The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 260
Chapter 260
Translator: Yonnee
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Radis peeked into the basement from the entrance and almost let out a gasp.
The scene inside was the most bizarre and horrifying she had ever seen.
Along the walls, monsters were screaming in cages, and there were pieces of flesh scattered around that she didn’t even want to identify.
In this hellish place, attackers and defenders were fighting fiercely.
The hooded people and knights of Lebeloia were defending something that looked like a crude magical artifact.
One of the knights shouted.
“Hold out a little longer! Reinforcements are coming! We must protect the magic stone!”
At that moment, an assassin lunged at him.
The knight blocked the blade with his helmet and thrust his sword into the assassin’s stomach.
But the assassin, without even screaming, stabbed the knight’s exposed neck.
The two fell, entangled with each other.
Walking over the path made of blood, the man in the center of the assassins shouted.
“This is the magic stone of all magic stones…!”
Hiding between the cages containing the monsters, Radis slowly walked towards the center.
The man, gazing at the object within the magical artifact with a look of rapture, shouted.
“This is the ultimate magic stone!”
As he held it up, the glow from the stone illuminated the horrific scene around them.
Radis steeled herself, knowing that she had to act quickly and decisively to save Alexis.
“Hestia!”
Radis saw it too.
Her eyes widened in shock.
She bit her lip so hard it bled. Inside the crude magical artifact, resembling the Womb, was ‘it’.
It was a small, shriveled mass of thorny vines, curled up like a tiny child.
Radis saw very sharp blades embedded in those thorns.
From the places where the blades were embedded, black liquid dripped, pooling in a basin beneath the artifact.
[ Alexis? Alexis…! ]
Regia groaned in agony.
[ Oh, what have they done to her? Why? Who did this? ]
Radis gritted her teeth and drew Regia.
The black blade trembled violently, emitting a blood-red mana.
“What?”
Before her fury, the enemies couldn’t even scream.
Regia moved smoothly and silently.
Each time the red light scattered, assassins, hooded figures, and knights guarding the artifact fell silently as if they were destined to perish here today.
“Who are you?!”
The man standing in front of the artifact shouted. His eyes widened as he saw Radis’s face.
“Y-You! You’re the one from the arena? Why are you here?”
“……”
“Well, never mind. If you can use such powerful techniques, we can communicate.”
The man raised his hand, showing a ring.
“Look at this!”
Radis looked at the ring on his finger with a cold gaze and spoke.
“What is that?”
The man opened his mouth in disbelief.
“Y-You don’t know? This is the seal of the World Tree that no longer exists! I am a mage of the Magic Tower!”
The mage pointed to the thorny mass inside the artifact.
“I came here to move this to its rightful place!”
“The rightful place?”
“Someone of your caliber must have figured out what this object roughly is. This is the Magic Stone of Hestia! These scoundrels of the Cardia Empire are out of their minds. They possess such a precious and dangerous magic stone and can only use it in such a crude way!”
The mage, seemingly excited, examined the object inside the artifact as he continued his passionate speech.
“As expected, there are tremendous seals and prohibitions placed on it. But with the technology of our Magic Tower, we can definitely undo them. Once we do, our Rafal will dominate the entire continent!”
The mage turned his gaze to Radis and shouted.
“Now do you understand where the rightful place for this magic stone is?”
Radis raised Regia and lightly tapped the mage’s neck with the blade.
“Don’t call her a magic stone.”
“Ack! L-Let’s use words to communicate, yes?!”
“If you don’t want to die, answer me. What happens to Alexis if the seals and prohibitions are undone?”
The mage’s eyes darted around nervously. Radis struck his neck once more with her blade and spoke harshly.
“I can hear the sound of your brain rolling from here. Want me to make it roll for real? Answer quickly.”
“Ack! I-I’ll talk! That, that object has an extremely complex and solid seal. It’s a seal that stops time. It’s an incredible technique—but no technique is permanent. Over time, the seal must have weakened.”
The mage continued to babble.
“And there’s a prohibition. It’s closer to divine punishment or a curse… It would require more research to undo it. But there’s no technique that the mages of our Magic Tower cannot undo!”
Radis narrowed her eyes and asked.
“How do you plan to transport her?”
“That… well…”
At that moment, a low voice called her name.
“Radis.”
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