The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 41

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 41

“Hahaha, unlucky bitch! Go become monster food!”

Luke’s horrified voice too.

“G-Gors…! Even so, she’s a woman…!”

“I don’t care! This door only opens from the inside. Kuhahaha!”

Radis quickly reached out her hand, but the stone gate had already closed firmly.

“Huh…?”

She felt the back of her head throbbing as she stepped back and looked up at the tightly closed stone gate.

The closed stone gate was like a massive wall.

Gray-brown moss dripping with sticky poison covered the entire stone gate, with vines hanging down over it.

To someone who didn’t know there was a door here, it would just look like a rock wall.

“These bastards?”

Grinding her teeth, Radis drew the rusty sword from her waist.

She tried to push the sword tip between the cracks of the stone gate, but it was hopeless.

The stone gate was so solid that its seams fit together perfectly like a clamshell.

Meanwhile, her sword was a blunt piece of metal covered in rust.

After trying a couple more times, Radis gave up on opening the door.

She struck the stone with her sword repeatedly.

However, the stone gate didn’t budge at all.

“Ha!”

Radis placed her hand on the spot where moss had fallen off from being pounded with the metal chunk.

She gathered mana at her fingertips and tried pushing the stone gate, but there was no response at all.

It felt like pushing the ground.

“This isn’t ordinary stone, is it?”

Though she couldn’t identify it, this stone gate was also part of an ancient magical ruin.

That might be why it couldn’t be broken like ordinary stone.

Examining the stone gate with a troubled expression, Radis discovered something.

“What’s this?”

In the spot where moss had been torn away, she could see what looked like deeply carved marks.

As Radis squinted at it, she was startled by a howl from the distance and looked around.

“Ah, seriously.”

She tore the soft shirt she was wearing underneath and used it to cover her nose and mouth.

Then she gripped the rusty sword tightly, ready to respond to whatever might jump out.

‘This place is truly horrible.’

Radis sighed inwardly.

Of course, most of the Monster Forest was a terrible place, but since monsters were basically living creatures, places excluding the Forbidden Zone were areas where life could survive.

But the Forbidden Zone was different.

As Radis walked through the fog, a pure white silhouette came into view.

Radis stopped walking and stared at it.

‘Mabesu Tree!’

The tree that was the center of the Forbidden Zone and the root of all monsters.

The tree, white as chalk in every part, was strange enough to captivate anyone’s gaze at first sight.

The massive trunk, so large that ten adults with outstretched arms couldn’t wrap around it, seemed to float in mid-air.

But if you looked carefully, countless thin roots extended down from the floating trunk to support it.

The characteristic of the Mabesu Tree was its roots floating in the air, just like mangroves growing in mud.

‘Ugh, so toxic.’

Her eyes stung from the intense demonic energy emanating from the Mabesu Tree.

Radis squinted as she set the crate down on the ground.

Monsters lay their eggs near the roots of the Mabesu Tree.

Though it might seem like abandoning the eggs, monster eggs grow by receiving energy from the Mabesu Tree’s roots instead of warmth from their mother’s embrace.

They were truly disgusting creatures.

“Hah…”

Under the cloth covering her mouth, Radis sighed.

She hadn’t come to return the eggs out of goodwill toward the monsters.

As she had said, she came to make Gors solve what Gors had done with his own hands.

But instead of reflecting, Gors had trapped her in return.

‘Bad bastard.’

The back of her head still throbbed.

But what was strange was that rather than being angry at Gors, she felt pathetic for not noticing it.

‘I’m still bound by the past.’

That realization dampened her mood.

“I guess this means I should stop thinking about what’s already passed. Let me think of getting hit on the back of the head as a wake-up call…”

Radis pulled herself together like that.

She decided to scatter the eggs roughly near the Mabesu Tree, then return to the stone gate to find a way to open it.

‘What if the door absolutely won’t open?’

If she was determined to break it, it might open, but if the door broke, monsters could escape through that passage.

‘Then… I’ll have to walk out. I wonder how many days that would take.’

Radis sighed heavily as she rolled fist-sized monster eggs near the roots of the Mabesu Tree.

And just as she was about to pick up a glowing egg.

“…!”

Radis quickly reached her hand above her head.

“Vice-captain…!”

Laszlo, his shoulder soaked in blood, said.

