Chapter 174: Coming Home and Parting (2)
Count Lafayette, who lost his only daughter, had been in extreme sadness recently. For Cherie, he had devoted all his paternal love. In his opinion, the lovely Cherie was the treasure bestowed on him by the Supreme God. In order to prevent Cherie from being in danger, he did everything possible. There were people watching Cherie for almost twenty-four hours, and all the friends she made had withstood his test without exception. Every day, he would decide where she would play in advance.
In his plan, Cherie's life was not allowed to suffer even just a little bit of misfortune. Her life should always be full of sunshine, and her face should always be filled with a cheerful smile. But all this was ruthlessly shattered in the bloody murder incident more than a month ago. Cherie, who had almost never seen blood, actually watched the murderer split the maid Liss into the pieces [he didn't know Cherie almost died as well], and spent the night in the dark street full of corpse fragments.
But thankfully, Cherie did not suffer any psychological trauma. Although the matter of Liss made her very sad, she still got rid of the shadow of that night. This made him extremely grateful to the unknown seventh-level powerhouse who defeated the murderer. In order to prevent Cherie from encountering that kind of thing again, he once again strengthened the guardianship of Cherie and restricted her range of action. Although knowing that this would definitely make Cherie unhappy, he still gave the order without hesitation.
But even though he gave the order, he couldn't bear to watch Cherie upset all day. After learning that Titan Poseidon, the continent's first steel ship, was about to conduct its first voyage, he got a few tickets through his contacts.
The next thing was as he expected, Cherie was very happy to learn that she could board a ship to see the sea. After preparing for a while, she happily went to the ship. But soon after, the news that broke his heart came.
The strongest steel giant ship created by mankind, Titan Poseidon, guarded by two seventh-level powerhouses and dozens of sixth-level masters, unexpectedly crashed. From the wreckage of the ship that had been washed near the continents, he learned that the cause of the wreck was due to an incredible number of magic beast attacks. None of the people on the ship survived, and all of them disappeared into the depths of the sea.
The moment he heard the news, his mind went blank, and he was unable to say anything for more than half an hour. His wife next to him collapsed on the ground, losing her consciousness, and had been bedridden with illness since then.
The first thing he did after he woke up from the sadness was to ask the person who delivered the news what happened. But the person sent by the mage guild said that because the magic device in the ship's wreckage was partially damaged, the only information left was the general record that Titan Poseidon was attacked and sunk by the magic beast, and the others were not clear. But if the ship wrecked deep in the sea, the people on it were extremely unlikely to survive.
After learning the news, he and everyone in the family fell into endless sorrow. Not only them, but the families of the nobles on Titan Poseidon almost all learned the tragic news. For a time, various kingdoms on the continent held various funerals to mourn the people who died in the shipwreck. The proposal regarding the manufacture of the second steel giant ship was terminated indefinitely. The mage guild decided that it would no longer build a second steel giant ship until it had a defense system capable of resisting the attack of the eighth-level magic beast, after paying huge compensation to all the nobles who had died in the shipwreck.