A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 71
Chapter 71
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Translated by Sylph
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In front of the armory hall.
Veil, who had flown up toward empty air, crashed down to the ground.
After rolling over the sandy ground, he slammed into a pile of boards stacked in one corner.
“Damn it….!”
“Are you all right?!”
Raul and Enzo rushed over and helped Veil up, but his gaze was fixed on one place.
At the empty air located about four meters above the ground.
“How in the world are we supposed to destroy it! We can’t see it!”
Reaper, commander of Grim Reaper, who had been watching, let out a sigh.
“Didn’t I say there was nothing we could do. Unless Tesetan comes, we can’t completely visualize the subspace.”
Elanes, standing beside him, also let her eyebrows droop as if upset.
“Right. Even after trying so hard, it really doesn’t work, does it….? It seems we have no choice but to give up on rescuing the Factory Manager.”
Veil ground his teeth.
When he had heard that reinforcements had arrived, he had thought they were saved.
But everything was useless without Trevaga?
“I’m only saying this just in case, but you can’t blame us later, all right? This is all because Trevaga didn’t come.”
At Elanes’s next words, strength left his legs.
He threw the dagger he had been holding far away.
He knew too.
That Trevaga did not have any duty to rescue Astie.
So in a way, perhaps it was only natural that Tesetan had not come.
But even so….
His gaze wandered emptily through the air.
It had already been half a day since Grim Reaper and Silvar’s Scream arrived.
All that time, the mages belonging to the two mercenary companies had been working without a moment’s rest to visualize the subspace.
But with no magic at all had they been able to visualize Krazar’s subspace.
About an hour earlier, at least for a brief moment, something like faint, transparent scales had appeared in midair.
But the moment they tried to direct a physical attack at it, the subspace hid itself once more.
“What is going to happen to the Factory Manager?”
“Are the elder and the others really just going to….”
As if sensing the end, the blacksmiths too were slumping down one by one.
That was not the only thing to worry about.
“If this keeps up, won’t Krazar revive, Commander?”
At the vice-captain Gaven’s words, Reaper slowly closed his eyes.
A sigh of frustration rose in him.
‘That possibility isn’t completely absent.’
To Krazar, eating people might perhaps be a means of recovering some degree of vitality.
Yet he had never heard of a precedent where a monster’s core came back to life and attacked people.
‘What in the world is happening here.’
Everything happening now had already gone beyond common sense long ago.
In other words, it also meant that there was now no way to predict how things would proceed from here.
“If something like that really happens, it’ll be no ordinary disaster….”
“Be quiet. We don’t know that yet.”
Reaper’s eyes turned cold.
The subspace definitely existed somewhere beyond there.
The Factory Manager and Agabert’s commander were trapped inside it.
And yet they could not find it. Nor could they save them.
Reaper furrowed his brow with a troubled face, then turned his back.
“It seems hopeless, so I’ll go first.”
The truth was, he did not have the confidence to keep watching all of this any longer.
As Elanes had said, perhaps this incident might be an opportunity for him.
One by which he could push Trevaga aside and earn great favor with the imperial family and the religious order.
And yet, for some reason, he could not shake the bitter taste in his mouth.
‘This talk of rankings and pride aside. In the end, I became a mercenary to save people.’
Whenever he witnessed the end of someone being sacrificed to monsters, he always ended up feeling like this.
It was when Reaper was forcing his feet to move.
“What’s that?”
Someone’s mutter came from behind him.
When he turned his head, all the blacksmiths were pointing at one place and murmuring.
Reaper narrowed his eyes and turned his gaze to where the blacksmiths were pointing.
“…?”
Then he froze stiff on the spot.
In midair, the surface of the subspace that had once been faintly visible before was appearing again.
Only this time, the pattern was clearer than before and the size was larger too.
“C-Commander. Look at that.”
Behind Gaven’s rushing voice, the murmuring of the blacksmiths grew louder and louder.
“It looks like it’s spreading?”
“It’s spreading! It really is spreading! The subspace is being exposed!”
The blacksmiths all stood up at once.
As they said, the subspace that had revealed its substance in midair was gradually increasing in size.
Just like the surface of water slowly starting to freeze.
“…Reaper. What is this? Do you know something?”
Elanes came up and whispered urgently.
But Reaper even forgot to answer and stood motionless.
Then in the next instant he shouted toward his members.
“Everybody, grab your weapons!”
Elanes’s eyes widened.
Leaving her behind, Reaper ran to the front of his members and pointed at the subspace that was beginning to reveal itself.
“Get into position! The subspace has been visualized!”
That the surface of the subspace had been exposed.
That meant that now all they had to do was pour every kind of force into it and destroy it.
From some distance away Elanes looked at him as though he were absurd, but Reaper paid no mind and issued battle orders.
“Concentrating the attacks on one point is what matters! If the force is scattered, we won’t break through the subspace!”
“Yes!”
From the members holding long spears to those who had dragged in large carts to stand on.
At the moment when everyone held their breath waiting for Reaper’s final command.
“Wait a moment!”
Someone cut in before Reaper.
It was Nordix.
On the surface of the subspace that he was pointing at, there was now something like a tiny dot.
“Wait, w-wait, don’t attack yet!”
Reaper saw it too.
Something small wriggling on the surface of the subspace.
As he narrowed his eyes, before long something suddenly poked out between them.
“…What in the.”
It was a person’s finger.
Though far thinner and shorter than an adult’s.
While Reaper stared in shock, the finger moved on its own and little by little widened the gap in the subspace.
The dot spread left and right as though soft flesh were being crushed, and between the gap something suddenly poked its head out.
“Auuung, Factory Manager! Tie told you not to push!”
A childish face turned back behind him with its cheeks puffed out.
And behind that,
“Good grief! Didn’t I say the gap was too narrow, Necromancer King!”
Even the Factory Manager Velugon.
While everyone stood frozen in place.
Velugon stuck his head out of the subspace, looked down outside, and immediately furrowed his brow fiercely.
He then bellowed at the blacksmiths.
“What are you all doing! Can’t you see that the Necromancer King and I are about to fall! Bring something at once!”
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Tie, wrapped up in a blanket, looked around with bewildered eyes.
“That’s exactly what I’ve been saying, that it was about time I checked the armaments! This all happened because you lot neglected weapon maintenance!”
“This isn’t the time for weapon maintenance! Elder, the blood on your forehead isn’t stopping!”
The moment he came out of the subspace, Velugon was busy scolding his apprentices.
The blacksmiths were examining Velugon’s injuries, for which Tie had been the chief cause.
Meanwhile, over on the other side, mercenaries Tie had never seen before were exchanging words she could not understand.
“Gaven. Contact the association first. Tell them the Factory Manager survived.”
“Yes!”
“Wait, Reaper. Before that, look at me for a second. What do you mean Trevaga changed route while on the way here?”
The surroundings were bustling to a degree that was on a completely different level from before they were trapped in the subspace.
Accordingly, Tie’s eyes too shook this way and that.
‘Why are there so many people….?’
From what she had roughly heard, it seemed they had come to save Tie and the Factory Manager.
And that meant,
“What about Krazar?”
“I’m planning to ask the Factory Manager about that now. If the Necromancer King came out of the subspace, then didn’t she destroy it?”
“If he destroyed the bastard, there should be a core.”
That they had also come to catch Krazar.
Tie hugged the bag with Ppuppu in it tightly and broke into a cold sweat.