The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 163
Chapter 163
Translator: Yonnee
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Radis recalled that day when Franz Roderick had bought the 1.1 billion rupen sword.
He’s not someone she was particularly fond of, but it’s still a fact that she felt sympathetic pain when he had suffered such terrible financial damage.
Robert studied Radis’s reaction before speaking again.
“Don’t worry. Heron took that sword, and seeing how much he likes it, it seems to have been well-worth 1.1 billion rupens. He talks to it every day with a lot of affection, but with that much sincerity, I think the sword just might answer him someday.”
As Robert back-handedly insulted his brother but packaged it like a joke, Radis laughed.
In any case, she stood up and brushed herself off.
“That’s interesting to hear indeed, but it isn’t as great of a sword as this one right here. It’s supposed to be such a great sword that can choose its own master, why didn’t it come to me?”
Robert stared at her for a second.
“That’s certainly the case, isn’t it?”
“……?”
“Radis, you have no idea just how amazing you are.”
At Robert’s compliment, Radis’s expression turned into a look of incredulity that’s much like the one he had right now.
“Captain…?”
“……”
“Right now, are you really saying that I’m amazing?”
Her words prompted Robert’s cheeks to blush bright red.
Watching him hurriedly walking away to hide his red face, Radis covered her mouth with one hand.
‘Our Captain has changed…”
Radis forgot the burning pain in the middle of her palm and quickly followed after him, chattering excitedly.
“Captain, you’re a little different from before. You crack jokes now, and you even give compliments.”
“…I won’t do it again.”
Radis rushed in front of Robert, who soon turned around. She smiled brightly.
“I like it though.”
“……”
Robert looked away, his lips pursed heavily.
With his head turned to the other side, he murmured.
“…No matter how much I’ve changed, it’s not as much as you have.”
As Radis was walking ahead of him before he murmured, she didn’t catch what he said just now so she looked behind her.
“What did you say, Captain?”
“……”
Wondering if she just heard him wrong, she shrugged and just faced forward again.
“Now that I look at it, Captain, it seems like there are golems buried here and there. I don’t think we can step over the area around the roots of the tree.”
“……”
“So let’s walk over the roots instead to reach the center.”
They approached the gigantic trunk by way of the Underworld Tree’s resilient roots.
As they got closer to the center of the forbidden region, the number of unmoving golems crouching in the mud floor under the roots increased.
Of the golems, mud golems were the lowest and most common of their kind. On the other hand, the stone golems were higher-ranked, and Radis could see a few here and there now.
In this situation where she couldn’t even use her sword properly, he didn’t want to deal with higher-ranked golems at all. So, Radis walked forward while hiding her presence as best as she could.
But as they reached the front of the trunk, Radis instinctively realized that she would not be able to move forward any further.
And seeing how she halted, Robert stopped as well.
Grabbing Radis by the shoulder, he said,
“Radis, try drawing out your mana.”
Radis did as he said.
Then, she felt something like a wall of miasma surrounding the Underworld Tree’s trunk.
Robert observed the wall.
“It’s a barrier. If we overdo it, we’ll be able to go in, but… I think it’s better that we don’t.”
Pulling out her mana, Radis again looked at the trunk.
It felt familiar.
It felt like the runes of the stone gate from earlier…
“But if we can’t get in there, all our efforts to reach this place won’t mean anything.”
“No, this is enough. I don’t know why and I don’t know how it happened, but the master of the woods seems to have changed.”
“Is it because Arachne is dead?”
“Arachne isn’t the master of the woods.”
Thinking for a moment, Robert continued.
“I also used to think that Arachne is the master of the woods, but after I saw the dragon, I banished the thought. The difference in their power is so evident. Arachne was probably a sentry.”
Robert stared hard at the center of the barrier.
“Maybe this barrier is protecting the birthplace of the master of the woods.”
Radis unconsciously took a step back from the barrier.
“Then shouldn’t we destroy it?”
Examining the light green leaves of the Underworld Tree, which looked like it had just begun to revive, Robert answered.
“Perhaps we should. But… at least, not right now.”
Radis was about to ask why he thought so, but she stopped herself.
The changed appearance of the forest was obvious enough.
Hesitantly, Radis asked.
“…Whatever kind of monster’s in there, it’s not a dragon… is it?”
“I don’t think so, no.”
The Underworld Tree had started to take on a vividly verdant hue, and staring at its magnificence beyond the barrier, Radis thought of Arachne.
That monster had been severely on the verge of dying back then, but it had struggled to put the shining egg in the center of the Underworld Tree.
In her previous life, Radis had believed that there was no such thing as rationality or independent thinking in a monster.
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