For a while after that, the live feed remained almost completely still.
Doctors and nurses occasionally entered the ward, but they only took a look, shook their heads, sighed, and left.
There were no clues and no sign of progress.
The only good news was that the feed had not cut out, which at least meant they were still alive... But judging by the doctors' reactions, they were not far from death.
With nothing new to watch for the moment, Angel logged back in and made another trip to Prophet's Cave.
Unfortunately, the Crystal-Eyed Race had made no progress either.
Several of those who had come out earlier had finally awakened, but what they knew largely overlapped with the previous eliminated challengers. After all, they had "died" before even seeing the Six-Pointed Star creature.
There was no news from Prophet's Cave, but something unexpected had happened over at the Hero Dungeon.
The statue marking the Hero Dungeon's entrance in the valley had undergone a peculiar change.
At the time, Angel had contacted Laplace through his god's-eye view and spoken with her about Coleman and the Ice Woman. Just as he was about to leave that view, he glanced toward Prophet's Cave.
Prophet's Cave was in the valley, and it was not the valley's only dungeon entrance.
The Hero Dungeon was there too.
That was when Angel's gaze swept over the hero statue. A crowd had gathered around it, discussing something. On closer inspection, he realized the statue had changed.
Originally, the hero statue had depicted a proud young man standing tall, shield in one hand and sword raised high in the other.
Green vines had wound around the statue, lending it a sense of age.
The statue itself had not changed, but the vine wrapped around it had suddenly grown