In the darkness, invisible fluctuations are oscillating, as if the calm water surface has been broken, and layers of ripples ripple out.

"Bang, bang, bang!" A series of small explosions rang out in the darkness, followed by the frantic roars of monsters, the explosion of powerful air blades, and the sound of rocks shattering.

A minute later, silence returned.

"Hah...... Ha...... What a ......" Yulia gasped quietly, at least thirty monsters had just launched a siege on her, simply because she had lit a torch in the dark underground.

The monster here is exceptionally sensitive to light, and this is what she learned from the injury in her right hand. Although she used all her strength to destroy the attacking monsters, her right hand with the torch was injured in the first wave of attacks, and even the only light source was extinguished.

After the torches were extinguished, she had to fight in complete darkness. Having lost her vision, she could only rely on her instincts, as well as the fluctuations of the Ripple Sword's expansion to perceive the enemy's positional battle.

This is something she would never have been able to do before. Without the power that the Initial Sword brought her, no matter how high her swordsmanship talent was, it would be useless in this darkness where she couldn't see her fingers, and she was afraid that she would be torn to shreds in the first round of attacks of the monster.

Not daring to light the torch again, Yulia fumbled through her clothes to find the medical pouch she always carried, took out the healing bandage from it, carefully wrapped her wound, and then concealed it under her sleeve.

She didn't want her brother to see her injured appearance, and she didn't want him to worry about his body anymore, so this ugly appearance must not be exposed.

In the darkness, completely unable to see the direction and the surrounding scenery, Yulia looked up and saw a dark zenith. At the moment when the passage collapsed, it seemed that everyone had fallen to a different place.

When she finally fell, she vaguely saw Ann hugging Sister Mira, and her brother and Rasha fell to the same area, and she was the only one who fell in this direction.

When she landed, she opened the ripple vibration of the Initial Sword in time, which basically offset the impact of the landing, and she landed safely.

"It should be in that direction. Yulia closed her eyes, pondered the moment the earth collapsed, where she and her brother Rasha had fallen, and then held the Primordial Sword in her hand and walked in that direction.

The eyes can't see things, and the rest of the body becomes more acute. In particular, the ears and nose can hear more subtle sounds than usual, and the slightly moist smell of moss in the air can be distinguished.

However, compared to these, the ripple field unfolded by the Initial Sword gave Yuria a greater help, and the oscillating fluctuations that spread out layer after layer fed back everything around her.

If it weren't for accidentally falling into this dark underground, Yuria wouldn't have known that the original Ripple Sword still had such a use. The slight fluctuations emanating from the sword not only mapped the surrounding terrain to her mind, but even more detailed information could be identified.

The hardness of the surrounding rocks, the small puddles hidden under the uneven ground ahead, the storage location of crystals that are harder than normal rock, and even a small cave bat or two sleeping in their sleep.

This is a world more wonderful than what the eye sees, simple and real, without any color, but more detailed and concrete than the world with color.

The Ripple Sword, which uses the principle of oscillation as its source of power, is simply a natural detector, like a hidden third eye, and sees everything around it clearly with this unique perspective.

This doesn't directly increase Yuria's attack power, but it allows her to identify the situation of the battle more clearly, and it's best to prepare before the opponent acts. In this dark and dangerous underground world, it is a very practical ability.

Yuria, who had unexpectedly comprehended this ability, smiled happily in the darkness. For her, every ounce of strength is precious. Wanting to overcome her fate and break the curse of her own constitution, her thirst for power is stronger than anyone else.

But this is not enough, far from it. Just like the battle just now, in the face of that enemy who was so terrible that even Raxia, Ann, and Princess were not opponents, she couldn't help at all. Even if the power of the Initial Sword was exerted to the limit, it could not only make those invisible dangerous substances stagnate a little.

Who finally drove that enemy into the ground? Yulia only vaguely saw a huge cross appear on the ground, and the enemy was buried in the dark abyss.

