"Vremya? Did you ignore a key point?" Rudelle, who was sitting calmly to the side, suddenly spoke.

"I..." looking at the map. I realized that maybe unconsciously I ignored that cave since we had been in the place two times and one time we even spent an afternoon there.

"Pom Old witch. Why do you scold Vremya!"

"Why do you hit me!? Ignoring places like that is very dangerous when you go out on missions!"

"Uhnm. Magen, Professor Rudelle is right.

This time we will all go without dividing into pairs" I could only lean back in the chair and cross my arms.

I do not know why I did not think to investigate more thoroughly the home cave that Xuexue used to live in before we found her.

Thinking about it well that cave really deserved a deeper investigation.

After breakfast and checking our equipment. We all set off toward the northern mountains for the fifth time. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"{Agility Increase}

{Resistance Increase}

{Increase of... }"

"Vremya, every time your magical chants change so much, this time they do not even look alike anymore..." Dianeira pointed from the side while crowns of flowers of different colors fell on her dark green hair.

"In fairy magic what matters is the intention..." I smiled awkwardly while shrugging my shoulders and giving a cheap excuse.

"Good, listen.

It is already the fifth day. If you do not find anything today I will start deducting points from you"

Rudelle said to the side as an ultimatum. The truth is that we are all already tired. At first it can be novel. Exploring some rocky mountains covered in white snow can even seem romantic.

But seeing the same thing every day gets boring. I cannot even imagine the sailors who spend so many days, weeks or months at high sea.

"Mm. Do not worry Professor Rudelle, I feel that this time we will obtain some clue."

After stacking buffs on all of us we said goodbye to Professor Rudelle and started running at great speed in the northwest direction.

The great mountain range is really a wide place, comparing the search area with the large area that covers the entire range it is really insignificant.

After four days of exploration now I can understand space and dimensions at geographical levels more.

Also spending all day using my spatial sensitivity to search inside the earth beneath our feet and through the rocks of the mountain my earth element magical ability has grown.

Also my abilities with wind and water have improved. Xuexue has an innate instinct and ability to control these elements, in these days of rain and wind Xuexue has maintained a protected area around her that made me feel the elemental changes and understand more the fairy magic of wind and water.

In general, these days have not been a total waste of time.

’By the way, Xuexue, I did not tell you to take me to investigate places like fissures and caves. Why did you not point out your cave from the beginning!?’ I complained to Xuexue mentally.

"RAW!

RAWW RRAW RAAW!"

’What do you mean it is not your fault?’

"What is wrong with Xuexue?" Magen asks.

"Xuexue wants to say that it is her fault for forgetting the cave and she is apologizing..."

"RAAAAAAAAW! GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Already ~ Already ~

We forgive you ~ " I gave Xuexue some pats.

"Yes Xuexue, it is not your fault" Magen also gave her some pats on the side.

"..." everyone also supported Xuexue and said it is not her fault.

’hahahahahahaha’ I could not help laughing inside.

"FLUUUFFFSSS" Xuexue snorted.

"Okay ~ you already know the way to your old home. Let us go!"

From the foot of the mountain to Xuexue’s cave it can take from five to ten minutes running. But now, after the storm, although in the high mountains rain does not fall, it did fill with new snow.

Any creature that wants to walk through this snow would sink to the bottom by its own weight.

There must be about three to six meters of pure snow depth. It is good that my magic allows all of us to run on the snow calmly.

Come on. If there are ninjas who can run on water, why can not we run on snow? Besides, it surely should not be more complicated than running on water and we can do it, surely!

And that without using my fairy dust to fly ~

"Should not Xuexue’s house be here?" Magen said looking around.

Everything is white, or rather, a gray tone. The sky is still somewhat dark with gray clouds and the sun is barely rising on the horizon.

"Everything is covered in snow. I am starting to hate snow!" Dianeira said to the side exasperated while shaking the snow off her hunter trench coat.

"What do we do?

If we use an attack to clean the snow we could cause an avalanche..." Xifia pointed out.