“This is strange. Where did the investigation team go?”

Then Thierry, with bandages wrapped around his head, snapped sharply.

“Don’t you get it?”

“What?”

“We’ve been deceived. This is… a trap!”

Thierry whipped his head around to glare at Tess.

“Tess, where did that note come from?”

Tess muttered with a pale face.

“A soldier from the investigation team delivered it. He said the investigation team had already left for the Forbidden Zone…”

“A soldier? Who?”

“His name was… Fred? I don’t remember the name well, but anyway, he was definitely a soldier from the investigation team. Do you think I’m an idiot? After receiving the note, I immediately checked the temporary lodging where the investigation team was staying, and it was completely empty!”

Meric, who had been silent until now, asked.

“By any chance, Alfred? That kid who’s supposedly from a branch family of the Rodrick Family?”

“…!”

“…”

When the name of the Rodrick Family came up, Radis clenched her teeth so hard that her molars made a grinding sound.

Among them, there was no one who didn’t know that the Rodrick Family interfered with Robert’s path at every turn.

But could they really cause something like this just because Robert was illegitimate and therefore envied?

It would be impossible unless they had incredible audacity.

‘No, that’s not a judgment I can make. I need to focus on this current situation.’

Radis looked around.

She had led her members into the Forbidden Zone to find traces of the Imperial Investigation Team.

They had come all the way to near the Mabesu Tree, which they had heard was the Imperial Investigation Team’s final destination, but they couldn’t find any traces of the investigation team.

During the journey here, more than half of her members had suffered major and minor injuries.

Moreover, ahead was the forbidden zone within the Forbidden Zone—the domain of the Mabesu Tree.

Radis made her decision.

“We’re stopping the pursuit. We’re withdrawing!”

At that moment.

Suddenly, Laszlo’s body floated up into the air.

“Ahhh!”

From the trunk of the Mabesu Tree, countless branches stretched out, casting spider web-like shadows in the mist.

That’s why she didn’t know.

That there were real spider webs hidden among those shadows.

‘Just like that time!’

Radis grabbed the spider web that was descending toward her nape.

Whoosh, flames erupted from her hand.

Her hand moved first, and her gaze followed after.

Above her head, in the pure white mist and spider web-like shadows, a thread as thick as a human finger was hanging down.

The thread was rapidly burning from where Radis had grasped it.

A clicking sound came from the air, then the severed thread fell.

Radis looked at the rapidly burning thread with cold eyes.

It was the same spider web that had snatched Laszlo.

“I really am unlucky.”

She meant it sincerely.

How could someone’s luck be this bad?

There were countless monsters guarding the Mabesu Tree.

Elves who used the power of spirits, centaurs who shot arrows with tremendous strength, even undying golems.

However, among all those monsters, the most dangerous one was undoubtedly this Arachne.

Radis raised her head to look above.

In the suffocatingly thick white mist, there was a black shadow.

“You, you’re the one who killed our members…!”

The faces of her dying comrades flashed like lightning.

At that moment, Radis was overwhelmed by uncontrollable rage.

It wasn’t something she could overcome even after dying once and getting a second chance at life.

How much time had she spent reliving that day, blaming herself in her heart?

She blamed her own foolishness for not noticing the trap, and trembled with rage at her own powerlessness as she remembered her dying comrades.

After her second life began, she had countless times comforted herself, telling the sixteen-year-old Radis that it hadn’t happened, no, that it would never happen.

She had consciously tried not to think about it at all.

Until she came to the Forbidden Zone and met the Arachne.

Her grip tightened on the rusty sword.

No, it seemed mana had entered it as well.

She could feel through her grip that the mana-infused sword was trembling faintly.

Swoosh!

The sound of stagnant air being torn came from within the mist.

It was the Arachne’s spider web.

Its speed was like an arrow, its strength no different from steel, and its flexibility surpassed even a whip.

On top of that, once caught by it, the adhesiveness made it impossible to break free.

How many comrades had she lost to these spider webs in the past…!

‘But now it’s different!’

Radis poured all the mana she had into the rusty sword.

Sparks flew visibly from the surface of the sword covered in chunks of rust.

It was a violent method, but she had no choice.

It was something she had learned from the life-and-death struggle of her past life.

Fire was the perfect remedy for spider webs.

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