating them becomes meaningless.

So make sure their skull doesn’t crack and brain matter doesn’t flow out, their eyeballs don’t roll back, or their tongue doesn’t turn purple.

If something breaks badly, it takes forever to heal, so don’t break any bones.

With a moderate attitude, without leaning to any one side, if you beat them thoroughly and sincerely across their entire body, something will eventually open.

Radis beat them that way today too, and the first thing to open was Luke’s mouth.

“Kueeeng! We, we didn’t kill anyone…!”

Next, Gors’s mouth opened.

“Kheup! We, we accidentally discovered some passage. Kheung! It, it was connected to the inside of the Monster Forest!”

Gors’s face was swollen to twice its size, and tears were trickling from his eyes that were so swollen you couldn’t tell if they were closed or just puffy.

“A passage?”

“Kkeheup! We, we went into the forest through the passage a few times. Since there were eggs, we brought them and sold them, and that made money…”

“You entered the Forbidden Zone because it made money? You’ve got some nerve.”

“Once we accidentally broke one and monsters chased after it… We knew it was wrong but…!”

Radis looked down at the wretched Gors and Luke and let out a short sigh.

Even knowing it was wrong, these guys would diligently repeat that behavior.

Until the day when their methods were exposed, they became wanted criminals, and were caught by bounty hunters to be executed.

‘People don’t change easily… Should I just execute them immediately?’

Perhaps reading the killing intent in Radis’s gaze.

Luke shouted.

“We’re sorry! We won’t do it again! We’ll become your hands and feet…!”

Radis looked at Luke who was desperately begging to ‘become hands and feet,’ then turned her gaze toward the glowing egg.

Gors said.

“Th-that’s something we brought recently! We just thought it looked interesting and might be worth money!”

“So if it makes money, you’ll go to the Forbidden Zone, do things you shouldn’t do, and pick up things like this? Hah…”

Radis rested her chin on her hand and fell into thought.

It didn’t seem like Gors and Luke were lying.

‘There’s a passage leading to the Forbidden Zone?’

This was news to her.

Although she prided herself on knowing every corner of the Monster Forest, she had never heard of such a passage’s existence.

However, if such a path didn’t exist, there would be no way for these two pathetic guys to penetrate the dangerous Monster Forest and reach the Forbidden Zone to bring back eggs.

‘I wouldn’t be confident going to the Forbidden Zone alone either.’

Radis, who had been looking back and forth between the two criminals and the glowing egg, made her decision.

She spoke.

“Lead the way.”

The place where the completely deflated Gors and Luke headed was a forest not far from the Headquarters of the Royal Snake Mercenary Corps.

Of course, it wasn’t the Monster Forest.

Walking through the deserted forest, Radis said.

“If you try any funny business, I won’t let it slide.”

“It’s a secret passage! It’s real!”

Luke, holding a torch, jumped up and down.

Gors, who had been walking ahead carrying the crate with the egg, opened his mouth.

“It was more than ten years ago. Back then, even this area had low-level monsters roaming around commonly, so this forest was very rarely visited by people. We were hiding near here trying to catch some wild animals. That’s when people in armor passed through this path. Not just one or two people, but a great many.”

Luke, who had been walking through the thick undergrowth, cleared away vines between two tall trees.

Then a small clearing was revealed, and across it, a not-so-high rocky cliff could be seen.

Between those rocks, a narrow cave entrance that seemed to have formed from ground collapse was visible.

Gors said.

“Those people left their horses and went inside there.”

“We hid and watched what would happen from here.”

Gors gulped.

“But the people who entered the cave didn’t return. No, they did return. Only two people came back. A person in a black cloak came out with a child.”

“A child?”

“Yes, but the rest of the people never returned. Out of curiosity, we went inside. And we were shocked.”

Luke illuminated the inside of the cave with his torch.

Radis, who stepped into the cave, was also shocked.

The inside of the cave was a long corridor covered with square bricks.

The right side was completely blocked by collapsed stones, but the corridor extending toward the Monster Forest was so long that its end couldn’t be seen.

“This leads all the way to the Forbidden Zone?”

“Yes!”

“That’s right!”

Gors set down the crate with the egg with a thud and smiled obsequiously.

“Then we’ll go this far…!”

Radis quickly reached out and grabbed Luke’s cloak hood as he was about to flee.

“I told you I wouldn’t let it slide if you tried any tricks.”

Gors shouted with a terrified face.

“Oh no, we’re not trying any tricks! The corridor is long but it’s a straight path, so you just keep going. The end is the Forbidden Zone! There’s nothing to guide you through!”

“Since you brought the egg, you should be the ones to return it.”

Radis drew her iron club from her belt and waved it threateningly.

“Huuung!”

Luke, who had been beaten with that iron club, convulsed and shouted.

“Gors! Gors! Let’s go!”

Gors seemed to be muttering curses under his breath, but as if he had no choice, he shouldered the crate again.

After that, they walked through the dark corridor.

It was just walking, but it was quite an ordeal.

The corridor was well-finished with bricks, but the air was stagnant, and it was so moldy and humid that their throats stung.

If not for the several torches Luke had brought, it would have been truly miserable.

‘I can’t believe there was such a passage.’

Radis carefully observed the corridor.

The corridor seemed to have been built very long ago, as there were sections in the middle where groundwater had invaded and turned into marsh-like areas, and places where tree roots had penetrated and walls had crumbled.

However, such places were only a small part, with most of it well preserved.

Radis thought that perhaps it might be due to ancient magic.

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