Continue Searching for Lily

After breakfast, Meer resumed discussing matters with Kain.

"Any ideas? Otherwise, we can only search inch by inch."

"No. When I came here, I asked around among the Winged people race. I heard that others were looking for Lily too, but I didn't realize it would be you." Kain sat where he was, digesting his meal while considering what to do next.

Feeling a little cold, Meer directly placed a fire-element mana ore beneath his backside.

"Finding someone like this is far too difficult. I don't have any scouting skills, and blood magic requires Lily's blood to use."

"Blood magic? Meer, you learned that kind of dark magic too?" Kain was somewhat shocked by the news. He had only thought Meer's skin seemed a little pale before, but now it all made sense.

Normal people were always wary of dark magic, including the Long-eared archer beside them.

"Yes. Didn't I have a curse on me back then? To keep my body from collapsing when the curse spread through it, I absorbed some vampire traits." Meer patiently explained.

Kain's reaction was within his expectations.

"Meer, you haven't killed people indiscriminately, have you?"

"No. What kind of person do you take me for? If I really had to kill someone, then they probably deserved to die." Meer stood and stretched. "Magic is just a tool. Don't be so tense, Akai."

In the mainstream climate of the human world, things like dark magic were taboo. Whether for academic research or anything else, they were forbidden.

Because once someone studied it, someone was bound to cross that line.

"Yeah, I believe you." Kain nodded.

"My current idea is that we should split up and search the branches I haven't searched yet. The priority is investigating the ruins within the Dragon Mountain Range. We can