The three stood before the enormous metal door, craning their heads to look at the bronze gate towering a full twenty meters high.
As Wu Heng studied the main gate, he suddenly felt several sharp gazes settle on him.
Without giving anything away, he glanced around and saw several dwarves watching from the Crow's Nests high on the rock walls to either side.
It seemed that aside from the dwarven camp they had just passed through, high-level professionals were stationed here as well.
Liander took a document from his Spatial Ring and displayed it in every direction.
The figures above withdrew as well.
"Open the gate!" Liander shouted in a deep voice as he put away the document.
Amid deafening screeches of metal grinding against metal, the massive gate slowly opened.
At the same time, a scorching Qi Wave surged out like a flood.
Liander made an inviting gesture. "It's inside. Please, both of you."
Once they passed through the gate, the temperature abruptly soared.
Specialized Illumination Stones had been embedded into the mountain walls on both sides of the passage every ten steps, giving off steady light even in the extreme heat.
As they went deeper, the passage gradually widened until they finally reached an enormous circular cavern.
At the center of the cavern was a depression roughly fifty meters across. In the middle of it sat a black stone sphere about the size of a basketball, with magma faintly rolling within it and irregular dry cracks covering its surface.
"This is our clan's greatest treasure, the Molten Heart." Liander's voice was filled with reverence and pride.
Wu Heng stepped forward two paces and stared at the Molten Heart for two seconds. Information appeared.
``` Molten Heart (Wonder)
Effect: Smelting (3.6%).
Side Effect: Irreversible destruction.
(Description: A natural creation