Chapter 36
36
The pro-Duke Dubled nobles raised their voices at those words.
"Please mind your words!"
"The young lady is the Child of Destiny verified by the Temple!"
The elder faction's nobles opened their mouths without backing down.
"But why have we never seen her use Divine Power?"
"Which of you lords has witnessed the young lady's Divine Power?"
"Especially when they are young, they can't control their power, so it should be revealed inadvertently."
So, this was their second goal.
To take away my credibility from the pro-Duke faction.
At that moment, the Duke, who had been touching his temples with his eyes closed, opened his mouth.
"You're just playing around."
It was a low and calm voice, but it was so oppressive that my back shivered.
As he slowly lifted his eyelids, a sharp glint flashed in his cold, blue eyes.
The elders and their close nobles swallowed hard at the gaze that tightened their chests.
The vassals who insisted on Cattleya's adoption, including the elders, knelt down at once.
"Please look after the territory's people. Everything is for the glory of Dubled."
"For the glory of Dubled!"
"For the glory!"
Most of the vassals gathered in the audience hall shouted for the glory of Dubled together.
I was going crazy.
'Don't do it, you idiots!'
They seemed to think that the Duke wouldn't be able to do anything if they pushed him with numbers, but that was absolutely not the case.
In the future, there was an incident where the vassals wrote a petition, the highest decision-making power of the Council of Elders.
More than half of the nobles in the vast Territory of Dubled joined forces to petition the Duke.
At that time, Duke Dubled buried all the nobles who wrote the petition alive.
If they all die now, the Temple will take me away again on the grounds that the Duke is not a suitable father to raise me.
'It can't be helped if it comes to this.'
I shouted "Wow!" and ran to the box containing the ore.
"Is this Leubu ore?"
I asked innocently, and Viscount Dubois was flustered and said, "Ah, young lady."
The elder narrowed his eyes and said.
"If the young lady can release the Barrier, then yes."
"Then LeBlaine will try!"
The corners of the mouths of those who insisted on Cattleya's adoption twisted.
They had expressions that said, 'Can you do it?'
Cattleya said, "I..." with a pitiful look.
"If you don't have enough Divine Power to release the Barrier, it will be dangerous."
Noth, Viscount Dubois, and even the sons seemed to think that I couldn't do it.
"LeBlaine, it's dangerous, so leave it alone."
"Yes, I'll buy you better toys!"
I know very well that it will be dangerous.
I probably can't do it. No, it was clear that I absolutely couldn't.
I felt it as soon as I held the ore.
It was not at a level I could solve.
The Barrier was surrounded by triple layers, and I could feel a strange energy inside the ore.
'But I might be able to appraise what the ore is.'
Appraisal doesn't require strong Divine Power.
All you have to do is push a very thin force like a thread through the gap.
And it's about calculating the quality of the power inherent inside and finding out what element it is.
Rather, it was something I could do because my Divine Power was weak.
If it was strong, I would release the Barrier easily, so the weak developed their abilities in this way.
'I just need to check if this can really summon the Spirit of Water.'
If it can't be summoned, there's no need to fight over Cattleya releasing the ore's Barrier.
I carefully infused Divine Power into the ore.
It was that moment.
Kwaaaang-!!
At the same time as a bright red light burst out from the ore, the castle shook violently as if an earthquake had occurred.
Bang!
Kwagwang!
Cracks appeared in the walls and ceiling, and broken pieces fell.
"Wh-what is it?"
Everyone was flustered and panicking.
The Duke jumped up.
"LeBlaine!"
"Kid!"
Henri and Isaac hurriedly released their magic power. The same Seal as the Catalyst that appeared in the two people's hands floated above my head.
However, what had been blocking the fragments of the wall soon scattered with a sharp cracking sound.
"What, why is my power..."
It was when Isaac muttered in disbelief.
Just as my vision seemed to blur, a voice flowed into my ears.
[I finally met my baby.]
It was the first moment that the voice, which always seemed to have static and noise, was heard clearly.
But before I could even assess the situation, the surroundings turned into chaos.
Soon, black circles were created in the air, and people wearing black hoods appeared.
The person wearing the hood decorated with gold quickly took off his hat and shouted.
"Is this massive Divine Power an attack from the Temple!"
Then others raised their staffs and said.
"It doesn't matter if thousands of battle Priests come. The Wizards of Dubled will annihilate you!"
"Thousands? Tens of thousands!?"
And they looked around quickly.
'Ah, someone knock me out.'
The Wizards looked at me with bewildered faces.
The words 'Why is the wave coming from the child...?' were written on their faces.
But I was just as clueless. I was just trying to appraise the ore, but suddenly I heard a voice and Divine Power burst out strongly.
"Isn't it the young lady?"
The Wizard wearing the gold robe reached out to me.
[How dare you-!]
