The Villain's Lost Daughter - Chapter 61

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Somehow I had a hunch that everything would work out well today.

“I feel like I can complete the artifact!”

I rushed to the lab, feeling a surge of confidence for no apparent reason.

An artifact that could distinguish the dark wizard.

It’s already been over a week since I successfully completed the fourth magic spell stack to make it.

Still, I haven’t touched the final step yet.

‘I spent a little bit of time making another spare just in case.’

The last step and the fifth overlap had a high failure rate that couldn’t be compared with the fourth one immediately before.

So I needed to be fully prepared as much as I could fail with a very fine tremor.

“…Of course, it’s best to succeed at once without failure.”

I put the fourth stacked gem on the workbench and took a deep breath for a while.

“Phew, don’t be nervous. I can do it. I can do it.”

When she uttered the words close to brainwashing herself several times, somehow she seemed to feel a little more at ease…

“…What a shame!”

My heart was pounding and I felt like going crazy.

It was less than a week at the most until the debutante.

‘What if both of them fail this time?’

“….I don’t know when I’ll be able to meet the Empress after the debutante.”

In addition, as the time of the original story was pushed back, I had to pay more attention to the male protagonist, Callian.

My ultimate goal was to prevent the death of my family and to help Callian become Emperor.

So there should never be any failures… I closed my eyes and took a deep breath again.

Then, with my eyes wide open, I carefully drew with a sharp blade over the jewels embroidered with colorful magic circles.

‘It’s all right, it’s okay!’

A faint magical energy left traces along the path of the small knife.

After moving my arms for an hour without a break, I paused for a moment and carefully removed my hand from the jewel.

A fifth of the jewels with magical spells still seemed to have a long way to go.

“Whoa!”

But without saying a word, I kneaded my wrist for a moment and then grabbed the knife again.

So from sunset to sunrise again, I didn’t stop…

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“Miss.”

Through the haze of my mind, I heard a familiar voice.

I repeatedly blinked, lifting my heavy eyelids.

“Mary…?”

It was Mary’s face that could be seen in myblurred vision.

She also had a very serious expression on her face, again I blinked a couple of times and my blurry vision returned to normal.

“Miss, I told you not to stay up all night and make sure you always come to your room to sleep. You skipped all your meals yesterday.” Mary said in an upset tone.

But it was something else that flashed through my head at the moment.

‘Did I stay up all night? No, when did I fall asleep…’

“…My artifact!”

I jumped up screaming at the object that came to mind in an instant.

“Miss?”

As I abruptly got up, Mary called again with a startled voice.

“Sorry, Mary. But I’ll just check this for a second!”

Obviously, the magic circle was engraved and was finished to the end. After that, Iseemed to have fallen asleep immediately, almost fainting.

‘It’s not unreasonable to say that I didn’t even eat while working on artifacts for more than ten hours.’

With the most nervous heart, I lifted the jewel with a total of five overlapping magic circles.

Then, with a very careful touch, I began to push my mana through my fingertips.

‘Whoo-hoo!’

Then, from the outside of the jewel, it started to glow slowly, and soon the entire engraved magic circle glowed white.

The light that colored white in front of my eyes faded after a while.

Seeing that, I had to resist the urge to run around the lab, shouting cheers at any given moment.

‘Come on, let’s calm down.’

After taking a deep breath, my excitement calmed down a little.

It was enough to show a smile in front of Mary, who looked puzzled and still didn’t understand the situation.

“Mary, I’m sorry about earlier. Shall we go to my room now?”

I put my arms around Mary’s, unable to stop the laughter that was leaking out of my lips.

Mary’s eyes turned narrowly when she saw me like that.

“Are you going to go through this again?”

“Hehe, Mary, you know I love you a lot, right?”

“I really can’t stop you.” Mary added.

Despite the glaring gaze, Mary’s stern expression finally relaxed when I clung to her arm and acted cute.

She followed me with a big smile and arranged my disheveled collar.

“But you promised me that you’d sleep well next time. Got it?”

“Yes, I promise!”

I nodded my head at Mary’s words and left the studio.

The reason why I’ve been suffering so far has been quietly hidden in my pocket.

So I went back to the room with Mary and dressed nicely and went up to bed.

I fell asleep as if I fainted earlier, but when I counted, it was only less than an hour of sleep.