"It is not necessary, I know where the entrance is. Just with a little water magic I can freeze the snow into ice walls and avoid a collapse.

Leave it to me!"

With a jump, I leaped from Xuexue and fell into the snow.

Snow is nothing before my eyes, I can easily see everything around me and locating the cave entrance is a piece of cake.

Raising my hands with palms facing forward I pointed to the position where the cave entrance is.

A gentle wind started to circulate around me. Three small lights appeared around me forming three small blue and cyan fairies.

The small fairies are not completely corporeal, they seem to be between illusory shadows and something liquid.

So even if you want to look at them closely they have no defined features. Rather they seem to be shadows of me.

Just like me, the three small fairies raised their small and thin arms and with their small palms facing forward circulated mana.

Little by little and calmly a path started to form in the snow. With the help of the wind the snow was pushed to the side and the water soaked the snow making it freeze quickly.

A passage was created, starting as a small path until becoming a tunnel of blue crystalline ice.

"Pretty..."

"Vremya focused looks very beautiful"

"Mm! That posture, even with a trench coat her figure and curves are not hidden"

After a while I managed to reach the cave entrance. This time it is just to expel the snow that covers the entrance.

"Ufff~ " when finished, I exclaimed. It is a bit tiring to do something like that.

"Water" Kara approached with a thermos with hot water.

I took it and drank a little water. It would have been better if it was some juice or something... But Kara normally only drinks plain water.

"Well done!"

"Great!"

"Vremya has become stronger!"

"Yes, he does not even pretend to chant a spell anymore ~ "

"It is not a spell! I was just channeling elemental mana to... Forget it, I do not even know why I explain it to you. Let us enter quickly!"

I decided to hide my embarrassment with annoyance. I held back from kicking Dianeira and walked toward the cave.

"RAW!"

"Good, good, go ahead..." Xuexue growled and understanding her thoughts I let her go first.

Although I made the path a little wide, Xuexue still had to crouch a little since she measures more than three meters in height up to her back without counting her raised head.

At the cave entrance Xuexue just gave a swipe and a wall of snow was expelled toward the back of the cave and then Xuexue entered bravely.

The cave is very dark due to the snow, but with my small fairies still manifesting it can be illuminated a little.

When Kara entered she started channeling her mana toward her black staff and at the top of the staff a black light ball started to shine strangely illuminating the area.

Magen on the other hand, with just summoning her sacred shield the white light also filled the cave.

Not wanting to be left behind, Xifia took out her white sword which also projects light like the sun.

The only ones who stayed looking at their hand are Tikshna, Dianeira and Destan who do not have a way to illuminate with their Familiars.

"cough..." suddenly Destan coughed discreetly.

In Destan’s hand his black rectangular magical object started to illuminate from a point as if it were a flashlight.

"WoW ~

Destan’s magical rock is great!" Magen shouted surprised.

Although I think calling it magical rock is...

"ugh..." Destan only responded with a groan. Of course, the light from Magen’s shield is like one of those stadium floodlights while the smartphone lamp barely lights up a little in front.

"Let us investigate to the back then" I started walking through the cave.

The depth is not much, maybe about thirty to fifty meters, the detail is that the cave gets smaller as it goes deeper. For this reason Xuexue only stayed in the first thirty meters.

"There is an air current coming from the back..."

"Hm! That is why we could have a barbecue at the cave entrance since the wind current carried the smoke from the burning firewood out of the cave..." I started to say, but as I spoke more my voice became smaller.

I think this should have been a detail that should have caught everyone’s attention. But because of my love for barbecue I overlooked it.

If there is an air current it means there is another entrance somewhere and it is connected to this cave.

A simple look in the spatial sense I can see that there is a tunnel that has a gentle slope but continues descending for a long stretch.

I can only see up to a point where the tunnel branches into two: another continues descending and one changes direction toward the west making a U-turn.

The problem is that the size of the passage is very small, only one person can go and it has a height of one meter fifty in some places and up to two meters in most parts.

It is going to be a bit uncomfortable going down. I think if any of us has claustrophobia definitely going down will be their path to hell.