“I'm Lisa,” The captive answered, “Please keep your dragon away… I hate dragons!”

  Timothy didn’t want to hold a young dy captive, especially this hairy one who looks tough enough to beat him up, he didn’t want to make her an enemy. However, meeting her here has raised a lot of questions, though he was terrified, he was also itg to know everything!

  “Lisa, I need you to rex, okay? I just have two questions, and after that you be free to do whatever you want.” He promised, and tried to appear calm for the sake of cooperation, but iy he was really worked up.

  Wheher nodded, he asked. “How long have you been in these caves, and how did you end up down here?”

  “I've been here ever since I was born,” She answered, and the indifferen her tone vouched that she was telling the truth. “My parents were boroo, and my grandparents as well. Our aors were miners, but they were blocked in here by the va that Saranax summoned.”

  “Well, holy shit…” Tim's mouth hung agape for a sed, and theapped on Billy's back, to have him free the captive. “So, you never saw grass and shit like that?”

  “My parents spoke of it, but I never saw it myself.” Lisa admitted, and as she stood up, she asked. “Is it true that it tickles your feet?”

  “I mean it depends, but oftentimes yes.” He said, and Lisa seemed like the happiest girl in the world once she heard that answer.

  However, sidering the uniqueness of this situation, Timothy didn't leave her aloh her thoughts for long, and therefore wiped the smile off of her face with another question. He had to be thh, because this may be the most unique, and severe case of isotion in all of Valporovus!

  “How did your people survive down here? How many of you were there in the beginning?” He asked.

  “Fifty miners were trapped here in the beginning, about three-hundred years ago, twenty of them were women. After being trapped down here for more than five years, I guess everyone just decided to reproduce, because dowhere was a greater strength in numbers. They ate rats, snakes and is to stay alive, to survive, and this was substantial for a long time, until it finally wasn’t. Throughout these past fifteen years, we've been struggling with food a lot. I buried a lot of my people, and although there were forty of us just fifteen years ago, they all died off. Now, it's just me, I was unfortunate enough to survive.” She recited.

  “Jesus… that's really sad.” He sighed, this was a terrifying story. “Okay, you're free now, but I'm also going to try a some food in yut as quickly as I . First, we'll have Billy here go ach you another dragon, because we have to fly you across the va pool. Yonna bear with me until we get to the other side.”

  Billy the dragonfly uood the versation, so he beamed down towards that lengthy tunnel afterwards without even being asked to, ahe two goblins alone. He was likely to return after a couple of mihough.

  Anyway, after Billy left, Tim had to ask one more question. “Is there anything else important in these caves, anything of value? I need you to be ho with me now, because we have a guy who tell if you're lying. You shouldn't lie to your heroes.”

  At first, Lisa seemed hesitant to answer, but sidering the circumstahere wasn’t any other way around it. Her hesitatioured that she knew of something really important!

  “The va, there's something below the va. That's why Saranax appeared to begin with, he roteg whatever it is that my aors found.” She said, ahe other covered in goosebumps.

  There was a lot more intrigue to this trip thehought, that was for sure. This was no meaningless mine-clearing mission, no, and he even started believing that the gods were messing with him again! The tter usible, but he had to decide what to do with this new informatiardless, and he had to decide quickly, because theoretically, there wasn't anything that could prevent another, powerful dragon from appearing out of thin air! He didn't want to deal with another Saranax, because they would all die.

  “Guess I should figure something out before the system takes those points away from me,” He thought, “These bastarding caves could be only temporarily safe, I ’t rule that out, so I gotta get below that va as soon as possible. Maybe there’s a dinosaur below the va or some shit, maybe there is someone I bargain with…”

  …

  Bolivamus Tal the Greater, or Billy for shot to the other side of the va pool, and reected with his friends. Everyone panicked when they saw him return without Timothy, even the dragons panicked, but Skendus helped make sense of things, because he could read through the pictures within the dragon’s head.

  “Tim's okay,” He firmed.

  In one way he was relieved that his friend was alive, but what he was about to say got him and Ortaense again. It would appear that these caves had endless issues, and the team were saddled with fixing those issues! They felt really unlucky.

  He expined, “Tim found anoblin down there, and judging from how hairy she is, she has to be one of the miners. She's an Armor-hide Goblin through and through.”

  “Hairy is okay, let’s just hope she's not godly. We've dealt with enough godly creatures today.” Ortana added.

  Ortana had Arve over her p, because she didn't want to leave her unscious body unsupervised. There was no telling when she was going to wake up. Furthermore, Ortana had the feeling that there were plenty of Yellow-bellied Cave Snakes around here, so she'd rather not have their only official guide in this micro-universe get eaten by a random snake.

  Anyway, about two mier, Skendus asked her. “How do you feel, Ortana? I don't want to pressure you sidering everything that's happening, but something weird is going on with you.”

  “Weird?” She parroted, though she wasn't oblivious to what the other was trying to say.

  “Yes, really weird.” He insisted, and then added. “I 't read your brain anymore, Ortana. Did you escape the God's Punishment Realm of mana back there?”

  “No, I did not.” She refused.

  Afterwards, she raised her hands up in front of her face, to look at her golden veins once more. Almost instinctively, she summoned something that she had been avoiding for a few minutes now! She summoned a very physical spear on her hands, and it had the same shape, and color scheme as the spear that Arvena had summoned earlier on, before she fainted!

  Ortahe heavy spear in her hand, and said. “I don't think this bring down a va dragon, maybe it just kill a snake, I don't know? The gods wanted me to have this ability, though, and I was unfortunate enough to receive it without my say-so.”