As they descended, the indicator light swept over the two of them again and again.
Silence... Then, after the sound of gears meshing rang out, the elevator came to a stop.
Clearweather Leader and Senior Yulia stepped out. Before them stood a massive Stone Door.
"Have you been here before?" Senior Yulia suddenly asked. "Is this the ruin site you leaders excavated back then?"
"It was the fourth ruin site we excavated, so it was called the Fourth Ruin." Clearweather Leader neither confirmed nor denied it. "In fact, the excavation dates of the various ruin sites were not far apart. Perhaps something was driving it all from the shadows."
"What's inside?" Senior Yulia asked with a frown.
"I don't know." Clearweather Leader shook his head.
"You don't know?"
"Back then, the excavation team had only just opened the gate when something strange happened. The members began going mad, and we had no choice but to leave... We only managed to bring out one Secret Box Crystal." Clearweather Leader shook his head.
"What if there's actually nothing inside?"
"If the ruins were useless, the Ogres wouldn't have gone to such lengths to build special facilities at every ruin site..." Clearweather Leader suddenly frowned. "This door seems to have been opened not long ago. Someone's been here!"
"The entrance is hidden inside the principal's office, so it isn't strange that someone came here." Senior Yulia shrugged. "If it were me, I'd come to inspect it every few days. That's perfectly normal... So, Leader, can you open this door?"
Clearweather Leader walked straight up to the Stone Door, then pulled a necklace from his collar... A finger-length crystal polyhedron glimmered with a faint purplish-red light.
A rumbling sound rang out at the same time. The Stone Door began to move. Once the door