It was such a powerful and unstoppable force, she just glanced at the abyss, and she felt a sense of nothingness that her soul was going to be pulled over and fall into the earth together.

She was sure that the place where the enemy with the extra-long magic sword fell into was definitely not this underground world. The abyss of that cross is not somewhere in this world at all, but leads directly to a deeper, farther resting place.

It is such a terrible power, but it gives people a sacred, solemn feeling, like a cross erected on a tombstone.

It must have been summoned by a powerful man from the Church, and Yulia even had the figure of a paladin wearing the armor of the sacred inscription in her mind.

A more concrete impression slowly emerged, and the knight took off his visor to reveal a face she knew familiar to her—it was her favorite brother.

Ah, stop! Yuria, whose face was a little hot, quickly stopped her unrealistic delusions.

No way, no matter what you think, the person who can wield that powerful divine power is definitely not her brother Ulysses. Because her brother was still training in entry-level healing magic, and the cross abyss where that terrible enemy was buried was clearly an extremely high level of power, a realm that she could not comprehend right now.

When will she have that kind of power...... Huh, Yuria stopped, and she observed something unusual in the realm of the Ripple Sword.

It looked like the traces left by the mad beast after passing by, very savage, very violent, almost all the obstacles in front of the beast were blown to pieces.

Whether it's granite or stalactites, as long as it's something that blocks this beast, all of them are smashed without exception. In the dark underground world, this beast actually relied on its own strength to forge a path.

However, in the traces of such violent destruction, Yulia smelled a hint of familiarity.

It seems that a certain genius warrior she knows will also run around like this when he is lost, often getting injured all over his body, and then being taught by his brother while bandaging his wounds.

"Hmm...... Hmmm......" Like a puppy recalling the smell of its owner, Julia carefully discerned the remaining smell in the air. Then there was a faint smell of perfume in the cold, damp moss smell.

The smell is very light, that's because this person doesn't use perfume at all, but often stays with a mother with a little charm and is naturally dyed, and it is also the charm perfume smell of the adult that Yulia longs for. Occasionally, she could smell it from her brother, usually when he was forced to wear women's clothes.

It's this way!!!!

The path opened by the violent girl Lasha as she sprinted saved her a lot of effort and no longer had to find her way in the dark. Still, when the road rushed straight down the cliff and left several paw prints on the steep mountain wall opposite, Yuria was dumbfounded.

What kind of violent sprint method can you jump off the cliff without hesitation, and then climb the high and steep mountain wall with one hand.

Sure enough, Sister Laxia's approach, she will never learn.

But why was it so hurried, she could even smell the blood left on the road, it was the blood stains left by Rasha.

With great difficulty, she found a path over the cliff and stepped on the footsteps of Lasha, and Yulia finally saw the light.

It was the only light around, and in the faint white glow, the two men she knew were hugging each other, licking each other's wounds.

"Really...... It's wonderful......" The moment she saw Ulysses' wounds, Yulia seemed to understand why Rascha was so desperate to sprint, desperate to climb the steep cliff with only one hand.

It wasn't because of her impulsiveness, but because there were people in front of her who she wanted to desperately protect. In order to protect that person, she ignored her own injuries, did not look at the road under her feet, and single-mindedly, exerted her strength to the limit, and only then did she get out of that road, that difficult and bloodstained road.

Compared to her, she was so weak that she couldn't do anything, she could only watch the two of them together from such a distance, exactly the same as before.

Nothing has changed, nothing has changed, and even if she has gained strength beyond ordinary people, she has not become stronger than Raxia, and she has not been able to help the person she wants to protect the most.

But even so, she is still grateful to Laxia, to her who guarded her brother at the most important time, sincerely, more than anyone else.

"Brother, I'm sorry. "The same heartache as Rasha's, if not worse, but Yuria's heart could not reach Ulysses's heart.

Even if her heart hurts so much that it is about to crack, she can only hide in the darkness, silently blessing the two who are snuggling up to each other in the light of the pure white ball.

It wasn't a place for her to go in.

Happiness is still far away.

(To be continued)