Chapter 1141: Source of Evil
"Why were we encountering two Shoggoths in succession on the outer ring? This is their home... If we keep running like this and can't find an exit, we're doomed."
Akin, who was in charge of sensing and route planning, could not accept the reality before him.
With the Shoggoths relentlessly pursuing them, they could only flee deeper into the Flesh Mountain... Their current depth had long surpassed the expedition team's previous exploration range.
During their escape, Akin, who was leading the way, also sensed something amiss.
Whenever they came across a fork in the road, any path that might lead toward the outer side of the Flesh Mountain was either blocked off or concealed another Shoggoth.
The only choice left to them was to flee deeper into the Flesh Mountain.
After passing through eleven forks, the original stone cavern passage turned into stairs leading downward.
And the Shoggoths' screeches were drawing ever closer.
Forced to descend nearly a thousand meters along stairs leading who knew where... When they finally left the staircase, an even broader space greeted them. More precisely, it was a spherical space resembling a planet's core.
"This is a ruin city inside the Flesh Mountain!!"
All kinds of buildings, geometric in style and made from materials somewhere between metal and ore, were arranged in orderly patterns throughout the spherical space, even clinging to the walls on both sides or hanging upside down from the ceiling.
The surface of every building was embedded with dull, lightless crystals.
Han Dong sensed the faint residual energy within those crystals... It seemed that in ancient times, these crystals embedded in the buildings' surfaces could supply all the energy needed inside, even granting permanent antigravity effects.
Times had changed.
Now, only broken ruins remained, along with a