Chapter 304: A Father’s Love
It was as expected. Her father had only left a couple of weeks after she did to find her, but the reason he did in the first place was what concerned Irene.
"Grandmother knew I was going to be in danger?" she asked in disbelief.
"Half asleep, she would constantly say that you were," Arthur explained. "It ate at me enough that I decided to follow you here. Never would I have imagined that you would be facing a wyrm of all things."
At that, Irene looked a bit unsettled. Since magic was something in existence, why shouldn’t her grandmother’s foresight? Was that part of being a Volna?
However, there was also something else that bothered her.
"Wyrms can give curses?" she asked. "Does that mean I still have it?"
"Yes," her father explained. "Unlike their close relative counterparts, they have a unique trait of being able to give curses to their prey because of the high amount of mana they possess. However, none of us knew that there was a wyrm in that village. We all thought it was cursed, but were unaware of how. It must have been dormant for nearly a hundred years, for none of us to know about this."
"But you said you cut it in half," Irene persisted. "Perhaps it was enough to stop it."
Her eyes searched his face desperately for a positive response. She didn’t want to leave a horrible creature behind that could bring harm to others.
"With mana comes surprising traits that could allow such a thing to survive," Arthur continued. "I’m unwilling to risk you further. You were already in far more danger than you could ever imagine. For now, we must wait a couple of days for your fingers to heal, then we will leave this place with what you came here for in the first place."
Irene felt a bit incomplete with this answer, but she knew he was the one being logical. She couldn’t imagine how she must have looked sitting there, defenseless and waiting for her fate. How irritating that magic could cause her to be so idiotic.