The Snow Leopard Baby of the Black Leopard Family - Chapter 208

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Episode 208
“I’m not entirely sure, but the longer the better.”
Tiel said.
Iandros watched Rowen. She was no longer in her right mind. It would be difficult to subdue her without causing injury.
However, if it was merely a matter of confinement, Iandros could lock her away in the Subspace.
‘But that power.’
That power resembled what the princess of Crathion had wielded, and it was identical to the power that had attacked Tiel.
‘There is only one power capable of striking back against Lucette’s strength.’
The power of the Evil God Orpheo.
So while he didn’t know how Rowen had obtained ‘that power,’ the force she was currently using was most likely Orpheo’s strength.
The way she had deflected Tiel’s Ability was nearly conclusive proof.
And if it truly was Orpheo’s power, then Iandros could not drag Rowen into his Subspace.
Iandros’s Subspace was a realm of absolute darkness without light. The moment she entered, Orpheo would grow far stronger.
Therefore, imprisoning Rowen in Iandros’s Subspace was impossible.
What about Cassius? Iandros rolled his eyes toward him.
“Tiel, remember this well. If it becomes dangerous, escape at once.”
Cassius grasped Tiel’s shoulder and spoke. He looked every inch the worried father cautioning his young daughter.
Tiel had turned twenty-two now, and twenty-two was hardly young, yet Cassius still treated her like a girl of twelve.
Tiel understood well that her father treated her this way because he cherished her deeply, so she did not protest his concern.
“Yes, don’t worry!”
“And you.”
Cassius looked down at Tiel’s feet. Tiel followed his gaze downward. There, Cassius’s Salamander tilted its head with an oblivious expression.
The Salamander was one Cassius had created long ago to protect Tiel.
Somehow it had developed a sense of self, becoming more like a pet than a “tool” for protection, yet the power Cassius had breathed into it at the moment of its creation still lived within it.
“Guard her properly. I don’t understand why something like this was ever made.”
At Cassius’s rebuke, the dispirited Salamander shrank behind Tiel’s dress. Tiel laughed sheepishly and lifted the creature in both hands, cradling it against her chest.
“Don’t scold it—it’s a good friend!”
“I didn’t create a friend for you. I created a tool to protect you, but…….”
As Cassius and Tiel exchanged words, darker tendrils gathered more fiercely around Rowen.
“Go now, Tiel. Remember what your father told you.”
Cassius gave Tiel’s back a light push and unleashed his Ability.
Within Cassius’s massive hand, the Asterian Flame roared to life.
Whoosh!
The fire erupted enormously, creating a vast wall of flame. The barrier engulfed Rowen in an instant.
“Ahhhhh! It’s h-hot!”
“You’ll have to bear it. You brought this on yourself, after all.”
Cassius spoke without concern. The barrier towered like a pillar of fire—so tall and solid that Rowen could never break through it with her own strength alone.
As Cassius seized Rowen’s ankle, Tiel dashed past her and bolted into the Temple.
“Come on!”
Ferdi and Iandros escorted Tiel as she ran into the Temple with them.
Roughly twenty Temple priests and holy knights lay sprawled in disarray. Several among them lay motionless, as if already dead.
“Are they already dead?”
Ferdi crouched down and felt for their pulse. There was none.
Tiel, too, checked another’s pulse and her expression darkened. This man was also dead!
Tiel steadied herself and examined their condition more carefully.
‘My suspicion was right.’
Their symptoms bore a striking resemblance to what the Beast-kin of Arcadia had suffered.
If anything differed, it was only that the progression was far more rapid than before.
‘There’s no time to waste now!’
Meanwhile, outside, Cassius’s flames burned with ever-greater intensity.
The Asterian Flame did not harm those carrying Asterian blood, so neither Tiel nor Ferdi felt any heat from the raging inferno outside.
Iandros, however, seemed somewhat warm—his cheeks were flushed.
Tiel glanced at the situation outside once, then spoke to Iandros and Ferdi.
“Can you gather all these people in one place?”
“In one place?”
“Yes. If I group them together and use my Ability, it might be more effective.”
“That’s not impossible.”
Ferdi flicked his hand and massive pillars of flame erupted from the ground in various places.
Thinner than Cassius’s pillars, but thick and powerful nonetheless. Ferdi swept his arm outward.
The pillars transformed into hook-shapes and seized the holy knights one by one, hurling them all to a single spot.
Piled like cargo, though this was no time to worry about such things.
Ferdi’s pillars grasped the priests and knights without burning their skin, gathering them in one place and depositing them there.
This was possible because Ferdi harbored no desire to harm them as he wielded his Ability.
‘It would have been impossible in the past.’
The younger version of himself before meeting Tiel could never have imagined such feats.
Yet Ferdi had grown remarkably since then, and now such things were within his grasp even with his eyes closed.
While Ferdi gathered them, Tiel prepared to use her Ability.
‘Please, please!’
Tiel silently cried out as she clasped her hands together.
She had gone over the memory of restoring light to Arcadia countless times in her mind.
She needed to remember that sensation. Tiel had solved such a problem once before. There was no reason she should fail now…….
A soft glow kindled between Tiel’s hands. Ferdi carefully stacked the priests and knights before her.
Light bloomed in Tiel’s hands as golden threads of radiance enveloped her. A breeze stirred from somewhere, gently brushing against her white hair.
“Tiel, hurry now.”
Ferdi turned toward the entrance and spoke. Tiel also glanced toward it.
A far more violent inferno was rising now, and the flames were not from a single person.
“Grandfather?”
Alpheus had stepped forward and unleashed his Ability as well.
Alpheus was the black leopard who had led Asterian, the strongest Beast-kin clan, and save for Tiel’s Ability, he possessed the strongest Ability among all the Beast-kin—it was hardly an exaggeration to say so.
For both Cassius and Alpheus to be using their Abilities? Tiel sensed that the situation outside was growing grave.
“Yes!”
Tiel answered briskly and focused her mind. The sphere expanded further and further.
When the sphere reached a certain size, it stopped expanding. Tiel opened her eyes and gazed upon the “light” she had created.
Because Tiel’s light was made of the warmest thing in the world, one could gaze directly at it without pain or blindness.
Carefully, she hurled that “mass of light” over their heads.
Drift.
The risen light spun in place, illuminating the fallen.
The blackened faces of the fallen priests gleamed beneath the light.
For a moment, the dark “power” covering their faces retreated. Ferdi and Tiel’s expressions brightened.
But.
Slip.
It was only brief. The retreated darkness covered their faces once more. Tiel’s complexion turned ashen.
It was the same as when she had used her Ability on Rowen before. Her Ability was not working. It was a disaster.
‘This Curse is stronger than before.’
Tiel attempted to use her Ability once more, not knowing what else to do, but the result was the same.
In the meantime, one priest’s fingertip crumbled to dust and scattered into fine particles. Ferdi, Iandros, and Tiel watched in shock.
“Didn’t the bodies remain last time?”
Ferdi spoke. He had been present when Tiel resolved the situation in Arcadia, so he knew something of what symptoms the Beast-kin had exhibited then.
But the bodies hadn’t simply ‘vanished’ like this! Tiel rushed over and attempted to use her Ability.
As she concentrated her Ability on him, the dissolution paused temporarily, but Tiel understood.
It was only a temporary measure. It would resume soon. Just as this Curse had deflected Tiel’s Ability!
What would happen if all these bodies began to vanish at once?
Tiel, Iandros, and Ferdi exchanged glances.
And at that very moment.
Boom!
Some colossal force hurtled toward them.

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