The crack in the middle of the burial grounds was over ten feet long and nearly six feet wide, resembling a rectangular black entrance.
Beneath the ground were rough, tiered steps extending down. The angle was steep. Isaac, Obi, and the others walked down successively.
They lost sight of the light above after roughly 25 feet of descent. The person at the front and the last opened their headlamps, illuminating the surroundings.
Isaac walked third in front. He noticed that the steps were still steep, with only about four inches of space above his head and about two inches on each side. It meant that only one person could pass through the narrow passage at a time. They had to queue up to proceed.
“Don’t overthink it. We’ll have to walk for a day on these steps before we get to our destination,” Obi’s voice echoed in the narrow, dark passage.
Isaac did some calculations and realized something.
According to the angle of the stone steps and walking within a day, they would need to descend nearly 300 thousand feet from the surface of Emerald Hall to reach where the Novafur Clan was imprisoned.
According to geological knowledge, this depth had already exceeded the thickness of the earth’s crust. However, Isaac knew that the steps couldn’t keep descending indefinitely since humans would die if they went beyond the thickness of the crust due to the lack of oxygen.
He couldn’t figure out what his father was thinking back then.
Why did my father spend so much effort to carve out such a long staircase?
According to Donovan, the Novafur Clan had around three thousand members, so the space below had to be quite large.
Isaac didn’t speak, but favonovel.com kept deducing what favonovel.com may encounter as they descended. Based on his calculations, the possibility of their group being wiped out was low.
According to Obi, the area where the Novafur Clan was suppressed resembled an underground palace with numerous twists and turns. Also, if they correctly analyzed the way from the Dragon Eye, where Morgan and the others were, to Emerald Hall, they could even sneak attack Morgan’s group after avoiding the Novafur Clan.
However, those were all only his speculations. They’d have to see what awaited them down there.
Walking for a day on the narrow staircase wasn’t a problem for Isaac and the others as the weakest among them were only two guardians at the early stage of the Shattering Phase.
As they delved deeper, the humidity and temperature of the air began to change dramatically.
Isaac checked the time and realized they had been walking on the steps for about ten hours. They descended for the first five hours before beginning to ascend. The temperature around them had dropped to at least minus 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
The air became unusually murky. Everyone began to conserve their spiritual energy by lowering the frequency of their heartbeats and breaths.
After roughly 20 hours of going up and down the stairs, the guardian at the front stepped out and looked down with the light. He realized that the steps had turned into a bumpy rocky path, and the staircase had disappeared.
All 13 people descended the steps, and the narrow passage in front of them appeared to have enlarged slightly.
The uneven ground beneath their feet was littered with many small rocks, which they could feel distinctly under their shoes.
After walking another 300 feet, everyone’s field of vision suddenly opened up under the light from the front guardian’s headlamp.
The narrow passage had expanded by a hundred times, and the distance from the top to the ceiling had reached 100 feet, with walls on both sides dozens of feet apart.
Isaac looked around and realized that it resembled a natural cave with some stalactites hanging from the ceiling.
At this moment, favonovel.com finally understood that this place was probably a naturally formed cave. It was so far from the surface that his father had used it to suppress the Novafur Clan.
“There are so many passages ahead. Which one should we take?” Hera asked, looking ahead through the light from the guardian’s lamp behind her.
There were eight stone caves several dozen feet ahead, each about six feet high and over three feet wide.
“Let me lead the way from here.” Obi walked straight ahead.
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