Evany's shelter was located deep underground. Its entrance was nothing more than an inconspicuous crevice between several massive rocks, but it concealed a world within.
After passing through a winding fissure passage that stretched deep into the earth, a spacious Stone Hall appeared before them.
The hall was rectangular, its ancient Granite walls covered in rough, primitive reliefs. With poor air circulation, the place was permeated by the damp, stuffy smell unique to enclosed spaces.
Under Candlelight's soft White Light, the mica within the rock glittered like stars, while the patterns of the reliefs cast shadows of varying depth and brightness.
They seemed to depict some kind of enormous, grotesque creature with a conical body and tentacled eyeballs.
A square window had been cut into one wall of the hall. Perhaps sunlight had once streamed in through it countless years ago, but now, only dark metamorphic Granite remained beyond it.
This Ruins seemed to have originally stood on the surface. Only after undergoing some violent geological change had it been buried deep beneath layers of rock.
Countless years later, those who came after rediscovered it underground, excavated it, and used it as a shelter.
Just as the Old Explorer Baige Sen had said, thick strata could greatly weaken the intensity of the Cursed Force Field.
In this hall several hundred meters underground, Anvis could clearly sense that the curse's power had become far fainter.
If he could withstand the erosion for at most half a month within the Cursed Force Field on the surface at night, then here, he could endure for three months without being mutated.
After lighting the bright bluish-white Eternal Flame in the Stone Basins along the walls, Evany casually snapped her fingers. An invisible magical effect swept away the stale air in the room, leaving