The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 356

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Part 2, Chapter 154

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Caliphate.

A beautiful aerial garden that always maintained warm spring air, even at the northernmost tip of the Northern Continent where fierce cold waves and blizzards raged.

Having taken the proper test and become a member of the Rogues, I was the fourth person who could enter and leave the Caliphate without separate procedures, and also the only person who could set foot in Lord Caleph’s personal space.

“Hello, Urdr.”

At my light greeting, Kalerpa, who had been sitting by the window writing something, looked back at me.

Soon, surprise appeared in the gaze that had been quietly observing me. He approached with unusually hurried steps, examined my features carefully, then gave me a light embrace.

“You’ve finally returned.”

“Did it take a bit long?”

“It doesn’t matter, we have plenty of time. We all believed you would come back.”

Urdr’s answer brought me a long-awaited sense of peace after crossing continent after continent without rest.

These were people who would always be in the same place with the same faces whenever I came to visit. The fact that no explanation or persuasion was needed was truly comforting.

Urdr, who had lightly patted my shoulder, suddenly bent one knee and bowed his head. It was a surprisingly humble greeting.

“Let me take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude. Thank you for willingly sacrificing yourself for Lord Caleph, Daisy. He is the light of our Rogues. Without you, the Northern Continent would have fallen into great chaos.”

I smiled bitterly.

“Didn’t you hear the story? I didn’t sacrifice myself for Lu. If anything, Lu sacrificed himself for me.”

“I knew you would say that.”

As if it didn’t matter how I interpreted it, Urdr stood up, brushing off his clothes, and smiled faintly. I carefully asked him.

“If I was lying in that house for 6 years… where did Lu go?”

“He is not here.”

“Not here either?”

Instead of answering, Urdr carefully organized the documents he had been looking at, then picked up a mysterious clamp from the display case. Then he moved toward the corridor and gestured for me to follow.

I wanted to press him about where Lu had gone since everything was settled, but I decided to calm my mind.

Just because it was delayed a bit didn’t mean Lu would run away… Had he already run away? In any case, I knew that trying to understand all of the past 6 years at once wasn’t a very wise action.

“How is Skuld? I heard it was quite dangerous dealing with Rien.”

“We’re actually on our way to see him now.”

In the room we arrived at shortly after, Skuld was sleeping. And.

‘His arm…’

One arm was missing.

I quietly looked around the strangely quiet interior. A space filled with unfaded lilies, where the distant floral scent scattered through my mind.

Skuld sleeping soundlessly in the center. The lost arm. His appearance unchanged from 6 years ago except for the arm. Even Urdr, standing far from the bed with a somehow nostalgic expression.

Goosebumps suddenly rose on my back at the unnaturally feeling combination.

No way.

“No way, is Skuld…?”

“He’s sleeping soundly. He stayed up all night for ten days devoted to research and has been sleeping like the dead for three days.”

Oh, I see…

“Even if Lord Caleph came, he probably wouldn’t wake up. We should be thankful he’s not snoring.”

“…The arm?”

“It was cut by the flames of disaster, so revival was impossible. He recklessly tried to control Rien, so it’s his own doing.”

Tsk. Urdr clicked his tongue coldly and brought two chairs from near the wall to place by the bedside.

“You returned at perfect timing. Thanks to this guy falling into a deep sleep, we can peek into Skuld’s memories without annoying interference.”

Peek into his memories?

Urdr placed the mysterious clamps he had brought on my head and Skuld’s head, then waved his hand in front of Skuld’s tightly closed eyes and nodded.

“Sleep is the ultimate state of being off guard. When the opponent has completely lowered their guard, you can peek into clean memories without any distortion. Such opportunities are rare, so close your eyes, Daisy.”

Then he also clipped a clamp onto his own head.

From the general atmosphere, it seemed like he was going to show me Lu’s movements through Skuld’s memories. But why did Urdr seem more excited about it?

“Are you watching together too, Urdr?”

“There’s a scene I really want to see.”

As if counting numbers, Urdr closed his eyes and frowned deeply, then suddenly stopped breathing.

“Here. From here.”

I also hurriedly closed my eyes, afraid of missing it.

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I had become Skuld.

This sensation was… yes, it was similar to the feeling when I was caught by Rien’s mental magic inside the Wall of Fire.

I was clearly aware that I was Daisy, but Skuld’s thoughts dominated my mind with “Long live Caliphate, long live, long long live,” huh.

“What on earth is happening…”

I was out of breath.

Since Skuld had a strong brain but a less sturdy body, just running without rest after stopping the airship near Trash Hill was enough to make his mind completely hazy.

He continued walking with his eyes unable to open against the relentless wind, no, the typhoon.

“Poisoned thorns and ice shards… Death from just a graze. Ordinary people couldn’t even set foot nearby.”

Lord Caleph is inside there.

‘Huh? How did that happen?’

It wasn’t surprising since Lord Caleph was someone who had crossed the fifth wall that had only existed in theory. But it was also unbelievable that Spolia, who had exhausted most of her power protecting Sier Gat, could use magic of this scale.

She was indeed a demigod who had lived for over a hundred years. However, I couldn’t understand at all why Spolia had come to confront Lord Caleph…

‘Wasn’t she in seclusion?’

Skuld endured the fiercely blowing sandstorm and stepped further inside.

This was the Land of Death. Skuld believed that the source of this calamity, not disaster, would exist at Daisy’s villa.

“Whew…”

Today marked ten days since Daisy’s heart had stopped.

The three members of Caliphate, including Skuld, couldn’t believe the corpse that had suddenly appeared lying on the bed.

She had been both disciple and teacher… Like time had stopped, she was the only ray of sunlight that had shone on the sacred ground of Caliphate, which had been frozen solid for decades.

They say a fiercely burning fire dies out early. Her determination to give her life without hesitation for Lord Caleph was both admirable and pitiful.

And surprisingly, Lord Caleph had naturally accepted her death.

“You look like you’re going to hold a funeral. Don’t make a fuss and wait, she will return to me soon.”

They believed there was a deep meaning they didn’t know in that short statement like an incantation. Their minds were at ease.

But even such Lord Caleph became more anxious as time passed. Surely something had gone wrong…

“Ugh.”

Suddenly, a powerful current broke through Skuld’s barrier and grazed his waist.

As he continued walking while stopping the bleeding from his wound, he saw two opposing forces standing above the villa that had become ruins.

Skuld tried to kneel to bow to Lord Caleph, but quickly came to his senses and hurriedly entered the building.

The interior was naturally a mess as well.

Skuld hurriedly checked Daisy’s condition and breathed a sigh of relief at the still-present warmth, but feeling the earth shaking unstably, he shouted loudly.

“Lord Caleph! You must stop! At this rate, the building will…”

Crack. At the ominous sound, he swallowed dry saliva and shouted through gritted teeth.

“What exactly are you so anxious about? This is not like you, Lord Caleph! Please exercise restraint. Have you truly given up on Daisy?”

At that moment, time stopped.

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