While Dox was being lectured by Black Earl, Wai silently overturned all the soil underground.
Yet the underground waterway's passage did not emerge. The surrounding walls were still dirt.
"Looks like it's been buried for too long. It's completely blocked up," Kael said.
"It's fine. With Wai here, we can keep gnawing... ahem, keep digging. We'll eventually dig out a path." The speaker was Dox, who had just climbed back up from the ground, covered head to toe in dust.
But Wai did not listen to his old friend. Instead, he turned to Angel, wanting to hear Angel's opinion first.
Angel did not speak immediately. He simply stood where he was, waiting for something.
After a while, a tiny dark-blue flower emerged from Angel's shadow. As the breeze blew over it, the flower swayed gently. With the rhythm of its movement, messages that only Angel could decipher were transmitted.
No one knew what that flower was, but seeing Angel stare intently at it as though he were engaged in some kind of mental exchange, they did not dare disturb him.
A moment later, Angel said to Wai, "No need to keep digging. The underground waterway here has completely collapsed."
Angel had previously sent Ermi underground to investigate. The waterways within several hundred meters were all blocked. Under such circumstances, there was no need to keep searching for a route by digging.
"Alright." Wai nodded and withdrew his externalized magic power.
Dox, however, looked utterly puzzled. "So what if the underground waterway collapsed? There must be places that haven't collapsed. We can just dig until we reach one of those places, can't we?"
As soon as Dox finished speaking, Black Earl gave a snort of derision, seemingly mocking him.
Angel calmly explained, "Do you know why this place is called the