Fulilian: The Little Master Who Doesn't Understand Love

Chapter 312 Underground Cave
Looking at the deeply moved Kraft before her, Vlame didn't want to continue the conversation; all she wanted now was to find Carlo as soon as possible.

But then a thought struck her, and she asked, "Excuse me, Lord Kraft, have you ever met a magician named Carlo?"

“Carlo? If it’s not a coincidence, then I have indeed seen someone like him. He wore glasses, looked quite thin, and had black hair that gradually turned white.”

Upon learning that Kraft had information about Carlo, Vlamé was initially surprised, then became curious as to why the other man's hair had changed.
But without a doubt, the Carlo that Kraft mentioned was the one he was looking for.

She suppressed her anxiety and maintained a calm demeanor. "Do you know where he is now?"

Although Vlame had tried his best to maintain a calm demeanor, Kraft was no ordinary person; he could naturally sense the hint of urgency hidden beneath the calm.

However, he had no interest in prying into other people's privacy, so he nodded and pointed to the misty mountain peaks in the distance: "Just yesterday, when I was patrolling near a canyon there, I encountered a reconnaissance team composed of humans and dwarves, including a mage named Carlo. They were ordered to explore a cave deep in the canyon that had just been discovered and was suspected of being inhabited by demons."

I've finally found the other person!

Thank you for letting me know!

Without further delay, Vlame quickly thanked Kraft and immediately cast a flight spell, transforming into a streak of light and speeding towards the canyon.

She must find Carlo as soon as possible, before he causes even more trouble, or... reveals secrets he shouldn't.

Kraft watched her retreating figure, a thoughtful glint in his eyes, but in the end he simply shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

Vlame flew at full speed, while pondering Carlo's motives during this time.

The other party actually joined the reconnaissance team? This is unlike his usual style of being engrossed in research.

Even if he wanted to study magic that absorbs the life force of demons, he should have done so on a safer battlefield.

But reconnaissance teams, without exception, have a high chance of directly confronting the demons. What exactly does he want to do?
An ominous premonition began to creep in, which made her speed up even more.

Using the speed of her flying magic, Vlame quickly arrived at the canyon, and based on the rough directions provided by Kraft, she soon found the so-called cave entrance.

However, it was not a simple cave, but an enormous entrance that looked like a crack in the mountain.

Especially after Vlame went in and advanced a distance, he discovered some signs of battle. It was clear that Carlo's squad had already fought with the demons here.

Vlamé's unease deepened.

She tried to unleash her detection magic, but a strange force inside the cave seemed to interfere, rendering her perception useless.

The detection magic that could originally be easily extended to hundreds of meters can now only be extended to a hundred meters away. Although Vlame can fill the magic effect to increase its range, it comes at the cost of a rapid depletion of magic power.

Let's keep going!

Vlame gritted her teeth, deciding to continue forward a while before using her detection magic. After all, the cave wasn't that big; she refused to believe Carlo could have run off to anywhere!
Using the light of magic, she cautiously ventured deeper into the darkness.

However, as she delved deeper, Vlamé truly realized the vastness and complexity of the place.

This is not a cave at all, but an incredibly vast underground labyrinth!
Countless branching paths crisscross like a spider web, some even having upper and lower levels. Although the occasional magical ore on the walls allows one to barely make out the paths, the complex structure of the place is fully revealed.

Even the air was damp and chilly, clearly indicating that this underground labyrinth was connected to an underground river.

Vlame tried to follow the trail, but the maze was too complex, and the trail was intermittent; she quickly lost her way. "There's no way..." Vlame stopped.

She took a deep breath, and a magic circle unfolded in front of her, unleashing a massive detection spell.

An invisible circle of magical energy spread out, encompassing both the upper and lower levels of the labyrinth, sensing all entities within its range that possessed magical energy fluctuations.

This was a large-scale spell that consumed a great deal of magic and easily revealed the caster's identity, but Vlame couldn't care less about that at the moment.

Om-!
The magic returned a large amount of information.

In her perception, there were scattered magical points of light throughout the maze, while in a certain area deep below the maze, there were several relatively bright magical fluctuations, one of which carried a magical characteristic that she was familiar with.

found it!
Vlame immediately locked onto that direction, and didn't even have time to look for a passage to get there. Instead, he chose the simplest and most effective method.

She used magic to blast open the rock beneath her feet, blasting anything in her way into dust, and forcefully approached Carlo's location at a rapid, straight-line distance, disregarding the consumption of magic power.

However, when she finally broke through all the obstacles and arrived at that area, she was stunned by what she saw.

This is a huge underground dome, with glowing minerals at the top providing a faint light source, and below is a bottomless abyss.

A narrow natural stone bridge spans the abyss, connecting the two platforms.

At this moment, on the stone bridge near Vlame, Carlo was facing away from her, surrounded by dozens of monsters along with several allied soldiers.

Carlo seemed to be casting a defensive spell; the light flickered, and he appeared to be struggling.

The moment Vlame appeared, a demon suddenly appeared and immediately launched a magic attack on Carlo.

"Watch out!" Vlame cried out in alarm, and a beam of light shot out of his hand in an attempt to intercept it.

But it’s still a step too late!
puff!

The demon's attack caught Carlo completely off guard, leaving him no time to even unleash defensive magic.

He screamed in agony as the immense impact caused him to stumble and fall off the narrow stone bridge, plummeting into the abyss below.

"Damn!!!"

Without a second thought, Vlamé unleashed his magical power and cast a flight spell, following closely behind Carlo as he hurtled down into the abyss like a shooting star.

Although Carlo's death would perfectly achieve his goal, Vlamé, out of guilt, preferred to erase his memory.

With the wind whistling in his ears, Vlamé pushed his speed to the limit and finally grabbed Carlo's clothes just before he was about to plunge into the dark water below.

However, the inertia of the fall was simply too great.

Pfft!Pfft!
The two of them crashed heavily into the underground lake, one after the other.

(End of this chapter)