The Snow Leopard Baby of the Black Leopard Family - Chapter 225

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Episode 225
Tiel watched Rowen’s body rise gently into the air. Black smoke curled around her, wrapping her pale forearms and ashen face.
Tiel didn’t like Rowen. But that was beside the point! She couldn’t leave her like this.
‘Rowen has to be there for this plan to work,’ she’d been told.
In other words, the moment Rowen entered that space, Orpheo’s plan would come to fruition.
Tiel’s eyes widened and she thrust her hand forward. A fish-shaped projection burst from her palm, shooting toward Rowen.
But Tiel’s projection never reached her. The black smoke rising around Rowen blocked the attack completely.
Boom!
Tiel’s power collided head-on with the Dark Power, and an explosion rocked the air. Tiel flinched in shock, instinctively raising her forearm to shield her face.
“A futile gesture.”
Je spoke. Rowen remained suspended in the air, and the Arcadia Beastkin watched Tiel without moving.
A single command from Je would send them all rushing at Tiel at once.
Then they would have to choose: protect Tiel, or protect the Arcadia Beastkin.
Tiel couldn’t move rashly. Je merely smiled at his ease, as if to say that as long as they didn’t stir from where they stood, he had no intention of attacking.
Tiel called out to Je.
“The Imperial Knights and the Arcadia knighthood have surrounded this hill! You’ll be captured soon! So stop wasting your energy and put her down!”
“It’s not I who am wasting energy, but rather His Majesty’s knights,” Je said with mockery in his tone. Iandros’s brow furrowed deeply. He snapped his fingers.
Iandros’s brow furrowed deeply. He snapped his fingers.
“When this matter is concluded, the Imperial Palace’s knights will vanish without a trace.”
Je spoke with absolute confidence. Tiel couldn’t comprehend it. The Imperial Knights vanishing without a trace?
But Tiel soon understood what Je meant. Orpheo’s plan was to draw the entire world into the Princess’s Subspace.
If that happened, the Princess would become the master of the world, and Orpheo—who controlled the Princess—would rule all. The master of a Subspace could manipulate and erase anything within it at will. If this entire place became the Princess’s Subspace, the Imperial Knights would disappear without a soul knowing it.
She couldn’t allow that. But how? Everything went dark. She saw no way out of this situation.
Just then, Cassius, assessing his remaining strength, looked at Rowen hovering in the void and spoke.
“It seems your power isn’t working because of the Dark Power surrounding Rowen Nestian. If you could get close and channel a stronger force into her, could you dispel it?”
At Cassius’s question, Tiel shifted her gaze to Rowen. She was rising higher and higher toward the sky, and as she did, the Dark Power enveloping her grew denser.
Tiel looked at Cassius.
“I’m not sure, but I can’t do nothing. Can you clear a path for me to reach Rowen? Then I’ll give it a try!”
Tiel spoke with determination. Cassius gazed into his daughter’s gleaming golden eyes.
His little girl had never known how to say she couldn’t do something—not even when she was tiny.
She always charged forward, and if something didn’t work, she charged again until it did. That quality of hers resembled nothing so much as her mother, Rena Nestian, Cassius’s wife.
Cassius smiled gently.
“Very well. But I won’t be able to hold it long. You must finish quickly, Tiel. Your Highness, please guard her.”
Cassius turned to confirm, with a glance, the Asterian and Imperial knights encircling them from afar.
Ferdi, Ludian, and Olivier would come running at his signal.
He exhaled sharply and conjured a flame in his palm. The brilliant fire blazed to life in Cassius’s large hand.
That flame was not hot at all—not by Cassius’s will. It was fire that would not harm living things.
‘The window I can open is brief.’
Cassius’s Ability was weakening. To restrain so many Beastkin without injury would require an Ability far stronger and vaster than usual, but now that his Ability had grown nearly useless, it was almost impossible.
Yet for just a moment, it was possible. All beasts fear and dread fire.
They too were Beastkin and could not escape their animal nature. When the flame from Asterian blazed up, they would retreat a step.
That moment was his chance.
Cassius signaled to Ferdi and Ludian. The two princes of Asterian gripped their swords and waited for their father’s command.
Cassius slowly placed his hand on Tiel’s back and pushed her forward. Then, lowering his stance, he set fire to the ground.
Whoosh!
A towering wall of flame erupted. It raced across the earth like following a path, shooting straight toward Je.
Just as Cassius predicted, the moment the fire blazed up, the startled Beastkin fell back in disorder. Now! Cassius pushed Tiel forward with all his might.
“Go, Tiel. Go!”
Cassius shouted. The moment his order fell, Tiel and Iandros bolted across the wall of flame Cassius had created.
His flame did not harm Tiel and Iandros, so even with the fire flickering higher than her head, Tiel felt no fear. Their figures vanished into the blaze.
And in that instant, Cassius called to his two sons.
“Ferdi, Ludian!”
Ferdi and Ludian understood their father’s intent and mobilized the Asterian knighthood.
The knights poured forward in moments. Following Cassius’s flame, they formed a single file line, creating a passage. So that Tiel, following the flame, could return through them.
The rest planted their shields in the ground to prevent the Arcadia Beastkin from closing in.
Je’s pupils narrowed in shock.
“Stop them!”
Je cried out. The Arcadia Beastkin moved as one. Like puppets stripped of their will, they hurled themselves at the Asterian knighthood.
But the shields of Asterian were as solid as fortress walls, and the flames wielded by Ferdi and Ludian were fiercer and more savage than their father’s.
Cassius could create flames that harmed no one, but his sons could not.
Because of this, Ferdi and Ludian’s fire burned with savage fury, threatening the Arcadia Beastkin. Some sustained burns in the process.
All innocent Beastkin controlled by Orpheo. Yet they could not stop. They had to suppress them now to prevent greater casualties!
Tiel ran alongside Iandros through the flame. The Beastkin lunging toward them, Iandros struck back with the flat of his blade. He grasped Tiel’s hand to keep her from stumbling.
The problem was seizing Rowen, who hung in the void. Je stretched out his hand to intercept Tiel.
Dark Power surged from Je’s palm. It transformed into a massive hand and shot toward Tiel as if to crush her.
“Tiel!”
Iandros shoved Tiel aside and took the full force of the blow. His blade gleamed brilliant blue. Tiel gasped as she watched Iandros’s back, locked in combat with Je.
“Tiel, step on my knee and jump!”
Iandros called out. Tiel nodded. Iandros swung his sword wide to parry Je’s attacks, offering his thigh for Tiel to step on.
Tiel stepped on Iandros’s thigh and leaped with all her strength. Fortunately, as a carnivorous Beastkin—a Snow Leopard—Tiel could jump exceptionally high.
Leaping high into the air, Tiel caught Rowen. She instinctively wrapped her arms around her.
She had just witnessed her own power rebound before her eyes.
She too might be thrown back. So Tiel held Rowen as tightly as she could, pouring all her Ability into her.
Crash!
A brilliant light exploded in the void. The Dark Power enveloping Rowen convulsed as if in a seizure.

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