At dawn, a group of five men and a kid stared at the entrance of an underground cavern two meters wide and three meters tall. It went downward till eyes could see and was pletely silent.
"The passage will go on for about a kilometer and then will divide itself in different directions. I only know in which direction the spiders went last night cause I stopped there."
Luke explained.
"I will be in the head, the rest of you follow tightly."
Mason ordered and went in, the rest of the group followed with Noah at the center of it.
The passage was made of rocks and terrain and didn't seem too stable and, as they moved on, the light of the sun could not reach their position.
The passage was growing darker which made the group advance slowly.
Mason was being very careful of where he stepped since he knew that, in the enemy's nest, even a little sound could cause a catastrophe.
The passage got larger after some time and they could stand side to side, then they arrived where the cavern split into different branches.
Luke pointed at one of them and Mason went directly inside.
They walked for about an hour before the passage split again.
The light was scarce and the air was stifling wet but the group had to wait until Luke found some traces of the beasts to decide in which direction they had to explore.
"There are no conclusive traces, well, there are signs of their passage in all 4 the directions. I advice we take the rightmost since there seems to be light ing from there."
Mason thought a little and then decided on following Luke's advice.
They moved again and after another hour of march, the cause of the faint light ing from the end of the rocky corridor showed itself.
A big basin occupied a space of some hundreds of meters square and, at the center of it, a lake was situated which glowed with faint blue light.
'Water that glows?'
Noah was surprised, he never heard of anything like this.
He looked around to see if any one of the group knew something.
Mason's eyes were wide open like his mouth hung on his jaw.
Noticing Noah's gaze he reposed himself and talked in a soft voice.
"I might have an idea of what that is and if I'm right we could not need to work anymore for the rest of our life. Yet, to be sure I must look at it closely."
Everyone's attention was piqued by Mason's words as they started to stare at the lake with greed.
'Strange, the concentration of "Breath" seems higher than the surface.'
Noah could feel his acupoints slowing their work as the air had a higher percentage of "Breath" in it.
Before he could investigate any further, Mason moved toward the lake.
On the walls of this big space, there were countless holes of different dimensions and on the ground, there were countless bones belonging to different species.
'Ironclad spider's legs, human skulls, those should belong to a sheep.'
As they were getting closer to the edge of the lake the numbers of body's remains grew as it grew the concentration of "Breath" in the air.
When they reached the lakeshore, Mason could not hide his excitement anymore.
"Yes, I'm sure. Inside the lake, there must be a "Breath" blessing, it's a legendary mineral that can attract "Breath
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