Tim and the team made great progress, they dug through what could be sidered two to three hundred kilos of dirt, sand, and gravel. It was a great amount, and it was all the more impressive when one sidered how tiny they were in this bodily form, aqus goblins were pretty small, three-foot tall mostly, so yes it was impressive.

  It was Tim who did most of the work, yes, but his friends still had to help him shovel the dirt away. They carried everything in their hands, just to clear the path for the floating daggers, because the daggers themselves couldn't carry anything whatsoever, they were just used to stab through the ground. The team were all doing their part, their work, most of which featured hard, and futile physical bor, but in the end it was worth their while.

  The progress they made was det, the team dug over two feet deep by now, and they dug around the tower thhly, which was all the more impressive. Now if they dug just a little bit deeper, then they may finally break into the tower, and if they mao do so today, then it would be especially amazing for them, it would be hy! Without Tim's help they would've wasted a lot more time here, so yes, putting in a shift's worth of bor only, was really impressive for this situation, it was certainly better than spending several weeks here!

  Three hours ter, they found something that they'd have preferred not to find. They dug deep enough to find a huge crack, a cra the tower's walls to be exact, and although this provided arance for them, it also hihat the tht have imploded a long time ago. An imploded, and ruiower would not do them any good!

  “Ah, darn.” Arvena sighed.

  Just after she pihe team started getting nervous, because it could mean that all the work that they had put in so far, may have been for nothing! They were ed.

  “No luck? Do you think that we remove our mana-brackets here, Arvena?” Ortana asked, as being the weakest in terms of mana quality, she was especially eager tress in any way or form. She was nervous.

  “This hole plicates things, but we still might be able to get some work done… don't you smell the mana? It's very refreshing, eye-opening even!” Arvena added.

  “I 't smell anything,” Ortana admitted, “You’re probably more sensitive to mana.”

  Ortana did not attempt to taunt the other, but her wordpy said otherwise. Everyone here was suspicious of Arvena, and rightfully so, but she chose to igheir non-trusting eyes either way. She didn’t care, and her ck of care perhaps spoke of her power?

  heless, they had no choice but to follow her. Seds ter, she ducked, and squeezed between the cra the wall, she did so almost effortlessly even though she was one of the bigger goblins here. The team followed her, and they didn't let the darkness withiower intimidate them either, they pushed forward.

  Ohey squeezed within the crack, all of them panicked without discrimination, because the water sucked them downwards all of a sudden! It wasn't a violent kind of su, no, but they could not ter the water's mass even if they wao, meaning, they couldn't swim upwards. This plicated things, because their o was at the top!

  The team did not uand what was going on, and things became all the more fusing ohis great amount of light pierced through their eyes! They were getting sucked in towards a huge area, it was a great cavern of sorts, perhaps a hundred meters wide, and over thirty meters tall. It was hard to believe that the tiny tower above their head, sheltered this huge pce, it was unthinkable, so they were baffled overall!

  “Guess this pce is safe as long as the cavern's walls don't cave in,” Skendus added.

  The team mao rex just a little bit afterwards, as they weren’t in any noticeable danger so far, so it was at times like this where they could take a moment to observe their surroundings better. They were curious, and as they looked at everything closer, they developed this mad notion that most of this cavern may not be filled with water at all!

  They got this idea, because the light that surrouhem was tht to be uer. Light was well-spread throughout the cavern, and it was so luminous, that they could see various shapes of some structures within the cavern, they could even spot the shadows of those structures! The tter detail sealed the deal.

  Arvena was the most curious, so she decided to swim forward, as much as she could, in order to put something to the test. She exerted a lot of energy swimming forward, up until something very iing happened. She found a barrier to this water that surrouhem, that is, she could stick her hand through this barrier, and wave through dry air oher side!

  This was fasating, so she then stuck her head through the water barrier, and firmed her theory afterwards, which made her shreek in joy. Most of the cavern truly was dry, it was well-kept, and it hadn't succumbed to the passing of time at all! Her and the team were breathing through water now, yes, but the water around them was more like a transportation tube, a tube which dragged anyone from above, towards the bottom of the cavern!

  The sce behind this didn't make any sense, physics wouldn't be able to make sense of it, because there wasn’t enough water leaking from above to create this smooth, and sloard su, but heless, she didn’t care to make sense of the water that entrapped them. She assumed that it was held up by mana, magic, so there was no point questioning the salt water's physical ws beyond that point.

  Arvena pulled her head out of the water barrier afterwards, and said. “We're so lucky! Most of this pce is dry, and the water is pushing us towards the bottom, which isn't as bad as it sounds. We'll step rounds soon, and this pce looks pretty holy as well, so we should be able to remove the brackets off of our mana quality very soon!”

  “That's probably the best news you've ever given us,” Tim joked, though he too was as excited as ever.

  “They’re good news indeed,” Skendus added, “But I’m absolutely sure that there are people living here, I hear them, I hear their thoughts. There are a bunch of children, at least fifty of them, and since I 't hear their parents at all, we assume that their parents asded through the god's punishment realm already. They're immuo my powers, very much immune if I 't even seheir presence. I'm assuming that they resist fireballs as well, so let's try and avoid fighting them, guys, please?”

  Skendus felt obligated to protect his friends, as best as he could, but for all he khey could be floating down to a death trap right now! He wasn’t the stro guy in the world, so he certainly couldn't proteyone if they were to face very powerful ehe four of them would die together right then and there, so he felt obligated to prevent that!

  “Those other aqus goblins didn't kill us, so… maybe these guys are cool as well?” Tim added, he timistic, though indefinitely delusional to a certain degree.

  Anyway, moments ter they all reached the bottom of ‘the tube’ and the water pushed them out on the dry grounds. Their transition from water trounds was smooth enough, the team was unscathed. Well, the light across the area blihem a little bit, but that was hardly a problem after a minute or two.

  Then, Arvena expined. “We don't o shapeshift just yet, aqus goblins breathe air for up to three hours. ills are sug the moisture off of the air, so let's take our time, we'll explore this pce a little bit.”