The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 219
Chapter 219
Translator: Yonnee
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The path she had walked was never smooth.
Beneath her feet was a quagmire that sucked her in deeper with every step, and as she tried to move forward, fierce winds pushed her back, ever back.
Still, she continued to walk.
At some point, the fierce wind turned into a biting gale, making it difficult even to keep her eyes open.
The mire beneath her transformed into thorny brambles that coiled around her ankles.
When she clenched her teeth and tore through the brambles, sharp thorns ripped her skin, sprinkling blood like raindrops.
There was no time to tend to her wounds.
Birds, drawn by the scent of blood, swooped down with their talons bared.
Fleeing frantically from their sharp claws, blood flowed freely from her entire body.
‘Pitiful, so pitiful.’
Before the blood-soaked girl, an equally blood-soaked woman was saying that.
‘Just stop now. You’ve done enough. Drop your sword and kneel, admit your mistakes. Just be abject once. You have a place to return to, don’t you?’
Radis looked at the woman with wide eyes.
The woman’s state was horrendous.
Her long red and black hair hung down, becoming thorny brambles that entwined around her body.
Each movement she made caused bright red blood to stream down like tears.
‘You are weak. Do you think you’ve become strong just because you’re better than before? Even a three-year-old walks better today than yesterday. How pitifully insignificant, how pitiful…!’
The woman, who had been cackling, suddenly shouted in a stern voice.
‘Turn back, weak little child! If you come any further, there will be no returning!’
Radis bristled at being called a weakened child, but she didn’t get angry.
The woman’s condition was too dreadful to get upset over mere words.
The woman continued speaking.
‘Why don’t you understand after going through so much hardship? Life becomes torturous when you fight. Enemies appear endlessly, and just when you think you’ve defeated the last one, the thing you cherished most will stab you.’
The woman whispered as if sobbing.
‘You have a place to return to. There are people who cherish you. They won’t care whether you drop your sword or kneel before these great men. They will likely praise you for it…’
Radis didn’t hesitate and stepped forward to stand before the woman.
Looking into her black eyes, Radis said.
‘I know the future. Someday, right here, a very powerful demon will appear. And many people will lose their lives.’
The woman’s eyes widened in shock.
Radis continued.
‘And it’s not just here. After the demonic monsters disappear, a dragon will emerge from Monsterwood. Then, it would be the end of everything.’
‘……’
Radis took another step forward.
‘I have people I want to protect. Dropping my sword here… I feel like I won’t be able to do that.’
They stood, looking into each other’s eyes for a while.
Finally, the woman slowly closed her eyes and nodded.
‘Yes. I see.’
The woman reopened her eyes and said,
‘If that’s how you feel… then continue.’
Suddenly, she reached out her arm.
Her black nails jabbed into Radis’s forehead.
A sharp pain was felt, and soon her fingers penetrated the forehead, stirring inside her head.
Radis almost screamed out loud.
“Hah…!”
When she regained her senses, she was still in a standoff with Klaudio.
‘What was that?’
It seemed like a fleeting illusion.
‘What did I see? No, what’s that?’
Radis closed her eyes tightly and then reopened them.
She noticed the shining characters arrayed along the blade of Klaudio’s greatsword.
She realized something.
‘Runes? Is this sword aura also from the runes?’
She felt somehow that she could understand those characters.
As she watched Klaudio’s greatsword and followed the runes with her mana, the mana enveloping her sword vanished with a pop.
At that moment, Klaudio moved.
His sword fell with a force that seemed to rip the sky and earth apart.
“Radis!”
Daniel yelled.
In a frantic move, Daniel shook off the emperor’s hand from his shoulder and drew a sword from a nearby squire.
Just as he was about to intervene between Radis and Klaudio,
“Woah.”
A white aura formed at the tip of Radis’s sword.
She lifted the tip upwards.
Her motion was one of pure, genuine astonishment.
Her eyes were not on Klaudio.
From the tip of the sword, the runic characters were jumping out as she deciphered them.
It was all an expression of her consciousness.
She could become anything.
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