A week passed in the blink of an eye.
Since the Underground World was generally dark and devoid of light, Saine, though he occasionally went up on deck for a walk aboard the floating ship, had no idea of the exact route they had taken to Shadow Valley.
When, a week later, Saine and the others finally arrived at a brightly lit underground valley, he asked Lina beside him with some uncertainty, "This is Shadow Valley?"
Large numbers of Magic Crystal Lamps and magical apparatuses filled every corner of Shadow Valley, illuminating the place as brightly as day.
Saine even spotted two enormous Magic Towers rising high into the air.
A blue energy barrier covering the entirety of Shadow Valley remained in place without fading. Its source of elemental energy seemed to be the two Magic Towers at the center of the valley.
After arriving at Shadow Valley, Saine not only sensed the terrifying auras of more than a dozen Formal Black Wizards, but also discovered quite a few Elemental Golems.
Some of the equipment and materials unloaded from the floating ship were carried to their designated locations by these Earth Elementals.
Their dull faces and features marked them as creatures with little intelligence. They had most likely been summoned by powerful Black Magicians.
They were equivalent to the Skeleton Warriors Saine summoned with his low-level Skeleton Summoning spell.
But these Earth Elementals clearly outclassed Saine's scrawny skeletons by far. He estimated that even the smallest Earth Elemental could slap one of his little skeletons apart with a single blow.
He just did not know how high these Earth Elementals' actual power levels were. There were a full twenty or thirty Earth Elementals visible throughout Shadow Valley.
Which powerful Black Magician had created them?
After arriving at Shadow Valley, the