Eternal XX

After Shido finished speaking, Brando's right hand pressed against Harangya's slightly smooth, icy hilt. In silence, he drew the Sword of Earth from its tough leather scabbard once more. Its dark blade slid free, faintly radiating a heavy aura as weighty as mountains and rivers.

He raised his head and took in the entire underground world crisscrossing beneath the glacier. Around him, Lady Veronica, Mephisto, and the Little Female Dragon did the same.

The ice cavern was shrouded in mist. For a moment, the only sound was the ringing of weapons being drawn.

These Min'er People had clearly arrived here after the Twilight Age. The ancient people had all died here, and what had killed them was self-evident.

The equipment and crystals on the Min'er People's corpses, drained of their magic, proved this from another angle as well.

"Shido, before you resurrected that thing, are you certain it was dormant?" Brando did not turn around. He merely asked in an even voice that was not loud, and it blended into the ice layer before being absorbed and vanishing without a trace.

Shido nodded behind him.

First Prince Lainaret drew his sword with his right hand. The golden eagle crest on the guard reflected the torchlight and shone brilliantly. His somewhat dark face held little unnecessary expression, and his brows were lowered as though he were stating something obvious. "In other words, there may be other monsters of this type beneath the glacier—"

Brando turned around. "Staa?"

"Don't look at me. I never encountered these things before..." Staa's chubby face tightened with a frown. "I've only traveled this route once. At the time, I transformed into a dragon and passed beneath the ice purely out of curiosity. I did see these corpses—they were scattered throughout almost the entire area beneath the