Fulilian: The Little Master Who Doesn't Understand Love

Chapter 313 Solifla
The lake was dark and bottomless, but Vlamé quickly regained her senses and clung tightly to Carlo, trying to float upwards.

But at that moment, a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from the depths of the lake.

The entire lake surface began to shake violently, and even the lake water began to boil and churn.

Vlame looked down and, with her magically enhanced vision, she could vaguely see a shadow, larger than anything she could imagine, slowly emerging from the depths of the water.

That was not the aura of demons, but a more ancient and tyrannical aura.

It seemed to regard Vlamé, who had intruded into this place and was radiating powerful magical energy, as an intruder challenging its authority.

"Roar--!!!"

A deep roar came from the bottom of the water, stirring up a terrifying undercurrent.

The next moment, a huge tail covered with thick black scales swept fiercely towards Vlame with overwhelming force.

Wherever it passed, the water was forcibly pushed aside, creating a vacuum area.

Vlame's expression changed drastically.

She never expected that such a terrifying creature was hidden in the depths of the abyss. She could only hastily raise the highest level of magical shield and push the unconscious Carlo away from the attack.

boom! ! !
The enormous tail slammed into the magic shield!

Fine cracks appeared on the shield. Although it did not break open, the impact was not completely blocked. Vlame's body was still sent flying out of the water like a cannonball and crashed into the rock wall in the distance.

Fortunately, Vlame did not suffer any serious injuries.

She endured the dizziness caused by the impact and watched as Carlo's body tumbled a few times in the undercurrent before being swept away by a current and disappearing into the darkness on the other side of the lake.

“Carlo…” Vlamé felt a chill in his heart.

With the attacks of monsters in that underground labyrinth and the complex water currents, Carlo's chances of survival were extremely slim.

Did you achieve your goal?
She had no time to think further, because the enormous creature underwater clearly wasn't going to let her, the intruder, go.

A massive head broke through the water's surface; it was a creature resembling a giant lizard, but with three pairs of scarlet eyes.

It opened its gaping maw, unleashing a destructive energy breath towards Vlame.

"Damn it!" Vlame gritted her teeth, breaking free from the rock wall. While quickly casting defensive magic to fend off the breath attack, she shouted to the allied soldiers above, who were staring in disbelief at the monster's appearance, "Retreat! Get out of here!!!"

She needs to hold off the monster to buy time for the others to escape, and at the same time, she needs to kill it!
She needed to confirm Carlo's life or death, even if it was just finding his body.

The magical light and the monster's breath collided violently above the underground lake, and the huge roar shook the entire labyrinth.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Carlo, who was drifting with the current, did not die.

His wounds burned with pain, the icy lake water stimulated his nerves, and his survival instinct made him struggle desperately.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but just as his consciousness was about to completely fade, a current swept him to a relatively flat area.

He coughed violently, spitting out the lake water he had swallowed, and lay weakly on the ground, greedily breathing in large gasps.

After a long while, he barely regained some of his senses, struggled to sit up, and looked around.

This appears to be a hidden cave through which underground lake water flows. The space is small, surrounded by smooth rock walls, and there is no visible exit.

A faint light emanated from the stones overhead, and in the center of the cave was a platform covered with moss.

And right there on that platform, quietly resting... an egg?
A giant, dark purple egg, roughly half the height of a person, with irregular silver patterns on its surface. Carlo's breathing suddenly stopped.

As a mage who studies life magic, especially focusing on the transformation of demonic life force recently, he is extremely sensitive to the aura of demons.

The aura emanating from this egg belongs to the demon race.

Although there is still no definitive conclusion as to whether demons are born from wombs or eggs, there is no doubt that the giant egg in front of Carlo is a demon.

But then he sensed something was amiss.

Because within this demonic aura, there was also a very faint trace of divine significance?
This is definitely not a product of pure-blooded demons.

The aura of demons is chaotic and destructive, and would never carry this... trace of divine power that seems to have been purified.

"What...is this?" Carlo forgot his injuries and struggled to crawl toward the egg.

His eyes were filled with the fervor and incredible curiosity unique to researchers.

He could sense the rich life essence of the demon race contained within the egg, and at the same time, because of the trace of divine power mixed in with it, Carlo did not need to worry about the subsequent risks for the time being.

Even the life essence within the other party is so concentrated that it can be absorbed even before it hatches.

He reached out with trembling hands and gently touched the dark purple eggshell.

The sensation at his fingertips was not cold, but warm and smooth. At the same time, the mixed aroma entered his senses more clearly.

A bold idea suddenly appeared.

He wanted to absorb the life force of this giant egg to prolong his own life.

Carlo knew that his life force was running out.

Even if I manage to escape from here by sheer luck, I won't live for more than a few months.

He originally intended to join the front lines of the battlefield to find an opportunity to capture a demon and absorb its life force, but he underestimated the ferocity of the battlefield and overestimated his own strength.

Carlo is a research-oriented mage, and his success in passing the Level 2 mage exam was partly due to luck.

They can barely handle most demons, but they struggle against even slightly stronger ones.

That's why he pinned his hopes on the Allied soldiers, but he never expected this to happen.

However, they have now turned misfortune into blessing and discovered this giant egg in front of them.

Although Carlo was very curious about how this giant egg came to be, and whether the divine aura emanating from it was the result of some kind of experiment or some kind of mutation,...
But Carlo can't care about that now.

He began to use magic to absorb life force from the giant egg to prolong his own life.

Soon, Carlo's gray hair began to turn jet black, and even the paleness on his face lessened considerably.

Correspondingly, the life essence contained in the giant egg is somewhat diminished.

Moreover, inside the giant egg, because the life force was absorbed, the demonic energy and divine aura within it were forced to stop conflicting with each other, allowing it to begin hatching at an accelerated pace.

Of course, Carlo was unaware of the changes that had occurred.

He stared at the giant egg that had saved his life, thinking of Ariel, and murmured to himself.

"From now on, I'll call you Solifra!"

(End of this chapter)