Maybe it was because I was working for 10 hours, but my shoulders and eyes were all stiff.

Besides now I could relax a little and wait for my debutante, which is less than a week away.

“Mary, will you wake me up before dinner?”

“Okay. Get a good sleep, miss.”

“Yeah, see you later.”

I covered myself in a soft blanket and gently waved at Mary as she left the room.

Thud—

The door closes with a little noise, and after a little I took out the jewel in my hand and held it over my face.

In the thin sunlight through the dark curtains, I could see the faint patterns carved on the jewels.

When I injected a little mama again, the jewel shone very hotly.

Although the light was incomparably weaker than when it was first enchanted after completion, it was proof that this was a successful work.

If a secret artifact emits that much light, it will be discovered immediately.

“It’s perfect, it’s perfect.”

A smile of deep satisfaction was naturally drawn around my lips. It was worthwhile to spend almost a month. Of course, not all steps are over yet.

I could only say that it was completed when I finished making the accessories I would carry with me throughout my debut using this jewel.

“Well, making this was the most difficult thing…”

I forgot to sleep and spent a long time pondering what kind of jewelry would be appropriate.

Then, I could not overcome the fatigue that came over me, and I fell into a dreamless sleep.as usual.

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Time has passed and now it’s three days away from my debutante.

After creating the artifact, I used the gem to make a watch.

This was because if it gets close to the dark wizard within a certain distance, the jewelry would darken, so it was too much to make it into a general accessory.

After setting the basic frame of the watch, the watch sent to Yurgen to be decorated so that the nobles could use it was delivered in a completely transformed form.

In the middle of the pocket watch was a jewel I made.

However, thanks to the colorful jewels embedded around it, the presence of the nail-sized diamond was not eye-catching.

“Yurgen too… What kind of watch has so many jewels in it? People will be blinded by the time.”

The content was obviously bruised, but there was a smile on my lips that I couldn’t hide.

The reason was because of the two letters that came together.

The letter with neat and tidy writing resembling the owner was from Yurgen.

“Oh this one, it’s from Thane!”

Surprisingly, the letter in round letters was sent by Thane.

I started reading Yurgen’s letter first. Not for any other reason, it was because Yurgen’s letter was on top.

The letter, which was neither too short nor too long, was written in a blunt tone of concern about my debutante…

“I’m not the one who put it on the water.”

Most of them were saying that ‘you should keep your dignity when you go to the Imperial Palace’ and that ‘you shouldn’t use vulgar language’, but anyway.

I pouted since I couldn’t hate his worries for me.Yurgen was a little worried, but it’s not that I don’t understand it.

He was, and still is, the person who helped me the most with my financial strength.

“Yurgen knows that I’m secretly helping Callian for some reason.”

Of course, the exact reason was not told to anyone in this world.

For me, the debutante was not an exciting social debut day, but a very tense day when the original story started.

Perhaps the battle for the throne between the prince’will intensify in earnest.

“Ugh. The good days are over.”

Thinking that three days later was the moment to announce the original prologue, I thought my stomach would twist with a little exaggeration.

I held the top three positions in the Empire, and there were also competent intelligence guilds.

And the last of the beasts in this land were on my side, andIf I want, he’ll probably move right away.

I’ve been preparing for this kind of difficult situation for nearly a decade, but…

The subsequent development was very likely to take a turn that I was unaware of.

‘That’s probably ninety-nine percent.’

A long, deep sigh came out of nowhere. It would have been ten times, no, a hundred times easier if our house had been the size of a local count family.

“Then I can just stay in the countryside and live my life without looking at the buzzing capital.”

But my family was the Empire’s only Ducal family, and my father was said to be the strongest man in the country.

It was never easy to get out in the middle of the story as long as there were not one, but two grand modifiers.

For example, it was like an unwritten rule of a novel.

In most cases, the use of a character with a strong presence was one of two things.

‘The main character’s ally or enemy.’

I took a deep breath, fixing my complexion. All I could do was hope that what I had prepared so far could help me.

The top of Lagras has grown enough to become the top of the Empire within a few months.

In fact, transactions with other countries are also actively carried out, so the scale would be twice as large as in the original.

Besides, the place where Thane visited recently, was the home of the wolf beasts.

Things went the way I expected.

“Why am I so nervous even though I’m all ready?”