Startling

"Brother!" Nimel's face changed drastically, and she instinctively wanted to play a card.

As a result, Teresa didn't even look, slid sideways, and thrust out her sword.

Puchi!

The Warrior looked at the greatsword piercing his neck and opened his mouth.

And Teresa?

On her left shoulder was the Warrior's sword. The blade had already cut through her armor, and Teresa's shoulder was bleeding.

Teresa ignored the Warrior she had just killed, pulled out her sword, and continued fighting.

The Priest quickly cast healing spells on Teresa, but Teresa's bone had been damaged, and a low-level Priest couldn't heal it. She would need to leave to fully recover.

"Wait, he might have just done that accidentally!" The Warrior's classmate saw this and felt Teresa had killed him too rashly. She could have blocked the sword, which would have only slightly injured Caroso, instead of Teresa risking serious injury to kill him.

"Little ones, this is a battlefield, not a school." Teresa turned her head and gave him a cold glance. "If this kind of thing is forgivable, then if someone accidentally hits you later, I won't intervene."

"I told him he could leave his back to me, and I would never let any harm come to his back, even if it meant my death!"

The classmate felt the hostile gazes from all around and shrank his neck.

Caroso didn't turn back; he continued fighting the cultists.

Teresa, as if nothing had happened, returned to Caroso's side, and the two continued to cooperate tacitly, clearing out the cultists.

Those who had intended to target Caroso began to waver.

If they made a move, they would be killed by Teresa or her subordinates!

The people from the other two countries, seeing Teresa's actions, had their morale boosted, their unity strengthened, and their faith in the young girl deepened.

[Damn, what kind of chemistry is this?]

[As expected of Sister Lei, if she says you can leave your back to her, you can leave your back to her.]

[Sister Lei is mighty and domineering!]

[Sob sob sob, Sister Lei protecting Baby Caro is too beautiful.]

[What's going on, I want to ship a new couple again.]

Ten minutes later, the battle finally ended.

Caroso planted his sword in the ground, maintaining the lowest possible magic power output.

Others could be depleted, but this sword had to be maintained continuously; this was Caroso's greatest reliance.

"Why did you come out from down there?" Teresa saw Caroso resting and walked over to him, casually tossing him a bottle of blue potion.

"Is this a magic power recovery potion?" Caroso was stunned. "I thought we couldn't bring these in."

"You can't bring them in. I found it here. Dare to drink it?" Teresa said casually.

"We can't just drink things from here." Caroso tossed the bottle back.

Teresa caught it and smiled. "Alright, then you don't have to drink it. Help him recover his magic power."

Two Priests stepped forward, each throwing out a card.

[Name: Mana Regeneration]
[Type: Spell]
[Stars: 2]
[Rarity: Blue Rare]
[Class Restriction: Priest]
[Description: Restores a small amount of magic power. If you're not an idiot, you should know who can benefit the most from this.]

Caroso felt his magic power being greatly restored and breathed a sigh of relief.

Two cards appeared in his hand: Hand of Greed.

The two cards disappeared, and four more cards appeared in Caroso's hand, one of which was Silence is Golden, and two were Frenzy.

"Why are you using magic power again?" Teresa said helplessly. "Get another Priest."

Another Priest stepped forward and restored some magic power to Caroso.

"Okay, that's enough." Caroso stood up.

"Now can you tell us what you experienced down there?" Teresa asked, her eyes shining.

Nimel was also curious. Her connection with Caroso had just been interrupted by the cultists, so Nimel could only proceed in the conventional way.

In the empty room at the beginning, she was the first to wake up and then rescued some companions.

After fighting her way out of the room, she met Teresa, who was leading the team, and they temporarily joined forces.

"I defeated that cultist at the beginning, put on his clothes, and infiltrated." Caroso said.

"You dared to make a move right at the start? You're brave!" Teresa looked surprised. "Weren't you afraid of any problems?"

"Mm." Caroso didn't mention the guessing game.

"I know many who attacked from the start, but they all died," Teresa said calmly. "You're the only one who survived."

"Because I'm strong," Caroso said impolitely.

"Ha, indeed, you have the strength for it!" Teresa patted Caroso's shoulder. "No worse than me."

"What happened next?"

"After that, I found a diary..."

Soon, Caroso shared the information he'd encountered below, not in excessive detail, but focusing on the key points, especially that the Underworld Flower was alive, could control poisonous people, and excelled at mental attacks.

Conquering a dungeon, especially a large one like this, relied on numbers. At the Third-tier, the gap wasn't yet immense, and individual heroism was largely restricted.

"Hmm, so, this Underworld Flower is the key?" Teresa touched her chin. "Is the master of this dungeon the Underworld Flower, or that Dean?"

"That's for you to judge. I'm going to find the Underworld Flower," Caroso said. "For now, the Underworld Flower seems to be an optional route. We'll see if it's good or bad."

"You mean, separate from me?" Teresa looked surprised. "Speaking of which, your surname is Kolia, are you..."

"My father is Osiris Kolia."

"Then you should know the importance of teamwork, right?" Teresa frowned.

"You should also know that having me on your team might not be a good thing," Caroso said seriously. "Someone wants to get me in this dungeon. If they make a move on me, it could disrupt your formation."

"Without me, if you were just leading them, your combat effectiveness would be even stronger."

"I can suppress them," Teresa smiled brightly. "I'm leading soldiers, they obey orders absolutely and never hesitate to strike!"

It was difficult for normal academy students to kill people. Even if they could kill those cultists freely in this dungeon, in their eyes, they were only killing monsters.

Even if the opponent was human, they were humanoid monsters.

Killing a familiar person and killing a monster were two different psychological burdens.

But Teresa's people could decisively kill.

"Mm, I know," Caroso said. "Some trouble is best avoided if possible."

"But..."

[Damn it, do you know what you've done!]

Just then, text appeared before everyone's eyes.

They were familiar with this text; they had seen it when they first entered.

[Someone among you discovered something extraordinary, alerting the master of this laboratory!]

[He originally intended to play a game with you slowly, but you violated the rules he set!]

[You could have left no survivors, found him without him knowing your strength, and stopped him]

[But, it's different now!]

[He knows everything, and you will face the true power of this laboratory!]

The corpses of the gray and black-robed figures gradually merged into the ground, leaving only their clothes, just as Caroso had seen in the illusion!