The voice shouted sharply. And before I could stop it, even stronger Divine Power burst out.
'Don't!'
I thought in my head to stop it somehow.
But at that moment.
"Cough!"
Cattleya sat down and covered her mouth. Blood dripped between her fingers.
'What on earth did this voice do...'
The surroundings became even more chaotic.
"Kyaaaa-!"
Screams rang out beyond the audience hall.
Bang! Bang! The vassals who were hit by the falling fragments groaned loudly.
As the situation reached this point, the gold robe shouted, "Formation!" As soon as he said that, the robes surrounded me and formed a defensive formation.
[Who is threatening my baby!]
The voice was even more furious, and I became incredibly scared.
I didn't want to attack people, but the power wouldn't subside at all. No, rather, it became even stronger as my tension and fear grew.
It seemed to be because of that voice, which seemed to have lost its reason.
Sharp attacks continued. The Wizards were pushed back more and more, and eventually the gold robe raised the wand he was holding. It was a signal to cast an offensive spell.
At that time.
"Stop!"
It was the Duke's voice.
"But to stop the Divine Power, we have to take that stone away from the young lady...!"
The gold robe said in a flustered voice, but the Duke was just approaching me silently.
With each step closer, the wave of Divine Power blocked his path. But it was soon shattered by the Duke's magic power.
That happened several times. The wave blocked him, was destroyed, and then regenerated.
The wave broke with a sharp cracking sound and poured down on him like shards of glass.
Even though dark red blood flowed endlessly down his arm, he stood in front of me until the end.
"It's okay."
"......"
"It's okay, LeBlaine."
He placed his hand over the back of my hand.
The moment I felt the warm warmth, the strength drained from my body and the stone that seemed to be stuck to my hand fell to the floor with a thud.
And I collapsed into the Duke's arms.
After that, I was moved to my room.
The doctor examined me and said that there was nothing wrong with my body. I felt that there was no particular problem with my body either.
I was fine, but the castle was in chaos.
When I left the audience hall earlier, the eyes of the vassals looking at me were filled with fear.
'How... how should I fix this?'
That wasn't the only problem.
[Baby, are you okay? Huh? ]
This thing that keeps talking in my head.
This voice was the biggest problem.
Every time I heard the voice, the strength drained from my whole body. On top of that, I kept getting hungry and sleepy.
And it felt like I was about to cry and I couldn't maintain my adult thoughts anymore.
'Let's sort out the situation first.'
I've never heard such a voice in my past three lives.
I also learned for the first time that my Divine Power was this strong.
'Did something change when I regressed this time? No, if that were the case, the Priests would have noticed before I came to Dubled.'
It seems that the Divine Power has become stronger because of the voice.
And I've been hearing the voice since I touched Newt.
'That's right. It was written in the records of the first Emperor. Newt is the key.'
Did the key bloom me?
If so, it makes sense that my Divine Power suddenly became stronger.
'Then am I really the Child of Destiny?! ......No.'
There are three conditions for the Child of Destiny.
Be born on February 29th.
Have Divine Power.
Manifest the Seal of God.
This is because these three are prerequisites for sealing the Evil God.
Mina was suitable for all three and succeeded in sealing the Evil God. I knew that best because I was the sacrifice for the Seal.
'I will never have foolish dreams in this life.'
In my first life, I was really young and didn't know anything, but not this time.
'Huh? Come to think of it, how am I maintaining and using my adult thoughts so well in this life?'
It would have been impossible in my second or third life.
I thought it was because I was eating and sleeping well, but that wasn't it.
'This is also because my power has bloomed.'
[Baby, are you okay? Huh?]
The voice came again, so I thought.
'Who the hell are you? No, who are you?'
[I can't tell you that until you are qualified.]
It was a sullen voice.
'How do I get that qualification?'
[I can't tell you that either. Only after you have the qualifications can you and I have a conversation. But baby already knows where the qualifications are. So...... Keugh!]
The voice, which screamed softly, muttered.
[Even this is not allowed. I have nothing more to say to baby.]
The voice said that, but I got a hint. With the words 'where it is'.
'It's a thing.'
If it's a special thing that can be called a qualification, there's only one.
'The second Etwal.'
[But is your body okay? Baby. Is it so hard that you can't answer? Ah, if he were here at times like this......! Should I not have been the first? This heart is painful. Baby must get the qualifications soon, so that he can baby.......]
'I do.'
When I thought weakly, the voice quickly answered [Yes!].
'Can you please be quiet? I think I'm going to pee.'
Every time the voice speaks, my adult thoughts fade and the child in me pops out.
Judging from the fact that I even said 'pee' in my thoughts, I might have already popped out.
I shuddered at the thought of peeing on the bed.
'I have to go find Etwal quickly before I become a complete child.'
I jumped up from the bed.
--
